For the purpose of the ordinance codified in Chapters 20.02 - 20.60, certain terms used are defined as follows:

All words used in the present tense include the future all words in the plural number include the singular, unless the natural construction of the wording indicates otherwise. "Lot" includes "plot" "building" includes "structure" and "shall" is mandatory and not directory. "County" means the county of Del Norte, state of California "board of supervisors" means the board of supervisors of the county of Del Norte, state of California "planning commission" means the planning commission of the county of Del Norte, state of California and county boundary" means the boundary of the county of Del Norte, state of California, and/or the boundary of any incorporated municipality within Del Norte County.

(Ord. 67-10 § 2.0100(a), 1967)

"Accessory dwelling unit" means an attached or detached dwelling unit that provides complete independent living facilities on the same parcel as a legal single-unit or multi-unit dwelling, including permanent provisions for living, sleeping, eating, cooking and sanitation. See Section 20.00.01 O (Accessory dwelling unit (ADU) regulations).

(Ord. 2023-006 § 2 (part), 2023)

"Agriculture" means the tilling of the soil, the raising of crops, horticulture and viticulture, including all uses customarily incidental thereto for commercial purposes, but not including slaughterhouses, fertilizer yards, bone yards or plants for the reduction of animal matter or any other industrial use which is similarly objectionable because of noise, odor, smoke, dust, or fumes.

(Ord. 67-10 § 2.0100(1), 1967)

“Airport” means the operation of any area of land or water designed and set aside for the landing and taking off of aircraft but not including private agricultural operations.

(Ord. 67-10 § 1.0100(3), 1967)

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

(Ord. 67-10 § 2.0100(4), 1967)

"Animal husbandry" means the keeping of any or all livestock except hogs.

(Ord. 67-10 § 2.0100(2), 1967)

"Apartment" means a room or suite or two or more rooms which is designed for, intended for and/or occupied by one family doing its cooking therein.

(Ord. 67-10 § 2.0100(5), 1967)

"Efficiency kitchen" means a cooking facility which includes all the following: sink; cooking appliances that do not require electrical service greater than 120 volts, or natural or propane gas; a food preparation counter(s); and food storage cabinets.

(Ord. 2023-006 § 2 (part), 2023)

For "apartment court," see "dwelling group," Section 20.04.230.

(Ord. 67-10 § 2.0100(6), 1967)

For "apartment house," see "dwelling, multiple," Section 20.04.240.

(Ord. 67-10 § 2.0100(7), 1967)

"Area, Building-Site" means the total of the ground area of building or buildings together with all open spaces required b} Chapters 20.02 - 20.60.

(Ord. 67-10 § 2.0100(8), 1967)

"Automobile Camp" means land or premises used or intended to be used, let or rented, for occupancy by camper traveling by automobile or otherwise, or for occupancy by or of trailers or moveable dwellings, rooms or sleeping quarters of any kind.

(Ord. 67-10 § 2.0100(9), 1967)

For "Automobile Wrecking," see "Wrecking Yards," Section. 20.04.870.

(Ord. 67-10 § 2.0100(10), 1967)

"Basement" means a story wholly or partly underground and having at least one-half of its height below grade. A basement shall be counted as a story if the vertical distance from grade to the ceiling is over five feet.

(Ord. 67-10 § 2.0100(11), 1967)

"Block" means that property abutting on one side of a street and lying between the two nearest intersecting or intercepting streets, or railroad rights-of-way, or unsubdivided acreage, or a combination thereof.

(Ord. 67-10 § 2.0100(12), 1967)

"Building" means any structure having a roof supported by columns and/or by walls and intended for the shelter, housing and/or enclosure of any person, animal or chattel. When any portion thereof is completely separated from every other portion thereof by a masonry division or fire wall without any window, door or other opening therein, which wall extends from the ground to the upper surface of a roof at every point, then each such portion shall be deemed to be a separate building.

