Terms.
Abandoned.
The relinquishment of a property, or the cessation of a use
or activity by the owner or tenant for a period of one year, excluding
temporary or short term interruptions for the purpose of remodeling,
maintaining, or otherwise improving or rearranging a facility. A use
shall be deemed abandoned when such use is suspended as evidenced
by the cessation of activities or conditions that constitute the principal
use of the property. Abandoned sign is separately defined.
Access.
The place, means, or way by which vehicles have safe, adequate
and usable ingress and egress to a property and/or use as required
by this Code.
1.
Access, direct.
Direct access is access, located at a point along a lot line
at which such lot line is contiguous to a street (or alley) and the
building site.
2.
Access, indirect.
Indirect access is access, located so as to provide access
to a building site across a lot line which is not contiguous to a
street or alley at the point of crossing.
3.
Access, pedestrian.
Pedestrian access is the place, means, or way by which pedestrians
have safe, adequate, and usable ingress and egress to a property and/or
use as required by this Code.
Accessory dwelling unit.
An attached or a detached residential dwelling unit which
provides complete independent living facilities for one or more persons,
including permanent provisions for living, sleeping, eating, cooking,
and sanitation on the same lot as the single-family dwelling is situated.
An accessory dwelling unit also includes an efficiency unit, as defined
in Section 17958.1 of
Health and Safety Code, or a manufactured home,
as defined in Section 18007 of the
Health and Safety Code.
Accessory dwelling unit, junior.
A residential dwelling unit that is no more than 500 feet
in size and is contained within a single-family residence. This definition
shall be interpreted as consistent with the definition for "junior
accessory dwelling unit" in
Government Code Section 65852.22.
Accessory equipment.
Any equipment associated with the installation of a wireless telecommunications facility, including, but not limited to, cabling, generators, fans, air conditioning units, electrical panels, equipment shelters, equipment cabinets, equipment buildings, pedestals, meters, vaults, splice boxes, surface location markers, fencing or shielding. This definition is specific to wireless telecommunications facilities (Section
17.404.220) and reflects Federal law.
Accessory office and business area.
A secondary office space that is attached or detached from
a primary use, which provides space for executive, management, professional,
or administrative services.
Accessory structure.
A structure or part of a structure that is subordinate and
incidental to the main building, structure, or use on the same lot.
Also, an accessory building.
Accessory use.
A use incidental, related, appropriate, and clearly subordinate to the main use of the lot or building that does not alter the primary use of the subject lot. (For example, wine tasting rooms and associated marketing activities are an accessory use to a winery; see Winery definition in Section
17.708.020.)
Addition.
An extension or increase in floor area and/or height of a
building or structure.
Adjacent.
Neighboring or next to each other, but may not be touching
(e.g., may be across the street).
Adjoining.
Having a common boundary with, abutting, or touching.
Adult business terms.
The following terms are defined for the purposes of Section
17.404.030 (Adult Businesses).
1.
Adult arcade.
An establishment where, for any form of consideration, one
or more still or motion picture projectors, slide projectors, or similar
machines, for viewing by five or fewer persons each, are used to show
films, computer generated images, motion pictures, video cassettes,
slides or other photographic reproductions which are characterized
by an emphasis upon the depiction or description of specified sexual
activities or specified anatomical areas.
2.
Adult bookstore or adult video store.
An establishment which has as a regular and substantial portion
of its stock-in-trade, or derives a substantial portion of its business,
as further defined in this Section, from the sale, rental or viewing
for any form of consideration of any one or more of the following
inventory of "adult materials": Books, magazines, periodicals, or
other printed matter, or photographs, films, sculptures, motion pictures,
video cassettes, slides, computer generated images, or other visual
representations which are characterized by an emphasis upon the depiction
or description of specified sexual activities or specified anatomical
areas, instruments, devices or paraphernalia which are intended, designed,
or designated to be used in connection with specified sexual activities;
or goods which are replicas of, or which simulate specified anatomical
areas, or goods which are designed to be placed on or in specified
anatomical areas, or to be used in conjunction with specified sexual
activities.
3.
Adult cabaret.
A nightclub, restaurant, or similar business establishment
which regularly features live performances which are characterized
by the exposure of specified anatomical areas or by specified sexual
activities, or films, computer generated images, motion pictures,
video cassettes, slides, or other photographic reproductions which
are characterized by an emphasis upon the depiction or description
of specified sexual activities or specified anatomical areas.
