As used in this Chapter, unless the context otherwise clearly indicates, the words and phrases used in this Chapter are defined as follows:

"Abutting Property" shall mean property which is contiguous with the property that is the subject of the application or is separated from it only by a street or alley.

"Accessory" shall mean a building, part of building or structure or use which is subordinate to, and the use of which is incidental to that of the main building, structure or use on the same lot. Where the wall of an accessory building is a part of, or joined to, the wall of the main building, such accessory building shall be counted as part of the main building.

"Acupressure Establishment" shall mean any establishment having a fixed place of business or any individual, firm, association, partnership, corporation or combination of individuals engaged in providing or permitting acupressure.

"Acupressurist" shall mean a massage therapist who uses manipulation rather than penetration to alleviate pain or other symptoms. Also known as shiatsu, acupressure is administered by pressing with fingertips, and sometimes with knees and elbows, along a complex network of trigger points in the patients' body.

"Acupuncturist" shall mean an individual to whom a license has been issued to practice acupuncture, the stimulation of a certain point or points on or near the surface of the body by the insertion of needles to prevent or modify the perception of pain or to normalize physiological function, including pain control, for the treatment of certain diseases or dysfunctions of the body and includes the techniques of electro acupuncture, cupping and moxibustion.

"Adult Arcade" shall mean a business establishment in a C-S, M-1, or M-2 zone to which the public is permitted or invited, and image-producing devices, such as still motion picture machines, projectors, videos, holograms, virtual reality devices, whether operated by mechanical, electronic or electrical means, are maintained to display images on a regular and substantial basis to five or fewer persons per viewing device, where the images so displayed are distinguished or characterized by an emphasis on matter depicting or describing "specified sexual activities" and/or "specified anatomical areas."

"Adult Bookstore" shall mean a business establishment in a C-S, M-1, or M-2 zone that has, as a regular and substantial portion of its stock in trade in books, magazines, periodicals, or other printed matter, or photographs, films, motion pictures, video cassettes, slides, tapes, records, CD, DVD or other forms of visual or audio representations which are distinguished or characterized by an emphasis upon the depiction of "specified sexual activities" and/or "specified anatomical areas."

"Adult Cabaret" shall mean a nightclub, theater, restaurant, or similar business establishment in a C-S, M-1, or M-2 zone which: (1) features live performances on a regular and substantial basis by topless and bottomless dancers, "go-go" dancers, exotic dancers, strippers, or similar entertainers where such performers are distinguished or characterized by an emphasis upon the display of "specified sexual activities" or "specified anatomical areas"; and/or (2) which regularly features persons who appear nude or semi-nude on a regular or substantial basis; and/or (3) regularly shows films, computer generated images, motion pictures, video cassettes, slides, CD, DVD, or other photographic reproductions, a substantial number of which are distinguished or characterized by an emphasis upon the depiction or description of "specified sexual activities" or "specified anatomical areas."

"Adult Live Entertainment Theater" shall mean a theater, concert hall, auditorium, or similar establishment in a C-S, M-1, or M-2 zone which, for any form of consideration regularly features live performances on a regular and substantial basis which are distinguished or characterized by an emphasis on the display of "specified sexual activities" or "specified anatomical areas."

"Adult Merchandise Store" shall mean any commercial business in a C-S, M-1, or M-2 zone displaying or selling sexually oriented merchandise as a regular and substantial portion of its business such as implements and paraphernalia, including, but not limited to: dildo, auto suck, sexually oriented vibrators, edible underwear, benwa balls, inflatable orifices, anatomical balloons with orifices, simulated and battery operated vaginas, and similar sexually oriented devices.

"Adult Model Studio" shall mean any premises in a C-S, M-1, or M-2 zone on which there is conducted the business on a regular and substantial basis of furnishing figure models who pose for the purpose of being observed or viewed by any person being sketched, painted, drawn, sculptured, photographed, or otherwise similarly depicted and display "specified anatomical areas" or "specified sexual activities" for persons who pay a fee, or other consideration, or a gratuity, for the right or opportunity to depict the figure model, or for admission to, or for permission to remain upon, or as a condition of remaining upon the premises.

"Adult Model Studio" shall also mean any premises where there is conducted the business on a regular and substantial basis of providing or procuring for a fee or other consideration or compensation or gratuity, figure models to be observed or viewed by any person or to be sketched, painted, drawn, sculptured, photographed, or otherwise similarly depicted and display "specified anatomical areas" or "specified sexual activities."

