Article X — ZONING REGULATIONS

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Article X - ZONING REGULATIONS

Chapters:

Chapter 1 - GENERAL PROVISIONS Part A. - Adoption of Zoning Regulations

10000 - Purpose.

The purpose of this Chapter is to clarify the general provisions of this Article and to qualify the conditions and procedures under which changes and exceptions to this Article are to be considered by the City.

10000.1 - Planning agency.

For the purpose of this Article and pursuant to Government Code Section 65100, the Department of Community Development is designated as the Planning Agency for the City.

(Ord. 579 § 6 (1), 1992)

10001 - Zoning text.

The written provisions of this Article are hereby adopted and established as the Zoning Text for the City to serve and be held as the minimum requirements for the promotion of the public health, safety, comfort, convenience and general welfare as necessary to provide for the economic and social advantages resulting from an orderly, planned use of land resources. It is not intended by this Article to interfere with or abrogate or annul any easement, covenant, or other agreement between parties; provided, however, that where this Article imposes a greater restriction upon the use of buildings or lands than are imposed or required by other ordinances, rules, regulations or by easement, covenant or agreement, the provisions of this Article shall prevail.

10002 - Zoning map.

The boundaries of zones described in this Article are adopted and established as set forth on the Zoning Map for the City and all notations, references and other information shown on said Map shall be as much a part of this Article as if the matters and information set forth on said Map were fully described herein. All provisions of this Article governing the use of land and buildings, the height and bulk of buildings, the sizes of yards and other open spaces about buildings, and other matters as herein set forth, are hereby declared to be in effect upon all land included within the boundaries of each and every zone as delineated on the Zoning Map. Where uncertainty exists as to the boundaries of any zone as shown on the Zoning Map or part thereof, the City Council shall determine all such uncertainties; provided, however, that the following rules of construction shall apply:

A.

Where such boundaries are indicated as following approximate street, alley, or lot lines, such lines shall be construed to be such boundaries;

B.

In a case of unsubdivided property and where a zone boundary divides a lot, the location of such boundaries, unless the same are indicated by dimensions, shall be determined by the use of the scale appearing on the Zoning Map; and

C.

Where a public street or alley is officially vacated or abandoned, the zoning regulations applicable to abutting property on each side of the center line shall apply up to the center line of such vacated or abandoned street or alley of each respective side thereof.

(Ord. 579 § 6 (2(part)), 1992)

10003 - Amendments.

A.

General. Amendments to adopted development and use standards which impose any regulation, policy, or guideline not theretofore imposed, remove or modify any such regulation, policy, or guideline theretofore imposed, are subject to the provisions of this Section and include amendments of the following:

1.

Zoning Text. Any regulatory provisions affecting the Zoning Text adopted pursuant to Section 10001.

2.

General Plan Text. Any advisory provision affecting the General Plan Text adopted pursuant to Article VII, Division l, Article 7 of the California Government Code.

B.

Initiation. Provisions of the Zoning Text or General Plan Text may be amended, altered or repealed whenever public necessity and convenience and general welfare require. Such changes may be initiated by the Council only; provided, however, that the Council may initiate the same upon recommendation of the Planning Agency or in conjunction with a project for which application is made pursuant to Chapter 3, Part B of this Article.

C.

Development Review Procedures. Amendments shall be processed in the time and manner prescribed for Development Permits in Chapter 3, Part B of this Article commencing with Section 10352(B).

D.

Text Consistency. In the event that an amendment will result in an inconsistency between regulatory provisions of the Zoning Text and land use policies of the General Plan Text, no such change will be considered unless accompanied by, and concurrently processed with, a request for amendment in either Text as necessary to maintain consistency between the two; provided, however, that a General Plan Text amendment must, in all cases, be considered and acted upon by the Council pursuant to Section 10003(C), prior to such consideration being given to a Zoning Text amendment.

(Ord. 579 § 6 (3), (4), 1992)

10004 - Boundary changes.

A.

General. Geographical changes in adopted zoning and land use classifications in the City are subject to the provisions of this Section and include the following:

1.

Zoning Map. Any boundary adjustment or zone reclassification affecting the Zoning Map adopted pursuant to Section 10002.

2.

General Plan Map. Any boundary adjustment or land use reclassification affecting the General Plan Map adopted pursuant to Section 65450 et al of the California Government Code.

B.

