As used in this Chapter, unless the context otherwise clearly
indicates, the words and phrases used in this Chapter are defined
as follows:
"Abutting Property" shall mean property which is contiguous
with the property that is the subject of the application or is separated
from it only by a street or alley.
"Accessory" shall mean a building, part of building or structure
or use which is subordinate to, and the use of which is incidental
to that of the main building, structure or use on the same lot. Where
the wall of an accessory building is a part of, or joined to, the
wall of the main building, such accessory building shall be counted
as part of the main building.
shall mean a secondary dwelling unit on the same lot as a
primary dwelling that is independently habitable and provides the
basic requirements of shelter, heating, cooking, and sanitation.
(Ord. 24-02, 12/12/2023)
shall mean a secondary dwelling unit that: (1) includes an
efficiency kitchen; (2) is contained entirely within an existing or
proposed primary single family residence including within an attached
garage; (3) that may share sanitation facilities with the primary
residence; (4) and does not exceed five hundred square feet.
(Ord. 24-02, 12/12/2023)
"Acupressure Establishment" shall mean any establishment having
a fixed place of business or any individual, firm, association, partnership,
corporation or combination of individuals engaged in providing or
permitting acupressure.
(Ord. 02-21 6-11-02; Ord. 24-02, 12/12/2023)
"Acupressurist" shall mean a massage therapist who uses manipulation
rather than penetration to alleviate pain or other symptoms. Also
known as shiatsu, acupressure is administered by pressing with fingertips,
and sometimes with knees and elbows, along a complex network of trigger
points in the patients' body.
(Ord. 01-14 10-2-01; Ord. 02-21 6-11-02; Ord. 24-02, 12/12/2023)
"Acupuncturist" shall mean an individual to whom a license has
been issued to practice acupuncture, the stimulation of a certain
point or points on or near the surface of the body by the insertion
of needles to prevent or modify the perception of pain or to normalize
physiological function, including pain control, for the treatment
of certain diseases or dysfunctions of the body and includes the techniques
of electro acupuncture, cupping and moxibustion.
(Ord. 98-16 8-18-98; Ord. 01-14 10-2-01; Ord. 02-21 6-11-02; Ord. 24-02, 12/12/2023)
"Adult Arcade" shall mean a business establishment in a C-S,
M-1, or M-2 zone to which the public is permitted or invited, and
image-producing devices, such as still motion picture machines, projectors,
videos, holograms, virtual reality devices, whether operated by mechanical,
electronic or electrical means, are maintained to display images on
a regular and substantial basis to five or fewer persons per viewing
device, where the images so displayed are distinguished or characterized
by an emphasis on matter depicting or describing "specified sexual
activities" and/or "specified anatomical areas."
(Ord. 02-21 6-11-02)
"Adult Bookstore" shall mean a business establishment in a C-S,
M-1, or M-2 zone that has, as a regular and substantial portion of
its stock in trade in books, magazines, periodicals, or other printed
matter, or photographs, films, motion pictures, video cassettes, slides,
tapes, records, CD, DVD or other forms of visual or audio representations
which are distinguished or characterized by an emphasis upon the depiction
of "specified sexual activities" and/or "specified anatomical areas."
(Ord. 02-21 6-11-02)
"Adult Cabaret" shall mean a nightclub, theater, restaurant,
or similar business establishment in a C-S, M-1, or M-2 zone which:
(1) features live performances on a regular and substantial basis
by topless and bottomless dancers, "go-go" dancers, exotic dancers,
strippers, or similar entertainers where such performers are distinguished
or characterized by an emphasis upon the display of "specified sexual
activities" or "specified anatomical areas"; and/or (2) which regularly
features persons who appear nude or semi-nude on a regular or substantial
basis; and/or (3) regularly shows films, computer generated images,
motion pictures, video cassettes, slides, CD, DVD, or other photographic
reproductions, a substantial number of which are distinguished or
characterized by an emphasis upon the depiction or description of
"specified sexual activities" or "specified anatomical areas."
(Ord. 02-21 6-11-02)
"Adult Live Entertainment Theater" shall mean a theater, concert
hall, auditorium, or similar establishment in a C-S, M-1, or M-2 zone
which, for any form of consideration regularly features live performances
on a regular and substantial basis which are distinguished or characterized
by an emphasis on the display of "specified sexual activities" or
"specified anatomical areas."
(Ord. 02-21 6-11-02)
"Adult Merchandise Store" shall mean any commercial business
in a C-S, M-1, or M-2 zone displaying or selling sexually oriented
merchandise as a regular and substantial portion of its business such
as implements and paraphernalia, including, but not limited to: dildo,
auto suck, sexually oriented vibrators, edible underwear, benwa balls,
inflatable orifices, anatomical balloons with orifices, simulated
and battery operated vaginas, and similar sexually oriented devices.
(Ord. 02-21 6-11-02)
"Adult Model Studio" shall mean any premises in a C-S, M-1,
or M-2 zone on which there is conducted the business on a regular
and substantial basis of furnishing figure models who pose for the
purpose of being observed or viewed by any person being sketched,
painted, drawn, sculptured, photographed, or otherwise similarly depicted
and display "specified anatomical areas" or "specified sexual activities"
for persons who pay a fee, or other consideration, or a gratuity,
for the right or opportunity to depict the figure model, or for admission
to, or for permission to remain upon, or as a condition of remaining
upon the premises.
"Adult Model Studio" shall also mean any premises where there
is conducted the business on a regular and substantial basis of providing
or procuring for a fee or other consideration or compensation or gratuity,
figure models to be observed or viewed by any person or to be sketched,
painted, drawn, sculptured, photographed, or otherwise similarly depicted
and display "specified anatomical areas" or "specified sexual activities."
The words "Adult Model Studio" shall not be construed to include:
(a)
Any
studio which is operated by any public or private college, junior
college or other school wherein the persons, firm, association, partnership,
or corporation operating it has met the requirements established in
Division 21 of the Education Code of the issuance or conferring of,
and is in fact authorized thereunder to issue and confer, diploma
or honorary diploma; or
(b)
Any
premises where there is conducted the business of furnishing, providing
or procuring figure models solely for any such institutional studio.
(Ord. 02-21 6-11-02)
"Adult Motion Picture Theater" shall mean any business establishment
in a C-S, M-1, or M-2 zone where, for any form of consideration, films,
computer generated images, motion pictures, video cassettes, slides
or similar photographic reproductions are shown to five or more persons
and a substantial number of items shown are distinguished or characterized
by an emphasis upon the depiction or description of "specified sexual
activities" or "specified anatomical areas."
(Ord. 02-21 6-11-02)
"Adult Oriented Business Operator" shall mean any individual,
firm, association, partnership, corporation or combination of individuals,
who supervises, manages, inspects, directs, organizes, controls or
in any other way is responsible for or in charge of the premises of
an Adult or Sexually Oriented Business or the conduct or activities
on the premises thereof.
(Ord. 02-21 6-11-02)
"Advertising Structure" shall mean a structure of any kind or
character erected or maintained for outdoor advertising purposes on
which any poster, bill, printing, painting, or other advertisement
of any kind whatsoever may be placed, including statuary.
(Ord. 02-21 6-11-02)
"Alcoholic Beverage" shall include any liquid or solid material
whether or not combined with any other substance which is intended
to be ingested by a person which contains ethanol, also known as ethyl
alcohol, drinking alcohol or alcohol, including malt beverage, beer,
wine, spirits, liqueur, whiskey, rum, vodka, cordials, gin, and brandy,
and any mixture containing one or more alcoholic beverages ingested
separately or as a mixture and which contains one-half of one percent
or more of alcohol.
