For the purpose of carrying out the purpose of this title, the
words, phrases and terms included in this title shall be deemed to
have the meaning ascribed to them by this chapter.
(Ord. 1270 § 3, 2021)
"Abutting, adjoining or contiguous" means, in reference to real
property, two or more lots sharing a common boundary line; with reference
to two or more objects, "abutting, adjoining or contiguous" means
in immediate contact with each other.
(Ord. 1270 § 3, 2021)
"Access" means the place, or way, by which pedestrians and/or
vehicles shall have safe, adequate and usable ingress and egress to
a property.
(Ord. 1270 § 3, 2021)
"Accessory dwelling unit" means an attached or a detached residential
dwelling unit that provides complete independent living facilities
for one or more persons and is located on a lot with a proposed or
existing primary residence. An accessory dwelling unit may include
the following:
A.
An
efficiency unit, as defined in Section 17958.1 of the Health and Safety
Code.
B.
A manufactured
home, as defined in Section 18007 of the Health and Safety Code.
(Ord. 1270 § 3, 2021)
"Accessory use" means a use customarily incidental, related
and clearly subordinate, to a permitted principal use, which accessory
use is established on the same lot as the principal use.
(Ord. 1270 § 3, 2021)
"Adjacent" means two or more objects which are located in close
proximity to each other.
(Ord. 1270 § 3, 2021)
"Adult-use" (or nonmedical) refers to an activity involving
cannabis or cannabis products that is restricted to adults 21 years
of age and over and who do not possess physician's recommendations,
in contrast to activities involving medical cannabis or medical cannabis
products.
(Ord. 1270 § 3, 2021)
"Alcoholism hospital" means an institution intended solely for
the admission, diagnosis and intensive short-term treatment of patients
addicted to excessive use of alcohol, and related conditions, licensed
as such by the State of California.
(Ord. 1270 § 3, 2021)
"Alley" means a public or private way, other than a street or
highway, permanently reserved as a means of secondary vehicular access
to adjoining properties.
(Ord. 1270 § 3, 2021)
"Antenna or wireless communication facility" means a device
used in communications which transmits or receives radio signals.
"Antennas and wireless communication facilities" shall include, but
not be limited to, dish, panel, satellite, whips, building-mounted
and freestanding structures used for the transmission or receipt of
radio signals.
(Ord. 1270 § 3, 2021)
"Apartment house" means the same as multiple dwelling.
(Ord. 1270 § 3, 2021)
"Assessor" means the tax assessor of the County of Los Angeles.
(Ord. 1270 § 3, 2021)
"Automobile and truck wash facilities" means:
A.
"Automobile
and truck wash facilities—Ancillary" means an automobile and
truck washing facility that is operated in connection with a primary
business such as a gas station.
B.
"Automobile
and truck wash facilities—Mobile" means automobile and truck
washing and detailing which is capable of moving from one location
to another, such as to serve customers at their residences or places
of work.
C.
"Automobile
and truck wash facilities—Stand-alone" means an automobile and
truck washing facility where motor vehicle washing is the primary
activity, with no other principal use, such as a gas station. As part
of its operation, an automobile or truck wash facility may include
ancillary retail and service business such as vehicle detailing work.
(Ord. 1270 § 3, 2021)
"Basement" means that portion of a building which is totally
or partly below the level finished grade of the lot upon which it
is located.
(Ord. 1270 § 3, 2021)
"Billboard" means a large, off-premises sign structure designed
for changeable copy, which is used for the advertisement of goods,
products, causes, activities, or services, and can also serve public
service purposes. These are typically positioned on highly visible,
heavy traffic locations such as expressways and major roadways. "Off-premises"
means that the billboard identifies a business, activity, cause, service,
or product at a location other than where the billboard is displayed.
"Advertisement" in the context of billboards should be interpreted
broadly and not be limited to refer only to commercial activity.
(Ord. 1278 § 2, 2023)
"Board" or "architectural review board" means the architectural
review board created by the city council which board shall perform
the functions assigned to it pursuant to the provisions of the Bell
zoning code.
(Ord. 1270 § 3, 2021)
"Borrow pit" means the same as quarry.
(Ord. 1270 § 3, 2021)
"Building" means any structure having a roof supported by columns
or by walls and intended for the shelter, housing or enclosure of
persons or property of any kind.
(Ord. 1270 § 3, 2021)
"Accessory building" means a detached building housing a permitted
accessory use, located on the same lot as the main building or principal
use; provided, that if the same is attached to a main building by
a common wall or roof, it shall be deemed to be a part of such main
building.
(Ord. 1270 § 3, 2021)
"Main building" means a building in which is conducted a principal
use permitted upon the lot upon which it is situated.
(Ord. 1270 § 3, 2021)
"Building or structure height" means the vertical distance from
the average finished grade of the lot to the highest point of the
building or structure. The average finished grade of a lot shall be
determined by taking the average of the highest and lowest elevations
of the curb at the street providing primary access to the property.
(Ord. 1270 § 3, 2021)
"Business" means any employment, vocation, occupation, profession,
trade, calling, lawful game, show, exhibition, event, venture, fund-raising
activity, commercial enterprise, company, corporation, joint enterprise,
place of business, partnership or other activity or enterprise engaged
in for gain, profit, benefit, advantage or livelihood, whether or
not a gain, profit, benefit, advantage or livelihood is earned by
such business.
(Ord. 1270 § 3, 2021)
"Business frontage" means the portion of a building occupied
by a single business tenant that fronts, or nearly fronts (not more
than 45 degrees), on a public street, faces a courtyard, pedestrian
corridor or walkway, parking lot or alley.
