Article 11 — DeKnitions

This article provides deYnitions of terms and phrases used in this Midtown Corridors Code that are technical or specialized, or that may not reZect common usage. If a deYnition in this article conZicts with a deYnition in another provision of the zoning ordinance or any other provision in the municipal code, these deYnitions shall control for the purposes of this Midtown Corridors Code. If a word or phrase is not deYned in this article, the deYnition of such word or phrase as deYned in the general plan or the zoning ordinance shall apply, in that order. If a word or phrase is not deYned in this article or the general plan or the zoning ordinance, and a question arises as to how it is to be applied to a development proposal subject to this Midtown Corridors Code, the director shall determine the applicable deYnition in accordance with the provisions of Chapter 24.505, giving deference to common usage and the purpose and intent of the general plan, the zoning ordinance, and this Midtown Corridors Code. (Formerly 24M.300.010)

As used in this Midtown Corridors Code, the following terms and phrases shall have the meaning given them in this section, unless the context in which they are used clearly requires otherwise.

• A. DeJnitions “A.”

Adult Business. See Chapter 24.492.

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“A]ordable housing” means a residential unit that is restricted to occupancy by an income eligible household as deYned by a local, state, or federal program, as may be amended from time to time.

“Allee” means a regularly spaced and aligned row of trees usually planted along a thoroughfare or pedestrian path.

• B. DeJnitions “B.”

“Bar, tavern, night club” means an establishment providing entertainment such as live music and dancing, onsite alcohol consumption, but not adult entertainment. The sale of alcoholic beverages is separately regulated by Chapter 24.460 (Alcoholic Beverage Establishments – Use Permits). Entertainment is also separately regulated by Chapter 10.450 (Dance Halls).

“Bicycle lane” (BL) means a dedicated bicycle lane running within a moderate-speed vehicular thoroughfare, demarcated by striping.

“Bicycle route” (BR) means a thoroughfare suitable for the shared use of bicycles and automobiles moving at low speeds.

“Bicycle trail” (BT) means a bicycle way running independently of a high-speed vehicular thoroughfare.

“Block” means the aggregate of private lots, passages, rear lanes and alleys, circumscribed by thoroughfares.

“Block face” means the aggregate of all the building facades on one side of a block. The block face provides the context for establishing architectural harmony.

“Building conYguration” means the form of a building, based on its massing, private frontage, and height.

“Building disposition” means the placement of a building on its lot.

“Building function” means the uses accommodated by a building and its lot. Functions (i.e., use) are categorized in Table B, Land Use Tables (Section 24.595.230) and are either permitted by right or via use permit.

“Building height” means the vertical extent of a building measured in stories, not including a raised basement or a habitable attic. Exceptions to height limits speciYed in this Midtown Corridors Code are the exceptions listed in Section 24.405.030 as it may be amended, revised or replaced from time to time.

“Building type” means a structure category determined by function, disposition on the lot, and conYguration, including frontage and height. Building heights are speciYed in the zones and development standards and illustrated in Table 2: DeYnitions Illustrated (Section 24.595.700(B)).

“Business support service” means a business that provides services to other businesses. Examples include:

Blueprinting.

Computer-related services (rental, repair).

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Copying and quick printing services.

Film processing and photoYnishing (retail).

Mailing and mail box services.

C. DeJnitions “C.”

“Civic” means a use operated by a public agency or nonproYt organization for the primary purpose of providing a service to the general public. Such uses are dedicated to, by way of example but without limitation, arts, culture, education, recreation, government, transit, and municipal/public parking.

“Civic building” means a building owned or leased by a public agency or nonproYt organization for the primary purpose of providing a service to the general public dedicated to arts, culture, education, recreation, government, transit, and municipal/public parking.

“Civic space” means an outdoor area dedicated for public use. Civic space types are deYned by the combination of certain physical constants including the relationship between their intended use, their size, their landscaping and their enfronting buildings.

“Commercial” is the term collectively deYning workplace, o[ce and retail functions.

“Community meeting” means uses consisting of group gatherings conducted indoors. Typical uses include synagogues, mosques, temples, churches, community centers, bingo halls, private clubs, social, philanthropic and charitable organizations, and lodges. Additional typical uses include those providing live or recorded events or performances, or other activities intended for spectators that are conducted within an enclosed building such as motion picture theaters, music performance halls, and sports arenas.

“Context” means surroundings, including a combination of architectural, natural and civic elements that deYne speciYc neighborhood or block character.

“Corridor” means a lineal geographic system incorporating transportation and/or greenway trajectories. A transportation corridor may be a lineal urban transect zone.

