"S"
Definitions and Illustrations.
"Salvage"
means the recovery of waste materials.
"Sanitary sewers"
mean pipes that carry only domestic or commercial sewage
to a treatment plant and into which storm, surface, and ground waters
are not intentionally admitted.
"Satellite dish antenna"
means a parabolic or disc shaped antenna of either solid
or mesh construction intended for the purpose of receiving communications
from orbiting satellite transceivers. However, this term shall not
include any satellite antennas smaller than thirty-six inches in diameter.
"Satellite earth station antenna"
means a parabolic or dish-shaped antenna or other apparatus
or device that is designed for the purpose of receiving radio or television
broadcast signals.
"Scenic highway"
means a highway, road, drive or street that, in addition
to its transportation function, provides opportunities for the enjoyment
of natural and man-made scenic resources and access or direct views
to areas or scenes of exceptional beauty or cultural interest. The
aesthetic values of scenic routes often are protected and enhanced
by regulations governing the development of property or the placement
of outdoor advertising.
"Schools, trade or vocational"
means a commercial establishment limited to offering specialized
instruction in technical, commercial or trade skills, including, but
not limited to, cosmetology school, mechanical school, driving school,
real estate or other specialized instruction. This definition does
not include a community college or university.
"Screening"
means a method of visually shielding or obscuring one abutting
or nearby structure or use from another by fencing, walls, berms or
densely planted vegetation.
"Secondhand store"
means any premises used for the sale or handling of used
goods including the establishments for the sale or trade of used clothing,
furniture and appliances.
"Secondary tenant"
means a tenant, other than the primary tenant, that shares
an office building of three stories or more with at least one other
tenant.
"Senior citizen housing complexes"
means licensed housing for persons sixty-two years of age
or older, or licensed housing for persons fifty-five years of age
or older, including such housing facilities as retirement villas,
apartments, condominiums, etc.; but not including state-licensed rest
homes, group homes, convalescent hospitals, etc., which are regulated
by other provisions of this development code.
"Septic system"
means a sewage treatment system that includes a settling
tank through which liquid sewage flows and in which solid sewage settles
and is decomposed by bacteria in the absence of oxygen.
"Setback line"
means a line within a lot, parallel to and measured from
corresponding lot line, forming the boundary of a required yard and
governing the placement of structures and uses on the lot.
"Shopping center"
means a group of three or more commercial establishments
planned, constructed and managed as a total entity with customer and
employee parking provided on-site, provision for goods delivery separated
from customer access, aesthetic considerations and protection from
the elements.
"Short-term rental"
shall mean the rental of a dwelling unit (in whole or in
part), accessory structure, and/or a recreational vehicle located
upon a parcel or a portion thereof, by owner(s) or lessee(s) to another
person or group of people for occupancy, dwelling, lodging or sleeping
purposes for a period of less than thirty consecutive calendar days.
A short-term rental includes any contract or agreement that
initially defined the rental term to be greater than thirty consecutive
days and which was subsequently amended, either verbally or in writing
to permit the occupant(s) of the owner(s) or lessee(s) short-term
rental to surrender the subject dwelling unit before the expiration
of the initial rental term that results in an actual rental term of
less than thirty consecutive days.
The rental of units within city-approved hotels, motels,
bed and breakfasts, community care facilities, and social care facilities
shall not be considered to be a short-term rental.
"Sidewalk"
means a paved surface or leveled area used as a pedestrian
walkway which parallels and is usually separated from the street.
"Sign"
means any object, device, display or structure, or part thereof,
situated outdoors or indoors, made of any material, which is used
to identify, display, direct or attract attention to an object, person,
institution, organization, business, product, service, idea, event
or location by any means, including words, letters, figures, designs,
symbols, fixtures, colors, illumination or projected images.
"Sign area,"
for all signs, except multitenant signs, is computed by including
the entire area within a single, continuous, rectilinear perimeter
of not more than eight straight lines, enclosing the extreme edge
of the writing, representation, emblem or other display. It does not
generally include any background, supporting framework or bracing
that is incidental to the display itself. In case of two sided signs,
the area shall be computed as including the maximum single-display
surface.
For multitenant signs, the total sign area shall include
the area which surrounds the lettering and the logos for all tenants
(i.e., sign area for each tenant is not computed individually).
