This chapter defines the terms and phrases used in this title that are technical or specialized, or that otherwise may not reflect common usage. If any of these definitions conflict with other provisions of the municipal code, these definitions shall control for purposes of this title. Other words not defined in this chapter shall have the same meaning as provided in a standard dictionary.
Words used in the present tense include the future, words in the singular number include the plural, and words in the plural number include the singular. The word "building" includes the word "structure," and the word "shall" is mandatory and not directory. The term "city council" means the city council of the city of Marysville, and the term "planning commission" means the planning commission of the city of Marysville.
(Ord. 1365 § 2 (part), 2014)
"Abandoned"
means the cessation of a use or activity by the owner or tenant for a period of one year, excluding temporary or short-term interruptions for the purpose of remodeling, maintaining, or otherwise improving or rearranging a facility.
(Ord. 1463, 10/7/2025)
"Abutting"
means district boundaries or lot lines in common, including lots which abut only at a corner; also means adjacent to or adjoining.
(Ord. 1463, 10/7/2025)
"Access"
means the place, means, or way by which vehicles have usable legal, ingress and egress, unless the context dictates otherwise to a property and/or use as required by this Code.
(Ord. 1463, 10/7/2025)
Accessory Dwelling Unit.
An accessory dwelling (ADU) is an attached or detached residential dwelling unit which provides complete independent living facilities for one or more persons. It is on the same site as the primary dwelling and is limited in size or other standards of this Code to be accessory to that dwelling. It includes permanent provisions for living, sleeping, eating, cooking, and sanitation on the same site as where the primary dwelling unit is situated, and meets the standards for accessory dwelling units in this Code. It may include an efficiency unit or a manufactured accessory dwelling unit. This term does not include a structure constructed as a duplex, single-family dwelling, or an apartment.
(Ord. 1463, 10/7/2025)
"Acreage, net"
means the land area of a site remaining after dedication of ultimate rights-of-way, including exterior boundary streets, floodways, public parks and other open space, and utility easements and rights-of-way.
(Ord. 1463, 10/7/2025)
"Agency"
means an office or commercial establishment in which goods, material or equipment is received for servicing, treatment or processing elsewhere.
(Ord. 1365 § 2 (part), 2014)
"Aircraft"
means every kind of vehicle or structure intended for use as a means of transporting persons or goods, or both, in the air. Aircraft shall include helicopters.
(Ord. 1463, 10/7/2025)
"Alley"
means a public way or lane less than twenty-five feet in width which affords a secondary means of access to abutting property.
(Ord. 1365 § 2 (part), 2014)
"Alterations"
means an exterior change, addition, or modification to an existing structure or site. This may include changes to the architectural details or the visible characteristics of a structure, such as a change in paint color or surface texture materials, or the grading, paving, or removal of natural features from the site, affecting the exterior visual character of the property.
(Ord. 1365 § 2 (part), 2014; Ord. 1463, 10/7/2025)
"Alter"
means make a change which affects the appearance, impact, intensity, size, location, or purpose of a use, structure, or site.
(Ord. 1463, 10/7/2025)
"Amusement device"
means and includes any device, machine, apparatus or other instrument operated electrically, mechanically or manually, for amusement purposes only (other than musical devices and viewing machines), for the use of which there is required to be deposited in such device a coin or token.
(Ord. 1365 § 2 (part), 2014)
"Antique"
means any object of fine art or household furniture or appliances which was produced more than one hundred years ago.
(Ord. 1365 § 2 (part), 2014)
"Antenna"
means any system of poles, panels, rods, reflecting discs or similar devices used for the transmission or reception of electromagnetic waves or radio frequency signals.
(Ord. 1463, 10/7/2025)
"Balcony"
means an elevated platform enclosed by a parapet or a railing, projecting from an exterior wall of a building.
(Ord. 1365 § 2 (part), 2014)
"Banner"
means a temporary sign constructed of cloth, canvas, vinyl, light fabric, or similar flexible materials.
