“S” Definitions.
“School”means a facility utilized by an organization whose principal purpose is to provide instruction; including but not limited to public schools, private schools and preschools.
“Screen” or “screening”means a continuous fence, hedge or combination of both which obscures vision through 80 percent or more of the screen area, not including drives or walkways.
“Secondary use”means a use, subordinate to the primary use, which may exist only when a primary use is existing on the same lot. The floor area of a secondary use must be less than that devoted to the primary use.
“Security device”means a bond, letter of credit, cash deposit, secured instrument or any other mechanism approved by and meeting the requirements of the city for the purpose of ensuring the performance or completion of some act authorized or permitted under the development code.
“Setback”means the minimum distance required by this title for buildings to be set back from the street side or rear lot lines, rights-of-way or access easements.
“Setback area”means the lot area between the lot lines and the setback lines.
“Setback line”means a line which is parallel to a lot line or access easement located at the distance required by the setback.
“Short-term rental”means a lodging use, that is not a hotel or motel or bed and breakfast, in which a dwelling unit, or portion thereof, is offered or provided to a guest by a short-term rental operator for a fee for fewer than 30 consecutive nights.
“Sign”means any structure, graphic display or medium, including merchandise, its structure and component parts, that is used or intended to be used to attract attention to the subject matter for advertising purposes. Signs do not include sculptures, wall paintings, murals, collages, and other design features determined to be public art by the city.
“Sign area”means the area calculated on the basis of the smallest three or fewer rectangles that can be drawn around all parts of the sign from the viewpoint exposing the largest surface area, excluding simple support structures. Sign supporting structures which are part of the sign display shall be included in the area of the rectangle.
“Sign face”means any side of a sign which contains advertising or a graphic display which is visible to the public.
“Sign, off-site”means a permanent sign not located on the same lot as the business or use it is intended to serve.
“Sign, permanent”means a sign nailed, glued, screwed or similarly fastened to foundation systems capable of holding it in position under an imposed wind load of 25 pounds per square foot or the design requirements of Chapter 23 of the Building Code.
“Sign, roof”means a sign attached to or supported on the roof of a structure or building that extends above the parapet or roof of the supporting building.
“Sign, temporary”means a sign or advertising display intended to be displayed for a limited period of time or for a fixed event and not permanently affixed to a structure or the ground.
“Sign, wall”means any sign painted, attached or erected against the wall of a building or structure.
“Site plan”means a scale drawing which shows the areas and locations of all buildings, streets, roads, improvements, easements, utilities, open spaces and other principal development features for a specific parcel of property.
“Site plan, binding”means a site plan reviewed and approved pursuant to this title and Chapter
16.12 MCMC, containing the inscriptions or attachments setting forth the limitations and conditions of use for a specific parcel of property and meeting the requirements of the Snohomish County auditor for recording.
means less than completely or opaquely covered human genitals, pubic region, buttock, or female breast below a point immediately above the top of the areola, or human male genitals in a discernibly turgid state, even if completely or opaquely covered.
“Specified sexual activities”means acts of human masturbation, sexual intercourse, oral copulation, bestiality or sodomy; fondling or other erotic touching of human genitals, pubic region, buttock or female breast; or human genitals in a state of sexual stimulation or arousal.
“Stacked flat”means a multi-unit dwelling of no more than three stories in which each floor may be separately rented or owned.
“Stock-in-trade”means any item or good that: (1) is produced, purchased, processed, finished or fabricated as part of a home occupation, or (2) is incorporated into any such item, or (3) is used to make, manufacture, produce, process, finish or fabricate any such item, or (4) is intended for resale on site; provided, that it does not include samples.
“Street”means a public or private right-of-way or easement which provides vehicle access to more than three lots or potential lots.
“Street setback”means the minimum distance required for buildings to be set back from the rightof-way.
“Structure”means a combination of materials constructed and erected permanently in or on the ground or attached to something having a permanent location on the ground, not including utility poles and related ground-or pad-mounted equipment, residential fences, retaining walls, rockeries, and other similar improvements of a minor character less than three feet high.
“Subdivision”means a division of land into five or more lots, tracts or other divisions. “Subdivision” includes resubdivision of previously subdivided land.