(Ord. 1270 § 3, 2021)
"Cannabis" has the same definition as provided in Section 26001
of the Business and Professions Code for the term "cannabis," and
as may be amended, defined as "all parts of the plant Cannabis sativa
Linnaeus, Cannabis indica, or Cannabis ruderalis, whether growing
or not; the seeds thereof; the resin, whether crude or purified, extracted
from any part of the plant; and every compound, manufacture, salt,
derivative, mixture, or preparation of the plant, its seeds, or resin.
'Cannabis' also means the separated resin, whether crude or purified,
obtained from cannabis. 'Cannabis' does not include the mature stalks
of the plant, fiber produced from the stalks, oil or cake made from
the seeds of the plant, any other compound, manufacture, salt, derivative,
mixture, or preparation of the mature stalks (except the resin extracted
there from), fiber, oil, or cake, or the sterilized seed of the plant
which is incapable of germination."
(Ord. 1270 § 3, 2021)
"Cannabis products" means cannabis that has undergone a process
whereby the plant material has been transformed into a concentrate,
including, but not limited to, concentrated cannabis, or an edible
or topical product containing cannabis or concentrated cannabis and
other ingredients.
(Ord. 1270 § 3, 2021)
"CAO" means the chief administrative officer of the City of
Bell.
(Ord. 1270 § 3, 2021)
"Carport" means a permanently roofed structure with not more
than two enclosed sides, used or intended to be used for automobile
shelter.
(Ord. 1270 § 3, 2021)
"Cellar" means the same as basement.
(Ord. 1270 § 3, 2021)
"Centerline" means the centerline of any street, highway or
alley.
(Ord. 1270 § 3, 2021)
"Check cashing service" means an operation for which a license
is required pursuant to Section 12004 et seq., of the Financial Code
of the State of California.
(Ord. 1270 § 3, 2021)
"Cheli district," as understood by the city's general plan and
as may be amended, means an area within the boundaries of the City
of Bell, located on the northeast of the Central City Area, generally
described as the area bordered by the 710 Freeway and the Los Angeles
River along its southwest boundaries, southeast of Atlantic Boulevard,
the area south of Bandini Boulevard between Atlantic Boulevard and
Pennington Way, bordered by Pennington Way on the northwest, the area
south of 26th Street and the Atchison Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad,
bordered by Eastern Avenue along the east, the portion east of Eastern
Avenue between Bandini Boulevard (north) and the Atchison Topeka and
Santa Fe Railroad (south), and bordered by Mansfield Way along its
south boundary.
(Ord. 1270 § 3, 2021)
"Child care facilities" means a child care facility which provides
nonmedical care to children under 18 years of age in need of personal
services, supervision or assistance essential for sustaining the activities
of daily living or for the protection of the individual on less than
a 24 hour basis. Child care facilities include day care centers and
family day care homes.
(Ord. 1270 § 3, 2021)
"Children's day care center (emotionally disturbed)" means a
facility intended solely for the admission of minors with mental illness
or neurological or emotional disorders, who are provided with an organized
daytime program of services, licensed as such by the State of California.
Patients are not permitted to remain overnight.
(Ord. 1270 § 3, 2021)
"Children's treatment center (emotionally disturbed)" means
an institution of one bed capacity or more intended solely for the
admission and treatment of minors with mental illness or behavior
or emotional disorders, licensed as such by the State of California.
(Ord. 1270 § 3, 2021)
"City" means the City of Bell.
(Ord. 1270 § 3, 2021)
"Clerk" means the city clerk of the City of Bell.
(Ord. 1270 § 3, 2021)
"Private club" means any building or premises used by an association
of persons, whether incorporated or unincorporated, organized for
some common purpose, but not including a group organized solely or
primarily to render a service customarily carried on as a commercial
enterprise.
(Ord. 1270 § 3, 2021)
"Commercial cannabis operation" includes the cultivation, possession,
manufacture, distribution, processing, storing, laboratory testing,
packaging, labeling, transportation, delivery, or sale (including
retail and wholesale) of cannabis and cannabis products; except, as
applicable, as governed by regulations for personal cannabis cultivation
provided by this code, or as preempted by state law.
(Ord. 1270 § 3, 2021)
"Commercial cannabis operation permit" means a City of Bell permit issued pursuant to the procedures provided for in Chapter 5.88 and which shall allow the permit holder to operate a specific type of commercial cannabis operation in the City of Bell subject to the requirements of Chapter 5.88, this code, state law, and the specific permit.
(Ord. 1270 § 3, 2021)
"Commission" means the planning commission of the City of Bell.
(Ord. 1270 § 3, 2021)
"Communications equipment buildings" means buildings housing
operating electrical and mechanical equipment utilized in conducting
a public utility communications operation.
(Ord. 1270 § 3, 2021)
"Condominium" means dwelling unit as is described in Section
783 of the Civil Code of the State of California.
(Ord. 1270 § 3, 2021)
"Convalescent home" means the same as nursing and convalescent
hospital, licensed as such by the State of California.
(Ord. 1270 § 3, 2021)
"Council" means the city council of the City of Bell.
(Ord. 1270 § 3, 2021)
"Court" means an area which is open and unoccupied by any building
or structure, bounded on three or more sides by the exterior walls
of a building. An inner court is a court entirely enclosed within
the exterior walls of a building. All other courts are outer courts.
(Ord. 1270 § 3, 2021)
"Cultivation" means any activity involving the planting, growing,
harvesting, drying, curing, grading, or trimming of cannabis.
(Ord. 1270 § 3, 2021)
"CUP" means conditional use permit.
