Title 17 — ZONING

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Title 17 - ZONING

Chapters:

Chapter 17.02 - GENERAL PROVISIONS

Sections:

17.02.010 - Short title.

This title shall be known and cited as the "Willits zoning ordinance."

(Ord. 82-4 §3(part)).

17.02.020 - Application of title.

This title shall apply to all lands and owners of lands within the city.

(Ord. 82-4 §3(part)).

The purpose of this title is to promote and protect the public health, safety, morals, comfort, convenience and general welfare, and to implement the goals and policies of the Willits General Plan.

(Ord. 82-4 §3(part)).

17.02.040 - Limitations on land use and structures.

Except as otherwise provided in this title:

A.

No building or part thereof or other structure shall be erected, altered, added to or enlarged, nor shall any land, building, structure or premises be used, designated or intended to be used for any purpose or in any manner other than is included among the uses listed in this title as permitted in the zone in which such building, land or premises is located.

B.

No building or part thereof or structure shall be erected, reconstructed or structurally altered to exceed in height the limit designated in this title for the zone in which such building or structure is located, except as

provided in Chapter 17.56.

C.

No building or part thereof or structure shall be erected, nor shall any existing building be altered, enlarged or rebuilt or moved into any zone, nor shall any open space be encroached upon or reduced in any manner, except in conformity to the yard, building site area, and building location regulations designated in this title for the zone in which such building or open space is located.

D.

No yard or other spaces provided about any buildings for the purpose of complying with the provisions of these regulations shall be considered as providing a yard or open space for a building on any other building site unless specifically permitted elsewhere in these regulations.

(Ord. 82-4 §3(part)).

By written findings, the planning commission may interpret any of the provisions of this title and may determine what additional uses may be permitted with or without use permits in any zones because of similarity and compatibility with listed uses. The city council, on its own motion or upon receipt of an appeal from any such interpretation or determination, may confirm, reverse or modify the action of the commission taken pursuant to this section.

(Ord. 82-4 §3(part)).

Whenever conflict occurs between the provisions of this title and any other ordinance of the city, the stricter of any such provisions shall apply.

(Ord. 82-4 §3(part)).

Chapter 17.04 - DEFINITIONS

Sections:

For the purpose of this title, the words and phrases set forth in this chapter shall have the meanings respectively ascribed to them herein, and the word "used" shall include arranged, designed, constructed, altered, converted, rented, leased, or intended to be used.

(Ord. 82-4 §3(part)).

17.04.020 - Abutting.

"Abutting" means land having a common property line or district line or separated only by a private street, alley or easement.

(Ord. 82-4 §3(part)).

17.04.030 - Accessory dwelling unit.

"Accessory dwelling unit" means an attached or detached dwelling unit which provides complete independent living facilities for one or more persons, with permanent provisions for living, sleeping, eating, cooking, and sanitation sited on the same parcel as the primary dwelling unit.

An accessory dwelling unit also includes the following:

A.

An efficiency unit, as defined in Section 17958.1 of the Health and Safety Code.

B.

A manufactured home, as defined in Section 18007 of the Health and Safety Code.

(Ord. No. 18-03, 9-26-18)

17.04.040 - Accessory use or structure.

"Accessory use or structure" means a use or structure subordinate to or part of the principal use on the same lot and serving a purpose customarily incidental to the principal use.

(Ord. 82-4 §3(part)).

(Ord. No. 18-03, 9-26-18)

17.04.050 - Reserved.

(Ord. 82-4 §3(part)).

17.04.060 - Agent of owner.

"Agent of owner" means any person who can show written proof that he is acting for the property owner.

(Ord. 82-4 §3(part)).

17.04.070 - Agriculture.

"Agriculture" means the use of the land for agricultural purposes, including farming, dairying, pasturage, agriculture, apiaries, horticulture, floriculture, viticulture, and animal and poultry husbandry, and the necessary accessory uses for packing, processing, treating or storing the produce; provided, however, that the operation of any such accessory uses shall be secondary to that of normal agricultural activities; and, provided further, that the above uses shall not include the commercial feeding of garbage or offal to swine or other animals.

(Ord. 82-4 §3(part)).

17.04.080 - Alley or lane.

"Alley" or "lane" means a public or private way, not more than thirty feet wide, affording only secondary means of access to abutting property.

(Ord. 82-4 §3(part)).

17.04.090 - Alter.

"Alter" means to change any of the supporting members of buildings, such as bearing walls, columns, beams or girders.

(Ord. 82-4 §3(part)).

17.04.100 - Apartment, efficiency.

"Efficiency apartment" means a dwelling unit in a multifamily building consisting of not more than one habitable room together with kitchen or kitchenette and sanitary facilities.

(Ord. 82-4 §3(part)).

17.04.110 - Apartment vacancy rate.

"Apartment vacancy rate" means the number of vacant apartments in the city at a given time shown as a percentage of the total number of apartments in the city. Vacant apartments include those units which are:

A.

Currently vacant and available for rent or lease;

B.

Vacant, but temporarily not available for rent or lease due to painting, cleaning or repairs; and

C.

Currently occupied, but will become available for rent or lease within one week.

(Ord. 82-4 §3(part)).

17.04.120 - Arts and crafts fair.

"Arts and crafts fair" means an organized exhibit and/or sale of art works and craft items such as macrame, knitted goods, stitchery, pottery and other sales generally associated with these events.

(Ord. 82-4 §3(part)).

17.04.130 - Automobile repair, major.

"Major automobile repair" means the repair or replacement of frames and bodies, including painting, of vehicles of all weights and sizes, and the repair or replacement of engines, transmissions, power trains and wheels of vehicles exceeding one and one-half ton capacity. This definition includes auto and truck paint shops, body and fender repair shops, and wrecked vehicle storage areas. When any of the above uses are an integral part of and connected with new motor-vehicle dealers, such uses shall be considered as an accessory use.

(Ord. 82-4 §3(part)).

17.04.140 - Automobile repair, minor.

"Minor automobile repair" means the repair or replacement of all or portions of engines, transmissions, power trains and wheels of vehicles not exceeding one and one-half ton capacity. This definition includes auto transmission shops, brake and wheel shops, radiator repair shops, fuel and electrical repair shops, upholstery and muffler shops.

(Ord. 82-4 §3(part)).

17.04.150 - Automobile sales area.

"Automobile sales area" means an open area, other than a street, used for the display, sale or rental of new or used passenger vehicles or other motor vehicles, such vehicles as mobile homes and trailers, and such recreational equipment as campers and boats, in operable condition and where no repair work is done, but not including the rental of motor homes, mobile homes, or pickup trucks with campers mounted thereon in the sales area.

(Ord. 82-4 §3(part)).

17.04.160 - Automobile service station or gasoline service station.

"Automobile service station" or "gasoline service station" means a retail place of business engaged in supplying goods and services essential to the normal operation of automobiles, such as: dispensing of automotive fuel and motor oil; vehicle washing and lubricating services; the sale and servicing of tires, batteries, replacement items and other automotive accessories; and minor automotive repair. This definition shall not be deemed to include such things as body or fender work, painting or major automobile repairs, sales of nursery products, or coupon redemption for or sales of merchandise not accessory to a motor vehicle. Gasoline service stations may also provide a towing service limited to no more than two trucks, or equipment rental, subject to conditions of approval by the reviewing agency. When a conditional use permit shall have been granted to authorize an automobile service station or gasoline service station on a lot, the only use permitted thereon shall be the supplying of those goods and services described in the first and third sentences of this section, unless such conditional use permit expressly authorizes other uses. Permitted uses otherwise allowed in the zoning district in which a service station is located are not allowed in conjunction with a service station unless specifically authorized by a conditional use permit.

(Ord. 82-4 §3(part)).

17.04.170 - Automobile wrecking.

"Automobile wrecking" means the dismantling or disassembling of used motor vehicles or trailers; the storage, sale or dumping of dismantled, obsolete or wrecked vehicles or their parts; and the towing of such vehicles or parts in connection with such activity.

(Ord. 82-4 §3(part)).

17.04.180 - Basement.

"Basement" means a story whose floor is more than twelve inches, but not more than one-half of its story height, below the average level of the adjoining ground (as distinguished from a "cellar," which is a story more than one-half below such level). A basement, when used as a dwelling, shall be counted as a story for purposes of height measurement, and as a half-story for purposes of side yard determination.

(Ord. 82-4 §3(part)).

17.04.190 - Beginning of construction.

"Beginning of construction" means the incorporation of labor and material within the foundation of the building or buildings.

(Ord. 82-4 §3(part)).

17.04.200 - Reserved.

(Ord. 82-4 §3(part)).

17.04.210 - Reserved.

(Ord. 82-4 §3(part)).

17.04.220 - Boardinghouse or roominghouse.

"Boardinghouse" or "roominghouse" means a dwelling or part thereof where meals and/or lodging are provided, for compensation.

(Ord. 82-4 §3(part)).

"Building" means any structure having a roof supported by columns or walls, used or intended to be used for the shelter or enclosure of persons, animals or property. When such a structure is divided into separate parts by one or more unpierced walls extending from the ground up, each part is deemed a separate building, except as regards minimum side yard requirements as hereinafter provided in this title.

(Ord. 82-4 §3(part)).

17.04.240 - Building, height of.

"Height of building" means the vertical distance from the average contact ground level at the front wall of the building, to the highest point of the coping of a flat roof, or to the deck line of a mansard roof, or to the mean height level between eaves and ridge for gable, hip or gambrel roofs.

(Ord. 82-4 §3(part)).

"Main building" means a building in which is conducted the principal use of the building site on which it is situated. In any residential district any dwelling shall be deemed to be a main building on the building site on which the same is located.

(Ord. 82-4 §3(part)).

17.04.260 - Bus.

"Bus" means any motor vehicle, other than a motor-truck or truck tractor, designed for carrying more than ten persons including the driver and used for the transportation of passengers. The term "bus" has the same meanings as the term "bus" as defined in the California Vehicle Code.

(Ord. 82-4 §3(part)).

17.04.270 - Camper.

"Camper" means a shelter designed to be mounted upon a motor vehicle and to provide facilities for human habitation or camping purposes. The term "camper" has the same meaning as the term "camper" as defined in the California Vehicle Code.

(Ord. 82-4 §3(part)).

17.04.280 - Camper vehicle.

"Camper vehicle" means a motor vehicle, such as a pickup truck, to which a camper is temporarily attached.

(Ord. 82-4 §3(part)).

17.04.285 - Canopy.

"Canopy" means a canvas covering securely fastened above a doorway to a building.

(Ord. 89-6 §2).

17.04.290 - Carport.

"Carport" means a detached or attached structure with a covered roof containing one or more parking spaces and open on one or more sides. A carport located upon a lot developed with a residential dwelling or dwellings serves a similar use as a private garage.

(Ord. 82-4 §3(part)).

