"Lot" includes the word "plot"; "building" includes the word "structure"; "occupied" includes the words "arranged or designed for" or "intended to be occupied"; "planning commission" means the planning commission of Crescent City.

"Accessory building" means the building or the part of the building, the use of which is subordinate or incidental to that of the main building on the lot. Construction of said structure may only commence upon the completion of construction of certain portions of the main building as prescribed in Sections 17.10.040, 17.14.040, and 17.16.040.

"Accessory living quarters" means living quarters within an accessory building for the sole use of persons employed on the premises, having no kitchen or cooking facilities and not rented or used as a separate dwelling.

"Accessory use" means a use incidental and subordinate to the principal use of a lot or building located upon the same lot.

"Advertising sign" means any sign used primarily for advertising purposes.

"Advertising structure" means any structure of any kind or character erected or maintained for advertising purposes, upon which any advertising sign may be placed, including advertising statuary.

"Agriculture" means the tilling of soil, the raising of crops, horticulture, small livestock farming, dairying or animal husbandry, including all uses customarily incidental thereto, but not including slaughter houses, feed yards, hog farms, fertilizer works, bone yards or plants for the reduction of animal matter or any other industrial or agricultural use which is similarly objectionable because of noise, odor, smoke, dust or fumes.

"Alley" means a public way, not exceeding twenty feet in width for the use of pedestrians and/or vehicles, which affords only a secondary means of access to the abutting property.

"Apartment" means a room, or suite of rooms, which is intended or designed to be occupied by one family for living, kitchen cooking, and sleeping purposes as a dwelling unit.

For a definition of "apartment house", see "Dwelling, multiple", Section 17.04.155.

"Building area" means the aggregate of the maximum horizontal cross section area of the main building on a lot, excluding cornices, eaves, gutters, or chimneys projecting not more than four feet, steps, one-story open porches, bay windows not extending through more than one story and not projecting more than four feet, balconies and terraces.

"Automobile and trailer sales area" means an open area used for the display, sale or rental of new or used automobiles or trailers, and where repair work is limited to minor incidental repair of automobiles or trailers to be displayed, rented or sold on the premises.

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

"Basement or cellar" means a story partly or wholly underground, and having more than one-half of its height below the average level of the adjoining ground. A basement, when designed for dwelling or occupied by business or manufacturing, shall be considered a story.

"Block" means that property abutting on one side of a street and lying between the two nearest intersecting or intercepting streets, or nearest intersection of intercepting streets and railroad right-of-way, waterway or natural barrier or unsubdivided acreage.

"Building" means any structure built for the occupancy, shelter or enclosure of person, animal, chattels or personal property of any kind.

"Building height" means the vertical distance from the average ground level of the site to the highest point of structure.

"Building main" means a building in which is conducted the principal use of the lot upon which it is situated. In any residential district any dwelling shall be deemed to be a main building on the lot.

"Building site" means a lot or lots under one ownership or control, or such land area as may be required herein for building purposes.

"Residential care facility" means a facility licensed by the state of California for habilitative, congregate, foster or group home uses as a health care, community care or recovery care use. Definitions, categorization as to large or small and applicability of zoning or other restrictions shall be as set forth in the California Health and Safety Codes.

"Carport" means a permanent roofed structure used or intended to be used for automobile shelter and storage.

"Cemetery" means land used or intended to be used for the burial of the dead and dedicated for cemetery purposes, including columbarium, crematoriums, mausoleums and mortuaries, when operated in conjunction with and within the boundary of such cemetery.

The centerline of a street as referred to in this title means the right-of-way centerline as established by the city engineer, by the County Surveyor, by the State Division of Highways, or subdivision map or if such centerline has not been established, the planning commission shall designate the centerline.

"Common open space" means a parcel or parcels of land, water, or land and water included in a planned unit development and designed and intended for the use of all residents thereof. Common open space may contain complimentary recreational structures and improvements designed and intended for the benefit and enjoyment of the residents of the planned unit development.

"Community-use facility or center" means a multipurpose building, group of buildings or area which is owned and operated by a public agency or nonprofit organization, open to the public and designed to accommodate public gatherings or meetings for the purposes of recreational, educational or cultural endeavors. Single-purpose offices or agencies operated by nonprofit organizations such as, but not limited to, the Red Cross, United Crusade, Family Service Agency, Blood Bank, etc., shall not constitute a community-use facility or center.

"Court" means an open area other than a yard, on the same lot with a building or buildings, bounded on two or more sides by such building or buildings.

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

"District" means a portion of the territory of the city within which certain regulations and requirements or various combinations thereof apply under the provisions of this title.

