This chapter defines the terms and phrases of this title that
are technical or specialized or that may not reflect common usage.
This chapter defines specific land uses only when definitions more
detailed than those provided in Chapter 9-3 are needed to determine
the applicability of standards. Where any of these definitions conflict
with other titles of this code, this chapter prevails for the purposes
of this title.
(Ord. 68 § 9-9.101, 1983; Ord. 570 § 1, 2013; Ord. 571 § 1, 2013; Ord. 572 § 1, 2013)
Any elevation higher than the natural ground contour.
The safe, adequate, usable means of vehicular or pedestrian
entrance or exit to a site.
ADUs are defined by Government Code Section 65852.2 to mean
an attached or detached residential dwelling unit that provides complete
independent living facilities for one or more persons. ADUs shall
include permanent provisions for living, sleeping, eating, cooking,
and shall have a bathroom, and shall be located on the same parcel
as the single-family or multifamily dwelling per the standards set
forth in this section. An accessory dwelling unit also includes an
efficiency unit as defined in Section 17958.1 of the Health and Safety
Code and a manufactured home as set forth in Section 18007 of the
Health and Safety Code.
A non-habitable structure located on a residential lot occupied by a primary unit, exclusive of accessory dwelling units. Accessory structures may include, but are not limited to, workshops, garages, pool houses, and art studios. A utility bathroom with shower and heating/air conditioning may be installed subject to design limitations and with a deed restriction that limits the building's use to nonresiden tial purposes and prohibits overnight stays. Attached structures may be permitted consistent with Sections 9-5.060 and 9-6.106.
An uninhabited structure, designed and built to store farming
animals, implements, supplies, or products (not including commercial
greenhouses or buildings for agricultural processing activities),
which is not used by the public.
Food and fibre in their raw, unprocessed state (except for
such field processing that may occur in conjunction with harvesting)
and ornamental plant materials.
The science and art of farming, producing crops, floriculture,
horticulture and animal husbandry.
Any combination of smoke, charred paper, dust, soot, carbon,
noxious acids, fumes, gases, or particulate matter.
The composite of all noises from all sources near and far.
In this context, the ambient noise level is the normal or existing
level of environmental noise at a given location.
A room or flat occupied or designed to be occupied by one
family for living or sleeping purposes with cooking facilities.
A building or portion of a building designed or used for
occupancy by three or more families living independently of each other
and containing three or more dwelling units.
The matters to be heard on appeals filed pursuant to this
title shall be confined to the project as proposed to the original
or first decision maker, without change. However, the applicant, or
person appearing on appeal, shall not be prevented from submitting
information concerning the unchanged proposal which had not been submitted
with the original proposal.
Any site or business providing in part or as a whole, an
amusement service consisting of coinoperated games or devices, where
more than five coin-operated games or devices are present or where
more than 25% of the public area is used for the placement or operation
of such games or devices.
Any Native American or pre-Columbian artifact or human remains.
The sound level in decibels as measured on a sound level
meter using the A-weighting network. The level so read is designated
"db(A)" or "dbA."
That portion of a building between the floor and ceiling
that is partly below and partly above grade so located that the vertical
distance from grade to the floor below is less than the vertical distance
from grade to ceiling.
See "Sign, off-premises."
A boardinghouse is a structure where lodging and meals are
furnished for compensation to at least five persons.
The area of the site in which structures may be located,
not including required yard areas (see Figure 9-A).
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Any structure having a roof supported by columns and/or walls
and intended for shelter, housing, and/or enclosure of any person,
animal or chattel, but not including tents or mobile homes.
A detached subordinate building the use of which is incidental
to that of a main building on the same lot.
Title 8 of this code.
The exterior walls of a building extending vertically from
the building line.
The vertical distance from the average level of the highest
and lowest point of that portion of the lot or building site covered
by the building to the topmost point of the structure, excluding chimneys
or vents (see Figure 9-B).
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A building where the principal use of its lot and or building
site is conducted.
The area within a lot of record (or contiguous lots under
single ownership) actually proposed for development with buildings
or structures, including areas immediately adjacent to the buildings
or structures to an extent equivalent to any required setback areas.
A permanent roofed structure with not more than two enclosed
sides, which is used or intended to be used for automobile shelter
or storage.