17.04.300 - Cellar.

"Cellar" means a story the floor of which is more than one-half of its story height below the average contact ground level at the exterior walls of the building. A cellar shall be counted as a story, for the purpose of

height regulations, only if used for dwelling purposes other than by a janitor or caretaker employed on the premises.

(Ord. 82-4 §3(part)).

As used in this title, a use shall be deemed to have ceased when it has been discontinued either temporarily or permanently, whether with the intent to abandon such use or not.

(Ord. 82-4 §3(part)).

17.04.320 - Circus and/or carnival and special event.

"Circus" and/or "carnival" and "special event" means a temporary, organized, outdoor program of entertainment or exhibition, such as a fair, gymkhana, flea market, rodeo or similar use, where activities include such things as rides, exhibits, food service, sales or small-scale games.

(Ord. 82-4 §3(part)).

17.04.330 - City council.

"City council" means the city council of the city of Willits, California.

(Ord. 82-4 §3(part)).

17.04.340 - Combining zone.

"Combining zone" means a zone within which certain regulations and requirements apply in addition to, and are combined with, regulations and requirements of another zone.

(Ord. 82-4 §3(part)).

"Commercial" means any activity on or use of land which involves the buying, selling, processing or improving of things not produced on the land and having financial gain as the primary aim of the activity or use, whether or not such activity or use is for hire or on account of the buyer, seller, processor or improver.

(Ord. 82-4 §3(part)).

"Commercial vehicle" means a vehicle of a type required to be registered under the California Vehicle Code used or maintained for the transportation of persons for hire, compensation or profit, or designed, used or maintained primarily for the transportation of property. The term "commercial vehicle" does not include a motor vehicle originally designed, or permanently altered, and equipped for human habitation, or to which a camper has been permanently attached. The term "commercial vehicle" has the same meaning as the term "commercial vehicle" as defined in the California Vehicle Code.

(Ord. 82-4 §3(part)).

"Commission" means the city planning commission.

(Ord. 82-4 §3(part)).

17.04.380 - Community apartment.

"Community apartment" means a project in which an undivided interest in land is coupled with the right of exclusive occupancy of an apartment located thereat.

(Ord. 82-4 §3(part)).

17.04.390 - Community club.

"Community club" means buildings and grounds used for and operated by a nonprofit organization whose membership is open to any resident of the district, neighborhood or community in which the club is located, provided that the primary objectives of the organization are the improvement of the district, neighborhood or community and its social welfare and recreation.

(Ord. 82-4 §3(part)).

17.04.400 - Reserved.

(Ord. 82-4 §3(part)).

17.04.410 - Conditional use.

"Conditional use" means a use of land for which a conditional use permit is required, pursuant to Chapter 17.72 of this code.

(Ord. 82-4 §3(part)).

17.04.420 - Condominium.

"Condominium" means individual ownership of a dwelling unit within a multiple-unit structure, exclusive of the land underlying said structure.

(Ord. 82-4 §3(part)).

17.04.430 - Construction yard.

"Construction yard" means an area on or immediately adjacent to a major construction or demolition site used on a temporary basis for the parking and storage of equipment used in the project, and the storage and preparation of materials and other items used in the project. Such yard may include construction offices and such shops as are necessary for work on the immediate project.

(Ord. 82-4 §3(part)).

17.04.440 - Corporation yard; service yard.

"Corporation yard" or "service yard" means buildings and premises, including offices, used by any person or by the city for the storage, maintenance, repair and processing of equipment, materials and other items involved in construction or maintenance of physical facilities having permanently fixed locations, or in the operation of a fleet of rolling stock.

(Ord. 82-4 §3(part)).

17.04.450 - Condominium development.

"Condominium development" means a structure and appurtenant premises divided in ownership by the existence of condominiums as now or hereafter defined in Section 783 of the Civil Code of the state, and shall include instances where ownership is so divided following prior single ownership of the entire structure and premises, as well as new structures so divided in ownership.

(Ord. 82-4 §3(part)).

17.04.460 - Controlled-access highway.

"Controlled-access highway" means a freeway which has been designated a controlled-access highway by the California Highway Commission or the State Highway Engineer. The term "controlled-access highway" has the same meaning as the term "controlled access highway" as used in the California Streets and Highways Code.

(Ord. 82-4 §3(part)).

17.04.470 - Convenience food store.

"Convenience food store" means a grocery store limited to two thousand five hundred square feet in total floor area and which carries a limited inventory.

(Ord. 82-4 §3(part)).

17.04.480 - Court.

"Court" means an open, unoccupied and unobstructed space, other than a yard, on the same lot with a building or group of buildings.

(Ord. 82-4 §3 (part)).

17.04.490 - Director of planning.

"Director of planning" means the director of planning of the city.

(Ord. 82-4 §3 (part)).

17.04.500 - Department store.

"Department store" means a store or group of shops under unified management, selling a variety of merchandise groups normally including clothing, appliances, hardware and furniture.

(Ord. 82-4 §3 (part)).

"Development" means any manmade change to improved or unimproved real estate, including but not limited to buildings or other structures, mining, dredging, filling, grading, paving, excavation or drilling operations.

(Ord. 89-1 §2 (part)).

17.04.510 - District.

"District" means a zone.

(Ord. 82-4 §3 (part)).

17.04.520 - Domestic pet.

"Domestic pet" means any of the various animals customarily kept as household pets (except exotic animals).

(Ord. 82-4 §3 (part)).

17.04.530 - Drive-in enterprise.

"Drive-in enterprise" means a business, activity or other use of land consisting of sales or service activity predominantly rendered to patrons who normally receive the products or utilize the services at least in part while in automobiles upon the premises. This definition includes, inter alia, automobile service stations, automotive car washes and drive-in restaurants.

(Ord. 82-4 §3 (part)).

17.04.540 - Drive-in eating place.

A.

"Drive-in eating place" means an eating place:

1.

Which has less than fifty percent of the floor area of the total structure devoted to indoor seating, and which serves food and/or drink from throw-away plates, wrappings or cups; or

2.

Which serves food from a pass-through opening to vehicles; or

3.

Which serves food to parked vehicles.

B.

Establishments selling prepared food for exclusive consumption off the premises shall not be considered as drive-in eating places on the basis of seating, but may be considered as drive-in eating places on the basis of a pass-through opening or service to parked vehicles.

(Ord. 82-4 §3 (part)).

17.04.550 - Driveway.

"Driveway" means a permanently surfaced area on a lot designed and required to provide direct access for vehicles between a street and a private garage, carport or other permitted parking space, or parking area or loading area.

(Ord. 82-4 §3 (part)).

17.04.560 - Driveway aisle, major.

"Major driveway aisle" means a driveway providing principal access to the parking area, or the driveway providing principal circulation throughout the parking areas or premises.

(Ord. 82-4 §3 (part)).

17.04.570 - Dwelling.

"Dwelling" means any building or portion thereof, designated or used exclusively as the residence or sleeping place of one or more persons, but not including a tent, cabin, trailer or trailer coach.

(Ord. 82-4 §3 (part)).

17.04.580 - Dwelling, single-family.

"Single-family dwelling" means a dwelling designed to contain a single dwelling unit.

(Ord. 82-4 §3 (part)).

17.04.590 - Dwelling, two-family or duplex.

"Two-family dwelling" or "duplex dwelling" means a dwelling designed to contain two dwelling units.

(Ord. 82-4 §3 (part)).

17.04.600 - Dwelling, multiple.

"Multiple dwelling" means a dwelling designed to contain three or more dwelling units, including apartments, condominiums, attached townhouses and similar dwellings, but excluding motels, hotels, boardinghouses, lodginghouses, fraternities, and similar dwellings.

(Ord. 82-4 §3 (part)).

17.04.610 - Dwelling unit.

"Dwelling unit" means one room, or a suite of two or more rooms, designed for or used by one family for living and sleeping purposes and having only one kitchen or kitchenette.

(Ord. 82-4 §3 (part)).

"Dwelling group" means a group of two or more dwellings, either detached or attached, located on a parcel of land in one ownership and having any yard or court in common.

(Ord. 82-4 §3 (part)).

"Emergency shelter" means housing with minimal supportive services for homeless persons that is limited to 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.

(Ord. No. 18-03, 9-26-18)

17.04.635 - Existing structure.

"Existing structure" for the purposes of defining an allowable space that can be converted into an ADU means within the four walls and roof line of any structure existing on or after January 1, 2017 that can be made safely habitable under local building codes at the determination of the building official regardless of any non-compliance with zoning standards.

(Ord. No. 18-03, 9-26-18)

17.04.640 - Family.

"Family" means one or more persons living together in a dwelling unit.

(Ord. 82-4 §3 (part)).

(Ord. No. 18-03, 9-26-18)

17.04.645 - Family day care home.

"Family day care home" means a home which regularly provides care, protection, and supervision of twelve or fewer children, in the provider's own home, for periods of less than twenty-four hours per day.

(Ord. 82-4 §3 (part)).

(Ord. No. 18-03, 9-26-18)

17.04.650 - Farm worker housing.

"Farm worker housing" means any attached or detached dwelling unit used to house farm/agricultural workers and their family members, including temporary mobile homes. Farm worker housing is divided into the following subtypes:

• Farm worker housing for six persons or fewer; or

• Farm worker housing consisting of no more than thirty-six beds in group quarters or twelve units or spaces, each designed for use by a single family or household.

(Ord. No. 18-03, 9-26-18)

17.04.655 - Fence.

"Fence" means a structure made of wire, wood, metal, masonry or other material, used as a screen or enclosure for a field, yard or lot.

(Ord. 82-4 §3 (part)).

(Ord. No. 18-03, 9-26-18)

17.04.660 - Fence height.

"Fence height" means the difference in elevation between the top of a fence or hedge, and the ground surface at the lowest point of the fence or hedge. Where a fence is erected atop or within ten feet of a retaining wall on the property line, or on the same lot, the height of the fence shall include the retaining wall.

(Ord. 82-4 §3 (part)).

(Ord. No. 18-03, 9-26-18)

17.04.665 - Fence, open.

"Open fence" means a fence constructed with material consisting of woven wire or other metals which restricts movement but not visibility.

(Ord. 82-4 §3 (part)).

(Ord. No. 18-03, 9-26-18)

17.04.670 - Finished appearance.

"Finished appearance," as applied to fencing, generally means the shielding of posts and rails by the application of a facing. Fencing in which such posts and rails are made a design feature of the fence, or fence which is so constructed that the posts and rails have the same appearance on both sides, shall be considered as having a "finished appearance" on both sides.

(Ord. 82-4 §3 (part)).

17.04.675 - Floodplain combine zone (-FP).

"Floodplain combine zone (-FP)" means an area which is defined in Chapter 17.40 which applies to the one-hundred-year floodplain area(s) delineated on the Flood Insurance Rate Map.

(Ord. 89-1 §2 (part)).

