Article 1 — Chapter 17.04

DEFINITIONS

Sections:

17.04.010 General rules for interpretation. 17.04.020 Accessory dwelling unit. 17.04.030 Adjacent. 17.04.040 Adjacent property owner. 17.04.050 Advertising media. 17.04.060 Affordable housing. 17.04.070 Affordable housing cost. 17.04.080 Affordable housing developer. 17.04.090 Affordable housing unit. 17.04.100 Affordable rent. 17.04.110 Aggrieved party. 17.04.120 Agricultural by-product processing facility. 17.04.130 Agricultural hospitality facility. 17.04.140 Agricultural laborer housing. 17.04.150 Agricultural marketing. 17.04.160 Agricultural processing facility. 17.04.170 Agricultural products. 17.04.180 Agricultural support services. 17.04.190 Agriculture. 17.04.200 Airport and heliport. 17.04.210 Airstrip. 17.04.220 Alley. 17.04.230 Animal hospital. 17.04.240 Animal processing facility. 17.04.250 Antenna 17.04.260 Antique. 17.04.270 Applicant. 17.04.280 Archive. 17.04.290 Area to perimeter ratio. 17.04.300 Attached. 17.04.310 Auction yard. 17.04.320 Auto wrecking and junk storage. 17.04.330 Automotive repair, major. 17.04.340 Automotive repair, minor. 17.04.350 Banner. 17.04.360 Bar. 17.04.370 Bed and breakfast. 17.04.380 Biomass facility. 17.04.390 Board. 17.04.400 Boardinghouse. 17.04.410 Bona fide effort. 17.04.420 Building.

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17.04.430 Building, accessory. 17.04.440 Building height. 17.04.450 Campground. 17.04.460 Camping cabin. 17.04.470 Camping party. 17.04.480 Campsite. 17.04.490 Cemetery. 17.04.500 Christmas tree farm. 17.04.510 Civic event. 17.04.520 Clear Sight Triangle. 17.04.530 Clubhouse. 17.04.540 Commercial Coach

17.04.550 Commercial events on agricultural land. 17.04.560 Commercial laundry or dry cleaning plant.

17.04.570 Commercial recreation and amusement center.

17.04.580 Commission.

17.04.590 Common interest development.

17.04.600 Condominium.

17.04.610 Condominium conversion project.

17.04.620 Corner parcel. 17.04.630 Cottage food operation.

17.04.640 County. 17.04.650 Cultural Resource.

17.04.660 Day care center. 17.04.670 Demolition.

17.04.680 Demonstration garden.

17.04.690 Density bonus. 17.04.700 Density bonus units. 17.04.710 Development of aggregate resources.

17.04.720 Development standard.

17.04.730 Director. 17.04.740 Discretionary land use approval.

17.04.750 District. 17.04.760 Dormitory. 17.04.770 Drive-Through Facilities.

17.04.780 Duplex. 17.04.790 Dwelling. 17.04.800 Dwelling group. 17.04.810 Dwelling, multiple-family.

17.04.820 Dwelling, single-family.

17.04.830 Dwelling, single-family, primary.

17.04.840 Dwelling unit.

17.04.850 Easement. 17.04.860 Eligible housing development.

17.04.870 Enclosed storage of equipment or materials. 17.04.880 Emergency shelter.

17.04.890 Equipment repair facilities.

17.04.900 Family.

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17.04.910 Family day care home. 17.04.920 Farmers market. 17.04.930 Farm or ranch tour. 17.04.940 Farm stay. 17.04.950 Feasible. 17.04.960 Feed yard. 17.04.970 Fitness studio. 17.04.980 Flea market. 17.04.990 Floor area ratio. 17.04.1000 Floor area ratio bonus. 17.04.1010 Foster home. 17.04.1020 Garage, private. 17.04.1030 General farming and ranching. 17.04.1040 General manufacturing, processing, and refining. 17.04.1050 General non-commercial recreational use. 17.04.1060 Grade. 17.04.1070 Green waste. 17.04.1080 Gross acreage. 17.04.1090 Growing and harvesting of forest products. 17.04.1100 Guesthouse. 17.04.1110 Guest ranch. 17.04.1120 Harvesting of timber. 17.04.1130 Health care facility. 17.04.1140 High-water mark. 17.04.1150 Highway. 17.04.1160 Home occupation. 17.04.1170 Hotel. 17.04.1180 Household. 17.04.1190 Household, extremely low-income. 17.04.1200 Household, low-income. 17.04.1210 Household, median-income. 17.04.1220 Household, moderate income. 17.04.1230 Household, very low-income. 17.04.1240 Housing development. 17.04.1250 Incentive. 17.04.1260 Incidental camping area. 17.04.1270 Incidental use 17.04.1280 Inclusionary unit. 17.04.1290 Industry. 17.04.1300 Junior accessory dwelling unit. 17.04.1310 Junk. 17.04.1320 Kennel. 17.04.1330 Kitchen. 17.04.1340 Landscaping. 17.04.1350 Living area 17.04.1360 Livestock. 17.04.1370 Located within one-half-mile of a major transit stop. 17.04.1380 Log deck.

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17.04.1390 Lot line adjustment. 17.04.1400 Low Barrier Navigation Center. 17.04.1410 Main building. 17.04.1420 Maintenance and repair. 17.04.1430 Major Tower 17.04.1440 Major Wireless Communication Facility 17.04.1450 Major Transit Stop. 17.04.1460 Market-rate unit. 17.04.1470 Maximum allowable residential density. 17.04.1480 Merger. 17.04.1490 Mills Act. 17.04.1500 Mineral resources. 17.04.1510 Mini-mart. 17.04.1520 Mini-storage facilities. 17.04.1530 Minimum affordable housing component. 17.04.1540 Minor Tower 17.04.1550 Minor Wireless Communication Facility 17.04.1560 Mobile food vendor. 17.04.1570 Mobile home. 17.04.1580 Mobile home park. 17.04.1590 Mortuaries, funeral homes, mausoleums, columbaria, and crematoria. 17.04.1600 Motel. 17.04.1610 Music festival. 17.04.1620 Net acreage. 17.04.1630 Nuisance. 17.04.1640 Nurseries and greenhouses. 17.04.1650 Object. 17.04.1660 Objective standards. 17.04.1670 Organizational Camp. 17.04.1680 Other incentives of equivalent financial value. 17.04.1690 Outdoor advertising structure. 17.04.1700 Outdoor seating. 17.04.1710 Outdoor storage and outdoor sales. 17.04.1720 Owner. 17.04.1730 Parcel of land. 17.04.1740 Parking area. 17.04.1750 Parking space. 17.04.1760 Personal services. 17.04.1770 Persons and/or families of lower income. 17.04.1780 Pet. 17.04.1790 Petting zoo. 17.04.1800 Photodocument, Photodocumentation. 17.04.1810 Places of worship. 17.04.1820 Places of public assembly, social clubs, lodges. 17.04.1830 Portable sawmill or planing mill. 17.04.1840 Poultry. 17.04.1850 Professional office. 17.04.1860 Prospecting. 17-9

arking space. 17.04.1760 Personal services. 17.04.1770 Persons and/or families of lower income. 17.04.1780 Pet. 17.04.1790 Petting zoo. 17.04.1800 Photodocument, Photodocumentation. 17.04.1810 Places of worship. 17.04.1820 Places of public assembly, social clubs, lodges. 17.04.1830 Portable sawmill or planing mill. 17.04.1840 Poultry. 17.04.1850 Professional office. 17.04.1860 Prospecting.** 17-9

17.04.1870 Public agency. 17.04.1880 Public safety facility. 17.04.1890 Public sewer system. 17.04.1900 Public utility distribution facility. 17.04.1910 Public utility uses. 17.04.1920 Public water system. 17.04.1930 Qualified housing development. 17.04.1940 Qualified land. 17.04.1950 Qualified Professional. 17.04.1960 Recreation. 17.04.1970 Recreational development. 17.04.1980 Recreational vehicle. 17.04.1990 Recreational vehicle park. 17.04.2000 Recycling facility. 17.04.2010 Rendering plant. 17.04.2020 Residential care home. 17.04.2030 Restaurant. 17.04.2040 Restaurant, take-out. 17.04.2050 Resubdivision. 17.04.2060 Retail sales. 17.04.2070 Retail sales, indoor. 17.04.2080 Retail sales, outdoor. 17.04.2090 Retail services. 17.04.2100 Retail services, indoor. 17.04.2110 Retail services, outdoor. 17.04.2120 Reverse vending machine. 17.04.2130 Riding club. 17.04.2140 Right of Way. 17.04.2150 Roadside stand. 17.04.2160 Rummage sale. 17.04.2170 Sawmill. 17.04.2180 Secretary of the Interior Standards. 17.04.2190 Senior citizen housing development. 17.04.2200 Senior citizen housing development unit. 17.04.2210 Sensitive Use. 17.04.2220 Setback. 17.04.2230 Setback line. 17.04.2240 Shared housing building. 17.04.2250 Shopping Center. 17.04.2260 Short-Term Rental. 17.04.2270 Sign. 17.04.2280 Single room occupancy. 17.04.2290 Site. 17.04.2300 Skilled nursing facility. 17.04.2310 Space. 17.04.2320 Specific, adverse impact. 17.04.2330 Stable, commercial. 17.04.2340 State Historical Building Code (SHBC).