(Ord. 94-21 11-1-94)
"Alley" shall mean a public or private way permanently reserved
as a secondary means of access to abutting property and which is less
than twenty-five feet in width.
"Alteration" shall mean any change in copy, colors, size, shape,
position, location, construction, or supporting structure.
"Ambulance Dispatch Facility" shall mean a site that accommodates
ambulances and associated staff that respond to requests for emergency
vehicles and operates twenty-four hours a day.
(Ord. 12-21 10-30-12)
"Anchor Tenant" shall mean a business containing a minimum floor
area of eight thousand square feet and shall include such uses as
grocery stores (e.g., Vons), drug stores (e.g., CVS), discount stores
(e.g., Ross), home improvement stores (e.g., Home Depot), department
stores (e.g., Macy's), discount warehouse stores (e.g., Costco), manufacturer
outlets, large general retail stores (e.g., Target), bona fide/sit-down
restaurants (e.g., Red Lobster), large product big box stores (e.g.,
Best Buy, Ashley Furniture, Babies "R" Us), movie theaters and similar
uses that serve as a primary draw to a shopping center.
(Ord. 12-18 8-14-12)
"Antenna" or "Antenna Structures" shall mean any device used
to transmit or receive radio or electromagnetic wave signals authorized
by the Federal Communications Commission between terrestrially or
satellite-based systems and includes, but is not limited to, parabolic,
panel, rectangular, directional, omnidirectional, whip, and microwave
antennas.
"Array" shall mean a group of antennas located on the same building,
monopole, or other structure.
"Camouflage" shall mean the method used to disguise, conceal
or hide telecommunication antennas, wires, and appurtenant equipment.
Examples include facilities designed to resemble architectural features,
clock towers, trees, steeples, flagpoles, etc.
"Camouflaged Facility" shall mean any telecommunication facility
which is disguised to appear as another natural or artificial object
that exists in the surrounding environment. They may include, but
are not limited to, façade-mounted antenna as design features
and "tree" poles (e.g., monopalms, monopines).
"Carrier" shall mean a commercial company that is engaged in
the provision of telecommunication services to the general public.
"Cellular" or "Wireless" refers to telecommunication services
and includes mobile radio, personal communication systems, and other
commercial broadcast facilities.
"Co-locate" shall mean to locate multiple telecommunication
facilities which are either owned or operated by more than one carrier
at a single location and mounted to a common supporting structure,
wall, or building.
"Dish Antenna" shall mean a parabolic antenna used to receive
and/or transmit radio or television signals from satellites.
"Equipment Enclosure" shall mean the ground level structure
containing the electronic equipment typically associated with cellular
telephone antenna locations.
"Expansion" shall mean the addition of antennas, towers, ground
equipment or other devices to an existing telecommunication facility.
"Ground-Mounted" shall mean a telecommunication facility that
is mounted to a pole or other freestanding structure that is specifically
constructed for the purpose of supporting an antenna and is directly
connected to the ground.
"Ham Radio Antenna" shall mean an antenna constructed and operated
for transmitting radio signals for noncommercial purposes, usually
in relation to an amateur's hobby.
"Height of Antenna" shall mean the distance from the existing
grade at the base of the antenna or, in the case of a roof-mounted
antenna, from the grade at the exterior base of the building to the
highest point of the antenna and any associated support structure
when fully extended.
"Mounted" shall mean any manner of attachment, support, or connection,
whether on ground or on a structure.
"Pole" shall mean an antenna support structure, including a
monopole, pylon, or tower, that is typically made of steel, wood,
or concrete.
"Roof-Mounted Antenna" shall mean any telecommunication facility
supported by any part of a building that is not specifically constructed
for the purpose of supporting an antenna and that extends above the
eave, roofline, or parapet of the building.
"Telecommunication Equipment Shelter" shall mean the structure
or enclosure in which the electronic receiving and relay equipment
for a telecommunication facility is housed.
"Telecommunication Facility" or "Wireless Telecommunication
Facility" shall mean all of the equipment, fixtures, appurtenances,
antennas, and other facilities necessary to furnish and deliver telecommunication
services including, but not limited to, poles with or without cross
arms, wires, lines, conduits, cables, signal lines and braces, guys,
anchors, faults, and all attachments, accessory equipment and appliances
necessary or incidental to the distribution and use of telecommunication
services.
"Telecommunication Service" shall mean the transmission of information
by wire, radio, optical cable, electromagnetic, or other similar means
for hire, sale, or resale to the general public. For the purposes
of this Chapter, "information" shall mean knowledge or intelligence
represented by any form of writing, signs, signals, pictures, sounds,
or any other symbols. For the purpose of this Chapter, "telecommunication
service" excludes the over-the-air transmission of broadcast television
or broadcast radio signals.
"Wall-Mounted Antenna" shall mean a telecommunication facility
that is mounted on any vertical surface or nearly vertical surface
of a building or other existing structure that is not specifically
constructed for the purpose of supporting an antenna i.e., the exterior
walls of a building, an existing parapet, the side of a water tank,
the face of a church steeple, or the side of a freestanding sign such
that the highest point of the facility is at an elevation equal to
or lower than the highest point of the surface on which it is mounted.
(Ord. 98-20 9-29-98; Ord. 11-07 6-14-11)
"Antique" shall mean an item of artistic or craftsman quality
which because of its having fifty years of age or more, limited availability
and historic or cultural significance, has aesthetic and financial
value recognized by collectors of the item.
(Ord. 93-25 11-2-93)
"Apartment" shall mean a room or a suite of two or more rooms
in a multiple dwelling, occupied or suitable for occupancy as a residence
for one family.
(Ord. 93-25 11-2-93)
"Apartment House" shall mean the same as "Dwelling, Multiple."
(Ord. 2426 9-21-92; Ord. 93-25 11-2-93)
"Arcade, Game or Film" shall mean any business containing more
than three electronic game machines, pinball machines and/or film
or video machines, and similar commercial entertainment devices, except
jukeboxes.
(Ord. 2426 9-21-92; Ord. 93-25 11-2-93)
"Art Deco" shall mean an architectural style characterized by
the use of strong horizontal bands or lines, vertical or tower elements,
curved or angled walls, port (circular) windows, chevrons, zigzag
and other geometric or linear design details highlighted by bold colors
or pilaster relief. Materials for this style could typically range
from glass blocks, concrete, bricks, stone veneer, stucco, wrought-iron
grilles, terrazzo and ceramic tiles.
(Ord. 02-32 11-12-02)
"Artist Live-Work Studio" shall mean a one-family dwelling unit
when developed to the standards of this Chapter. This unit shall integrate
a working space and living area and is to be inhabited by a professional
artist.
(Ord. 98-06 3-31-98)
"Artist Studio" shall mean a work space for an artist or artisan,
including individuals practicing one of the fine arts or performing
arts, or an applied art or craft. This use may include incidental
display and retail sales of items produced on the premises and instructional
space for small groups of students.
(Ord. 22-03 12-14-21)
"Assembly Use" shall mean any building, or primary portion of
a building, used for public or private gatherings of persons for a
specific limited period of time. For example, and without limitation,
assembly use includes a club, lodge, meeting hall, religious service
facility, auditorium, theater and similar kinds of facilities used
for gatherings, whether available for public or private use.
