Definitions.
"Second hand store"
means a specialty shop which deals solely in one kind of
used commodity with no new commodities, or a business in which the
sale of secondhand or used articles is incidental to the sale of new
articles of the same kind. For purposes of this description, the sale
of secondhand or used articles is deemed to be incidental to the sale
of new articles. Used articles may include wearing apparel, furniture,
fixtures, appliances, tableware, offices supplies, pictures, paintings,
jewelry, cutlery or guns. This use does not include pawn shops, the
sale of junk or scrap metal, the sale of used cars, or the sale of
other items. This use does not include the buying and selling of foreign
or domestic coins for numismatic purposes, which shall be allowed
where retail sales of new merchandise is permitted. This use also
does not include a thriftshop or nonprofit thriftshop.
"Service station"
means a lot or portion of a lot used for the servicing of
motor vehicles. Such servicing may include sale of motor fuel and
oils, lubrication, incidental car washing, sales and service of tires,
tubes, batteries and service of auto accessories. Such services shall
not include tire recapping, sale or rebuilding of engines, battery
manufacturing or rebuilding, body repair, painting or upholstery.
"Setback"
means those areas of a parcel or lot that are defined by
legal property lines on the outer boundaries and by the distance inward
from those property lines as described by the Zone Development Standards.
These areas provide open space clear to the sky in order to provide
required building separation and privacy.
1.
Setback, Front Yard. "Front yard setback" means the area that
defines the depth of the required front yard. The setback will be
measured from the street line and be removed from that point by the
perpendicular distance to a line prescribed for the front yard area
of the zone in which the property is located.
2.
Setback, Rear Yard or Side Yard. "Rear or side yard setback"
means the area that defines the width or depth of the required rear
or side yard setbacks. The setbacks shall be measured from the property
line, removed from that point by the perpendicular distance described
for the yard setback in the zone in which the property is located.
Where the side or rear yard abuts a street, the distance shall be
measured as described in "front yard setback."
3.
"Setback line" means a line across the front, sides or rear
of any private or public property, the establishment of which prohibits
the subsequent erection of any building, fence or other structure
in the area between such line and the lot line, except as otherwise
provided.
"Shoe repair"
means an establishment that offers specialized goods and
services for repairing shoes and other similar items.
"Shopping center"
means a group of architecturally unified commercial establishments
built on a site that is planned, developed, owned and managed as an
operating unit, related in its location, size, and type of shops to
the trade area that the unit serves, which provides on-site parking
in definite relationship to the types and total size of the stores,
and consisting primarily of retail sales uses, with seven or more
lease areas on a lot or lots, whose combined area is not less than
40,000 square feet.
"Single-family dwelling"
means a building containing one dwelling unit, entirely surrounded
by a yard. Mobile homes, travel trailers, housing mounted on self-propelled
or drawn vehicles, tents, or other forms of temporary portable housing
are not included within this definition.
"Single housekeeping unit"
means the functional equivalent of a traditional family,
whose members are an interactive group of persons jointly occupying
a single dwelling unit, including the joint use of and responsibility
for common areas, and sharing household activities and responsibilities
such as meals, chores, household maintenance, and expenses, and where,
if the unit is rented, all adult residents have chosen to jointly
occupy the entire premises of the dwelling unit, under a single written
lease with joint use and responsibility for the premises, and the
makeup of the household occupying the unit is determined by the residents
of the unit rather than the landlord or property manager.
"Single room occupancy (SRO)"
means a type of residential building containing five or more
individual dwelling units, together with common kitchen, dining, and
social areas, and where each individual unit is intended for occupancy
by no more than two persons due to the size of each unit, which typically
ranges from 150 to 400 square feet and contains no more than two rooms,
and which complies fully with the use regulations and development
standards set forth in Section 9.12.050 (Single Room Occupancy Use
Regulations and Development Standards).
"Skating rinks"
means a building that contains a surface for ice skating
or roller skating.
"Skilled nursing facility"
means, consistent with
Health and Safety Code 1250(c), a
health facility licensed pursuant to
Health and Safety Code 1253 that
provides skilled nursing care and supportive care to patients whose
primary need is for availability of skilled nursing care on an extended
basis. "Skilled nursing facilities" are sometimes commonly referred
to as "convalescent homes" or "nursing homes."
"Small animal hospital/veterinary"
means a facility where animals or pets are given medical
or surgical treatment by a licensed veterinarian. Use as a kennel
shall be limited to short term boarding and shall only be incidental
to the animal hospital or veterinary use.
"Small lot subdivisions"
means single-family residential developments in the R-2 and
R-3 zones associated with a subdivision of land into smaller single-family
residential lots that are reduced in size, and are concentrated within
the original lot, tract, or parcel.