The area occupied by the normal flow of an intermittent or
perennial stream during non-flood conditions.
Any liquid having a flash point at or above 100 degrees Fahrenheit
and below 200 degrees Fahrenheit, including, but not limited to, diesel
fuel, kerosene and Jet A.
A vehicle, with or without motive power, including any mobile
home or recreational vehicle, designed and equipped for human occupancy.
The Planning Commission of the City.
Two residences on adjoining lots, constructed so that they
abut each other at their common property line (see Figure 9-C).
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Any tower or other structure erected for the purpose of radio,
television or microwave transmission or line-of-sight relay devices.
A sewage effluent collection network, treatment and disposal
facilities provided within a prescribed service boundary, which results
in the primary, secondary, or tertiary treatment of such effluent.
A water storage and distribution network for the provision
of potable water to the public for human consumption within a prescribed
service boundary, operated and maintained by the Atascadero Mutual
Water Company.
Any site preparation, assembly, erection, substantial repair,
alteration or similar action, for or of rights-of-way, structures,
utilities or similar property.
Any or all of the various entitlements established by Title
8 of this code that authorize commencement of construction activities,
including, but not limited to, building permits, grading permits,
electrical and plumbing permits, demolition permits and moving permits.
A place or institution which provides for bed care or for
chronic convalescent care for two or more persons, exclusive of relatives,
who by reason of illness or physical infirmity are unable to care
for themselves.
The City Council of the City.
The County of San Luis Obispo.
Site or lot coverage means the extent of a lot of record
occupied by structures and paving.
Includes the following crop types and activities and further
defined as indicated:
Specialty Crops.
Strawberries, herb crops, flower seed and cut flower crops
(open field), kiwi vines, edible pod peas, bushberry crops, Christmas
trees and other outdoor ornamentals, intensive horticulture, sod farms,
clover seed, hops, and wholesale nurseries (see separate definition).
Row Crops.
All vegetable truck crops except edible pod peas. Includes
lima and snap beans.
Orchards.
All fruit and nut tree crops. Does not include kiwi, berry,
or other vine crops.
Field Crops.
Beans other than snap or lima beans, barley, oats, safflower,
wheat, grain and hay including alfalfa, silage and grain corn, sugar
beets, melons, cotton.
Rangeland.
Grazing of livestock on grasses without irrigation.
Pasture (Irrigated).
Grazing of livestock on irrigated grasses.
Vineyards.
Grapevines.
Preparation for Cultivation.
Land-contouring, clearing, irrigation construction and other
preparation of soil for crops.
Field Processing.
Mechanical processing of crops in the field at harvest, when
such activities do not involve a permanent structure. Such activities
include, but are not limited to, hay baling and field crushing of
grapes.
Establishment providing for live or recorded music and an
area for dancing, including disco.
An establishment where instruction in the dance arts (ballet,
modern dance or any other dance form) is provided students for a fee,
except where instruction in predominantly social dance is provided
on the premises of a dance club as defined by this title.
The measure of the ratio of population to the area of land
occupied by that population, which may be expressed as dwelling units
per acre, families per acre, persons per acre, or conversely as acres
per dwelling unit or square feet per dwelling unit. "Gross density"
is the number of lots derived from dividing the area of a site by
the area required for each lot or dwelling unit. "Net density" is
the number of lots resulting from subtracting the area required for
streets from the total area of the undivided site, and then dividing
the remaining area by the area required for each lot.
A density increase over the otherwise maximum allowable residential density under the applicable municipal code ordinance and Land Use, Open Space, and Conservation Element of the General Plan as of the date of application by the developer to the City (Government Code Section 65915(f)). Density bonuses shall either be in the form of a "State Density Bonus" as defined by Article 30 in Chapter 3, Zoning Districts, or as specified in the Land Use, Open Space, and Conservation Element of the General Plan for exceptionally high design quality.
Any activity or alteration of the landscape, its terrain
contour or vegetation, including the erection or alteration of buildings
or structures. New development is any construction, or alteration
of an existing structure or land use, or establishment of a land use
after the effective date of this title.