(Ord. 67-10 § 2.0100(13), 1967)

"Building, Accessory" means a subordinate building the use of which is incidental to that of the primary building on the same parcel. In residential, residential-agricultural and rural-residential districts, the residence is the primary building and the accessory building must be built after construction of the residence or at the same time as construction of the residence. Where the minimum lot size in these districts is less than three acres, the accessory building must meet the following criteria:

1. No single accessory building shall exceed twelve hundred square feet in area coverage.
2. The height of the accessory building. shall not exceed sixteen feet as measured from the average ground level to the peak of the roof.
3. No person outside of the members of the family shall be em­ployed within the accessory building.
4. Exceeding the above maximum dimensions shall only be al-lowed after the securement of a use permit.

(Ord. 95-017 § 8(1), 1995; Ord. 81-31 § 1, 1981; Ord. 67-10 § 2.0100(14), 1967)

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

(Ord. 67-10 § 2.0100(15), 1967)

"Business or Commerce" means the purchase, sale or other transaction involving the handling or disposition (other than is included in the term "industry" as defined herein) of any article, substance or commodity for profit or livelihood, including, in addi­tion, office buildings, offices, shops for the sale of personal services, garages, outdoor advertising structures, automobile camps, automo­bile courts, hotels and recreational or other enterprises conducted for profit.

(Ord. 67-10 § 2.0100(16), 1967)

A "Community Care Facility" shall be as defined by California Health and Safety Code, including habilitative, congregate, foster or group home in a health care, community care, or recovery care facility for six or fewer persons, and shall, under state law, be considered a single-family residence for the purpose of this zoning code. Similar facilities with seven or more persons, as defined by California Health and Safety Code, shall also be considered a single-family residence however a use permit will be required in all R zone districts to address potential local health and safety issues.

(Ord. 2023-007 § 1, 2023; Ord. 99-002 (part), 1999)

"Caretaker" means any person who is on the premises only in the absence of the property owner, and all other persons, from the property to be cared for. He must provide manual labor and maintenance services for the owner to substantial physical improvements (buildings, equipment, crops on five acres or more, etc.).

(Ord. 67-10 § 2.0100(17), 1967)

"Child Day Care Home" means a dwelling unit used by the occupant to provide day care and supervision subject to the requirements of Health and Safety Code Section 1597.44 for a small family day care home that provides care for more than six children and up to eight children and Health and Safety Code Section 1597.465 for a large family day care home that provides care for more than 12 children and for up to 14 children. The use of a dwelling unit as a small or large family day care home shall be considered a residential use of property as defined in Health and Safety Code Section 1597.45.

(Ord. 2023-007 § 2, 2023)

"Court" means an open, unoccupied space on the same lot with a building or buildings and which is bound on two or more sides by such building or buildings, including the open space in a house court or court apartment providing access to the units thereof.

(Ord. 67-10 § 2.0100(18), 1967)

"Coverage, Lot or Building" means that portion of the lot area covered by buildings.

(Ord. 67-10 § 2.0100(19), 1967)

"District" means a portion of the unincorporated territory of the county within which certain uses of land, premises and buildings are permitted and certain other uses of land, premises and buildings are not permitted and within which certain yards and other open spaces are required and certain building site areas are established and certain height limits are established for buildings, all as set forth and specified in Chapters 20.02 - 20.60.

(Ord. 67-10 § 2.0100(20), 1967)

"Duplex" means a two-family residence designed for or used exclusively for residence purposes by two families in separate housekeeping units.

(Ord. 82-09 § 2 Exh. A(5), 1982; Ord. 67-10 § 2.0100(21), 1967)

"Dwelling group" means a group of two or more detached or semidetached single-family, two-family or multiple dwellings occupying a parcel of land in one ownership and having any yard or court in common, including house courts and apartment courts, but not including automobile courts.

(Ord. 2023-007 § 3, 2023; Ord. 67-10 § 2.0100(25), 1967)

"Multiple dwelling" means a building or portion thereof used and/or designed as a residence for three or more families living independently of each other, and doing their own cooking in the building, including apartment houses, apartment hotels and flats, but not including automobile courts.

