Prior ordinance history: Ord. 1286.
“Accessory structure or use”
means a subordinate use, structure, building or portion of a building located on the same parcel of land as the main use or building to which it is accessory. For purposes of this definition, accessory building excludes accessory dwelling units. Accessory buildings, excluding accessory dwelling units, shall contain no habitable dwelling space, nor shall they exceed fifteen feet in height, unless otherwise specifically provided by other provisions of this title. For the purposes of defining accessory buildings, “habitable space” is a space in a building for living, sleeping, eating or cooking. Bathrooms, toilet rooms, sink, shower, or utility spaces and similar areas are not considered habitable spaces. In addition, and for the purposes of accessory buildings, “living” spaces are typically living rooms, hobby rooms, sewing rooms, play rooms, computer rooms, craft rooms, etc.
(Ord. 1877 § 2, 2019)
“Adult cabaret”
means a nightclub, bar restaurant, or similar commercial establishment that regularly features:
(1) 
Persons who appear in a state of nudity or seminudity; or
(2) 
Live performances that are characterized by the exposure of specified anatomical areas or by including specified sexual activities; or
(3) 
Films, motion pictures, video cassettes, slides or other photographic reproductions that are characterized by the depiction or description of specified sexual activities or specified anatomical areas.
(Ord. 1344 § 1 (part), 1997)
“Adult family home”
means a residential home of a person or persons who are providing personal care, special care, room and board to more than one but not more than six adults who are not related by blood or marriage to the person or persons providing the services (RCW 70.128.010).
(Ord. 1344 § 1 (part), 1997; Ord. 1591 § 1.00, 2007)
“Adult hotel/motel”
is a hotel, motel, or similar commercial establishment:
(1) 
Which offers sleeping accommodations to the public for any form of consideration and provides patrons with closed-circuit television transmissions, films, motion pictures, video cassettes, slides, or other photographic reproductions which are characterized by the depiction or description of specified sexual activities or specified anatomical areas; and
(2) 
Which offers a sleeping room for rent for a rental fee period of time that is less than ten hours; or
(3) 
Which allows a tenant or occupant of a sleeping room to subrent the room for a period of time that is less than ten hours.
(Ord. 1344 § 1 (part), 1997)
“Adult panorama theater or arcade”
means a place to which the public is permitted or invited in which coinoperated, slug-operated, or electronically, electrically, mechanically controlled still or motion picture machines, projectors, video or laser disc players, or other image producing devices are maintained to show images to one person per machine at any one time, and where the images so displayed are distinguished or characterized by the depiction or description of specified sexual activities or specified anatomical areas.
(Ord. 1344 § 1 (part), 1997)
“Adult residential facility”
means a full-time or temporary residential use providing supervised housing for a group of persons over eighteen years of age; and where required is licensed by the state to provide such services to adult persons; and provides supportive services. Supportive services include meal service, cleaning service, health services, counseling, vocational training, or similar. This facility may include facilities which persons are assigned to pursuant to a criminal conviction or those where residents, individually or by their legal guardian, are not free to terminate their residency at will.
(Ord. 1930 § 1 (Exh. A), 2023)
“Adult retail establishment”
means any premises in which ten percent of the “stock in trade” (as defined herein) consists of merchandise distinguished or characterized by the depiction of, description, simulation, or relation to “specified sexual activities” or “specified anatomical areas.” The term “merchandise,” as used above, includes but is not limited to the following: books, magazines, posters, cards, pictures, periodicals, or other printed matter; prerecorded video tapes, discs, film, or other such medium, instruments, devices, equipment, paraphernalia or other such products.
(Ord. 1344 § 1 (part), 1997)
“Adult theater”
means a theater, concert hall, auditorium, or similar commercial establishment that regularly features persons who appear in a state of nudity or seminudity or live performances that are characterized by the depiction of specified sexual activities, or specified anatomical areas.
(Ord. 1344 § 1 (part), 1997)
“Advertising devices”
means any board, fence, vehicle, structure or other object whose primary purpose is that of advertising. These include, but are not limited to, signs, billboards, lights, balloons, flags, and audible messages (except for signs identifying the occupant or premises in residential district). See also: Section 18.16.110, Signs.
(Ord. 1344 § 1 (part), 1997)
“Agriculture”
means the tilling of the soil, the raising of crops, horticulture, gardening, keeping or raising of domestic farm animals for commercial purposes, and any agricultural industry or business such as dairies, nurseries, greenhouses, or similar uses.
(Ord. 1344 § 1 (part), 1997)
“Agricultural market”
means a use primarily engaged in the retail sale of fresh agricultural products, grown either on- or off-site, but may include as incidental and accessory to the principal use, the sale of factory sealed or prepackaged food products and some limited nonfood items. This definition does include the sale of livestock (i.e., livestock market).
(Ord. 1344 § 1 (part), 1997)
“Agriculture-related industry”
means specifically:
(1) 
“Packaging plants”
may include but are not limited to the following activities: washing, sorting, milling, crating, canning, freezing and other functional operations such as drying, field crushing, or other preparation in which the chemical and physical composition of the agricultural product remains essentially unaltered. Does not include processing activities, or slaughter houses, animal reduction yards, and tallow works.
(2) 
“Processing plants”
may include but are not limited to those activities which involve the pasteurization, fermentation or other substantial chemical and physical alteration of the agricultural product. Does not include slaughter houses or rendering plants (footnote in use chart).
(3) 
“Storage facilities”
may include those activities which involve the warehousing (dry, cold and/or wet) of processed and/or packaged agricultural products.
(Ord. 1344 § 1 (part), 1997)
“Airport hazard”
means any structure, tree, mobile object or large animal, or congregation of birds moving through or located at the airport or its vicinity, or use of land that obstructs the air space required for the flight of aircraft landing or taking off, or is otherwise hazardous to such landing or taking off of aircraft.
(Ord. 1358 § 1(E), 1997)
“Airport manager”
means that person empowered by the city of Omak to oversee the operations of the airport and to assure that such use is conducted in a manner that will protect public safety and promote the public interest.
(Ord. 1358 § 1(F), 1997)
“Alley”
means a narrow street, dedicated to public use as a secondary means of access, used primarily for vehicular access or utility installation to the rear or side of properties otherwise abutting on another street.
(Ord. 1344 § 1 (part), 1997)
“Antenna”
means any system of poles, panels, rods, reflecting discs or similar devices used for the transmission or reception of radio frequency signals.
(1) 
“Omni-directional antenna” (also known as a “whip antenna”)
means an antenna that transmits and receives radio frequency signals in a three-hundred-sixty-degree radial pattern. For the purpose of this chapter, an omni-directional antenna is up to fifteen feet in height and up to four inches in diameter.
(2) 
“Directional antenna” (also known as a “panel antenna”)
means an antenna that transmits and receives radio frequency signals in a specific directional pattern of less than three hundred sixty degrees.
