"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 the 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 17.64.040, 17.65.040, and 17.66.040.

"Accessory living quarters" means the 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.

"Aggrieved person" means any person who, in person or through a representative, appeared and spoke at a public hearing of the city in connection with the decision or action appealed, or who, by other appropriate means prior to a hearing, informed the city in writing of the nature of his or her concerns or who, for good cause, was unable to do either.

"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 the definition of "apartment house," see "dwelling, multiple," Section 17.61.155.

"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.

"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.

"Bluff line" or "bluff edge" means the upper termination of a bluff, cliff, or seacliff. In cases where the top edge of the cliff is rounded away from the face of the cliff as a result of erosional processes related to the presence of the steep cliff face, the bluff line or edge shall be defined as that point nearest the cliff beyond which the downward gradient of the surface increases more or less continuously until it reaches the general gradient of the cliff. In a case where there is a steplike feature at the top of the cliff face, the landward edge of the topmost riser shall be taken to be the cliff edge. The termini of the bluff line, or edge along the seaward face of the bluff, shall be defined as a point reached by bisecting the angle formed by a line coinciding with the general trend of the bluff line along the seaward face of the bluff, and a line coinciding with the general trend of the bluff line along the inland facing portion of the bluff. Five hundred feet shall be the minimum length of bluff line or edge to be used in making these determinations.

"Boardinghouse" means a building in which there is not more than one dining room and meals are provided by the week or month.

"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.

"Main building" 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 the 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 for habilitative, congregate, foster, group home or daycare uses as a health care, community care or recovery care use.

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

"Centerline" means the right-of-way centerline of a street 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.

"Coastal development permit" means the permit for any development within the coastal zone that is required pursuant to Section 30600(a) of the California Coastal Act of 1976.

"Coastal zone" means that land and water area of the state from the Oregon border to the border of the Republic of Mexico, specified on the maps identified and set forth in Section 17 of that chapter of the Statutes of the 1975-76 Regular Session enacting this division, extending seaward to the state's outer limits of jurisdiction, including all offshore islands, and extending inland generally one thousand yards from the mean high tide line of the sea. In significant coastal estuarine, habitat, and recreational areas it extends inland to the first major ridgeline paralleling the sea or five miles from the mean high tide line of the sea, whichever is less; and in developed urban areas the zone generally extends inland less than one thousand yards.

"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.

"Commission" means the Planning Commission of the city of Crescent City.

"Coastal Commission" means the California Coastal Commission.

"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.

"Council" means the city council of the city of Crescent City California.

"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.

"Department" means the city of Crescent City department of planning.

"Development" 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, including limitations on time of use or increases in use fees or parking fees, which affect the intensity of use; 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).

"Director" means the Director of the city of Crescent planning department.

"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 these regulations.

"Dormitory" means a place where one or more rooms are provided in a non-profit institutional setting, 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 any 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.

"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.

"Group dwelling" means a group or row of detached or semidetached 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 including 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 and one separate toilet facility.

"Emergency" means a sudden, unexpected occurrence demanding immediate action to prevent or mitigate loss or damage to life, health, property, or essential public services.

"Major energy facility" means any public or private processing, producing, generating, storing, transmitting, or recovering facility for electricity, natural gas, petroleum, coal, or other source of energy valued at fifty thousand dollars or more in January, 1981 (with an automatic annual increase based upon the Engineering News Record Construction Cost Index).

"Environmentally sensitive habitat area" means any area in which plant or animal life, or their habitats, are either rare or especially valuable because of their special nature or role in an ecosystem and which could be easily disturbed or degraded by human activities and developments.

"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.

"Executive Director" meaning the executive director of the California Coastal Commission.

"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.

"Fill" means earth or any other substance or material, including pilings placed for the purposes of erecting structures thereon, placed in a submerged area.

"Fraternity house" 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 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.

"Guest home" or "rest home" means a building or any portion thereof used for the housing of ambulatory or aged persons where lodging is provided for compensation.

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

"Harbor-related" means that area and use which is primarily dependent upon immediate access to the harbor to function effectively; however, it may also include those uses which do not have to depend upon the coast or harbor to function.

The purpose of home occupation is to provide Crescent City residents with the opportunity to have a combined living and working environment, thereby providing an affordable lifestyle and an incentive to remain in Crescent City. It is intended to implement the applicable provisions of the general plan and to promote compatible living and working conditions within a safe and health environment on property zoned residential. It is also the intent of a home occupation use to ensure that resident's live/work projects are compatible with surrounding land uses, are designed to avoid potential land use conflicts and negative impacts to both live/work occupants and occupants of neighboring properties, and to ensure that the project density will be no greater than the density otherwise allowed in the underlying zone.