Initiation. Boundaries of the Zoning Map or General Plan Map may be amended, reclassified and altered whenever public necessity and convenience and general welfare require. Such changes may be initiated in the same manner as provided in Section 10003(B) of this Chapter.

C.

Development Review Procedures. Boundary changes shall be processed in the same time and manner as prescribed for Development Permits in Chapter 3, Part B of this Article commencing with Section 10352(B).

D.

Map Consistency. In the event that a boundary change will result in an inconsistency between zone classifications of the Zoning Map and land use designations of the General Plan Map, no such change will be considered unless accompanied by, and concurrently processed with, a request for boundary change in either Map as necessary to maintain conformity between the two; provided, however, that a General Plan Map boundary change must, in all cases, be considered and acted upon by the Council pursuant to Section 10004(C), prior to such consideration being given to a Zoning Map boundary change.

(Ord. 579 § 6 (5), (6), 1992)

10005 - Variances.

A.

General. When practical difficulties, unnecessarily severe hardships or results inconsistent with the general purpose of this Article occur through the strict interpretation of provisions hereof, variances from the terms of the Zoning Text may be granted subject to the provisions of this Section.

B.

Limitations. Variances from the terms of this Article may be granted only when, because of special circumstances applicable to the property, including size, shape, topography, location of surroundings, the strict application of this Article deprives such property of privileges enjoyed by other property in the vicinity and under identical zoning classification. Any variance granted shall be subject to such conditions as will assure that the adjustment thereby authorized shall not constitute a grant of special privileges inconsistent with the limitations of other properties in the vicinity and zone in which such property is situated. A variance shall not be granted for a parcel of property which authorizes a use or activity which is not otherwise expressly authorized by the zone regulations governing the parcel of property. The provisions of this Section shall not apply to conditional uses or any permit issued pursuant to Chapter 3, Part B of this Article wherein the underlying development standards permit variances from the terms of this Article.

C.

Development Review Procedures. Except as otherwise provided herein, variances shall be processed in the time and manner prescribed for Development Permits in Chapter 3, Part B of this Article commencing with Section 10352. In lieu of the foregoing, an Administrative Permit issued in accordance with provisions of Section 10353 may be obtained for variances involving relatively routine and minor adjustments in certain types of zoning regulations as follows:

1.

Area Regulations. Modification of distance or area regulations not exceeding twenty (20) percent of required front, side, rear, or court yard distances or other open space requirements or ten (10) percent of lot coverage requirements.

2.

Off-Street Parking. Modification of off-street parking and landscaping development standards.

3.

Nonconforming Buildings. Approval for additions to structures which are nonconforming as to side yard, rear yard, lot coverage, or off-street parking; provided, however, that the additions, in all other respects, meet the requirements of zoning regulations affecting the property.

4.

Fences. Approval of walls, hedges, or fences to exceed the height limits or design requirements of this Article and permit them to be located within setback areas where consistent with safety and neighborhood appearance.

Signs. Modification of building and monument sign design criteria, other than height or area.

6.

Nonconforming Lots. Approval of building construction upon nonconforming lots where substantial development upon nonconforming lots exists in the area.

10006 - California Coastal Zone.

Any amendment or boundary change authorized under the provisions of this Chapter which affects the use of any land situated within the California Coastal Zone, as defined by California Public Resources Code Section 30103, shall constitute amendment of the Local Coastal Program of the City. No such amendment or boundary change shall become final until approval is granted in accordance with the provisions of Title 14, Division 20, Article 2, as amended, of the California Public Resources Code.

Part B. - Definitions

10020 - Definitions generally.

This Article which defines and makes effective the land use zoning plan of the City shall be known as the "Zoning Regulations" and for the purpose of this Article, and for this Article only, certain words and terms are defined.

10021 - Interpretation of grammar.

Words used in the present tense include the future. Words in the singular number include the plural, and words in the plural number include the singular. The word "shall" is mandatory.

10023 - Accessory building.

"Accessory building" means a building, part of a building or structure or use which is subordinate to, detached from, and the use of which is incidental to that of the main building, structure, or use of the same lot.

10024 - Adult.

"Adult" means a person who is eighteen (18) years of age or older.

10025 - Adult day care facility.

"Adult day care facility" means any facility which provides nonmedical care to persons eighteen (18) years of age or older in need of personal services, supervision, or assistance essential for sustaining the activities of daily living or for the protection of the individual on less than a 24-hour basis.

10026 - Aggrieved person.