(Ord. 14-01 2-11-14; Ord. 22-03 12-14-21)
"Auction House" shall mean a permanent business that sells new
merchandise in volume allotments, or sells new and/or reusable items
of large merchandise such as furniture, appliances, store fixtures
or factory machinery, or sells merchandise of fine art and the like;
all such sales conducted by competitive bidding.
(Ord. 96-17 9-10-96; Ord. 98-06 3-31-98)
"Automated Car Wash Facility" shall mean a fully enclosed building,
excepting the front entrance and rear exit, which is used for the
mechanical washing of automobiles.
(Ord. 23-14 7-11-23)
"Automobile Repair and Servicing" shall mean the repair, care
and equipping of automobiles, vans, pickup trucks and motorcycles,
including the adjustment or replacement of engine parts and transmission
parts, valve grinding, cylinder reboring, repair or replacement of
brakes, shock absorbers, mufflers, tires, seat covers, tops and accessories.
Automobile repair and servicing does not include body and fender work,
frame straightening, removal of engines, painting, or steam cleaning.
(Ord. 2346 7-3-79; Ord. 96-17 9-10-96; Ord. 98-06 3-31-98)
"Automobile Wrecking" shall mean the dismantling or wrecking
of used motor vehicles or trailers, or the storage, sale or dumping
of dismantled or wrecked vehicles or their parts.
(Ord. 96-17 9-10-96; Ord. 98-06 3-31-98)
"Barber Shop" shall mean any location, place, area, structure,
or business which provides all or any combination of the following
services to its patrons:
(1)
Shaving or trimming the beard or cutting the hair.
(2)
Giving facial and scalp massages or treatments with oils, creams,
lotions, or other preparation either by hand or mechanical appliances.
(3)
Singeing, conditioning, shampooing, arranging, dressing, curling,
waving, chemical waving, hair relaxing, or dying the hair or applying
hair tonics.
(4)
Applying cosmetic preparations, remedies, antiseptics, tonics, powders,
oils, clays, or lotions to the scalp, face, or neck.
(5)
Hair styling of all textures of hair by standard methods which are
current at the time of the hair styling.
(Ord. 02-21 6-11-02)
"Basement" shall mean a story having one-half or more of its
height below the average ground level of adjacent property. For this
determination the average level of undisturbed ground measured near
the adjacent property lines shall be used; except that if any property
line is more distant than twenty-five feet from the building, the
average elevation of undisturbed grade measured on a line twenty-five
feet from and parallel to the building shall be used. A basement,
when designed for or occupied by dwellings, business or manufacturing,
shall be considered to be a story in determining the height of the
building.
(Ord. 98-06 3-31-98)
"Bath, Turkish Bath, and Spa House" shall mean any commercial
establishment in a C-S, M-1, or M-2 zone having a fixed place of business
that offers any form of bath, Turkish bath, hot tubs, spa or similar
services to a regular or substantial segment of its patrons, and who
pay a fee, or other consideration, or a gratuity, for said "Bath,
Turkish Bath, and Spa House" shall not be construed to include facilities
that have baths, Turkish baths, or spa houses as an "accessory" use
to hotel, motel, town house, condominium, apartment, private residence,
or similar facility. No segment of said use shall be permitted in
any zone other than as specified above.
(Ord. 02-21 6-11-02)
"Beauty or Cosmetology Salon" shall mean any location, place
area, structure, or business which provides all or any combination
of the following services to its patrons:
(1)
Arranging, dressing, curling, waving, machineless, permanent waving,
cleansing, curring, shampooing, relaxing, singeing, bleaching, tinting,
coloring, straightening, dyeing, applying hair tonics to, beautifying,
or otherwise treating by any means the hair of any person.
(2)
Massaging, cleaning or stimulating the scalp, face, neck, arms, or
upper part of the human body, by use of cosmetic preparations, antiseptics,
tonics, lotions, or creams.
(3)
Beautifying the face, neck, arms, or upper part of the human body,
by use of cosmetic preparations, antiseptics, tonics, lotions, or
creams.
(4)
Removing superfluous hair from the body of any person by the use
of depilatories or by the use of tweezers, chemicals, preparations
or by the use of devices or appliances of any kind or description,
except by the use of light waves, commonly known as rays.
(5)
Cutting, trimming, polishing, tinting, coloring, cleansing, or manicuring
the nails of any person.
(6)
Massaging, cleansing, treating, or beautifying the hands or feet
of any person.
(7)
Skin care including giving facials, applying makeup, giving skin
care, removing superfluous hair from the body of any person by the
use of depilatories, tweezers or waxing, of applying eyelashes to
any person; beautifying the face, neck, arms or upper part of the
human body, by use of cosmetic preparations, antiseptics, tonics,
lotions, or creams; massaging, cleaning, or stimulating the face,
neck, arms, or upper part of the human body, by means of the hands,
devices, apparatus, or appliances, with the use of cosmetic preparations,
antiseptics, tonics, lotions or creams.
(8)
Nail care including the practice of cutting, trimming, polishing,
coloring, tinting, cleansing, or manicuring the toenails, fingernails,
or cuticles of any person or massaging, cleansing, or beautifying
the hands or feet of any person.
(Ord. 02-21 6-11-02)
"Building" shall mean a permanently located structure having
a roof (all forms of vehicles excluded).
(Ord. 98-06 3-31-98)
"Billiard Hall" shall mean the same as "Pool Hall" for permitted
use and parking requirements.
(Ord. 95-8 3-7-95; Ord. 98-06 3-31-98)
"Building Frontage" shall mean that side thereof which faces
upon a public or private street or parking area between such building
and the street. Where a building faces two or more streets, the frontage
containing the principal entrance to the building shall be considered
to be the building frontage.
(Ord. 98-06 3-31-98)
"Building Height" shall mean the vertical distance measured
from the average level of the highest and lowest point of that portion
of the site covered by the building to the ceiling of the uppermost
story.
(Ord. 98-06 3-31-98)
"Building Identification Sign" shall mean a sign containing
the name and/or address of a building, which sign is located on the
same site as the building.
(Ord. 98-06 3-31-98)
"Building Line" shall mean a line between which line and the
street line no building, structure and/or improvement, or portion
thereof, may be erected, constructed and/or established.
(Ord. 98-06 3-31-98)
"Building Site" shall mean the ground area of a building or
group of buildings together with all open spaces required by this
Chapter.
(Ord. 98-06 3-31-98)
"Boarding House" shall mean a building where lodging and meals
are provided for compensation for five, but not more than fifteen
persons, not including rest homes.
(Ord. 98-06 3-31-98)
"Bungalow Court" shall mean a group of three or more detached
one-story, one- or two-family dwellings located upon a single lot,
together with all open spaces as required by this Chapter. Two-family
dwellings shall mean two units as defined under "Dwelling, Two-Family."
(Ord. 98-06 3-31-98)
"Business or Commerce" shall mean the purchase, sale or other
transaction involving the handling or disposition of any article,
substance or commodity for profit or livelihood, or the ownership
or management of office buildings, offices, recreational or amusement
enterprises or the maintenance and use of offices by professions and
trades rendering services.
(Ord. 98-06 3-31-98)
"By Right" shall mean that the proposed project is exempt from
approval of a Special Use Permit, Planned Assembly Development (PAD),
design review, or other planning discretionary approvals and site
plan review except when nonobjective design standards are applied.