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17.04.2350 Stockyard. 17.04.2360 Storage containers. 17.04.2370 Street. 17.04.2380 Structure. 17.04.2390 Structural alterations. 17.04.2400 Supportive Housing. 17.04.2410 Target Population. 17.04.2420 Timber. 17.04.2430 Timber harvesting, commercial. 17.04.2440 Timberland. 17.04.2450 Total units and total dwelling units. 17.04.2460 Tourist information facilities. 17.04.2470 Transient. 17.04.2480 Transitional housing. 17.04.2490 Transmission line. 17.04.2500 Tuolumne County Register of Cultural Resources. 17.04.2510 Tuolumne County Database of Cultural Resources. 17.04.2520 U-Pick operations. 17.04.2530 Use. 17.04.2540 Use, accessory. 17.04.2550 Use, nonconforming. 17.04.2560 Use, principal. 17.04.2570 Use, public. 17.04.2580 Use, quasi-public. 17.04.2590 Utility provider. 17.04.2600 Utility trailer. 17.04.2610 Warehouse. 17.04.2620 Wholesaling. 17.04.2630 Yard. 17.04.2640 Zoning district.

Unless the context otherwise requires, the following definitions shall be used in the interpretation and construction of this title, and words used in the present tense shall include the future; the singular number shall include the plural, and the plural the singular; the word "used" shall include arranged, designed, constructed, altered, converted, rented, leased, or intended to be used; and the word "shall" is mandatory and not directory. Whenever reference is made to any portion of this title or any other ordinance or law, the reference shall apply to all amendments and additions now or hereafter made.

"Accessory Dwelling Unit" means an attached or a detached residential dwelling unit which provides independent living facilities for one or more persons and is located on a lot with a proposed or existing primary residence. It shall include permanent provisions for living, eating, sleeping, cooking, and sanitation on the same parcel where the single-family or multifamily dwelling is or will be situated. An accessory dwelling unit also includes an efficiency unit as defined in Section 17958.1 of the Health and Safety Code, and a manufactured home as defined in Section 18007 of the Health and Safety Code.

17.04.030 Adjacent. "Adjacent" means adjoining or having a common boundary.

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"Adjacent property owner," when used in this title to describe the type of notice of an action which must be given, means the owner of any real property, as shown in the latest information available in the county assessor's records, lying within the distance of the exterior boundary of the parcel for which an entitlement is sought, specified as follows:

Total Areas of Parcels Subject to Entitlement Distance for Notification

Less than 2 gross acres 300 feet 2 gross acres to less than 10 gross acres 500 feet 10 gross acres or larger 1,000 feet

17.04.050 Advertising media. “Advertising media” means any structure, object, device, display, balloon, or graphic on or attached to any land, building, vehicle, vessel, or structure and that is used to communicate any message or that advertises or promotes any business, product, activity, person, or interest.

17.04.060 Affordable housing. “Affordable housing” means housing capable of being purchased or rented by a household with extremely low, very low, low, or median income, based on a household’s ability to make monthly payments necessary to obtain housing. Housing is considered affordable when a household pays less than 30 percent of its gross monthly income for housing.

“Affordable housing cost” means the definition set forth in Health and Safety Code Section 50052.5 (Government Code Section 65915(c)(2)).

“Affordable housing developer” means the applicant or permittee of a qualified housing development and its assignees or successors in interest.

unit that meets the standards specified in Chapter 17.28 (Inclusionary Housing) of this Code and is affordable to households having extremely low, very low, low, or median income.

“Affordable rent” means the definition set forth in Health and Safety Code Section 50053

17.04.110 Aggrieved party. "Aggrieved party" means any person whose happiness or peace of mind is disturbed by the granting or denial of any permit.

facility . “Agricultural by-product processing facility” means a facility for processing byproducts from the growing, raising, harvesting, or processing of agricultural products, for example, composting facilities.

17.04.130 Agricultural hospitality facility . “Agricultural hospitality facility” means a facility that provides rest, relaxation, or food to travelers or local residents for compensation, including but not limited to transient lodging facilities and restaurants, and is on a parcel that supports an agricultural use. Tents and recreational vehicles may not be used for transient lodging facilities.

17.04.140 Agricultural laborer housing . “Agricultural laborer housing” means temporary or permanent accommodations for employees engaged in agricultural operations on a working farm or ranch. The employees must obtain the majority of their compensation from the farm or ranch on which they reside during the time they reside there. Accommodations shall include any living quarters as provided in the Health and Safety Code. Agricultural laborer housing on Williamson Act contract land is subject to recommendation by the Agricultural Advisory Committee and approval by the Board of Supervisors.

“Affordable housing unit” means a dwelling

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“Agricultural marketing” means a facility or activity that promotes the sale of agricultural products grown, processed, or produced on the farm or ranch where the facility or activity is located, including but not limited to tasting rooms, accessory gift shops, retail sales of the agricultural products, retail sales of other agricultural products produced in Tuolumne County, accessory retail sales of food products not produced on the farm or ranch for on-site consumption, and farm or ranch tours.

17.04.160 Agricultural processing facility . “Agricultural processing facility” means a facility for processing, packing, canning, or otherwise preparing agricultural products for sale or distribution. Agricultural processing facility includes water systems, on-site wastewater treatment and disposal systems, and other services related to the processing of the agricultural product.

“Agricultural products” are commodities resulting from the practice of agriculture and value-added products as a result of processing agricultural commodities.

“Agricultural support services” are land uses that support agricultural land uses by providing services or supplies necessary to the operation of an agricultural land use.

17.04.190 Agriculture. “Agriculture” means the use of land for the production of food, feed, fiber, nursery and apiary commodities, and their necessary accessory uses.

17.04.200 Airport and heliport. “Airport and heliport” means facilities for the takeoff and landing of airplanes and helicopters, including runways, helipads, aircraft storage buildings, aircraft hangar and related facilities, including, but not limited to, fueling and maintenance, storage, airport operations and air traffic control, incidental retail sales, and airport administrative facilities, including airport offices, operations buildings,

communications equipment, buildings and structures, control towers, lights, and other equipment and structures required by the United States Government and/or the State for the safety of aircraft operations.

17.04.210 Airstrip. “Airstrip” means any area designated and set aside for the landing and taking off of any aircraft.

17.04.220 Alley. "Alley" means a public thoroughfare not more than thirty feet in width that affords a means of access to abutting property and a link between streets, and includes the following:

A. “Improved pedestrian alleyway” means an alley that has been improved in accordance with the standards established in the Tuolumne Parking & Alleyway Study dated October 15, 2010, as it may be amended by the Board of Supervisors, including a minimum 14’ wide paved surface to provide an enjoyable and safe nonvehicular link between streets and incorporate the functional use of the alley as a utility corridor with aesthetic treatment. Vehicles for emergency and maintenance services are allowed through the pedestrian alleyway, but other vehicle use is prohibited except during emergencies.

B. "Improved vehicular alleyway" means an alley that has been improved in accordance with the standards established in the Tuolumne Parking & Alleyway Study dated October 15, 2010, as it may be amended by the Board of Supervisors, including a minimum 16' wide asphalt paved surface to provide for the functional use of the alley for one-way vehicular access in an aesthetically pleasing manner.

17.04.230 Animal hospital. “Animal hospital” means a place where animals are given medical care and where the boarding of animals is limited to short-term care incidental to the medical care.

“Animal processing facility” means a facility where animals are killed and/or their carcasses are cut and may be wrapped for

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consumption as food products. “Animal processing facility” does not include the onsite slaughtering of animals raised by the owner or tenant.

17.04.250 Antenna. “Antenna” means a device used in communications that transmits and/or receives radio, television, or other electromagnetic signals, including but not limited to dish panel, parabolic, and whip antennas.

17.04.260 Antique. “Antique” is any handmade or manufactured product, such as an automobile, a work of art, piece of furniture, jewelry, clothing, or decorative object, having high value because of its considerable age that is indicative of a specific period of craftsmanship and design. Further, a collectible is any mass-produced product, no longer manufactured and of limited availability, such as coins, books, stamps, clothing, bric-a-brac, curios, or similar objects, regardless of its age, which represents an earlier period, style, or fad, and which, when originally produced, carried an inexpensive retail price but has taken on an intrinsic value greater than that original value and which continues to appreciate with time.

17.04.270 Applicant. “Applicant” means any owner or his/her authorized agent who files an application for a permit or change in land use pursuant to the provisions of this title.

17.04.280 Archive. “Archive” means the official repository, located within Tuolumne County, for cultural resources artifacts and documents.

17.04.290 Area to perimeter ratio. “Area to perimeter ratio” means the number achieved by dividing the total area of the parcel by the total perimeter of the parcel boundary. The units to be used are square feet for area and linear feet for perimeter, and the resultant ratio has no units.

17.04.300 Attached. “Attached” means a structure that shares a common load-bearing wall with another structure that is at least 30

percent of the secondary structure’s loadbearing wall.

17.04.310 Auction yard. “Auction yard” means a yard, pen, corral, building, or premise permanently devoted to assembling livestock for sale, resale, exchange, or transfer, the primary purpose of which is to facilitate transfer of ownership of the livestock. “Auction yard” does not include a yard, pen, corral, building, or premise on a farm or ranch used to sell livestock.

“Auto wrecking and junk storage” means storage and dismantling of vehicles and equipment for sale of parts, as well as their collection, storage, exchange or sale of goods including, but not limited to, any used building materials, used containers or steel drums, used tires, and similar or related articles or property.

“Automotive repair, major” means a facility which provides heavy repair of automobiles and/or trucks including but not limited to body and fender repair, automotive painting, transmission and/or engine rebuilding, or other repair services which include the removal of major automotive mechanical components of a vehicle.

“Automotive repair, minor” means a facility which provides light repair of automobiles and/or light trucks, including but not limited to engine tune-up, oil change, brake repair and replacement, muffler replacement, and the sale and/or installation of tires, batteries and accessories.

17.04.350 Banner . “Banner” means any sign printed on cloth, paper, plastic, or similar material that is not permanently attached to a building or structure for the purpose of advertising, announcing, declaring, demonstrating, displaying, or attracting the attention of the public, excluding official notices issued by a court or public officer.