4.
Adult hotel/motel.
A hotel or motel or similar business establishment offering
public accommodations for any form of consideration which, as a substantial
portion of its business: (1) provides patrons with closed-circuit
television transmissions, films, computer generated images, motion
pictures, video cassettes, slides, or other photographic reproductions
which are characterized by an emphasis upon the depiction or description
of specified sexual activities or specified anatomical areas; and/or
(2) rents, leases, or lets any room for less than a six-hour period,
or rents, leases, or lets any single room more than twice in a 24-hour
period.
5.
Adult motion picture theater.
A business establishment where, for any form of consideration,
films, computer generated images, motion pictures, video cassettes,
slides or similar photographic reproductions are shown, and in which
a substantial portion of the total presentation time is devoted to
the showing of material which is characterized by an emphasis upon
the depiction or description of specified sexual activities or specified
anatomical areas.
6.
Adult theater.
A theater, concert hall, auditorium, or similar establishment
which, for any form of consideration regularly features live performances
which are characterized by the exposure of specified anatomical areas
or by specified sexual activities.
7.
Establish, established, or establishment.
Any of the following:
1.
The opening or commencement of any adult business as a new business;
2.
The conversion of an existing business, whether or not an adult
business, to any of the adult businesses defined herein;
3.
The addition of any of the adult businesses defined herein to
any other existing adult business; or
4.
The relocation of any such adult business.
8.
Gross receipts.
Includes the total amounts actually received or receivable
from the sale, trade, rental, display, or presentation of services,
products, adult material, or entertainment which are characterized
by an emphasis on matter depicting, describing, or relating to specified
sexual activities or specified anatomical areas.
9.
Owner, permit holder, or permittee.
Any of the following: (1) the sole proprietor of an adult
business; or (2) any general partner of a partnership which owns and
operates an adult business; or (3) the owner of a controlling interest
in a corporation which owns and operates an adult business; or (4)
the person designated by the officers of a corporation to be the permit
holder for an adult business owned and operated by the corporation.
10.
Regular and substantial course of conduct or regular and substantial
stock-in-trade or portion of its business.
Any adult business where one or more of the following conditions
exist:
1.
The area(s) devoted to the display of "adult material," as defined
in this Section, exceeds 15% of the total display area of the business;
or
2.
At least 25% of the gross receipts of the business are derived
from the sale, trade, rental, display, or presentation of services,
products, adult material, or entertainment which are characterized
by an emphasis on matter depicting, describing, or relating to specified
sexual activities or specified anatomical areas.
12.
School.
Any child care facility, or an institution of learning for
minors, whether public or private, offering instruction in those courses
of study required by the California
Education Code and maintained
pursuant to standards set by the State Board of Education. This definition
includes a nursery school, kindergarten, elementary school, middle
or junior high school, senior high school, or any special institution
of education, but it does not include a vocational or professional
institution of higher education, including a community or junior college,
college, or university.
13.
Specified anatomical areas.
Any of the following:
1.
Less than completely and opaquely covered human genitals, pubic
region, buttocks, anus, or female breasts below a point immediately
above the top of the areola; or
2.
Human male genitals in a discernibly turgid state, even if completely
and opaquely covered.
14.
Specified sexual activities.
Any of the following:
1.
The fondling or other erotic touching of human genitals, pubic
region, buttocks, anus, or female breasts;
2.
Sex acts, actual or simulated, including intercourse, oral copulation,
or sodomy;
3.
Masturbation, actual or simulated; or
4.
Excretory functions as part of or in connection with any of
the activities described in Subsections 1 through 3 of this definition.
5.
Striptease, the removal of clothing, or the wearing of transparent
or diaphanous clothing, including models dressed only in lingerie
to the point where specified anatomical areas are visible or exposed.
15.
Transfer of ownership or control of an adult business.
Any of the following:
1.
The sale, lease, or sublease of the business;
2.
The transfer of securities or other interests which constitute
a controlling interest in the business, whether by sale, exchange,
or similar means, with or without consideration; or
3.
The establishment of a trust, gift, or other similar legal devise
which transfers ownership or control of the business, including the
transfer by bequest or other operation of law upon the death of a
person possessing the ownership or control.
