Chapter 17.04 — DEFINITIONS
Willits Municipal Code · 2026-09 edition · updated 2026-09-27 · Willits
Sections in this part
17.04.010 - Use of definitions.¶
17.04.020 - Abutting.¶
17.04.030 - Accessory dwelling unit.¶
17.04.040 - Accessory use or structure.¶
17.04.050 - Reserved.¶
17.04.060 - Agent of owner.¶
17.04.070 - Agriculture.¶
17.04.080 - Alley or lane.¶
17.04.090 - Alter.¶
17.04.100 - Apartment, efficiency.¶
17.04.110 - Apartment vacancy rate.¶
17.04.120 - Arts and crafts fair.¶
17.04.130 - Automobile repair, major.¶
17.04.140 - Automobile repair, minor.¶
17.04.150 - Automobile sales area.¶
17.04.160 - Automobile service station or gasoline service station.¶
17.04.170 - Automobile wrecking.¶
17.04.180 - Basement.¶
17.04.190 - Beginning of construction.¶
17.04.200 - Reserved.¶
17.04.210 - Reserved.¶
17.04.220 - Boardinghouse or roominghouse.¶
17.04.230 - Building.¶
17.04.240 - Building, height of.¶
17.04.250 - Building, main.¶
17.04.260 - Bus.¶
17.04.270 - Camper.¶
17.04.280 - Camper vehicle.¶
17.04.285 - Canopy.¶
17.04.290 - Carport.¶
17.04.300 - Cellar.¶
17.04.310 - Cessation of use.¶
17.04.320 - Circus and/or carnival and special event.¶
17.04.330 - City council.¶
17.04.340 - Combining zone.¶
17.04.350 - Commercial.¶
17.04.360 - Commercial vehicle.¶
17.04.370 - Commission, planning.¶
17.04.380 - Community apartment.¶
17.04.390 - Community club.¶
17.04.400 - Reserved.¶
17.04.410 - Conditional use.¶
17.04.420 - Condominium.¶
17.04.430 - Construction yard.¶
17.04.440 - Corporation yard; service yard.¶
17.04.450 - Condominium development.¶
17.04.460 - Controlled-access highway.¶
17.04.470 - Convenience food store.¶
17.04.480 - Court.¶
17.04.490 - Director of planning.¶
17.04.500 - Department store.¶
17.04.505 - Development.¶
17.04.510 - District.¶
17.04.520 - Domestic pet.¶
17.04.530 - Drive-in enterprise.¶
17.04.540 - Drive-in eating place.¶
17.04.550 - Driveway.¶
17.04.560 - Driveway aisle, major.¶
17.04.570 - Dwelling.¶
17.04.580 - Dwelling, single-family.¶
17.04.590 - Dwelling, two-family or duplex.¶
17.04.600 - Dwelling, multiple.¶
17.04.610 - Dwelling unit.¶
17.04.620 - Dwelling group.¶
17.04.630 - Emergency shelter.¶
17.04.635 - Existing structure.¶
17.04.640 - Family.¶
17.04.645 - Family day care home.¶
17.04.650 - Farm worker housing.¶
17.04.655 - Fence.¶
17.04.660 - Fence height.¶
17.04.665 - Fence, open.¶
17.04.670 - Finished appearance.¶
17.04.675 - Floodplain combine zone (-FP).¶
17.04.680 - Floodproof structure.¶
17.04.690 - Floodwaters.¶
17.04.700 - Floodwater without velocity.¶
17.04.710 - Floodway.¶
17.04.715 - Floodway combining zone (-FW).¶
17.04.720 - Floor area.¶
17.04.730 - Garage, private.¶
17.04.740 - Garage, public.¶
17.04.750 - General plan.¶
17.04.760 - Guesthouse.¶
17.04.770 - Guest ranch.¶
17.04.775 - Handicap center.¶
17.04.780 - Hedge.¶
17.04.790 - Historical resource.¶
17.04.800 - Historical resource site.¶
17.04.810 - Historical resource structure.¶
17.04.820 - Home improvement center.¶
17.04.830 - Home occupation.¶
17.04.840 - Industrial park.¶
17.04.845 - Intensity.¶
17.04.850 - Kennel.¶
17.04.860 - Landscaping.¶
17.04.870 - Livestock.¶
17.04.875 - Living area¶
17.04.880 - Lot.¶
17.04.890 - Lot area.¶
17.04.900 - Lot, corner.¶
17.04.910 - Lot, reversed corner.¶
17.04.920 - Lot, through.¶
17.04.930 - Lot coverage.¶
17.04.940 - Lot depth.¶
17.04.950 - Lot, interior.¶