17.04.680 - Floodproof structure.

"Floodproof structure" means any structure which, in the opinion of the building official, is designed and constructed to resist flotation, destruction or major damage by floodwaters.

(Ord. 82-4 §3 (part)).

"Floodwaters" means a body of water resulting from an overflow of a river, channel, bay or drainage canal, or backwater due to inadequate downstream capacity which inundates the land.

(Ord. 82-4 §3 (part)).

17.04.700 - Floodwater without velocity.

"Floodwater without velocity" means floodwater which lacks any significant current, as differentiated from a watercourse with a significant current and a high volume of water moving past any given point of reference.

(Ord. 82-4 §3 (part)).

17.04.710 - Floodway.

"Floodway" means the channel of a stream and those portions of the floodplain adjoining the channel that are required to carry and discharge the floodwater or flood flows of any river or stream, including but not limited to flood flows associated with the regulatory one-hundred-year flood.

(Ord. 82-4 §3 (part)).

17.04.715 - Floodway combining zone (-FW).

"Floodway combining zone (-FW)" means an area as defined in Chapter 17.38 which applies to the floodway area(s) delineated on the flood boundary and floodway maps.

(Ord. 89-1 §2 (part)).

"Floor area" means the sum of the areas of the several floors of structure(s), as measured by the exterior faces of the walls, less any area within the structure(s) devoted to parking, vehicular atriums or enclosed malls and similar areas.

(Ord. 82-4 §3 (part)).

17.04.730 - Garage, private.

"Private garage" means an attached or detached accessory building located upon a lot developed with a residential dwelling or dwellings (or a portion of a main residential building), used by the occupants resident upon the premises principally for the storage of passenger vehicles, and other vehicles and equipment permitted to be located upon the lot.

(Ord. 82-4 §3 (part)).

"Public garage" means a structure or portion thereof, other than a private garage, used for the storage, sale, hire, care, repair or refinishing of motor vehicles or other vehicles; except that a structure or part thereof used only for storage (as in the case of a public parking area) or display (as in the case of an automobile sales area) of motor vehicles, but not for transients, and at which fuels and oils are not sold and such motor vehicles are not equipped, repaired or hired, shall not be deemed to be a public garage.

(Ord. 82-4 §3 (part)).

17.04.750 - General plan.

"General plan" means the General Plan of the city, as adopted by the city council December 10, 1973, as amended.

(Ord. 82-4 §3 (part)).

17.04.760 - Guesthouse.

"Guesthouse" means an attached or detached living quarters without kitchen facilities.

(Ord. 82-4 §3 (part)).

17.04.770 - Guest ranch.

"Guest ranch" means a ranch or farm with facilities for not more than fifteen guests.

(Ord. 82-4 §3 (part)).

17.04.775 - Handicap center.

"Handicap center" means a building that is used almost exclusively to provide programs and services to persons that are physically handicapped.

(Ord. 89-6 §3).

17.04.780 - Hedge.

"Hedge" means a barrier formed by bushes, shrubs or trees growing close together in a line with interwoven branches.

(Ord. 82-4 §3 (part)).

17.04.790 - Historical resource.

"Historical resource" means any building, structure, tree, plant life or site that either serves as a reminder of past eras, events or persons important in local or other history, or represents a significant example of an architectural style of the past.

(Ord. 82-4 §3 (part)).

"Historical resource site" means any place constituting a historical resource not otherwise defined as historical resource structure. Such term includes, but is not limited to, creeks, sloughs, landings, ponds, lagoons, watercourses, canyons, historical communities, cemeteries and burial grounds, mountain peaks and passes, gravel pits, locations of previously existing buildings and structures, and locations of archeological significance.

(Ord. 82-4 §3 (part)).

17.04.810 - Historical resource structure.

"Historical resource structure" means any building, structure, tree or plant life constituting a historical resource.

(Ord. 82-4 §3 (part)).

17.04.820 - Home improvement center.

"Home improvement center" means a retail establishment which carries a full line of building materials, appurtenances and decorator items for individual "do-it-yourselfer" residents to facilitate the improvement, rehabilitation and maintenance of individual dwellings. This use is different in function from a building supply yard or lumberyard which stores large volumes of building materials for contractors, home builders and/or individuals, most of which is stored in special sheds or out-of-doors.

(Ord. 82-4 §3 (part)).

17.04.830 - Home occupation.

"Home occupation" means a use customarily carried on in a dwelling by a resident thereof, which use is merely incidental to the residential use of the dwelling and subject to criteria as provided elsewhere in this title.

(Ord. 82-4 §3 (part)).

17.04.840 - Industrial park.

"Industrial park" means a combination of contiguous lots specifically planned for industrial uses, having continuity of design and function and uniform or integrated standards of development established by contract, covenant or deed restriction.

(Ord. 82-4 §3 (part)).

17.04.845 - Intensity.

"Intensity" means the degree or level of concentration or of activity to which land is used. In determining the degree of intensity, such factors as number of employees, number of off-street parking spaces required, and number of tenants shall be considered.

(Ord. 85-23 §3 (part)).

"Kennel" means a building or portion thereof, or other enclosure used to confine, feed, exercise, show or provide shelter for more than five cats or dogs, ten weeks of age or older. Veterinarians' offices are specifically excluded.

(Ord. 82-4 §3 (part)).

17.04.860 - Landscaping.

"Landscaping" means the planting and maintenance of trees, shrubs, lawns and other evergreen ground cover or material, including inorganic accessory materials utilized to accent or compliment the vegetation.

(Ord. 82-4 §3 (part)).

"Livestock" means domestic animals customarily kept, used, maintained or raised on a farm or ranch for commercial purposes, including but not limited to horses, ponies, burros, mules, donkeys, cows, steers, sheep, goats, chickens, ducks, geese, swine and rabbits.

(Ord. 82-4 §3 (part)).

17.04.875 - Living area

"Living area" means the interior inhabitable area of a dwelling unit including basements and attics but does not include a garage or any accessory structure.

(Ord. No. 18-03, 9-26-18)

"Lot" means a piece or parcel of land owned as a single unit in common ownership, occupied or intended to be occupied by a principal building or group of such buildings and accessory buildings, or utilized for a principal use and uses accessory thereto, together with such open spaces as are required by this title and having frontage on and access to an approved and accepted city street which meets the standards of width and improvements, as specified in the regulations of the city contained in or adopted pursuant to the subdivision title and street improvement title, as to the section and the frontage of the lot involved, or having frontage on and access to an approved private street.

(Ord. 82-4 §3 (part)).

"Lot area" means the net site area of a lot, expressed in terms of acres or square feet, exclusive of any public street easements and exclusive of that percentage of the total area of any other public easements or private easements which is in excess of fifteen percent of the net site area of the lot, exclusive of any such public street easements, which net site area as thus limited can be legally occupied by a principal building

or a group of such buildings and accessory buildings, or can be utilized for a principal use and uses accessory thereto, together with such open spaces as are required by this title.

(Ord. 82-4 §3 (part)).

17.04.900 - Lot, corner.

"Corner lot" means a lot abutting upon two streets at their intersections, or abutting upon a curvature of a single street, where such streets or curvature form an interior angle of less than one hundred thirty-five degrees. The point of intersection of the street lot lines extended is the "corner." A corner lot may have more than one corner and may also abut upon one or more streets which do not form the corner or corners of the lot.

(Ord. 82-4 §3 (part)).

17.04.910 - Lot, reversed corner.

"Reversed corner lot" means a corner lot the rear of which abuts upon the side of another lot, whether or not across an alley.

(Ord. 82-4 §3 (part)).

17.04.920 - Lot, through.

"Through lot" means a lot which has two or more front lot lines which do not intersect to form a corner lot.

(Ord. 82-4 §3 (part)).

17.04.930 - Lot coverage.

"Lot coverage" means that portion of the lot area covered by a building.

(Ord. 82-4 §3 (part)).

17.04.940 - Lot depth.

"Depth of lot" means the horizontal distance between the front and the rear lot lines.

(Ord. 82-4 §3 (part)).

17.04.950 - Lot, interior.

"Interior lot" means a lot which has only one front lot line.

(Ord. 82-4 §3 (part)).

17.04.960 - Lot lines.

"Lot lines" means the property lines bounding the lot.

(Ord. 82-4 §3 (part)).

17.04.970 - Lot line, front.

"Front lot line" means any of the following:

A.

Each street lot line of an interior or through lot;

B.

Either one or the other of the two street lot lines forming a corner of a corner lot; and

C.

The shorter street frontage of a corner of a corner lot.

(Ord. 82-4 §3 (part)).

17.04.980 - Lot line, rear.

"Rear lot line" means the lot line opposite and most distant from the front line, where such lot line is not also a street lot line.

(Ord. 82-4 §3 (part)).

17.04.990 - Lot line, side.

"Side lot line" means any lot line other than a front or rear lot line. A side lot line separating a lot from a street is called a side-street lot line. A side lot line separating a lot from another lot or lots is called an interior-side lot line.

(Ord. 82-4 §3 (part)).

17.04.1000 - Lot line, street.

"Street lot line" means a lot line separating the lot from a street.

(Ord. 82-4 §3 (part)).

17.04.1010 - Lot line, alley.

"Alley lot line" means a rear lot line separating the lot from an alley.

(Ord. 82-4 §3 (part)).

17.04.1020 - Lot width.

"Lot width" means the width of the lot measured at right angles to its depth.

(Ord. 82-4 §3 (part)).

17.04.1021 - Lowest floor.

"Lowest floor" means the lowest floor of the lowest enclosed area (including basement). An unfinished or flood-resistant enclosure, usable solely for parking of vehicles, building access or storage in an area other than a basement area is not considered a building's lowest floor; provided, that such enclosure is not built so as to render the structure in violation of the applicable non-elevation design requirements of the ordinance codified in this section.

(Ord. 89-1 §2 (part)).

"Manufactured home" means a factory-built home to include modular and mobile home certified by the state under the National Home Construction and Safety Standards Act of 1974.

(Ord. 88-1 §2 (part)).

"Mobile home" means a vehicle designed and equipped for human habitation, and for being drawn by motor vehicle. A mobile home is a type of "trailer" or "trailer coach" or "semi-trailer" as such terms are defined in the California Vehicle Code, and has the same meaning as "mobile home" as such term is defined in the California Health and Safety Code. (For the purpose of this title, the terms "mobile home," "travel trailer" and "trailer," which are each separately defined terms in this title, are mutually exclusive terms.)

(Ord. 82-4 §3 (part)).

17.04.1040 - Mobile home park.

"Mobile home park" means any area or tract of land where one or more mobile home sites are rented or leased or held on rent or lease to accommodate mobile homes for human habitation. The term "mobile home park" has the same meaning as "mobile home park" as such term is defined in the California Health and Safety Code.

(Ord. 82-4 §3 (part)).