(Ord. 23-18 9-12-23)
"Check Cashing Service" shall mean any business where checks
are cashed for an additional fee or surcharge, excluding banks, savings-and-loans
and credit unions that are licensed or chartered by the state or Federal
government. This definition shall also include payday advance, deferred
deposit originator, money order, money wiring services and the like.
(Ord. 97-16 8-19-97; Ord. 98-06 3-31-98; Ord. 10-09 5-25-10)
"Chiropractor" shall mean a licensed person that practices chiropractic
in the State of California.
(Ord. 01-14 10-2-01)
"City Sponsored" shall mean subject to an agreement with the
City; located on City-owned property; the City participates in an
official capacity in the planning, preparation or promotion of the
event and may at its discretion contribute resources in the form of
funds, labor, staff time, materials, or event space.
(Ord. 97-16 8-19-97; Ord. 98-06 3-31-98; Ord. 13-02 7-9-13)
(Ord. 97-16 8-19-97; Ord. 98-06 3-31-98)
"Classic/Vintage Car Sales Use" means a use where a fine or
distinctive automobile, either American or foreign built, is sold
or displayed and is twenty-five years or more in age.
(Ord. 06-07 5-16-06)
"Collectible/Luxury Care Sales Use" means a use where a fine
or distinctive automobile, either American or foreign built, is sold
or displayed and that offers more technology, higher quality materials
and may be built in smaller numbers than more affordable mass market
cars; and is less than twenty-five years in age and is recognized
by automobile or insurance industry analysts as a collectible/luxury
car.
(Ord. 06-07 5-16-06)
"Club" shall mean an association of persons for some common
nonprofit purpose but not including groups organized primarily to
render a service which is customarily carried on as a business.
(Ord. 93-25 11-2-93; Ord. 98-06 3-31-98)
"Collectible" shall mean a cultural or art object that due to
its limited availability or rarity appreciates in value and is worthy
of being cataloged and collected by fanciers of the object. Collectibles
may include, but are not limited to, philately, numismatics, memorabilia,
jewelry, fine art, vintage books and vintage clothing.
(Ord. 93-25 11-2-93; Ord. 98-06 3-31-98)
"Convalescent Homes" shall mean the same as "Rest Homes."
(Ord. 87-24 9-22-87; Ord. 98-06 3-31-98)
"Cosmetology School" shall mean a type of trade school licensed
by the Board of Barbering and Cosmetology providing technical instruction
in the field of cosmetology, barbering, electrology, esthetics, nail
care, hair styling and/or skin care. Instruction shall include demonstration,
lecture, classroom participation, practicum experience and examinations.
Practicum experience may include both student work conducted on mannequins
as well as student work on paying customers (by appointment or walk-in)
during business hours of the school. Services advertised to the public
shall be clearly described as student-provided services and a rate
schedule shall be posted at all times.
(Ord. 23-07 1-31-23)
"Large Group Counseling/Tutoring" means a use where eleven or
more members receive counseling, tutoring or similar services that
are provided for personal, family, educational, health, employment
or other considerations.
(Ord. 05-06 8-9-05)
"Small Group Counseling/Tutoring" means a use where ten or fewer
members receive counseling, tutoring or similar services that are
provided for personal, family, educational, health, employment or
other considerations.
(Ord. 05-06 8-9-05)
"Court" shall mean any space on a building site, the boundaries
of which space are formed by three or more exterior walls of a single
building, and which space is open and unobstructed from the ground
to the sky.
(Ord. 87-24 9-22-87; Ord. 98-06 3-31-98)
"Court, Inner" shall mean a court bounded entirely by the exterior
walls of a single building.
(Ord. 87-24 9-22-87; Ord. 98-06 3-31-98)
"Court, Outer" shall mean any court which is not an inner court.
(Ord. 87-24 9-22-87; Ord. 98-06 3-31-98)
"Day Care" shall mean the supervision and nonmedical care of
persons, at a facility that is not the primary residence of such persons,
for periods less than twenty-four hours each day.
(Ord. 87-24 9-22-87; Ord. 98-06 3-31-98)
"Director" shall mean the Director of the Planning and Building
Department or designee.
(Ord. 98-06 3-31-98; Ord. 08-05 4-22-08)
"Disabled Person" shall mean any person who has a physical or
mental impairment that substantially limits one or more major life
activities; anyone who is regarded as having such impairment; or anyone
who has a record of such impairment. People who are currently using
illegal substances and who do not have a separate disability are not
included in this definition.
(Ord. 02-14 3-19-02; Ord. 02-16 3-26-02)
"Drive-Through Facility" shall mean a retail or service facility
where products or services are provided to motorists who remain in
their vehicles. These facilities include drive-thru fast-food restaurants,
drive-up bank teller windows, dry cleaners, pharmacies, and the like.
(Ord. 22-03 12-14-21)
"Dwelling" shall mean a building or portion thereof designed
for or occupied exclusively for residential purposes, including one-family,
two-family, multiple dwellings, transitional housing, supportive housing,
and short-term rental (subject to the regulations contained within
Article 11 of Chapter 8 of the IMC), but not including hotels, boarding
and lodging houses.
(Ord. 22-15 7-19-22)
"Dwelling, Multiple" shall mean a building or portion thereof,
designed for or occupied by three or more families living independently
of each other.
(Ord. 98-06 3-31-98)
"Dwelling, One-Family" shall mean a detached building designed
for or occupied exclusively by one family.
(Ord. 98-06 3-31-98)
"Dwelling, Two-Family" shall mean a building designed for or
occupied exclusively by two families, living independently of each
other.
(Ord. 98-06 3-31-98)
"Dwelling Unit" shall mean two or more rooms in a dwelling or
apartment hotel designed for or occupied by one family for living
or sleeping purposes and having only one kitchen.
(Ord. 98-06 3-31-98)
"Educational Institutions" shall mean colleges or universities
supported wholly or in part by public funds and other colleges, universities
or other schools giving general academic instruction, as determined
by the State Board of Education.
(Ord. 98-06 3-31-98)
"Emergency Shelter for the Homeless" shall mean housing with
minimal supportive services for homeless persons that is limited to
occupancy of six months or less by a homeless person. No individual
or household may be denied emergency shelter because of an inability
to pay.
(Ord. 13-05 12-17-13)
"Entrance-Way" shall mean an opening or passageway in a building
or structure which permits pedestrian or vehicular access to such
building or structure.
(Ord. 98-06 3-31-98)
"Escort or Dating Services Business" shall mean any premises
in a C-S, M-1, or M-2 zone on which there is conducted the business
on a regular and substantial basis of furnishing escorts, dates, introduction
or similar services for patrons who pay a fee, gratuity, or other
consideration for said services. The words "Escort or Dating Services
Business" shall not be construed to include get acquainted programs
offered by non-profit groups such as churches or other non-profit
groups.
(Ord. 02-21 6-11-02)
(Ord. 12-02 2-28-12)
"Family" shall mean a single individual, or two or more persons
sharing a dwelling unit in a living arrangement usually characterized
by sharing household/living expenses and sharing household operational/maintenance
duties, as well as maintaining a single lease or rental agreement
for all members of the household and other similar characteristics
indicative of a single household.
(Ord. 98-06 3-31-98; Ord. 13-05 12-17-13)
"Farmers Market" shall mean an outdoor, temporary market, comprised
of multiple vendors, whose primary purpose is the sale and promotion
of fresh fruits and vegetables as well as healthy eating and active
living educational activities.