17.04.960 - Lot lines.¶
17.04.970 - Lot line, front.¶
17.04.980 - Lot line, rear.¶
17.04.990 - Lot line, side.¶
17.04.1000 - Lot line, street.¶
17.04.1010 - Lot line, alley.¶
17.04.1020 - Lot width.¶
17.04.1021 - Lowest floor.¶
17.04.1025 - Manufactured home.¶
17.04.1030 - Mobile home.¶
17.04.1040 - Mobile home park.¶
17.04.1050 - Motel or motor hotel.¶
17.04.1060 - Motor home.¶
17.04.1070 - Motor truck.¶
17.04.1080 - Motor vehicle.¶
17.04.1090 - Natural land slope.¶
17.04.1100 - Nightclub.¶
17.04.1110 - Nonconforming building.¶
17.04.1120 - Nonconforming lot.¶
17.04.1130 - Nonconforming use.¶
17.04.1140 - Nonconventional principal residential structure.¶
17.04.1150 - Nursery.¶
17.04.1160 - Nursery, agricultural.¶
17.04.1170 - Nursery, commercial.¶
17.04.1180 - Nursery school, children's nursery school, child day care service.¶
17.04.1190 - Nursing home or convalescent hospital.¶
17.04.1195 - One-hundred-year flood.¶
17.04.1200 - Open space.¶
17.04.1210 - Overlay district.¶
17.04.1220 - Parking area, private.¶
17.04.1230 - Parking area, public.¶
17.04.1240 - Parking space.¶
17.04.1245 - Passageway.¶
17.04.1250 - Patio structure.¶
17.04.1260 - Lath-covered structure.¶
17.04.1270 - Passenger vehicle.¶
17.04.1280 - Performance standards.¶
17.04.1290 - Plan line.¶
17.04.1300 - Poultry farm.¶
17.04.1310 - Premises.¶
17.04.1320 - Principal permitted use.¶
17.04.1330 - Private noncommercial use.¶
17.04.1340 - Produce.¶
17.04.1350 - Public use.¶
17.04.1360 - Quarry.¶
17.04.1370 - Quasi-public use.¶
17.04.1380 - Recreation, commercial.¶
17.04.1390 - Recreation, private, noncommercial.¶
17.04.1400 - Resident.¶
17.04.1405 - Residential care home.¶
17.04.1410 - Roadside stand.¶
17.04.1420 - Sales, wholesale.¶
17.04.1430 - Salvage yard.¶
17.04.1440 - Sanitarium.¶
17.04.1450 - Seat.¶
17.04.1460 - Shopping center.¶
17.04.1470 - Single-room occupancy (SRO) units.¶
17.04.1480 - Site, building.¶
17.04.1485 - Special flood hazard area (SFHA).¶
17.04.1490 - Special residential care facilities.¶
17.04.1500 - Reserved.¶
17.04.1510 - Reserved.¶
17.04.1520 - Stable.¶
17.04.1530 - Reserved.¶
17.04.1540 - Stock cooperative.¶
17.04.1550 - Story.¶
17.04.1560 - Reserved.¶
17.04.1570 - Story, first.¶
17.04.1580 - Story, mezzanine.¶
17.04.1590 - Street.¶
17.04.1600 - Street frontage.¶
17.04.1610 - Street improvement title.¶
17.04.1615 - Structural alterations.¶
17.04.1620 - Structure.¶
17.04.1630 - Subdivision title.¶
17.04.1635 - Supportive housing.¶
17.04.1640 - Swimming pool.¶
17.04.1650 - Swimming pool, private.¶
17.04.1660 - Swimming pool, public or semipublic.¶
17.04.1665 - Tandem parking.¶
17.04.1670 - Temporary tract office.¶
17.04.1680 - Townhouse.¶
17.04.1690 - Trailer.¶
17.04.1700 - Transient.¶
17.04.1705 - Transitional housing.¶
17.04.1710 - Travel trailer.¶
17.04.1720 - Truck tractor.¶
17.04.1730 - Usable open space.¶
17.04.1740 - Use, allowed.¶
17.04.1750 - Use, permitted.¶
17.04.1760 - Vehicle.¶
17.04.1770 - Wall, retaining.¶
17.04.1780 - Yard, front.¶
17.04.1790 - Yard, front, least depth.¶
17.04.1800 - Yard, rear.¶
17.04.1810 - Yard, rear, least depth.¶
17.04.1820 - Yard, required.¶
17.04.1830 - Yard, side.¶
17.04.1840 - Yard, street side.¶
17.04.1850 - Yard, side, least width.¶
17.04.1860 - Zone.¶
17.04.1870 - Zoning administrator.¶
17.04.1880 - Zoning permit.¶
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