(Ord. 1270 § 3, 2021)
"Dairy" means any premises where one or more cows or goats,
or any combination thereof, are kept or maintained for the purpose
of producing milk.
(Ord. 1270 § 3, 2021)
"Day care center" means any child care facility, other than
a large or small family day care home, which includes infant centers,
pre-schools and extended day care facilities, which provides day care
to four or more children.
(Ord. 1270 § 3, 2021)
"Day center" means a facility intended solely for the admission
of patients with intellectual disabilities, who are provided with
a daytime program of education or training, handicraft, vocational
and recreational activities, licensed as such by the State of California.
Patients are not permitted to remain overnight.
(Ord. 1270 § 3, 2021)
"Day treatment hospital" means a place intended solely for the
admission and treatment of patients with mental illness or mental
disorder, who are provided with a daytime program of organized treatment,
activities and supervision under medical direction, licensed as such
by the State of California. Patients are not permitted to remain overnight.
(Ord. 1270 § 3, 2021)
"Digital billboard" means a billboard that utilizes digital
message technology capable of changing the static message or copy
on the sign electronically or wirelessly via computer. This includes,
without limitation, bill-boards also known as electronic billboards
or LED billboards.
(Ord. 1278 § 2, 2023)
"Director" means the director of community development for the
City of Bell or designee.
(Ord. 1270 § 3, 2021)
"Distribution" means the procurement, sale, and transport of
cannabis and cannabis products between entities licensed for and/or
engaged in commercial cannabis operations.
(Ord. 1270 § 3, 2021)
"Inert solid dump" means an area devoted to the disposal of
non-water soluble, nondecomposable inert solids such as natural earth,
rock, sand and gravel paving fragments, concrete, brick, plaster and
plaster products; steel mill slag; glass; asbestos fiber and products
there from.
(Ord. 1270 § 3, 2021)
"Rubbish and refuse dump" means an area devoted to the disposal
of inert solids and/or decomposable organic refuse and scrap metal.
(Ord. 1270 § 3, 2021)
"Duplex" means the same as two-family dwelling.
(Ord. 1270 § 3, 2021)
"Multiple dwelling" means a building containing two or more
dwelling units.
(Ord. 1270 § 3, 2021)
"Single-family or one-family dwelling" means a building designed
and used for occupancy as living quarters for one family and containing
one dwelling unit.
(Ord. 1270 § 3, 2021)
"Three-family dwelling" means a building designed or used for
occupancy as living quarters by three families and containing three
dwelling units.
(Ord. 1270 § 3, 2021)
"Two-family dwelling" means a building designed or used for
occupancy as living quarters by two families and containing two dwelling
units.
(Ord. 1270 § 3, 2021)
"Dwelling unit" means one or more rooms in a building used or
intended to be used for occupancy by one family as its living quarters.
(Ord. 1270 § 3, 2021)
"Educational institution" means any public, private or parochial,
elementary, junior high, high school, university, or other school
giving general academic instruction in the several branches of learning.
(Ord. 1270 § 3, 2021)
"Explosives" means any explosive substance as defined in Section
12000 of the Health and Safety Code of the State of California.
(Ord. 1270 § 3, 2021)
"Facilities for drug addicts" means facilities licensed by the
state which admit, treat and care for patients who are addicted to
the use of narcotic drugs.
(Ord. 1270 § 3, 2021)
"Family" means persons living together as a single housekeeping
unit in an apartment or dwelling unit.
(Ord. 1270 § 3, 2021)
"Family day care home" means a home which regularly provides
care, protection and supervision of 12 or fewer children, in the provider's
own home, for periods of less than 24 hours per day, while the parents
or guardians are away and includes the following:
A.
"Large
family day care home" means a family day care home which provides
family day care to seven to 12 children, inclusive, including children
under the age of 10 years who reside at the family day care home,
as defined in regulations issued by the State of California; and
B.
"Small
family day care home" means a family day care home which provides
family day care to six or fewer children, inclusive, including children
under the age of 10 years who reside at the family day care home,
as defined in regulations issued by the State of California.
(Ord. 1270 § 3, 2021)
"Family home (intellectually disabled)" means a facility intended
solely for the admission of one or more intellectually disabled patients
who are provided with a program of services and protective supervision
in a home setting.
(Ord. 1270 § 3, 2021)
"Family home (mentally ill)" means a facility intended solely
for the admission of not more than six mentally ill or emotionally
disordered patients who are provided with a program of services and
protective supervision in a home setting.
(Ord. 1270 § 3, 2021)
"View-obscuring fence" means a solid masonry wall, a wooden
fence with openings between joints less than one-half inch, or chain
link fabric with interwoven opaque plastic, metal or wooden slats
with openings less than one-half inch.
(Ord. 1270 § 3, 2021)
"Gross floor area" means the total horizontal floor area of
all floors of a building included within its surrounding walls.
(Ord. 1270 § 3, 2021)
"Net floor area" means the total horizontal floor area of all
the floors of a building included within the surrounding walls, exclusive
of vents, shafts, courts and off-street parking facilities.
(Ord. 1270 § 3, 2021)
"Fortunetelling" means the business or art of astrology, phrenology,
life reading, fortunetelling, clairvoyance, clairaudience, crystal
gazing, hypnotism, mediumship, mesmerism, oriental mysteries, palmistry,
spirit photography, spirit writing, spirit voices, spirit materialization,
etherealization, numerology, augury, divination, or other similar
or related art or business.