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17.04.360 Bar . “Bar” means premises used primarily for the dispensing of alcoholic beverages for on-site consumption.

17.04.370 Bed and breakfast. “Bed and breakfast” means a dwelling unit that provides lodging and breakfast for temporary overnight occupants for compensation. This is different from a short-term transient room rental.

17.04.380 Biomass Facility. “Biomass Facility” means a facility that processes wood waste, agricultural waste, and/or biogenic materials, excluding human/animal waste, to create renewable organic materials.

17.04.390 Board. “Board” means the Board of Supervisors of the County.

17.04.400 Boardinghouse. “Boardinghouse” means a dwelling other than a hotel where lodging and meals for three or more persons are provided for compensation. Boardinghouse includes rooming house.

17.04.410 Bona fide effort. "Bona fide effort" means the process undertaken by a project proponent to find alternatives to demolition or relocation of a cultural resource, including but not limited to:

A. Marketing the property for sale or lease; or

B. Pursuing alternative funding sources for preservation, such as local tax incentives and state and/or federal tax credits, loans, redevelopment agency loans, CDBG grants, or similar financial incentives; and

C. Obtaining written statements from licensed building contractors or architects detailing the actual costs to rehabilitate the property.

17.04.420 Building. "Building" means any structure having a roof supported by columns or walls, used or intended to be used for the shelter of or enclosure of persons, animals, or property.

use of which is incidental and accessory to a principal use on the same parcel.

17.04.440 Building height. "Building height" means the vertical distance from grade to the highest point of the coping of a flat roof or to the deck line of a mansard roof or to the average height of the highest gable of a pitch or hip roof.

17.04.450 Campground. "Campground" means any area or tract of land where one or more spaces are rented or leased or held out for rent or lease for temporary recreational occupancy.

17.04.460 Camping cabin. "Camping cabin" means a relocatable hard sided shelter with a floor area less than 400 square feet (37 square meters) without plumbing that is designed to be used within a recreational vehicle park only by a camping party. A camping cabin may contain an electrical system and electrical space conditioning equipment complying with the electrical and mechanical regulations adopted pursuant to this part and supplied by the lot service equipment. A camping cabin may be installed or occupied only in special occupancy parks or in state parks and other state property pursuant to Chapter 1 (commencing with Section 5001) of Division 5 of the Public Resources Code.

17.04.470 Camping party. "Camping party" means no more than 10 people can occupy a campsite or camping cabin for not more than 30 days annually.

17.04.480 Campsite. "Campsite" means an area within an incidental camping area occupied by a camping party.

17.04.490 Cemetery. "Cemetery" means establishments primarily engaged in operating sites or structures reserved for the interment of human or animal remains, including mausoleums, burial places, and memorial gardens.

17.04.430 Building, accessory. "Accessory building" means a subordinate building, the

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tree farm" means the commercial growing and harvesting of trees for sale as Christmas trees. A Christmas tree farm may feature either wholesale or on-site retail sales or both.

Christmas tree farms may also sell accessory items for Christmas trees. Christmas tree farms do not include facilities for the manufacture of artificial Christmas trees.

for meetings, gatherings, and events, including, but not limited to, weddings, parties, and similar uses, for which a fee is charged.

cleaning plant. “Commercial laundry or dry cleaning plant” means a facility that operates a system to clean clothing and/or fabrics with chemical solvents that have little or no water.

any significant celebration or program receiving area-wide recognition and staged for the amusement, entertainment, or education of the public. Civic events are not special events and sales.

17.04.520 Clear Sight Triangle. “Clear Sight Triangle” means a triangular area in the public right of way or a private driveway that defines a zone necessary for the clear view by the driver of a motor vehicle or a bicyclist of oncoming cross-street motor vehicle, bicycle, or pedestrian traffic.

17.04.530 Clubhouse. "Clubhouse" means any building or premises used for regular or periodic meetings of a group or persons organized for a nonprofit purpose, exclusive of groups organized to render a service customarily carried on as a business.

17.04.540 Commercial coach. “Commercial coach” means a structure transportable in one or more sections, designed and equipped for human occupancy for industrial, professional, or commercial purposes, which is required to be moved under a permit, and shall include a trailer coach as defined in Section 635 of the Vehicle Code. “Commercial coach” also means a special-purpose commercial coach as defined in Section 18012.5 of the Health and Safety Code, which is not required to be moved under a permit.

17.04.550 Commercial events on agricultural land. “Commercial events on agricultural land” means the use of land and/or facilities

amusement center. "Commercial recreation and amusement center" means facilities or uses that provide participant or spectator recreation. This classification includes sports stadiums and arenas, amusement parks, bowling alleys, billiard parlors, golf driving ranges, pool rooms, dance halls, ice/roller skating rinks, golf courses (daily fee), miniature golf courses, scale-model courses, shooting galleries, tennis/racquetball courts, pinball arcades or electronic games centers; it also includes health and fitness clubs, gymnastic facilities and similar uses

17.04.580 Commission . "Commission" means the Planning Commission of the county.

17.04.590 Common interest development. “Common interest development” means any of the following: a community apartment project, a condominium project, a planned development, and a stock cooperative pursuant to Civil Code Section 1351(c) and pursuant to Civil Code Section 4100. All common interest development units must be offered to the public for purchase (Government Code Section 65915(i)).

17.04.600 Condominium. "Condominium" means an estate in real property consisting of an undivided interest in common in a portion of a parcel of real property together with a separate interest in space in a residential, industrial, or commercial building on such real property. A condominium may include, in addition, a separate interest in other portions of such real property.

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“Condominium conversion project” means a residential project in which the applicant proposes to convert apartment units to condominiums pursuant to Government Code Section 65915.5(a).

17.04.620 Corner parcel. "Corner parcel" means any parcel abutting two streets at the point of intersection.

17.04.630 Cottage food operation. “Cottage food operation” means an enterprise conducted within a permitted single-family dwelling where low risk food products are prepared or packaged for sale to consumers as defined in Section 113758 of the California Health and Safety Code.

17.04.640 County. “County” means the Tuolumne County Board of Supervisors; the Planning Commission; the Community Development Department; the Public Works Department; and all advisory agencies, appeals boards, officers, agents, consultants, contractors, and employees of Tuolumne County.

resource" means any building, structure, object, site, district, or other item of cultural, social, religious, economic, political, scientific, agricultural, educational, military, engineering, or architectural significance to the citizens of Tuolumne County, the State of California, or the nation that is 50 years of age or older or has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places, the California Register of Historical Resources, or the Tuolumne County Register of Cultural Resources. The term "cultural resource" includes historical resources and historic properties.

24-hour basis. Day care center also includes infant centers, preschools, and adult day care facilities.

17.04.670 Demolition. "Demolition" means any intentional act or process that results in the destruction of 50 percent or more of an individual building, structure, object, or site. Demolition excludes maintenance and repair, activities that involve interior features only, and activities that do not require a building permit.

"Demonstration garden" means land used by multiple users, often an organization, for the cultivation of fruits, vegetables, plants, flowers, or herbs with an outreach or education component.

17.04.690 Density bonus. “Density bonus” means a process by which the County can increase the density within a development project by a percentage established by law or through which the County offers incentives that support economic viability in return for guarantees with respect to the preservation of the rights of use or sale for affordable housing purposes.

17.04.700 Density bonus units. “Density bonus units” means dwelling units granted pursuant to Chapter 17.26 that exceed the otherwise maximum allowable residential density.

resources. "Development of aggregate resources" means commercial excavation and processing of earth or building materials together with necessary buildings, apparatuses, and incidental appurtenances.

17.04.660 Day care center. "Day care center" means a facility, other than a family day care home, that provides nonmedical care to persons 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

“Development standard” means a site or construction condition, including, but not limited to, a height limitation, a setback requirement, a floor area ratio, an onsite open-space requirement, or a parking ratio, that applies to a residential development pursuant to the Development Code, the

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General Plan, or other County condition, law, policy, resolution, or regulation (Government Code Section 65915(o)(2)).

17.04.730 Director. "Director" means the director of the County Community Development Department.

17.04.740 Discretionary Land Use Approval. “Discretionary land use approval” means any decision of the County approving a request of an applicant, including but not limited to: a General Plan amendment, rezoning, tentative map, vesting tentative map, parcel map, final map, final map modification or amendment, time extension, boundary line adjustment, certificate of compliance, conditional use permit, administrative use permit, use permit modification, use permit extension, variance or variance modification, minor exception, temporary use permit, reclamation plan, site development permit, or any other land use, public works, or engineering entitlement requiring the County's exercise of judgment to impose or not to impose conditions of approval, and any accompanying CEQA determination pertaining to any such approval.

17.04.750 District. "District" means a grouping of resources (including historic properties, historical resources, and cultural resources) linked either by geography or by association and function; the district may have been planned or designed as a unit (e.g., a neighborhood or college campus) or through association has been historically united (e.g., central business districts, transportation networks). Other examples of districts are residential neighborhoods, commercial areas, industrial complexes, civic centers, defined communities, water distribution systems, groups of habitations and associated activity areas, large ranches or estates, and large parks.

17.04.760 Dormitory. "Dormitory" means a residence hall providing sleeping accommodations for individuals or for groups, usually without private baths.

17.04.770 Drive-Through Facilities. “ DriveThrough Facilities” means a component of a retail or service business building or development intended to allow service direct from the building through a window, kiosk or automated delivery system to vehicle occupants. Such facilities include but are not limited to food service windows, automatic teller machines or similar service systems.

17.04.780 Duplex. “Duplex” means a building on a single parcel containing two primary single-family dwelling units totally separated from each other by an unpierced wall extending from ground to roof, except that common entry ways may be provided.

17.04.790 Dwelling. "Dwelling" means any building or portion thereof designed or used as the residence of one or more persons. Dwelling does not include dormitory.