"Motel" or "motor hotel" means a group of buildings containing individual sleeping or living units, designed for use by automobile tourists, or transients, with garage attached or parking space conveniently located to each unit.

(Ord. 82-4 §3 (part)).

"Motor home" means a motor vehicle originally designed, or permanently altered and equipped for human habitation, or to which a camper has been permanently attached. A motor vehicle to which a camper has been temporarily attached is not a motor home. The term "motor home" includes within its meanings the

terms "motor home," "house car," and "camp car" (with motor power), as such terms are used or defined in the California Vehicle Code or the California Health and Safety Code.

(Ord. 82-4 §3 (part)).

"Motor truck" means any motor vehicle designed, used or maintained primarily for the transportation of property. The term "motor truck" includes within its meaning the terms "motor truck" and "truck tractor" as such terms are defined in the California Vehicle Code, except as modified by the definition in this chapter of "passenger vehicle" to include certain motor vehicles as passenger vehicles which are otherwise motor trucks, or to include certain motor vehicles as motor trucks which are otherwise passenger vehicles.

(Ord. 82-4 §3 (part)).

"Motor vehicle" is a vehicle which is self-propelled. The term "motor vehicle" has the same meaning as the term "motor vehicle" as defined in the California Vehicle Code.

(Ord. 82-4 §3 (part)).

17.04.1090 - Natural land slope.

"Natural land slope" means the predominant slope (or slopes) in its natural condition, disregarding minor surface humps or hollows.

(Ord. 82-4 §3 (part)).

"Nightclub" means a drinking place which includes an area in which patrons may dance, or which provides live entertainment, not including entertainment by a single instrumental musician.

(Ord. 82-4 §3 (part)).

17.04.1110 - Nonconforming building.

"Nonconforming building" means a building or structure or portion thereof which:

A.

At the time of construction complied with the height requirements of the district in which it was located, and was sited on the lot on which it was constructed in compliance with the area and yard requirements of such district at that time; but

B.

Does not now conform to the presently existing height regulations of the district where located; or

C.

Is sited on the lot where it is situated in such a manner that there is a lack of conformity with the presently existing area or yard requirements of the district where located.

(Ord. 82-4 §3 (part)).

"Nonconforming lot" means a lot which, when lawfully created or established, complied with the width and area requirements of the district where located, but which does not conform to the presently existing area or width regulations of the district where located (or which does not conform to the presently existing requirements of the subdivision ordinance governing lot standards).

(Ord. 82-4 §3 (part)).

"Nonconforming use" means a use which, when commenced, complied with use regulations of the district in which such use was commenced, and which does not conform to the presently existing use regulations of the district where the use is being conducted or carried on. The term "nonconforming use" shall be applicable to use of buildings, structures, and land.

(Ord. 82-4 §3 (part)).

17.04.1140 - Nonconventional principal residential structure.

"Nonconventional principal residential structure" means a principal residential single-family and two-family structure which is not detached from the principal dwellings on abutting lots, or which is a townhouse, a patio home, a zero lot line home, or a similar structure.

(Ord. 82-4 §3 (part)).

17.04.1150 - Nursery.

"Nursery" means an area where agricultural products are grown for transplanting, for use of stock for budding and grafting, or for sale on the premises.

Ord. 82-4 §3 (part)).

"Agricultural nursery" means a nursery at which items sold are limited to agricultural products grown on the premises.

(Ord. 82-4 §3 (part)).

17.04.1170 - Nursery, commercial.

"Commercial nursery" means an agricultural nursery selling products not grown on the premises (such as fertilizer, sprays, shears and garden hose), but which are associated with the care and maintenance of plants.

(Ord. 82-4 §3 (part)).

17.04.1180 - Nursery school, children's nursery school, child day care service.

"Nursery school, children's nursery school or child day care service" means an establishment for the parttime care and instruction, whether or not for compensation, of thirteen or more children, other than those resident on the site.

(Ord. 85-23 §3 (part): Ord. 82-4 §3 (part)).

17.04.1190 - Nursing home or convalescent hospital.

"Nursing home" or "convalescent hospital" means any place or institution which makes provisions for bed care, or for chronic or convalescent care for one or more persons, exclusive of relatives, who by reason of illness or physical infirmity are unable to properly care for themselves. Institutions for the care of alcoholics, drug addicts, persons with mental diseases, and persons with communicable diseases, such as contagious tuberculosis, are not included within the meaning of "nursing home" or "convalescent hospital."

(Ord. 82-4 §3 (part)).

17.04.1195 - One-hundred-year flood.

"One-hundred-year flood" or "100-year flood" means a flood which has a one percent annual probability of being equalled or exceeded. It is identical to the "base flood," which will be the term used throughout the ordinance codified in this section.

(Ord. 89-1 §2 (part)).

17.04.1200 - Open space.

"Open space," for purposes of this title, means an outdoor area created by artificial or natural design not otherwise occupied by buildings (open spaces may be integral with, but may not be totally covered by, building areas, except as otherwise specified by district regulations) or paved areas for vehicular circulation or parking.

(Ord. 82-4 §3 (part)).

17.04.1210 - Overlay district.

"Overlay district" means a district described by the zoning map within which, through imposition of a special designation, additional regulations and requirements apply in addition to those of the district to which such designation is added.

(Ord. 82-4 §3 (part)).

"Private parking area" means an open area for the same uses as a private garage.

(Ord. 82-4 §3 (part)).

"Public parking area" means an open area, other than a street or other public way, used for the parking of automobiles and available to the public, whether for a fee, free, or as an accommodation for clients or customers.

(Ord. 82-4 §3 (part)).

"Parking space" means a permanently surfaced area of not less than one hundred eighty square feet, either within a structure or in the open, excluding driveways or access drives, for the parking of a vehicle.

(Ord. 82-4 §3 (part)).

"Passageway" means a pathway that is unobstructed clear to the sky and extends from a street to one entrance of the accessory dwelling unit.

(Ord. No. 18-03, 9-26-18)

"Patio structure" means an attached or detached roofed accessory structure open on one or more sides, whose principal use shall be for outdoor living and recreation. For the purposes of this section, the open sides may be closed with insect screening or readily removable flexible plastic screening not more than twenty mills' thickness.

(Ord. 82-4 §3 (part)).

17.04.1260 - Lath-covered structure.

"Lath-covered structure" means an accessory structure with a uniformly open cover. A structure shall be deemed to have a uniformly open cover when the openings between the solid material of the lath cover are evenly spaced so as to make air and light passage possible over the entire structure.

(Ord. 82-4 §3 (part)).

A.

"Passenger vehicle" means any motor vehicle, other than a motor truck, camper vehicle, or motor home, designed for carrying not more than ten persons including the driver, and used and maintained for the transportation of persons. The term "passenger vehicle" as such term is used herein, includes within its meaning "passenger vehicle" as such term is defined in the California Vehicle Code, including such vehicle design types as sedan, sports car, station wagon, wagon bus, and jeep-type automobile; provided, that the terms "motorcycle" and "motor-driven cycle," as such terms are defined in the Vehicle Code, are included

within the meaning of "passenger vehicle" as such term is used in this title. Provided further, that the following motor vehicles shall be deemed to be passenger vehicles for the purposes of this title:

1.

Any pickup truck, or motor truck of an exterior design type such as a sedan delivery truck (provided that any such pickup truck or sedan delivery truck does not have any camper attached or does not include any enclosure exceeding the height of the passenger vehicle), or panel truck, when such pickup truck or sedan delivery truck or panel truck is used solely for personal purposes of the owner for the transportation of persons and is not used either for business or commercial purposes (other than for transportation to and from owner's place of business and work), or for the storage or transportation of property which is easily visible from the exterior of the vehicle;

2.

Any motor vehicle of an exterior design type identical or substantially identical to a passenger vehicle of a conventional design type (including size) such as a wagon bus, notwithstanding that the interior of such vehicle has been designed, equipped or altered for human habitation in a manner similar to a "motor home" (and thus otherwise being subject to being defined as such), provided that the interior of such vehicle is not easily visible from the exterior as anything other than such a wagon bus or other passenger vehicle of conventional design type;

3.

Any commercial vehicle which is a motor vehicle of an exterior design type identical to a passenger vehicle of a conventional design type, notwithstanding that such motor vehicle is licensed as a "commercial vehicle."

B.

The foregoing is subject to the following further provision: No motor vehicle which has attached or maintained on the exterior thereof any commercial or noncommercial sign shall be deemed a passenger vehicle for the purposes of this chapter, except for the minor and incidental identification of a business enterprise upon the front door of a passenger vehicle which is used by an occupant of a dwelling as the principal means of personal transportation to and from such occupant's place of business, and except for typical temporary bumper stickers and similar noncommercial signs. Any motor vehicle not meeting such conditions shall be deemed to be, whichever is most applicable, either:

1.

A "motor truck" for the purposes of this chapter whether designed, used or maintained primarily for the carrying of passengers or for the transportation of property; or

2.

A "commercial vehicle" for the purposes of this title, whether or not such motor vehicle is of a type deemed to be or is or is not registered as a commercial vehicle under the California Vehicle Code.

(Ord. 82-4 §3 (part)).

"Performance standards" means regulations for the control of "dangerous or objectionable elements," as defined in Chapter 17.50.

(Ord. 82-4 §3 (part)).

"Plan line" means an officially adopted line established to provide for future street widenings, construction or realignment, delineating the area open or to be open, to public use from which the minimum front and/or side setback or yard distance of a building structure, or portion thereof, is measured. If no specific plan line is established, the plan line and the adjacent existing rights-of-way of any abutting street or roadway, either public or private, shall be construed to be one and the same.

(Ord. 85-23 §3 (part): Ord. 82-4 §3 (part)).

17.04.1300 - Poultry farm.

"Poultry farm" means any premises on which the primary use is the breeding, raising or maintaining of poultry for sale of eggs or poultry, or where the primary income from the premises is derived from the aforesaid occupation.

(Ord. 82-4 §3 (part)).

17.04.1310 - Premises.

"Premises" means one or more contiguous lots under single or common ownership where the present or proposed uses on the property relate to each other by way of an integrated site layout and common vehicular circulation and parking areas.

(Ord. 82-4 §3 (part)).

17.04.1320 - Principal permitted use.

"Principal permitted use" means a use for which no conditional use permit is required, but which may be subject to site plan and architectural approval, planned unit development approval, or performance standards procedure, as specified in this title.

(Ord. 82-4 §3 (part)).

"Private non-commercial use" means a use operated by a private nonprofit club or association such as fraternal associations, improvement associations, and similar groups; and such use having the purpose primarily of serving the members of the club or association, and including uses such as private golf courses, country clubs, swimming pools, riding clubs, private lodges, and the like.

(Ord. 82-4 §3 (part)).

"Produce" means fruits, vegetables and other commodities which are derived from agricultural cultivation.