(Ord. 13-02 7-9-13)
"Flea Market" shall mean the same as "Swap Meet."
(Ord. 89-4 6-6-89; Ord. 98-06 3-31-98)
(Ord. 88-6 5-10-88)
(Ord. 88-6 5-10-88)
(Ord. 2544 8-12-86)
"Freeway" shall mean a highway in respect to which the owners
of abutting lands have no right or easement of access to or from their
abutting lands or in respect to which such owners have only limited
or restricted right or easement of access, and which is declared to
be such in compliance with the Streets and Highways Code of the State
of California.
"Fully Enclosed Building" shall mean a permanently located structure
having a roof, four walls and doors and windows that close, all of
which conform to the Uniform Building Code.
(Ord. 2346 7-3-79)
"Garage" shall mean an accessory building or an accessory portion
of the main building, designed and used only for the shelter and parking
of vehicles owned or operated by the occupants of the main building.
(Ord. 2346 7-3-79)
"Grade" shall mean the level of the public sidewalk at the closest
distance to the sign in question.
"Grocery Store" shall mean any retail business selling food
items for consumption off the premises and devotes no more than fifteen
percent of the store floor area for display and storage of alcoholic
beverages.
(Ord. 94-21 11-1-94)
"Gross Floor Area" shall mean the total floor area within a
building or structure. Such total area shall be calculated by measuring
along the outside dimensions of the exterior surfaces of such building
or structure.
(Ord. 23-07 1-31-23)
"Group Houses" shall mean two or more separate buildings each
containing one or more dwelling units.
"Guest Home" shall mean the same as "Rest Home."
"Guest House" shall mean living quarters within an accessory
building located on the same premises with the main building, for
use by temporary guests of the occupants of the premises, and having
no kitchen. A guest house may not be rented or otherwise used as a
separate dwelling (except as allowed for a short term rental as defined
in Chapter 8, Article 11 of the Inglewood Municipal Code).
(Ord. 23-07 1-31-23)
"Homeless" shall mean lacking a fixed, regular, or adequate
nighttime residence; living in a shelter designated to provide temporary
living arrangements; or having a primary nighttime residence that
is a public or private place not designed for use as a regular sleeping
accommodation for human beings, such as a car, park, abandoned building,
or sidewalk.
(Ord. 13-05 12-17-13)
"Homeless Youth" shall mean a person not older than twenty-four
years who is homeless; at risk of becoming homeless; exiting foster
care on the basis of age; has run away from home; or not older than
seventeen years, emancipated under State law, and either homeless
or at risk of becoming homeless.
(Ord. 13-05 12-17-13)
"Hookah Lounge" shall mean any business whose primary or ancillary
business operation is engaged in the retail sale of tobacco for consumption
by customers on the premises by the smoking of tobacco or other substances
through one or more hookah pipes (also known as a waterpipe, shisha,
or narghile) designed with a tube passing through an urn of water,
including, but not limited to, establishments known as hookah bars,
hookah lounges, hookah cafés, and the like.
(Ord. 23-01 10-11-22)
"Hostel" shall mean an establishment which provides inexpensive
food and lodging for a specific group of people, such as students,
workers, or travelers.
(Ord. 22-03 12-14-21)
"Hotel" shall mean a building designed for or occupied as the
more or less temporary abiding place of individuals who are lodged
with or without meals, and in which no provision is made for cooking
in any individual room or suite. Jails, hospitals, asylums, sanitariums
or orphanages, prisons, detention homes or similar buildings where
human beings are housed and detained under legal restraint are specifically
not included.
(Ord. 2488 11-6-84; Ord. 90-21 8-28-90)
"Incentive" means a modification to a City development standard
or requirement of Chapter 12 of the Municipal Code.
(Ord. 14-02 2-25-14)
"Income, Moderate, Lower, or Very Low" means annual income that
does not exceed those defined by the California Department of Housing
and Community Development (HCD).
(Ord. 12-02 2-28-12; Ord. 14-02 2-25-14)
"Jewelry Store" shall mean any retail business that devotes
at least seventy-five percent of floor area for the exclusive selling
of ornaments made of precious and semi-precious metals, gems, stones,
gem substitutes or other imitation materials used as adornment.
(Ord. 95-22 10-3-95)
"Kitchen" shall mean any room used or intended or designed to
be used for cooking or the preparation of food.
(Ord. 89-4 6-6-89)
"Kitchen, Commercial" shall mean a cooking facility used for
the preparation of food consumed off the premises only. A commercial
kitchen shall include one kitchen or multiple kitchens leased individually.
(Ord. 23-19, 9/26/2023)
"Landscaped Freeway" shall mean a section or sections of a freeway
which are now, or hereafter may be, improved by the planting, at least
on one side of the freeway right-of-way, of lawns, trees, shrubs,
flowers, or other ornamental vegetation which shall require reasonable
maintenance.
Planting for the purpose of soil erosion control, traffic safety
requirements, reduction of fire hazards, or traffic noise abatement,
shall not change the character of a freeway to a landscaped freeway.
"Liquor Store" shall mean any retail business selling distilled
spirits (excluding beer and/or wine only) for consumption off-premises,
in which fifteen percent or more of the store floor area is utilized
for the storage and display of the distilled spirits.
(Ord. 2544 8-12-86; Ord. 87-7 5-19-87; Ord. 15-13 6-22-15)
(Ord. 88-6 5-10-88)
"Live Entertainment" shall mean any performance on the premises
by an individual, group of individuals, band or orchestra for purposes
of entertaining patrons. (Pre-recorded music, jukeboxes, dancing by
patrons to same, televised entertainment, pool, billiards or arcade
games do not, by themselves, constitute live entertainment.)
(Ord. 87-7 5-19-87)
"Live-Work Unit" shall mean a unit configured for both residential
and non-residential use in which the primary activity is the non-residential
use and the residential use is ancillary to the primary activity;
which contains essential living facilities including a sleeping area,
cooking facilities, and sanitary facilities; and in which may or may
not have walls separating the working and living areas of the unit.
(Ord. 14-11 8-5-14)
"Loading Space" shall mean an off-street space or berth on the
same lot with a building, or contiguous to a group of buildings, for
the temporary parking of a commercial vehicle while loading or unloading
merchandise or materials.
"Lodging House" shall mean a building with not more than five
guest rooms where, for compensation, lodging is provided for five
but not more than ten persons.
"Lot" shall mean:
(1)
A
parcel of real property as shown as a delineated parcel of land with
a separate and distinct number or other designation on a plat recorded
in the office of the County Recorder of Los Angeles County, or
(2)
A
parcel of real property not so delineated and containing more than
six thousand square feet and abutting at least one public street,
and held under separate ownership from adjacent property prior to
December 17, 1946, or
(3)
A
portion of real property not so delineated containing not less than
six thousand square feet abutting at least one public street if the
same was a portion of a larger piece of real property held under the
same ownership prior to December 17, 1946.
"Lot Area" shall mean the total horizontal area within the lot
lines of a lot.
"Lot, Corner" shall mean a lot situated at the intersection
of two or more streets, having an angle of intersection of not more
than one hundred thirty-five degrees and a width not greater than
seventy-five feet.
"Lot Depth" shall mean the horizontal distance between the front
and rear lot lines, measured in the mean direction of the side lot
lines.