(3) 
“Parabolic antenna” (also known as a “dish antenna”)
means a bowl-shaped device for the reception and/or transmission of radio frequency communications signals in a specific directional pattern.
(Ord. 1667 § 1(B), 2010)
“Appeal”
means a request by application for review of a decision, determination, order or interpretation, by the administrator or city council of any provision of this title.
(Ord. 1344 § 1 (part), 1997)
“Applicant”
means a person submitting an application for any permit or approval required by this title and who is the owner of the subject property or the authorized agent of the owner.
(Ord. 1344 § 1 (part), 1997)
“Complete application”
means the application form, together with all the accompanying documents and exhibits required by this title or the responsible official, and all appropriate fees having been reviewed and accepted as complete by the appropriate responsible official or his/her design (including SEPA checklist and fee therefor if required).
(Ord. 1344 § 1 (part), 1997)
“Approach surfaces”
means surfaces longitudinally centered on the extended runway centerline, extending outward and upward from each end of the primary surface at a slope of 34:1 (thirty-four feet horizontally for each foot upward). The width of this surface is five hundred feet at the primary surface and three thousand five hundred feet at the outer edge.
(Ord. 1358 § 1(H), 1997)
“Assisted living facility”
means a type of licensed boarding home operating in accordance with an assisted living services contract with the Department of Social and Health Services, offering a package of services including personal care and limited nursing. Such facilities may include housing for the resident in a private apartment-like unit.
(Ord. 1667 § 1(C), 2010)
“Attached”
means, in the case of dwellings, two or more dwellings connected by a common vertical wall(s), or other common construction, or in the case of multi-story buildings by common ceiling/floor(s).
(Ord. 1344 § 1 (part), 1997)
“Automobile wrecking”
means the dismantling or wrecking of motor vehicles or trailers, or storage, sale, sorting, cleaning, crushing or baling or disposal of dismantled, partially dismantled, obsolete or wrecked vehicles or their parts.
(Ord. 1344 § 1 (part), 1997)
“Minor auto repair”
means those services, electrical and mechanical, necessary to maintain family-type vehicles (i.e., recreational vehicles, cars, pickups) in an operating condition. This shall not include work on farm equipment.
(Ord. 1344 § 1 (part), 1997)
“Bed and breakfast”
means an owner occupied single unit dwelling in which not more than four bedrooms for not more than ten guests total are rented for money or other valuable consideration to the traveling public. Only one meal, breakfast, may be served at a bed and breakfast.
(Ord. 1344 § 1 (part), 1997)
“Boarding home” (see also “congregate care”)
means any home or other institution, however named, which is advertised, announced, or maintained for the express or implied purpose of providing housing, basic services, and assuming general responsibility for the safety and wellbeing of the residents, and may also provide domiciliary care, consistent with this chapter, to seven or more residents after July 1, 2000. However, a boarding home that is licensed for three to six residents prior to or on July 1, 2000, may maintain its boarding home license as long as it is continually licensed as a boarding home.
“Boarding home”
does not include facilities certified as group training homes pursuant to RCW 71A.22.040, nor any home, institution or section thereof which is otherwise licensed and regulated under the provisions of state law providing specifically for the licensing and regulation of such home, institution or section thereof. Nor shall it include any independent senior housing, independent living units in continuing care retirement communities, or other similar living situations including those subsidized by the Department of Housing and Urban Development.
“Boarding home”
may also include persons associated with the boarding home to carry out its duties under this chapter. (Chapter 18.20 RCW; WAC 388-78A-020).
(Ord. 1344 § 1 (part), 1997; Ord. 1591 § 2.00, 2007)
“Board”
previously was a reference to the board of adjustment and now shall mean the land use hearing examiner or hearing examiner identified in Title 2 of this code.
(Ord. 1344 § 1 (part), 1997; Ord. 1562 § 4 (part), 2006)
“Buffer”
means a strip of land established to protect one type of land use from another with which it is incompatible.
(Ord. 1344 § 1 (part), 1997)
“Building (structure)”
means that which is built or constructed, to include but not limited to human or animal occupancy storage or use requiring assembly (excluding fences six feet and less in height) per the Uniform Building Code.
(Ord. 1344 § 1 (part), 1997)
“Building area”
means the three-dimensional space within which a structure is permitted to be built on a lot and which is defined by maximum height regulations, yard setbacks and building coverage regulations.
(Ord. 1344 § 1 (part), 1997)
“Building line”
means the line established by the title to govern the placement of a building with respect to the front lot line through the setback requirements of a minimum front yard; a building line is ordinarily parallel to the front lot line at a distance in accordance with the setback requirement. For front lots contained in an official subdivision plat recorded before the effective date of this title, the building line may be taken as shown on the plat.
(Ord. 1344 § 1 (part), 1997)
“Building inspector”
means that person or persons designated by the mayor and approved by the city council to enforce the provisions of the building code and related codes, and administer the assigned provisions of this title. For the purposes of this title, building inspector means building and enforcement official.
(Ord. 1344 § 1 (part), 1997)
“Butcher shop”
means a custom retail meat curing operation. This definition does not include slaughtering but does include other accessory uses such as frozen food lockers when operated in conjunction with a retail meat cutting business.
(Ord. 1344 § 1 (part), 1997)
“Campground (RV park)”
means a development providing overnight facilities for outdoor recreational activities, including structural improvements which may include covered cooking areas, group facilities, self-contained travel trailer/motor home sites, tent sites, recreation facilities, restroom and shower facilities, and laundry facilities for the convenience of temporary occupants. This definition includes camping clubs when developed in accordance with applicable state laws and this title.
(Ord. 1344 § 1 (part), 1997)
“Camping”
means staying in a tent or sleeping on the ground or RV without sanitary facilities on publicly owned land and/or right-of-way, or on private property, for a period of greater than seven days outside of an approved campground as defined in Section 18.08.097 or on property. Occupancy of RVs must comply with the provisions of Section 18.16.118.
(Ord. 1953 § 1 (Exh. A), 2025)
“Car wash”
means any structure requiring the installation of special equipment and plumbing, which is used or intended to be used primarily for the washing of motor vehicles.
(Ord. 1344 § 1 (part), 1997)
“Family day care home”
means a facility licensed to provide direct care, supervision and early learning opportunities for twelve or fewer children in the home of the licensee where the licensee resides and is the primary provider.
(Ord. 1344 § 1 (part), 1997; Ord. 1591 § 3.00, 2007; Ord. 1953 § 1 (Exh. A), 2025)
“Mini day care center”
means a day-care facility for the care of twelve or fewer children in a place other than the family abode of the person or persons under whose direct care and supervision the children are placed, or the care of more than six but fewer than thirteen children in the family abode of such person or persons.