17.04.800 Dwelling group. "Dwelling group" means two or more detached dwelling units on one parcel.

17.04.810 Dwelling, multiple-family. "Multiple-family dwelling" means a building arranged or designed to be occupied by more than two families in individual dwelling units.

17.04.820 Dwelling, single family. "Singlefamily dwelling" means one dwelling unit.

17.04.830 Dwelling, single-family primary. “Primary single-family dwelling” means the principal and largest dwelling unit on a parcel.

17.04.840 Dwelling unit. “Dwelling unit” means a room or group of rooms, including sleeping, eating, cooking, and sanitation facilities, but not more than one kitchen, that constitutes an independent housekeeping unit, occupied or intended for occupancy by one household. Dwelling unit does not include a recreational vehicle.

17.04.850 Easement. "Easement" means an interest in real property giving a person or public entity other than the owner of a parcel

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a right to use that parcel or a portion or to prevent the owner's use, for some specific purpose. Such specific purposes may include streets, alleys, bicycle paths, pedestrian facilities, equestrian trails, sanitary sewers, drainage, utilities, or other public or private uses.

“Eligible housing development” means a development that satisfies all of the following criteria:

A. The development is a multifamily housing development that contains five or more residential units, exclusive of any other floor area ratio bonus or incentive or concession awarded

B. The development is located within one of the following:

1. An urban infill site that is within a transit priority area.

2. One-half mile of a major transit stop.

C. The site of the development is zoned to allow residential use or mixed use with a minimum planned density of at least 20 dwelling units per acre and does not include any land zoned for low-density residential use or for exclusive nonresidential use.

D. The applicant and the development satisfy the replacement requirements specified in subdivision (c) of Government Code Section 65915.

E. The development includes at least 20 percent of the units (excluding any additional units allowed under a floor area ratio bonus or other incentives or concessions provided), with a housing cost or rent affordable to, and occupied by, persons with a household income equal to or less than 50 percent of the area median income, and subject to an affordability restriction for a minimum of 55 years

F. The development complies with the height requirements applicable to the underlying zone. A development shall not be eligible to use a floor area ratio bonus or other incentives or concessions provided to relieve the development from a maximum height limitation.

17.04.870 Enclosed storage of equipment or materials. “ Enclosed storage of equipment or materials” means an enclosed structure used to house equipment and materials.

17.04.880 Emergency shelter. “Emergency shelter” means housing with minimal supportive services for homeless persons that is limited to occupancy for six months or less by a homeless person. Emergency shelters include interim interventions, including but not limited to, navigation centers, bridge housing, and respite or recuperative care. (Ord. 3471§ 2, 2024).

17.04.890 Equipment repair facilities. "Equipment repair facilities" means truck and heavy equipment sales, service, repair and rental. Sales, servicing, rental, fueling, servicing, repairing, and washing of trucks and trailers, and heavy equipment. Sales of new or used automobiles or pickup trucks are excluded from this classification.

17.04.900 Family. "Family" means one or more persons living together as a single housekeeping unit in a dwelling, not including any group occupying a rooming house or boardinghouse or hotel or motel.

day care home” means a home that regularly provides care, protection, and supervision for children under 18 years of age in the provider’s own home for periods of less than 24 hours per day while the parents or guardians are away, and includes the following:

A. “Large family day care home” means a home that regularly provides day care to 7 to 12 children, including children under the age of 10 years who reside at the home. A large family day care home may provide day care for more than 12 and up to 14 children if the criteria in Section 1597.465 of the Health and Safety Code are met.

B. “Small family day care home” means a home which provides family care to 6 or fewer children, including children under the age of 10 years who reside at the home. A small family day care home may provide day

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care for more than 6 and up to 8 children if the criteria in Section 1597.44 of the Health and Safety Code are met.

17.04.920 Farmers market. “Farmers market” means a location where farmers may transport and sell to the public agricultural products that they produced. A certified farmers market is a farmers market that is approved by the Tuolumne County Agricultural Commissioner, is operated in accordance with regulations in the Food and Agricultural Code, and where the agricultural products sold are exempt from the established grade, size, labeling, packaging, and other such requirements for fruits, nuts, and vegetables.

17.04.930 Farm or ranch tour. “Farm or ranch tour” means a visit to a farm or ranch, whether guided or not.

17.04.940 Farm stay. “Farm stay” means a farm or ranch which produces agricultural products as its primary source of income and which provides overnight transient accommodations as an accessory use to the commercial agricultural use so that members of the public may experience a rural lifestyle. Food service is limited to registered guests, with the price of food included in the price of the overnight transient occupancy accommodation. The establishment can have no more than six guest bedrooms. Tents and recreational vehicle may not be used for transient lodging facilities.

17.04.950 Feasible. "Feasible" means capable of being accomplished in a successful manner within a reasonable period of time, taking into account economic, environmental, social, legal, and technological factors.

17.04.960 Feed yard. “Feed yard” means a confined area where large numbers of livestock are kept with limited space per animal to prepare them for market and where 60 percent or more of the feed for those animals is not from grazing. Feed yard includes feed lot. “Feed yard” does not

include a yard, pen, corral, building, or premise on a farm or ranch used to sell livestock.

17.04.970 Fitness Studio. “Fitness Studio” means a small-scale facility typically accommodating a few groups of students at a time. Examples of these facilities include individual and group instruction and training in the arts; production rehearsal; photography, and the processing of photographs produced only by users of the studio facilities; yoga studios; martial arts training studios; gymnastics instruction; and aerobics and gymnastics studios with no other fitness facilities or equipment. Also includes production studios for individual musicians, painters, sculptors, photographers, and other artists.

17.04.980 Flea market. "Flea market" means an outdoor market or sale featuring temporary individuals stalls or concessions set up for the purpose of selling merchandise.

17.04.990 Floor area ratio . “Floor area ratio” means the ratio of gross building area, excluding structured parking areas, proposed for the project divided by the net lot area. For purposes of this paragraph, “gross building area” means the sum of all finished areas of all floors of a building included within the outside faces of its exterior walls.

17.04.1000 Floor area ratio bonus. “Floor area ratio bonus” means an allowance for an eligible housing development to use a floor area ratio over the otherwise maximum allowable density permitted under the applicable zoning ordinance and land use elements of the General Plan.

17.04.1010 Foster home. "Foster home" means a home licensed for the care of children.

17.04.1020 Garage, private. “Private garage” means a building designed, used, or intended to be used for the storage of automobiles belonging to the owner or

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tenant of the property on which the garage is located; a carport.

17.04.1080 Gross acreage. "Gross acreage" means the total area of a parcel, including easements, rights-of-way, lakes, and streams.

“General farming and ranching” means growing, cultivating, raising, breeding, or producing plants or animals for commercial or domestic purposes, including but not limited to, livestock, dairy, furbearing animals, poultry, aquaculture, apiculture, grains, herbs, vegetables, fruit, horticultural plants, and Christmas trees, and the accessory structures related to these activities, such as barns and greenhouses. “General farming and ranching” includes agriculture and agricultural production but does not include landscaping, gardens, or pets that are accessory to a residential use.

processing, and refining. “General manufacturing, processing and refining” means the mechanical or chemical transformation of materials or substances into new products, including the assembling of component parts, the creation of products and the blending of materials.

recreational use. "General non-commercial recreational use" means recreation area or facility operated and controlled by an association, corporation, private individual or nonprofit group and limited to members or owners and their guests.

17.04.1060 Grade. "Grade" means the average existing slope adjacent to the exterior of a building.

17.04.1070 Green waste. "Green waste" means organic waste generated by landscape garden or agricultural operations, consisting of lawn clippings, tree and shrub prunings, wood, and miscellaneous soil material. This is categorized as material that can be processed into compost or wood chips for reuse.

17.04.1090 Growing and harvesting of forest products. "Growing and harvesting of forest products" means the operation and harvesting of timber tracts, tree farms, forest nurseries, whether planted or of natural growth, standing or down, including nursery stock for restocking commercial forest land and related activities such as reforestation services; also the gathering of gums, barks, sap, moss and other forest products.

17.04.1100 Guesthouse. "Guesthouse" means a detached building occupied by guests without compensation of any kind as a condition of occupancy and used as sleeping quarters only, without cooking or housekeeping facilities.

17.04.1110 Guest ranch. “Guest ranch” means a farm or ranch where the primary use is a commercial agricultural operation and where members of the public may stay for compensation to experience a rural lifestyle as an accessory use to the commercial agricultural use and where guest facilities, including but not limited to the lodge, bunkhouse or cottages, recreational activities, food and beverage service, and entertainment, are limited to use or consumption by registered overnight guests of the guest ranch. Tents and recreational vehicles may not be used for transient lodging facilities.

17.04.1120 Harvesting of timber. "Harvesting of timber" means the cutting of trees for commercial purposes. "Harvesting" does not include cutting of trees necessary for a homesite or a road or the cutting of dead, dying, or diseased timber pursuant to county ordinance.

17.04.1130 Health care facility. "Health care facility" means an institution providing medical or surgical care and treatment.

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17.04.1140 High-water mark. “High-water mark” means the highest level to which water will rise in a reservoir, lake, or pond before it overflows, unless otherwise established by county ordinance or by the agency having jurisdiction over the reservoir, lake, or pond.

17.04.1150 Highway. "Highway" means any street designated and maintained as part of the state highway system.

17.04.1160 Home occupation. “Home occupation” means any use conducted entirely within a dwelling or private garage, and carried on exclusively by the inhabitants thereof and which that is merely incidental to the residential use of the parcel and does not change its residential character or appearance. Home occupation does not include cottage food operations.

17.04.1170 Hotel. “Hotel” means a building containing six or more bedrooms where overnight lodging without individual cooking facilities is offered to the public for compensation, primarily for the accommodation of transient guests unless the room is used for single room occupancy. A hotel is not a motel or dormitory or boardinghouse. Tents and recreational vehicles may not be used for transient lodging facilities (i.e. hotel).