D. DeJnitions “D.”

“Day care” means day care centers as deYned by the Health and Safety Code, and the day care and supervision of more than 12 children under 18 years of age for periods less than 24 hours per day.

“Density” means the number of dwelling units within a standard measure of land area, usually given as units per acre.

“Design speed” means the velocity at which a thoroughfare tends to be driven without the constraints of signage or enforcement. There are four ranges of speed: very low: (below 20 miles per hour); low: (20 to 25 miles per hour); moderate: (25 to 35 miles per hour); high: (above 35 miles per hour). Lane width is determined by desired design speed.

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“Drive-through retail or service” means a retail or service business where services may be obtained by motorists without leaving their vehicles. Examples include automated teller machines (ATMs), banks, pharmacy dispensaries, and restaurants.

“Driveway” means a vehicular lane within a lot, usually leading to a garage.

“Dwelling – multi-unit” means a single structure containing two or more dwelling units, or multiple units arranged with zero lot lines. These include: duplexes, triplexes, quadplexes; rowhouses, courtyard housing, and stacked dwellings.

“Dwelling – single dwelling” means a building designed for and/or occupied exclusively by one housekeeping unit. Also includes factory built, modular housing units, constructed in compliance with the Uniform Building Code (UBC), and mobile homes/manufactured housing units that comply with the National Manufactured Housing Construction and Safety Standards Act of 1974, placed on permanent foundation systems.

E. DeJnitions “E.”

“Elevation” means an exterior wall of a building not along a frontage line. See “Facade.”

“Emergency shelter” means housing with minimal supportive services for homeless persons and limits the occupancy of six months or less by a homeless person. No individual or household may be denied emergency shelter because of an inability to pay. This use type does not include special residential.

“Enfront” means to place an element along a frontage line, as in “porches enfront the street.”

“Entrance, principal” means the main point of access of pedestrians into a building.

F. DeJnitions “F.”

“Facade” means the exterior wall of a building that is set along a frontage line (see “Elevation”; “Frontage line”).

“Frontage line” means those lot lines that coincide with a public frontage. Facades along frontage lines deYne the public realm and are therefore more regulated than the elevations that coincide with other lot lines.

G. DeJnitions “G.”

“Gas stations” means retail sale, from the premises, of vehicle fuel which may include the incidental sale of other petroleum products, tires, batteries, and replacement items, and the incidental provision of minor repairs and lubricating services. Typical uses include automobile service stations and Ylling stations and special oil change and lube shops.

H. DeJnitions “H.”

“Health/Ytness facility” means establishments o]ering predominantly participant sports within an enclosed building. Typical uses include bowling alleys, billiard parlors, pool halls, indoor ice or roller skating rinks, indoor racquetball courts, indoor batting cages and health or Ytness clubs.

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“Home occupation” means an occupation conducted at a premises containing a dwelling unit as an incidental use by the occupant of that dwelling.

• I. DeJnitions “I.”

“InYll” means a project within existing urban fabric.

“Inside turning radius” means the curved edge of a thoroughfare at an intersection, measured at the inside edge of the vehicular tracking. The smaller the turning radius, the smaller the pedestrian crossing distance and the more slowly the vehicle is forced to make the turn.

• J. DeJnitions “J.”

• K. DeJnitions “K.”

• L. DeJnitions “L.”

“Liner building” means a building speciYcally designed to mask a parking lot or a parking garage from a frontage.

“Lodging” means establishments providing two or more housekeeping units or six or more rooms or suites for temporary rental to members of the public and which may include incidental food, drink, and other sales and services intended for the convenience of guests. Typical uses include hotels, motels, and timeshare facilities.

“Lot line” means the boundary that legally and geometrically demarcates a lot (see “Frontage line”).

“Lot width” means the length of the principal frontage line of a lot.

M. DeJnitions “M.”

“Medical/dental” means establishments providing medical, psychiatric, surgical, dental or other health-related services. This includes medical, dental, psychiatric or other therapeutic services o]ered in individual o[ces or suites, which may include laboratories incidental to the practitioner’s consulting or therapeutic work but excluding licensed health facilities, as deYned in Health and Safety Code Section 1250, except as provided in Health and Safety Code Section 1267.8.

“Mortuary, funeral home” means a funeral home and/or parlor, where deceased are prepared for burial or cremation, and funeral services may be conducted.

N. DeJnitions “N.”

“Neighborhood” means an urbanized area at least 40 acres that is primarily residential. A neighborhood shall be based upon a partial or entire standard pedestrian shed. The physical center of the neighborhood should be located at an important tra[c intersection associated with a civic or commercial institution.

• O. DeJnitions “O.”