(Ord. 67-10 § 2.0100(24), 1967)

"Single-family dwelling" means a building designed for and/or occupied exclusively by one family, not including trailers. Single-family dwellings include traditional construction, manufactured homes, and modular homes. (See definition of trailer, Section 20.04.810.)

(Ord. 2023-007 § 4, 2023; Ord. 67-10 § 2.0100(22), 1967)

"Two-family dwelling" means a building designed for and/or occupied exclusively by two families living independently of each other.

(Ord. 2023-007 § 5, 2023; Ord. 67-10 § 2.0100(23), 1967)

"Emergency Shelter" means a housing with minimal supportive services for homeless persons that is limited to an occupancy of six months or less.

(Ord. 2023-007 § 6, 2023)

"Full time employee" means a person working for a monetary wage or salary at least thirty-two hours per week.

(Ord. 67-10 § 2.0100(26), 1967)

"Employee housing" means housing provided for six or fewer employees and shall be deemed a single-unit dwelling. Residents of the employee housing must be employed by the owner of the home.

(Ord. 2023-007 § 10, 2023)

"Employee housing, agriculture" means housing provided for farmworkers. Housing consists of any living quarters or dwelling, boarding house, barracks, bunkhouse, mobile home, manufactured home, travel trailer, or other accommodations maintained in one or more structures.

(Ord. 2023-007 § 11, 2023)

"Factory-built home" means a dwelling, wholly or in substantial part, fabricated in an off-site manufacturing facility to be wholly or on-site in accordance with building standards published in the State Building Code and other regulations adopted locally. Factory-built housing includes such types as modular, panelized and pre-cut homes but does not include a mobile home, manufactured home, commercial coach nor a recreational vehicle.

(Ord. 2023-007 § 9, 2023; Ord. 95-06 § 2 (part), 1995)

"Family" means one or more people related by blood or legal status or persons not related who are functioning as a family or single-housekeeping unit, meaning that they have established ties and familiarity with each other, jointly use common areas, interact with each other, and share meals, household activities, expenses and responsibilities. Family does not include a fraternity, sorority, club, or other group occupying a hotel, other transient lodging, or institution of any kind.

(Ord. 2023-007 § 8, 2023; Ord. 67-10 § 2.0100(27), 1967)

"Immediate family" means parents, children, brothers or sisters of either the property owner or spouse of the property owner.

(Ord. 2023-007 § 7, 2023; Ord. 67-10 § 2.0100(28), 1967)

"Front wall" means the wall of the building or other struc­tures nearest the street upon which the building faces but excluding certain architectural features as specified in Section 20.48.90.

(Ord. 67-10 § 2.0100(29), 1967)

"Garage, Private" means an accessory building for only the non-commercial storage of self-propelled vehicles.

(Ord. 67-10 § 2.0100(30), 1967)

"Public garage" means any premises, except those herein defined as private or storage garage, used for the storage and/or care of self-propelled vehicles, or where any such vehicles are equipped for operation or repair, or kept for remuneration, hire or sale.

(Ord. 67-10 § 2.0100(31), 1967)

"Storage garage" means any premises, except those herein defined as a private garage, used exclusively for the storage of personal belongings other than those of any resident upon the premises.

(Ord. 87-20 Exh. A (part), 1987; Ord. 67-10 § 2.0100(32), 1967)

"Guest room" means a room which is intended, arranged or designed to be occupied or which is occupied by one or more guests, but in which no provision is made for cooking and not including dormitories for sleeping purposes.

(Ord. 67-10 § 2.0100(33), 1967)

"Height of building" means the vertical distance from the average level of the highest and lowest point of that portion of the lot cov­ered by the building, to the highest point of the building.

(Ord. 67-10 § 2.0100(34), 1967)

"High quality transit corridor" means the intersection of two or more major bus routes with a frequency of service interval of 15 minutes or less during the morning and afternoon peak commute periods.