"Dormitory" means a place where one or more rooms are provided, to be occupied for sleeping purposes by more than two persons not members of the same family and where independent cooking facilities are not provided.

"Drive-ins" means premises with off-street parking facilities thereon, upon which premises are located restaurants, eating or food establishments from which establishments prepared food or drink, capable of being consumed by patrons or customers in automobiles on the premises, is sold or served.

"Multiple dwelling" means a building with three or more dwelling units designed to be occupied by three or more families, each living independently as a separate housekeeping unit, including apartment houses, or courts, apartment hotels and flats, but not including motels.

"One-family dwelling" means a detached building which is a dwelling unit designed to be occupied by one family exclusively.

"Two-family dwelling" means a building with two dwelling units designed to be occupied by two families exclusively, living independently of each other.

"Dwelling group" means a group or row of detached or semi-detached dwellings occupying a parcel of land in one ownership and having a yard, court, or place in common, including bungalow courts and apartment courts, but not included motels.

"Dwelling unit" means a building or portion thereof used and/or designed for occupancy by one family for living or sleeping purposes and having one kitchen.

"Emergency shelter" means housing with minimal supportive services for homeless persons. Those using the facility shall be transient occupants and the length of stay is not more than six days, and is typically less. No individual or household may be denied emergency shelter because of an inability to pay.

"Essential service" means the erection, construction, alteration or maintenance by public utilities or municipal departments or commissions of underground or overhead gas, electrical, steam or water transmission or distribution systems, collection, communication, supply or disposal systems, including poles, wires, mains, drains, sewers, pipes, conduits, cables, fire alarm boxes, police call boxes, traffic signals, hydrants and other similar equipment and accessories in connection therewith, including buildings reasonably necessary for the furnishing of adequate service by such public utilities or municipal departments or commissions or for the public health or safety or general welfare.

"Family" means a household of one or more persons occupying a premises and living together as a single nonprofit housekeeping unit, as distinguished from a group occupying a hotel, club, fraternity or sorority house.

"Fraternity or sorority house" means a dwelling maintained exclusively for members affiliated with an academic or professional college or university or other recognized institution of higher learning.

"Frontage" means all the property abutting on one side of a street between two streets intersecting it (crossing or terminating) measured along the street line.

"Front wall" means the wall of a building or other structure nearest to the street upon which the building faces, excluding cornices, canopies, eaves or any other architectural embellishments extending up to, but not in excess of, thirty inches beyond said front wall.

"Private garage" means an accessory building or portion of the main building designed and/or used for the shelter or storage of vehicles by the occupants of the main building.

"Public garage" means any building, other than a private or storage garage, used for the storage, care or repair of motor vehicles or where the vehicles are kept for hire or sale.

"Storage garage" means any building other than a public or private garage used exclusively for the storage of motor vehicles.

"Grade" means the elevation of the finished surface of the ground adjacent to the exterior walls of the building; except that where the exterior walls are within five feet of a street line, the elevation of the sidewalk at the center of such exterior wall or walls shall be taken as the grade.

"Guestroom" means a room which is designed and/or used by one or more guests for sleeping purposes, but in which no provision is made for cooking.

"Home occupations" means an individually provided service, or an individual office or studio use customarily carried on in a dwelling by a resident thereof, which use is merely incidental to the residential use of the dwelling, and is carried on with the normal equipment customarily found in a dwelling; provided, that no assistants outside the home are employed and provided the use is conducted in the main dwelling and not in an accessory building. A home occupation produces no evidence of its existence beyond the dwelling other than on unlighted sign no larger than that permitted for the residence by the sign code and no outside storage of materials, products, equipment or vehicles other than the personal transport vehicle(s) of the resident business owner(s).

"Hospital, sanitarium, nursing or convalescent homes" mean a building or any portion thereof used or designed for the housing of sick, mentally ill, injured, convalescent or infirm persons for the purpose of medical treatment; provided, that this definition shall not include rooms in any one-, two-, or three-family dwelling, hotel, apartment hotel not ordinarily intended to be occupied by said persons.

"Hotel" means a building containing six or more guestrooms used by six or more guests, with or without meals, where such lodging is provided for compensation for thirty days or less, and no provision is made for kitchen facilities in any individual room or suite, but excluding hospitals and buildings where human beings are housed and detained under legal restraint.

"Residential hotel" means a building containing six or more guestrooms used by six or more guests, with or without meals, where such lodging is provided for compensation for the purpose of occupancy longer than thirty days, and no provision is made for kitchen facilities in any individual room or suite.

