Grandview City Zoning Code

means any building other than the dwelling unit or main structure erected on the site.

means a use subordinate to the principal use and located on the same lot with such principal use.

means a regular family abode in which a person or persons provides personal care, special care, room, and board to more than one but not more than six adults who are not related by blood or marriage to the person or persons providing the services. Adult family homes shall be considered a residential use of property for zoning and public and private utility rate purposes. Adult family homes shall be a permitted use in all areas zoned for residential or commercial purposes, including areas zoned for single-family dwellings.

means agricultural activities, involving 10 or more acres, carried on as a commercial enterprise with the object of gain, benefit, or advantage, directly or indirectly. Agricultural uses (commercial) do not include feed lots, stockyards, dairies, hog farms or poultry husbandry.

means an agricultural operation including the construction of farm buildings and the keeping of farm animals upon the premises, but the agricultural operation shall be for a personal use only and not be carried on as a commercial enterprise where a profit is realized.

means a dedicated narrow service way, not more than 20 feet wide, providing a secondary means of public access to abutting properties.

means any roadway, driveway, alley or parking lot surface paved with crushed stone, asphalt, concrete or other pervious or impervious material in a manner that will support the weight of anticipated vehicular traffic in all weather conditions and minimize the potential for ruts, dust, potholes, or pooling of water.

means as applied to a building or structure:

means any building or portion thereof, which contains more than two amusement game devices.

means a piece of furniture, glassware, silverware, art work or other items that are at least 60 years old and are distinguished from general secondhand personal property and collectibles by educational value, historic value, artistic value, ornamental character or intrinsic aesthetic merits.

means an establishment having as its primary stock-in-trade "antiques" as that term is defined in this chapter.

means a building arranged, intended, or designed to be occupied by three or more families living independently of each other.

means a building or portion of a building wherein there is engaged the business of improvement and restoration of automobiles and other motor vehicles by sanding, priming, painting, straightening and other like repair and restoration.

means a building or portion of a building wherein there is engaged the business of improvement of the appearance of automobiles or other vehicles by washing, waxing, polishing or other like means not within the definition of an "auto body shop," GMC § 17.12.085.

means a manufacturing facility for the production of paving and/or construction materials, usually temporary in nature, and normally associated with specific construction projects or mineral resource extraction facilities.

means an establishment wherein the principal use or activity is billiards, pool, or snooker, regardless of the number of billiard, pool or snooker tables.

means any type of water craft, whether registered or unregistered, licensed or unlicensed. The term "boat" shall include any wheeled trailer or other device on which such boat is or may be kept, stored, or transported, whether registered or unregistered, licensed or unlicensed.

means any dwelling with less than 20 sleeping rooms in which persons whether individually or as families are housed or lodged and are provided meals at the dwelling. A rooming house or furnished rooming house is a boardinghouse.

is any structure used or intended for supporting or sheltering any use or occupancy.

means a supplementary building, the use of which is incidental to that of the main or principal building and which is located on the same lot therewith.

means the three-dimensional space within which a building is permitted to be built on a lot and which is defined by height regulations, yard setbacks, and building coverage.

means a building surrounded by open space as required herein.

means the vertical distance above a reference datum measured to the highest point of the coping of a flat roof or to the deck line of a mansard roof or to the height of the highest gable of a pitched or hipped roof. The reference datum shall be selected by either of the following, whichever yields a greater height of building:

means a structure designed to provide temporary living quarters for recreational camping or travel use, constructed with integral wheels to make it mobile and/or tow-able by motor vehicle.

means a structure designed to be mounted on a pickup or truck chassis and with sufficient equipment to render it suitable for use as a temporary dwelling for recreational use, camping or vacation use.

means an organization catering exclusively to members and their guests in premises and buildings for recreation and athletic purposes.

means a freestanding or building-mounted structure, including appurtenances and antenna intended for airway communication purposes, such as a television antenna or ham radio tower. This definition does not include wireless communications towers defined in GMC § 17.12.485.

means a facility used for the common welfare of all persons.

means a facility that offers or provides meals and food to the homeless and needy as its primary activity.

of the level one category include, but are not limited to, day care centers, nursery schools, hospitals, sanitariums, nonprofit community health clinics, governmental and quasi-governmental activities, and related uses, which provide similar services for citizens; except any such use which limits the activity solely to organizational or administrative office functions, whereby the actual community service is provided elsewhere, shall be excluded from this definition.

of the level two category include, but are not limited to, drug abuse and alcoholic treatment centers, halfway houses, charitable organizations, nonprofit service groups, juvenile care and treatment centers, crisis residential centers, correctional work release facilities, correctional institutions, juvenile delinquency homes and facilities, any and all facilities for incarceration or detainment, temporary shelters, emergency housing facilities, community service housing, missions, community kitchens, food banks, and other similar uses which provide social, health and welfare service for citizens; except any such use which limits the activity solely to organizational or administrative office functions, whereby the actual community service is provided elsewhere, shall be excluded from this definition.