"Aggrieved person" means any person who, in person or through a representative, appeared at public hearing or meeting of the City in connection with a decision or action which is appealed, or who, by other

appropriate means prior to such hearing or meeting, informed the City of the nature of his or her concerns or who for good cause was unable to do either.

10027 - Alley.

"Alley" means any public thoroughfare for the use of pedestrians or vehicles, which has been deeded or dedicated to the City as a secondary means of access to abutting property and has been designated by the Council as a public alley.

10028 - Antenna.

"Antenna" means any exterior satellite dish receiving or transmitting antenna larger than one meter in diameter or diagonal measurement, dish or spherical antenna larger than one meter in diameter or diagonal measurement, or any system of booms, poles, rods, masts, wires or reflecting discs or any configuration with appurtenant equipment whose purpose is to receive or broadcast communication or other signals.

(Ord. 626 § 2(38), 1999)

10029 - Apartment.

"Apartment" means a room or a suite of two or more rooms in a tenement or apartment house, occupied or suitable for occupancy as a residence for one family.

10030 - Apartment house.

"Apartment house" means any building, or portion thereof, which is designed, intended, built, rented, leased, let or hired out to be occupied as three (3) or more dwelling units.

10031 - Arcade.

"Arcade" means any place of public resort wherein five (5) or more coin or slug-operated amusement devices are maintained for use by the general public.

10032 - Bathroom.

"Bathroom" means a room containing a bathtub, tub or shower compartment, water closet, lavatory or other similar facilities. A "half-bath" shall consist of only a water closet and lavatory.

10033 - Basement.

"Basement" means one or more stories wholly or partly underground and having one-half or more of its height measured from its floor to its finished ceiling below the average adjoining grade. A basement shall be considered a story if the vertical distance from the average adjoining grade to its finished ceiling is over five (5) feet.

10034 - Bedroom.

"Bedroom" means a divided portion of the interior of a dwelling unit for sleeping purposes, containing a minimum of seventy (70) square feet and further containing a closet or recess for clothing or household utensils having less than twenty-five (25) square feet of floor area.

"Boarding house" means the use of a dwelling unit where lodging or meals are furnished for compensation pursuant to oral or written agreement of a fixed amount for a specified period of time; where meals are provided for residents from a central kitchen and served in a central dining area; where bathroom and shower facilities are either adjacent to and connected with each individual room or a common bathroom and shower facility is provided for all residents of the boarding house. Uses involving the sharing of expenses for meals and/or a bona fide sharing of the rent or ownership costs of housing shall not be a boarding house.

10036 - Building.

"Building" means any structure having a roof supported by columns or by walls intended for the shelter, housing or enclosure of persons, animals, chattels or property of any kind.

10037 - Building site.

"Building site" means the ground area of a building or group of buildings, together with all open spaces as required by this Article.

10038 - Business or commerce.

"Business or commerce" means the purchase, sale or other transaction involving the handling or disposition of any article, substance or commodity for profit or livelihood, or the ownership or management of office buildings, offices, recreational or amusement enterprises or the maintenance and use of offices by professions and trades rendering services.

10039 - Carport.

"Carport" means an accessory building or portion of the main building, designed and used primarily for the shelter or storage of operable vehicles owned or operated by the occupants of the main building consisting of at least a roof structure and its supports.

10040 - Child.

"Child" means a person who is under eighteen (18) years of age.

10041 - Child day care facility.

"Child day care facility" means a facility which provides nonmedical care to children under eighteen (18) years of age in need of personal services, supervision, or assistance essential for sustaining the activities of daily living or for the protection of the individual on less than a 24-hour basis. Child day care facilities includes day care centers and family day care homes.

10042 - Church.

"Church" means a building, together with its accessory buildings and uses, where persons regularly assemble for religious worship and which building, together with its buildings and uses, is maintained and controlled by a religious body organized to maintain public worship.

10043 - Clinic, dental or medical.

"Dental or medical clinic" means a building in which a group of physicians and/or dentists and allied professional assistants are associated for the purpose of carrying on their profession. The clinic may include a dental or medical laboratory, but shall not include inpatient care or operating rooms for major surgery.

10044 - Club.

"Club" means an association of persons for some common nonprofit purpose, but not including groups organized primarily to render a service which is customarily carried on as a business or commerce.

10045 - Community care facility.