16.
Youth organization.
Any building used primarily for meetings as a social, educational
or athletic club or group composed primarily of persons under the
age of 18 years.
Affordable purchase price.
A maximum housing cost at which a low income household may
purchase a three bedroom single-family dwelling resulting in a maximum
housing cost not exceeding three times 50% of the area median income,
multiplied by the unit size adjustment factor, and rounded to the
nearest $50.00, as provided in the Housing Income and Price Guidelines
published annually by the County of Santa Barbara.
Affordable rent.
Monthly housing expenses, including a reasonable allowance
for utilities, for rental target units reserved for very low or lower
income households, not exceeding the following calculations:
1.
Very low income means 50% of the area median income multiplied
by 30% and divided by 12.
2.
Lower income means 60% of the area median income multiplied
by 30% and divided by 12.
Agent.
A person authorized in writing by the property owner to represent
and act for a property owner in contacts with City employees, committees,
Commissions, and the Council, regarding matters regulated by this
Code.
Airport reference point.
A fixed point at the approximate center of the airport take-off
and landing area and is given as the USC and GS established airport
elevation of 88.04 feet above mean sea level.
Alley.
A public or private vehicular way which affords a secondary
means of access to abutting property and which is less than 20 feet
in width.
Allowed use.
A land use identified by Division 2 as an allowed use that
may be established with or without use permit and subject to compliance
with all applicable provisions of this Code.
Alteration.
A physical change in the internal arrangement of rooms or
the supporting members of a structure, or a change to the external
appearance of a structure.
Annexation.
The process for the incorporation of land within the City
of Lompoc.
Antenna.
Any system of poles, panels, rods, reflecting discs or similar
devices used for the transmission or reception of electromagnetic
waves or radio frequency signals.
Antenna array.
Several antennas connected and arranged in a regular structure
to form a single antenna.
Applicant.
Any person who is filing an application requesting an action
who is:
1.
The owner or lessee of property;
2.
A party who has contracted to purchase property contingent upon
that party's ability to acquire the necessary approvals required for
that action in compliance with this Code, and who presents written
authorization from the property owner to file an application with
the City; or
3.
The agent of either of the above who presents written authorization
from the property owner to file an application with the City.
Approach zone (runway approach zone).
An isosceles trapezoid bisected by the prolongation of the
runway center line, and lying in a horizontal plane having the same
elevation as the airport reference point, having a base 500 feet wide
at the end of, and at right angles to, the effective length of runway
and a parallel base 1,500 feet wide and distance 5,000 feet from the
end of the effective length of runway.
Approval.
Includes both approval and approval with conditions by a
review authority of the City.
Architectural feature.
An exterior building feature, including a balcony, canopy,
column, doors, porches, roof, roof eave, soffit, windows, wing wall,
and any other similar element that does not create an interior floor
space.
Area median income.
The median family income, adjusted for household size, for
Santa Barbara County, as published from time to time by the State
Department of Housing and Community Development.
Area of regional significance.
An area designated by the State Mining and Geology Board
which is known to contain a deposit of materials, the extraction of
which is judged to be of prime importance in meeting future needs
for minerals in a particular region of the State within which the
materials are located and which, if prematurely developed for alternative
incompatible land uses, could result in the premature loss of minerals
that are of more than local significance.
Area of statewide significance.
An area designated by the State Mining and Geology Board
which is known to contain a deposit of materials, the extraction of
which is judged to be of prime importance in meeting future needs
for minerals in the State and which, if prematurely developed for
alternate incompatible land uses, could result in the permanent loss
of minerals that are of more than local or regional significance.
Areas required for recharge of groundwater basin.
Areas that are required for the protection and recharge of
groundwater basins. These uses include storm water detention basins,
retentions required for flood control, and natural open-space areas.
Artificial turf.
A synthetic derived, natural grass substitute. The term includes
synthetic grass and synthetic turf.
Attractive nuisance.
A facility, structure, equipment, fixture or natural feature
that is reasonably expected to attract children of tender years and
constitutes a danger to them, including abandoned wells, ice boxes
or refrigerators with doors and latches, shafts, basements or other
excavations, abandoned or inoperative vehicles or other equipment,
structurally unsound fences or other fixtures, lumber, fencing, vegetation,
or other debris.