Chapter and section headings contained in this title shall not be deemed to govern, limit, modify or in any manner affect the scope, meaning or intent of any section of this title.

The present tense includes the future, and the future the present.

The singular number includes the plural, and the plural the singular.

"Affordable housing" means housing for which the allowable housing expenses for a for-sale or rental dwelling unit paid by a household would not exceed thirty percent of the gross monthly income for target income levels, adjusted for household size.

"Agriculture" means farming in all its branches, including the cultivation and tillage of the soil, dairying, the production, cultivation, growing, and harvesting of any agricultural or horticultural commodities (including commodities defined as agricultural commodities in Section 1141j(g) of Title 12 of the United States Code), the raising of livestock, bees, furbearing animals, or poultry, and any practices (including any forestry or lumbering operations) performed by a farmer or on a farm as an incident to or in conjunction with such farming operations, including preparation for market and delivery to storage or to market or to carriers for transportation to market.

"Alley" means a public thoroughfare or way having a width of not more than twenty feet which affords only a secondary means of access to abutting property.

"Alter" means any change to the interior or exterior of a structure that does not result in an increase to the gross floor area of the structure.

"Apartment" means a room, or a suite of two or more rooms in a multiple-family dwelling, occupied or suitable for occupancy as a residence for one family.

"Apartment house" means a building or a portion of a building, designed for occupancy by three or more families living independently of each other, and containing three or more dwelling units.

"Aquaculture" means that form of agriculture devoted to the propagation, cultivation, maintenance, and harvesting of aquatic plants and animals in marine, brackish, and fresh water. "Aquaculture" does not include species of ornamental marine or freshwater plants and animals not utilized for human consumption or bait purposes that are maintained in closed systems for personal, pet industry, or hobby purposes. This definition specifically excludes hydroponics.

"Automobile wrecking" means the commercial or noncommercial dismantling or wrecking of used motor vehicles or trailers or the storage, sale or dumping of dismantled or wrecked vehicles or their parts.

"Bar or cocktail lounge" means any establishment serving an alcoholic beverage, not meeting the requirements of a bona fide public eating establishment as defined in Section 21.04.056.

"Basement" means that portion of a building between floor and ceiling which is completely or partially below the existing grade or finished grade, whichever is lower, but so located that the vertical distance from exterior grade to the adjacent interior floor below is greater than the vertical distance from exterior grade to the adjacent interior ceiling above. This definition must apply to a minimum of seventy-five percent of the perimeter of the basement for that portion of a building to qualify as a basement.

"Bed and breakfast uses" means an historical or architecturally significant building which is located in a scenic or other environment with a distinct character which has no less than three and no more than eight attractively decorated lodging rooms, and one common room is available for social interaction where short-term lodging and primarily breakfast meals are provided for compensation. "Bed and breakfast uses" does not include rest homes, convalescent homes, hotels, motels, boarding houses or lodging houses.

"Biological habitat preserve" means any area which is designated and accepted by a federal, state or local agency as a permanent or temporary sanctuary, reserve or protected area for biological species of any kind.

"Block" means all property fronting upon one side of a street between intersecting and intercepting streets, or between a street and a railroad right-of-way, waterway, terminus or dead-end street, or city boundary. An intercepting street shall determine only the boundary of the block on the side of the street which it intercepts.

"Boardinghouse" means a building with more than four guest rooms where lodging and meals are provided for compensation but does not include rest homes, bed and breakfast uses, employee housing, convalescent homes or group homes.

"Bona fide public eating establishment" means any establishment at which the primary business is the preparation, service and retail sale of meals comprising a varied selection of foods and nonalcoholic beverages prepared, served and consumed on the premises.

To be classified as a bona fide public eating establishment, an establishment which engages in the sale of beer, wine or distilled spirits for consumption on the premises shall meet the following requirements:

"Bowling alley" means any structure in which a ball or balls are rolled on a green or down an alley or lane at any object or group of objects.

"Building" means any structure having a roof, including all forms of inhabitable vehicles even though immobilized. Where this title requires, or where special authority granted pursuant to this title requires that a use shall be entirely enclosed within a building, this definition shall be qualified by adding "and enclosed on all sides."