(Ord. 1953 § 1 (Exh. A), 2025)
“Church”
means a structure, or group of structures, which by design and construction are primarily used for religious services and/or instruction.
(Ord. 1344 § 1 (part), 1997)
“Collective garden”
means qualifying patients sharing responsibility for acquiring and supplying the resources required to produce and process cannabis for medical uses such as, for example, a location for a collective garden; equipment, supplies and labor necessary to plant, grow and harvest cannabis plants, seeds and cuttings; and equipment, supplies and labor necessary for proper construction, plumbing, wiring and ventilation of a garden of cannabis plants (RCW 69.51A.085(2)).
(Ord. 1756 § 1 (part), 2013)
“Conical surface”
means a surface extending outward and upward from the periphery of the horizontal surface at a slope of 20:1 (twenty feet outward for each foot upward) for a horizontal distance of four thousand feet.
(Ord. 1358 § 1(J), 1997)
“Cul-de-sac”
means a short street having one end open to traffic and being permanently terminated by a vehicle turn-around by either a circular or hammerhead form. Note: a temporary cul-de-sac may be similar in appearance but have a tract of land through which the roadway may eventually be extended.
(Ord. 1344 § 1 (part), 1997)
“Dedication”
means to convey ownership of property, or a specific property right, via a written instrument, to a public agency/entity for a specific use or purpose, e.g., roads, parks or trails; or to set aside, designate or reserve an area for a specific use or purpose.
(Ord. 1344 § 1 (part), 1997)
“Division of land”
means any transaction or action, not otherwise exempt or provided for under the provisions of this title, which alters or affects the shape, size or legal description of any part of an owner’s parent parcel. Sale of a condominium apartment and rental or lease of a building, facility or structure which does not alter or affect the legal description of an owner’s land shall not constitute a division of land.
(Ord. 1344 § 1 (part), 1997)
“Domestic farm animal”
means animals domesticated by humans to live in a tame condition or fenced yard. This definition includes, but is not limited to, dairy cows, beef cattle, horses, ponies, mules, llamas, goats, sheep, rabbits, poultry, and swine.
(Ord. 1344 § 1 (part), 1997)
“Driveway”
means the legal method of ingress and egress (access) to a lot, parcel or tract of land for vehicular traffic. For the purpose of this title, this definition also includes the required traveled way to or through a parking lot or facility and that area located between one or two rows of designated parking stalls.
(Ord. 1344 § 1 (part), 1997)
“Drugstore”
means a structure where the primary business is the filling of medical prescriptions and the retail sale of drugs, medical devices and supplies, and nonprescription medicines, but where nonmedical products are sold as well.
(Ord. 1344 § 1 (part), 1997)
“Single-unit dwelling”
means a detached building containing one dwelling unit. Single-unit dwellings are further classified by their nature of construction as follows:
(1) 
Site built: a dwelling primarily constructed on the site to be occupied by the structure and which is permanently affixed to the ground by footings and foundation;
(2) 
Modular home: see “modular home”;
(3) 
Manufactured home: see “manufactured home.”
(Ord. 1344 § 1 (part), 1997)
“Dwelling unit”
means an independent living unit within a dwelling structure designed and intended for occupancy by not more than one family and having its own housekeeping and kitchen facilities; hotel, motel, room and boarding units which are used primarily for transient tenancy shall not be considered as dwelling units.
(Ord. 1344 § 1 (part), 1997)
“Dwelling unit, accessory”
means a small separate living unit accompanying the residence or business, or dwelling permitted on a lot of minimum size or larger for the purpose of housing guests, friends, and relatives and having its own living area, kitchen and toilet and bathing facilities. The total floor area of such a unit shall not exceed fifty percent of the total area of the main residence or dwelling and shall be in the second story or above in a commercial structure. Neither the primary residence nor accessory use shall be a recreational vehicle.
(Ord. 1877 § 1(1), 2019)
“Easement”
means a grant by a property owner to specific persons, entity, corporation or to the public to use a designated portion of land for a specific purpose or purposes. Easements are only partial grants of authority over the subject property, the exact relationship of the easement right to the landowner’s right is normally explained by the terms of the easement.
(Ord. 1344 § 1 (part), 1997)
“Essential public facilities”
means and includes those facilities that are typically difficult to site, such as airports, state education facilities and state or regional transportation facilities as defined in RCW 47.06.140, state and local correctional facilities, solid waste handling facilities, and in-patient facilities, including substance abuse facilities, mental health facilities, group homes, and secure community transition facilities as defined in RCW 71.09.020. Such facilities also include emergency services operations, including public safety buildings (fire and law enforcement), wildland fire bases and EMS operations.
(Ord. 1877 § 1(2), 2019; Ord. 1953 § 1 (Exh. A), 2025)
“Family child care home”
means a licensed facility to provide direct care, supervision, behavior management, and early learning opportunities for twelve or fewer children, in the home of the licensee where the licensee resides and is the primary provider, within a birth through eleven years of age range exclusively, for periods less than twenty-four hours, as defined in WAC 388-155-010 and 388-296-0200 as existing or hereafter amended.
(Ord. 1344 § 1 (part), 1997; Ord. 1591 § 6.00, 2007)
“Family”
means an individual or two or more persons related by blood, marriage, registered domestic partnership, adoption or legal guardianship, living together in a dwelling unit; or a group of not more than five unrelated persons living together in a dwelling unit. Persons with functional disabilities, as defined in this title, shall be considered the same as related individuals.
(Ord. 1877 § 3, 2019)
“Fencing” or “fence”
is an arrangement of wood, metal, wire, mesh, other materials, landscaping, or hedge running around, along, or by the side of any open area to prevent or restrict passage in and out or to create a visual buffer. Fencing shall comply with the height restrictions for front and side yards in Section 18.16.027.
(Ord. 1344 § 1 (part), 1997)
“Finding”
is a conclusion of fact reached by the reviewing official, commission or council in a review process and based on the evidence available therein.
(Ord. 1344 § 1 (part), 1997)
“Floodplain”
is synonymous with one hundred-year floodplain and means that land area susceptible to being inundated by stream derived waters with a one percent chance of being equaled or exceeded in any given year. The limit of this area shall be based upon the city’s flood ordinance regulation maps.
(Ord. 1344 § 1 (part), 1997)
“Floor area”
is the area included within the surrounding exterior walls of a building or portion thereof, exclusive of vent shafts and openings in the floor. The floor area of a building, or portion thereof, not provided with surrounding exterior walls shall be the usable area under the horizontal projection of the roof or floor above.
(Ord. 1344 § 1 (part), 1997)
“Golf course”
means a parcel or tract of land that is improved for the purpose of playing golf, e.g., greens, tees or fairways, shelters, clubhouse and maintenance buildings.