An entitlement that may be issued under the provisions of
this title, but requires the exercise of judgment and the resolution
of factual issues to determine if the application and requested entitlement
conform with the provisions of this title. Generally, a discretionary
permit consists of any entitlement that requires a decision to approve,
approve subject to conditions or disapprove, based on the judgment
of the Planning Commission after a hearing (see "Ministerial permit").
Constructed improvements for the storage or conveyance of
storm runoff in drainage channels, including channels, culverts, ponds,
storm drains, drop-inlets, outfalls, basins, pumps, gutter inlets,
manholes, and conduits.
Mechanical alteration of the grade of bottom sediments in
any body of water.
Any building or structure in which food or drink are prepared
for service to customers outside such buildings or structure or to
customers occupying vehicles outside such structure, even though food
and drink are served to customers inside such building or structure.
Shall include self-service restaurants for food take out.
A road providing access to a site or land use from a street.
A driveway serves no more than five separately owned parcels (see
also "Road, private").
Transient guest occupancy facilities incidental to a working
ranch, which may include other accessory recreational facilities and
common eating facilities open to overnight guests only.
An independent, attached or detached residential building
designed to house and provide living space, including kitchen and
bathroom facilities, for an individual family.
Authority acquired by an applicant after receiving approval
of an application. For the purposes of this title, land use entitlements
are the plot plan, precise plan and conditional use permit (see "Zoning
approval").
The search for minerals by geological, geophysical, geochemical
or other techniques, including, but not limited to, sampling, assaying,
drilling, or any surface or underground works used to determine the
type, extent, or quantity of minerals present (includes prospecting).
The removal from the earth of oil, gas or geothermal resources
by drilling, pumping or other means, whether for exploration or production
purposes.
A "family" is a "single housekeeping unit" defined as the
functional equivalent of a traditional family, whose members are an
interactive group of persons jointly occupying a single dwelling unit,
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.
Relatives of an applicant or spouse of applicant, limited
to grandparents, parents, children, and siblings.
Liquids with flash points below 100 degrees Fahrenheit, including,
but not limited to, gasoline, acetone, benzene, ethyl ether and ethyl
alcohol.
The minimum temperature of a liquid at which sufficient vapor
is given off to form an ignitable mixture with the air near the surface
of the liquid.
A flood inundation event, the extent of which has a statistical
probability of occurring once every 100 years.
That portion of the floodplain outside the floodway.
Land that has been or may be hereafter covered by flood water,
including, but not limited to, the 100 year flood.
A graph or longitudinal profile showing the relationship
of the water-surface elevation of a flood event to location along
a stream or river.
Any combination of structural provisions or adjustments in
areas subject to flooding primarily to reduce or eliminate flood damage
to properties, water and sanitary facilities, structures, and the
contents of buildings in a flood hazard area.
The channel of a river or other watercourse and the adjacent
land areas that must be reserved to discharge the 100 year flood without
cumulatively increasing the water surface elevation more than one
foot.
Includes the total floor area of each floor of all buildings
on a site, including internal circulation, storage and equipment space,
as measured from the outside faces of the exterior walls, including
halls, lobbies, stairways, elevator shafts, enclosed porches and balconies.
A property line of a lot that abuts a street, as follows:
Primary Street Frontage.
The primary side of the property that abuts a street that
typically provides property access, addressing, a front yard space,
and is parallel to the secondary frontage and perpendicular to the
corner frontage.
Secondary Street Frontage.
A second side of the property that abuts a street and is
parallel to the primary street frontage designed as a double frontage
lot.
Corner Street Frontage.
A second side of the property that abuts a street and is
perpendicular, or at a discernable angle, to the primary frontage.
A building for storing self-propelled vehicles that is not
open to the public, which may include an accessory workshop.
Any premises (except a private garage) used for the storage
and/or care of self-propelled vehicles, or where such vehicles are
equipped for sale or lease.
The City of Atascadero General Plan, including all elements
thereof and all amendments thereto.
The Government Code of the State of California.
For the purposes of this title, grazing means the keeping
for commercial purposes of cattle, horses or sheep using feed produced
on the site.
Sleeping facilities detached from a principal residence and
occupied for the sole use of members of the family, temporary guests
or persons temporarily employed on the premises; which may include
a bathroom and other living space, but not kitchen facilities.
The County of San Luis Obispo Health Department under contract
to the City of Atascadero.