"Building coverage" means the total ground area of a site occupied by any building or structure as measured from the outside of its surrounding external walls or supporting members. Building coverage includes exterior structures such as stairs, arcades, bridges, permanent structural elements protruding from buildings such as overhanging balconies, oriel windows, stories which overhang a ground level story, garages and covered carports. Building coverage also includes the perimeter area of a basement. Excluded from building coverage are roof eaves extending less than thirty inches from the face of any building, awnings, open parking areas, structures under thirty inches in height and masonry walls not greater than six feet in height such as wing-walls, planter walls or grade-separation retaining walls.

"Building height" is limited to the vertical distance measured from "existing grade" (defined: Section 21.04.160) or "finished grade" (defined: Section 21.04.161), whichever is lower, at all points along the "building coverage" (defined: 21.04.061) up to a warped plane located at a height, above all points along the "building coverage," that is equal to the height limit of the underlying zone. All portions of the building shall be located at or below the building height limit, except as provided below.

"Main building" means the principal building on a lot or building site designed or used to accommodate the primary use to which the premises are devoted; where a permissible use involves more than one structure designed or used for the primary purpose, as in the case of group houses, each such permissible building on one lot as defined by this title is construed as comprising a main building.

"Building site" means:

"Business" or "commerce" means the purchase, sale or other transaction involving the handling or disposition of any article, service, substance or commodity for livelihood or profit; or the management of office building, offices, recreational or amusement enterprises; or the maintenance and use of offices, structures and premises by professions and trades rendering services.

"Cellar" means that portion of a building between floor and ceiling which is wholly or partly below grade and so located that the vertical distance between the ceiling and the average adjoining ground level is equal to or greater than the vertical distance from grade to ceiling.

"Child day care center" means a facility, other than a family day care home which provides nonmedical care, protection and supervision for children under eighteen years of age for periods of less than twenty-four hours per day. "Child day care center" includes preschools, nursery schools, employer-sponsored day care facilities and before-and after-school recreational programs, but does not include public or private elementary schools.

"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.

"Coin-operated arcade" means any place wherein coin-operated or slug-operated or electronically, electrically or mechanically controlled machines, shooting galleries, or any other amusement devices, are maintained for use by five or fewer persons per machine at any one time.

"Commercial living unit" means a unit that may be within but is not limited to a professional care facility, hotel, motel, time-share or bed and breakfast that provides the basic amenities for everyday living and may include but is not limited to a sleeping area or bedroom(s), closet space, restroom, sitting/entertainment area and kitchen facilities. Commercial living units are distinguished from dwelling units due to the assistance/services provided in conjunction with the living unit and/or the use of the living unit for temporary lodging.

"Commission" means the Planning Commission of the city.

"Common wall" is used for the purpose of distinguishing between an otherwise accessory building or structure and a main dwelling unit building or structure within residential zones. A "common wall" divides, yet is shared by, two adjacent enclosed building areas. A common wall may or may not provide a door or accessway to accommodate passage between the two building areas separated by a common wall. Accessory structures do not involve an attachment to the main building by a common wall.

"Community and Economic Development Director" means the Director of Community and Economic Development of the city or his or her designee.

"Court" means any portion of the interior of a lot or building site which is wholly or partially surrounded by buildings, and which is not a required front, side or rear yard.

"Dairy" means any premises where three or more cows, three or more goats, or any combination thereof are kept, milked or maintained.

"Delicatessen" means a type of restaurant, totaling less than one thousand six hundred square feet in total floor area, selling ready-to-eat food and canned or bottled beverages to the public. Food is pre-cooked or prepared at another location and only heated or toasted on the site. No stoves or ovens for the cooking or preparation of food nor tableware or dishwashing facilities (other than a standard sink) are permitted. No waiters or waitresses are employed on the premises.

"Development (within the coastal zone)" means, on land, in or under water, the placement or erection of any solid material or structure; discharge or disposal of any dredged material or of any gaseous, liquid, solid or thermal waste; grading, removing, dredging, mining or extraction of any materials; change in the density or intensity of use of land, including, but not limited to, subdivision pursuant to the Subdivision Map Act (commencing with Section 66410 of the Government Code), and any other division of land, including lot splits, except where the land division is brought about in connection with the purchase of such land by a public agency for public recreational use; change in the intensity of use of water, or of access thereto; construction, reconstruction, demolition or alteration of the size of any structure, including any facility of any private, public or municipal utility; and the removal or harvesting of major vegetation other than for agricultural purposes, kelp harvesting, and timber operations which are in accordance with a timber harvesting plan submitted pursuant to the provisions of the Z'berg-Nejedly Forest Practice Act of 1973 (commencing with Section 4511).