(Ord. 1270 § 3, 2021)
"Freestanding sign" means a permanent sign that is self-supporting
in a fixed location and not attached to a building. A freestanding
sign can be connected or attached to a fence or wall that is not an
integral part of a building. Freestanding signs include, but are not
limited to, monument signs, pole signs, and pylon signs.
(Ord. 1270 § 3, 2021)
"Street frontage" means the width of the front boundary line
of a lot which abuts upon a street or highway.
(Ord. 1270 § 3, 2021)
"Garage" means any building, with three enclosed sides, having
not less than 200 square feet of floor area, provided with a closeable
access door or doors, which is used or intended to be used for automobile
shelter or storage.
(Ord. 1270 § 3, 2021)
When consistent with context, words in the masculine gender
include the feminine and neuter genders.
(Ord. 1270 § 3, 2021)
"Ground level grade" means the average level of the finished
ground surface of a lot, immediately surrounding a building, measured
at the center of all walls of the building.
(Ord. 1270 § 3, 2021)
"Gradient" means the rate of vertical change of a ground surface
expressed as a percentage figure and determined by dividing the vertical
distance by the horizontal distance.
(Ord. 1270 § 3, 2021)
"Guest house or accessory living quarters" means living quarters
within an accessory building for the sole use of persons employed
on the premises, or for temporary use by guests of the occupants of
the premises. Such quarters shall have no kitchen facilities and shall
not be rented or otherwise used as a separate dwelling unit.
(Ord. 1270 § 3, 2021)
See building or structure height.
(Ord. 1270 § 3, 2021)
"Major highway" means a major highway designated as such by
the city council.
(Ord. 1270 § 3, 2021)
"Secondary highway" means a secondary highway designated as
such by the city council.
(Ord. 1270 § 3, 2021)
"Hog ranch" means any premises where one or more weaned hogs
are kept or maintained.
(Ord. 1270 § 3, 2021)
"Home occupation" means an occupation, calling or profession
carried on by an occupant of a dwelling unit, located in an R zone,
as an accessory use.
(Ord. 1270 § 3, 2021)
"Hospital" means an institution staffed and equipped to provide
the various types of intensified hospital care, including, but not
limited to, short-term care in acute medical, surgical and obstetrical
services, but shall not include the treatment, other than on an emergency
temporary basis, of alcoholic or mental patients.
(Ord. 1270 § 3, 2021)
"Hotel" means any building or portion of any building with access
provided through a common entrance, lobby or hallway to one or more
guest rooms, which have no cooking facilities, and which are designed
and intended to be used or are used, rented or hired out as temporary
or overnight accommodations for guests.
(Ord. 1270 § 3, 2021)
"Household pets" means, and is limited to, only the following
animals, birds and or fish, and no others:
A.
Cats;
and/or
B.
Dogs;
and/or
C.
Fish;
provided, however, that the total capacity of all containers for fish
shall not exceed 100 gallons per dwelling unit; and/or
(Ord. 1270 § 3, 2021)
"Indoor," in the context of commercial cultivation, refers to
cultivation using exclusively artificial lighting and no natural lighting.
(Ord. 1270 § 3, 2021)
"Interior sign" means any sign located greater than three feet
inside a building, not attached to an exterior window or door.
(Ord. 1270 § 3, 2021)
"Junior accessory dwelling unit" means a unit that is no more
than 500 square feet in size and contained within a single-family
residence.
(Ord. 1270 § 3, 2021)
"Kitchen" means any room or space within a building designed,
intended to be used or used for the cooking or preparation of food.
(Ord. 1270 § 3, 2021)
"Landscaped area" means an area upon which landscaping is required
to be continuously maintained.
(Ord. 1270 § 3, 2021)
"Landscaping" means the planting and maintenance of some combination
of trees, shrubs, vines, groundcovers, flowers, lawn or other flora.
Accessory to the plantings, natural features such as rock and stone,
and structural features, including, but not limited to, fountains,
reflecting pools, artworks, screens, walls, fences and benches, may
be included in the combination provided such nonflora features do
not exceed seven and one-half percent of the landscaped area.
(Ord. 1270 § 3, 2021)
"Live entertainment" means every form of live entertainment,
music, acting, play, show, fashion show, review, pantomime, scene,
song or dance, act, or song and dance act, or any other act or performance
participated in by one or more persons, whether paid performers or
guests or patrons, for purposes of holding the attention, gaining
the attention and interest of, diverting or amusing guests or patrons,
and shall include any of such forms of live entertainment for the
purpose of advertisement, demonstration, or display of goods, wares,
merchandise or services with the exception of "adult entertainment"
as defined in the city's definition section of the zoning ordinance
codified in this section.
(Ord. 1270 § 3, 2021)
"Long-term facility" means an institution of one-patient capacity
or more intended primarily for the admission of chronic mentally ill,
or mentally disordered patients, who are provided nursing services
and intensive supervision, licensed as such by the State of California.
(Ord. 1270 § 3, 2021)
"Lot or parcel of land" means:
A.
A parcel
of real property which is shown as a lot in a subdivision recorded
pursuant to the provisions of the Subdivision Map Act; or
B.
A parcel
of real property, the dimensions and boundaries of which are defined
by a recorded record of survey map; or
C.
A parcel
of real property shown on a parcel map, recorded pursuant to the provisions
of the Subdivision Map Act; or
D.
A parcel
of real property lawfully created and dimensioned prior to the adoption
of the ordinance codified in this title.
(Ord. 1270 § 3, 2021)
"Lot area" means the total area, measured in a horizontal plane,
included within the lot lines of a lot.
(Ord. 1270 § 3, 2021)
"Corner lot" means a lot situated at the intersection of two
or more streets and highways.