(Ord. 2023-006 § 2 (part), 2023)

"Home enterprise" means a service, office, studio or production use conducted in conjunction with a dwelling unit, managed by the inhabitants thereof, which use includes business activities more intense than those of a home occupation. Home enterprises may be considered in specified zoning districts subject to the issuance of a use permit which shall find that the use is clearly incidental and secondary to the use of the property for dwelling purposes, does not substantially change the character of the dwelling or neighborhood thereof, and which use:

1. Is confined within an on-site dwelling or accessory structure thereto, occupies not more than thirty-three percent of the total on-site square footage, and/or is confined to a garden or orchard where food or flora is grown on-site.
2. Involves no sale of new or used merchandise other than that produced on the premises, or merchandise directly related to, and incidental to, the services offered.
3. Is managed by the family occupying the dwelling with no more than three nonresident employees at the site where the residence is located within any general plan designated urban or rural area, or nor more than five nonresident employees at the site where the residence is located within any general plan designat­ed resource area.
4. Does not entail the establishment of a permanent salesroom or group meeting room, except that provision for occasional temporary sales areas or group meetings may be established by the use permit where no impact upon the surrounding neighborhood is found.
5. Is in compliance with applicable health, safety and welfare standards such as the Uniform Building Code, Uniform Fire Code, Americans With Disabilities Act, OSHA, etc.
6. Produces no evidence of its existence beyond the property line (except one unlighted sign of not more than ten square feet which shall be considered a residential sign) such as noise, smoke, odors, vibration, lighting, exterior storage, excessive or intrusive electronic and/or communication devices, etc.
7. Does not establish or create a health or safety hazard.
8. Does not generate pedestrian or vehicular traffic, including delivery vehicles, beyond that normal in the neighborhood in which located and provides off-street parking adequate for clients and employees in addition to that required for the resi­dence.
9. Includes no outside storage of materials, products, equipment or business vehicles, other than the personal transport vehicle(s) of the resident business owner(s).
10. Clinics (exceeding more than one doctor/practitioner), medical laboratories, hospitals, residential care facilities, animal hospi­tals, outdoor contractors yards, storage rental (i.e., mini storage), food or liquor service establishments such as bakeries, restau­rants or bars, and auto repair and/or painting, shall not be deemed to be home enterprises. Animal kennels, raising or sales of animals and/or animal products, food processing shall not be deemed to be home enterprises where the residence is located within a general plan designated urban area.

(Ord. 99-002 (part), 1999)

"Home occupation" means an individually provided service, or an individual office or studio use conducted within a dwelling by the inhabitants thereof, which use is clearly incidental and secondary to the use of the property for dwelling purposes and dose not change the character thereof and which use:

1. Is confined within the swelling and occupies not more than twenty-five percent of the floor space thereof, or is confined to a garden or orchard where unprocessed food or flora is grown on site;
2. Involves no on-site sales of merchandise other than that produced on the premises, or merchandise directly related to, and incidental to, the services offered;
3. Is carried on by the members of the family occupying the dwelling with no other person employed;
4. Does not entail the conversion of a room into a salesroom or group meeting room;
5. Produces no evidence of its existence beyond the dwellings (except one unlighted sign of not more than one square foot) such as noise, smoke, odors, vibration, lighting, exterior storage yards, excessive or intrusive electronics or communications devices, etc.;
6. Dose not generate pedestrian or vehicular traffic (including delivery vehicles) beyond that normal in the neighborhood in which located and provides off-street parking adequate for clients in addition to that required for the residence;
7. Includes no outside storage of materials, products, equipment or business vehicles, other than the personal transport vehicles(s) of the resident business owner(s);
8. Clinics, medical laboratories, hospitals, residential care facilities, antique shops, guest lodging, food or liquor service establishments such as bakeries, restaurants or bars, food processing, beauty or similar personal service shops (exceeding more than one operator), animal hospitals or kennels, raising or sales of animals and/or animal products, contractors yards, retail merchandise warehousing or sales, ongoing yard or crafts sales, and commercial woodworking or repair shops, shall not be deemed to be home occupations.