As used in this section, "structure" includes, but is not limited to, any building, road, pipe, flume, conduit, siphon, aqueduct, telephone line, and electrical power transmission and distribution line.

"Drive-thru restaurant" means a restaurant that has a drive-thru lane to serve customers in motor vehicles.

"Dump" means an area devoted to the disposal of refuse including incineration, reduction, or dumping of ashes, garbage, combustible or noncombustible refuse, offal or dead animals.

"Dwelling" means a building or portion thereof designed exclusively for residential purposes, including one-family, two-family and multiple-family dwellings, but does not include commercial living units.

"Dwelling unit" means a single unit providing a complete, independent living facility for one or more persons including permanent provisions for living, sleeping, eating, cooking and sanitation, and having only one kitchen. For the purposes of this section, provisions for sanitation include a toilet, sink and shower or bathtub.

Refer to California Government Code Section 65852.2 (effective Jan. 1, 2023).

Refer to California Government Code Section 65852.22 (effective Jan. 1, 2023).

"One-family dwelling" means a detached building designed exclusively for occupancy by one family and containing one dwelling unit.

"Two-family dwelling" means a building designed exclusively for occupancy by two families living independently of each other and containing two dwelling units.

"Multiple-family dwelling" means a building, or portion thereof, designed for occupancy by three or more families living independently of each other, and containing three or more dwelling units.

"Educational facilities, other" means educational training and tutoring services not subject to the California Education Code nor standards set by the State Board of Education, including, but not limited to, trade, cosmetology, pet grooming, music, dance, martial arts, gymnastics and language.

"Educational institution or school" means an institution of learning for minors, whether public or private, which offers instruction in those courses of study required by the California Education Code or which is maintained pursuant to standards set by the State Board of Education. This definition includes a nursery school, kindergarten, elementary school, junior high school, senior high school or any special institution of higher education, including a community or junior college, college or university.

"Expansion" means to enlarge or increase the size of an existing structure or use including the physical size of the property, building, parking and other improvements.

"Emergency shelter" means year-round housing with minimal supportive services for homeless persons or families with occupancy limited to six months or less by homeless persons. An emergency shelter can also be inclusive of the interim interventions of navigation center, bridge housing, and respite or recuperative care (defined in Government Code Section 65583 (a)(4)(C), as of January 1, 2023) and as a low barrier navigation center defined in Section 21.04.264.

Pursuant to California Health and Safety Code Section 17008, employee housing, small means any portion of any housing accommodation, or property upon which a housing accommodation is located, maintained in connection with any work or place where work is being performed, whether or not rent is involved, where such housing provides accommodations for six or fewer persons.

"Escort service" means any place where patrons can purchase the social company or companionship of another person to be given either on or off the premises, excluding any use regulated by Chapter 21.43 of this code.

"Factory-built housing" means a residential building, dwelling unit, or an individual dwelling room or combination of rooms thereof, or building component, assembly or system manufactured in such a manner that all concealed parts or processes of manufacture cannot be inspected before installation at the building site without disassembly, damage or destruction of the part, including units designed for use as part of an institution for resident or patient care, which is either wholly manufactured or is in substantial part manufactured at an off-site location to be wholly or partially assembled on-site in accordance with building standards published in the State Building Standards Code and other regulations adopted by the Commission pursuant to State Health and Safety Code Section 19990. "Factory-built housing" does not include a mobile home, mobile accessory building or structure, a recreational vehicle, or a commercial coach. "Factory-built housing" means the same as modular housing.

"Family" means one or more persons living together in a dwelling unit, with common access to, and common use of all living, kitchen, and eating areas within the dwelling unit. Residents and operators of a residential care facility or employee housing serving six or fewer persons shall be considered a family for purposes of any zoning regulation relating to residential use of such facilities.

"Family day care home" means a detached single-family dwelling which regularly provides nonmedical care, protection, and supervision of fourteen or fewer children, in the provider's own home, for periods of less than twenty-four hours per day, while the parents or guardians are away. The actual number of children permitted in a family day care home is based on age composition as determined by the State of California, Department of Social Services. Family day care homes include large or small family day care homes.