(Ord. 1344 § 1 (part), 1997)
“Grade” (adjacent ground elevation)
is the lowest point of elevation of the finished surface of the ground, paving, or sidewalk within the area between the building and the property line or, when the property line is more than five feet from the building, between the building and a line five feet from the building (per International Building Code).
(Ord. 1344 § 1 (part), 1997; Ord. 1667 § 3, 2010)
“Group home”
means a place for dependent or predelinquent children which provides special care in a homelike environment. This definition does not include homes of this nature for three or fewer persons (excluding house parents and/or supervisors).
(Ord. 1344 § 1 (part), 1997)
“Greenway”
means a linear open space established along either a natural corridor, such as a riverfront, stream valley, or ridgeline, overland along a railroad right-of-way shared or converted to recreational use, a canal, a scenic road, the edge of urban areas, or other route.
(Ord. 1344 § 1 (part), 1997)
“Habitat”
means the sum of all environmental factors of a specific place necessary for the support or sustenance, on a permanent or temporary basis, of an organism, species, population or community.
(Ord. 1344 § 1 (part), 1997)
“Halfway house”
means a home for juvenile delinquents and adult offenders leaving correctional and/or mental institutions; or leaving a rehabilitation center for alcohol and/or drug users; which provides residentially oriented facilities for the rehabilitation or social adjustment of persons who need supervision or assistance in becoming socially reoriented but who do not need institutional care.
(Ord. 1344 § 1 (part), 1997)
“Hazardous household substances”
means those substances identified by the department as hazardous house-hold substances in the guidelines developed under RCW 70.105.220.
“Hazardous substances”
means any liquid, solid, gas, or sludge, including any material, substance, product, commodity, or waste, regardless of quantity, that exhibits any of the characteristics or criteria of hazardous waste as described in rules adopted under this chapter (RCW 70.105.010).
(Ord. 1344 § 1 (part), 1997; Ord. 1591 § 7.00, 2007)
“Hazardous waste”
means and includes all dangerous materials, liquids, solids, or gases that are dangerous to human health and the environment, including substances composed of both radioactive and hazardous components.
(Ord. 1344 § 1 (part), 1997)
“Hazardous waste, treatment and storage facility”
means a facility that requires an interim or final status permit from the State Department of Ecology under the Dangerous Waste Regulations, Chapter 173-303 WAC. Treatment and storage facilities include hazardous waste handling through such means as containers (barrels, drums), above and underground tanks, and waste piles and surface impoundments that will be cleaned up and not closed as landfills. Hazardous waste generators that do not accumulate their wastes on-site are not treatment and storage facilities, nor are hazardous waste incinerators and land disposal facilities which are state preempted facilities (RCW 70.105.240). There are two types of such facilities:
(1) 
Off-site facilities that treat and store waste from generators on properties other than those on which the facilities are located; and
(2) 
On-site facilities that treat and store wastes which are generated on the same geographically contiguous, or bordering property.
(Ord. 1344 § 1 (part), 1997)
“Height”
for the purposes of determining height limits in all zones set forth in Chapter 18.38 of this title, the datum shall be mean sea level (MSL) elevation unless otherwise specified.
(Ord. 1358 § 1(L), 1997)
“Heliport”
means all helicopter landing sites except for helipads, and a site for one, privately owned, noncommercial helicopter. The heliport may include maintenance, refueling, repairs or storage facilities.
(Ord. 1344 § 1 (part), 1997)
“Horizontal surface”
means an oval-shaped horizontal plane suspended at one thousand four hundred fifty-one feet MSL (one hundred fifty feet above the airport elevation of one thousand three hundred one feet MSL), the perimeter of which is established by swinging arcs of ten thousand feet from the center of each end of the primary surface and connecting the adjacent arcs by drawing lines tangent to those arcs.
(Ord. 1358 § 1(M), 1997)
“Hospital”
means an institution providing clinical, temporary, and emergency services of a medical or surgical nature to human patients which is licensed by state law to provide facilities and services for surgery, obstetrics, and general medical practice as distinguished from clinical treatment of mental and nervous disorders.
(Ord. 1344 § 1 (part), 1997)
“Hotel”
means a building in which lodging is provided for guests for compensation and in which no provision is made for cooking in the room.
(Ord. 1344 § 1 (part), 1997)
“Junkyard”
means any lot, parcel, tract of land, building, structure or part thereof used for the storage, collection, processing, purchase, sale or abandonment of waste paper, rags, scrap metal, vehicular parts, glass, used building materials, household appliances, or other scrap or discarded goods, materials, machinery or two or more unregistered, inoperable motor or recreational vehicles or any other type of junk. This definition shall not include recycling drop off stations.
(Ord. 1344 § 1 (part), 1997)
“Kennel”
means any premises or building in which four or more dogs, more than one year old, are housed, kept, groomed, bred, boarded, trained, or sold.
(Ord. 1344 § 1 (part), 1997)
“Land”
means a legally created lot, tract, parcel, site or division which is shown on an officially recorded plat or short plat, or is specifically described as a separate unit of property on a deed executed prior to (date of the adoption of this ordinance), or constitutes a prior division of land as defined in Section 17.08.125.
(Ord. 1344 § 1 (part), 1997)
“Landmark”
means any site, building, structure, or natural feature that has visual, historic or cultural significance; or a permanent marker designating property boundaries.
(Ord. 1344 § 1 (part), 1997)
“Landscaping”
means an area developed and maintained with plantings, lawn, ground cover, gardens, trees, shrubs, other plant materials, decorative outdoor elements, pools, fountains, water features, paved or decorated masonry surfaces (excluding parking, loading, or storage areas), driveways only when decorated and used regularly as an outdoor living space, and sculptural elements.
(Ord. 1344 § 1 (part), 1997)
“Off-street loading space”
means space on the same lot with a structure or use, or contiguous to a group of structures or uses, for the temporary parking of a vehicle while loading or unloading persons, merchandise, or materials, and which abuts a street, alley or other appropriate means of access and egress.
(Ord. 1344 § 1 (part), 1997)
“Lot”
means a division of land having defined boundaries and shown on a final plat or short plat officially recorded in the Okanogan County auditor’s office; or, which is a legally recognized prior division or parcel under the provisions of the city of Omak’s subdivision ordinance or short plat ordinance.
(Ord. 1344 § 1 (part), 1997)
“Corner lot”
means a lot abutting on two intersecting streets other than an alley or upon two parts of the same street forming an interior angle of less than one hundred thirty-five degrees.
(Ord. 1344 § 1 (part), 1997)
“Front lot line”
means, in the case of an interior lot, the lot line separating the lot from the street other than an alley, and in the case of a corner lot, the lot line separating the lot from the street other than an alley on that side of the lot providing primary access to the lot.