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“O[ce” means o[ces of Yrms or organizations that primarily provide executive, management, administrative or Ynancial services. It also refers to establishments primarily engaged in providing professional services to individuals or businesses, but excludes uses classiYed under the medical/dental. Typical uses include corporation headquarters and administrative o[ces, banks, savings and loans, law o[ces, real estate o[ces, public relations Yrms, advertising Yrms, insurance o[ces, travel agencies, and photography studios.

P. DeJnitions “P.”

“Parking facility – public or commercial” means a parking lot or structure operated by the city, or a private entity providing parking for a fee. Does not include towing impound and storage facilities.

“Parking structure” means a building containing two or more stories of parking. Parking structures shall have liner buildings at the Yrst story or higher.

“Passage” (PS) means a pedestrian connector passing between buildings, providing shortcuts through long blocks and connecting rear parking areas to frontages. Passages may be roofed over.

“Path” (PT) means a pedestrian way traversing a park or rural area, with landscape matching the contiguous open space. Paths should connect directly with the urban sidewalk network.

“Pedestrian shed” means an area, approximately circular, that is centered on a common destination. A pedestrian shed is applied to determine the approximate size of a neighborhood. A standard pedestrian shed is one-quarter-mile radius or 1,320 feet, about the distance of a Yve-minute walk at a leisurely pace. It has been shown that provided with a pedestrian environment, most people will walk this distance rather than drive. The outline of the shed must be reYned according to actual site conditions, particularly along thoroughfares. A long pedestrian shed is one-half-mile radius or 2,640 feet, and may be used for mapping when transit is present or proposed. (Sometimes called a “walk-shed” or “walkable catchment.”) A linear pedestrian shed is elongated to follow a commercial corridor.

“Personal services” means establishments primarily engaged in the provision of services for the enhancement of personal appearance, cleaning, alteration or reconditioning of garments and accessories, and similar nonbusiness-related or nonprofessional services. Typical uses include reducing salons, tanning salons, barber shops, tailors, shoe repair shops, self-service laundries, and dry cleaning shops, but exclude uses classiYed under o[ce and trade school.

“Planter” means the element of the public streetscape which accommodates street trees. Planters may be continuous or individual.

“Principal building” means the main building on a lot, usually located toward the frontage.

“Printing and publishing” means a business that provides printing services using letterpress, lithography, gravure, screen, o]set, or electrostatic (xerographic) copying; and other establishments serving the printing trade including bookbinding, typesetting, engraving, photoengraving and electrotyping. This use also includes: businesses that publish newspapers, books and periodicals; establishments manufacturing business forms and binding devices. “Quick printing” services are included in the deYnition of “business support services.”

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“Private frontage” means the privately held layer between the frontage line and the principal building facade. The structures and landscaping within the private frontage may be held to speciYc standards. The variables of private frontage are the depth of the setback and the combination of architectural elements such as fences, stoops, porches and galleries (see Table C, Section 24.595.250).

“Public frontage” means the area between the curb of the vehicular lanes and the frontage line. Elements of the public frontage include the type of curb, walk, planter, street tree and streetlight (see Table D, Section 24.595.590).

• Q. DeJnitions “Q.”

• R. DeJnitions “R.”

“Rear alley” (AL) means a vehicular driveway located to the rear of lots providing access to service areas and parking, and containing utility easements. Alleys should be paved from building face to building face, with drainage by inverted crown at the center or with roll curbs at the edges.

“Rear lane” (LA) means a vehicular driveway located to the rear of lots providing access to parking and outbuildings and containing utility easements. Rear lanes may be paved lightly to driveway standards. Its streetscape consists of gravel or landscaped edges, no raised curb and is drained by percolation.

“Research and development” (R&D) means a facility for scientiYc research, and the design, development and testing of electrical, electronic, magnetic, optical and computer and telecommunications components in advance of product manufacturing; and the assembly of related products from parts produced o] site, where the manufacturing activity is secondary to the research and development activities. Includes pharmaceutical, chemical and biotechnology research and development. Does not include soils and other materials testing laboratories (see Section 24.115.3380).

“Residential” means premises available for long-term human dwelling.

“Residential accessory use or structure” means a use and/or structure that is customarily a part of, and clearly incidental and secondary to, a residence, and does not change the character of the residential use. This deYnition includes, by way of example, the following types of uses or detached accessory structures, and other similar structures normally associated with a residential use of property.

Garage.

Gazebo.

Greenhouse (noncommercial).

Spa, hot tub.

Storage shed.

Studio.

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Home o[ce.

Recreation room.

Sleeping room.

Swimming pool.

Tennis or other on-site sport court.

Workshop.