"Smoking lounge"
means a business establishment that is dedicated, in whole
or part, to the smoking of tobacco or other legal substances, including,
but not limited to, establishments known variously as cigar lounges,
hookah cafés, hookah parlors, tobacco clubs, or tobacco bars.
"Sporting goods"
means a business for the retail sale of sporting and athletic
equipment such as, but not limited to, balls, baskets, cues, gloves,
bats, racquets and rods.
"Start of construction"
means and includes substantial improvement, and means the
date the building permit was issued, provided the actual start of
construction, repair, reconstruction, placement or other improvement
was within 180 days of the permit date. The actual start means either
the first placement of permanent construction of a structure on a
site, such as the pouring of slab or footings, the installation of
piles, the construction of columns, or any work beyond the stage of
excavation; or the placement of a manufactured home on a foundation.
Permanent construction does not include land preparation, such as
clearing, grading and filling; nor does it include the installation
of streets and/or walkways; nor does it include excavation for a basement,
footings, piers or foundations or the erection of temporary forms;
nor does it include the installation on the property of accessory
buildings, such as garages or sheds not occupied as dwelling units
or not part of the main structure.
"Stationery and office supplies—No furniture"
means a retail business that specializes in stationery and
office supplies, and other related products, and may include copy
and printing services. This use does not allow for the sale of furniture.
"Stepback"
means an architectural design approach whereby an upper floor
or floors of a building are designed and constructed to be offset
from the facades of the floor or floors below and away from the setback
line, typically to reduce the bulk of a building or to provide outdoor
floor space on the upper floors.
"Storage"
means the keeping, leaving, displaying, or maintaining of
goods, including, but not limited to, automobiles, equipment, furniture,
or parts and pieces thereof, at the same location.
"Storefront"
means the front side of a store, commercial space, or room
that faces a street, sidewalk, or pathway. Storefront may also refer
to the window and door system that separates the exterior from the
interior of a building.
"Story"
means that portion of a building included between the surface
of any floor and the surface of the next floor above it. If there
is no floor above it, then the space between the floor and the ceiling
above it shall be considered a story.
"Street"
means a public or an approved private thoroughfare that affords
the principal means of access for abutting property.
"Structural alterations"
means any change in the supporting members of a building,
such as foundations, bearing walls, columns, beams, floor or roof
joists, girders or rafters, or changes in the exterior dimensions
of the building.
"Structure"
means a walled and roofed building, including a gas or liquid
storage tank, that is principally above ground, as well as a manufactured
home.
"Substantial damage"
means, for floodplain management purposes, damage of any
origin sustained by a structure whereby the cost of restoring the
structure to its before damaged condition would equal or exceed 50%
of the market value of the structure before the damage occurred.
"Substantial improvement"
means any repair, reconstruction or improvement of a structure,
the cost of which equals or exceeds 50% of the market value of the
structure either:
1.
Before the improvement or repair is started; or
2.
If the structure has been damaged, and is being restored, before
the damage occurred. For the purposes of this definition "substantial
improvement" is considered to occur when the first alteration of any
wall, ceiling, floor or other structural part of the building commences,
whether or not that alteration affects the external dimensions of
the structure. The term does not, however, include either:
a.
Any project for improvement of a structure to comply with existing
state or local health, sanitary or safety code specifications that
are solely necessary to assure safe living conditions; or
b.
Any alteration of a structure listed on the National Register
of Historic Places or a State Inventory of Historic Places.
"Supermarket"
means a large retail market that sells food and other household
goods and that is usually operated on a self-service basis.
"Supportive housing"
has the same meaning as defined in Section 65582 of the Government
Code and is housing with no limit on length of stay, that is occupied
by the "target population," and that is linked to onsite or offsite
services that assist 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.
The "target population" for purposes of supportive housing is defined
in Section 65582 of the
Government Code and refers to persons with
low incomes having one or more disabilities, including mental illness,
HIV or AIDS, substance abuse, or other chronic health conditions,
or individuals eligible for services provided under the Lanterman
Developmental Disabilities Services Act (Division 4.5 (commencing
with Section 4500) of the
Welfare and Institutions Code) and may include,
among other populations, adults, emancipated youth, families, families
with children, elderly persons, young adults aging out of the foster
care system, individuals exiting from institutional settings, veterans,
and homeless people.
"Supportive housing for the homeless"
has the same meaning as defined in Section 50675.14 of the
Health and Safety Code and is a form of affordable permanent supportive
housing specifically serving homeless individuals or youths. The "target
population" for purposes of supportive housing for the homeless is
defined in Section 50675.14 of the
Health and Safety Code and consists
of persons, including persons with disabilities, and families who
are "homeless," as that term is defined by Section 11302 of Title
42 of the United States Code, who currently reside in a supportive
housing project and were "homeless" when approved for tenancy in the
supportive housing project in which they currently reside, or who
are "homeless youth," as that term is defined by paragraph (2) of
subdivision (e) of Section 12597 of the
Government Code.