"Junk" means any worn out, cast-off or discarded article or material which is ready for destruction or has been collected or stored for salvage or conversion to some use. Any article or material which, unaltered or unchanged and without further reconditioning, can be used for its original purpose as readily as when new, shall not be considered junk; provided that second hand auto parts within this category shall be considered junk unless enclosed within a building or an eight-foot solid fence.

"Kennel" means any lot or premises on which four or more dogs over four months old are kept, maintained, boarded or offered for sale.

"Kitchen" means any room, all or any part of which is designed or used for cooking and preparation of food. The use of a portable microwave oven or mini-refrigerator appliance utilizing one hundred ten volt plugs for the purpose of incidental wet-bar or snack bar purpose without a food storage, cook stove or preparational/clean-up area shall not constitute a kitchen.

"Labor camp" means premises used for residential or living purposes for temporary or seasonal periods by five or more unrelated persons or families employed to perform agricultural or industrial labor.

"Landowner" means the legal or beneficial owner or owners of all of the land included in or proposed to be included in a planned unit development.

"Loading space" means an off-street space or berth on the same lot with a building or contiguous to a group of buildings for the temporary parking of a commercial vehicle while loading or unloading merchandise or materials, and which abuts upon a street, alley or other appropriate means of access.

"Lodging or roominghouse" means a building having no more than five guestrooms with a maximum of two persons per room, where lodging is provided for compensation, for time periods of one month or longer. Communal meals may or may not be provided in a single dining facility however no guestroom shall have separate kitchen facilities.

"Lot" means land occupied or to be occupied by a use, building or a unit group of buildings and accessory buildings and uses, together with such yards, open spaces, lot-width and area as required by this title, and having its principal frontage upon a street.

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

"Corner lot" means a lot situated at the intersection of two or more streets, or bounded on two or more adjacent sides by street lines.

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

"Key lot" means the first interior lot to the rear or a reversed corner lot, the front line of which is a continuation of the side line of the reversed corner lot, exclusive of the width of any alley, and fronting on the street which intersects or intercepts the street upon which the corner lot fronts.

"Front lot line" means in the case of an interior lot, a line separating the lot from a street or place; and in the case of a corner lot or reversed corner lot, the shorter street frontage shall be considered the front of the lot.

"Rear lot line" means a line which is opposite and most distant from the front lot line, and, in the case of an irregular, triangular or gore-shaped lot, a line within a lot ten feet in length, parallel to and at the maximum distance from the front lot line.

"Side lot line" means any lot lines other than the front or rear lot lines.

"Lot of record" means land held in separate ownership as shown on the records of the County Recorder at the time of the passage of this title.

"Lot reversed corner" means a corner lot which rears upon the side of another lot, whether or not across an alley.

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

"Lot width" means the average horizontal distance between side lot lines measured at right angles to the lot depth.

"Marina" means a marina in a recreational use consisting of a small harbor or boat basin providing dockage, supplies, services, including but not limited to office space for management, sale of boats, marina supplies and incidental refreshments and marine insurance for a small pleasure craft. Nothing shall be construed as to prohibit the dry-land storage of small craft, trailers or appurtenances required for the operation of such craft but does not include the major repair and overhaul of such crafts.

"Mixed use development" means development upon one property which consists of both residential and non-residential commercial business, retail, office, or service uses.

"Mobile home park" means any area or premises where space for mobile homes is rented, held for rent or on which free occupancy or camping is permitted to house-trailer owners or users for the purpose of securing their trade but not including automobile or trailer-sales lots, on which unoccupied house trailers are parked for inspection and sales.

"Motel" means a building or group of two or more detached, semi-detached or attached buildings containing guestrooms or apartments with automobile storage space provided in connection therewith, which building or group is designed, intended, or used primarily for the accommodation of automobile travelers visiting thirty days or less; including groups designated as auto cabins, motor courts, motels and similar designation. Where apartments are provided they shall constitute less than fifty percent of the total number of rooms and apartments in the facility.

"Motor freight depot" means a place, building or part thereof where merchandise, property or freight transported by motor vehicles including trailers is received, stored, transferred, loaded, unloaded or delivered, and where any parking space, gasoline or fuel oil filling area service or repair shop or other accessory service is operated in conjunction therewith.

"Natural production use" means any of the following uses: Agriculture, mining production, storage or distribution of water supplies, forestry cutting and splitting of wood, extraction of minerals, and other natural materials.

"Nonconforming building" means a building or portion thereof lawfully existing at the date of passage of the ordinance establishing the district in which such building is located, and which does not conform to the use regulation of the said district, or which does not conform to all the height or area regulations required in said district.