Triangular Lot Example
(Ord. 1344 § 1 (part), 1997)
“Rear lot line”
means the property line which is opposite and most distant from the front line. In the case of trapezoidal or nonrectangular lots, the rear lot line is that line with the greatest portion furthest from the front lot line. Should this line be less than ten linear feet or should the lot be triangular or pentagonal, then a new rear lot line measuring exactly ten linear feet between adjacent lot lines shall be located perpendicular to an imaginary line drawn from the midpoint of the front lot line to a point on the lot lines furthest from the point of beginning of the imaginary line.
Irregular Lot Example
(Ord. 1344 § 1 (part), 1997)
“Manufactured home”
means a dwelling unit constructed after June 15, 1976, in accordance with state and federal requirements for manufactured homes. All manufactured homes shall bear the appropriate insignia by a state or federal regulatory agency indicating compliance with all applicable construction standards of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development for manufactured homes as adopted by the Washington State Department of Labor and Industries or the Uniform Building Code as adopted by the city of Omak.
(Ord. 1344 § 1 (part), 1997)
“Medical marijuana dispensary”
means any person, entity, site, location, facility, business, cooperative, collective, whether for profit or not-for-profit, that distributes, sells, dispenses, transmits, packages, measures, labels, selects, processes, delivers, exchanges or gives away cannabis for medicinal or other purposes.
(Ord. 1756 § 1 (part), 2013)
“Microbrewery”
means a combination retail, wholesale and manufacturing business that brews and serves beer, wine or other distilled spirits and/or food on the premises. Microbreweries shall have a production capacity not to exceed fifteen thousand U.S. barrels per year.
(Ord. 1667 § 1(G), 2010)
“Mini-mart”
means a use which combines retail food sales with fast foods or take out food service—may or may not include retail motor fuel sales.
(Ord. 1344 § 1 (part), 1997)
“Mining”
means the act of extraction from the earth of minerals and/or ores (including sand and gravel) via open pit, shaft, leaching or hydraulic methods.
(Ord. 1344 § 1 (part), 1997)
“Mobile home”
means a transportable dwelling unit manufactured after January 1, 1968 and before June 15, 1976, and bearing an insignia of the Washington State Department of Labor and Industries. All mobile homes without such insignia are nonconforming structures. Mobile homes are generally not permitted within the city of Omak (18.11.030(B)).
(Ord. 1344 § 1 (part), 1997)
“Mobile home park”
means any plot of ground upon which two or more mobile or designated manufactured or manufactured homes are lawfully occupied as dwellings, regardless of whether a charge is made for such accommodation.
(Ord. 1344 § 1 (part), 1997)
“Motel”
means a building or group of buildings on one parcel or tract of land containing guest units with separate entrances and consisting of individual sleeping quarters, detached or in connected rows, with or without cooking facilities, for rental to transients.
(Ord. 1344 § 1 (part), 1997)
“Neighborhood”
means an area which is recognized as a distinct entity by virtue of certain factors, such as: definite boundaries, natural or manmade; history; architecture; facilities which attract people within a certain radius; or a shared sense of identity or social cohesion.
(Ord. 1667 § 1(M), 2010)
“Nonconforming lot”
means a lot, the area and dimension of which was lawful prior to adoption or amendment of this title, but which fails to conform to the present requirements of the zoning district in which it is located.
(Ord. 1344 § 1 (part), 1997)
“Nonconforming structure”
means a structure or building or portion thereof which was lawfully erected or altered and maintained, but because of the application of this title no longer conforms to the density provision or other regulations of the zone classification in which it is located.
(Ord. 1344 § 1 (part), 1997)
“Nonconforming use”
means an activity in a building or on a tract of land that was lawfully established, but because of the application of this title no longer conforms to the regulations pertaining to uses and activities of the use district in which it is located.
(Ord. 1344 § 1 (part), 1997)
“Nuisance”
means any use, activity or structure that interferes with the enjoyment and use of one’s property by endangering personal health or safety, offending the human senses and/or failing to conform with the provisions, intent, or standards of the district in which the use, activity or structure occurs.
(Ord. 1344 § 1 (part), 1997)
“Nursing home”
means any home, place or institution which operates or maintains facilities providing convalescent or chronic care, or both, for a period in excess of twenty-four consecutive hours for three or more patients not related by blood or marriage to the operator, who by reason of illness or infirmity are unable properly to care for themselves. Convalescent and chronic care may include but not be limited to any or all procedures commonly employed in waiting on the sick, such as administration of medicines, preparation of special diets, giving of bedside nursing care, application of dressings and bandages, and carrying out of treatment prescribed by a duly licensed practitioner of the healing arts. It may also include care of mentally incompetent persons. It may also include community-based care. Nothing in this definition shall be construed to include general hospitals or other places which provide care and treatment for the acutely ill and maintain and operate facilities for major surgery or obstetrics, or both. Nothing in this definition shall be construed to include any boarding home, guest home, hotel or related institution which is held forth to the public as providing, and which is operated to give, only board, room and laundry to persons not in need of medical or nursing treatment or supervision except in the case of temporary acute illness. The mere designation by the operator of any place or institution as a hospital, sanitarium, or any other similar name, which does not provide care for the acutely ill and maintain and operate facilities for major surgery or obstetrics, or both, shall not exclude such place or institution from the provisions of this chapter; provided, that any nursing home providing psychiatric treatment shall, with respect to patients receiving such treatment, comply with the provisions of RCW 71.12.560 and 71.12.570.
(Ord. 1667 § 1(N), 2010)
“Obscene” or “obscenity”
means any matter:
(1) 
Which the average person, applying contemporary community standards, would find, when considered as a whole, appeals to the purient interest; or
(2) 
Which explicitly depicts or describes patently offensive representations or descriptions of:
(A) 
Ultimate acts, normal or perverted, actual or simulated; or
(B) 
Masturbation, fellatio, cunnilingus, bestiality, excretory functions, or lewd exhibition of the genitals or genital areas; or
(C) 
Violent or destructive sexual acts, including but not limited to human or animal mutilation, dismemberment, rape, or torture; or
(D) 
Has a dominant theme which appeals to the purient interests of minors in sex; which is patently offensive because it affronts contemporary community standards relating to the descriptions or representation of sexual matters or sadomashichistic abuse; and,
(3) 
Which, when considered as a whole, and in the context in which it is used, lacks serious literary, artistic, political, or scientific value.
(Ord. 1344 § 1 (part), 1997)
“Occupancy”
means the purpose for which a structure, portion of a structure, or lot is used or intended to be used. For the purposes of this title, a change of occupancy is not intended to include a change of tenants or proprietors, but is intended to indicate a change in the type of use.
(Ord. 1344 § 1 (part), 1997)
“Object free zone (OFZ)”
means a rectangular shaped area of property centered on the extended runway centerline. The inner portion of this area begins at the edge of the runway and extends for two hundred feet outward having a width of five hundred feet; the area between the runway and the edge of the primary surface. One such area is located on each end of the runway.