Any use customarily conducted entirely within a dwelling
or building accessory thereto and carried on by the inhabitants thereof,
which use is clearly incidental and secondary to the structure for
dwelling purposes and which use does not change the character thereof
and does not adversely affect the uses permitted in the zone of which
it is a part.
An institution providing physical or mental health services
inpatient or overnight accommodations and medical or surgical care
of the sick or injured.
A building containing six or more rooms intended or designed
to be used, or which are used, rented or hired out to be occupied
for sleeping purposes by guests.
Sound of short duration, usually less than one second, with
an abrupt onset and rapid decay. Examples of sources of impulsive
sound include explosions, hammering, and discharge of fire-arms.
Any vehicle which is not currently registered or which is
not capable of self-propulsion.
A lot having existing wells, water storage, and/or drip irrigation
system adequate to support any crop suited to the soil type and climate
of a site.
JADUs are defined by Government Code Section 65852.2 to mean
a residential accessory dwelling unit internal to an existing or new
primary dwelling unit that provides complete independent living facilities
for one or more persons. JADUs shall include permanent provisions
for living and shall be located on the same parcel and within the
same structure as the single-family dwelling. A junior accessory dwelling
unit also includes an efficiency unit as defined in Section 17958.1
of the Health and Safety Code.
An area improved or unimproved in excess of 200 square feet:
Upon or in which is stored or kept junk salvage materials, scrap
metals, inoperative vehicles and equipment or any combination thereof;
or
Upon or in which vehicles, equipment or other property is dismantled
or wrecked; or
Upon or in which salvage materials, inoperative vehicles or
equipment, or parts therefrom, or scrap metals, or any combination
thereof, is kept for resale.
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Materials or equipment kept on any premises for use in the construction
of any building on such premises, and any materials or equipment customarily
used on a farm or ranch, and so situated, shall not be deemed "junk"
or "salvage material" within the meaning of this definition.
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A device that produces illumination, including incandescent
light bulbs, fluorescent and neon tubes, halogen and other vapor lights
and reflecting surfaces or refractors incorporated into a lighting
fixture. Any translucent enclosure of a light source is considered
to be part of the light source.
A space used exclusively for loading or unloading of other
than passengers from vehicles into the floor area, use area, or storage
area of a building.
A corner lot is located immediately adjacent to the intersection
of two vehicular rights-of-way, including railroads.
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The horizontal distance between the front and rear lot lines,
measured in the mean direction of the side lot lines.
A lot extending between two streets, so that two non-contiguous
sides of a property abut a street with one frontage being the primary
street frontage and the other being the secondary street frontage
(see Figure 9-E).
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A lot which lies substantially behind another lot and is
served by an accessway or access easement (refer to Figure 9-F).
 FIGURE 9-F: FLAG LOT
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Distance between interior property lines measured along the
front setback line.
Residential structures that are constructed entirely in the
factory, and which since June 15, 1976, have been regulated by the
Federal Manufactured Home Construction and Safety Standards Act of
1974 under the administration of the U.S. Department of Housing and
Urban Development (HUD).
Includes the surface, subsurface. and groundwater of an area
where surface mining operations will be, are being, or have been conducted,
including all accessory access roads, land excavations, workings,
mining waste, and areas where structures, facilities, and surface
mining equipment, machines, tools or other material or property are
located.
Any naturally occurring chemical element, compound or groups
of elements and compounds, formed from inorganic processes or organic
substances, including, but not limited to, coal, granite, limestone,
metals, peat, "redrock" sand and gravel, tar sand and bituminous sandstone,
but excluding geothermal resources, natural gas, and petroleum.
Includes residual soil, minerals, liquid, vegetation, tailings,
abandoned equipment, tools, other materials or physical conditions
directly resulting from or displaced by mining.
Any permit that may be issued under the provisions of this
title without review by the Planning Commission or City Council. A
ministerial decision involves only the evaluation of a proposal with
respect to fixed standards or objective measurements, without the
use of subjective criteria.