(Ord. 1270 § 3, 2021)
"Lot depth" means the horizontal distance measured between the
midpoints of the front and rear lot lines.
(Ord. 1270 § 3, 2021)
"Interior lot" means a lot other than a corner or reversed corner
lot.
(Ord. 1270 § 3, 2021)
"Front lot line" means a line separating an interior lot from
a street; in the case of a corner lot, the lot line separating the
narrowest street frontage of the lot from the street. In the case
of a lot having no street frontage, "front lot line" means the narrowest
lot line parallel and closest to the nearest street or highway, as
determined by the director.
(Ord. 1270 § 3, 2021)
"Rear lot line" means a lot line which is most distant from
the front lot line.
(Ord. 1270 § 3, 2021)
"Side lot line" means any lot boundary line which is not a front
or rear lot line.
(Ord. 1270 § 3, 2021)
"Reversed corner lot" means a corner lot, the side lot line
of which is substantially a continuation of the front line of a lot
which adjoins the rear lot line of such corner lot.
(Ord. 1270 § 3, 2021)
"Through lot" means a lot, having frontage on two approximately
parallel streets or highways.
(Ord. 1270 § 3, 2021)
"Lot width" means the horizontal distance between the side lot
lines measured between two points each located on the side lot lines
at a distance midway between the front and rear lot lines.
(Ord. 1270 § 3, 2021)
"Manufacturer" means a person that conducts the production,
preparation, propagation, or compounding of cannabis or cannabis products
either directly or indirectly or by extraction methods, or independently
by means of chemical synthesis, or by a combination of extraction
and chemical synthesis at a fixed location that packages or repackages
cannabis or cannabis products or labels or relabels its container.
(Ord. 1270 § 3, 2021)
"Manufacturer Level 1 (Type 6)" means a manufacturer that manufactures
cannabis products using nonvolatile solvents, or no solvents, as understood
by Chapter 13 ("Manufacturers and Cannabis Products") of Division
10 ("Cannabis") of the Business and Professions Code, and as may be
amended.
(Ord. 1270 § 3, 2021)
"Manufacturer Level 2 (Type 7)" means a manufacturer that manufactures
cannabis products using volatile solvents, as understood by Chapter
13 ("Manufacturers and Cannabis Products") of Division 10 ("Cannabis")
of the Business and Professions Code, and as may be amended.
(Ord. 1270 § 3, 2021)
"Marijuana" has the same definition as provided for "cannabis"
in this chapter.
(Ord. 1270 § 3, 2021)
"May" is permissive.
(Ord. 1270 § 3, 2021)
"Medical" refers to activities involving medical cannabis or
medical cannabis products, in contrast to activities involving adult-use
cannabis or adult-use cannabis products.
(Ord. 1270 § 3, 2021)
"Medical and/or dental clinic" means any facility providing
physical health service, or medical, surgical or dental care of the
sick or injured, but shall not include in-patient or overnight accommodations.
"Medical clinic" includes health center, health clinic, doctors' and
dentists' offices.
(Ord. 1270 § 3, 2021)
"Medical cannabis" or "medical cannabis product" means cannabis
or a cannabis product used for medical purposes in accordance with
state law, including the Compassionate Use Act (Health and Safety
Code Section 11362.5), the Medical Marijuana Program Act (Health and
Safety Code Section 11362.7, et seq.), and the Medicinal and Adult-Use
Cannabis Regulation and Safety Act (Business and Professions Code
Section 26000, et seq.).
(Ord. 1270 § 3, 2021)
"Microbusiness" shall have the same definition in regards to
cannabis uses as provided for in Section 26070 of the Business and
Professions Code, and as may be amended from time to time.
(Ord. 1270 § 3, 2021)
"Mixed-light," in the context of commercial cultivation, refers
to cultivation using a combination of natural and supplemental artificial
lighting.
(Ord. 1270 § 3, 2021)
"Mobilehome or coach" means a structure which is:
A.
Installed
on a foundation system as specified in Section 18551 of the California
Health and Safety Code;
B.
Manufactured
and certified under the National Mobile Home Construction and Safety
Standards Act of 1974; and
C.
Designed
and used for occupancy, as living quarters, for one family.
(Ord. 1270 § 3, 2021)
"Motel" means one or more buildings containing guest rooms or
dwelling units, without kitchen facilities, with one or more such
guest rooms or units, each having a separate entrance leading directly
from the outside of the buildings or from an inner court; which facilities
are designed, used or intended to be used, rented or hired out for
temporary or overnight accommodations for guests, and are offered
primarily to automobile tourists or transients by signs or other advertising
media; one unit, for use by a manager, may have kitchen facilities.
"Motel" includes auto courts, motor lodges and tourists courts.
(Ord. 1270 § 3, 2021)
"Monument sign" means a freestanding low-profile sign directly
supported by a foundation or pedestal base affixed to the ground.
(Ord. 1270 § 3, 2021)
A.
"Nonconforming
building or structure" means a building or structure, or portion thereof,
which was lawfully altered or constructed in accordance with the zoning
regulations of the city in effect as of the time of such construction
or alteration, but which, by reason of the application thereto of
the provisions of this title, does not conform to the regulations
contained in this title.
B.
"Nonconforming
use" means the utilization of land, building, buildings or structures,
or any combination thereof, which use, when established, conformed
to the then existing zoning regulations in effect as of the time of
the commencement of such use, but which by reason of the application
of the provisions of this title thereto, does not conform to the regulations
contained in this title.