(Ord. 1463, 10/7/2025)
"Basement"
means a space partly or wholly underground, and having more than one-half its height, measured from its floor to its finished ceiling, below the average adjoining grade. If the finished floor level directly above a basement is more than six feet above grade at any point, the basement shall be considered a story.
(Ord. 1365 § 2 (part), 2014)
"Bed and breakfast inn"
means a single-family residence or detached guest house to a single-family residence that provides guest rooms, without individual kitchens, for short term temporary sleeping accommodations for paying overnight guests. The business may also include meal service that is limited to overnight guests.
(Ord. 1365 § 2 (part), 2014)
"Billboard"
means a permanent sign that meets any one or more of the following criteria:
(a) 
It is used for general advertising for hire;
(b) 
It may be an accessory or auxiliary use to a principal use on the site, or a separate or principal use of the site;
(c) 
It is a profit center on its own; or
(d) 
The ground surrounding the sign, the sign itself, or any part of the display is leased, rented, owned, or otherwise contractually dedicated for use by an establishment that is not the property owner or lessee of the entire lot or the primary occupant of a tenant space of at least 500 square feet within a building on the site.
(Ord. 1463, 10/7/2025)
"Block"
means an area of land surrounded by streets, rail rights-of-way, streams, canals, or similar access control strips.
(Ord. 1463, 10/7/2025)
"Boardinghouse"
means a single-family residence that provides rooms for a fixed amount of time for lodging or lodging and meals for compensation. This does not include bed and breakfast inn or a residential care facility.
(Ord. 1365 § 2 (part), 2014)
"Bookstore"
means a retail store open to the general public which sells books and related materials. This definition is not to be construed to include adult bookstores, defined in Section 18.66.020(c).
(Ord. 1365 § 2 (part), 2014)
"Buffer"
means an open space or landscaped area established to provide an open area between potentially incompatible uses or structures.
(Ord. 1463, 10/7/2025)
"Building height"
means the vertical distance measured from the average level of the highest and lowest point of that portion of the lot covered by the building to the highest point of the roof, ridge, or parapet wall.
(Ord. 1365 § 2 (part), 2014)
"Club"
means 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. "Club" includes social organizations, lodges, and fraternal organizations that use an associated building for uses other than residential purposes.
(Ord. 1365 § 2 (part), 2014)
"Collectible"
means any object, art, furniture, appliance or other article of personal property which is not an antique, but which was produced more than thirty years ago and whose current market value is greater than when it was produced. Examples of items which may be considered collectibles include, but are not limited to, certain rugs, dolls, coins, gems, medals, stamps, baseball cards and jukeboxes.
(Ord. 1365 § 2 (part), 2014)
"Condominium"
means an estate in real property consisting of an undivided interest in common in a portion of real property, together with a separate interest in space in a residential, commercial or industrial building on the real property.
(Ord. 1365 § 2 (part), 2014)
"Day care center"
means a facility licensed by the California State Department of Social Services that provides day care to fifteen or more children for periods of less than twenty-four hours in a nonresidential building. Includes, but is not limited to, infant centers, preschools, sick-child centers and school age day care facilities.
"Day care home, large"
means a residence licensed by the California State Department of Social Services where the occupant provides child day care for periods of less than twenty-four hours for nine to fourteen minor children, including children under the age of ten years who reside in the residence.
"Day care home, small"
means a residence licensed by the California State Department of Social Services where the occupant provides child day care for periods of less than twenty-four hours for eight or fewer children, including children under the age of ten years who reside in the residence.
(Ord. 1365 § 2 (part), 2014)
"Driveway"
means a permanently surfaced area providing direct access for vehicles between a street and a permitted off-street parking or loading area and extending to a maximum width equal to the curb cut approved by the city services director.
(Ord. 1365 § 2 (part), 2014)
"Dwelling"
means a building designed for and intended to be occupied as living quarters by a family, or by families in individual dwelling units.