A trailer, transportable in one or more sections, that is certified under the National Manufactured Housing Construction and Safety Standards Act of 1974, which is over eight feet in width and 40 feet in length, is tied down: (a) to a permanent foundation on a lot either owned or leased by the homeowner; or (b) is set on piers, with wheels removed and skirted, in a mobile home park and not including recreational vehicle, commercial coach or factory-built housing. A mobile home on a permanent foundation is included under the definition of "Single-family dwellings" in Section 9-3.500.
All uses of land including agricultural, communication, cultural,
educational, recreation, manufacturing, processing, resource extraction,
retail trade, services, transient lodging, transportation and wholesale
trade uses.
See "Preschool."
Any dam, wall, wharf, embankment, levee, dike, pile, abutment,
projection, excavation, channel rectification, bridge, conduit, culvert,
building, wire fence, rock, gravel, refuse, fill, structure or matter
in, along, across, or projecting into any channel, watercourse, or
flood hazard areas that may impede, retard or change direction of
flow, either in itself, or by catching or collecting debris carried
by such water, or that is placed where it might be carried downstream
and damage life or property.
The person occupying, or otherwise in real or apparent charge
and control of, a premises.
A line adopted by the City Council to indicate the area proposed
to be acquired for an enlarged right-of-way.
All areas of a lot not included within the definition of
floor area: parking, recreation spaces, passive open areas landscaped
areas and other open, unpaved areas of the site.
Any part of a site where commercial, industrial, recreation
or storage activities related to the principal use of a site are conducted
outdoors, except for parking.
The person or persons, firm, corporation or partnership that
is the owner of record of a premises identified on the last equalized
assessment roll.
Ownership of one or more parcels of land (or possession under
a contract to purchase or under a lease the term of which is not less
than 10 years) by a person or persons, firm, corporation or partnership,
individually, jointly, in common or in any other manner whereby such
property is under single or unified control.
A parcel of real property shown on a subdivision or plat map,
required by the Subdivision Map Act or local ordinance adopted pursuant
thereto, to be recorded before sale of parcels shown on the map or
plot, at the time the map was recorded;
A parcel of real property that has been issued a certificate
of compliance pursuant to Government Code Section 66499.35; or
A parcel of real property not described in subsection (1) or
(2) of this definition, provided the parcel resulted from a separate
conveyance or from a decree of a court of competent jurisdiction which
was recorded before the requirement of the filing of the subdivision
map by the Subdivision Map Act or local ordinance adopted pursuant
thereto.
Any individual, firm, co-partnership, corporation, company,
association, joint stock association, City, County, State or district;
and includes any trustee, receiver, assignee, or other similar representatives
thereof.
The City of Atascadero Planning Department, including the
Planning Director and all subordinate employees.
The Planning Director of the City of Atascadero. As used
in this title, Planning Director may include designated staff of the
Planning Department when acting in an official capacity.
Outdoor steps, stairs, and/or a raised platform less than
100 square feet in area, located immediately adjacent to the entry
of a building for the purpose of providing pedestrian access from
the outdoor ground elevation to a building interior. If the platform
portion of a porch, not including steps, is more than 100 feet, it
is considered a deck.
Any type of group child day care programs including nurseries
for children of working mothers, nursery schools for children under
the minimum age for education in public schools, parent cooperative
nursery schools and programs covering afterschool care for school
children provided such establishments are institutional in character
and are licensed by the State or County and conducted in accordance
with State requirements.
The street side of a property that typically provides property
access, addressing, a front yard space, and is parallel to the secondary
street and generally perpendicular to a corner street.
Any land use, activity, construction or development which
is required to be authorized by a zoning approval pursuant to this
title before beginning construction or establishment of the use.
The recorded boundary of a lot of record.
The recorded boundary between the yard of a lot of record
and any abutting public or private street right-of-way.
The recorded boundary between two or more lots of record.
The recorded boundary between a lot of record and a street
right-of-way.
The Public Resources Code of the State of California.
A company regulated by the California Public Utilities Commission.
A sign that accommodates changeable copy and which displays
information on activities and events on the premises, but not including
a marquee.
The process of land treatment that minimizes and mitigates
otherwise unavoidable or existing water degradation, air pollution,
damage to aquatic or wildlife habitat flooding, erosion, and other
adverse effects from surface or underground mining operations, including
adverse surface effects incidental to underground mines, so that mined
lands are reclaimed and restored to a usable condition readily adaptable
for alternate land uses and that will constitute no danger to public
health or safety. The process may extend to affected lands surrounding
mined lands, and may require backfilling, grading, resoiling, revegetation,
soil compaction, stabilization, or other measures.