(Ord. 99-002 (part), 1999; Ord. 82-09 § 2 Exh. A(6), 1982; Ord. 67-10 § 2.0100(35), 1967)

"Hotel" means any building or portion thereof containing four or more guest rooms used, designed, or intended to be used, let or hired out to be occupied, whether the compensation be paid directly or indirectly.

(Ord. 99-002 (part), 1999; Ord. 67-10 § 2.0100(38), 1967)

For "house court," see "dwelling group," Section 20.04.230.

(Ord. 67-10 § 2.0100(36), 1967)

"Household pets" shall be limited to dogs (cannis familiaris), cats (felis catus) and animals whose normal place of abode is within the dwelling unit, such as caged birds, caged rodents, and fish, reptiles, and amphibia confined to aquaria and terraria.

(Ord. 67-10 § 2.0100(37), 1967)

"Industry" means the manufacture, fabrication, reduction or destruction of any article, substance or commodity, or any other treatment thereof in such a manner as to change the form or character thereof, including, in addition, the following: Bottling works, building materials or contractors' yards, cleaning and dyeing establishments, creameries, junkyards, wrecking yards, laundries, lumber yards, milk bottling or distributing stations, stockyards, storage elevators, truck storage, service or repair, warehouses and wholesale storage.

(Ord. 67-10 § 2.0100(39), 1967)

"Junior accessory dwelling unit (JADU)" means an accessory dwelling unit that is located within the living space of an existing primary single-unit dwelling, as defined in Section 17958.1 of the California Health and Safety Code. See Section 20.00.020 (Junior accessory dwelling unit (JADU) regulations).

(Ord. 2023-006 § 2 (part), 2023)

"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 when new shall not be considered as "junk."

(Ord. 67-10 § 2.0100(40), 1967)

"Junkyard" means the use of more than two hundred square feet of the area of any lot for the storage or keeping junk, including scrap metals or other scrap materials.

(Ord. 67-10 § 2.0100(41), 1967)

"Livestock farming" means dairying, ranching or the keeping of large livestock, except fowl.

(Ord. 67-10 § 2.0100(42), 1967)

"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.

(Ord. 67-10 § 2.0100(43), 1967)

"Lodging house" or "guest lodging" are synonymous and mean any building dwelling or portion thereof containing not more than three guest rooms which are used by not more than six guests where compensation is paid in money, goods, labor or otherwise and where the use is accessory to a residential occupancy. Incidental food service, for guests only, may be included subject to county health regulations, provided that no second separate cooking facility shall be established. One on-side parking space shall be provided for each guest room in addition to those spaces required for the residence and signage shall not exceed that permitted for the residence itself.

(Ord. 99-002 (part), 1999)

"Lot" means land occupied or unoccupied, which may be occu­pied by a building and its accessory buildings, or by a dwelling group and its accessory buildings, together with such open spaces as are required under the provisions of Chapters 20.02 - 20.60 having not less than the minimum area required by Chapters 20.02 - 20.60 for a building site in the district in which such lot is situated, and having access to a public road. Also refer to Section 20.48.80 subsection B regarding existing lots.

(Ord. 78-26 § 1, 1978: Ord. 67-10 § 2.0100(44), 1967)

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

(Ord. 67-10 § 2.0100(48), 1967)

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

(Ord. 67-10 § 2.0100(45), 1967)

"Lot depth" means the average distance from the street line of the lot to its rear line measured in the general direction of the side lines of the lot.

(Ord. 67-10 § 2.0100(49), 1967)

"Lot frontage" means the dimension of a lot or portion of a lot abutting on a street, except the side of a corner lot.

(Ord. 67-10 § 2.0100(50), 1967)

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

(Ord. 67-10 § 2.0100(46), 1967)

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

(Ord. 67-10 § 2.0100(47), 1967)

"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 line from the street.

(Ord. 67-10 § 2.0100(52), 1967)

"Rear lot line" means, ordinarily, that line of a lot which is generally opposite the lot line along the frontage of the lot. In cases in which this definition is not applicable, the planning commission shall designate the rear lot line.