(Ord. 1270 § 3, 2021)
Whenever written notice is required to be given under this title,
the same shall be given by personal service thereof upon the persons
to be notified, or by United States mail, postage prepaid, addressed
to such person at his or her last known address, such notice shall
be conclusively deemed complete upon the same being deposited in the
course of postal transmission.
(Ord. 1270 § 3, 2021)
"Nursery" means a person that produces indoors (not mixed-light
nor outdoors) only clones, immature plants, seeds, and other agricultural
products used specifically for the planting, propagation, and cultivation
of cannabis.
(Ord. 1270 § 3, 2021)
"Nursery (special needs)" means a facility intended primarily
for the admission of nonambulatory mentally retarded patients, who
are provided nursing services primarily in crib accommodations.
(Ord. 1270 § 3, 2021)
"Nursery school" means the same as child care facility.
(Ord. 1270 § 3, 2021)
"Nursing and convalescent hospital" means any place or institution
which provides bed accommodations for one or more chronic or convalescent
patients who, by reason of illness or physical infirmity, are unable
to properly care for themselves. Alcoholics, drug addicts, persons
with mental or communicable diseases, including contagious tuberculosis,
shall not be admitted or cared for in nursing and convalescent hospitals.
(Ord. 1270 § 3, 2021; )
"Oath" includes affirmation.
(Ord. 1270 § 3, 2021)
"Outdoor," in the context of commercial cultivation, refers
to cultivation using exclusively natural lighting and no artificial
lighting.
(Ord. 1270 § 3, 2021)
"Outdoor advertising structure" or "billboard" means a sign
or other advertising structure, which may be printed (static) or digital,
and is designed and primarily used to solicit public support or direct
public attention to the sale, lease, hire or use of any objects, products,
services or functions, which are not produced, sold or otherwise available
on the premises where such sign or structure is located.
(Ord. 1270 § 3, 2021; Ord. 1283, 11/8/2023)
"Outdoor play equipment" means apparatus designed and intended
for play and enjoyment by children. These apparatuses should contain
elements such as: slides, balance features, swings, climbing features
and/or other enjoyable elements arranged in such a manner as to create
a play space for children.
(Ord. 1270 § 3, 2021)
"Off-street parking space" means a readily accessible area on
a lot, not including driveways, ramps, loading or work areas, maintained
exclusively for the parking of one automobile.
(Ord. 1270 § 3, 2021)
"Person" means any individual, firm, co-partnership, joint venture,
association, social club, fraternal organization, corporation, limited
liability company, estate, trust, business trust, receiver, syndicate,
district, political subdivision, public utility, or any other group
or combination acting as a unit, except the City of Bell.
(Ord. 1270 § 3, 2021)
"Physician's recommendation" means a determination from a physician
that a patient's medical cannabis use is deemed appropriate and is
recommended by the physician on the basis of the physician has determined
that the patient's health would benefit from the use of cannabis in
the treatment of cancer, anorexia, AIDS, chronic pain, spasticity,
glaucoma, arthritis, migraine, or any other illness for which cannabis
provides relief, in strict accordance with the Compassionate Use Act
of 1996 (Proposition 215), and as understood by Section 11362.5 of
the Health and Safety Code.
(Ord. 1270 § 3, 2021)
When consistent with the context, words in the plural include
the singular.
(Ord. 1270 § 3, 2021)
"Pole sign" means a freestanding sign wholly supported by poles,
columns or other upright structure that are affixed to the ground.
(Ord. 1270 § 3, 2021)
"Precise plan of development" means a precise plan of development approved as such pursuant to Chapter 17.48 of this title.
(Ord. 1270 § 3, 2021)
"Processing" means, when used in reference to a commercial or
industrial use, one or more acts or operations which have the effect
of changing the form of a product or material, so as to render the
same more salable or usable.
(Ord. 1270 § 3, 2021)
"Projecting sign" (also known as a blade sign) means a building-mounted,
double-sided sign with the two faces perpendicular to the building
wall.
(Ord. 1270 § 3, 2021)
"Psychiatric hospital" means an institution intended primarily
for the admission, diagnosis and intensive short-term treatment of
patients with mental illness or behavior or emotional disorders.
(Ord. 1270 § 3, 2021)
"Pylon sign" means a freestanding sign in excess of 25 feet
in height that is detached from a building and is supported by one
or more structural elements which are architecturally similar to the
design of the sign.
(Ord. 1270 § 3, 2021)
"Quarry" means any place on a lot where dirt, soil, sand, gravel,
rock or other similar material is removed by excavation or otherwise,
for any purpose except:
A.
The
excavation and removal of materials from a lot preparatory to construction
of a building for which a building permit has been issued and remains
in full force and effect, provided that such excavation is confined
to that necessary for such building construction but in no event shall
more than 5,000 cubic yards of soil or other excavated materials be
removed from the premises; and
B.
Excavation
on a lot necessary to grading, building construction or operation
on the premises, where a building permit is not in full force and
effect, provided that such grading is necessary to prepare a site
for a lawful use permitted thereon, and for which a grading plan has
been approved.
(Ord. 1270 § 3, 2021)
"Recorder" means the county recorder of the County of Los Angeles.
(Ord. 1270 § 3, 2021)
"Recyclable material" means reusable material, including, but
not limited to, metals, glass, plastic and paper, which are intended
for reuse, remanufacture or reconstitution for the purpose of using
the altered form. "Recyclable material" does not include refuse or
hazardous materials. "Recyclable material" may include used motor
oil collected and transported in accordance with Sections 25250.11
and 25143.2 of the California Health and Safety Code.