"Community care facility" means any facility, place or building which is maintained and operated to provide nonmedical or residential care, day treatment, adult day care, or foster family agency services for children, adults, or children and adults, including, but not limited to, the physically handicapped, mentally impaired, incompetent persons, and abused or neglected children, and includes the following: (1) residential care facility; (2) adult day care facility; (3) day treatment facility; (4) foster family home; (5) small family home; (6) social rehabilitation facility; and (7) community treatment facility.

10046 - Community treatment facility.

"Community treatment facility" means any residential facility which provides mental health treatment services to children in a group setting. Program components shall be subject to program standards developed by the State Department of Mental Health pursuant to Section 5405 of the Welfare and Institutions Code.

10047 - Condominium.

"Condominium" means an estate in real property consisting of an undivided interest in a common in portion of a parcel of real property together with a separate interest in space in a residential, industrial or commercial building on such property.

10048 - Day care center.

"Day care center" means any child day care facility other than a Family Day Care Home, and includes Infant Centers, preschools and Extended Day Care Facilities.

10049 - Day treatment facility.

"Day treatment facility" means any facility which provides nonmedical care, counseling, educational or vocational support or social rehabilitation services on less than a 24-hour basis to persons under 18 years of age who would otherwise be placed in foster care or who are returning to families from foster care.

10050 - Days.

"Days" means calendar days.

10051 - Discretionary project.

"Discretionary project" means an activity defined as a project which requires the exercise of judgment, deliberation, or decision on the part of a City agency, body, officer, or staff member in the process of approving or disapproving a particular activity, as distinguished from situations where the City agency, body, officer, or staff member merely has to determine whether there has been conformity with applicable statutes, ordinances, or regulations. "Discretionary project" includes, but is not limited to, planned developments, conditional uses, variances, boundary changes, amendments, special uses or portions of the foregoing.

10052 - Dwelling.

"Dwelling" means a building or portion thereof designed for or occupied exclusively for residential purposes.

10053 - Dwelling unit.

"Dwelling unit" means one or more rooms in a building or apartment house designed for occupancy by one family for living or sleeping purposes and containing only one kitchen for the exclusive use of one family. Within this meaning, no limit shall exist as to the number of wet bars which may be contained in a single dwelling unit.

10054 - Dwelling, one-family.

"One-family dwelling" means a detached building designed or used exclusively for occupancy by one family and containing one dwelling unit.

10055 - Dwelling, two-family.

"Two-family dwelling" means a dwelling designed or used exclusively for occupancy by two families and containing two dwelling units.

10056 - Dwelling, multiple.

"Multiple dwelling" means a building, or a portion of a building, designed or used for occupancy by three or more families and containing three or more dwelling units.

10056.1 - Emergency.

"Emergency" means a sudden unexpected occurrence demanding immediate action to prevent or mitigate loss or damage to life, health, property or essential public services.

(Ord. 626 § 4(2), 1999)

10056.2 - Emergency shelter.

"Emergency shelter" means housing with minimal supportive services for homeless persons, victims of domestic violence, persons requiring temporary housing, and other individuals and households made temporarily homeless due to natural disasters (e.g., fires, earthquakes, etc.), that is limited to occupancy of six (6) months or less by a homeless person and operated by a government agency or private non-profit organization.

(Ord. No. 711, § 3, 11-5-12)

10056.3 - Dwelling, supportive housing.

"Supportive housing" means housing, configured as rental housing developments, with no limit on length of stay, that is linked to onsite or offsite services that assist the supportive housing resident in retaining the housing, improving his or her health status, and maximizing his or her ability to live and, when possible, work in the community.

(Ord. No. 711, § 3, 11-5-12)

10056.4 - Dwelling, transitional housing.

"Transitional housing" and "transitional housing development" (per California Health and Safety Code 50675.2 (h)) means housing configured as rental housing developments, but operated under program requirements that call for the termination of assistance and recirculation of the assisted unit to another eligible program recipient at some predetermined future point in time, which shall be no less than six (6) months.

(Ord. No. 711, § 3, 11-5-12)

10057 - Enclosed.

"Enclosed" means a building, part of a building, or an accessory building which is improved with walls on three (3) or more sides, such walls being six (6) feet or more in height.

10058 - Family.

"Family" means one (1) or more persons, related or unrelated, living together as a single housekeeping unit.

(Ord. No. 711, § 3, 11-5-12)

10059 - Family day care home.

"Small family day care home" means a day care facility located in a single-family dwelling where a full-time resident provides care and supervision for six (6) or fewer children (plus two (2) additional children after school). Children under the age of ten (10) years who reside in the home count as children served by the day care facility.