(Ord. 1358 § 1(O), 1997)
“Offices”
means a facility where the primary activity is of a business nature or professional service nature (doctor, lawyer, real estate and financial offices and uses providing health education and social services, etc.). The primary activity cannot be retail in nature, where products are stocked and sold on the premises.
(Ord. 1344 § 1 (part), 1997)
“Off-site”
means the provision of storage, parking or related services on properties other than those on which the primary use facilities are located.
(Ord. 1344 § 1 (part), 1997)
“On-site”
means the provision of storage, parking or related services on the properties on which the primary use facilities are located.
(Ord. 1344 § 1 (part), 1997)
“Open space”
means any parcel, tract of land or water feature that is:
(1) 
Essentially unimproved or improved with low intensity agriculture or landscaping and which has been set aside, dedicated, designated or reserved for the recreational use or enjoyment of the public; or,
(2) 
Within or related to a development, either individually owned or not individually owned (in undivided interest), which is designed and intended for the common use or enjoyment of the residents of the development. Trail systems and organized recreational activities may be included as part of the open space for lot area calculations.
(Ord. 1344 § 1 (part), 1997)
“Outdoor mobile vendor”
means nonpermitted structures, vehicles, or trailers, located on private property, conducting retail sales or offering goods and/or services to the public for a fee or donation, and operated as a temporary use (limited to one hundred eighty days).
(Ord. 1877 § 1(5), 2019)
“Pad”
means a paved, graveled or improved space in a mobile home or recreational vehicle (RV) park for the purpose of installing a mobile home or parking a recreational vehicle and such an area usually contains utility connections.
(Ord. 1344 § 1 (part), 1997)
“Parent parcel”
means those lots, parcels or tracts of land that existed at the time of adoption of the ordinance codified in this title with separate deeds and/or all lawfully established lots, parcels or tracts since that time. It is from said “parent parcel” that all subsequent lots, parcels or tracts are created.
(Ord. 1344 § 1 (part), 1997)
“Park”
means a public or privately owned area with facilities or areas for outdoor recreation by the public.
(Ord. 1344 § 1 (part), 1997)
“Parking facility”
means a land area or structure that is devoted exclusively to the temporary parking or storage of motor vehicles for which a fee may or may not be charged, and where no service or repairs of any kind are furnished.
(Ord. 1344 § 1 (part), 1997)
“Party of record”
means the applicant and any other person who has submitted written comment on any action or proposed action, or who has appeared at a public hearing or public meeting and signed an official register requesting notice of further action.
(Ord. 1344 § 1 (part), 1997)
“People with functional disabilities”
means:
(1) 
A person who, because of a recognized chronic physical or mental condition or disease, is functionally disabled to the extent of:
(A) 
Needing care, supervision or monitoring to perform activities of daily living or instrumental activities of daily living; or
(B) 
Needing supports to ameliorate or compensate for the effects of the functional disability so as to lead as independent a life as possible; or
(C) 
Having a physical or mental impairment which substantially limits one or more of such person’s major life activities;
(D) 
Having a record of having such an impairment, or
(2) 
A person being regarded as having such impairment, but such term does not include current, illegal use of or active addiction to a controlled substance.
(Ord. 1344 § 1 (part), 1997)
“Permit”
means written government approval issued by an authorized official or body empowering the holder thereof to take some action permitted only upon issuance of written approval.
(Ord. 1344 § 1 (part), 1997)
“Picobrewery”
means a manufacturing business that brews beer on premises and sells canned, bottled or kegged beer off the premises. Picobreweries shall have a production capacity less than one hundred U.S. barrels per year.
(Ord. 1932 § 1 (Exh. A), 2024)
“Planned development”
means development for which a permit has been issued as specified by this title and which is developed according to a single site plan and/or plat and written program that may contain one or more clusters of structures with appurtenant common areas.
(Ord. 1344 § 1 (part), 1997)
“Preliminary approval”
means the conferral of certain rights, prior to final approval, after specific elements of a written program and site plan have been reviewed by the Omak planning commission and approved by the city council and agreed to by the applicant.
(Ord. 1344 § 1 (part), 1997)
“Preschool”
means a school for children between the ages of one through six, or any portion thereof, and offering schooling not beyond the grade of kindergarten. Preschool facilities include kindergartens, nursery schools, and similar child care facilities. Kindergartens in an elementary school shall be considered as part of that academic school.
(Ord. 1344 § 1 (part), 1997)
“Public hearing” or “open record public hearing”
means a public hearing conducted by a single hearing body or officer, including, but not limited to, the planning commission, hearing examiner, or city council, authorized by the city council to conduct such hearings, that creates the city’s record through testimony and submission of evidence and information under procedures prescribed in Section 18.52.060 of this title.
(Ord. 1344 § 1 (part), 1997; Ord. 1562 § 4 (part), 2006)
“Recreational vehicle (RV)”
means a vehicular type unit primarily designed for recreational camping, travel, or seasonal use which has its own motive power or is mounted on or towed by another vehicle. The basic entities are: travel trailer, folding camping trailer, park trailer, truck camper, motor home, and multi-use vehicles. Recreational vehicle also includes boats, snowmobiles and other recreational equipment on or carried by a trailer.
(Ord. 1344 § 1 (part), 1997)
“Recreational vehicle park”
means a tract of land under single ownership or control upon which two or more recreational vehicle sites with hookups (minimum water, sewer and power) are located, established or maintained for occupancy by the general public as temporary living quarters. This definition includes camping clubs when developed in accordance with applicable state laws.
(Ord. 1877 § 1(6), 2019)
“Recycling center”
means a facility where discarded household products such as aluminum and tin cans, glass, paper, and other similar individual consumer products are deposited and stored for future reprocessing (excluding drop stations).
(Ord. 1344 § 1 (part), 1997. Formerly 18.08.403; Ord. 1877 § 1(8), 2019)
“Recycling drop station”
means a facility or area for consumer deposit of small recyclable household items (glass, paper, aluminum, etc.) in enclosed containers which are collected and emptied on a regular basis (not less than weekly), without processing, crushing or other handling, and which does not create a nuisance due to odor, noise, appearance, rodent, or bug attraction.
(Ord. 1344 § 1 (part), 1997)
“Residential care facility”
means a facility that cares for at least five, but not more than fifteen, functionally disabled persons that is not licensed pursuant to Chapter 70.128 RCW. An adult family home shall be considered a residential use of property for zoning and public and private utility rate purposes. Adult family homes shall be a permitted use in all areas zoned for residential or commercial purposes, including areas zoned for single-family dwellings. [1997 c 392 § 401; 1995 1st sp.s. c 18 § 29; 1989 1st ex.s. c 9 § 815.]
(Ord. 1344 § 1 (part), 1997; Ord. 1591 § 8.00, 2007)
“Restaurant”
means a commercial establishment operated primarily for preparing, cooking, and serving meals, with the serving of beverages as incidental thereto.