(Ord. 67-10 § 2.0100(53), 1967)

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

(Ord. 67-10 § 2.0100(54), 1967)

"Major transit stop" means a site containing an existing rail transit station, a ferry terminal served by either a bus, or rail transit service.

(Ord. 2023-006 § 2 (part), 2023)

"Low Barrier Navigation Center" means a shelter focused on temporarily housing persons and connecting them with income opportunities, public benefits, and health services prior to moving to permanent housing, in compliance with Government Code Section 65660 and 65668. Low barrier navigation centers must meet the diverse needs of the population by allowing and accommodating people with disabilities, pets and pet owners, partners, the storage of possessions, and for survivors of domestic violence.

(Ord. 2023-007 § 14, 2023)

"Manufactured home" means a dwelling unit fabricated in an off-site manufacturing facility for installation or assembly at the building site, bearing a label certifying it is constructed in compliance with the Federal Manufactured Home Construction and Safety Standards (see 24 CFR 3280 for legal definition).

(2023-007 § 13, 2023; Ord. 95-06 § 2 (part), 1995)

"Mining" means processes for the commercial removal of miner­als from the earth.

(Ord. 2023-007 § 12, 2023; Ord. 67-10 § 2.0100(55), 1967)

"Mobile home" means a transportable, factory-constructed home, designed to be used as a year-round residential dwelling and built prior to June 15, 1976, the effective date of the federal Manufactured Housing Construction and Safety Standards Act of 1974. Mobile home does not include a recreational vehicle, commercial coach or factory-built home.

(Ord. 95-06 § 1 (part), 1995; Ord. 80-18 § 1, 1980; Ord. 76-22 § 1 (part), 1976; Ord. 67-10 § 2.0100(56), 1967)

"Motel" means a building or group of buildings containing four guest rooms and/or apartments or more, which group is designed, intended and/or used primarily for the accommodation of automobile travelers, for compensation whether paid directly or indirectly, including, but not limited to, buildings designated as automobile courts, auto cabins and motor lodges.

(Ord. 99-002 (part), 1999; Ord. 67-10 § 2.0100(57), 1967)

"Mutual water company" means any corporation, including a nonprofit corporation, organized for or engaged in the business of developing, distributing, supplying or delivering water for irrigation, commercial or domestic use or both, and not operated as a public utility.

(Ord. 67-10 § 2.0100(58), 1967)

"Nonconforming use" means a building or land occupied by a use that does not conform to the regulations for the district in which it is situated.

(Ord. 67-10 § 2.0100(59), 1967)

"Nuisance" means anything that by its use or by its permitted existence works annoyance, harm, inconvenience or damage to another.

(Ord. 67-10 § 2.0100(60), 1967)

"One ownership" means ownership of property, by a pen on or persons, firm, corporation or partnership, individually, jointly, in common or in any other manner whereby st.ch property is under single or unified control. "Owner" means the person, firm, corporation or partnership exercising "one ownership" as herein defined.

(Ord. 67-10 § 2.0100(61), 1967)

"Outdoor advertising sign" means any card, cloth, paper, metal, painted, glass, wooden, plaster, stone, or other sign of any kind or character whatsoever placed for outdoor advertising purposes on the ground or on any tree, wall, bush, rock, pest, fence, building, structure or thing whatsoever. "Placed," as used in the definitions of "outdoor advertising sign," include erecting, constructing, posting, painting, printing, tacking, nailing, gluing, sticking, carving or otherwise fastening, affixing or making visible in any manner whatsoever.

(Ord. 67-10 § 2.0100 (62), 1967)

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

(Ord. 67-10 § 2.0100 (63), 1967)

"Park trailer" means a trailer designed for human habitation that meets all of the following requirements:

1. It contains 400 square feet or less of gross floor area, excluding loft area space that do not meet the requirements of Section 18033 of the Health and Safety Code.
2. It may not exceed 14 feet in width at the maximum horizontal projection.
   
3. It is built upon a single chassis.
4. It may only be transported upon the public highways with a permit issued pursuant to Section 35780 of the Vehicle Code.
   