"Lot Frontage" shall mean the line separating a lot from a street
in a commercial or industrial zone. In the case of a developed lot
which abuts more than one street, the street frontage containing the
principal entrance to the site or building thereon shall be designated
as the lot frontage. "Business Frontage" is the length of exterior
wall of a particular business which contains its principal entrance
or faces the street on which the address of the business is located.
"Lot, Interior" shall mean a lot other than a corner lot.
"Lot, Key" shall mean the first lot to the rear of a reversed
corner lot and not separated by an alley.
In the case of an interior lot, "Lot Line, Front" shall mean
a line separating the lot from the street, and in the case of a corner
lot, a "Lot Line, Front" shall mean a line separating the narrowest
street frontage of the lot from the street, except in those cases
where the latest tract deed restrictions specify another line as the
front lot line.
"Lot Line, Rear" shall mean a lot line which is opposite and
most distant from the front lot line and, in the case of an irregular,
triangular or gore-shaped lot, a line within the lot, parallel to
and at the maximum distance from the front lot line, having a length
of ten feet.
"Lot Line, Side" shall mean any lot boundary line not a front
lot line or a rear lot line.
"Lot, Reversed Corner" shall mean a corner lot, the side street
line of which is substantially a continuation of the front lot line
of the lot upon which it rears.
"Lot, Through" shall mean a lot having frontage on two parallel
or approximately parallel streets.
"Lot, Transitional Use" shall mean an island, triangular or
irregular-shaped corner property that is zoned for ("R") residential
uses and that directly abuts two or more nonresidential streets. The
development of a transitional use lot is intended to act as a physical
buffer for other residential lots that are located further from the
abutting non-residential streets.
(Ord. 09-04 2-10-09)
"Lot Width" shall mean the horizontal distance between the side
lot lines, measured at right angles to the lot depth at a point midway
between the front and rear lot lines.
"Sports and Entertainment Complex" shall mean the same as defined
in Section 12-38.91(E).
(Ord. 20-13 7-28-20)
"Major Sports or Entertainment Facility" shall mean a facility
with indoor and/or outdoor seating capacity of not less than six thousand
attendees operated to host events including, but not limited to, sporting
events, concerts, entertainment events, exhibitions, conventions,
conferences, meetings, banquets, civic and community events, social,
recreation, or leisure events, celebrations, and other similar events
or activities.
(Ord. 21-12 8-10-21)
"Massage" shall mean any method of pressure on or friction against,
or stroking, kneading, rubbing, tapping, pounding or stimulating the
external parts of the body with the hands or other parts of the body,
including acupressure, the stimulation or sedation of specific meridian
points and trigger points near the surface of the body by the use
of pressure in order to prevent or modify the perception of pain or
to normalize physiological functions, including pain control, in the
treatment of certain diseases or dysfunctions of the body.
(Ord. 91-22 8-27-91)
"Massage Establishment" or "Massage Parlor" shall mean any establishment
having a fixed place of business or any individual, firm, association,
partnership, corporation or combination of individuals engaged in
conducting, carrying on, or permitting to be engaged in, conducted
or carried on, massages or health treatments involving massage as
the principal function.
(Ord. 91-22 8-27-91)
"Massage Therapist" shall mean a person who, for any form of
consideration whatsoever, gives or administers to another person a
"massage" which means any method of pressure on or friction against,
or stroking, kneading, rubbing, tapping, pounding or stimulating the
external parts of the body with the hands or other parts of the body,
or any other type system for treating or manipulating the human body
with or without the aid of any mechanical or electrical apparatus
or appliances, or with or without supplementary aids such as rubbing
alcohol, liniments, antiseptics, oils, powders, creams, lotions, ointments
or other similar preparations commonly used in this practice.
(Ord. 01-14 10-2-01)
"Miscellaneous Adult Oriented Business" shall mean any establishment
in a C-S, M-1, or M-2 zone having a fixed place of business or any
individual, firm, association, partnership, corporation or combination
of individuals which offers on a regular and substantial basis its
patrons services, products, or entertainment distinguished or characterized
by an emphasis on matter depicting, describing or relating to "specified
sexual activities" or "specified anatomical areas." Evidence of the
intent to operate an adult oriented business may be established by
considering such factors as the name, signage, advertising or other
public promotion utilized by said establishment. The specific intent
of this definition is to include any and all other businesses that
now or in the future may exist or that may otherwise inadvertently
escape zoning requirements and regulations that are intended to regulate
adult oriented businesses.
(Ord. 02-21 6-11-02)
"Mortuary" shall mean a place of business conducted in a building
which is used for the preparation, arrangement, embalming, viewing,
funeral transportation and storage of bodies prior to their burial,
cremation or other disposition.
(Ord. 04-22 9-28-04)
"Motel" shall mean the same as "hotel."
(Ord. 2488 11-6-84; Ord. 90-21 8-28-90; Ord. 91-22 8-27-91)
"Net Floor Area" shall mean the total floor area within a building
or structure, excepting therefrom inner courts, public areas not usable
for rental space (restrooms, hallways, stairs and elevators), and
mechanical or electrical equipment rooms when used primarily for lighting,
heating or air conditioning the building or structure.
(Ord. 23-07 1-31-23)
"Nonconforming Building or Use" shall mean a building or use
which although conforming to the zoning law originally, became nonconforming
upon the enactment of a zoning ordinance.
(Ord. 91-22 8-27-91)
"Nudity or State of Nudity" shall mean the showing of the human
male or female genitals, pubic area, or buttocks with less than a
fully opaque covering, the showing of the female breast with less
than fully opaque covering of any part of the areola.
(Ord. 02-21 6-11-02)
"Nursery School or Child Care Center" shall mean an establishment
which, for compensation, cares for more than six children, which number
shall include those children who live on the premises.
(Ord. 2544 8-12-86)
(Ord. 2544 8-12-86)
(Ord. 88-6 5-10-88)
(Ord. 88-6 5-10-88)
(Ord. 88-6 5-10-88)
(Ord. 88-6 5-10-88)
(Ord. 88-6 5-10-88)
"Obstruction" shall mean any object, which completely or partially
blocks a path of travel or circulation and includes all permanent
and temporary structures, appurtenances, furnishings and furniture
attendant to a permitted use under this Chapter.
(Ord. 02-14 3-19-02)
"Owner" shall mean the person having sufficient proprietary
interest in land sought to be subdivided or otherwise developed to
commence and maintain proceedings to subdivide or otherwise develop
the same under this Chapter.
(Ord. 2495 3-5-85; Ord. 14-01 2-11-14)
"Outdoor Restaurant on the Public Sidewalk" shall mean the public
sidewalk restaurant or food service use created by this Chapter.
(Ord. 02-14 3-19-02; Ord. 23-19, 9/26/2023)
"Parking Space, Automobile" shall mean space within a building
or public parking area for the temporary parking or storage of one
automobile.
"Parking Area, Public" shall mean an open area other than a
street, alley or place, used for the temporary parking of more than
four automobiles and available for public use whether free, for compensation
or as an accommodation for clients or customers.
"Photo Studios Using Live Models" shall mean the same as defined in Section 8-1.35 of the Inglewood Municipal Code.
(Ord. 02-21 6-11-02)
"Planning Commission" shall mean the "City Planning Commission"
or "Planning and Zoning Board."
(Ord. 1544 8-12-86)
"Pool Hall" shall mean any business that has three or more pool
or billiard tables. "Pool Hall" shall also mean any business that
has a maximum of two pool or billiard tables as a sole or primary
land use. A maximum of two pool or billiard tables will be considered
ancillary to that business if the pool or billiard tables do not comprise
more than thirty percent of the gross floor area of the subject business.