A mine operator's completed and approved plan for reclaiming
the lands affected by mining operations conducted after January 1,
1976, as called for in Section 2772 of the Public Resources Code.
Recreational vehicles are defined as any vehicle, coach,
camper, travel trailer, boat, or similar movable recreational facility
regulated by the vehicle code that does not have a permanent foundation.
Recreational vehicles are not permitted to be used as any type of
residential unit or residential accessory use.
Any lot or portion of a lot used for the purpose of outdoor
storage, sorting, handling, processing, dismantling, wrecking, keeping
or sale of inoperative, discarded, wrecked, or abandoned appliances,
vehicles, boats, building materials, machinery, equipment, or parts
thereof, including, but not limited to, scrap materials, wood, lumber,
plastic, fiber, or other tangible materials that cannot, without further
reconditioning, be used for their original purposes. Includes wrecking
yards for vehicles.
Residential additions (additions) are defined as an increase
of floor area to a residential unit. Habitable residential additions
shall have a continuous, logical internal connection of conditioned
space that provides for access to all portions of the unit and addition.
Doors or other partitions may not be used to create two separate living
spaces.
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The addition shall not have a secondary kitchen; however, a
wet bar is permissible as defined herein. Additions must have a minimum
10 feet of shared common wall and a logical internal connection of
conditioned space that provides access to all portions of the unit
and addition. A breezeway or similar roof connection of unenclosed
or unconditioned space, regardless of length, shall not be considered
a residential addition.
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Any facility, place, or building that is maintained and operated
to provide nonmedical residential care or day care, services for children
or adults (except for preschools which are separately defined) who
are physically handicapped or mentally retarded.
A residential multifamily property zoned for multiple primary
dwelling units that has been developed to the maximum allowed density
and which shares access, parking, and/or amenities regardless of the
number of underlying parcels. This may include, but is not limited
to, attached or detached residential units, common interest subdivisions,
and related residential development on single or multiple lots developed
as a single development project with a developable density of at least
10 units per acre.
Any facility constructed or installed for the purpose of
extracting minerals from the earth that occur in a fluid or gaseous
state, or minerals converted to a gaseous or semifluid state through
extraction processes, which involve the penetration of subterranean
regions by means of drilling apparatus. For the purposes of this definition
only, mineral resources include oil, gas, geothermal steam, or other
subterranean deposits, except water. Extraction wells as defined herein
may be for purposes of exploration or production.
See "Residential care facility."
Any combination of mechanical or other means by which a graded
surface is returned to a condition where it supports significant natural
vegetation.
A road, alley, pedestrian or other access right-of-way with
width described in recorded documents.
A road providing vehicular access to five or more lots of
record that is not in the City-maintained road system.
A road providing vehicular access that is in the City-maintained
road system.
Used metal including appliances and machine parts, which
can be recycled or reused only with repair, refurbishing, or attachment
to other such materials.
The addition of soil materials through erosion to a stream
or water body that increases the turbidity of the water.
An open area on a lot between a building and a property line unoccupied and unobstructed from the ground upward, except as otherwise provided in Section 9-4.103 (refer to Figure 9-F).
 FIGURE 9-F: SETBACKS AND BUILDABLE AREA
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Any open area of a site not within a required street, rear,
or side setback area (see Figure 9-F).
The line formed by the measurement of required front, side,
or rear yard areas required by this title. All setback lines together
define the buildable area.
A primarily open area without principal structures, extending
across the full width of the lot and measured between the rear line
of the lot and the nearest line of the building (see Figure 9-F).
A primarily open area without principal structures, between
the side line of the lot and the nearest line of the building and
extending between the required street and rear setbacks (see Figure
9-F).
An open area without structures, extending across the frontage
of a lot abutting a private or public right-of-way.
Any visual device or representation designed or used for
communicating a message, or identifying or attracting attention to
a premises, product, service, person, organization, business or event,
not including such devices visible only from within a building.
The area of the smallest rectangle within which a single
sign face can be enclosed.