17.04.1180 Household. “Household” means all the persons, related or unrelated, who occupy a single dwelling unit. Persons not living in households are classified as living in group quarters.

income. “Extremely low-income household” means a household with an annual income no greater than 30 percent of the County median income, adjusted by household size, as determined by the California Department of Housing and Community Development.

17.04.1200 Household, low-income. “Lowincome household” means a household with an annual income of at least 50 percent of the

County median income but less than 80 percent of the County median income, adjusted by household size, as determined by the California Department of Housing and Community Development.

“Median-income household” means a household with an annual income equal to the County median income, adjusted by household size, as determined by the California Department of Housing and Community Development.

17.04.1220 Household, moderate-income. “Moderate-income household” means a household with an annual income of at least 80 percent of the County median income but less than 120 percent of the County median income, adjusted by household size, as determined by the California Department of Housing and Community Development.

”Very low-income household” means a household with an annual income no greater than 50 percent of the County median income, adjusted by household size, as determined by the California Department of Housing and Community Development.

17.04.1240 Housing development . “Housing development” means a development project of five or more residential units and includes a subdivision or common interest development that is approved by the County and consists of residential units or unimproved residential lots, and either a project to substantially rehabilitate and convert an existing commercial building to residential use or the substantial rehabilitation of an existing multifamily dwelling where the result of the rehabilitation would be a net increase in available residential units (Government Code Section 65915(i)).

17.04.1250 Incentive. “Incentive” means “incentives and concessions” as that phrase is used in Government Code Section 65915.

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17.04.1260 Incidental camping area.

“Incidental camping area” means any area or tract of land where camping is incidental to the primary use of the land for agriculture, timber management, or water or power development purposes, and where two or more campsites used for camping are rented or leased or held out for rent or lease. The density of usage shall not exceed 25 camping parties within a radius of 265 feet from any campsite within the incidental camping area.

17.04.1270 Incidental use. “Incidental use” means a use that is subordinate and of minor consequence to the primary use on the same site and occupies not more than 25 percent of the gross floor area and less than 25 percent of the outdoor storage area.

17.04.1280 Inclusionary unit. “Inclusionary unit” means an affordable housing unit provided by the developer of a residential housing project pursuant to the provisions of Chapter 17.28 of this code.

17.04.1290 Industry. "Industry" means the manufacture, fabrication, processing, reduction, or destruction of any article, substance, or commodity, or any other treatment thereof resulting in a change of form, character, or appearance. Industry also includes the storage, sales, repair, refinishing, or warehousing of such materials or commodities.

17.04.1300 Junior Accessory Dwelling Unit.

"Junior Accessory Dwelling Unit" means a unit that is no more than 500 square feet in size and contained entirely within an existing single-family structure. A junior accessory dwelling unit may include separate sanitation facilities or may share sanitation facilities with the existing structure. For the purposes of life/safety regulations and providing utilities such as water, sewer, power, or other utilities, a junior accessory dwelling unit shall not be considered a separate or new dwelling unit.

17.04.1310 Junk. "Junk" means discarded or salvaged materials or waste.

17.04.1320 Kennel. “ Kennel” means any parcel, structure, enclosure, or premises whereupon or wherein are kept dogs or cats in the following numbers for more than five weeks in any calendar year, whether such keeping is for pleasure, profit, breeding, or exhibiting:

• A. Five or more dogs; or

• B. Seven or more cats; or

C. Seven or more dogs and cats in any combination provided that a combination that includes five or more dogs constitutes a kennel.

A kennel does not include a parcel zoned A (Agricultural) on which are kept five or more dogs used for herding or other purposes in conjunction with a commercial agricultural operation.

17.04.1330 Kitchen. “Kitchen” means an area with appliances or other facilities for the preparation or preservation of food that includes a gas or electric range, oven, or stovetop. A kitchen does not include wet bars or specialized home canning or preserving facilities.

17.04.1340 Landscaping. "Landscaping" means the improvement of any real property through the use of shrubs, hedges, trees, grass or other plants with or without decorative or functional fences, railings, statues, curbs, and similar structures to enhance the appearance of the property, reduce soil erosion, or provide screening for light or sound.

17.04.1350 Living area. “Living area” means the space within a dwelling for sleeping, eating, cooking, and other activities of the persons who occupy the dwelling. Living area includes bathrooms, hallways, stairwells, storage areas, utility spaces, and similar areas. Living area does not include exterior decks, open porches, carports, or garages. The size of the living area is measured from the exterior wall of the dwelling.

17.04.1360 Livestock. "Livestock" means poultry, horses, cattle, sheep, pigs, and

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similar animals, not including dogs or other small household pets.

major transit stop. “Located within one-halfmile of a major transit stop” means any point on a proposed development for which an applicant seeks a density bonus, other incentives or concessions, waivers or reductions of development standards, or a vehicular parking ratio, that is within onehalf-mile of any point on the property on which a major transit stop is located, including any parking lot owned by the transit authority or other local agency operating the major transit stop.

17.04.1380 Log deck. “Log deck” means Temporary outdoor storage of logs, trees, or other raw forest or timber product.

means any building in which is conducted the principal use of the parcel on which it is situated. Every dwelling in any residential (R) district is a main building.

"Maintenance and repair" means:

A. Any work for which a building permit is not required by law; or,

B. Work for which a building permit is required by law where the purpose and effect of such work is to correct any deterioration of or damage to an improvement or natural feature or any part thereof to restore the same to its condition prior to the occurrence of such deterioration or damage, including replacement of doors, windows, porches, or similar architectural features.

17.04.1390 Lot line adjustment. "Lot line adjustment" means relocation of boundary lines between four or fewer existing adjoining lots or parcels that are not under common ownership, where the land taken from one lot or parcel is added to an adjoining lot or parcel, and where a greater number of lots or parcels than originally existed is not thereby created.

17.04.1400 Low Barrier Navigation Center. “Low Barrier Navigation Center” means 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. “Low barrier” means best practices to reduce barriers to entry, and may include, but is not limited to: the presence of partners if it is not a populationspecific site, such as for survivors of domestic violence or sexual assault, women, or youth; pets; the storage of possessions; or privacy, such as partitions around beds in a dormitory setting or in larger rooms containing more than two beds, or private rooms.

means a tower for wireless communication or cellular purposes that is non-stealth in design or exceeds the height limit of the district in which it is located (Ord. 3471 § 2, 2024).

Facility. “Major wireless communications facility” means a wireless communications facility that is non-stealth in design or exceeds the height limit of the district in which it is located. A major wireless communications facility also includes any wireless communications facility that is ground- or roof-mounted and mounted in or on any public property including the public right-of-way but does not include a wireless communications facility located on a public utility pole within a public right-of-way that meets the requirements of a minor wireless communications facility (Ord. 3471 § 2, 2024).

transit stop” means a site containing any of the following:

A. An existing rail or bus rapid transit station

B. A ferry terminal served by either a bus or rail transit service.

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C. The intersection of two or more major bus routes with a frequency of service interval of 15 minutes or less during the morning and afternoon peak commute periods.

D. Major transit stops that are included in the applicable regional transportation plan

A development shall be considered to have unobstructed access to a major transit stop if a resident is able to access the major transit stop without encountering natural or constructed impediments.

17.04.1460 Market-rate unit. “Market-rate unit” means a dwelling unit that is not an affordable unit.

objects, sites, or districts consistent with the Secretary of the Interior's standards and guidelines.

17.04.1500 Mineral resources. “Mineral resources” means:

A. Small Scale Development. Prospecting for, or the extraction of, minerals for commercial purposes and the removal of overburden in total amounts of less than one thousand cubic yards that disturbs one acre or less;

B. Large Scale Development. Prospecting for, or the extraction of, minerals for commercial purposes and the removal of overburden in total amounts of one thousand cubic yards or greater, or that disturbs more than one acre.

density. “Maximum allowable residential density” or “base density” means the maximum number of units allowed under the zoning ordinance, specific plan, or land use element of the General Plan, or, if a range of density is permitted, means the maximum number of units allowed by the specific zoning range, specific plan, or land use element of the General Plan applicable to the project. If the density allowed under the zoning ordinance is inconsistent with the density allowed under the land use element of the General Plan or specific plan, the greater shall prevail. Density shall be determined using dwelling units per acre. (Government Code Section 65915(o)(6)).

17.04.1480 Merger. "Merger" means the elimination of boundary lines between parcels to join four or fewer separate and contiguous parcels under common ownership into one parcel.

17.04.1490 Mills Act. "Mills Act" means the historic property preservation incentive program established pursuant to Government Code Section 50280.1 et seq. and implemented in Tuolumne County pursuant to Resolution 171-92 to provide local property tax reductions for maintenance, rehabilitations, and/or remodels of qualifying structures, buildings,

17.04.1510 Mini-mart. "Mini-mart" means a grocery store in conjunction with a gas station (Ord. 3471 § 2, 2024).

17.04.1520 Mini-storage facilities. "Ministorage facilities" means a facility used for renting or leasing storage spaces in which the occupants themselves customarily store and remove their own personal property on a self-service basis.

component. “Minimum affordable housing component” means a housing development project that includes a minimum of any of the following:

A. Very Low-Income Minimum Affordable Housing Component – Provides at least 5 percent of the total units for very low-income household residents (Government Code Section 65915(b)(1)(B));

B. Low-Income Minimum Affordable Housing Component – Provides at least 10 percent of the total units for low-income households (Government Code Section 65915(b)(1)(A)); or

C. Moderate-Income Minimum Affordable Housing Component – Provides at least 10 percent of the total dwelling units in a common interest development for moderateincome households (Government Code Section 65915(b)(1)(D)).