"Large family day care home" means a dwelling which provides family day care for seven to 14 children, inclusive, including children under the age of 10 years who reside at the home as defined by Section 1596.78 of the California Health and Safety Code and permitted by the licensing agency.

"Small family day care home" means a dwelling which provides family day care for eight or fewer children, including children under the age of 10 years who reside at the home as defined in Section 1596.78 of the California Health and Safety Code and permitted by the licensing agency.

"Farmworker" means any individual engaged in agriculture (as defined in Section 21.04.023).

"Farmworker housing complex, large" includes conventional and nonconventional structures, housing more than thirty-six farmworkers or more than twelve units/spaces, such as: group living quarters (including barracks and bunkhouses); a dwelling, boardinghouse, or tent; a mobile home, manufactured home, recreational vehicle, or travel trailer; or other housing accommodations, and which is occupied by farmworkers or farm-workers and their households, and may be for temporary, seasonal, or permanent residence.

"Farmworker housing complex, small" includes conventional and nonconventional structures, housing up to thirty-six farmworkers or twelve units/spaces, such as: group living quarters (including barracks and bunk-houses); a dwelling, boardinghouse, or tent; a mobile home, manufactured home, recreational vehicle, or travel trailer; or other housing accommodations, and which is occupied by farmworkers or farmworkers and their households, and may be for temporary, seasonal, or permanent residence.

"Employer-sponsored child day care center" means any child day care center at the employer's site of business and operated directly or through a provider contract by any person or entity having one or more employees, and available exclusively for the care of that employer, and of the officers, managers, and employees of the employer.

"Private garage" means an accessory building or an accessory portion of the main building, enclosed on all sides and designed or used only for the shelter or storage of vehicles owned or operated by the occupants of the main building.

"Public garage" means a building other than a private garage used for the care, repair or equipping of automobiles, or where such vehicles are kept for remuneration, hire or sale.

"Gas station" means a retail business used primarily for the sale of vehicular fuels; minor servicing and repair of automobiles; and the sale and installation of lubricants, tires, batteries and similar vehicle accessories. A gas station may include a mini-mart convenience store as an accessory use.

"Existing grade," for the purposes of measuring building height, means the ground elevation prior to any grading or other site preparation related to, or to be incorporated into, a proposed development or alteration of an existing development.

"Finished grade," for the purposes of measuring building height, means the final ground elevation after the completion of any grading or other site preparation related to, or to be incorporated into, a proposed development or alteration of an existing development.

"Group homes" means housing being used as a supportive living environment shared and used by persons who are considered handicapped under state or federal law. Group homes may serve children, the elderly or chronically ill, mentally disabled individuals, or adults recovering from or being treated for alcohol or drug addiction. A group home operated by a single operator or service provider (whether licensed or unlicensed) can include residential care facilities, supportive housing, transitional housing and other similar communal housing facilities but does not include boardinghouses. A group home that does not require state licensing or does require state licensing but serves six or fewer persons, is a residential use and is subject to only those restrictions that apply to other residential uses of the same type in the same zone.

"Guest house" or "accessory living quarters" means living quarters within an accessory building for the sole use of persons employed on the premises, or for temporary use by guests of the occupants of the premises. Such quarters shall have no kitchen facilities and shall not be rented or otherwise used as a separate dwelling unit.

"Hazardous waste" shall be defined by Chapter 6.5 of Division 20 of the Health and Safety Code.

"Hazardous waste facility" shall be defined by Chapter 6.5 of Division 20 of the Health and Safety Code.

"Hospital" means an institution specializing in giving clinical, temporary and emergency services of a medical or surgical nature to human patients and injured persons, and licensed by state law to provide facilities and services in surgery, obstetrics and general medical practice excluding however, facilities for treatment of mental and nervous disorders, but not excluding surgical and post-surgical treatment of mental cases.

"Mental hospital" means an institution licensed by state agencies under provisions of law to offer facilities, care and treatment for cases of mental and nervous disorders but not licensed to provide facilities and services in surgery, obstetrics and general medical practice. Establishments limiting services to juveniles below the age of five years, and establishments housing and caring for cases of cerebral palsy are specifically excluded from this definition.

"Hotel" means a building in which there are five or more guest rooms where lodging with or without meals is provided for compensation, and where no provision is made for cooking in any individual room or suite, but shall not include jails, hospitals, asylums, sanitariums, orphanages, prisons, detention homes and similar buildings where human beings are housed and detained under legal restraint.