The information content of a sign, including text, illustrations,
logos, and trademarks.
A sign identifying the location of occupants of a building
or group of buildings which are divided into rooms or suites used
as separate offices, studios or shops.
Any sign, any part of which is illuminated from an exterior
artificial light source mounted on the sign, another structure, or
the ground.
The visible portions of a sign including all characters and
symbols, but excluding structural elements not an integral part of
the display.
A sign not attached to any buildings and having its own support
structure.
An on-site sign permitted for a highway-oriented use.
The vertical distance from average adjacent ground level
to the top of the sign including the support structure and any design
elements.
Any sign identifying an occupant, apartment, residence, school,
church, or certain business uses and not advertising any product or
service.
A sign with any portion of the sign face or outline illuminated
by an interior light source.
A self-supported sign with its base on the ground, not exceeding
six feet in height.
A sign illuminated only incidentally by ambient light conditions.
A sign directing attention to a business, service, product,
or entertainment not sold or offered on the premises on which the
sign is located.
A sign drawing attention to or communicating a position on
any issue, candidate, or measure in any national, State, local or
school campus election.
A sign on the premises of a gasoline service station, identifying
the cost and type or grade of motor fuel only.
Any sign located on, or attached to the roof of a building.
A sign attached to and located below any permanent eave,
roof, or canopy.
A sign used not more than 60 days, or other period limited
by the duration of a temporary use.
A single-faced sign painted on or attached to a building
or wall, no part of which extends out from or above a wall more than
six inches.
A sign displayed within a building or attached to a window
but visible through a window or similar opening for the primary purpose
of exterior visibility.
A structure that provides separate, single room, residential
living units with no on-premises residential medical care. Units within
the structure may have individual bathroom facilities, shared bath
or toilet facilities for the residents, or any combination thereof.
SRO may include structures commonly called rooming houses or boarding
houses. SRO facilities shall not be age restricted. Age restricted
SRO facilities shall be considered a residential care facility for
the elderly (RCFE).
The total area of a legally created parcel (or contiguous
parcels of land in single or joint ownership when used in combination
for a building or permitted group of buildings), including any ultimate
street right-of-way, existing rights-of-way deeded to the parcel,
and all easements, except open space easements, across the site.
The gross site area minus any ultimate street rights-of-way
and all easements, except open easements, that limit the surface use
of the site for building construction.
Net site area minus any portions of the site that are precluded
from building construction by natural features or hazards, such as
areas subject to inundation.
The characteristic slope over an area of land, expressed
in percent as the ratio of vertical rise to horizontal distance. Average
slope is to be determined based on the most accurate available topographic
information for each proposed new lot. One of the following methods
for determining average slope is to be used:
Basic Method. Where a line drawn between highest and lowest
points on a parcel is adequate to represent direction and extent of
slope for the entire parcel, the difference in elevation between the
high and low points, divided by the distance between the points, will
determine the average slope.
Sectional Method. Where the parcel contains distinct sections
of differing slope, the average slope of each section may be determined
according to either the basic method in subsection (a) of this definition
or the contour measurement method in subsection (c) of this definition.
The average slope of each section is then used in proportion of the
section's area to the total area to determine the average slope of
the entire parcel.
Contour Measurement Method. Where precise measurement of the
average slope is required due to varied slope conditions or complex
topography, the following formula will be used:
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A
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L = Length of contour lines in scaled feet
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I = Vertical distance of contour interval in feet
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Any instrument including a microphone, amplifier, output
meter and frequency weighing networks for the measurement of sound
levels, which meets or exceeds the requirements pertinent for type
S2A meters in ANSI specifications for sound level meters, S1.4-1971,
or the most recent revision thereof.
The State Mining and Geology Board, in the Department of
Conservation, State of California.
The individual holding office as structured in Section 677
of the Public Resources Code.
An area proposed or used for the outdoor storage of supplies
or equipment, or goods for sale, lease, or incidental use.
Usable floors of a building, except that where this title
uses stories as a measurement of a building height. Basements or building
floors six feet or more below street level are not included.
Any change in the supporting members of a building, such
as bearing walls, columns, beams or girders.
Any artifact constructed or erected, the use of which requires
attachment to the ground, including any building, but not including
fences or walls six feet or less in height.