(Ord. 1365 § 2 (part), 2014)
"Clear vision triangle, commercial"
means that portion of both private property and public right-of-way located at any corner where two streets intersect. The clear vision triangle is defined by the triangular area created by the diagonal connection of two points measured 30 feet back from the intersection of the prolongation of points measured along the front and corner street side back of curb (see figure below). The dimensions of the clear vision triangle may be required to be increased if the Director of Public Works determines that additional area is needed to ensure that a potential traffic hazard is not created.
(Ord. 1463, 10/7/2025)
Clear Vision Triangle, Residential.
The clear vision triangle is defined by the path of travel of a vehicle making a right turn at an intersection and is intended to preserve appropriate line-of-sight for the driver and pedestrians at a turn. The clear vision triangle is the area created by the diagonal connection of two points measured 25 feet along the back of curb on the right-hand side of the vehicle as it approaches the intersection to turn right, and 75 feet along the perpendicular side of the back of curb on the right-hand side of the vehicle as it completes the turn and departs the intersection (see figure below).
(Ord. 1463, 10/7/2025)
"Density bonus"
means a density increase over the otherwise maximum allowable residential density under the applicable zone and designation of the Land Use Element of the General Plan as of the date of the application by the applicant to the City, as allowed under Government Code Section 65915.
(Ord. 1463, 10/7/2025)
"Dwelling group"
means two or more detached dwellings, other than commercial hotel or motel units located upon a building site, together with all open spaces as required by this title.
(Ord. 1365 § 2 (part), 2014)
"Eave"
means the overhang that projects from a building at the lower edge of the roof (i.e., the overhanging lower edge of a roof).
(Ord. 1463, 10/7/2025)
"Employee housing"
for six or fewer workers, including but not limited to farmworkers, shall be deemed to be a single-family structure with a residential land use, and shall be treated the same as a single-family dwelling of the same type in the same zone. The permitted occupancy in employee housing in a zone allowing agricultural uses shall include agricultural employees who do not work on the property where the employee housing is located, and may consist of no more than thirty-six beds in a group quarters or twelve units or spaces designed for use by a single family or household on land where agricultural uses are allowed. Such employee housing shall be considered to be an activity that in no way differs from an agricultural use.
(Ord. 1372 § 1(A), 2015)
"Family"
means an individual or group of individuals occupying a dwelling and living together as a single housekeeping unit in which each resident has access to all parts of the dwelling and where the adult residents share expenses.
(Ord. 1365 § 2 (part), 2014)
"Fence"
means an artificially constructed barrier consisting of any permitted materials, other than plant materials, intended to form an enclosure, mark a boundary, prevent intrusion, and/or provide a screen. See also "Wall."
(a) 
"Open fence"
means a fence constructed of any permitted material which allows visibility through the fence panel when viewed perpendicular to the face of the fence. This includes open style fences such as split-wood rail, chain link, wrought iron, tubular metal, or other similar materials;
(b) 
"Solid fence"
means a fence constructed of materials which do not allow for visibility through the fence when viewed perpendicular to the face of the fence. A fence consisting of chain link with slats is not considered a solid fence.
(Ord. 1463, 10/7/2025)
"Fixed wireless"
means a local wireless operation providing services such as local and long-distance telephone and high-speed internet to residential and business customers by means of a small equipment installation (the remote unit) on the exterior of each home or business that elects to use this service.
(Ord. 1463, 10/7/2025)
"Flag"
means a piece of fabric of distinctive design, typically oblong or square that is displayed hanging from a staff, halyard, or building to which it is attached. "Flag" includes the official flag of any country, state, or local government or any fabric shaped as such, though a flag may represent any establishment, idea, or concept. "Flag" excludes pennants and feather banners.
(Ord. 1463, 10/7/2025)
"Floor area"
means the sum of the areas of each floor of a building or structure.
(a) 
"Floor area, gross"
means the total horizontal area in square feet on each floor of a covered structure, extending to the outside of the exterior walls, but not including the area of inner courts, elevator shafts, and stairwells.