The words "Adult Model Studio" shall not be construed to include:

"Adult Motion Picture Theater" shall mean any business establishment in a C-S, M-1, or M-2 zone where, for any form of consideration, films, computer generated images, motion pictures, video cassettes, slides or similar photographic reproductions are shown to five or more persons and a substantial number of items shown are distinguished or characterized by an emphasis upon the depiction or description of "specified sexual activities" or "specified anatomical areas."

"Adult Oriented Business Operator" shall mean any individual, firm, association, partnership, corporation or combination of individuals, who supervises, manages, inspects, directs, organizes, controls or in any other way is responsible for or in charge of the premises of an Adult or Sexually Oriented Business or the conduct or activities on the premises thereof.

"Advertising Structure" shall mean a structure of any kind or character erected or maintained for outdoor advertising purposes on which any poster, bill, printing, painting, or other advertisement of any kind whatsoever may be placed, including statuary.

"Alcoholic Beverage" shall include any liquid or solid material whether or not combined with any other substance which is intended to be ingested by a person which contains ethanol, also known as ethyl alcohol, drinking alcohol or alcohol, including malt beverage, beer, wine, spirits, liqueur, whiskey, rum, vodka, cordials, gin, and brandy, and any mixture containing one or more alcoholic beverages ingested separately or as a mixture and which contains one-half of one percent or more of alcohol.

"Alley" shall mean a public or private way permanently reserved as a secondary means of access to abutting property and which is less than twenty-five feet in width.

"Alteration" shall mean any change in copy, colors, size, shape, position, location, construction, or supporting structure.

"Ambulance Dispatch Facility" shall mean a site that accommodates ambulances and associated staff that respond to requests for emergency vehicles and operates twenty-four hours a day.

"Anchor Tenant" shall mean a business containing a minimum floor area of eight thousand square feet and shall include such uses as grocery stores (e.g., Vons), drug stores (e.g., CVS), discount stores (e.g., Ross), home improvement stores (e.g., Home Depot), department stores (e.g., Macy's), discount warehouse stores (e.g., Costco), manufacturer outlets, large general retail stores (e.g., Target), bona fide/sit-down restaurants (e.g., Red Lobster), large product big box stores (e.g., Best Buy, Ashley Furniture, Babies "R" Us), movie theaters and similar uses that serve as a primary draw to a shopping center.

"Antenna" or "Antenna Structures" shall mean any device used to transmit or receive radio or electromagnetic wave signals authorized by the Federal Communications Commission between terrestrially or satellite-based systems and includes, but is not limited to, parabolic, panel, rectangular, directional, omnidirectional, whip, and microwave antennas.

"Array" shall mean a group of antennas located on the same building, monopole, or other structure.

"Camouflage" shall mean the method used to disguise, conceal or hide telecommunication antennas, wires, and appurtenant equipment. Examples include facilities designed to resemble architectural features, clock towers, trees, steeples, flagpoles, etc.

"Camouflaged Facility" shall mean any telecommunication facility which is disguised to appear as another natural or artificial object that exists in the surrounding environment. They may include, but are not limited to, façade-mounted antenna as design features and "tree" poles (e.g., monopalms, monopines).

"Carrier" shall mean a commercial company that is engaged in the provision of telecommunication services to the general public.

"Cellular" or "Wireless" refers to telecommunication services and includes mobile radio, personal communication systems, and other commercial broadcast facilities.

"Co-locate" shall mean to locate multiple telecommunication facilities which are either owned or operated by more than one carrier at a single location and mounted to a common supporting structure, wall, or building.

"Dish Antenna" shall mean a parabolic antenna used to receive and/or transmit radio or television signals from satellites.

"Equipment Enclosure" shall mean the ground level structure containing the electronic equipment typically associated with cellular telephone antenna locations.

"Expansion" shall mean the addition of antennas, towers, ground equipment or other devices to an existing telecommunication facility.

"Ground-Mounted" shall mean a telecommunication facility that is mounted to a pole or other freestanding structure that is specifically constructed for the purpose of supporting an antenna and is directly connected to the ground.

"Ham Radio Antenna" shall mean an antenna constructed and operated for transmitting radio signals for noncommercial purposes, usually in relation to an amateur's hobby.

"Height of Antenna" shall mean the distance from the existing grade at the base of the antenna or, in the case of a roof-mounted antenna, from the grade at the exterior base of the building to the highest point of the antenna and any associated support structure when fully extended.