(Ord. 2010-009 § 2, 2010)

"Professional office" means an establishment for professional, executive and administrative offices, including those of accountants, lawyers, physicians, dentists, architects, engineers, drafting offices, insurance agents, real estate agents, and other occupations which are of similar character to those enumerated, but not including barbers, beauty parlors, cosme­tologists, or other service establishments and building trade contractors.

(Ord. 67-10 § 2.0100(64), 1967)

"Public sewage disposal system" means a sewage disposal system for domestic or commercial use owned and operated by a political jurisdiction.

(Ord. 67-10 § 2.0100(65), 1967)

"Public transit" means a location or structure, including but not limited to, a bus stop or train station, where the public may access buses, trains, and other forms of transportation that charge set fares, run on fixed routes, and are available to the public.

(Ord. 2023-006 § 2 (part), 2023)

"Public use" means a use operated by a governmental agency, public agency, or public utility which has the purpose of serving the public health, safety, convenience or general welfare, and including but not limited to such uses as schools, parks, playgrounds, educational, recreational and social fa­cilities, libraries, museums, firehouses, courthouses, hospitals and administrative service facilities, and power generation or distribution plants.

(Ord. 82-09 § 2 Exh. A(7), 1982; Ord. 67-10 § 2.0100(66), 1967)

"Public water supply" means a supply of water for domestic or commercial use furnished or to be furnished from waterworks owned and operated by a political jurisdiction.

(Ord. 67-10 § 2.0100 (67), 1967)

"Quasi-public use" means a use operated by a private nonprofit educational, religious, recreational, charitable, fraternal, or medical institution, association, or organization, and including but not limited to such uses as churches, private schools, universities, community recreational, educational and social facilities, meeting halls, private hospitals and the like.

(Ord. 2023-007 § 15, 2023; Ord. 67-10 § 2.0100 (68), 1967)

"Sawmill" means any structure and land used for the manufacture or remanufacture of lumber from saw logs by the use of power equipment.

(Ord. 67-10 § 2.0100 (69), 1967)

"Setback" means a line parallel to the road centerline and a specified distance there from normal to the centerline.

(Ord. 67-10 § 2.0100 (70), 1967)

"Single room occupancy" means any residential structure containing more than five units intended or designed to be used, rented, or hired out to be occupied for sleeping purposes, generally for one person per unit. Individual units typically share communal features, (e.g., kitchen, bathroom, entertainment area).

(Ord. 2023-007 § 16, 2023)

"Small livestock farming" means the raising and/or keeping of more than twelve chicken hens or twelve pigeons or twelve similar fowl and/or twelve rabbits or twelve similar animals or any roosters, quacking ducks, geese, guinea fowl, peafowl, goats, sheep, or similar livestock or the raising and/or keeping for commercial purposes of any cats or dogs provided that "small livestock farming," as used in Chapters 20.02 - 20.60 shall not include hog farming, dairying or the raising and/or keeping of horses, mules, or similar livestock as determined by the planning commission.

(Ord. 67-10 § 2.0100 (71), 1967)

"Private stable" means an accessory building where not more than one horse per twenty thousand square feet of property is kept for the use of owner and guests.

(Ord. 67-10 § 2.0100(72), 1967)

"Public stable" means a stable other than a private stable for the commercial rental and boarding of horses.

(Ord. 67-10 § 2.0100(73), 1967)

"Story" means that portion of a building included between the surface of any floor and the surface of the next floor above it, or if there is no floor above it, then the space between the floor and the ceiling next above it.

(Ord. 67-10 § 2.0100 (74), 1967)

"Half story" means a story with at least one exterior side meeting a sloping roof not more than two feet above the floor of such story.

(Ord. 67-10 § 2.0100 (75), 1967)

"Street" means a public or private thoroughfare which affords the principal means of access to abutting property, including avenue, place, way, drive, lane, boulevard, highway, road and any other thoroughfare except an alley as defined in Section 20.04.40.

(Ord. 67-10 § 2.0100(76), 1967)

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

(Ord. 67-10 § 2.0100 (77), 1967)

"Structure" means anything constructed or erected, the use of which requires location on the ground or attachment to something having location on the ground.