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17.04.1540 Minor Tower. “Minor tower” means a tower for wireless communication or cellular purposes that is stealth in design and does not exceed the height limit of the district in which it is located, or building-, facade-, or wall-mounted and does not exceed the height of the parapet wall or roofline of the building (Ord. 3471 § 2, 2024).

Facility. “Minor wireless communications facility” means a wireless communications facility that is stealth in design and does not exceed the height limit of the district in which it is located, or building-, facade-, or wallmounted and does not exceed the height of the parapet wall or roofline of the building. A roof-mounted tower, which is screened by a solid material on all four sides and does not exceed the maximum height of the district, shall be considered a minor wireless communications facility. The following shall be considered a minor wireless communications facility:

A. A small cell or small wireless facility, as that term is as that term is used by the Federal Communications Commission in FCC 18-133, as may be amended from time to time;

B. A wireless communications facility located on a public utility pole owned by the county;

C. A wireless communications facility located on public property or within a public right-of-way, other than a public utility pole owned by the county, if it is located 300 feet or more from a residential zone, that is in full compliance with the state public utilities commission joint pole association General Order 95, Rule 94, or any successor provisions thereto, and that does not exceed the height limit for the zone (Ord. 3471 § 2, 2024).

food vendor” means a vehicle, usually a van, truck, towed trailer or pushcart, from which food or beverages are sold directly to consumers for commercial purposes. Mobile food vendor does not include a vehicle used for catering events.

17.04.1570 Mobile home. "Mobile home" means a manufactured dwelling unit, transportable on its own wheels, designed and equipped to be used with or without a foundation system. Mobile home includes a manufactured home, as defined in section 18007 of the Health and Safety Code. Mobile home does not include a recreational vehicle, commercial coach, or factory-built housing, as defined in Section 19971 in the Health and Safety Code.

17.04.1580 Mobile home park. "Mobile home park" means an area or tract of land where more than two spaces are rented or leased or held out for rent or lease to accommodate mobile homes, manufactured homes, recreational vehicles.

17.04.1590 Mortuaries, funeral homes, mausoleums, columbaria, and crematoria. “Mortuaries, funeral homes, mausoleums, columbaria, and crematoria” means a Property used for the preparation and/or interring of the dead.

17.04.1600 Motel. “Motel” means a building or group of buildings containing sleeping or dwelling units independently accessible from the outside where overnight lodging is offered to the public for compensation, primarily for the accommodation of automobile travelers unless the room is used for single room occupancy. Tents and recreational vehicle may not be used for transient lodging facilities (i.e. motel).

17.04.1610 Music festival. “Music festival” means an event with an organized series of musical performances typically by different individuals, bands, or groups of paid, professional, or amateur performers or by prerecorded or electronic means, to which members of the public are invited or admitted for a charge or free of cost. Music festivals often feature a theme, such as musical genre, nationality, or holiday, and may include other attractions, such as food, merchandise vendors, performance art, and social activities. Music festival does not include music provided in conjunction with

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and related to a school, religious institution, or organized camp program, commercial events on land zoned agricultural (A or AE) or residential estate (RE), or musical entertainment provided in theaters, bars, restaurants, or similar indoor retail service establishments.

17.04.1620 Net acreage. "Net acreage" means the area of a parcel excluding areas within deeded or dedicated road easements or road easements that have been offered for dedication, and less the area of any reservoir, lake, or pond on the parcel as measured at the high-water mark where that area exceeds 20 percent of the gross acreage of the parcel, except the dedication of the area of any reservoir, lake, or pond on a parcel shall not apply where such parcel is being reconfigured or merged with one or more parcels.

ts or road easements that have been offered for dedication, and less the area of any reservoir, lake, or pond on the parcel as measured at the high-water mark where that area exceeds 20 percent of the gross acreage of the parcel, except the dedication of the area of any reservoir, lake, or pond on a parcel shall not apply where such parcel is being reconfigured or merged with one or more parcels.

17.04.1630 Nuisance. "Nuisance" means any condition or situation resulting from unreasonable or unlawful practices or from neglect which is injurious or unsightly or offensive to the senses so as to interfere with the comfortable enjoyment of life or property by reasonable persons residing or working in the neighborhood of such condition.

"Nurseries and greenhouses" means establishments primarily engaged in outdoor sales of nursery and garden products-such as trees, shrubs, plants, seeds, bulbs, and sodthat are predominantly grown elsewhere and may supplement with ancillary and related landscape and gardening items such as fencing, fountains, irrigation equipment, decorative rocks, stackable walls and stepping stones. These establishments may sell a limited amount of a product they grow themselves. Fertilizer and soil products are predominantly stored and sold in package form.

17.04.1650 Object . "Object" means a construction which is either small in scale, simply constructed, and although potentially moveable, is associated with a specific

setting or environment. Examples of objects include public sculptures, monuments, boundary markers, steam donkeys on their skids, and statuary and fountains in town squares.

17.04.1660 Objective standards . "Objective standards" means standards that involve no personal or subjective judgment by a public official and are uniformly verifiable by reference to an external and uniform benchmark or criterion available and knowable by both the development applicant or proponent and the public official prior to submittal.

“Organizational Camp” means land or premises which is owned by an organization and used or intended to be used, let or rented for occupancy by members of the organization or campers attending camp on the premise.

financial value. “Other incentives of equivalent financial value” means the reduction or waiver of requirements that the County might otherwise apply as conditions of condominium conversion approval, but shall not be construed to require the County to provide cash transfer payments or other monetary compensation (Government Code Section 65915.5(c)).

"Outdoor advertising structure" means any sign.

17.04.1700 Outdoor seating. “Outdoor seating” means an area provided for dining or drinking in the open air in conjunction with a restaurant, take-out restaurant, or bar. An outdoor seating area is one that is not fully enclosed but may be partially enclosed and must be in a specifically identified area.

sales. “ Outdoor storage” means the keeping, in an unroofed area, of any goods, material, merchandise, or vehicles in the same place

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for more than twenty-four hours, except for the keeping of building materials reasonably required for construction work on the premises pursuant to a valid and current building permit issued by the County. “Outdoor sales” are the sale or offering for sale to the general public of merchandise outside of a permanent structure on property owned or leased by a person, firm, or corporation. These sales are of a limited duration and conducted on an occasional basis, and are secondary or incidental to the principal permitted use or structure existing on the property.

17.04.1720 Owner. "Owner" means the title holder of record for a particular property or premises, including the holders of surface rights and mineral rights where those rights are held separately.

17.04.1730 Parcel of land. "Parcel of land" means a geographical area of land, used or capable of being used under the regulations of this title created in accordance with the subdivision laws or ordinances in effect at the time of its creation.

17.04.1740 Parking area. "Parking area" means an open area, other than a street, alley, or other thoroughfare, used for the parking of motor vehicles, whether for a fee, free, or as an accommodation for clients or customers. Parking area includes parking lot.

17.04.1750 Parking space. "Parking space" means an area for the parking of a motor vehicle.

17.04.1760 Personal services. “Personal services” means provision of recurrently needed services of a personal nature. This classification includes barber shops and beauty salons, seamstresses, tailors, day spas, dry cleaning for individuals (excluding large-scale bulk cleaning plants), shoe repair shops, self-service laundries, video rental stores, photocopying and photo finishing services, and travel agencies mainly intended for the consumer. This classification also includes massage establishments in which all

persons engaged in the practice of massage are certified pursuant to the California Business and Professions Code Section.

17.04.1770 Persons and/or families of lower income. “Persons and/or families of lower income” means persons or families whose income does not exceed 80 percent of area median income, adjusted for family size by the California Department of Housing and Community Development, in accordance with adjustment factors adopted and amended from time to time by the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development pursuant to Section 8 of the United States Housing Act of 1937.

17.04.1780 Pet. “Pet” means a domesticated animal kept for pleasure rather than utility or commercial enterprise, such as dogs, cats, and other domesticated animals suitable for housing inside a dwelling.

17.04.1790 Petting zoo. “Petting zoo” means raising and maintaining a variety of domestic animals, as defined by Section 6.04.020 of this Code, for purposes of both exhibition to the public and direct contact by the public.

Photodocumentation. “Photodocument” or “Photodocumentation” means the preparation of a photographic record of all elevations of a cultural resource.

17.04.1810 Places of worship. “Places of worship” means a building or structure, or groups of buildings or structures, that are primarily intended for conducting organized religious services and associated accessory uses. Place of worship includes mosque, temple, synagogue, cathedral, church or similar religious institutions.

17.04.1820 Places of public assembly, social clubs, lodges. “Places of public assembly, social clubs, lodges” means a facility for public or private meetings including community centers, banquet centers, religious assembly facilities, civic and private auditoriums, union halls, meeting halls for

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clubs and other membership organizations. This classification includes functionally related facilities for the use of members and attendees such as kitchens, bars, multipurpose rooms, and storage. It does not include gymnasiums or other sports facilities, or facilities such as day care centers and schools that are separately classified and regulated.

17.04.1880 Public safety facility. "Public safety facility" means facilities providing public-safety or emergency services, including sheriff stations, fire protection, ambulance services, emergency operation centers, emergency dispatch center, public works, and their associated, training and maintenance facilities. This classification also includes corporation yards for government agencies.

planing mill. “Portable sawmill or portable planing mill” means portable mills producing finished lumber on a small scale.

17.04.1840 Poultry. “Poultry” means domesticated fowl raised for meat or eggs. For purposes of Section 17.42.040.B, poultry includes chickens (hens), pheasants, quail, doves, domestic turkeys, and domestic hybrids of these species, but does not include roosters, tom turkeys, ducks, pigeons, guinea fowl, geese, peacocks, pea hens, chukars, grouse, or large fowl including, but not limited to, ostriches and emus.