A structure, the use of which is incidental to that of a
principal structure on the same lot. May be either detached or attached
if part of the principal structure.
A parcel or parcels of land which are the intended or actual
location of a land use or land development project which is the subject
of an application for zoning approval, construction permit, variance
or adjustment, or an amendment to the land use element.
Any public utility electrical substation, pumping station,
pressure regulating station, or similar facility.
Housing with no limit on length of stay, that is occupied
by the clients of social services, such as persons with medical or
mental health conditions, and that is linked to on- or off-site 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 in and, when possible, work in the community, where no on-site
medical care is provided. This definition excludes housing for halfway
houses intended for occupancy by parolees or convicted persons, children's
homes, halfway houses, rehabilitation centers, and self-help group
homes.
All or any part of the process involved in the mining of
minerals or construction materials on mined lands by removing overburden
and mining directly from the mineral deposits, open-pit mining of
minerals naturally exposed, mining by the auger method, dredging and
quarrying, or surface work incidental to an underground mine. In addition,
surface mining operations include, but are not limited to:
A surface mine that has been closed down and which the operator
has maintained in the expectation of reopening it when conditions
justify.
In the case of a grading or surface mining operation, a terrace
is a relatively level step constructed in the face of a graded slope
surface for drainage and maintenance purposes.
A terrace is also an outdoor living or activity area constructed
with tile, asphalt, concrete or other paving laid upon continuous
base material or fill, placed directly on grade.
Buildings configured as rental housing developments, but
operated under program requirements that call for the termination
of assistance and recirculation of the assisted unit to another eligible
program recipient at some predetermined future point in time, which
shall be no less than six months (Health and Safety Code Section 50675.2(h)).
This definition excludes housing for halfway houses intended for occupancy
by parolees or convicted persons, children's homes, halfway houses,
rehabilitation centers, and self-help group homes.
The purpose for which a parcel of land, a premises or building
is designed, arranged or intended, or for which it is or may be occupied
or maintained.
A use accessory to any permitted use and customarily a part
thereof, which is clearly incidental and secondary to the permitted
use and does not change the character of the main use.
A use of land identified in Chapter 9-3 being appropriate
in a given zoning district subject to the standards of this title.
A use of land authorized to be constructed and/or established
through issuance of an approved plot plan, precise plan or conditional
use permit.
The area of a site used for buildings (main or accessory)
and storage area or other incidental use, but not including parking
or landscaping.
All portions of a site and buildings included in the use
area, except storage, parking and landscaping.
A use of land which is proposed to be established or constructed
after the adoption of this title.
The primary purpose for which a building, structure, or lot
is designed, arranged, or intended, or for which they may be used,
occupied, or maintained under this title.
A use of land accompanied by a building or structure (not
including fences), on the same lot of record.
Any habitable structure, or portion thereof, utilized as
a short-term rental for stays of 30 days or less.
The length of a building wall is the horizontal distance
from corner to corner measured from a plan parallel to the appropriate
side, rear or front lot lines.
The normal channel or limits of an intermittent or perennial
stream, or other body of water, during non-flood conditions.
A wet bar is defined as a small counter equipped with a sink
for running water consistent with the following:
A wet bar does not include a stove, built-in microwave, dishwasher,
or garbage disposal.
A gas line shall not be installed in proximity to a wet bar.
A wet bar sink shall have a single trap drain size limited to
one and one-half (1½) inches maximum.
A wet bar shall include a counter with a maximum four foot length
and not to exceed 12 square feet of total counter space.
An open space, other than a court, on a lot which space is
unoccupied and unobstructed from the ground upward.
A residential project where dwelling units on individual
lots of record are located so they all abut one side property line,
without a setback (refer to Figure 9-G).
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Same as entitlement.
(Ord. 68 § 9-9.102, 1983; Ord. 75 § 2(1), 1984; Ord. 82 § 9-9.102, 1984; Ord. 237 § 1(B), 1992; Ord.
554 § 2, 2011; Ord. 570 § 1, 2013; Ord. 571 §
1, 2013; Ord. 572 § 1, 2013; Ord. 614 § 4, 2017; Ord. 635 § 5, 2020; Ord. 646 § 11, 2021; Ord.
660 § 5, 2022)