(b) 
"Floor area ratio (FAR)"
means the ratio of floor area of a building or buildings on a site divided by the total lot area.
(Ord. 1463, 10/7/2025)
"Freestanding sign"
means a permanent sign that is supported by one or more uprights, poles or braces or similar structural components and that is not attached to a building or structure. This definition does not include portable signs, yard signs, or ground signs.
(Ord. 1463, 10/7/2025)
"Guest house"
means a residential accessory building to a single-family residence with living and sleeping quarters, but without kitchen facilities, for the use of family, nonpaying guests, or servants of the occupants of the residence and not rented or otherwise used as a separate residence.
(Ord. 1365 § 2 (part), 2014)
"Grade"
means the gradient of slope of the ground surface prior to proposed ground disturbance, grading, or site preparation and expressed as a percent of vertical or horizontal distances.
(a) 
"Grade, finished"
means the final ground surface elevation after the completion of grading or other site preparation related to a proposed development.
(b) 
"Grade, natural"
means the existing ground surface elevation prior to grading or other site preparation.
(c) 
"Grade plane"
means a reference plane representing the average of finished ground level adjoining a building at exterior walls. Where the finished ground level slopes away from the exterior walls, the reference plan shall be established by the lowest points within the area between the building and the lot line or, where the lot line is more than six feet from the building, between the building and a point six feet from the building.
(Ord. 1463, 10/7/2025)
"Green Means Go Designated Area"
means downtown area of the City of Marysville designated by the Sacramento Area Council of Governments (SACOG) to encourage infill and higher density housing uses. Includes the Medical Arts District, E Street District, Downtown District and Ellis Lake District and is included in the Downtown Specific Plan.
(Ord. 1463, 10/7/2025)
Height, Building.
Refer to the rules of measurement in Section 14.02.030. The vertical distance from grade plane to the average height of the highest roof surface. The average height of the highest roof surface is the mean height between the eaves and ridge for a hip, gable, or gambrel roof.
(Ord. 1463, 10/7/2025)
"Historic resource"
means any resource that may have historic, cultural and/or architectural significance, locally, regionally, or nationally, including districts, ensembles, thematic groups, corridors, structures, bridges, buildings, sites, cemeteries, landscape features, signs, plaques, or archaeological sites or artifacts.
(Ord. 1463, 10/7/2025)
Historic Site.
A historic site is considered to be the location of a historic or archaeological event, activity, occupation, structure, object, or landscape feature, including existing buildings or structure on the site, which has historic significance.
(Ord. 1463, 10/7/2025)
"Home occupation"
means any accessory use conducted within a dwelling, accessory building or private recreation area (such as a pool or tennis court or yard area), and carried on by the inhabitants thereof, which use is clearly incidental and secondary to the use of the dwelling for residential purposes and does not change the character thereof or adversely affect the uses permitted in the residential zone of which it is a part.
(Ord. 1365 § 2 (part), 2014)
"Hotel"
means any building or portion thereof containing six or more guestrooms intended or designed to be hired out for compensation, and to be occupied by six or more guests. This definition includes hotels, lodginghouses and roominghouses, dormitories, Turkish baths, bachelor hotels, studio hotels, public and private clubs and any such building of any nature whatsoever so occupied, designed or intended to be so occupied, except jails, hospitals, asylums, sanitariums, orphanages, prisons, detention homes and similar buildings where human beings are housed or detained under legal restraint.
(Ord. 1365 § 2 (part), 2014)
"Household pet"
means a tame animal that is kept for pleasure rather than for commercial purposes or human use food or products. It includes an animal kept inside a dwelling, a dog, a cat, a miniature pot-bellied pig or up to six adult rabbits.
(Ord. 1463, 10/7/2025)
"House plan"
means the architectural plans for a single-family dwelling, a duplex, or a duet. A house plan constructed with the same basic floor plan in a different area, even with different exterior architectural elevations and optional floor plan features, is considered a single house plan.