means any type of group day care programs, for children or adults, including nursery schools for children under the minimum age for education in public schools, parent cooperative nursery schools, playgroups for preschool children, covering after school care for school children, and programs which provide organized learning and education experiences, provided such establishments are licensed by the state and conducted in accordance with state requirements. For the purpose of this title, the following shall also apply to day care centers, nursery schools or preschools:

means the intentional or inadvertent cessation of a nonconforming use or the same or a more restrictive use of a nonconforming building including, but not limited to, the termination of a nonconforming tenancy and nonoccupancy of the building for the required period or the cessation of a nonconforming business use of a building for the prescribed period.

means a building designed exclusively for residential purposes, including one-family, two-family, or multiple-family dwellings, but not including hotels or motel units.

means a building used or designed as a residence for three or more families living independently of each other doing their own cooking therein. This includes apartment houses and flats.

means a detached dwelling designed for or occupied exclusively by one family.

means a building designed for or occupied exclusively by two families living independently of each other, except that common laundry facilities are allowed.

means a building or portion thereof providing complete housekeeping facilities for one family.

means an electrical component assembly or cluster of component assemblies designed specifically to charge batteries within electric vehicles, which meet or exceed any standards, codes, and regulations set forth by Chapter 19.28 RCW (electricians and electrical installations) and consistent with rules adopted under RCW 19.27.540 (electric vehicle infrastructure requirements).

means those facilities that are typically difficult to site, such as airports, state education facilities, state and local correctional facilities, state or regional transportation facilities, solid waste handling facilities, and in-patient facilities including substance abuse facilities, mental health facilities, and group homes not falling under the purview of fair housing laws, such as adult correctional work release facilities; and those facilities appearing on the list maintained by the State Office of Financial Management pursuant to RCW 36.70A.200(4).

means an individual or two or more persons related by blood, marriage, or legal adoption, or a group of not more than five persons unrelated by blood, marriage, or legal adoption, but, subject to International Property Maintenance Code provisions regarding minimum area requirements per number of people in living spaces, living together as a single housekeeping unit and doing their cooking on the premises of the dwelling unit; provided, however, that dormitories, clubs, rooming houses having over two rooms, motels or hotels, and like groups of individuals shall not be considered a family.

means a child care provider who regularly provides early childhood education and early learning services for not more than 12 children in the provider's home in the family living quarters.

means an agency which regularly provides care on a 24-hour basis to one or more children, expectant mothers, or persons with developmental disabilities in the family abode of the person or persons under whose direct care and supervision the child, expectant mother, or person with a developmental disability is placed. Foster-family home does not include homes for individuals residing in halfway houses, crisis residential centers (as defined in RCW 74.15.020(1)(c)), group homes licensed for juvenile offenders, or other facilities, whether or not licensed by the state, where individuals are incarcerated or otherwise required to reside pursuant to court order under the supervision of paid staff and personnel. Foster-family homes shall be considered a residential use of property for zoning and public and private utility rate purposes. Foster-family homes shall be a permitted use in all areas zoned for residential or commercial purposes, including areas zoned for single-family residential dwellings.

means a structure on the same lot with and accessory to a principally permitted use, used for storage only.

means any garage other than a private garage, available to the public, operated for gain and which is used for storage, repair, rental, greasing, washing, servicing, adjusting, or equipping of automobiles or other motor vehicles.

means an agency, other than a foster-family home, which is maintained and operated for the care of a group of children on a 24-hour basis. Group care facility does not include homes for individuals residing in halfway houses, crisis residential centers (as defined in RCW 74.15.020(1)(c)), group homes licensed for juvenile offenders, or other facilities, whether or not licensed by the state, where individuals are incarcerated or otherwise required to reside pursuant to court order under the supervision of paid staff and personnel. Group care facilities shall be a permitted use in all areas zoned for commercial purposes (C-1 and C-2). Group care facilities are not permitted in the central business overlay district as described in GMC § 17.45.020.

means a residence that is licensed as either a boarding home or an adult family home by the Washington State Department of Social and Health Services under Chapter 388-76 or 388-78A WAC. Group homes provide community residential instruction, supports, and services to two or more clients who are unrelated to the provider. Group home does not include homes for individuals residing in crisis residential centers (as defined in RCW 74.15.020(1)(c)), group homes licensed for juvenile offenders, or other facilities, whether or not licensed by the state, where individuals are incarcerated or otherwise required to reside pursuant to court order under the supervision of paid staff and personnel. Group homes shall be a permitted use in all areas permitting single-family homes (R-1, R-1S, R-2, R-3, R-1P). Group homes are not permitted in the central business overlay district as described in GMC § 17.45.040.