(Ord. 1270 § 3, 2021)
"Small or large recycling collection facility" means a center
for the acceptance, by donation, redemption, or purchase, of recyclable
materials from the public. A recycling collection facility shall not
use power-driven processing equipment.
(Ord. 1270 § 3, 2021)
"Small recycling collection facility" means a recycling collection
facility which occupies an area of 500 square feet or less and includes
any of the following:
A.
Bulk
reverse vending machines or a grouping of reverse vending machines
occupying more than 50 square feet; or
B.
Kiosk
type units, which may include permanent structures; or
C.
Unattended
containers placed for the donation of recyclable materials.
(Ord. 1270 § 3, 2021)
"Large recycling collection facility" means a recycling collection
facility which occupies an area of more than 500 square feet and may
include permanent structures.
(Ord. 1270 § 3, 2021)
"Light or heavy recycling processing facility" means a building
or enclosed space used for the collection and processing of recyclable
materials. "Processing" means the preparation of material for efficient
shipment, or to an end-user's specifications, by such means as baling,
briquetting, compacting, flattening, grinding, crushing, mechanical
sorting, shredding, cleaning or remanufacturing.
A.
A light
recycling processing facility is a facility occupying an area of under
45,000 square feet of gross collection, processing and storage area
and has up to an average of two outboard truck shipments per day.
Light recycling processing facilities are limited to baling, briquetting,
crushing, compacting, grinding, shredding and sorting of source-separated
recyclable materials and repairing of reusable materials sufficient
to qualify as a certified processing facility. A light recycling processing
facility shall not shred, compact or bale ferrous metals other than
food and beverage containers.
B.
A heavy
recycling processing facility is any recycling processing facility
other than a light recycling processing facility.
(Ord. 1270 § 3, 2021)
"Mobile recycling unit" means an automobile, truck, trailer
or van, licensed by the Department of Motor Vehicles, which is used
for the collection of recyclable materials. "Mobile recycling unit"
also means the bins, boxes or containers transported by trucks, vans
or trailers, and used for the collection of recyclable materials.
(Ord. 1270 § 3, 2021)
"Resident facility (developmentally disabled)" means an institution
of one-bed capacity or more intended solely for the admission of developmentally
disabled patients who require supervision and who are provided with
an organized program of services, licensed as such by the State of
California.
(Ord. 1270 § 3, 2021)
"Resident school (developmentally disabled)" means a facility
intended primarily for the training and education of developmentally
disabled persons.
(Ord. 1270 § 3, 2021)
"Rest home" means the same as nursing and convalescent hospital,
licensed as such by the State of California.
(Ord. 1270 § 3, 2021)
"Retailer" means a person engaged in the retail sale and delivery
of cannabis or cannabis products to customers.
(Ord. 1270 § 3, 2021)
"Reverse vending machine" means an automated mechanical device
which accepts at least one or more types of empty beverage containers
including, but not limited to, aluminum cans, glass and plastic bottles,
and issues a cash refund or a redeemable credit slip with a value
not less than the container's redemption value as determined by state
law. A reverse vending machine may sort and process containers mechanically
provided that the entire process is enclosed within the machine.
(Ord. 1270 § 3, 2021)
"Bulk reverse vending machine" means a reverse vending machine
that is larger than 50 square feet, is designed to accept more than
one container at a time and will pay by weight instead of by container.
(Ord. 1270 § 3, 2021)
"School, charter" is a public school operated independently
of public school systems, either by non-profit or for-profit organizations.
Charter schools generally receive a percentage of the per-pupil funds
from the state and local school districts for operational costs based
on enrollment.
(Ord. 1270 § 3, 2021)
"School, vocational" is a type of post-secondary education that
trains students for a specific line of work, often in healthcare or
other hands-on fields. Vocational schools are different from typical
four-year colleges because the programs are less academic and more
job-focused. "School, vocational" includes business colleges, dance
academies, music instruction and other commercial schools or instructional
institutions.
(Ord. 1270 § 3, 2021)
"School, private" is a school that does not get money from the
government and that is run by a group of private individuals. This
shall include parochial schools, resident schools, day centers, day
care centers and nursery schools as defined in the BMC.
(Ord. 1270 § 3, 2021)
"School, public" is a school that is maintained at public expense
for the education of the children of a community or district and that
constitutes a part of a system of free public education commonly including
primary and secondary schools.
(Ord. 1270 § 3, 2021)
"Secretary" means the secretary of the commission.
(Ord. 1270 § 3, 2021)
"Service station" means a retail place of business engaged primarily
in the sale of motor fuels but also in supplying goods and services
generally required in the operation and maintenance of motor vehicles.
Such goods and services include sale of petroleum products; sale and
servicing of tires, batteries, automotive accessories and replacement
items; washing and lubrication services; the performance of minor
automotive maintenance and repair; and the supplying of other incidental
customer services and products. Major automotive repairs, painting
and body and fender work are excluded.
(Ord. 1270 § 3, 2021)
"Senior citizen housing complex" means and includes the following:
two or more residential units located in a building off a lot within
the city which are designated, used and/or restricted for use by persons
who are over the age of 55 years or who are disabled, as defined by
applicable law.
(Ord. 1270 § 3, 2021)
"Shall" is mandatory.
(Ord. 1270 § 3, 2021)
"Sign" means any device for visual communication, including
any announcement, declaration, demonstration, display, illustration
or insignia, which is used to advertise or promote the products or
services of any person, business group or enterprise.
(Ord. 1270 § 3, 2021)
When consistent with the context, words in the singular number
shall include the plural.
(Ord. 1270 § 3, 2021)
"Solid fill" means any noncombustible materials, insoluble in
water, such as soil, rock, sand or gravel, that can be used for grading
land or filling depressions.
