Sec. 90-31. - Definitions: Hospital—Intent and purpose.

Hospital shall mean any building or portion thereof used for the accommodation and medical care of sick, injured, or infirm persons and including sanitariums, alcoholic sanitariums, institutions for the cure of chronic drug addicts and mental patients.

Household pets shall mean animals, birds, or fowl ordinarily permitted in a dwelling and kept only for the company or pleasure provided to the occupants. Household pets shall not include horses, cows, goats, sheep, other equine, bovine, ovine, or ruminant animals, pigs, predatory wild animals, chickens, ducks, geese, turkeys, game birds and fowl which normally constitute an agricultural use. The keeping of household pets or other animals is lawful only in those districts where the use is listed as a permitted use or when any household pets are kept as an accessory use to lawfully maintained residences in other districts. The keeping of any animal not herein described as a household pet shall not be deemed an accessory residential use.

Industrial classifications shall mean that when a use is listed as permitted, or permitted subject to conditions, that the use shall be as defined in the latest edition of the Standard Industrial Classification Manual, Executive Office of the President, Bureau of the Budget, on file at the city hall, if defined therein.

Industrial district shall mean the following districts: C-M, M-L, and M-H.

Industry shall mean the manufacture, fabrication, processing, reduction or destruction of any article, substance or commodity, or any other treatment thereof in such a manner as to change the form, character, or appearance thereof, and including storage elevators, truck storage yards, warehouses, wholesale storage and other similar types of enterprise.

Intent and purpose shall mean that the commission and city council, by adoption of this chapter, have made a finding that the health, safety and welfare of the community will be served by the creation of the district and by the regulations prescribed therein.

(Ord. No. 807, § 8, 4-19-88)

Sec. 90-32. - Definitions: Junk—Labor camp, permanent farm.

Junk shall be any worn out, cast off, or discarded article or material which is ready for destruction or has been collected or stored for salvage or conversion to some use. Any article or material which, unaltered or unchanged and without further reconditioning, can be used for its original purpose as readily as when new shall not be considered junk.

Junkyard shall mean any lot, or the use of any portion of a lot, for the dismantling of machinery, not including motor vehicles, or for the storage or keeping for sale of parts and equipment resulting from such dismantling or wrecking, or for the storage or keeping of junk, including scrap metals, with no burning permitted. For motor vehicles, see Automobile wrecking yard.

Kennel shall mean any lot or premises on which four or more dogs and/or cats at least four months of age are kept, boarded or trained, whether in special buildings or runways or not, or where any animal is kept for the purpose of sale or breeding.

Kitchen shall mean any room or area intended or designed to be used or maintained for the cooking, storing, and preparation of food.

Labor camp, permanent farm, shall mean any living quarters such as dwellings, boardinghouses, bunkhouses, or other housing accommodations, permanently maintained in connection with any farm work for the housing of five or more farm employees.

(Ord. No. 807, § 8, 4-19-88)

Sec. 90-33. - Definitions: Labor camp, temporary farm—Local street.

Labor camp, temporary farm, shall mean living quarters, such as tents or automobile trailers temporarily maintained in connection with any farm work or place where farm work is being performed on the premises, provided for the camping of five or more temporary farm employees. Such camp may be occupied or used for a period not to exceed 90 consecutive days.

Landscaping shall include planting of vegetation of all types and the continued maintenance thereof in a normal, healthy condition and shall also include exterior decoration, furniture, and structures required by and indicated upon a site plan.

Licensed residential care facility shall mean any family home, group care facility, or similar facility, licensed by the state, that is maintained and operated to provide twenty-four-hour nonmedical care of persons in need of personal services, supervision, or assistance essential for sustaining the activities of daily life or for the protection of the individual. A large licensed residential care facility serves seven or more clients, while a small licensed residential care facility serves six or fewer clients.

Loading shall mean the removal or placement of any commodity in, on, or from a vehicle of any type.

Loading space shall mean an off-street space or berth on the same lot with a main building, or contiguous to a group of buildings, for the temporary parking of commercial vehicles while loading or unloading, and which abuts a street, alley, or other appropriate means of ingress and egress.

Local street shall mean a street or road primarily for service to abutting property.

(Ord. No. 807, § 8, 4-19-88; Ord. No. 2025-04, § 4(Exh. A, § 2), 5-15-25)

Sec. 90-34. - Definitions: Lodginghouse—Lot, cul-de-sac.

Lodginghouse shall mean the same as Boardinghouse.