means the Yakima County health district.

means a profession, trade, skill or service possessed and utilized, in whole or in part, by a family member(s) for monetary gain within or upon the premises of a permanent dwelling unit in a residential district. A home occupation may involve internet-based wholesale or retail sales of any general or specific line of merchandise, products, goods or wares. A home occupation shall not involve in-person wholesale or retail sales of any general or specific line of merchandise, products, goods or wares upon said premises, unless such articles are produced thereon in the conduct of the profession, trade, skill or service.

means a reasonably level, adequately drained parcel of definite size clearly indicated by corner markers, for the placing of a site-built home, a factory-assembled home or mobile home.

means any roadway, driveway, alley or parking lot surface paved with asphalt, concrete or brick pavers.

means a lot or structure or part thereof used for the collecting and/or storage and/or sale of waste paper, rags, scrap metal, appliances, old furniture, or discarded material and/or for the collecting, storage, and/or dismantling, and/or salvaging of machinery, equipment, boats and/or vehicles for the sale of parts thereof.

means a designated parcel, tract or area of land established by final plat, short plat, binding site plan, or as otherwise permitted by law.

means the total horizontal area within the boundary lines of a lot exclusive of street and alley rights-of-way regardless of whether such right-of-way is improved.

means a lot at the junction of and abutting two or more intersecting street rights-of-way.

means a horizontal distance between the front and rear lot lines measured in the general direction of its side lot lines.

means that percentage of the lot area covered by all buildings and other impervious surfaces, including accessory buildings and patio covers or sun screens.

means the horizontal distance between the front and rear property in the mean direction of the side lot lines.

means a lot not meeting minimum frontage requirements and where access to the public road is by a narrow private right-of-way or driveway.

means a lot other than a corner lot.

means a lot in which the front half of the side lot line forms the rear lot line of an adjoining lot.

means any line dividing a lot from a public street or alley right-of-way or dividing one lot from another.

means an interior lot having frontage on two parallel or approximately parallel streets.

means the average width measured at right angles to the depth.

means a single-family dwelling built according to the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development Manufactured Home Construction and Safety Standards Act, which is a national preemptive building code. A manufactured home also: (A) includes plumbing, heating, air conditioning, and electrical systems; (B) is built on a permanent chassis; and (C) can be transported in one or more sections with each section at least eight feet wide and 40 feet long when transported, or when installed on the site is 320 square feet or greater.

means a tract of land under single ownership or control upon which two or more manufactured homes occupied as dwellings may be located.

means a business principally used for the purpose of providing massages in an enclosed building.

means a social, sports or fraternal association or organization that is used exclusively by members and their guests.

means a business engaged in the production of beer and licensed by the Washington State Liquor Board as a B1 Domestic Brewery, producing less than 60,000 barrels annually.

means a business licensed by the Washington State Liquor Board as a W1 Winery, producing less than 99,999 liters annually.

means a building or group of buildings consisting of small, self-contained units for the storage of household or business goods, provided no hazardous substances or conditions are maintained within the facility.

means a facility that offers or provides temporary housing, meals, food, clothing and other commodities or any combination thereof to the homeless and needy as its primary activities.

means a factory-built dwelling built prior to June 15, 1976, to standards other than the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development Code, and acceptable under applicable state codes in effect at the time of construction or introduction of the home into the state. Mobile homes have not been built since the introduction of the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development Manufactured Home Construction and Safety Act.

means a factory-assembled structure designed primarily for use as a dwelling when connected to the required utilities that include plumbing, heating, and electrical systems contained therein; does not contain its own running gear; and must be mounted on a permanent foundation. This definition does not include a mobile home, manufactured home, commercial coach, recreational vehicle or motor home. The same standards shall apply to modular homes as are applied to manufactured homes. See "manufactured home," GMC § 17.12.292.

means a vehicular type of unit or device, whether licensed or unlicensed, primarily designed as a temporary living quarters for recreation, camping, or travel use, which contains its own motive power.

means a building or portion of a building arranged, intended or designed to be used for making repairs to motor vehicles.

means a use of land existing at the time of the enactment of this title and which does not conform to the regulations of the district or zone in which it is situated.

means any building where persons are housed or lodged and furnished with meals and nursing care and which premises are licensed by the state of Washington.

means an unoccupied space open to the sky on the same lot with a building.

means all materials, equipment, merchandise or objects kept or placed on the lot or not within an enclosed structure, for preservation or later use or disposal; it is not intended, however, to include the following exceptions:

means an establishment wherein a person, firm or corporation is engaged, in whole or in part, in the business of loaning money on the security of pledges, deposits, or conditional sales of personal property.

means a lot or land or part thereof used for the purpose of extracting stone, sand, gravel or topsoil for sale as an industrial operation and exclusive of the process of grading the lot preparatory to the construction of a building for which application for a building permit has been made.