(Ord. 1270 § 3, 2021)
"Solid fill project" means any operation on a parcel of land
where more than 1,000 cubic yards of solid fill materials are deposited
for any purpose including the grading or reclaiming of land.
(Ord. 1270 § 3, 2021)
"Sports equipment" means equipment utilized for athletic purposes,
including, but not limited to, weights, ropes, and other related training
equipment.
(Ord. 1270 § 3, 2021)
"State" means the State of California.
(Ord. 1270 § 3, 2021)
"Story" means that portion of a building included between the
upper surface of any floor and the upper surface of the floor next
above, except that the topmost story shall be that portion of a building
included between the upper surface of the topmost floor and the ceiling
or roof above. Story includes a basement.
(Ord. 1270 § 3, 2021)
"Street" means a public or private way permanently reserved
as a primary means of vehicular access to adjoining property.
(Ord. 1270 § 3, 2021)
See Frontage, street.
(Ord. 1270 § 3, 2021)
"Structure" means anything constructed or erected, which requires
a fixed location on the ground, or is attached to something having
a fixed location on the ground.
(Ord. 1270 § 3, 2021)
"Temporary election season sign" means a sign that is erected
no more than 45 days before and/or maintained in place no more than
10 days after an election at which residents of Bell are eligible
to vote.
(Ord. 1270 § 3, 2021)
When consistent with the context, words used in the present
tense include the past and future tenses; and words in the future
tense include the present tense.
(Ord. 1270 § 3, 2021)
"Testing laboratory" means a laboratory, facility, or entity
that offers or performs tests on cannabis or cannabis products.
(Ord. 1270 § 3, 2021)
"Townhouse" means a dwelling unit which is located upon a slot
upon which only that dwelling unit is located, and the lot is included
in an approved precise plan of development.
(Ord. 1270 § 3, 2021)
"Trailer coach" means a mobilehome which is transportable in
one or more sections, built on a permanent chassis, and is designed
and equipped to be used as a dwelling unit, without a foundation system,
containing one dwelling unit.
(Ord. 1270 § 3, 2021)
"Trailer park" means a lot where two or more trailer coaches
or trailer coach sites are rented or leased or held out for rent or
lease for trailer coaches.
(Ord. 1270 § 3, 2021)
"Trailer site" means that portion of a trailer park designated
for use or occupancy of one trailer coach and including all appurtenant
facilities thereon.
(Ord. 1270 § 3, 2021)
"Transfer station" means an area, including any necessary building
or structures, for the temporary storage and the salvage of rubbish,
garbage or industrial waste.
(Ord. 1270 § 3, 2021)
"Triplex" means the same as three-family dwelling.
(Ord. 1270 § 3, 2021)
"Underlying zone classification," when used in conjunction with an overlay zone, means the zone classification of the lot as shown on the city's official zoning map, described in Section 17.12.020 of this code, to which it relates.
(Ord. 1270 § 3, 2021)
"Use" means the utilization of a lot, building, structure, or
any other improvement upon a lot, or any combination thereof.
(Ord. 1270 § 3, 2021)
"Volatile solvent" has the same definition as set forth in Health
and Safety Code Section 11362.3, and as may be amended, defined as
a solvent that is or produces a flammable gas or vapor that, when
present in the air in sufficient quantities, will create explosive
or ignitable mixtures.
(Ord. 1270 § 3, 2021)
"Wall sign" means a sign that is parallel to the building wall
and attached to the exterior of the building entry or business frontage.
(Ord. 1270 § 3, 2021)
"Window sign" means a sign that is applied or attached to the
interior of a window or located within three feet of a window inside
of the building.
(Ord. 1270 § 3, 2021)
"Writing" includes any form of message recorded in English and
capable of visual comprehension.
(Ord. 1270 § 3, 2021)
"Yard" means an area upon a lot or parcel of land, other than
a court or open space, required as a front, side or rear yard, which
shall be maintained unoccupied and unobstructed from the ground upward;
provided that encroachment shall be permitted in yards only as expressly
authorized in this title.
(Ord. 1270 § 3, 2021)
"Yard equipment" means anything constructed, assembled or erected
and located outdoors, which does not require a fixed location on the
ground and which is not attached to something having a fixed location
on the ground. Examples of yard equipment include, but are not limited
to, any of the following items, provided such items are not "structures":
storage sheds, greenhouses, sports equipment, automobile shades and
containers. Yard equipment does not include outdoor play equipment,
dog houses, and does not include ordinary yard furniture and umbrellas,
trash cans, seasonal decorations, or signs and flags which are separately
regulated.
(Ord. 1270 § 3, 2021)
"Front yard" means a yard extending across the full width of
the front lot line of a lot. The depth of a required front yard shall
be the specified horizontal distance measured between the front lot
line and a line parallel thereto, on the lot.
(Ord. 1270 § 3, 2021)
"Rear yard" means a yard extending across the full width of
the rear of a lot. The depth of a required rear yard shall be the
specified horizontal distance measured between the rear lot line and
a line parallel thereto on the lot.
(Ord. 1270 § 3, 2021)
"Side yard" means a yard extending from the rear line of the
required front yard, or the front lot line where no front yard is
required, to the front line of the required rear yard, or the rear
lot line where no rear yard is required. The width of a required side
yard shall be the specified horizontal measured distance between each
side lot line and line parallel thereto on the lot.
(Ord. 1270 § 3, 2021)
"Zone" means the classification of specific properties which are of the zones referred to in Section 17.12.010 of this code.
(Ord. 1270 § 3, 2021)