"Low-income household" means those households whose gross income is at least fifty percent but less than eighty percent of the median income for San Diego County as determined annually by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.

"Moderate-income household" means those households whose gross income is at least eighty percent but less than one hundred twenty percent of the median income for San Diego County as determined annually by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.

"Very low-income household" means a household earning a gross income equal to fifty percent or less of the median income for San Diego County as determined annually by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.

"Target income level" means the income standards for very low, low and moderate income levels within San Diego County as determined annually by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development and adjusted for family size.

"Institution" means an establishment maintained and operated by a society, corporation, individual, foundation or public agency for the purpose of providing charitable, social, education or similar service to the public, groups or individuals.

"Kennel" means a place where four or more adult dogs or cats, in any combination, are kept, whether by owners of the dogs and cats or by persons providing facilities and care, whether or not for compensation. An adult dog or cat is an animal of either sex, altered or unaltered, that has reached the age of four months.

"Kitchen" means any room or portion of a room used or intended or designed to be used for the preparation and storage of food and containing one or both of the following:

An occupied or useable horizontal and vertical space of a structure.

"Liquor store" means any store designed and operated for the selling of alcoholic beverages with the selling of any other merchandise being incidental to the primary operation of selling liquor.

"Lodginghouse" means the same as boardinghouse, but no meals shall be provided.

"Lot" means a parcel of record legally created by subdivision map, adjustment plat, certificate of compliance or a parcel legally in existence prior to incorporation of the lot into the jurisdiction of the city. Any parcel created prior to May 1, 1956, shall be presumed to be lawfully created if the parcel resulted from a division of land in which fewer than five parcels were created. A lot shall have frontage that allows usable access on a dedicated public street accepted by the city. This street or easement shall have a minimum right-of-way width of forty-two feet. Special lot and street configurations for affordable housing projects may be allowed subject to the provisions of Section 21.53.120.

"Lot area" means the total horizontal area within the boundary lines of a lot.

"Corner lot" means a lot situated at the intersection of two or more streets, which streets have an angle of intersection of not more than one hundred thirty-five degrees.

See "building coverage."

"Lot depth" means the horizontal length of a straight line drawn from the midpoint of the front lot line and at right angles to such line, connecting with a line intersecting the midpoint of the rear lot line and parallel to the front lot line. In the case of a lot having a curved front line the front lot line, for purposes of this section, shall be deemed to be a line tangent to the curve and parallel to a straight line connecting the points of intersection of the side lot lines of the lot with the front lot line.

"Interior lot" means a lot other than a corner lot or reversed corner lot.

"Key lot" means the first lot to the rear of the reversed corner lot and whether or not separated by an alley.

"Front lot line" means in the case of an interior lot, a line separating the lot from the street. In the case of a corner lot the front lot line shall be the line separating the narrowest street frontage of the lot from the street.

"Rear lot line" means a lot line which is opposite and most distant from the front lot line. For the purpose of establishing the rear lot line of a triangular or trapezoidal lot, or of a lot the rear line of which is formed by two or more lines, the following shall apply:

"Side lot line" means any lot boundary line not a front lot line or a rear lot line.

"Reversed corner lot" means a corner lot, the side street line of which is substantially a continuation of the front lot line of the lot upon which the rear of the corner lot abuts.

"PUD lot" means a designated portion of or division of land, air space or combination thereof within the boundaries of a planned unit development which does not meet the definition of a lot. A PUD lot may be approved by the City Council as part of a planned unit development permit. A PUD lot, if so approved, need not have frontage on a public street or otherwise comply with the requirements of the underlying zone or Title 20.

"Through lot" means a lot having frontage on two parallel or approximately parallel streets.

"Lot width" means the horizontal distance of the line constituting the required front yard setback, as required in certain zone classifications. For those zone classifications without required front yards, the lot width is the horizontal distance between the side lot lines measured at right angles to a line comprising the depth of the lot at a point midway between the front and rear lot lines. All lots located on the inside of a curve of a public street whose rear property line is at least twenty feet less in length than the front property line shall have their lot width calculated, for the purpose of computing required side yard setbacks, using the average width of the lot.

"Low barrier navigation center" means any housing first shelter focused on moving people into permanent housing that provides temporary living facilities as outlined in Government Code Section 65660 as of January 1, 2023.