(Ord. 95-8 3-7-95)
"Porte Cochere" shall mean a small protective roof that is located
over a driveway and that is attached on one side to a dwelling structure
and is unenclosed on all remaining sides, except for necessary support
columns.
(Ord. 2544 8-12-86; Ord. 87-15 6-30-87)
"Public Sidewalk" shall mean any paved surface ordinarily used
for pedestrian travel and lying between the property line of any property
and the curbing.
(Ord. 02-14 3-19-02)
"Rent-to-Own" shall mean a business that primarily rents or
leases new merchandise to customers (such as household appliances,
furniture, electronics, personal medical equipment, and the like)
with the intent that the merchandise will be, purchased by the customer
during or at the conclusion of the rental or lease term.
(Ord. 04-29 1-4-05)
"Recreational Vehicle" shall mean a motorized or non-motorized
vehicle and any appurtenant equipment that is intended for recreational,
camping or travel use, including, but not limited to, motor homes,
truck campers, camping trailers, all-terrain vehicles, boats, and
jet skis.
(Ord. 10-16 1-25-11; Ord. 12-04 4-10-12)
"Rest Home" shall mean the same as boarding house, but permitting
nursing, dietary and other personal services rendered to convalescents,
invalids and aged persons, but excluding cases of contagious or communicable
diseases, and excluding surgery or primary treatments such as are
customarily provided in sanitariums and hospitals.
(Ord. 2544 8-12-86; Ord. 23-19, 9/26/2023)
"Restaurant" shall mean an establishment that is maintained,
operated, and/or advertised or held out to the public as a place where
food and beverage are prepared and served for customer consumption.
(Ord. 88-6 5-10-88; Ord. 23-19, 9/26/2023)
"Restaurant, Dine-in" shall mean a type of restaurant that is
maintained, operated, and/or advertised or held out to the public
as a place where food and beverage are served to the public on demand
from a printed menu during stated business hours, served primarily
in and on reusable dishes, to be consumed primarily on the premises
at tables, booths or counters, with chairs, benches or stools. This
use may include incidental delivery service.
(Ord. 23-19, 9/26/2023)
"Restaurant, Fast-Food" shall mean a type of restaurant that
is maintained, operated, and/or advertised or held out to the public
as a place where food and beverage are served to customers from a
serving counter and where food and meals are generally prepared in
advance for immediate sale, and which may include limited seating.
Fast-food restaurants shall include, cafeterias, doughnut shops, and
bakeries (baked goods sold only on-premises).
(Ord. 23-19, 9/26/2023)
"Outdoor Restaurant" shall mean a type of restaurant and place
of business required to be licensed under the provisions of this Code,
which sells or serves food products or beverages for consumption on
the premises where such place of business is located, and which provides
facilities for, or permits, consumption of such food products or beverages
on any portion of such premises not within a fully enclosed building
as defined hereinafter in this Chapter.
(Ord. 23-19, 9/26/2023)
(Ord. 88-6 5-10-88)
(Ord. 88-6 5-10-88)
"Sanitarium" shall mean a health station or retreat or other
place where patients are kept and where medical or surgical treatment
is given.
(Ord. 2544 8-12-86; Ord. 87-15 6-30-87)
"School" as used for the purpose of regulating adult-oriented
businesses and massage related businesses shall mean any child or
day care facility, or an institution of learning for minors, whether
public or private in any permitted zone offering instruction in those
courses or 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.
(Ord. 02-21 6-11-02)
"School, Elementary and High" shall mean an institution of learning
which offers instruction in the several branches of learning and study
required to be taught in the public schools by the Education Code
of the State of California.
(Ord. 87-15 6-30-87)
"Self-Storage Facility" shall mean a fully-enclosed building
designed and used for the purpose of renting or leasing individual
storage spaces to customers for the purpose of storing and removing
property on a self-service basis. No self-storage space shall be used
as living quarters. No retail, repair, or other business activity
shall be conducted out of the individual rental storage spaces. No
activities other than rental of storage spaces and pick-up and deposit
of storage shall be allowed on the premises.
(Ord. 21-03 12-8-20)
"Semi-Nude" shall mean a state of dress in which clothing covers
no more than the genitals, pubic region, buttocks, areola of the female
breast, as well as portions of the body covered by supporting straps
or devices.
(Ord. 02-21 6-11-02)
"Senior Citizen Housing" shall mean one or more multiple-dwelling
unit residential structures, without medical care facilities, that
are specifically designed and restricted for present and future habitation
by at least one resident in each unit that meets the definition of
"senior citizen" under the California Civil Code Section 51.3, or
its successor statute. Without restriction as to age of occupant,
units may also be occupied by management or maintenance personnel
who are required to live on the premises.
(Ord. 87-15 6-30-87; Ord. 03-18 10-14-03; Ord. 15-18 8-18-15)
"Service Station" shall mean premises to supply gasoline, other
fuels and oil to motor vehicles including lubrication, minor tire
repair and tire replacement, battery sales and service and the sale
and installation of wiper blades, lamps, mirrors and similar minor
accessories.
(Ord. 87-15 6-30-87)
"SEC Development Guidelines" shall mean the same as defined in Section 12-38.94(A).
(Ord. 20-13 7-28-20)
"Shopping Center" shall mean two or more businesses that are
primarily retail but also may include eating and drinking establishments
and service uses which function on a single lot or on adjoining lots,
but which utilize common vehicular and pedestrian access and/or on-site
parking areas.
(Ord. 12-02 2-28-12)
"Short-Term Rental" shall mean the same as defined in Chapter
8, Article 11, of the Inglewood Municipal Code.
(Ord. 22-15 7-19-22)
"Sign" shall mean any of various kinds of graphic displays,
supporting structures for same, or attention-attracting devices as
specifically defined in Article 23 of this Chapter.
(Ord. 2544 8-12-86)
"Smoke Shop" shall mean any business with twenty-five percent
or more of the retail total floor area allotted to the display and
sale of tobacco products or tobacco paraphernalia for off-site consumption.
(Ord. 22-01 10-19-21)
(Ord. 2544 8-12-86)
(Ord. 2544 8-12-86)
(Ord. 2544 8-12-86)
(Ord. 2544 8-12-86)
(Ord. 2544 8-12-86)
"Single Apartment" shall mean a living unit with a kitchen,
a bathroom (including a toilet, lavatory and shower or bathtub) and
one other room and any number of closets.
"Site" shall mean of the contiguous ground area assembled and
used as one building or business location.
(Ord. 2544 8-12-86)
"Specialty Merchandise Mart" shall mean an enclosed commercial-sales
structure containing multiple interior tenant spaces which are typically
but not exclusively limited to the promotional display and sales of
a specific type of high quality merchandise including, but not limited
to, fine jewelry, precious metals and gems, antiques and collectibles,
artwork, sculpture, fine furniture or fine apparel.
(Ord. 89-4 6-6-89)
"Specified Anatomical Areas" shall mean any of the following
human areas when they are less than completely and/or opaquely covered:
(1) genitals or pubic region; (2) buttocks; and (3) female breast
below a point immediately above the top of the areola.
(Ord. 89-4 6-6-89; Ord. 02-21 6-11-02)
"Specified Sexual Activities" shall mean and include any of
the following, whether performed directly or indirectly through clothing
or other covering: (1) the fondling or other erotic touching of human
genitals, pubic region, buttocks, anus, or female breast; (2) sex
acts, actual or simulated, including intercourse, oral copulation,
or sodomy; (3) masturbation, actual or simulated; and (4) excretory
functions as part of or in connection with any of the other activities
described in (1) through (3) of this paragraph.