Lot shall mean:

(1)

A parcel of real property with a separate and distinct number or other designation shown on a plat recorded in the office of the county recorder;

(2)

A parcel of real property delineated on an approved record of survey, parcel or subdivision map as filed in the office of the county recorder or in the city hall and abutting at least one public street or right-of-way or approved private road right-of-way and held under separate ownership from abutting property; or

(3)

A parcel of real property containing not less area than required by the district in which it is located, abutting at least one public street or right-of-way or approved private road right-of-way and held under separate ownership from abutting property.

Lot area shall mean the total of the area, measured in a horizontal plane, within the lot lines of a lot.

Lot, corner, shall mean a lot located at the intersection or interception of two or more streets at an angle of not more than 120 degrees. If the angle is greater than 120 degrees, the lot shall be considered an "interior lot." See Lot, interior.

Lot, corner, reversed, shall mean a corner lot, the side line of which is substantially a continuation of the front lot lines of the lots to its rear, whether across an alley or not.

Lot coverage shall mean that portion of a lot or building site which is occupied by any building or structure, excepting paved areas, walks, and swimming pools, regardless of whether said building or structure is intended for human occupancy.

Lot, cul-de-sac, shall mean a lot fronting on, or with more than one-half of its lot width fronting on, the turnaround of a cul-de-sac street.

(Ord. No. 807, § 8, 4-19-88)

Sec. 90-35. - Definitions: Lot, curve—Lot line, front.

Lot, curve, shall mean a lot fronting on the outside curve of the right-of-way of a curved street, which street has a centerline radius of 200 feet or less.

Lot depth shall mean the horizontal distance between the front and rear lot lines measured in the mean direction of side lot lines.

Lot, interior, shall mean a lot other than a corner lot.

Lot, key, shall mean the first lot to the rear of a reversed corner lot, whether or not separated by an alley.

Lot line shall mean any line bounding a lot as herein defined.

Lot line, front, shall mean the property line abutting a street. The special standard of subsection 90-893(1) shall apply.

(Ord. No. 807, § 8, 4-19-88)

Sec. 90-36. - Definitions: Lot line, rear—Manufactured housing.

Lot line, rear, shall mean a lot line not abutting a street which is opposite and most distant from the front lot line. The special standard of subsection 90-893(1) shall apply.

Lot line, side, shall mean any lot line not a front lot line or rear lot line. The special standard of subsection 90-893(1) shall apply.

Lot, nonconforming, shall mean a lot having less area or dimension than that required in the district in which it is located, and which was lawfully created prior to the zoning thereof whereby the larger area or dimension requirements were established, or any lot, other than one shown on a plat recorded in the office of the county recorder, which does not abut a public road or a public right-of-way and which was lawfully created prior to October 5, 1982.

Lot of record shall mean a lot held in separate ownership as shown on the records of the county recorder at the time of the passage of an ordinance or regulation establishing the zoning district in which the lot is located.

Lot, through, shall mean a lot having frontage on two dedicated streets, not including a corner or reversed corner lot. The special standard of subsection 90-893(1) shall apply.

Lot width shall mean the average horizontal distance between the side lot lines, measured at right angles to the lot depth at a point midway between the front and rear lines.

Low-barrier navigation center (LBNCs) shall mean a housing-first, low-barrier, service-enriched shelter focused on moving people into permanent housing that provides temporary living facilities while case managers connect individuals experiencing homelessness to income, public benefits, health services, shelter, and housing.

Manufactured home means a structure that complies with Health and Safety Code § 18007.

(Ord. No. 807, § 8, 4-19-88; Ord. No. 1161, § 1, 9-3-15; Ord. No. 2025-04, § 4(Exh. A, § 2), 5-15-25)

Sec. 90-37. - Definitions: Marquee—Mobile home accessory building.

Marquee shall mean a permanent roofed structure attached to and supported by a building and projecting over public property.

Medical office shall mean any building or portion of a building used or intended to be used as an office for the practice of any type of medicine, including chiropractic, dentistry, or optometry. It shall also include clinics of a medical or dental nature.

Medical or dental clinic shall mean the same as Medical office.

Mobile home shall mean a structure transportable in one or more sections, designed and equipped to contain not more than two dwelling units to be used with or without a foundation system. Mobile home does not include a recreational vehicle, commercial coach, or factory-built housing.

(1)

A dependent mobile home is one not equipped with a toilet for sewage disposal.

(2)

An independent mobile home is one equipped with a toilet for sewage disposal.

(3)

A self-contained mobile home is one equipped with a toilet, water storage tank for portable water, and sewage holding tank.

Mobile home accessory building or structure shall mean any awning, portable, demountable, or permanent cabana, ramada, storage cabinet, carport, fence, windbreak, or porch established for the use of the occupant of the mobile home.

(Ord. No. 807, § 8, 4-19-88)