(Ord. 67-10 § 2.0100 (78), 1967)

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

(Ord. 67-10 § 2.0100(79), 1967)

"Recreational vehicle" means a motor home, travel trailer, truck camper, or camping trailer, with or without motive power, designed for human habitation for recreation or emergency occupan­cy, which is eight feet or less in overall width and forty feet or less in overall length, or a bus conversion for human habitation. The planning department, by letter, may allow a recreational vehicle to be placed on a construction site while a home is under construction for a period of six months. Extensions of time may be granted by the planning commission.

(Ord. 78-25 (part), 1978; Ord. 76-22 § 1 (part), 1976; Ord. 67-10 § 2.0100(80), 1967)

Any area or tract of land where one or more mobilehome lots are rented or leased or held out for rent or lease to accommodate mobilehomes used for dwelling purposes. The rental paid for any such mobilehome shall be deemed to include rental for the lot it occupies. A mobilehome park may contain a separate designated section to be held out for rent or lease to owners to users of recreational vehicles used for travel or recreational purposes.

(Ord. 76-22 § 1 (part), 1976)

Any area or tract of land where one or more lots are rented or leased or held out for rent or lease to owners or users of recreational vehicles which are occupied for temporary purposes or seasonal use. A recreation vehicle park may allow the use of tents or other temporary camping facilities either in place of a recreation vehicle or in a separate designated area within its confines.

(Ord. 76-22 § 1 (part), 1976)

"Supportive housing" has the meaning set forth in California Health and Safety Code section 50675.14. Supportive housing will be permitted, conditionally permitted or prohibited in the same manner as other residential dwellings of the same type in the same zone under this code and applicable state law.

(Ord. 2014-003 § 2 (part), 2014)

"Tandem parking" means two or more automobiles that are parked on a driveway or in any other location on a lot, lined up behind one another.

(Ord. 2023-006 § 2 (part), 2023)

"Transitional housing" has the meaning set forth in California Health and Safety Code section 50675.2. Transitional housing will be permitted, conditionally permitted or prohibited in the same manner as other residential dwellings of the same type in the same zone under this code and applicable state law.

(2014-003 § 2 (part), 2014)

"Accessory use" means a use customarily incidental and accessory to the principal use of a lot or a building located on the same lot as the accessory use.

(Ord. 67-10 § 2.0100(85), 1967)

"Wrecking yard" means the use of more than two hundred square feet of the area of any lot for the dismantling or wrecking of automobiles or other vehicles or machinery.

(Ord. 67-10 § 2.0100(86), 1967)

"Yard" means an open space other than a court on the same lot with a building, which open space is unoccupied and unobstructed from the ground upward, except as otherwise provided in Section 20.48.90. In measuring a yard, as hereinafter provided, the line of a building means a line parallel to the nearest lot line drawn through the point of a dwelling group or building nearest to such lot line, exclusive of the respective architectural features enumerated in Section 20.48.90 which are not to be considered in measuring the yard dimensions, and which the respective architectural features are defined as being permitted to extend into any front, side or rear yard, respectively and the measurement shall be taken from the line of the building to the nearest lot line provided, however, that if any official plan line has been established for the street on which the lot faces or if any future width line is specified therefore by the provisions of Chapters 20.02 - 20.60, then such measurements shall be taken from such official plan line or such future width line to the nearest line of the building.

(Ord. 67-10 § 2.0100 (87), 1967)

"Front yard" means a yard extending across the front of the lot between the side property lines, and lying between the front line of the lot and the nearest line of the building.

(Ord. 67-10 § 2.0100 (88), 1967)

"Rear yard" means a yard extending across the lull width of the lot and lying between the rear line of the lot and nearer: line of the building.

(Ord. 67-10 § 2.0100(89), 1967)

"Side yard" means a yard between the side line of the lot and the nearest line of the building and extending from the front line of the building to the rear yard.

(Ord. 67-10 § 2.0100 (90), 1967)