(Ord. 82-4 §3 (part)).

17.04.1350 - Public use.

"Public use" means a use operated exclusively by a public body, such use having the purpose of serving the public health, safety or general welfare, and including uses such as public schools, parks, playgrounds, hospitals, and administrative and service facilities.

(Ord. 82-4 §3 (part)).

17.04.1360 - Quarry.

"Quarry" means a use for obtaining, extracting or producing earth, rock, crushed stone, building stone, slate, limestone, gravel, sand, minerals or similar material products, except for grading or excavation.

(Ord. 82-4 §3 (part)).

17.04.1370 - Quasi-public use.

"Quasi-public use" means a use operated by a private nonprofit educational, religious, recreational, charitable or medical institution, such use having the purpose primarily of serving the general public, and including uses such as churches, private schools and universities, community, youth and senior citizen recreational

facilities, private hospitals, and the like.

(Ord. 82-4 §3 (part)).

17.04.1380 - Recreation, commercial.

"Commercial recreation" means recreation facilities operated as a business and open to the general public for a fee.

(Ord. 82-4 §3 (part)).

17.04.1390 - Recreation, private, noncommercial.

"Private, noncommercial recreation" means clubs or recreation facilities operated by a nonprofit organization and open only to bona fide members of such nonprofit organization.

(Ord. 82-4 §3 (part)).

17.04.1400 - Resident.

"Resident" means a person who occupies a dwelling as a home on a permanent basis and has no other permanent place of abode.

(Ord. 82-4 §3 (part)).

"Residential care home" means a state-licensed care facility. This includes facilities for persons with disabilities (Welfare & Inst. Code 5116); residential health care facilities (Health & Safety Code 1267.8, 1267.9, 1267.16); residential care facilities for the elderly (Health & Safety Code 1568.083-1568.0831, 1569.82-1569.87); community care facilities (Health & Safety Code 1518, 1520.5, 1566-1566.8, 1567.1); pediatric day health facilities (Health & Safety Code 1267.9; 1760-1761.8); and facilities for alcohol and drug treatment (Health & Safety Code 11834.23).

(Ord. No. 18-03, 9-26-18)

17.04.1410 - Roadside stand.

"Roadside stand" means temporary structure used for the display and sale of produce grown by the operator of the stand.

(Ord. 82-4 §3 (part)).

17.04.1420 - Sales, wholesale.

"Wholesale sales" means the sale of goods for resale, or the sale of goods produced or processed from raw or primary materials on the premises, or the sale of construction materials which require bulk delivery of the product.

(Ord. 82-4 §3 (part)).

17.04.1430 - Salvage yard.

"Salvage yard" means a place where waste, discarded or salvaged materials are bought, sold, exchanged, baled, packed, disassembled, or handled or stored, including auto wrecking yards, house wrecking yards, used lumberyards and places or yards for storage of salvaged house wrecking and structural steel materials and equipment; but not including such places where such uses are conducted entirely within a completely enclosed building, and not including pawnshops and establishments for the sale, purchase or storage of used furniture and household equipment, used cars in operable condition, or salvaged materials incidental to manufacturing operations.

(Ord. 82-4 §3 (part)).

"Sanitarium" means any premises with fifteen or more sleeping rooms where persons are lodged and furnished with meals and nursing care.

(Ord. 82-4 §3 (part)).

17.04.1450 - Seat.

"Seat" means a chair, stool, bench or similar facility furnished for the accommodation of guests or patrons while receiving some kind of service; each twenty-four inches of bench shall be considered equal to one seat.

(Ord. 82-4 §3 (part)).

17.04.1460 - Shopping center.

"Shopping center" means a group of not less than three commercial shops on the same premises contained within a building, or buildings, of forty thousand square feet or more, planned, developed and managed as a unit.

(Ord. 82-4 §3 (part)).

17.04.1470 - Single-room occupancy (SRO) units.

"Single-room occupancy (SRO) units" means multiunit housing for very low-income persons that typically consists of a single room and must include at minimum a shared bath and kitchenette.

(Ord. No. 18-03, 9-26-18)

17.04.1480 - Site, building.

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

(Ord. 82-4 §3 (part)).

17.04.1485 - Special flood hazard area (SFHA).

"Special flood hazard area (SFHA)" means an area having special flood or flood-related erosion hazards, and shown on a Flood Boundary and Floodway Map or Flood Insurance Rate Map as Zone A, A1-30, AE, or A99.

(Ord. 89-1 §2 (part)).

17.04.1490 - Special residential care facilities.

"Special residential care facilities" means any state authorized, certified, or licensed family care home, foster home or group home serving six or fewer mentally disordered or otherwise handicapped persons, or dependent and neglected children, or the elderly, when such homes provide care on a twenty-four-hour-aday basis.

(Ord. 82-4 §3 (part)).

17.04.1500 - Reserved.

(Ord. 82-4 §3 (part)).

17.04.1510 - Reserved.

(Ord. 82-4 §3 (part)).

"Stable" means a building or portion thereof or other enclosure, not including pastures, used to confine, feed, exercise, show or provide shelter for horses, cows or other hoofed animals, whether for private, public or commercial use. "Stable" includes but is not limited to stall, corral, paddock, barn, exercise area and arena, along with structures accessory thereto.

(Ord. 82-4 §3 (part)).

17.04.1530 - Reserved.

(Ord. 82-4 §3 (part)).

17.04.1540 - Stock cooperative.

"Stock cooperative" means a corporation which is formed primarily for the purpose of holding title to improved real property, and of which shareholders receive a right of exclusive occupancy in a portion of the real property. Such right of exclusive occupancy is transferred only concurrently with the transfer of the share of the corporation stock.

(Ord. 82-4 §3 (part)).

17.04.1550 - Story.

"Story" means that portion of a building included between the surface of any floor and the surface of the floor next above it, or if there is no floor above it, then the space between the floor and the ceiling next above it.

(Ord. 82-4 §3 (part)).

17.04.1560 - Reserved.

(Ord. 82-4 §3 (part)).

17.04.1570 - Story, first.

"First story" means the lowest story or the ground story of any building, the floor of which is not more than twelve inches below the average contact ground level at the exterior walls of the building; except that any basement or cellar used for residence purposes, other than for a janitor or caretaker or his family, shall be deemed the first story.

Ord. 82-4 §3 (part)).

17.04.1580 - Story, mezzanine.

"Mezzanine story" means a story which covers one-third or less of area of the story directly underneath it. A mezzanine story shall be deemed a full story in case it covers more than one-third of the area of the story directly underneath the mezzanine story.

(Ord. 82-4 §3 (part)).

17.04.1590 - Street.

"Street" means a named public right-of-way which provides a means of access to abutting property, or an approved private right-of-way which provides the sole means of access to a lot from a public right-of-way.

(Ord. 82-4 §3 (part)).

17.04.1600 - Street frontage.

"Street frontage" means:

A.

The existence of a street lot line; or

B.

The lineal foot measurement of a lot at a street lot line.

(Ord. 82-4 §3 (part)).

17.04.1610 - Street improvement title.

"Street improvement title" means regulations of the city regarding dedication and improvement of street rights-of-way.

(Ord. 82-4 §3 (part)).

17.04.1615 - Structural alterations.

"Structural alterations" means any change in the supporting members of a building, such as bearing walls, columns, beams or girders.

(Ord. 85-23 §3 (part)).

17.04.1620 - 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, except benches, statuary, planter boxes less than thirty-six inches in height, fish ponds less than eighteen inches in depth, and wood fences seventy-two inches or under in height.

(Ord. 82-4 §3 (part)).

17.04.1630 - Subdivision title.

"Subdivision title" means Title 16 of this code.

(Ord. 82-4 §3 (part)).

17.04.1635 - 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 on-site or off-site 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.

(Ord. No. 18-03, 9-26-18)

17.04.1640 - Swimming pool.

"Swimming pool" means any constructed pool used for swimming or bathing, over eighteen inches in depth, or with a surface area exceeding two hundred fifty square feet.

(Ord. 82-4 §3 (part)).

17.04.1650 - Swimming pool, private.

"Private swimming pool" means all swimming pools which are used or intended to be used in connection with a single-family residence, and are available only to the family of the householder and his private guests.

(Ord. 82-4 §3 (part)).

17.04.1660 - Swimming pool, public or semipublic.

"Public or semipublic swimming pool" means any swimming pool other than a private swimming pool.

(Ord. 82-4 §3 (part)).

17.04.1665 - Tandem parking.

"Tandem parking" means that two or more automobiles are parked on a driveway or in any other location on a lot, lined up behind one another.

(Ord. No. 18-03, 9-26-18)

17.04.1670 - Temporary tract office.

"Temporary tract office" means an office facility used on a temporary basis only, located on or immediately adjacent to a tract or subdivision with new development thereon, for sales and administrative activity associated with the development.

(Ord. 82-4 §3 (part)).

"Townhouse" means a dwelling unit which is a portion of a multiple dwelling and has one or more common walls with other dwelling units, where such unit is the sole dwelling unit on a separate lot, and where ownership of such dwelling unit includes an interest in common areas other than the lot upon which the dwelling unit is situated.

(Ord. 82-4 §3 (part)).

"Trailer" means a vehicle designed for carrying persons or property on its own structure and for being drawn by a motor vehicle. The term "trailer" includes within its meaning the terms "trailer," "trailer coach," "semitrailer," "utility trailer," as such terms are used or defined in the California Vehicle Code or California Health and Safety Code. For the purposes of this title, the terms "trailer," "travel trailer," and "mobile home," which are each separately defined terms in this title, are mutually exclusive terms.

(Ord. 82-4 §3 (part)).

17.04.1700 - Transient.

"Transient" means a person whose period of residence at the place where he is staying does not exceed one hundred twenty days.

(Ord. 82-4 §3 (part)).

17.04.1705 - Transitional housing.

"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 future point in time that shall be no less than six months from the beginning of the assistance.

(Ord. No. 18-03, 9-26-18)

"Travel trailer" means a vehicle designed or used for human habitation and which may be moved upon a public highway without a special permit or chauffeur's license, or both, without violating any provision of the California Vehicle Code. The term "travel trailer" includes within its meaning the terms "travel trailer," "camp trailer," "tent trailer," "camp car," without motive power, as such terms are used or defined in the California Vehicle Code or the California Health and Safety Code. For the purposes of this title, the terms "travel trailer," "trailer," and "mobile home," which are each separately defined terms in this title, are mutually exclusive terms.

(Ord. 82-4 §3 (part)).

"Truck tractor" means a motor vehicle designed and used primarily for drawing other vehicles and not so constructed as to carry a load other than a part of the weight of the vehicle and load as drawn. The term "truck tractor" has the same meaning as the term "truck tractor" as defined in the California Vehicle Code.

(Ord. 82-4 §3 (part)).