"Home occupation" shall mean an activity customarily conducted entirely within in a residential dwelling by a person residing in the dwelling unit, which use is clearly a secondary and incidental use of as a residence. The use must not change the residential character of the dwelling or area and shall meet the following conditions:

"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.

"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 and ten volt plugs for the purpose of incidental wet-bar or snack bar purpose without a food storage, cook stove or preparation/clean-up area shall not constitute a kitchen.

"Landowner" means the legal or beneficial owner or owners of all of the land included in or proposed to be included in any individual parcel of land.

"Land use plan" means the city's local coastal element of the general plan which is detailed to indicate kinds, locations, and intensity of land uses, and the applicable resource protection and development policies.

"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.

"Local coastal plan" consists of the land use plan, zoning ordinances, zoning district maps, and implementing actions, which when all taken together meet the requirements of the Coastal Act of 1976.

"Lodging or rooming house" 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 available to be occupied by a use, building or a unit group of buildings, accessory buildings or 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 land 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 of 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 a line on an interior lot separating the lot from a street or place; either side of a corner lot or reversed corner lot which faces a street may be designated and used as the front of the lot.

"Rear lot line" means a line which is opposite and most distant from the front lot line, and, in 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.

"Reversed corner lot" 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 recreational use consisting of a small harbor or boat basin providing dockage, supplies and 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 in this chapter 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" means a vehicle designed to be drawn by a motor vehicle and to be used for human habitation or for carrying persons or property, including trailer coaches, house trailers, and self-propelled vehicles used for human habitation.

"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.

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

"Day nursery" means a use wherein day care is afforded children under the age of six years.

"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.

"Planned unit development" means an area of land controlled by a landowner, which is, has been, or is proposed to be developed as a single entity for a number of dwelling units, the plan for which need not conform in lot size, bulk or type of dwelling, number of structures per lot, height or yard regulations established for the affected district or districts by any other chapters of this title. Such development will be permitted only after a planned unit permit is secured.

"Major public works" means projects valued at fifty thousand dollars or more in January, 1981 (with an automatic annual increase in accordance with the Engineering News Record Construction Cost Index) which include the following:

"Elementary school," "middle school," "junior high school" or "high school" means public or private facilities devoted primarily to academic instruction, excluding trade schools, vocational schools and business schools.

"Sea" means the Pacific Ocean and all harbors, bays, channels, estuaries, salt marshes, sloughs, and other areas subject to tidal action through any connection with the Pacific Ocean, excluding nonestuarine rivers, streams, tributaries, creeks, and flood control and drainage channels.

"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 repairs.

"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" is determined as follows:

"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.

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

"Structural alteration" 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, including but not limited to, any building, road, pipe, flume, conduit, siphon, aqueduct, telephone line and electrical power transmission and distribution line, and excepting awnings, benches, statuary, fish ponds, or any similar objects.

"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.

"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.

"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 in this title.

"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.

"Wetlands" means lands which may be covered periodically or permanently with shallow water and include saltwater marshes, open or closed brackish water marshes, freshwater marshes, swamps, mudflats and fens. Wetlands shall be defined as land where the water table is at, near, or above the land surface long enough to promote the formation of hydric soils or to support the growth of hydrophytes, and shall also include those types of wetlands where vegetation is lacking and soil is poorly developed or absent as a result of frequent and drastic fluctuations of surface water levels, wave action, water flow, turbidity or high concentrations of salts or other substances in the substrate. Such wetlands can be recognized by the presence of surface water or saturated substrate at some time during each year and their location within, or adjacent to, vegetated wetlands or deep-water habitats. For purposes of this definition, the upland limit of a wetland shall be defined as co-terminus with either: (1) the boundary between land with predominantly hydrophytic cover and land with predominantly mesophytic or xerophytic cover; (2) the boundary between soil that is predominantly hydric and soil that is predominantly nonhydric; or (3) in the case of wetlands without vegetation or soils, the boundary between land that is flooded or saturated at some time during years of normal precipitation, and land that is not. For the purposes of this definition, the term "wetlands" shall not include wetland habitat created by the presence of and associated with agricultural ponds and reservoirs where: (1) the pond or reservoir was in fact constructed by a farmer or rancher for agricultural purposes; and (2) there is no evidence (e.g., aerial photographs, historical survey, etc.) showing that wetland habitat pre-dated the existence of the pond or reservoir. Areas with drained hydric soils that are no longer capable of supporting hydrophytes shall not be considered wetlands.