17.04.1850 Professional office. "Professional office" means any building or portion thereof occupied by persons engaged in the practice of medicine, dentistry, real estate, insurance, architecture, accounting, law, engineering, and similar professions.

17.04.1890 Public sewer system. "Public sewer system" means a community or regional system for the collection, treatment, and disposal of sewage that meets all applicable state and local laws and is owned and operated by any public entity or public utility which is authorized to acquire, construct, maintain, and operate sanitary sewers and sewer systems.

17.04.1900 Public utility distribution facility. "Public utility distribution facility" means that portion of a utility system owned and operated by a legally authorized agency, organization, or association needed to deliver the particular utility's product to individual customers.

17.04.1910 Public utility uses. "Public utility uses" mean services for the public that include utility substations, service yards, pumping stations and other transmission and distribution facilities.

means that search for minerals by geological, geophysical, geochemical, and other techniques, including, but not limited to, sampling, assaying drilling, or any surface or underground works needed to determine the type, intent, or quantity of minerals present. Prospecting does not include development of mineral resources.

17.04.1870 Public agency. "Public agency" means any taxing agency, government, district, or municipality or subordinate division thereof, engaged in the provision of a public service.

17.04.1920 Public water system. "Public water system" means a distribution system that provides potable water to residents of an area or community and is operated by either an association, district, mutual or public utility company form of organization legally authorized to purvey water.

17.04.1930 Qualified housing development. “Qualified housing development” means a housing development that meets the requirements of Chapter 17.26 for density bonus.

17.04.1940 Qualified land. “Qualified land” means land offered for donation in

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accordance with Chapter 17.26 that meets the criteria set forth in Subdivision 11.30.080.A.

experience is in both fields.

B. For projects requiring historical expertise, qualified professionals shall have:

17.04.1950 Qualified Professional. "Qualified professionals" means persons meeting the following standards necessary to conduct cultural resource studies:

  1. A graduate degree in history or closely related field, or 

  2. A bachelor’s degree in history or closely related field plus two years full-time experience in history; or 

• A. For projects requiring archaeological

• expertise, qualified professionals are:

  1. Archaeologists included on the California Historical Resources Information System Central California Information Center list or with ROPA (Register of Professional Archaeologists) certification; or

  2. Persons with a graduate degree in anthropology or archaeology or closely related field with at least one year of full-time professional experience or equivalent specialized training in archeological research, administration, or management and all of the following:

  3. A bachelor’s degree in history or closely related field plus substantial contribution through research and publication to the body of scholarly knowledge in history.

• C. For projects requiring architectural

• expertise, a qualified professional shall have:

1. A graduate degree in architectural history including course work in American architectural history, or 2. A bachelors degree in architectural history and two years full-time experience in American architectural history or American restoration architecture with a professional institution, or 3. A bachelors degree in architectural history and substantial contribution through research and publication to the body of scholarly knowledge in American architectural history, or 4. A graduate or bachelors degree in art history, historic preservation, or closely related field and course work in American architectural history or, 5. A graduate or bachelors degree in art history, historic preservation, or closely related field and two years full-time experience in American architectural history or American restoration

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architecture with a professional institution, or 6. A graduate or bachelors degree in art history, historic preservation, or closely related field and substantial contribution through research and publication to the body of scholarly knowledge in American architectural history, or 7. A professional degree in architecture and at least one year of graduate study in architectural preservation, American architectural history, preservation planning, or closely related field, or 8. A professional degree in architecture and at least one year full-time professional experience on historic preservation projects including the following: detailed investigations of historic structures, preparation of historic structures research reports, preparation of plans and specifications for preservation projects, or 9. A state license to practice architecture and at least one year graduate study in architectural preservation, American architectural history, preservation planning, or closely related field, or 10. A state license to practice architecture and at least one year full-time professional experience on historic preservation projects, including the following: detailed investigations of historic structures, preparation of historic structures research reports, preparation of plans and

specifications for preservation projects.

17.04.1960 Recreation. "Recreation" means activities intended for amusement or diversion.

“Recreational development” means an area or tract of land that allows buildings and any of the following amenities: camps, picnic facilities, beaches, and nonmotorized pedestrian and equestrian trails as well as camp roads (Ord. 3471 § 2, 2024).

“Recreational vehicle” means a motor home, travel trailer, truck camper, or camping trailer, with or without motive power, designed for human habitation for recreational, emergency, or other occupancy, that meets all of the following criteria:

A. It contains less than 320 square feet of internal living room area, excluding built-in equipment, including, but not limited to, wardrobe, closets, cabinets, kitchen units or fixtures, and bath or toilet rooms.

B. It contains 400 square feet or less of gross area measured at maximum horizontal projections.

C. It is built on a single chassis.

D. It is either self-propelled, truckmounted, or permanently towable on the highways without a permit. Recreational vehicle includes a park trailer as defined by Section 18009.3 in the Health and Safety Code.

"Recreational vehicle park" means any area or tract of land, or a separate designated section within a mobile home park where two or more lots are rented, leased, or held out for rent or lease, or were formerly held out for rent or lease and later converted to a subdivision, cooperative, condominium, or other form of resident ownership, to accommodate owners or users of recreational vehicles, camping cabins, or tents.

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17.04.2000 Recycling facility. “Recycling facility” means a structure or enclosed space used for the collection and processing of recyclable materials for shipment, or to an end-user's specifications, by such means as baling, briquetting, cleaning, compacting, crushing, flattening, grinding, mechanical sorting, remanufacturing, and shredding.

17.04.2010 Rendering plant. “Rendering plant” means a processing facility where dead animals, except those raised on the farm or ranch, or their parts are recycled into products for beneficial purposes.

"Residential care home" means any residence that maintains and operates organized facilities for board, care, and supervision of unrelated individuals.

17.04.2030 Restaurant. “Restaurant” means an establishment where the primary function is food and beverage preparation, service, and consumption.

commercial customers as well as the general public, and rendering services incidental to the sale of such goods. The characteristics of retail sales establishments are: (1) the establishment is a place of business that is primarily engaged in activities to attract the general public; (2) the establishment usually buys and receives wholesale merchandise and sells it as retail merchandise, but may sell some merchandise wholesale to commercial customers; (3) the establishment may process or manufacture some of the products, such as a jeweler or bakery, but such processing or manufacturing must be incidental or subordinate to the selling activities; and (4) retail establishments sell primarily to customer for their own personal or household use but may sell some merchandise to commercial customers. The aggregate square footage of all adjacent stores that share a common check stand, management, controlling ownership, or storage areas shall be considered one establishment. Retail sales establishments include discount warehouses or discount “club” stores.

“Restaurant, take-out” means an establishment where the primary function is preparation and sale of food and/or beverages in a form ready for consumption, where all or a significant portion of the consumption takes place or is designed to take place outside the confines of the restaurant, and where ordering and pickup of food or beverages may take place from an automobile.

17.04.2050 Resubdivision. "Resubdivision" means the merger and resubdividing of parcels under common ownership, or the adjustment of boundary lines between two or more parcels under common ownership. A resubdivision may not increase the number of parcels.

17.04.2070 Retail sales, indoor. “Retail sales, indoor” means a retail sales establishment within an enclosed building.

17.04.2080 Retail sales, outdoor. “Retail sales, outdoor” means a retail sales establishment that displays and sells products and services primarily not in a building or structure.

17.04.2090 Retail services. “Retail services” means an establishment primarily providing services or entertainment, as opposed to products, to the general public for personal or household use, including but not limited to financial services; personal services; theatres; amusement and recreation facilities; health, educational, and social services; and museums.

an establishment that is primarily engaged in selling goods or merchandise to the general public for personal or household consumption but may include sales to

17.04.2100 Retail services, indoor. “Retail services, indoor” means a retail services establishment within an enclosed building.

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17.04.2110 Retail services, outdoor. “Retail services, outdoor” means a retail services establishment that primarily provides services or entertainment not in a building or structure.

“Reverse vending machine” means a machine that allows a person to insert a used or empty glass bottle, plastic bottle, or aluminum can in exchange for a reward.

17.04.2130 Riding club. “Riding club” means membership facilities providing the use of horses for sport or pleasure.

17.04.2140 Right of Way. “Right-of-way” means an easement to pass over an affected parcel. Rights-of-way may include the land on which public roads, railroads, public utilities, bicycle paths, pedestrian facilities, or equestrian trails are located.

stand” means a structure on a farm or ranch that is used or intended to be used by the owner or tenant of the farm or ranch for the sale of agricultural products grown or raised in Tuolumne County and adjacent counties.

17.04.2160 Rummage sale. "Rummage sale" means a temporary business offering for sale such items as clothing, furniture, or other merchandise.

17.04.2170 Sawmill. “Sawmill” means mills producing finished lumber or processes that reduce the wood for use in the manufacture of different goods.

Standards. “ Secretary of the Interior Standards” means the standards identified in the Secretary of the Interior Standards and Guidelines for Historic Preservation Projects (36 C.F.R. 67), the Secretary of the Interior’s Standards for Rehabilitation, and the Secretary of the Interior’s Standards and Guidelines for Archaeology and Historic Preservation, with accompanying interpretive guidelines.

development. “Senior citizen housing development” means a residential development that is developed, substantially rehabilitated, or substantially renovated for senior citizens and that has at least 35 senior citizen housing development units (Government Code Section 65915(b)(1)(C)).

development unit. “Senior citizen housing development unit” means a residential dwelling unit in a senior citizen housing development that is available to, and occupied by, a senior citizen, as defined in Civil Code Section 51.3.

17.04.2210 Sensitive Use. "Sensitive use" means day care centers (not including family day care homes), schools (not including schools located in private homes), youth centers, and playgrounds.

17.04.2220 Setback. "Setback" means the distance from a parcel boundary or property line to the nearest exterior wall of a building.