"Large family day care home" means a day care facility located in a residence and licensed by the State as a family child care home, where a full-time resident provides care and supervision for seven (7) to twelve (12) children (plus two (2) additional children after school). Children under the age of ten (10) years who reside in the home count as children served by the day care facility.

(Ord. No. 711, § 3, 11-5-12)

10060 - Fence.

"Fence" means a device or a portion thereof, designed to separate property areas, and not carrying superimposed load.

10061 - Foster family home.

"Foster family home" means any residential facility providing twenty-four (24) hour care for six (6) or fewer foster children which is owned, leased, or rented and is the residence of the foster parent or parents, including their family, in whose care the foster children have been placed. Such placement may be by a public or private child placement agency or by a court order, or by voluntary placement by a parent, parents, or legal guardian.

"Frontage" means the distance measured along a front line adjoining a public street or a side lot line on the street sides of a corner lot.

10063 - Garage, private.

"Private garage" means an accessory building or portion of the main building, enclosed on all sides and under a roof, designed primarily for the shelter or storage of vehicles owned or operated by the occupants of the main building.

10064 - Garage, public.

"Public garage" means a building other than a private garage used for the storage, care, mechanical repair, or servicing of automobiles.

"Hazardous wastes" means a waste, or combination of wastes, which because of its quantity, concentration or physical, chemical or infectious characteristics may either:

(a)

Cause, or significantly contribute to an increase in mortality or an increase in serious irreversible, or incapacitating reversible, illness;

(b)

Pose a substantial present or potential hazard to human health or environment when improperly treated, stored, transported or disposed of, or otherwise managed.

Unless expressly provided otherwise, the term "hazardous waste" shall be understood to also include externally hazardous wastes. (Section 25117, Health and Safety Code.)

(Ord. 583 § 1 (1), 1992)

10064.2 - Hazardous materials.

"Hazardous materials" means a substance or combination of substances which, because of its quantity, concentration or physical, chemical or infectious characteristics, may either:

(a)

Cause, or significantly contribute to an increase in mortality or an increase in serious irreversible, or incapacitating reversible, illness; or

(b)

Post a substantial present or potential hazard to human health or environment when improperly treated, stored, transported or disposed of or otherwise managed.

Unless expressly provided otherwise, the term "hazardous material" shall be understood to also include extremely hazardous material. (22 CAC, Section 66084).

(Ord. 583 § 1 (2), 1992)

10064.3 - Hazardous waste facility.

"Hazardous waste facility" means that all contiguous land and structures, other appurtenances and improvements on the land used for the treatment, transfer, storage, resource recovery disposal or recycling hazardous waste management units, or combinations of those units.

(Ord. 583 § 1 (3), 1992)

10064.4 - Waste treatment and disposal.

"Waste treatment and disposal" means public or private disposal facilities or transfer stations, operated for the purpose of recycling, reclaiming, treating or disposal of garbage, sewage, rubbish, offal, dead animals, oilfield wastes, hazardous waste or other waste material originating on or off the premises.

(Ord. 583 § 1 (4), 1992)

10065 - Height.

"Height" means the vertical distance measured from the average elevation of the finished grade along the frontage of the building to the highest point of structure, exclusive of chimneys and ventilators.

10066 - Highway, arterial.

"Arterial highway" means a highway designated as a major arterial highway in the General Plan of the City.

10067 - Highway, collector.

"Collector highway" means a highway designated as a secondary or collector highway in the General Plan of the City.

10068 - Hospital.

"Hospital" means an institution providing physical or mental health services, inpatient or overnight accommodations, and medical or surgical care of the sick or injured.

10069 - Hotel.

"Hotel" means any building or portion thereof containing four (4) or more guest rooms used, intended, or designed to be used, let, or hired out to be occupied, whether the compensation for hire be paid directly or indirectly in money, goods, wares, merchandise, labor, or otherwise, and shall include lodging and rooming houses, dormitories, Turkish baths, bachelor hotels, studio hotels, pub lic and private clubs and any such building of any nature whatsoever so occupied, designed or intended to be occupied except motels or boarding houses; and except jails, hospitals, asylums, sanitariums, orphanages, prisons, detention homes, and all other similar buildings where human beings are housed and detained under legal restraint.