Also includes the indoor storage of automobiles, personal recreational vehicles and other personal property, accessory to a residential use, excluding accessory dwelling units, which are governed by Chapter 24.430.

“Restaurant” means sale of prepared food and beverages in a ready-to-eat state for on-site or o]-site consumption. A dining area may or may not be provided. Vehicle drive-up service is prohibited. The restaurant use may be ancillary to another use.

“Retail” means establishments engaged in the sale of goods and merchandise.

“Retail frontage line” means frontage lines that require the provision of a shopfront, causing the ground level to be available for retail use.

“Rowhouse” means a single-family dwelling that shares a party wall with another of the same type and occupies the full frontage line (syn: “Townhouse”).

S. DeJnitions “S.”

“School” includes the following facilities:

“Elementary, middle, secondary” means a public or private academic educational institution, including elementary (kindergarten through sixth grade), middle and junior high schools (seventh and eighth grades), secondary and high schools (ninth through twelfth grades). May also include any of these schools that also provide room and board.

“Specialized education/training” means a public or private institution that provides education and/or training, including vocational training, in limited subjects. Examples of these schools include:

Art school.

Ballet and other dance school.

Business, secretarial, and vocational school.

Computers and electronics school.

Drama school.

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Driver education school.

Establishments providing courses by mail.

Language school. Martial arts. Music school. Professional school (law, medicine, etc.).

Seminaries/religious ministry training facility.

Does not include preschools and child day care facilities (see “Day care”). See also the deYnition of “Studio – art, dance, martial arts, music, etc.” for smaller-scale facilities o]ering specialized instruction.

“Setback” means the area of a lot measured from the lot line to a building facade or elevation. This area must be maintained clear of permanent structures with the exception of: galleries, fences, garden walls, arcades, porches, stoops, balconies, bay windows, terraces and decks (that align with the Yrst story level) which are permitted to encroach into the setback.

“Sidewalk” means the paved layer of the public frontage dedicated exclusively to pedestrian activity.

“Side yard plane” means a height limitation that, when combined with the maximum height, helps deYne the building envelope within which each new structure or addition must be contained. The side yard plane is an inclined plane, beginning at 15 feet above average grade (or the Yrst story parapet or eave, whichever is higher), as depicted in the development standards for each zone, and extending into the site at a 45-degree upward angle to the horizontal up to the maximum height limit. The side yard plane may further limit the height or horizontal extent of the building at any speciYc point where the side yard plane is more restrictive than the height limit applicable at such point on the site. The side yard plane shall apply only to side yards of parcels abutting north-south through streets, and shall not apply to the intersection of Thompson Boulevard and Seaward Avenue.

“Single room occupancy” (SRO) means a building with single rooms that are made available for rental and that provide sleeping areas with shared bathrooms and kitchens.

“Special residential” means a use within or comprising any of the following use types as the deYnitions of same may be amended from time to time: group care residential (deYned in the zoning ordinance), group care (deYned in the zoning ordinance), boarding houses (deYned in the zoning ordinance), and single room occupancy (deYned in this glossary).

“Standard pedestrian shed” means an area, approximately circular, that is centered on a common destination. A pedestrian shed is applied to determine the approximate size of a neighborhood. A standard pedestrian shed is one-quarter-mile radius or 1,320 feet, about the distance of a Yve-minute walk at a leisurely pace. It has been shown that provided with a pedestrian environment, most people will walk this

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distance rather than drive. The outline of the shed must be reYned according to actual site conditions, particularly along thoroughfares. (Sometimes called a “walkshed” or “walkable catchment.”) See “Pedestrian shed.”

“Story” means a habitable level within a building where ground Zoor is a minimum of 15 feet in height and upper stories are no more than 14 feet in height from Ynished Zoor to Zoor. Attics and raised basements are not considered stories for the purposes of determining building height.

“Street” (ST) means a local urban thoroughfare of low speed and capacity. Its public frontage consists of raised curbs drained by inlets and sidewalks separated from the vehicular lanes by a planter and parking on both sides. The landscaping consists of regularly placed street trees. This type is permitted within the more urban transect zones (T4 through T6).

“Streetscape” means the urban element that establishes the major part of the public realm. The streetscape is composed of thoroughfares (travel lanes for vehicles and bicycles, parking lanes for cars, and sidewalks or paths for pedestrians) as well as the visible private frontages (building facades and elevations, porches, yards, fences, awnings, etc.), and the amenities of the public frontages (street trees and plantings, benches, streetlights, etc.).

