A. 
Congregate Care Residential. A building on a site designed and typically devoted to housing persons of impaired physical or mental capacities such as the frail elderly or the handicapped, and offering limited 24-hour nonmedical care. The facility contains small individual dwelling units of usually only one or two rooms with a small kitchen allowing for independent living but also provides common dining, recreational and social facilities, and minimal convenience services such as housekeeping and transportation.
B. 
Day Care Home. A residence within which an occupant of the residence provides care for adults or children on a less than 24-hour basis. This classification includes only those facilities that are licensed by the state of California.
1. 
Small. "Small day care home" is a residence used for the temporary care of six or fewer adults, or a residence used for the temporary care of eight or fewer children that is a small family day care home pursuant to Chapter 3.4 of Division 2 of the California Health and Safety Code, as amended from time to time.
2. 
Large. "Large day care home" is a residence used for the temporary care of seven to 14 adults, or a residence used for the temporary care of 14 or fewer children that is a large family day care home pursuant to Chapter 3.4 of Division 2 of the California Health and Safety Code, as amended from time to time.
C. 
Duplex Residential. A building containing two dwelling units on a single lot. This classification includes mobile home and manufactured housing, but excludes a single-family residence with an accessory dwelling unit as defined by PMC § 18.08.140.
D. 
Group Residential. Shared living quarters without separate kitchen or bathroom facilities for each room or unit. This classification includes boardinghouse, dormitory, fraternity, sorority, convent, and private residential club.
E. 
Multifamily Residential. Two or more dwelling units on a site. This classification includes mobile homes, manufactured housing, planned unit development, apartments under single ownership, and condominiums wherein the airspace of each dwelling unit on the site is individually owned.
F. 
Residential Care, Limited. Twenty-four-hour nonmedical care for six or fewer persons in need of personal services, counseling, supervision, protection, or assistance essential for sustaining the activities of daily living. Facilities typically include foster homes, group homes and assisted living services with shared kitchen and dining facilities. This classification includes only those services and facilities licensed by the state of California.
G. 
Single-Family Residential. A building containing one dwelling unit located on a single lot regardless of lot size. This classification includes mobile home, manufactured housing, and a single-family residence with an accessory dwelling unit (ADU).
1. 
Attached. Single-family residential type or single-family with an accessory dwelling unit (ADU) wherein the primary residential structure and/or ADU is separated from the adjacent primary residential structure located on an adjacent lot by a party wall built on a shared property line and has no primary residential units constructed above or below it.
2. 
Detached. Single-family residential type or single-family with an accessory dwelling unit (ADU) wherein each primary residence and/or ADU is a stand-alone structure that does not share any common walls with another primary residential unit or ADU.
H. 
Supportive Housing. Multifamily residential facility in which there is no limit on length of stay; that is occupied by a target population; and, that is linked to on-site or off-site services that assist the supportive housing resident in retaining the housing, improving the resident's health status, and maximizing the resident's ability to live and, when possible, work in the community.[1]
[1]
Code reviser's note: Ord. 09-1322 adds the use classification for supportive housing as an unlettered subsection of this section. It has been editorially designated as subsection (H) and subsequent subsections have been relettered to preserve alphabetization.
I. 
Transitional Housing. Multifamily residential facility that is designed to assist persons in obtaining skills necessary for independent living in permanent housing, and that has all of the following components:
1. 
Support services programs that include regular individualized case management services and may include alcohol and drug abuse counseling, self-improvement education, employment and training assistance services and independent living skills development.
2. 
Use of a dwelling unit by a resident in a structured living environment, which use is conditioned upon compliance with the transitional housing program rules and regulations.
3. 
A rule or regulation which specifies an occupancy period of no fewer than 30 days and no more than 24 consecutive months.
(Ord. 979 § 2 (Exh. A), 1990; Ord. 05-1257 § 4, 2005; Ord. 07-1284 § 3 (Exh. B), 2007; Ord. 09-1322 § 3, 2009; Ord. 23-1509 § 11, 2023)