"Kennel" means any lot, structure, enclosure or premises where dogs and/or cats of either sex, whether altered or not, over the age of four (4) months, whether by the owners of the dogs or cats or by other persons, are kept, for compensation for one or more of the following purposes: boarding, grooming, holding for sale, breeding, training, miscellaneous services, or kept for hire.

10071 - Kitchen.

"Kitchen" means any room used or intended or designed to be used for cooking or the preparation of food.

10072 - Landscaping.

"Landscaping" means combinations of planted tree, shrubs, vines, ground cover, flowers or lawns.

10073 - Local coastal program.

"Local Coastal Program" means the Local Coastal Program of the City consisting of a land use plan and implementing actions prepared and certified in accordance with the provisions of Chapter 6, Division 20 of the California Public Resources Code.

"Lodging house" means any use of a dwelling unit by a person or persons who by oral or written agreement do not have regular use of the kitchen, nor shall any meals be permitted in any guest room therein.

10075 - Lot.

"Lot" means a parcel of land created pursuant to this Article of at least sufficient size to meet minimum zoning requirements for use, coverage, and area, and to provide such yards and other open spaces as are herein required. Any such parcel shall have frontage on a public street or private road approved by the Council and may consist of a single lot of record or a combination of complete lots of record.

"Corner lot" means a lot located at the junction of two or more intersection streets, with a boundary line thereof bordering on each of the two streets.

10077 - Lot, interior.

"Interior lot" means any lot which is not a corner lot.

10078 - Lot, reverse corner.

"Reverse corner lot" means a corner lot, the side lot line of which is substantially a continuation of the front lot line of a lot or parcel of land which adjoins the rear lot line of the corner lot.

"Lot area" means the total horizontal area included within lot lines and shall include one-half of the width of any alley, or portions thereof, abutting any such lot line, except that where it can be determined which lot or lots the alley was a part of before its dedication, then these lots shall be considered to include as lot area that area dedicated as public alley.

10080 - Lot depth.

"Lot depth" means the average horizontal distance from the front line to the rear lot line measured in the general direction of the side lot lines.

10081 - Lot lines.

"Lot lines" means the established division lines between parcels of property, public or private.

10082 - Lot lines, front.

"Front lot lines" means the lines separating the lot from the street in the case of an interior lot, the line separating the narrowest street frontage of the lot from the street in the case of a corner lot.

10083 - Lot lines, interior.

"Interior lot lines" means the lines separating interior lots.

10084 - Lot lines, rear.

"Rear lot lines" means a lot line which is opposite and most distant from the front lot line. For a triangular shaped lot, the rear lot line means a line ten (10) feet in length within the lot which is parallel to the front lot line, or parallel to the cord of a curved front lot line, and at the maximum distance from the front lot line.

10085 - Lot lines, side.

"Side lot lines" means any lot boundary line not a front lot line or a rear lot line.

10086 - Lot, through.

"Through lot" means a corner or inside lot, having frontage on two (2) parallel or approximately parallel streets, or two (2) streets the center lines of which if projected would make an angle of less than thirty (30) degrees.

10087 - Lot width.

"Lot width" means the average horizontal distance between the side lot lines measured in the general direction of the front lot lines.

"Ministerial project" means an activity defined as a project which is undertaken or approved by a governmental decision which a public officer or a public agency makes upon a given state of facts in a prescribed manner in obedience to the mandate of legal authority without regard to personal judgment or opinion concerning the propriety or wisdom of the act although the statute, ordinance, or regulation may require, in some degree, a construction of its language by the officer or agency. "Ministerial project" includes, but is not limited to, master sign criteria, parking and landscape development plans, signs, fences, garage sales, or portions of the foregoing.

(Ord. No. 726, § 3, 7-18-16)

10089 - Mobile home.

"Mobile home" means a structure transportable in one (1) or more sections, which, when erected on-site, meets minimum dwelling units size standards for the zone in which it is located, and is built on a permanent chassis designed to be used as a dwelling; with or without permanent foundation, when connected to the required utilities, and includes the plumbing, air conditioning, and electrical systems contained therein.

10090 - Mobile home park.

"Mobile home park" means any area or tract of land where two (2) or more mobile home lots which are rented or leased or held out for rent or lease to accommodate mobile homes used for human habitation. In a mobile home park, mobile homes need not be placed on a permanent foundation system.