(Ord. 02-21 6-11-02)
"Story" shall mean that portion of a 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, then the space between such floor
and the ceiling next above it.
"Street" shall mean a public or private thoroughfare which affords
principal means of access to abutting property.
"Street Line" shall mean the boundary line between street and
abutting property.
"Street Side" shall mean that street bounding a corner lot and
which extends in the same general direction as the line determining
the depth of the lot.
(Ord. 12-02 2-28-12)
"Structural Alteration" shall mean any change in the supporting
members of a building such as bearing walls, columns, beams or girders
and floor joists or roof joists, girders or rafters or changes in
roof or exterior lines.
"Structure" shall mean anything constructed or erected, which
requires location on the ground or attached to something having a
location on the ground, but not including fences or walls used as
fences less than six feet in height.
refers to a structure that is legally occupied and/or for
which a certificate of occupancy authorizing its use has been issued.
It can also refer to a structure erected prior to the date of adoption
of the appropriate code, or one for which a legal building permit
has been issued.
(Ord. 24-02, 12/12/2023)
"Substantially Enlarged" or "Structurally Altered" shall mean
any enlargement or structural alteration of a building or structure
which increases the gross floor area of a building or structure in
any ten-year period where the increased gross floor area equals or
exceeds the floor area for which one parking space is required to
be provided.
"Supportive Housing" shall mean housing with no limit on length
of stay, that is operated by a supportive housing provider, that is
occupied by a 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 development may include space for ancillary supportive services
used by residents only.
(Ord. 13-05 12-17-13)
"Swap Meet," or flea market, shall mean any indoor or outdoor
facility containing multiple tenant spaces, stalls or booths from
which new or used merchandise, craftwares or food are sold, exchanged
or bought by separate vendors. Any facility bearing the name of, or
otherwise being promoted as a swap meet or flea market shall constitute
a swap meet for purposes of this Chapter. Any interior multiple tenant
facility used for the sale of merchandise that does not conform to
the definition of a shopping center shall constitute a swap meet.
(Ord. 89-4 6-6-89; Ord. 12-02 2-28-12; Ord. 21-12 8-10-21)
"Tailgating" shall mean taking part in activities and congregating
for the purpose of an outdoor gathering which may include the consumption
of food and nonalcoholic and alcoholic beverages by one or more people
prior to a scheduled event occurring at a major sports or entertainment
facility.
(Ord. 21-12 8-10-21)
"Tailgating Event" shall mean an organized/hosted private gathering
of multiple tailgating groups in which a single event organizer provides
all entertainment and applicable refreshments which may include food
and nonalcoholic and alcoholic beverages subject to securing applicable
State licenses, rather than each vehicle individually providing entertainment
and refreshments.
(Ord. 21-12 8-10-21)
"Tanning Device" shall mean any equipment that emits electromagnetic
radiation with wavelengths in the air between two hundred and four
hundred nanometers used for tanning of the skin, including, but not
limited to, a sunlamp, tanning booth, or tanning bed. Tanning device
also means any accompanying equipment, including, but not limited
to, protective eyewear, timers, and handrails.
(Ord. 02-21 6-11-02; Ord. 21-12 8-10-21)
"Tanning Salon" shall mean any location, place, area, structure,
or business which provides persons access to any "tanning device"
for any form of consideration, fee, or gratuity as a regular or substantial
segment of its services to patrons of the establishment.
(Ord. 02-21 6-11-02; Ord. 21-12 8-10-21)
"Target Population" shall mean persons, including homeless individuals
with disabilities; homeless individuals and/or families; or homeless
youth.
(Ord. 13-05 12-17-13; Ord. 21-12 8-10-21)
"Tasting room" shall mean an ancillary tasting of alcoholic
beverage product associated with a food and beverage manufacturing
use or a general retail use when that general retail use includes
the sale of beer, wine, and distilled spirits for off-site consumption.
A beverage tasting facility cannot exceed twenty percent of the gross
floor area of the food and beverage manufacturing or general retail
use to which it is associated unless approved by administrative use
permit to exceed no more than thirty percent gross floor area.
(Ord. 22-01 10-19-21)
"Thrift Store" shall mean any place of business for the retail
sale of previously used clothing, furniture and other household items
that are reusable or have been repaired or restored for reuse.
(Ord. 87-7 5-19-87; Ord. 89-4 6-6-89)
"Townhouse" shall mean a single family residential unit, constructed
from ground to roof, that is attached by one or two common walls to
adjacent townhouse units, where each townhouse unit has its own separate
exterior entry door and the required garage spaces are either provided
within each respective townhouse unit or within a detached garage
structure.
(Ord. 90-23 9-11-90)
"Trailer, Automobile" shall mean any vehicle without motor power,
designed to be drawn by a motor vehicle and to be used for human habitation
or for carrying persons and property, including a trailer coach.
(Ord. 89-4 6-6-89; Ord. 90-23 9-11-90)
"Transitional Housing" shall mean one or more buildings configured
as a rental housing development that is exclusively designated and
targeted for individuals and households at immediate risk of becoming
homeless or transitioning from homelessness to permanent housing;
and that is operated and managed by a transitional housing provider
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. The development may include space for
ancillary supportive services used by residents only. Any communal
housing that does not provide individual units must adhere to the
requirements for group homes or community care facilities and the
like.
(Ord. 04-14 7-22-04; Ord. 13-05 12-17-13)
"Underground Parking Facilities" shall mean a basement equipped,
designed, used or intended to be used for parking automobiles.
(Ord. 90-23 9-11-90)
"Urban Agriculture" shall mean farming in all its branches,
including, but not limited to, the cultivation and tillage of the
soil, the production, cultivation, growing, and harvesting of any
agricultural or horticultural products, the raising of livestock,
bees, fur-bearing animals, dairy-producing animals, and poultry, agriculture
education, the sale of produce through field retail stands or farm
stands, and any practices performed by a farmer or on a farm as an
incident to or in conjunction with farming operations. For purposes
of this definition, the term "urban agriculture use" does not include
cultivation of marijuana.
(Ord. 22-03 12-14-21)
"Use" shall mean the purpose for which land or building is arranged,
designed, intended, or may be occupied or maintained.
(Ord. 90-23 9-11-90)
"Vacation Rental" shall mean the same as defined in Chapter
8, Article 11, of the Inglewood Municipal Code.
(Ord. 22-15 7-19-22)
"Yard" shall mean an open space other than a court, on a lot,
occupied and unobstructed from the ground upward, except as otherwise
provided herein.
(Ord. 90-23 9-11-90)
"Yard, Front" shall mean a yard extending across the full width
of the lot, the depth of which is the minimum horizontal distance
between the front lot line and the line parallel thereto on the lot.
(Ord. 90-23 9-11-90)
"Yard, Rear" shall mean a yard extending across the full width
of the lot between the main building and the rear lot line; the depth
of the required rear yard shall be measured horizontally from the
nearest part of the main building toward the rear lot line.
(Ord. 90-23 9-11-90)
"Yard, Side" shall mean a yard between the main building and
the side lot line, extending from the front yard, or front lot line
where no front yard is required, to the rear yard; the width of the
required side yard shall be measured horizontally from the nearest
part of the main building toward the side lot line.