"Usable open space" means any open space, the smallest dimension of which is at least seven feet and which is not used as storage or for movement of motor vehicles, except that yards abutting a public street which are not adequately screened for privacy shall not qualify as usable open space. Balconies, porches or roof decks may be considered usable open space when properly developed for work, play or outdoor living areas. At least thirty percent of required open space shall be contiguous to and provide for private usage of the individual dwelling unit.

(Ord. 82-4 §3 (part)).

17.04.1740 - Use, allowed.

"Allowed use" means a use that is either permitted or conditional within a zoning district.

(Ord. 82-4 §3 (part)).

17.04.1750 - Use, permitted.

"Permitted use" means a use for which no conditional use permit is required but which may be subject to other approval proceedings as specified in this title.

(Ord. 82-4 §3 (part)).

17.04.1760 - Vehicle.

"Vehicle" means a device by which any person or property may be propelled, moved or drawn, excepting a device moved by human power (such as a bicycle) or used exclusively upon stationary road or tracks. The term "vehicle" has the same meaning as the term "vehicle" as such term is defined in the California Vehicle Code except that the term "vehicle," as used in this title, is not limited to a device which may be propelled, moved, or drawn upon a highway.

(Ord. 82-4 §3 (part)).

17.04.1770 - Wall, retaining.

"Retaining wall" means a structure constructed to sustain a bank of earth liable to a landslide or sloughing.

(Ord. 82-4 §3 (part)).

17.04.1780 - Yard, front.

"Front yard" means an open space extending the full width of the lot, between a building and the front lot line, unoccupied and unobstructed from the ground upward, except as specified elsewhere in this title.

(Ord. 82-4 §3 (part)).

17.04.1790 - Yard, front, least depth.

"Front yard least depth" means the shortest distance, measured horizontally, between any part of a building, other than such parts hereinafter excepted, and the front lot line. Such depth shall be measured from the right-of-way line of the existing street on which the lot fronts (the front lot line); provided, however,

that if the proposed location of the right-of-way line of such street, as adopted by the city, differs from that of the existing street, then the required front yard least depth shall be measured from the right-of-way line of such street as adopted; or shall be measured from any officially adopted setback lines.

(Ord. 82-4 §3 (part)).

17.04.1800 - Yard, rear.

"Rear yard" means an open space between a building and a rear lot line, extending the full width of the lot (except for any portion thereof which overlaps a street side yard), unoccupied and unobstructed from the ground upward, except as specified elsewhere in this title.

(Ord. 82-4 §3 (part)).

17.04.1810 - Yard, rear, least depth.

"Rear yard least depth" means the shortest distance, measured horizontally, between any part of a building, other than such parts hereinafter excepted, and the rear lot line.

(Ord. 82-4 §3(part)).

17.04.1820 - Yard, required.

"Required yard" means an open space or portion thereof constituting a front yard, rear yard, or side yard on a lot which complies with the minimum yard requirements of the district in which the lot is situated.

(Ord. 82-4 §3(part)).

17.04.1830 - Yard, side.

"Side yard" means an open space extending from the front yard to the rear yard between a building and the nearest side lot line, unoccupied and unobstructed from the ground upward, except as specified elsewhere in this title.

(Ord. 82-4 §3(part)).

17.04.1840 - Yard, street side.

"Street side yard" means an open space extending from the front yard to the rear lot line, between a building and the nearest side street lot line, unoccupied and unobstructed from the ground upward, except as specified elsewhere in this title.

(Ord. 82-4 §3(part)).

17.04.1850 - Yard, side, least width.

"Side yard least width" means the shortest distance, measured horizontally between any part of a building, other than such parts hereinafter excepted, and the nearest side lot line. Such width shall be measured from the nearest side lot line and, in case the nearest side lot line is a side street lot line, from the right-ofway line of the existing street; provided, however, that if the officially adopted location of the right-of-way

line of such street differs from that of the existing street, then the required side yard least width shall be measured from the right-of-way of such street, as adopted.

(Ord. 82-4 §3(part)).

"Zone" means a portion of the territory of the city within which certain uniform regulations and requirements, or various combinations thereof, apply under the provisions of this title.

(Ord. 82-4 §3(part)).

"Zoning administrator" means the person appointed by the city manager as zoning administrator of the city.

(Ord. 82-4 §3(part)).

"Zoning permit" means a document issued by the building inspector, certifying that proposed buildings, structures or uses are consistent with the terms of this title so long as they comply with other requirements hereof.

(Ord. 82-4 §3(part)).

Chapter 17.06 - USE GROUP CLASSIFICATIONS

Sections:

The purpose of this chapter is to classify land uses into specific categories known as "use groups" on the basis of common functional, product and compatibility characteristics.

(Ord. 82-4 §3(part)).

(Ord. No. 18-03, 9-26-18)

17.06.020 - Listing of use groups.

The following use groups are hereby established:

Group 2 Residential.

2a. Single-family Residences. Nontransient residential occupancy of a single-family living unit.

Examples: Single-family house; Single-family manufactured house on permanent foundation.

2b. Two-family Residences. Nontransient residential occupancy of a building or structure containing two single-family dwelling units.

Examples: Duplex.

2c. Group Residential. Nontransient residential occupancy of three or more dwelling units.

Examples: Triplex; Fourplex; Apartment house; Rooming or boardinghouse; Fraternity or sorority house; Dormitory; Residence club; Housing cooperative.

2d. Mobile Home Parks. Nontransient residential occupancy of two or more mobile homes within a mobile home park.

2e. Residential above ground floor commercial.

2f. Supportive Housing.

2g. Transitional Housing.

2h. Emergency Shelter.

2i. Single-Room Occupancy Units.

2j. Farm Worker Housing(six or fewer persons).

2k. Farm worker housing, consisting of no more than thirty-six beds in group quarters or twelve units or spaces, each designed for use by a single family or household;

2l. Residential care home (six or fewer persons).

2m. Residential care home (seven or more persons).

Group 4 Visitor Accommodation.

4a Campgrounds. Establishments primarily engaged in providing overnight, transient or short-term sites for trailers, campers or tents.

Examples: Campground; Campsite; Trailer park; Recreational vehicle park.

4b Tourist Accommodations. Establishments primarily engaged in providing overnight, transient or shortterm lodging for tourists and travelers.

Examples: Motel; Hotel;

Inn; Auto court; Tourist cabin or court.

4c Bed and Breakfast Facilities.

Examples: Bed and breakfast facility serving tourists and visitors may be provided in existing residential structures of historical or architectural significance.

Group 6 Business and Professional Offices.

6a Administrative and Professional Offices. Offices of firms or organizations which provide professional, administrative, executive or management services.

Examples: Law office; Accountant's office; Engineering office; Architect's office.

6b Business Services. Establishments primarily engaged in the provision of services of a clerical, employment, protective, or minor processing nature.

Examples: Blueprint services; Bookkeeping services; Computer services; Employment agencies; Job counseling services; Secretarial services; Telephone answering services; Travel agencies.

6c Financial, Insurance and Real Estate Services. Establishments primarily engaged in the provision of services of financial, insurance, real estate, or securities brokerage services.

Examples: Bank; Insurance office; Real estate office; Stockbroker's office; Savings and loan office; Title insurance company.

6d Medical Offices. Establishments providing licensed health care services, but not including hospitals or residential health care facilities.

Examples: Doctor's office; Physical therapist's office;

Dentist's office; Medical laboratory; Radiologist's office; Chiropractor's office; Podiatrist's office.

Group 8 Business Support Services.

8a Building Maintenance Services. Establishments primarily engaged in the provision of maintenance and custodial services.

Examples: Janitorial service; Window cleaning service; Landscape maintenance service.

8b Business Equipment Sales and Services. Establishments primarily engaged in the sale, rental, or repair of equipment or supplies used by business and professional offices.

Examples: Business machine repair shop; Hotel equipment and supply firm; Office equipment and supply firm.

Group 10 General Consumer Services.

10a Cosmetic Services. Establishments primarily engaged in the provision of grooming and cosmetic services to humans.

Examples: Barber shop; Beauty shop; Manicurist.

10b Light Commercial Services. Establishments primarily engaged in the provision of light commercial services.

Examples: Photographic studio; Costume rental shop; Music lesson studio; Florist's shop; Boutique.

10c Consumer Repair Services. Establishments primarily engaged in repairing consumer goods.

Examples: Tailor's shop; Apparel pressing, repair and alteration services; Gunsmith's shop; Locksmith's shop; Radio/television repair shop;

Shoe repair shop; Watch, clock and jewelry repair services.

Not included: Automotive repair services.

Group 12 Retail Trade.

12a General Retail Trade. Establishments primarily engaged in the retail sale of commonly needed consumer goods, entirely within enclosed buildings of no more than twenty thousand square feet.

Examples: Auto parts shop selling new or reconditioned goods; Grocery store; Drug store; Clothing or drygoods store; Bookstore or newsstand; Hardware store; Home supply store; Heating, plumbing or electrical supply shop.

Not included: Auto sales; Adult book shop; Wholesale or nonretail sales; Outdoor storage of goods; Auto wrecking or dismantling; Heavy or industrial equipment sales.

12b Retail Trade Within Large Enclosures. Establishments engaged in the retail sale of commonly needed consumer goods, within enclosed buildings of more than twenty thousand square feet.

Examples: As listed under Group 12a.

Not included: As listed under Group 12a.

12c Shopping Center. A group of three or more commercial shops or establishments on the same premises contained within one or more buildings having an aggregate of forty thousand square feet or more of interior space, planned, developed and managed as a unit.

Example: Shopping center containing large grocery, drug or discount stores.

Not included: As listed under Group 12a.

12d Construction Yard Sales. Establishments primarily engaged in outdoor retail sale of home improvement and building materials.

Examples: Retail lumberyard; Building supply yard.

Not included: Contractor's storage yard; Storage or sale of nonretail goods;

Industrial uses.

Group 14 Eating and Drinking Places.

14a Eating Places. Establishments primarily engaged in retail sale of prepared food and drink, including the incidental sale of alcoholic beverages.

Examples: Restaurant or dinner house; Cafeteria or lunch counter; Delicatessen; Drive-in restaurant; Diner; Soda fountain; Cafe; Greasy-spoon; Fast food restaurants.

Not included: Bars and places primarily engaged in sale of alcoholic beverages by the drink.

14b Drinking Places. Establishments primarily engaged in the retail sale of alcoholic drinks, including liquor, spirits, beer and wine, for consumption on the premises, including the incidental sale of prepared foods.

Examples: Bar; Saloon; Cocktail lounge; Cabaret or discotheque; Nightclub; Tap room or beer garden; Tavern; Roadhouse.

14c Drive-In Restaurants. Establishments engaged in the retail sale of food and drink where automobile drive-in or drive-through facilities (other than parking lots) are provided.

Examples: Drive-in restaurant;

Drive-through restaurant; Fast-food restaurant with automobile window service.