17.04.2230 Setback line. "Setback line" means the line parallel to a property line at a distance from the property line equal to the yard requirement for buildings at that location, as specified in this title.

housing building" means a residential or mixed-use structure, with five or more shared housing units and one or more common kitchens and dining areas designed for permanent residence of more than 30 days by its tenants. The kitchens and dining areas within the shared housing building shall be able to adequately accommodate all residents.

17.04.2250 Shopping Center. “Shopping center” means a group of two or more retail sales or service establishments planned, developed, owned, or managed as a unit with common off-street parking provided on the site.

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17.04.2260 Short-Term Rental. “Short-Term Rental” means the rental of any structure or any portion of any structure for occupancy, for dwelling, lodging, or sleeping purposes, for 30 consecutive calendar days or fewer, including detached single-family residences, condominiums, duplexes, twinplexes, townhomes, and multiple-family dwellings.

17.04.2270 Sign. "Sign" means any card, cloth, glass, metal, painted, paper, plastic, wooden or other, configuration of any character placed in or on the ground or any tree, wall, bush, rock, fence, pavement, structure, or thing, for the purpose of advertising, announcing, declaring, demonstrating, displaying, or attracting the attention of the public, and excluding official notices issued by a court or public officer.

17.04.2280 Single room occupancy. “Single room occupancy” means housing units that are restricted to occupancy by no more than two persons and may include a kitchen and/or a bathroom, in addition to a bed. These units are typically comprised of one or two rooms.

17.04.2290 Site. "Site" means a location of a prehistoric or historic activity, which may include buildings and structures, but is important because the location itself possesses historic, cultural, or archaeological values regardless of the values of existing above-ground features. Examples of sites include habitation and village sites; rock shelters; hunting and fishing sites; petroglyphs and rock carvings; grounds and gardens; places where hostilities occurred; campsites; cemeteries and funerary sites; ruins of historic buildings and structures; natural features such as springs, rock formations, and other land areas having cultural significance; designed landscapes; and trails, ruins of canals, ditches, flumes, pipelines, roads, utility lines, fences, rock walls, and railroad grades.

17.04.2300 Skilled nursing facility. "Skilled nursing facility" means any establishment that provides nonhospital skilled nursing care

administered by licensed registered or vocational nurses.

17.04.2310 Space. "Space" means a designated area within a mobile home park, recreational vehicle park, or campground designed and intended for occupancy by a mobile home, recreational vehicle, or camping party.

17.04.2320 Specific, adverse impact. “Specific, adverse impact” means a significant, quantifiable, direct, and unavoidable impact, based on objective, identified written public health or safety standards, policies, or conditions as they existed on the date the application for the housing development was deemed complete. Inconsistency with the Development Code or General Plan land use designation shall not constitute a specific, adverse impact upon public health or safety (Government Code Section 65589.5(d)(2)).

17.04.2330 Stable, commercial. “Commercial stable” means a building or enclosed area where horses are offered for rent or boarded for compensation.

17.04.2340 State Historical Building Code (SHBC). "State Historical Building Code" means the regulations in Part 8 of Title 24 of the State Building Standards Code that apply to all qualified buildings, structures, objects, districts, and sites designated under federal, state, or local authority as eligible for listing on local, state, or national registers of cultural resources. It provides alternatives to the California Building Code in cases consistent with building regulations for the rehabilitation, preservation, restoration, or relocation of qualified cultural resources designated as historic.

17.04.2350 Stockyard. “Stockyard” means a fenced area permanently devoted to keeping a large number of livestock for brief periods with limited space per animal that is managed or operated as a public market for livestock producers and buyers. “Stockyard” does not include a yard, pen, corral, building,

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or premise on a farm or ranch used to sell livestock.

17.04.2360 Storage containers. "Storage container" means any factory-built container or part thereof designed or used for freight or storage and includes Conex boxes and sealand containers, but does not include railroad box cars. Conex boxes are lockable box-like containers designed for use by the military to ship supplies overseas. Sea-land trailers are semi-truck trailers with detachable undercarriages that can be stacked for ship or rail transport.

17.04.2370 Street . "Street" means a publicly or privately maintained thoroughfare, excluding private driveways, that affords primary access to abutting property.

17.04.2380 Structure. "Structure" means that which is built or constructed, an edifice or building of any kind, or any piece of work artificially built up or composed of parts joined together in some definite manner and created primarily for purposes other than sheltering human activity. "Structure" includes bridges, tunnels, dredges, fire lookouts, turbines, dams, power plants, windmills, kilns, mounds, earthworks, cairns, railroad locomotives and cars, telescopes, bandstands, gazebos, aircraft, canals, ditches, flumes, pipelines, roads, utility lines, fences, rock walls, railroad grades, and historic footpaths.

17.04.2390 Structural alterations. “Structural alterations” means any change in the supporting members of a building.

17.04.2400 Supportive Housing. “ Supportive housing” means housing with no limit on length of stay, that is occupied by the target population, and that is linked to an onsite or offsite service that assists 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.

17.04.2410 Target Population. “Target population” means persons with low incomes who have one or more disabilities, including mental illness, HIV or AIDS, substance abuse, or other chronic health condition, or individuals eligible for services provided pursuant to the Lanterman Developmental Disabilities Services Act (Division 4.5 (commencing with Section 4500) of the Welfare and Institutions Code) and may include, among other populations, adults, emancipated minors, families with children, elderly persons, young adults aging out of the foster care system, individuals exiting from institutional settings, veterans, and homeless people.

17.04.2420 Timber. "Timber" means trees of any species maintained for eventual harvest or harvested for forest product purposes, whether planted or of natural growth, standing or down, on privately or publicly owned land, including Christmas trees, but does not mean nursery stock.

17.04.2430 Timber harvesting, commercial. “Commercial timber harvesting” means the cutting or removal of timber for the purposes of sale for profit for wood product purposes, such as lumber or firewood. Commercial timber harvest does not include the cutting or removal of timber for personal use of the wood by the property owner or for other noncommercial purposes.

17.04.2440 Timberland. “Timberland” means privately owned land, or land acquired for state forest purposes, that is devoted to and used for growing and harvesting timber, or for growing and harvesting timber and compatible uses, and which is capable of growing an average annual volume of wood fiber of at least 20 cubic feet per acre.

17.04.2450 Total units and total dwelling units. “Total units and total dwelling units” means dwelling units other than density bonus units (Government Code Section 65915(b)(3)).

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“Tourist information facilities” includes facilities necessary to disseminate tourist and visitor information to the general public and may include limited structures and related facilities (includes tourist office, tourist bureau, visitor center and visitor bureau).

17.04.2470 Transient. “Transient” means any person who exercises occupancy, or is entitled to occupancy by reason of concession, permit, right of access, license, or other agreement, for a period of 30 consecutive days, or less, counting portions of calendar days as full days. Any such person occupying space in a hotel, motel, or inn shall be deemed to be a transient until the period of 30 days has expired unless there is an agreement in writing between the operator and the occupant providing for a longer period of occupancy.

“Transitional housing” means buildings configured as rental housing developments, but operated under program requirements that require the termination of assistance and recirculating of the assisted unit to another eligible program recipient at a predetermined point in time that shall be no less than six months from the beginning of the assistance.

17.04.2490 Transmission line. "Transmission line" means the portion of a public utility network that conveys a product from the source or point of origin to one or more public utility distribution facilities.

Cultural Resources. “Tuolumne County Register of Cultural Resources” means Tuolumne County’s local register of significant cultural resources established pursuant to Resolution 171-92 on July 7, 1992.

17.04.2510 Tuolumne County Database of Cultural Resources. "Tuolumne County Database of Cultural Resources" means the organized collection of cultural resources information for Tuolumne County maintained

by the Tuolumne County Community Development Department.

17.04.2520 U-Pick operations. “U-Pick operations” means a farm where members of the public can harvest and pay for their produce.

17.04.2530 Use. “Use” means any purpose for which land or premises is designated, arranged or intended, or for which it is or may be occupied or maintained.

17.04.2540 Use, accessory. “Accessory use” means a secondary or subordinate use related to and on the same parcel or parcels of land as the principal use and conducted so as to not significantly change the character, appearance, or operation of the principal use.

“Nonconforming use” means a use of land or a structure lawfully existing on the effective date of this title or any amendment thereto, that does not conform with the regulations of the district in which it is located.

17.04.2560 Use, principal. “Principal use” means the predominant purpose for which land or premises or a structure thereon is designated, arranged, or intended, or for which it is or may be occupied or maintained.

17.04.2570 Use, public. “Public use” means any use available to persons generally, whether for compensation or not, without discrimination except on the basis of age or sex, or the use of any parcel or buildings by a public agency.

17.04.2580 Use, quasi-public. “Quasi-public use” means any use conducted on property that is exempt from property tax, other than a public building or dwelling.

17.04.2590 Utility provider. “Utility provider” means any agency that, under public franchise or ownership, or under certificate of convenience and necessity, or by grant of authority by a governmental agency, provides the public with electricity, gas, heat,

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steam, communication, transportation, water, sewage collection, or similar service.

17.04.2600 Utility trailer. "Utility trailer" means a trailer not designed or intended for human habitation.

17.04.2610 Warehouse. "Warehouse" means a storage and distribution facility without sales to the public on-site or direct public access except for public storage in small individual space exclusively and directly accessible to a specific tenant. This classification includes mini-warehouses.

17.04.2630 Yard. "Yard" means an open space on the same parcel with a building, which open space is unoccupied by buildings and unobstructed from the ground upward except for permitted projections.

17.04.2640 Zoning district. "Zoning district" means any principal or combining district as set forth in this title or the area regulated by any such principal or combining district.

17.04.2620 Wholesaling. "Wholesaling" means the sale of merchandise for subsequent resale.

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