(Ord. 1344 § 1 (part), 1997)
“Retail services”
means uses providing services, as opposed to products, to the general public. Examples are eating and drinking establishments, motels, beauty and barber shops and similar types of uses.
(Ord. 1344 § 1 (part), 1997)
“Retail trade”
means those uses primarily engaged in the sale of goods or merchandise to the general public for personal or household consumption and rendering services incidental to the sale of such goods. Lumber yards, office supply stores, nurseries, butcher shops, paint stores and similar uses shall be considered as retail trade establishments even though a portion of their business may be to contractors or other business establishments.
(Ord. 1344 § 1 (part), 1997)
“Retirement home”
means an establishment providing domestic care for elderly persons who are not in need of medical or nursing treatment except in the case of temporary illness. This definition does not include nursing homes, convalescent homes, hospitals, or sanitariums.
(Ord. 1344 § 1 (part), 1997)
“Public road”
means the improved (and city maintained) portion of a public right-of-way which provides vehicular circulation or principal means of access to abutting properties, and the right-of-way may also include provisions for public utilities, pedestrian walkways, public open space and recreation areas, cut and fill slopes, and drainage.
(Ord. 1344 § 1 (part), 1997)
“Principal arterial road (street)”
means a road designed to handle the greatest proportion of through or long-distance travel. They serve high-volume travel corridors that connect the major generators of traffic, including ties to the major rural highways entering the urban area. Those roads designated as principal arterials are those indicated in the transportation element of the greater Omak comprehensive plan.
(Ord. 1344 § 1 (part), 1997)
“Collector road (street)”
means a road that provides direct service to residential areas, local parks, churches, etc., and which collect the traffic from the local access roads (streets) and convey it to principal arterial roads. Those roads designated as collectors are those indicated in the transportation element of the greater Omak comprehensive plan.
(Ord. 1344 § 1 (part), 1997)
“Runway”
means a defined area on an airport designed and maintained for the landing and takeoff of fixed wing aircraft along its length.
(Ord. 1358 § 1(S), 1997)
“Runway protection zone (RPZ)”
means a trapezoidal area of property centered on the extended runway centerline. The inner portion of this area begins at the edge of the primary surface end and is five hundred feet wide. The outer edge is one thousand feet from the primary surface and seven hundred feet wide. The sides of this area correspond to lines which connect the inner and outer lines forming a trapezoid. One such area is located at each end of the runway.
(Ord. 1358 § 1(T), 1997)
“Private road”
means every way or place in private ownership and used for travel of vehicles by the owner or those persons having express or implied permission by the owner, but not by other persons; such roads are not maintained by the city of Omak or any other public agency (government unit).
(Ord. 1344 § 1 (part), 1997)
“School”
means a structure and accessory facilities in which prescribed courses are taught. This definition includes elementary, junior high or high schools and institutions of higher learning, but does not include commercial schools, nursery schools, kindergartens, or day-care facilities/centers, except when operated in conjunction with a public, private, or parochial school as defined herein.
(Ord. 1344 § 1 (part), 1997)
“Screening”
means a fence, wall, landscaping, evergreen hedge, or combination thereof, that effectively provides a sight-obscuring and sound-absorbing buffer. It shall be at least four feet in height and be broken only for access drives, walks, and for compliance with clear vision requirements (Section 18.16.090).
(Ord. 1344 § 1 (part), 1997)
“Service drive”
means a street abutting and parallel to a primary arterial or collector street which is designed to provide access to abutting property and not to provide access to the arterial except at intersections.
(Ord. 1344 § 1 (part), 1997)
“Service station”
means a retail facility to supply motor fuel and other petroleum products to motor vehicles, and may include lubrication and minor repair service and incidental sale of motor vehicle accessories.
(Ord. 1344 § 1 (part), 1997)
“Side and rear setback”
is the minimum horizontal distance measured perpendicularly from the nearest property line, edge of easement, road or right-of-way to the nearest protrusion (including roof line) of the structure.
(Ord. 1344 § 1 (part), 1997; Ord. 1667 § 5, 2010; Ord. 1716 § 1, 2011)
“Sign”
means any medium, including its structure and component parts, which is used or intended to be used to attract attention to the subject matter for advertising purposes. Refer to Section 18.16.110.
(Ord. 1344 § 1 (part), 1997)
“Solid waste”
means all putrescible and nonputrescible solid and semisolid wastes, including but not limited to garbage, rubbish, ashes, industrial wastes, swill, demolition and construction wastes, abandoned vehicles or parts thereof, and discarded commodities. This includes all liquid, solid and semisolid, materials which are not the primary products of public, private, industrial, commercial, mining, and agricultural operations. Solid waste includes but is not limited to sludge from wastewater treatment plants and septage, from septic tanks, wood waste, dangerous waste, and problem wastes. Definition is the same as WAC 173-304-100-(73).
(Ord. 1344 § 1 (part), 1997)
“Seminude”
means a state of dress in which clothing completely and opaquely covers no more than the genitals, pubic region, and areola and nipple of the female breast, as well as portions of the body covered by supporting straps or devices.
(Ord. 1344 § 1 (part), 1997)
“Specified sexual activities”
means and includes any of the following:
(1) 
The fondling or other intentional touching of human genitals, pubic region, buttocks, anus, or female breasts; or
(2) 
Sex acts, normal or perverted, actual or simulated, including intercourse, oral copulation, or sodomy; or
(3) 
Masturbation, actual or simulated; or
(4) 
Human genitals or artificial depictions of the same in a state of sexual stimulation or arousal; or
(5) 
Excretory functions as part of or in conjunction with any of the activities set forth in subsections (1) through (4) of this section.
(Ord. 1344 § 1 (part), 1997)
“Stock-in-trade”
means:
(1) 
The dollar value of all merchandise, goods, or services, readily available for purchase, rental, viewing, or use by patrons of the establishment, excluding merchandise located in any store room, under the counter or in any portion of the premises not open to patrons;
(2) 
The total volume of shelf space and display area in those portions of the establishment open to patrons.
(Ord. 1344 § 1 (part), 1997)
“Storage container”
means a unit originally or specifically used or designed to store goods or merchandise during shipping or hauling by a vehicle, including but not limited to rail cars of any kind, truck trailers or multimodal shipping containers; does not include apple bins, wooden or cardboard shipping crates or similar items.
(Ord. 1877 § 1(9), 2019)
“Story”
means that portion of a building that is included between the upper surface of any floor and the upper surface of the floor next above, except that the top story shall be that portion of a building included between the upper surface of the top floor and the ceiling above. If the finished floor level directly above a basement is more than six feet above the finished grade, then the basement shall be considered a story.
(Ord. 1344 § 1 (part), 1997)
“Half story”
means a space under a sloping roof which has its top floor level no more than four feet below the point of intersection of the roof decking and the exterior wall.