Group 16 Adult Entertainment. Businesses engaged in providing "adult entertainment," as defined in Chapter 17.68.

Group 18 Social Services.

18a Individual and Family Services. Establishments primarily engaged in providing social services (including counseling, welfare, referral, refugee, disaster, and temporary relief services) to families and individuals.

Examples: Senior citizens' center; Youth center; Welfare office Community service bureau or league; Community center; Counseling center Adult day care center.

18b Vocational Services. Establishments primarily engaged in job training and vocational rehabilitation of unemployed, handicapped and disadvantaged persons.

Examples: Job Corps center; Sheltered workshop; Goodwill workshop; Vocational rehabilitation center; Job training facility.

18c Child Day Care Services. Establishments primarily engaged in providing day care for infants, children and minors, or in providing prekindergarten education, where medical care or delinquency correction is not a substantial element of the use.

Examples: Child or day care center; Nursery school; Preschool center.

Group 20 Private Institutions.

20a Private Educational or Religious Institutions. Institutions providing educational or religious facilities or services which are not owned or operated by a governmental entity.

Examples: Church or synagogue; Religious center; Nursery school; Elementary school; High school or junior high school; College; University.

20b Cultural or Social Institutions. Institutions providing cultural or social facilities or services.

Examples: Theater; Ampitheater; Art gallery; Botanical garden; Meeting hall; Fraternal or lodge hall; Museum.

20c Health Care Institutions. Hospitals and similar licensed health care institutions providing inpatient facilities or treatment.

Examples: Hospital; Sanitarium; Nursing home; Convalescent home or hospital.

Group 22 Sports and Recreational Facilities.

22a Indoor Sports and Recreation Facilities. Commercial sports and recreational uses conducted within an enclosed building.

Examples: Bowling alley; Billiard parlor; Electronic amusement center; Health club; Judo or karate studio; Swimming pool; Tennis, handball or racquetball court; Pool parlor; Dancehall, studio or school; Movie theater; Skating or roller rink.

22b Outdoor Sports or Recreational facilities. Commercial sports or recreational uses conducted in outdoor or open facilities.

Examples: Ball park; Drive-in theater; Golf course or driving range; Tennis court; Shooting range; Rod and gun club; Archery range; Riding academy or stable; Miniature golf course; Swimming pool; Sport fishing farm or pool.

Group 24 Automotive.

24a Light Automotive Repair. Establishments engaged in repair of automobiles, and the incidental sale, installation or repair of automotive equipment or parts, with use of no more than two bays.

Examples: Small auto repair shop; Auto glass, muffler or brake shop;

Battery or tire installation.

Not included: Body and fender shop; Auto painting; Auto wrecking or dismantling; Tire recapping.

24b Major Auto Repair. General repair and maintenance of automobiles and trucks, and the incidental sale, installation or repair of automotive equipment or parts, with use of more than two bays.

Examples: Garage; Engine removal or rebuilding; Automotive machine shop; Body and fender shop; Auto painting.

24c Auto Sale and Rental. Retail or wholesale or rental of automobiles, motorcycles, recreational vehicles, pickup trucks, and noncommercial trucks, with incidental repair or maintenance.

Examples: Automotive dealership; Car rental agency; Recreational vehicle dealership.

24d Car Washes. Washing and polishing of autos.

Examples: Auto laundries; Car wash.

Group 26 Vehicular Storage.

26a Impound Storage. Storage of impounded or towed motor vehicles.

Examples: Impound yard; Repossessor's yard; Towaway storage.

Not included: Wrecking or dismantling yard.

26b Recreational Vehicle Storage. Storage of recreational vehicles and boats.

26c Fleet Storage. Storage or parking of vehicles primarily used for commercial or business purposes, except as otherwise permitted as an accessory use.

Examples: Fleet storage yard; Bus or taxi yard; Truck parking or storage yard.

Not included: Retail sales; Wrecking or dismantling yard.

26d General Parking. Parking of motor vehicles on a temporary basis within a privately owned off-street parking area, with or without a fee, except as otherwise permitted as an accessory use.

Examples: Commercial parking lot; Parking garage; Underground parking lot.

Group 28 Vehicle Fuel Sales.

28a Retail Gasoline Sales. Retail sale, on the premises, of gasoline or other vehicular fuel, together with incidental sale of tires, batteries, small parts, and the provision of minor repair services and lubrication.

Examples: Auto filling station; Service station.

28b Truck Stops. Establishments primarily engaged in the roadside service of the trucking industry, including truck cleaning facilities, minor repair services, shower facilities, and incidental eating facilities and retail sales.

Group 30 Light Equipment Repair and Sale.

30a Light Equipment Repair. Repair and servicing of light mechanical equipment such as lawnmowers, chainsaws and garden tractors, where conducted entirely within an enclosed, sound-insulated structure.

30b Light Equipment Sale. Retail or wholesale sale or rental, from the premises, of light mechanical equipment, where all equipment is stored indoors or behind a view-obscuring fence, together with incidental repair and servicing.

Group 32 Heavy Equipment Repair and Sale.

32a Heavy Equipment Repair. Repair and servicing of heavy equipment, such as farm and construction equipment, and trucks, including body repair, painting and steam-cleaning.

32b Heavy Equipment Sale. Retail or wholesale sale or rental, from the premises, of heavy equipment, including construction equipment, trucks, and farm equipment, together with incidental maintenance of rental equipment.

Group 34 Wholesaling, Storage and Distribution.

34a Indoor Wholesaling and Storage, Storage, wholesaling, warehousing and distribution of goods and products within an enclosed building.

Examples: Mini-warehouse; Moving and storage firm; Warehouse; Wholesale distributor;

34b Outdoor Wholesaling and Storage. Storage, wholesaling, distribution and handling of goods, materials and equipment outdoors.

Examples: Grain elevator; Monument or stone yard;

Open storage yard.

34c Fuel Jobbing. Storage of fuels primarily for distribution to retail outlets or for bulk sale.

34d Construction Yards. Storage of construction materials and equipment, not including retail sales, together with incidental office uses.

Group 36 Public Services.

36a Minor Transportation. Use of land for transportation of goods and services, including appurtenances such as signs, signals, poles and power lines, but not including streets or highways.

Examples: Railroad line.

Not included: Railroad yards, switching facilities, sidings.

36b Public Service Facilities. Use of land for public utility distribution centers.

Examples: Electrical substation; Electrical transmission line; Gas metering station; Water or sewer pumping station; Telephone exchange; Transmission tower for radio or television; Reservoir; Water storage tank or tower.

36c Major Transportation. Major public transportation facilities.

Examples: Airport or flight strip; Railroad terminal or depot; Railroad yard or switching area; Heliport.

Group 38 Public Facilities. Provision of public services and facilities by governmental entities.

Examples: City hall; Public college or university; Public school (elementary, junior high, and high); Community center; Courthouse; Fire or police station; Historical landmark or building; Library; Maintenance yard; Museum;

Park or playground;

Public recreation center.

38a Governmental institutions, provisions of public services and facilities by government entities.

Not included: Public utility uses for local services.

38b Public utility institutions, provisions of public services and facilities by public utility entities.

Examples: Public utility uses for local services.

Group 40 Festival Activities. Festivals, carnivals and similar activities conducted outdoors or in temporary tents or structures, involving concentrations of people.

Examples: Carnival; Circus;

Fair; Rodeo; Flea market.

Group 42 Agriculture.

42a General Agriculture. Agricultural uses under this group shall be limited to the following:

1. Small-scale hatching, raising, breeding, butchering and marketing of small farm animals such as chickens, turkeys, poultry and eggs, rabbits, fish, frogs, mink and chinchilla; provided that not more than one hundred mature animals of all species combined may be kept, fed or maintained on parcels of less than five acres;

2. Commercial grazing of cattle, horses, sheep, goats, hogs and other farm stock; provided, that on parcels of less than five acres not more than two such animals per acre shall be kept or maintained; and provided further, that there shall be no limit on the number per acre of sheep grazed on fields for the purpose of cleaning up unharvested crops where such grazing is not continued for more than four weeks in any sixmonth period;

3. Selective or experimental breeding, and raising and training, of cattle, horses, sheep, goats, hogs and other farm stock, subject to the limitations set forth in subsection 2 above;

4. Crop, truck and tree farming;

5. Propagation and raising of plants and nursery stock in greenhouses;

6. Stands for the display and sale of produce grown on the premises where the stand is located;

7. Wholesale and retail sale of nursery products.

Not included: Uses described under Groups 42b and c.

42b Concentrated Stock Operations. Concentrated feeding, breeding, boarding and handling of farm and domestic animals.

Examples: Feed lot; Auction or sales yard; Riding academy; Hog ranch; Menagerie; Animal hospital; Dog kennel or breeding facility; Dairy.

42c Heavy agriculture. Processing of agricultural products for wholesale or retail sale.

Examples: Packing shed; Processing operation, including canning, freezing or dehydrating; Slaughterhouse; Meat packing plant.

Not included: Small scale animal processing operations incidental to uses permitted under Group 42b.

Group 44 Reserved.

Group 46 Interment Services.

46a Cremation. Cremation of human remains.

Examples: Crematorium.

46b Interment. Interment of human remains.

Examples: Cemetery; Mausoleum; Columbarium; Cinerarium.

46c Undertaking. Undertaking services for dead human bodies, including operation of funeral homes or other disposal.

Examples: Mortuary; Funeral home; Embalming.

Group 47 Custom Printing. Establishment primarily engaged in the provision of services of a major processing nature, including web presses and multicolor presses, where conducted entirely within an enclosed, sound-insulated structure.

Examples: Newspapers; Circulars; Pamphlets; Booklets; Books;

Bookbinding; Die-cutting; Engraving.

Group 48 Custom Manufacturing. Small shops engaged in the custom manufacturing of goods by hand, having facilities for no more than three workers, and using machines of no more than 7.5 horsepower.

Examples: Cabinet shop; Candle-making shop; Ceramic studio; Custom furniture shop; Custom metal working shop; Stained glass studio; Custom woodworking shop.

Group 49 Research and Development Laboratories. Establishments primarily engaged in laboratory or other physical research and development.

Examples: Chemical laboratories; Development of computer and related technology; Engineering laboratories; Food research; Industrial laboratories.

Group 50 Industrial.

50a General Industrial. Industrial plants and facilities used primarily for the manufacturing compounding, processing, assembling, packaging, treatment or fabrication of goods, materials and products.

Examples: Facility to assemble electronic appliances, instruments and devices (e.g., radios, computers, calculators, phonographs, coils, condensers, transformers, crystal holders, and other similar items); Bakery;

Dairy;

Laboratory (e.g., experimental, photo or motion picture, research or testing); Facility to manufacture, compound, process, package or treat such products as the following: Candy; Cosmetics or perfumes; Drugs or pharmaceuticals; Perfumed toilet soap; Soft drinks.