“Studio – art, dance, martial arts, music, etc.” means small scale facilities, typically accommodating one group of students at a time, in no more than one instructional space. Larger facilities are included under the deYnition of “Schools – Specialized education and training.” 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; martial arts training studios; gymnastics instruction, and aerobics and gymnastics studios with no other Ytness facilities or equipment. Also includes production studios for individual musicians, painters, sculptors, photographers, and other artists.

T. DeJnitions “T.”

“Terminated vista” means a location at the axial conclusion of a thoroughfare. A building located at a terminated vista designated on a regulating plan is required to be designed in response to the axis.

“Thoroughfare” means a vehicular way incorporating moving lanes and parking lanes within a right-of-way.

“Thrift stores” means any retail establishment primarily selling used goods that are donated or acquired for less than reasonable wholesale value of the goods.

Townhouse. Syn: “Rowhouse.”

“Transect” means a system of ordering human habitats in a range from the most natural to the most urban as summarized in Chapter 3 of the general plan. Among other applications of the transect, the SmartCode is based upon six transect zones which describe the physical character of place at any scale, according to the density and intensity of land use and urbanism.

“Transect zone” (T zone) means a geographically speciYc zoning classiYcation established to regulate development patterns in accordance with the transect system. Transect zones are administratively similar to

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the land-use zones in conventional zoning ordinances, except that in addition to the usual building use, density, height, and setback requirements, other elements of the intended habitat are integrated, including those of the private lot and building and the enfronting public streetscape. The elements are determined by their location on the transect scale. The basic T zones are: T1 natural, T2 rural, T3 suburban, T4 general urban, T5 urban center, and T6 urban core (see Table A, Section 24.595.090).

“Transit station or terminal” means a passenger station for vehicular and rail mass transit systems; also terminal facilities providing maintenance and service for the vehicles operated in the transit system. Includes bus terminals, taxi stands, railway stations, etc.

“Transition line” means a horizontal line spanning the full width of a facade, expressed by a material change or by a continuous horizontal articulation such as a cornice or a balcony.

“Type” means a category determined by function, disposition, and conYguration, including size or extent. There are community types, street types, civic space types, etc. (See also: “Building type.”)

• U. DeJnitions “U.”

• V. DeJnitions “V.”

• W. DeJnitions “W.”

“Wireless telecommunications facility” means as deYned in Chapter 24.497.

• X. DeJnitions “X.”

• Y. DeJnitions “Y.”

• Z. DeJnitions “Z.”

(Formerly 24M.300.020)

• A. Table 1: DeJnitions Illustrated.

  1. Thoroughfare and Frontages.

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2. Turning Radius.

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3. Building Disposition.

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4. Lot Layers.

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5. Frontage and Lot Lines.

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• B. Table 2: DeJnitions Illustrated.

  1. Courtyard Housing ConJgurations.

     • a. Bungalow Court. A bungalow court is comprised of individual, detached single-family dwellings oriented around a common courtyard. This type is the least dense and can seamlessly Yt into any singlefamily residential neighborhood.

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b. Side Courtyard. A side courtyard is deYned on one or two sides by attached Zats and/or townhouses. The courtyard may be completely open to the street (for a more suburban setting) or be hidden from the street by the building (for a more urban setting).

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c. Open Courtyard. An open courtyard is a court that is surrounded on three sides by a “U” shaped building. The fourth side is completely open to the street.

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d. Forecourt Courtyard. A forecourt courtyard is surrounded by buildings on three sides. The fourth side is partially open to the street, the open, unroofed portion (the forecourt), providing a transition to the street. In this courtyard type, access from the street to the courtyard can be controlled with a gate.

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e. Zaguan Courtyard. A zaguan courtyard is very similar to a forecourt courtyard, the only di]erence being that the passageway leading from the court to the street is covered by a roof. The zaguan, a covered passage that passes through the building and gives access to the street, can be gated.

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f. Composite Courtyard. A composite court is a courtyard compromised of a large primary courtyard from which small, secondary patios branch o]. The primary courtyard can be any of the previous attached-dwelling types discussed previously.

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g. Corner Courtyard. A corner courtyard places the passageway leading from the street to the courtyard at the corner of the lot. The passageway is open to the sky. Access to and from the courtyard can be controlled with a gate.

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h. Multiple Courtyard. A multiple courtyard consists of two or more separate courts. Though distinct spaces, these courtyards, comprised of any of the previous types, are connected via public passageways open to the sky or via zaguans.

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i. Corner Lot Courtyard. A corner lot courtyard places any of the previous courtyard types at the intersection of two streets. Since this type faces two streets, the side of the courtyard that does not provide access to the street must provide frontages to the street and to the courtyard.

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2. Building Height.

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(Formerly 24M.300.030)