Sign Area Single Tenant and Multitenant Monument Sign
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"Sign copy"
means any words, letters, numbers, figures, characters, designs,
or other symbolic representations incorporated into a sign.
"Sign placement area"
means the area for the building elevation surface which the
sign is directly placed on.
"Sign structure height"
means the greatest vertical distance measured from the finished
grade to the uppermost part of the sign.
"Single housekeeping unit"
means the functional equivalent of a traditional family,
whose members are a nontransient interactive group, where such persons
jointly occupy a single dwelling unit, jointly use common areas, and
share household activities and responsibilities (e.g., meals, chores,
and expenses).
"Site plan"
means a plan drawn to scale showing uses and structures proposed
for a property as required by the applicable regulations, including
lot lines, streets, building sites, reserved open space and other
specific development proposals.
"Slope"
means the degree of deviation of a surface from the horizontal,
usually expressed in percent or degrees. The slope percentage is the
ratio of the rise to the run time one hundred.
"Solar access"
means the provision of direct sunlight to an area specified
for solar energy collection or the enjoyment of the property owner.
"Solar energy systems"
mean a complete design or assembly consisting of a solar
energy collector, energy storage facility and components for the distribution
of transformed energy.
"Solid waste"
means all decomposable and nondecomposable solid, semisolid
and liquid wastes, including garbage, trash, refuse, paper, rubbish,
ashes, industrial wastes, demolition and construction wastes, discarded
home and industrial appliances, manure, vegetable or animal solid
and semisolid wastes, and other discussed solid and semisolid wastes,
excluding sewage wastes.
"Specialty market"
means a retail market that specializes in a specific type
or class of food, drink, and related products. In no case shall a
specialty market be less than ten thousand square feet.
"Specific plan"
means under Governmental Code Section 65450 et seq., a legal
tool for detailed design and implementation of a defined portion of
the area covered by the general plan. A specific plan may include
all detailed regulations, conditions, programs and/or proposed legislation
that may be necessary or convenient for the systematic implementation
of any general plan element(s).
Stable, Private.
"Private stable" means a building or portion of a building
used to shelter and feed horses or ponies which are used exclusively
by the occupants of the property on which the stable is situated.
Standards, Development.
"Development standards" mean requirements in this development
code or other city ordinances that govern building and development
including, but not limited to, lot area, height limits, frontage,
landscaping and floor area ratio.
"Storm drains"
mean any facilities designed to control, retain or remove
water runoff.
Story, Full.
"Full story" means that portion of the building included
between the surface of any floor and the surface of the floor next
above it, or if there be no floor above it, than the space between
the floor and the ceiling above it. Basements and underground parking
lots shall be included, if the vertical distance from the average
adjoining grade to the ceiling is over five feet.
Story, Half.
"Half story" means a space under a sloping roof where the
line of intersection of the roof and wall face is not more than three
feet above the floor level, and in which the possible floor area with
head room of five feet or less occupies at least forty percent of
the total floor area of the story directly beneath.
"Street"
means a publicly accessible vehicular right-of-way, other
than an alley, which affords a primary means of access to abutting
property.
"Street frontage"
means the boundary of a parcel or a building which fronts
a public street.
"Streetscape"
means that portion of a lot's net area and improvements that
is exposed to view from the street.
"Structure"
means a combination of materials which is assembled for use,
occupancy or ornamentation whether installed on, above or below the
surface of land or water. Includes, but is not limited to any building,
road, pipe, flume, conduit, siphon, aqueduct, telephone line, or electrical
power transmission and distribution area.
"Subdivision"
means the division of a tract of land into defined lots,
either improved or unimproved, which can be separately conveyed by
sale or lease, and which can be altered or developed. "Subdivision"
includes condominium projects as defined by the California Government
Code.
"Subdivision sign"
means a sign used to identify residential subdivisions that
contain project name, unit square feet, price, developer's name, address
and telephone number, and other pertinent information about the project.
"Supportive housing"
means a facility that provides housing with no limit on length
of stay, that is occupied by the target population as defined by Section
50675.14 of the California
Health and Safety Code, and that is linked
to on-site or off-site services that assist tenants in retaining housing,
improving their health status, maximizing their ability to live and,
when possible, work in the community.