"Motel" means a building or group of two (2) or more detached, semidetached, or attached buildings containing not less than four (4) guest rooms or dwelling units each of which has a separate individual entrance leading directly from the outside of the building or inner court with automobile storage space provided in connection therewith, and designed and intended to be used primarily for the accommodation of transient automobile travelers. This definition shall include auto cabins, tourist courts, motor courts, motor lodges, and similar designations. An establishment shall be considered a motel if it is required by the California Health and Safety Code to obtain the name and address of the guest, the make, year, and license number of the vehicle used by the guest, and the state in which the vehicle is registered. Motels, as defined herein, shall: (1) have a City business license; (2) have advertising signs; (3) be furnished with furniture and bed linen which is changed on a daily basis by maid service; (4) have a manager available on the premises 24 hours a day; and (5) have printed rate schedules showing rates by the day or week.

"Nonconforming building" means a building or portion thereof lawfully existing at the time this Article became effective, but which, because of the application of this Article to it, no longer conforms to the regulations of this Article.

10093 - Nonconforming lot.

"Nonconforming lot" means a parcel of land which was lawfully established at the time this Article was adopted, but which, because of the application of this Article to it, no longer conforms to the regulations of zone in which it is located. Included within the meaning of "nonconforming lot" is any improvement made upon a parcel of land, other than a building, which lawfully existed at the time this Article became effective, but which, because of the application of this Article to it, no longer conforms to the regulation of this Article.

10094 - Nonconforming use.

"Nonconforming use" means a use of land or any property which was lawfully established and maintained at the time this Article was adopted, but which, because of the application of this Article to it, no longer conforms to the regulations of the zone in which it is located.

10095 - Person.

"Person" means an individual, firm, copartnership, joint venture, association, social club, fraternal organization, corporation, estate, trust, receiver, syndicate, the Federal, State, City, or County government, or special district, or any other group or combination acting as an entity.

10096 - Planned street width.

"Planned street width" means the proposed ultimate right-of-way widths of those streets shown in the General Plan of the City and of such other streets where official action of the Council has determined said ultimate right-of-way widths.

10097 - Planning agency.

"Planning Agency" means the Department of Community Development of the City.

(Ord. 579 § 6 (7), 1992)

10098 - Porte cochere.

"Porte cochere" means a roof-like attachment to a building, primarily used for the protection and convenience of loading and/or unloading of passengers and/or materials.

10099 - Project.

"Project" means the whole of an action, which has a potential for resulting in a physical change in the environment, directly or ultimately.

10100 - Reception window.

"Reception window" means the area within the direct line between the antenna and the source or sources carrying or transmitting desired programming or signals.

10101 - Residential care facility for the elderly.

"Residential care facility for the elderly" means a group housing arrangement chosen voluntarily by residents over the age of sixty (60), but also including persons under the age of sixty (60) with compatible

needs, who are provided bearing levels and intensities of care and supervision, protective supervision, personal care, or health related services, based upon their varying needs, has determined in order to be admitted and to remain in the facility.

"Residential facility" means any family home, group care facility, or similar facility determined by the director of the State Department of Social Services, for 24-hour nonmedical care of persons in need of personal services, supervision, or assistance essential for sustaining the activities of daily living or for the protection of the individual.

10102.1 - Group quarter supportive housing.

"Group quarter supportive housing" means housing, configured as group care facilities or similar residential care facilities, with no limit on length of stay, that is linked to onsite or offsite services that assist the supportive housing resident in retaining the housing, improving his or her health status, and maximizing his or her ability to live and, when possible, work in the community.

(Ord. No. 711, § 3, 11-5-12)

"Group quarter transitional housing" means housing configured as group care facilities or similar residential care facilities and operated under program requirements that call for the termination of assistance and recirculation of the assisted unit to another eligible program recipient at some predetermined future point in time, which shall be no less than six (6) months.

(Ord. No. 711, § 3, 11-5-12)

10103 - Room.

"Room" means an undivided portion of the interior of a dwelling unit, but excluding bathrooms, closets, hallways, and service porches.

"Satellite antenna" means any exterior satellite receiving antenna, dish antenna three (3) feet in diameter or larger, or any configuration with appurtenant equipment whose purpose is to receive or broadcast communication or other signals from earth-orbiting satellites or other communication systems.

"Service station" means any building or premises used primarily for the retail sale of gasoline and lubricants, but which may also provide for the incidental servicing of motor vehicles including lubrication, tire repairs, battery charging, hand washing of automobiles, sale of merchandise and supplies related to the servicing of motor vehicles, and minor replacements, but excluding body and fender work, and similar activities.