"Low barrier navigation center" means any housing first shelter focused on moving people into permanent housing that provides temporary living facilities as outlined in Government Code Section 65660 as of January 1, 2023.

"Mobile building" means a structure constructed on a permanent chassis, transportable in one or more sections, designed and equipped for human occupancy for industrial, professional, commercial, educational, or temporary housing (e.g., farmworker or transitional housing) purposes to be used primarily with a temporary foundation system. A "mobile building" requires vehicle registration from the state Department of Transportation pursuant to the state Vehicle Code and requires registration and title from the state Department of Housing and Community Development pursuant to the state Health and Safety Code. "Mobile building" does not include a recreational trailer, mobile homes, manufactured home, or prefabricated home but may include a commercial coach or trailer coach.

"Mobile home" means a structure transportable in one or more sections, designed and equipped to contain not more than one dwelling unit to be used with or without a foundation system. "Mobile home" does not include a recreational vehicle, trailer coach, commercial coach, auto trailer or factory-built housing.

"Mobile home accessory structure" means any awning, portable, demountable or permanent cabana, ramada, storage cabinet, carport, fence, windbreak or porch established for the use of the occupant of the mobile home.

"Mobile home lot" means a portion of a mobile home park designated or used for the occupancy of one mobile home.

"Mobile home park" means an area or tract of land where two or more mobile home lots are rented, leased or sold, or held out for rental, lease or sale, or owned in common as part of a condominium, to accommodate mobile homes for human habitation. "Mobile home park" does not include mobile home sales or display lots, or areas containing mobile homes used exclusively to provide temporary housing for farm employees for which a temporary occupancy permit has been issued by the Department of Public Health.

"Modular building" means a structure not constructed on a permanent chassis, transportable in one or more sections on a separate trailer, designed for human occupancy for industrial, professional, or commercial purposes to be placed upon a permanent foundation. A "modular building" is constructed in prefabricated sections and its construction and assembly is subject to the California Building, Electrical, Mechanical, and Plumbing Codes. "Modular building" does not include mobile offices, mobile homes, manufactured home, prefabricated home, commercial coach, or trailer coach. For the purposes of permitted uses in each zone, "modular building" is considered the same as any standard building.

"Motel" means a group of attached or detached buildings containing individual sleeping or living units where a majority of such units open individually and directly to the outside, and where a garage is attached or a parking space is conveniently located to each unit, all for the temporary use by automobile tourists or transients, and such word shall include motor lodges. An establishment shall be considered a motel when it is required by the Health and Safety Code of the State of California to obtain the name and address of the guests, the make, year and license number of the vehicle and the state in which it was issued.

"Nonconforming structure" means a structure, or portion thereof, which was lawfully erected or altered and maintained, but which, because of the application of this title to it, no longer conforms to the current requirements and development standards of the zone in which it is located.

"Nonconforming lot" means a lot which was legally created, but which, because of the application of this title to it, no longer conforms to the current requirements and development standards of the zone in which it is located.

"Nonconforming nonresidential use" means a nonresidential use which was lawfully established and maintained, but which, because of the application of this title to it, no longer conforms to the current use regulations of the zone in which it is located.

"Nonconforming residential use" means a residential use which was lawfully established and maintained, but which exceeds the maximum density range of the underlying general plan land use designation.

"Outdoor advertising display" means any card, paper, cloth, metal, glass, wooden, plastic or other display or device of any kind or character whatsoever placed for outdoor advertising purposes on the ground or on any tree, wall, rock, structure or thing whatsoever.

"Outdoor advertising structure" means a structure of any kind or character erected or maintained for outdoor advertising purposes, upon which any outdoor advertising display may be placed.

"Outdoor dining (incidental)" means an outdoor dining area that is part of any business that serves food and/or beverages for onsite consumption, such as but not limited to restaurants, bona fide eating establishments and delicatessens, and which does not exceed the limitations established in Chapter 21.26.

"Pawnshop" means any place engaged in the business of loaning money to any person, upon any personal property, personal security, or purchasing personal property and reselling such articles to the vendor or other assignee at prices previously agreed upon.

"Personal Services" means uses that include, but are not limited to, dry cleaners, beauty and barber shops, day spas, cosmetic services, nail salons, shoe/garment repair, massage therapy, etc.