Facility to manufacture, compound, assemble, package or treat articles or merchandise from previously prepared materials such as the following:

Cellophane;

Canvas;

Cloth;

Cork; Feathers;

Felt; Fibre; Fur; Glass; Hair; Horn; Leather; Paper; Plastic; Wax; Precious or semi-precious metals or stones; Shell; Textiles; Tobacco; Wire; Yarns; Paint; Previously pulverized clay.;b2;

Excluding: Rendering of fats and oils; Manufacture of paint employing a boiling process.

50b Intermediate Industrial. Any production, processing, cleaning, service, testing, repair, or storage of materials other than those listed under Use Group 50a of this chapter.

Examples: Cabinet shop; Furniture shop; Machine shop; Sheet metal shop; Winery.

50c Heavy Industrial. Uses which involve inherently dangerous or objectionable elements difficult to control.

Examples: Acetylene gas manufacture or storage; Acid manufacture and reclaiming; Aircraft factory; Alcohol distillation; Ammonia, bleaching powder or chlorine manufacture; Asphalt manufacture and refining; Automobile assembly plant; Boiler works; Brick, tile, cement block or terracotta; Concrete products manufacture; Cotton gin or oil mill; Freight classification yard; Gas, processing and manufacturing;

Iron, steel, brass or copper foundry or fabrication plant; Lampblack manufacture; Manufacture, including heavy tile products; Natural gas, processing and absorption plants; Oilcloth or linoleum manufacture; Oil, extracting and dehydration facilities or reduction; Paint, oil, shellac, turpentine or varnish manufacture; Paper pulp manufacture; Petroleum refinery, together with all plants and facilities incidental to the operation thereof in connection with the manufacture of all present and future byproducts of oil, petroleum, gas, gasoline and other hydrocarbon substances;

Petroleum: storage, processing, transportation and distribution of oil, petroleum, gas, gasoline and other hydrocarbon substances;

Plastic, manufacture of; Potash works; Railroad repair shop; Roofing manufacture; Salt works; Soap manufacture; Soda and compound manufacture; Stone mill; Stove and shoe polish manufacture; Tar distillation or tar products manufacture; Taxidermy; Wool pullings, scoring.

50d Very Heavy Industrial. Uses which involve processes prone to excessive noise or other nuisance.

Examples: Blast furnace or coke over; Cement, lime, gypsum or plaster of paris, manufacture; Distillation of bones; Drop forge industry; Explosives, manufacture or storage; Fat rendering; Fertilizer manufacture; Garbage, offal or dead animal reduction or dumping; Oil extraction plants, other than petroleum products; Rubber, reclaiming, or the manufacture of synthetic rubber or its constituents; Rock crusher; Smelting of tin, copper, zinc, nickel, iron ores; Storage or bailing of rags, paper, iron or junk; Tannery or the curing or storing of raw hides; Lumber and planing mill.

Group 52 Semi-conductor Manufacturing. Establishments primarily engaged in manufacturing semiconductor and related solid state devices.

Examples: Circuit boards; Electronic devices; Fuel cells; Hybrid integrated circuits; Infra-sensors; Light sensitive devices; Micro circuits; Microwave components; Monolithic integrated circuits; Printed circuits; Quartz crystals; Semi-conductor circuit networks; Semi-conductors; Solar cells; Solid state electronic devices; Transistors; Ultra-violet sensors.

Group 54 Extractive. Operation of equipment for the removal of deposits of natural minerals, fossil fuels and diatomaceous earth, including necessary exploration activities.

Examples: Gas and oil; Metallic and nonmetallic mineral removal; Diatomaceous earth removal; Pit operations; Quarries; Sand and gravel removal.

Group 56 Scrap Operations. Places of business primarily engaged in the storage, sale, dismantling or other processing of waste materials which are not intended for refuse in their original form.

Examples: Automotive wrecking yards; Junkyards; Paper salvage yards; Recycle centers.

Group 57 Medical and Adult Use Cannabis Activities, and Industrial Hemp Activities. Establishments primarily engaged in the planting, cultivation, harvesting, transporting, manufacturing, compounding, converting, processing, preparing, storing, packaging, distributing, researching, testing, providing, or selling wholesale and/or retail sales of cannabis and the processing, testing, research and manufacturing of industrial hemp products for purposes of CDB extract or oil production.

57a Indoor cannabis cultivation includes any activity within a fully enclosed and secure structure involving the planting, growing, harvesting, drying, curing, grading, or trimming of cannabis. Nurseries are included in this use group. To safeguard against the potential of cross-pollination of cannabis and hemp plants the cultivation of industrial hemp is excluded in all zones of the city.

57b Cannabis and industrial hemp manufacturing means a facility engaged in either the compounding, blending, extracting, infusing, or otherwise making or preparing a cannabis or an industrial hemp product.

57c Cannabis dispensary includes any facility where cannabis or cannabis products are offered, either individually or in any combination, for retail sale to either adults over twenty-one years of age, qualified patients or primary caregivers, in strict accordance with Health and Safety Code Section 11362.5.

57d Cannabis and industrial hemp laboratories and research includes a laboratory or entity that offers or performs tests or testing of cannabis or cannabis products including industrial hemp products.

57e Cannabis distribution means any facility engaged in the procurement, temporary storage, non-retail sales, and transport of cannabis or cannabis products between state-licensed cannabis businesses, including warehouses and similar structures.

57f Cannabis packaging and processing means a facility engaged in the drying, curing, grading, trimming, storing, packaging, and labeling of non-manufactured cannabis and cannabis products.

57g Cannabis infusion means any facility that produces edible products or topical products using infusion processes, or other types of cannabis products other than extracts or concentrates, and that do not conduct extractions.

(Ord. No. 2019-01, 9-25-20; Ord. No. 18-03, 9-26-18; Ord. No. 17-01, 9-27-17; Ord. 92-8 §2; Ord. 89-14 §2; Ord. 88-6 §2; Ord. 86-4 §2(part); Ord. 85-2 §2(part); Ord. 82-4 §3(part)).

17.06.030 - Classification of proposed uses.

In classifying proposed uses within the use groups listed in Section 17.06.020, the following rules shall apply:

A.

Each proposed use shall be deemed to fall within the use group which it most closely resembles, based upon common functional, product and compatibility characteristics.

B.

Multiple uses proposed by one or more persons shall be classified separately into appropriate use groups.

(Ord. 82-4 §3(part)).

Chapter 17.08 - ZONES ESTABLISHED, BOUNDARIES, ZONING MAP

Sections:

The following primary zones are hereby established:

Zone Symbol

(Ord. 86-4 §2(part): Ord. 82-4 §3(part)).

In addition to the primary zones established by Section 17.08.010, the following combining zones are hereby established:

(Ord. 82-4 §3(part)).

The designations, locations and boundaries of the zones established by this chapter shall be shown on the zoning map of the city. The zoning map, together with all notations, references, data and other information

shown thereon, shall be a part of this title and subject to all of its regulations.

(Ord. 82-4 §3(part)).

This section consists of the zoning map of the city, true copies of which are on file in the office of the city clerk. The zoning map may be amended, in whole or in part, in accordance with the provisions of Chapter 17.78.

(Ord. 82-4 §3(part)).

Upon written application or its own motion, the city council may make a specific finding that a clerical error is contained in the zoning map and direct staff to correct same.

(Ord. 82-4 §3 (part)).

Where uncertainty exists with respect to the boundaries of the various zones, the following rules shall apply:

A.

Where the indicated zoning boundaries are approximately street or alley lines, the centerlines of such streets or alleys shall be construed to be such boundaries.

B.

Where the zoning boundaries are not shown to be streets or alleys, and where the indicated boundaries are approximately lot lines, said lot lines shall be construed to be zone boundaries, unless such boundaries are otherwise indicated.

C.

Where property is indicated on the zoning map as acreage and not subdivided into lots and blocks, or where the zone boundary lines are not approximately street, alley or lot lines, the zone boundary lines on the zoning map shall be determined by scale contained on such map, and where uncertainty exists, the zone boundary line shall be determined by the planning commission.

(Ord. 82-4 §3(part)).

In addition to the regulations specified in this title for each of the principal zones, the general regulations set forth in Chapters 17.50 through 17.72 shall be applicable to each and every such zone. In the event of conflict between the particular regulations for each zone set forth in this title and the general regulations for

each zone set forth in this chapter and in Chapters 17.50 through 17.72, the more restrictive regulations shall apply.

(Ord. 82-4 §3(part)).

The regulations set forth in this title for each of the combining zones shall modify the regulations for the principal zones with which they are combined. All uses and regulations of the principal zone shall apply in the combined zone, except insofar as they are modified or augmented by the uses and regulations set forth in the combining zone regulations.

(Ord. 82-4 §3(part)).

All incorporated territory of the city shall be classified as shown on the zoning map adopted as part of this title.

(Ord. 82-4 §3(part)).

Chapter 17.10 - AGRICULTURAL (A) ZONE

Sections:

The agricultural (A) zone is intended to preserve lands best suited for agricultural use from the encroachment of incompatible uses, and to preserve in agricultural use land suited to eventual development in other uses, pending proper timing for the economical provisions of utilities, major streets and other facilities, so that compact, orderly development will occur.

(Ord. 82-4 §3(part)).

(Ord. No. 18-03, 9-26-18)

The following are principal permitted uses in the A zone:

(Ord. No. 18-03, 9-26-18; Ord. 82-4 §3 (part)).

The following are conditional uses in the A zone:

(Ord. 82-4 §3 (part)).

No structure shall exceed thirty feet in height in the A zone.

(Ord. 82-4 §3 (part)).

The following minimum lot regulations shall apply in the A zone, except in the case of greenhouses, lands under land conservation contract, or where increased for conditional uses:

A.

Lot area, Five acres;

B.

Lot width, Three hundred feet;

C.

Front yard, Twenty-five feet;

D.

Side yards, Ten feet;

E.

Rear yard, Twenty-five feet.

(Ord. 82-4 §3 (part)).

17.10.060 - Additional regulations.

The following regulations also shall apply in the A zone:

A.

Any structure or enclosure, not including pastures, in which livestock (except domestic pets in household numbers, or animals kept with a permit pursuant to Title 6 of this code) is contained, shall be not less than two hundred feet from any residential or commercial district, or from any school or institution for human care.

B.

The following standards shall apply to greenhouses:

1.

The maximum noise level at the property line resulting from fans or equipment shall not exceed forty-five CNEL.

2.

No direct or sky-reflected glare from any light source emanating from a greenhouse shall exceed 0.1 footcandle.

3.

All activities involving and all storage of flammable explosive materials or potentially harmful chemicals shall be subject to approval by the fire marshal or county agriculture office as appropriate.

4.

An on-site drainage system shall be provided to keep runoff from greenhouse operations off of adjacent properties.

(Ord. 82-4 §3 (part)).