10105.1 - Single room occupancy (SRO) housing.

"Single room occupancy (SRO) housing" means a dwelling unit consisting of no more than one (1) occupied room with a maximum gross floor area of three hundred fifty (350) square feet which may have kitchen and/or bathroom facilities. Each dwelling unit is restricted to occupancy by no more than two (2) persons and is offered on a monthly rental basis or longer."

(Ord. No. 711, § 3, 11-5-12)

10106 - Small family home.

"Small family home" means any residential facility providing the 24-hour care for six (6) or fewer foster children who have mental disorders or developed mental or physical disabilities and who require special cares and provision as a result of their disabilities.

10107 - Social rehabilitation facility.

"Social rehabilitation facility" means any residential facility which provides social rehabilitation services for no longer than eighteen (18) months in a group setting, to adults recovering from mental illness who temporarily need assistance, guidance, or counseling. Program components shall be subject to program standards pursuant to Section 5458.1 of the California Health and Safety Code.

10108 - Street.

"Street" means the land dedicated in any manner or condemned for use as a public highway, or established and shown as such on the official maps of the City Engineer and shall include every boulevard, avenue, place, drive, court, lane, or other thoroughfare dedicated to public travel, but shall not include an alley as defined herein.

10109 - Street centerline.

"Street centerline" means the centerline of a street or right-of-way as shown on official records. If two or more centerlines appear on official records, or in the absence of a centerline on official records, the centerline shall be determined by the City Engineer.

10110 - Street line.

"Street line" means the boundary line between street and abutting property.

10111 - Street, local.

"Local street" means any dedicated street serving as the principal means of access to property which is not an arterial or collector highway as defined herein.

10112 - Structure.

"Structure" means anything constructed or erected, the use of which is permanently located or requires permanent location on the ground or attachment to something having a permanent location on the ground, but not including walls and fences less than six (6) feet in height and other improvements of a minor character as determined by the Director of Community Development.

10113 - Structural alterations.

"Structural alterations" means any change in the supporting members of a building such as bearing walls, or columns, beams, or girders and floor joists, or roof joists, girders or rafters or changes in roof exterior lines.

"Townhouse" means a dwelling unit integral to a building which contains two or more dwellings in which one or more walls of each unit abut a property line common to one or more such units and which units shall collectively be considered as one building for the purpose of this Article.

10115 - Trailer, automobile.

"Automobile trailer" means a vehicle without motor power, designed to be drawn by a motor vehicle and to be used for human habitation or for carrying persons and property, including a trailer coach and motor home, and any self-propelled vehicle having a body design for or converted to the same uses as an automobile trailer without motor power.

10116 - Use.

"Use" means the purpose for which land or a building or structure is arranged, designed, or intended to be used, or for which it is or may be used, occupied, or maintained.

10117 - Wall.

"Wall" means any structure or device, permanent in nature, and extending from floor to ceiling in a structure, used as a barrier between two (2) areas.

10118 - Wet bar.

"Wet bar" means an area located in or adjacent to a dwelling unit for the exclusive use of the one (1) family residing in said dwelling unit, separate from a kitchen, and containing no electrical outlets in excess of one hundred ten (110) volts or plumbing stub-outs roughed in for future use which could be used for a kitchen. Wet bars shall have no gas outlets or provisions for such outlets roughed in for future use, nor shall they have more than one (1) bar sink fixture with one (1) sink well whose internal dimensions do not exceed twelve (12) inches in width by twelve (12) inches in length.

10119 - Yard.

"Yard" means an unoccupied space on a lot or building site on which a building is situated, and except where otherwise provided in this Article, open and unobstructed from the ground to the sky.

10120 - Yard, front.

"Front yard" means a yard extending between side lot lines from the front lot line to the garage and building intended for the shelter, housing, or enclosure of persons.

10121 - Yard, rear.

"Rear yard" means a yard extending across the full width of the lot and measured between the rear line of the lot and rear line of the main building nearest said rear line of the lot. The rear yard shall include one-half

(½) of the width of an adjoining alley, or portions thereof, adjoining the rear lot line, except that where it can be determined which lot or lots the alley was a part of before its dedication, then these lots shall be considered to include as rear yard and lot area that area and only that area dedicated as public alley.

10122 - Yard, side.

"Side yard" means a yard extending from the front yard to the rear yard; the width of the required side yard shall be measured horizontally from the nearest part of the side lot line to the building.