"City planner" means the City Planner of the city or his or her designee. In addition, the term "Director" as used throughout this title shall also mean the City Planner unless the context clearly requires otherwise.

"Poolhall" or "billiard parlor" means any place of business where billiards or pool is played, and a fee is charged to those playing for the use of the equipment. The billiard room shall not be connected with any other business, nor shall any other business be permitted to be carried on, except that the billiard room may have therein ordinary merchandise vending machines and no more than four coin-operated games of skill, including pinball machines. A bar or cocktail lounge, having two or less pool or billiard tables, shall not be considered to be a poolhall or billiard parlor.

"Professional care facility" means a facility in which food, shelter, and some form of professional service is provided such as nursing, medical, dietary, exercising or other medically recommended programs. Not included in this definition are hospitals and mental hospitals.

"Public and quasi-public office buildings and accessory utility buildings and facilities" means and includes, but are not limited to, government office buildings and accessory utility buildings and facilities such as: water wells, water storage, pump stations, booster stations, transmission or distribution electrical substations, operating centers, gas metering and regulating stations, or neighboring telephone exchanges, with the necessary apparatus or appurtenances incident thereto. Such uses do not include water, sewer or drainage pipelines or utility buildings/facilities that are built, operated or maintained by a public utility to the extent that they are regulated by the California Public Utilities Commission.

"Recreational vehicle" means any vehicle (self-propelled or drawn by another vehicle), including campers, motor homes, travel trailers, boats and other vehicles, whose major intended use is for recreational purposes.

"Recreational vehicle storage" means any area or tract of land used substantially for the purpose of storing two or more recreational vehicles.

"Repair" means any improvements to correct deficiencies in a building or structure.

"Replace" means to construct a structure that is substantially equivalent in size, shape and location to a structure that has been destroyed or demolished.

"Residential care facility" means any family home, group care facility, or similar facility, licensed by the State of California, for twenty-four hour nonmedical care of persons in need of personal services, supervision or assistance essential for sustaining the activities of daily living or for the protection of the individual as provided in Section 1502 of the California Health and Safety Code.

"Secondhand shop" or "thrift shop" means a place of business that engages in buying and selling, trading or accepting for sale on consignment previously sold property, excluding bona fide antique shops. "Secondhand property" means personal property of which prior use has been made. A bona fide antique shop is one in which substantially all the merchandise is antique. "Antique" means any collectible, object of art, bric-a-brac, curio, household furniture or furnishing offered for sale upon the basis, expressed or implied, that the value of the property, in whole or in substantial part, is derived from its age or from historical associations.

"Satellite television antenna" or "satellite antenna" means any instrument or device capable of transmitting or receiving television, microwave, or other electronic communications from a transmitter, or a transmitter relay, located in planetary orbit. This may include, but is not limited to, "satellite earth stations," "satellite receiving dish," and "dish antenna."

"Sign" means any outdoor advertising display or outdoor advertising structure or any indoor advertising display or indoor advertising structure designed and placed so as to be readable principally from the outside.

Small wireless facilities (SWF), consistent with FCC regulations in 47 CFR Section 1.6002(l), are wireless communication facilities that meet each of the following conditions:

"Habitable space or structure" means any space in a structure for living, sleeping, eating or cooking.

"Specified hazardous waste facility" shall be defined by Chapter 6.5 of Division 20 of the Health and Safety Code.

"Private stable" means a detached accessory building in which horses owned by the occupants of the premises are kept, and in which no horses are kept for hire or sale.

"Public stable" means a stable other than a private stable.

"Stand" means a structure for the display and sale of products with no space for customers within the structure itself.

"State freeway" means any section of a state highway which has been declared to be a freeway by resolution of the California Highway Commission pursuant to the Streets and Highways Code.

"Story" means that portion of a building included between the surface of any floor and the surface of the floor next above it. If there is no floor above it, then the space between such floor and the ceiling next above it shall be considered a story. Underground parking, a basement or a cellar shall not be considered a story. Lofts or mezzanines shall not be considered a story provided that they do not exceed fifty percent of the floor area of the story they are located within.

"Street" means a publicly dedicated and accepted thoroughfare which affords primary means of access to abutting property and having a minimum right-of-way width of not less than forty-two feet.

"Street line" means the boundary line between a street and the abutting property.