(Ord. 1463, 10/7/2025)
"Junkyard"
means any area of two hundred square feet or more used for the storage of junk or scrap materials, or for the wrecking or dismantling of automobiles or other vehicles or machinery. This definition includes "wrecking yards."
(Ord. 1365 § 2 (part), 2014)
"Kennel"
means any lot where five or more dogs aged ten weeks or older are kept, whether owned by the residents, boarded, trained or bred. It does not include pets for sale in pet shops and patients in a veterinary clinic, or pet grooming facility without boarding facilities.
(Ord. 1365 § 2 (part), 2014)
"Kitchen"
means a room or space within a building used or intended to be used for the cooking or preparation of food, which includes both a refrigerator and cooking facilities. It does not include outdoor cooking facilities.
(Ord. 1365 § 2 (part), 2014)
"Land development permit"
means any discretionary approval pursuant to the Code which is required to construct or modify buildings or site improvements, install landscaping, or to use buildings or land. Examples of land development permits include, but are not limited to: conditional use permits, design review, variances, and planned development permits.
(Ord. 1463, 10/7/2025)
"Living area"
means the interior habitable area of a dwelling unit including basements and attics but does not include a garage or any accessory structure.
(Ord. 1463, 10/7/2025)
"Lot"
means a parcel of land under one ownership used or capable of being used under the regulations of this title, and including both the building site and all required yards and other open spaces and frontage as defined in this chapter.
(Ord. 1365 § 2 (part), 2014)
"Lot line, front"
means the lot line abutting a street. In the case of corner lots, only one street line shall be considered as a front lot line, as determined by the building official upon issuance of a building permit or the demarcation made on a final or parcel map. In the case of through lots both lines are considered front lines and there is no rear lot line.
"Lot line, interior side"
means any lot line that is not a front, street side or rear lot line.
"Lot line, rear"
means the line which is opposite and most distant from the front lot line. In the case of an irregular or triangular shaped lot, a line ten feet in length within the lot parallel to and at the maximum distance from the front lot line.
"Lot line, street side"
means on a corner lot the side facing a street that is not determined to be the front lot lines.
(Ord. 1365 § 2 (part), 2014)
"Corner lot"
means a lot located at the junction of two or more streets, or upon two parts of the same street and the parts of the street form an angle of less than one hundred thirty-five degrees.
"Flag lot"
means a lot that has access to a public right-of-way only by a narrow driveway that is located between abutting lots.
"Interior lot"
means a lot other than a corner lot.
"Through lot"
means a lot having frontage upon two parallel or nearly parallel streets.
(Ord. 1365 § 2 (part), 2014)
"Low barrier navigation center"
means a Housing First, low-barrier, service-enriched shelter focused on moving people into permanent housing that provides temporary living facilities while case managers connect individuals experiencing homelessness to income, public benefits, health services, shelter, and housing. "Low barrier" means best practices to reduce barriers to entry, and may include, but is not limited to, the following:
(a) 
The presence of partners if it is not a population-specific site, such as for survivors of domestic violence or sexual assault, women, or youth.
(b) 
Pets.
(c) 
The storage of possessions.
(d) 
Privacy, such as partitions around beds in a dormitory setting or in larger rooms containing more than two beds, or private rooms.
(e) 
"Use by right" has the meaning defined in Government Code Section 65583.2(i). Division 13 (commencing with Section 21000) of the Public Resources Code shall not apply to actions taken by a public agency to lease, convey, or encumber land owned by a public agency, or to facilitate the lease, conveyance, or encumbrance of land owned by a public agency, or to provide financial assistance to, or otherwise approve, a Low Barrier Navigation Center constructed or allowed by this section.
(Ord. 1463, 10/7/2025)
"Mast"
means a pole of wood or metal or a tower fabricated of metal that is used to support an antenna and maintain it at the proper elevation.
(Ord. 1463, 10/7/2025)
"Medical arts district"
is that area of the city bounded as follows:
Starting at the intersection of Second Street and Willow Street, then west on Second Street to the west levee of the City, then along that levee to 1050 feet north of Fifth Street, then east to J Street, then south to Sixth Street then east to Willow Street, then south to Second Street.