means a facility where discarded household products such as aluminum and tin cans, glass, paper, and other similar individual consumer products are deposited and stored for future reprocessing.

means a tract of land five acres or larger designed and developed to accommodate two or more site-built homes or factory-assembled homes as individual single-family dwelling units.

means an establishment engaged in the retail sale of general or specialized lines of merchandise, and in rendering services incidental to the sale of merchandise, at fixed point-of-sale locations. Retail sales establishment does not include adult entertainment facilities.

means any establishment where horses are kept for riding, driving, or stabling for compensation or incidental to the operation of any club, association, ranch or similar establishment.

means a private hospital whether or not such facilities are operated for a profit.

means an establishment having any portion of its stock-in-trade in "secondhand personal property" as that term is defined in GMC § 17.12.390.

means any item (or part thereof) of secondhand personal property, regardless of condition, age or value, including scrap and melted metals, excepting the following: stamps, coins, books, reconditioned appliances, empty food containers, compact discs, computer software, goods used in trade-ins on the purchase of other merchandise of the same or greater value, used automobiles, unclaimed goods sold to collect mechanics' liens and antiques.

means a building having either laundry facilities, or maintenance facilities or a combination of such uses.

means a vehicle with a continuous tread and runner type steering device used primarily for over-snow travel.

is an area that stores, processes, or disposes of wood, coal, or any other nongaseous or nonliquid fuels.

means an accessory building in which horses are kept for private use and not for hire, remuneration, or sale.

means a building in which horses are kept for remuneration, hire, or sale.

means all books, magazines, posters, pictures, periodicals, other printed material, items, products, equipment, prerecorded video tapes, discs or other similar materials readily available for purchase, rental, viewing or use by patrons of the establishment excluding material located in any storeroom or other portion of the premises not regularly open to patrons.

means a unit originally or specifically used or designed to store goods or merchandise during shipping or hauling by a vehicle, including but not limited to rail cars of any kind, truck trailers or multimodal shipping containers.

means a public or private way that affords a principal means of access to abutting properties.

is that which is built or constructed, an edifice or building of any kind, or any piece of work artificially built up or composed of parts joined together in some definite manner.

means an enclosed building used for the business of tattooing a customer's body.

means an establishment licensed by Washington State to dispense beer, wine or other alcoholic beverage for consumption on the premises, the provision of which is not in any way dependent upon food sales to retain said license. Such places may also provide packaged alcoholic products for off-site consumption.

means a building or part of a building devoted to the showing of moving pictures on a paid admission basis. This does not include adult entertainment facilities.

means a facility that principally offers or provides subsidized housing on a daily, weekly or monthly basis and provides one or more of the additional following services at a cost, if any, subsidized by charitable or government agencies, including: (A) meals and food; (B) child or adult day care services; (C) employment, substance abuse or behavior counseling; and (D) medical, dental or mental health services; regardless of whether such community social and health welfare services are provided on premises or off the premises for the benefit of such residents.

means the area within the Grandview city limits and the unincorporated portion of Yakima County within the Grandview urban growth boundary established and adopted by Yakima County.

means a vehicular structure or device with or without its own mode of power, licensed or unlicensed, designed and/or used for the transportation of goods, equipment, other vehicles or devices, and materials.

means motorized mechanical devices designed for movement by means of wheels, skids or runners of any kind, and specifically including all such automobiles, buses, trucks, cars, vans, and motor homes even though they may be at any time immobilized in any way for any period of time for whatever duration; and also including boats and such recreational vehicles as defined herein.

means a vehicle which is apparently inoperable and is extensively damaged, including but not limited to: a broken window or windshield; is absent a tire, wheel, engine, transmission, rear end, axle or driveline; or a vehicle or part thereof which is placed upon jacks, blocks or other support.

means a facility designed for crushing, pressing, fermenting, bottling and cellaring wine for retail and wholesale purposes. A commercial winery produces less than 50,000 cases of wine a year.

means an unstaffed facility for the transmission and reception of radio or microwave signals used for commercial or personal communications. Wireless communication towers are composed of two or more of the following components:

means an open and unoccupied space, except as provided herein, extending the full width of the lot between any building and any street right-of-way adjacent the lot. The front yard shall be determined by measuring perpendicular from the street right-of-way to the closest point of the building.

means an open and unoccupied space, except as provided herein, extending across the full width of the lot between the principal building and the rear lot line and measured perpendicular from the rear lot line to the closest point of the building. For a corner lot the rear yard shall be parallel to the shortest lot line common to an adjacent lot.

means an open and unoccupied space, except as provided herein, extending from the front yard to the rear lot line between the principal building and the side lot line. The side yard shall be measured perpendicular from the side lot line to the closest point of the principal building.