(Ord. 1344 § 1 (part), 1997)
“Structural alteration”
means:
(1) 
Any change in a major component or other supporting members of the structure, including foundations, bearing walls, beams, columns, floor or roof joists, girders, rafters;
(2) 
Any change in the exterior lines or configuration of a structure if such changes result in the enlargement of the structure.
(Ord. 1344 § 1 (part), 1997)
“Structure”
means any object constructed or installed by humans, including but not limited to buildings, towers, smokestacks, earth formations, and overhead transmission lines.
(Ord. 1358 § 1(V), 1997)
“Supported living arrangement”
means a living unit owned or rented by one or more persons with functional disabilities who receive assistance with activities of daily living, instrumental activities of daily living, and/or medical care from an individual or agency licensed and/or reimbursed by a public agency to provide such assistance.
(Ord. 1344 § 1 (part), 1997)
“Tavern”
means an establishment operated primarily for the sale of wine, beer, or other alcoholic beverages with any service of food incidental thereto.
(Ord. 1344 § 1 (part), 1997)
“Temporary market”
means an occasional, temporary commercial sales activity held within a building, structure, or open area where groups of individual sellers offer goods, new and used, for sale to the public. This definition does not include the sale of livestock, sale of automobiles or vehicles of any kind, private garage sales, or special events such as Art in the Park, Okanogan Valley Farmers Market and other scheduled annual events held under approval of the city council in a city-owned park.
(Ord. 1667 § 1(K), 2010)
“Townhouse”
means an attached dwelling unit in a row of at least two and not more than six such units, separated by property lines and by vertical common fire-resistant walls from other dwelling units in the row and having individual outside access and legal frontage on a public or approved private street. Each dwelling unit shall be designed for and occupied exclusively by one family and the household employees of that family. A townhouse shall extend from foundation to roof, and no townhouse shall be located over another unit. Common walls between townhouses shall have no doors, windows or other provisions for human passage or visibility. Each townhouse shall be attached to other units in the row by not more than two common walls. The principal access shall be at or near grade. Townhouses shall be considered multifamily dwellings and regulated as such.
(Ord. 1667 § 6, 2010)
“Mixed-use trail”
means a trail dedicated to the use of alternative land-based transportation other than the automobile. A mixed use trail may consist of several trails within the same corridor to separate conflicting uses (such as bicycles and equestrians).
(Ord. 1344 § 1 (part), 1997)
“Transfer of ownership or control”
means and includes any of the following:
(1) 
The sale, lease, or sublease of a business, or substantially all of the assets of a business.
(2) 
The transfer of securities which constitute a controlling interest in a business, whether by sale, exchange, or similar means; or
(3) 
The establishment of a trust, gift, or other similar legal device which transfers the ownership or control of a business, except for transfer by bequest or other operation of law upon the death of a person possessing the ownership or control.
(Ord. 1344 § 1 (part), 1997)
“Transitional surfaces”
means surfaces which extend outward at right angles to the runway centerline and the runway centerline extended at a slope of 7:1 (seven feet horizontally for each foot vertically) from the sides of the primary and approach surfaces to where they intersect the horizontal and conical surfaces.
(Ord. 1358 § 1(X), 1997)
“Travel trailer”
means a trailer or other unit designed as a temporary dwelling for travel or recreational uses and which is moved upon public streets and highways and is thirty-five feet or less in length and eight feet or less in width.
(Ord. 1344 § 1 (part), 1997)
“Use (development)”
means the activity or purpose for which land or structures or combination of land and structures are designed, arranged, occupied, or maintained together with any associated site improvement. This definition includes the construction, erection, placement, movement or demolition of any structure or site improvement and any physical alteration to land itself including any grading, leveling, paving or excavation. Use also means any existing or proposed configuration of land, structures, and site improvements, and the use thereof.
(Ord. 1344 § 1 (part), 1997)
“Use (Zone) district”
means a portion of the city of Omak within which certain uses of land and structures are permitted and certain other uses of land and structures are prohibited, certain yards and other open space may be required and specific lot areas are established, all as set forth and specified in this title.
(Ord. 1344 § 1 (part), 1997)
“Utilities”
are those businesses, institutions, or organizations which use pipes, wires or conductors, in, under, above, or along streets, alleys or easements to provide a product or service to the public, including sewer, water, power, phone and cable communications services.
(Ord. 1344 § 1 (part), 1997)
“Utility services”
means facilities operated by utilities but not including local transmission and collection lines, pipes, and conductors. Such facilities include, but are not limited to, electrical power substations, water reservoirs, and sewage treatment plants.
(Ord. 1344 § 1 (part), 1997)
“Variance”
means a modification of the terms of this title that may be granted because of the unusual shape, exceptional topographic conditions, or other extraordinary situation or condition in connection with a specific piece of property when the literal enforcement of this title would involve practical difficulties and cause undue hardship unnecessary to carry out the spirit and intent of this title.
(Ord. 1344 § 1 (part), 1997)
“Clear vision area”
means a triangular-shaped portion of land established at street intersections in which nothing is erected, placed, planted or allowed to grow in such a manner as to limit or obstruct the sight distance of motorists entering or leaving the intersection.
(Ord. 1344 § 1 (part), 1997)
“Waste material processing and junk handling”
means a place where waste, discarded or salvaged metal, used plumbing fixtures, discarded furniture and household equipment, and other materials are bought, sold, exchanged, stored or baled, and places or yards for the storage of salvaged materials and equipment from building demolition and salvaged structural steel materials and equipment, but excludes the processing and sorting of garbage, or for the sale, purchase, storage or dismantling of two unregistered automotive vehicles and machinery. This definition does not include the processing, storage or disposal of hazardous materials.
(Ord. 1344 § 1 (part), 1997)
“Water system”
means any water system or water supply used for human consumption or other domestic uses. This definition includes source, treatment, storage, transmission and distribution facilities.
(Ord. 1344 § 1 (part), 1997)
“Front yard”
means the open area extending along and parallel to the entire length of the front lot line and measured from the property line to the nearest point of the structure.
(Ord. 1344 § 1 (part), 1997)
“Rear yard”
means the open area at the back of the structure extending the entire width of the lot and measured from the nearest point of the structure to the rear property line.
(Ord. 1344 § 1 (part), 1997)
“Youth residential facility”
means a full-time or temporary residential use providing supervised housing for a group of persons under eighteen years of age; and/or for persons between eighteen and twenty-four years of age; and where required is licensed by the state to provide such services to non-adult persons; and provides supportive services. Supportive services include meal service, cleaning service, health services, counseling, vocational training, or similar. This facility would not include facilities which persons are assigned to pursuant to a criminal conviction or those where residents, individually or by their legal guardian, are not free to terminate their residency at will.
(Ord. 1930 § 1 (Exh. A), 2023)