(Ord. 1378 § 1, 2015)
"Manufactured home"
means a residence that is either wholly or partially constructed or assembled off site in compliance with state law and certified under the National Manufactured Housing Construction and Safety Standards Act of 1974. This also includes references to "mobilehome" as used elsewhere in this title. As required by California Government Code Section 65852.3, certified mobilehomes (manufactured homes) for permanent occupancy are considered the same as single-family dwellings, and are allowed in all zones that allow single-family dwellings. Such mobilehomes must, however, comply with all other state and local requirements for permanent occupancy (e.g., permanent foundations, utility connections, and compliance with property development standards applicable to the land use designation). See Chapter 18.88, Placement of Mobilehomes. This does not otherwise include recreational vehicles, trailers, or motor homes.
(Ord. 1365 § 2 (part), 2014; Ord. 1372 § 1(B), 2015)
"Motel"
means a building or group of buildings designed for use by tourists or transients, with living or sleeping rooms, garages, parking spaces and related facilities advertised or offered on a commercial basis.
(Formerly 18.04.304; Ord. 1365 § 2 (part), 2014; Ord. 1372 § 1(C), 2015)
"Movie theater"
means any enclosed building with a capacity of fifty persons or more used for the showing of motion pictures to the general public. This definition is not to be construed to include adult movie theaters, defined in Section 18.66.020.
(Formerly 18.04.305; Ord. 1365 § 2 (part), 2014; Ord. 1372 § 1(D), 2015)
"Owner"
includes any part owner, joint owner, tenant in common, joint tenant or tenant by the entirety of the whole or part.
(Ord. 1463, 10/7/2025)
"Parcel final map"
means a map showing the subdivision of land of four or fewer parcels or as otherwise required or provided by this Division and prepared in accordance with the provisions of the Subdivision Map Act and this Division and designed to be filed with the County Recorder.
(Ord. 1463, 10/7/2025)
"Pawn shop"
means an indoor retail establishment that accepts personal property as collateral for loans and offers the property for sale to the public. Pawn shops are differentiated from "secondhand stores," which do not make loans.
(Ord. 1365 § 2 (part), 2014)
"Porch"
means an elevated, open sided, covered platform attached to the outside of a building at a door to a dwelling.
(Ord. 1365 § 2 (part), 2014)
"Second unit"
means an attached or detached residential unit which provides complete independent living facilities for one or more persons, and includes permanent provisions for living, sleeping, eating, cooking, and sanitation on the same parcel as the primary unit is sited. See Chapter 18.90, Second Residential Units in Residential Zones.
(Ord. 1372 § 1(F), 2015)
"Residential care home"
means a residence licensed by the federal or state government that provides twenty-four-hour nonmedical care for unrelated persons who are handicapped and in need of personal services or supervision; assistance for sustaining activities of daily living, for the protection of the individual in a family like environment, halfway houses, social rehabilitation facility.
"Residential care home, large"
means a residential care home for seven to twelve persons, not including members of the family or employees of the operator.
"Residential care home, small"
means a residential care home for six or fewer people.
(Formerly 18.04.355; Ord. 1365 § 2 (part), 2014)
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Code reviser's note: This section was originally numbered 18.04.355. Its number has been changed to 18.04.356 to accommodate the addition of Section 18.04.355 by Ord. 1372 and to maintain alphabetical order.
"Reasonable accommodation"
means an adjustment to physical design standards, including but not limited to zoning, building, or subdivision standards, for persons with disabilities seeking equal access housing under the California Fair Employment and Housing Act, the Federal Fair Housing Act, and the Americans with Disabilities Act ("the Acts") in the application of zoning law and other land use regulations, policies, procedures, and conditions of approval to accommodate the needs of disabled residents.
(Ord. 1463, 10/7/2025)
"Recreational vehicle"
means a motor home, travel trailer, truck camper, or camping trailer, with or without motive power, designed for human habitation for recreational, emergency, or other occupancy; or a park trailer, as defined in California Health and Safety Code § 18009.3.