"Side street" means a street which is adjacent to a corner lot and which extends in the general direction of the line determining the depth of the lot.

"Structural alterations" mean any changes in the supporting members of a building such as foundations, bearing walls, columns, beams, floor or roof joists, girders or rafters, or changes in roof or exterior lines.

"Structure" means anything constructed or erected which requires location on the ground or attached to something having a location on the ground, but not including fences or walls used as fences six feet or less in height. All buildings are structures.

See "Nonconforming lot."

"Supportive housing" means housing with no limit on length of stay that is occupied by the target population (as defined in Government Code Section 65582) and that is linked to onsite or offsite services that assist 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. Supportive housing is a residential use and is subject to only those restrictions that apply to other residential uses of the same type in the same zone.

"Tattoo parlor" means any place of business that engages in tattooing persons by any method of placing designs, letters, scrolls, figures, symbols or any other marks upon or under the skin with ink or colors, by the aid of needles or instruments.

"Time-share project" means a project in which a purchaser receives a right in perpetuity, for life, or for a term of years to the recurrent exclusive use or occupancy of a lot, parcel, unit or segment of real property annually or on some other periodic basis, for a period of time that has been, or will be, allotted from the use or occupancy periods onto which the project has been divided.

The verb "to place" and any of its variants as applied to advertising displays and outdoor advertising structures, includes maintaining, erecting, constructing, posting, painting, printing, nailing, glueing or otherwise fastening, affixing or making visible in any manner whatsoever.

"Transitional housing" means rental housing operated under program requirements that call for the termination of assistance and recirculation of the assisted unit to another eligible program recipient at some predetermined future point in time, which shall be no less than six months. Transitional housing is a residential use and is subject to only those restrictions that apply to other residential uses of the same type in the same zone.

"Underground parking" means parking areas that are located completely or partially underground where the finished floor of the parking area is below grade to the point where the parking area qualifies as a basement as defined in Section 21.04.045.

"Use" means the purpose for which land or building is arranged, designed or intended, or for which either is or may be occupied or maintained.

"Useable living area" means the area of a building intended for habitation and/or use by the building's occupants.

"Veterinarian and small-animal hospital" means a place of business operated by a qualified veterinarian for the treatment of small domestic animals, where boarding, training and grooming of animals are only incidental to such treatment.

"Wet bar" means an area within a dwelling unit, notwithstanding a kitchen as defined in Section 21.04.200, designed for the purpose of preparing beverages and containing a small counter top and sink with running water. For the purposes of this section, a wet bar does not contain:

"Wireless communication facility" means any component, including antennas and all related equipment, buildings and improvements for the provision of personal wireless services defined by the Federal Telecommunications Act of 1996 and as subsequently amended. Personal wireless services include but are not limited to, cellular, personal communication services (PCS), enhanced specialized mobile radio (ESMR), paging, ground-based repeaters for satellite radio services, micro-cell antennae and similar systems which exhibit technological characteristics similar to them.

"Yard" means an open space other than a court on a lot, unoccupied and unobstructed from the ground upward, except as otherwise provided in this title.

"Front yard" means an area extending across the full width of the lot and lying between the front lot line and a line parallel thereto, and having a distance between them equal to the required front yard depth as prescribed in each zone. Front yards shall be measured by a line at right angles to the front lot line, or by the radial line in the case of a curved front lot line. When a lot lies partially within a planned street indicated on a precise plan for such a street, and where such planned street is of the type that will afford legal access to such lot, the depth of the front yard shall be measured from the contiguous edge of such planned street in the manner prescribed in this definition.

"Rear line of the required front yard" means a line parallel to the front lot line and at a distance therefrom equal to the depth of the required front yard and extending across the full width of the lot.

"Side yard" means a yard between the main building and the side lot lines extending from the rear line of the required front yard, or the front lot line where no front yard is required, to the rear line of the main building, or the rear line of the rearmost building if there is more than one, the width of which side yard shall be measured horizontally from, and at right angles to, the nearest point of a side lot line towards the nearest part of a main building.

"Private zoo" means any lot, building, structure, enclosure or premises whereupon or wherein are kept by any person, other than a municipal corporation, the United States, the State of California, or any political subdivision thereof, two or more wild animals, whether such keeping is for pleasure, profit, breeding or exhibiting, and including places where two or more wild animals are boarded, kept for sale or kept for hire.