"Nonconforming lot" means a lot which does not conform to the area and width regulations of the district in which it is located or which does not conform to the subdivision regulations.

"Nonconforming use" means a use which lawfully occupied a building or land at the date of passage of the ordinance or amendment thereto establishing the district in which such building or land is located, and which does not conform to the use regulation of the said district.

"Public parking area" means an open area, other than a street, used for the temporary parking of more than four automobiles and available for public use, whether free, for compensation, or as an accommodation for clients or customers.

"Automobile parking space" means space within a public or private parking area of a building for the temporary parking or storage of one automobile.

"Covered patio" means an area which is covered partially or completely by a solid or open roof which is supported by upright support, columns, pillars, posts, or walls.

"Place" means an open occupied space, other than a street, permanently reserved as the principal means of access to abutting property including courts of access.

"Pool hall or billiard parlor" means a place where billiards or pool is played for a charge; provided, however, that this term shall not apply to any nonprofit society, club, fraternal, labor or other organization having adopted bylaws and duly elected directors and members having exclusive use of the playing facilities for which use no charge is made.

"Elementary and high schools" mean public or private elementary, junior and senior high schools. Does not include trade schools, vocational schools, business schools, or other schools not devoted primarily to academic instruction.

"Second-hand store" means a place in which used goods including but not limited to clothing, jewelry, furniture, appliances, room furnishings, musical instruments, typewriters, business machines, tools, motors, machines, instruments, firearms, or any similar second-hand articles or article or thing is primarily sold. This term shall not include sales of second-hand motor vehicles, trailers or farm equipment, and shall not include junk dealers or wrecking yards.

"Service station" means any building, structure, premises or other place used primarily for the retail sale and dispensation of motor fuels, lubricants and motor vehicle accessories, and the rendering of minor services and repairs to such vehicles but not including painting or body and fender repair.

"Setback" means the minimum horizontal distance from the building to the property line as prescribed by this title.

"Sign" means any words, letters, figures, numerals, emblems, designs or other marks shown on any card, cloth, paper, metal, painted glass, wooden, plaster, stone or other sign or device of any kind or character by which anything is made known and used to attract attention for advertising purposes.

"Sign area" means and is determined as follows:

A machine that converts the kinetic energy in the wind into a usable form that will be used primarily to reduce onsite consumption of utility power.

"Street" means a public thoroughfare dedicated as such or condemned for use as such, other than an alley, which affords the principal means of access to abutting property.

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

"Structural alterations" means any change in the supporting members of a structure such as the bearing walls or partitions, columns, beams or girders.

"Structure" means anything constructed or erected, the use of which requires location on or under the ground or attached to something having a permanent location on the ground, except awnings, benches, statuary, swimming pools, fish ponds, pavement, fences or walls used as fences, or any similar object.

"Supportive housing" means housing with no limit on length of stay, that is occupied by the target population as defined in Health and Safety Code Section 50675.14(b)(3), and that is linked to on-or off-site 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.

The height of a small wind energy conversion system above grade to a blade tip at its highest point of travel.

The height above grade of the fixed portion of the tower, excluding the wind turbine itself.

"Townhouse or row house" means one of a group of no less than four attached dwelling units where each dwelling unit is located on a separate lot.

"Transitional housing" means the same as that term is defined in Section 50675.2(h) of the Health and Safety Code, buildings configured as rental housing developments, but operated under program requirements that call for 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.

"Truck terminal" means a place where any heavy duty commercial vehicle or trailer over six feet wide or twenty feet or more in length and including, but not limited to, dump trucks, vans, tractors, pole or pipe dollies and cattle trucks are stored or regularly parked or a place in which the servicing or repairs of trucks is the primary business.

"Use" means the purpose for which land or a building is arranged, designed or intended, or for which either land or building is or may be occupied or maintained. Uses described within this title are more specifically defined in the latest edition of the Standard Industrial Classification Manual, on file with the city clerk.

"Yard" means an open space other than a court, on the same lot with a building, unoccupied and unobstructed from the ground upward except as otherwise provided herein.

"Front yard" means an area extending across the front of the lot between the side lot lines, the depth of which is the minimum horizontal distance from the front line of the lot to the nearest line of the main building.

"Rear yard" means an area extending across the full width of the lot between the main building and the rear lot line; depth of the required rear yard to be measured horizontally from the nearest part of a main building toward the nearest point of the rear lot line.

"Side yard" means an area between a main building and the side lot line, extending from the front yard, or front lot line to the rear yard; width of the required side yard to be measured horizontally from the nearest point of the side lot line toward the nearest part of the main building.