(Ord. 1463, 10/7/2025)
"Religious facility"
means a building wherein persons regularly assemble for religious worship and which is controlled and maintained by a religious body organized to sustain public worship, together with all accessory uses associated with a religious facility such as schools, day care facilities, offices and residences and halls.
(Ord. 1365 § 2 (part), 2014)
"Secondhand goods"
means any goods, objects, clothes, furniture, art, appliances, or wares that have been previously purchased and/or used and which are not antiques by the definition of this chapter.
(Ord. 1365 § 2 (part), 2014)
"Secondhand store"
means a store or shop that sells any goods, objects, clothes, furniture, art, appliances or wares that have been previously purchased and/or used and which are not antiques by the definition of this chapter.
(Ord. 1365 § 2 (part), 2014)
"Senior congregate care facility"
means a facility providing residences for senior citizens sixty years of age or more or handicapped people of any age. Care may include central kitchen and dining, laundry, recreational activities, etc., with separate bedrooms or living quarters. Nursing is not provided on a twenty-four-hour basis.
(Ord. 1365 § 2 (part), 2014)
"Setback"
means the distance by which a structure or other development feature shall be separated from a property line or other building.
(Ord. 1463, 10/7/2025)
For the purposes of Chapter 18.63, "sidewalk" includes any public walkway, right-of-way, easement, or fee ownership used or available for pedestrian circulation and/or access.
(Ord. 1365 § 2 (part), 2014)
"Sidewalk dining"
is the use of a portion of a public sidewalk for outdoor consumption of food and beverages. This use is a special privilege, not a matter of right, subject to granting of a revocable permit and compliance with performance standards identified herein. Sidewalk dining may be permitted on any public right-of-way subject to review and approval by the city manager or his/her designee.
(Ord. 1365 § 2 (part), 2014)
"SRO"
means a multi-unit housing project with units intended to be occupied by an individual person. Each unit typically consists of a single occupied room of three hundred fifty square feet or less plus individual or shared bathrooms. The facility may include a shared common kitchen and activity area. SROs may be restricted to seniors or be available to persons of all ages.
(Ord. 1372 § 1(I), 2015)
"Site"
means the lot or group of lots or parcels under single ownership or single control, considered a unit for the purposes of development or other use.
(Ord. 1463, 10/7/2025)
Specific Plan.
A specific plan is a tool for the systematic implementation of the general plan. It effectively establishes a link between implementing policies of the General Plan and the individual development proposals in a defined area.
(Ord. 1463, 10/7/2025)
"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 floor next above. If the finished floor level directly above a basement is more than six feet above grade at any point the basement shall be considered a story.
(Ord. 1365 § 2 (part), 2014)
"Street"
means a public or permanent private way twenty-five feet or more in width which affords a primary means of access to property.
(Ord. 1365 § 2 (part), 2014)
"Support equipment"
means the physical, electrical, and/or electronic equipment included within a telecom facility used to house, power, transport, and/or process signals from or to the facility's antenna or antennas.
(Ord. 1463, 10/7/2025)
"Supportive housing"
means housing with no limit on length of stay, that is occupied by a target population, and that is linked to an on-site or off-site service that assists 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.
(Ord. 1372 § 1(J), 2015)
"Target population"
means persons with low incomes who have one or more disabilities, including mental illness, HIV or AIDS, substance abuse, or other chronic health condition, or individuals eligible for services provided pursuant to the Lanterman Developmental Disabilities Services Act (Division 4.5 (commencing with Section 4500) of the Welfare and Institutions Code) and may include, among other populations, adults, emancipated minors, families with children, elderly persons, young adults aging out of the foster care system, individuals exiting from institutional settings, veterans, and homeless people.
(Ord. 1372 § 1(K), 2015)
"Telecommunications facility" or "wireless telecommunication facility"
means an unstaffed facility, generally consisting of antennas, equipment cabinet or structure, and related equipment, for public, commercial and private electromagnetic and photoelectrical transmission, broadcast, repeater and receiving stations for radio, television, telegraph, telephone, data network, and wireless communications, including stationary commercial earth stations for satellite-based communications. Includes antennas, commercial satellite dish antennas, and equipment buildings. Does not include telephone, telegraph and cable television transmission facilities utilizing hard-wired or direct cable connections, or vehicles utilizing global positioning satellite (GPS) direction-finding technology, or equipped for reception of commercial satellite radio, television, or internet programming.
(Ord. 1463, 10/7/2025)
"Transitional housing"
means buildings configured as rental housing developments, but operated under program requirements that mandate the termination of assistance and recirculation of the assisted unit to another eligible program recipient at a predetermined future point in time that shall be no longer than two years from the beginning of the assistance.
(Ord. 1365 § 2 (part), 2014; Ord. 1372 § 1(L), 2015)
"Travel trailer"
means a vehicle other than a motor vehicle which is designed or used for human habitation and which may be moved upon a public highway without a special permit or chauffeur's license or both, without violating any provisions of the Vehicle Code.
(Ord. 1365 § 2 (part), 2014)
"Use"
means the activity for which land or buildings are designed, occupied or maintained.
(Ord. 1365 § 2 (part), 2014)
"Wall"
means any structure or device forming a physical barrier which is so constructed that 50% or more of the vertical surface is closed and prevents the passage of light, air, and vision through said surface in a horizontal plane.
(Ord. 1463, 10/7/2025)
"Waste"
means unused or discarded matter and material which consists, without limitation or exclusion by enumeration of such matter and material as rubbish, refuse and matter of any kind including but not limited to, rubble, debris, asphalt, concrete, plaster, tile, rocks, bricks, soil, building materials, crates, cartons, containers, boxes, furniture and household equipment or parts thereof, lumber, trash, dirt, machinery or parts thereof, scrap metal and pieces of metal, ferrous or nonferrous, bottles, bedding and other similar matter.
(Ord. 1463, 10/7/2025)
"Wireless telecommunications services"
means the provision of services using a wireless telecommunications facility or a wireless telecommunications co-location facility, and shall include, but not limited to, the following services: personal wireless services as defined in the Federal Telecommunications Act of 1996 at 47 U.S.C. § 332(c)(7)(C) or its successor statute, cellular service, personal communication service, and/or data radio telecommunications.
(Ord. 1463, 10/7/2025)
"Yards"
means an area which is unoccupied and unobstructed by any structure from the ground upward except for encroachments permitted by the provisions of this title. Types of yards include the following.
(Ord. 1365 § 2 (part), 2014)
"Front yard"
means a yard extending across the full width of the lot measured between the street line (or the lot line connected to a street by legal access) and the nearest line of the main building or enclosed or covered porch. For purposes of determining yard setbacks only, the front yard of a corner lot is the yard adjacent to the shortest street frontage or may be the side of the lot as determined by the city planner.
(Ord. 1365 § 2 (part), 2014)
"Rear yard"
means a yard extending between the side yards of the lot and measured between the rear line of the lot and the rear line of the main building or enclosed or covered porch nearest the rear line of the lot.
(Ord. 1365 § 2 (part), 2014)
"Street side yard"
means a yard extending along a street side lot line from the front lot line to the rear lot line measured from the existing or future street-right-of-way line to a depth required by the zone district in which the lot is located.
(Ord. 1365 § 2 (part), 2014)
"Workforce housing"
is intended to provide "missing middle" housing, which falls in the medium to high density housing land use categories, to offer middle-income workers an affordable place to live proximate to jobs.
(Ord. 1463, 10/7/2025)
"Zone"
means a land area shown on the official Zoning Map of the City of Marysville within which certain land uses are allowed or prohibited, and certain site planning and development standards are established (e.g., setbacks, height limits, site coverage requirements, etc.). Also referred to as a zoning district.
(Ord. 1463, 10/7/2025)