"Mounted" shall mean any manner of attachment, support, or connection, whether on ground or on a structure.

"Pole" shall mean an antenna support structure, including a monopole, pylon, or tower, that is typically made of steel, wood, or concrete.

"Roof-Mounted Antenna" shall mean any telecommunication facility supported by any part of a building that is not specifically constructed for the purpose of supporting an antenna and that extends above the eave, roofline, or parapet of the building.

"Telecommunication Equipment Shelter" shall mean the structure or enclosure in which the electronic receiving and relay equipment for a telecommunication facility is housed.

"Telecommunication Facility" or "Wireless Telecommunication Facility" shall mean all of the equipment, fixtures, appurtenances, antennas, and other facilities necessary to furnish and deliver telecommunication services including, but not limited to, poles with or without cross arms, wires, lines, conduits, cables, signal lines and braces, guys, anchors, faults, and all attachments, accessory equipment and appliances necessary or incidental to the distribution and use of telecommunication services.

"Telecommunication Service" shall mean the transmission of information by wire, radio, optical cable, electromagnetic, or other similar means for hire, sale, or resale to the general public. For the purposes of this Chapter, "information" shall mean knowledge or intelligence represented by any form of writing, signs, signals, pictures, sounds, or any other symbols. For the purpose of this Chapter, "telecommunication service" excludes the over-the-air transmission of broadcast television or broadcast radio signals.

"Wall-Mounted Antenna" shall mean a telecommunication facility that is mounted on any vertical surface or nearly vertical surface of a building or other existing structure that is not specifically constructed for the purpose of supporting an antenna i.e., the exterior walls of a building, an existing parapet, the side of a water tank, the face of a church steeple, or the side of a freestanding sign such that the highest point of the facility is at an elevation equal to or lower than the highest point of the surface on which it is mounted.

"Antique" shall mean an item of artistic or craftsman quality which because of its having fifty years of age or more, limited availability and historic or cultural significance, has aesthetic and financial value recognized by collectors of the item.

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

"Apartment House" shall mean the same as "Dwelling, Multiple."

"Arcade, Game or Film" shall mean any business containing more than three electronic game machines, pinball machines and/or film or video machines, and similar commercial entertainment devices, except jukeboxes.

"Art Deco" shall mean an architectural style characterized by the use of strong horizontal bands or lines, vertical or tower elements, curved or angled walls, port (circular) windows, chevrons, zigzag and other geometric or linear design details highlighted by bold colors or pilaster relief. Materials for this style could typically range from glass blocks, concrete, bricks, stone veneer, stucco, wrought-iron grilles, terrazzo and ceramic tiles.

"Artist Live-Work Studio" shall mean a one-family dwelling unit when developed to the standards of this Chapter. This unit shall integrate a working space and living area and is to be inhabited by a professional artist.

"Artist Studio" shall mean a work space for an artist or artisan, including individuals practicing one of the fine arts or performing arts, or an applied art or craft. This use may include incidental display and retail sales of items produced on the premises and instructional space for small groups of students.

"Assembly Use" shall mean any building, or primary portion of a building, used for public or private gatherings of persons for a specific limited period of time. For example, and without limitation, assembly use includes a club, lodge, meeting hall, religious service facility, auditorium, theater and similar kinds of facilities used for gatherings, whether available for public or private use.

"Auction House" shall mean a permanent business that sells new merchandise in volume allotments, or sells new and/or reusable items of large merchandise such as furniture, appliances, store fixtures or factory machinery, or sells merchandise of fine art and the like; all such sales conducted by competitive bidding.

"Automated Car Wash Facility" shall mean a fully enclosed building, excepting the front entrance and rear exit, which is used for the mechanical washing of automobiles.

"Automobile Repair and Servicing" shall mean the repair, care and equipping of automobiles, vans, pickup trucks and motorcycles, including the adjustment or replacement of engine parts and transmission parts, valve grinding, cylinder reboring, repair or replacement of brakes, shock absorbers, mufflers, tires, seat covers, tops and accessories. Automobile repair and servicing does not include body and fender work, frame straightening, removal of engines, painting, or steam cleaning.

"Automobile Wrecking" shall mean the dismantling or wrecking of used motor vehicles or trailers, or the storage, sale or dumping of dismantled or wrecked vehicles or their parts.

"Barber Shop" shall mean any location, place, area, structure, or business which provides all or any combination of the following services to its patrons:

"Basement" shall mean a story having one-half or more of its height below the average ground level of adjacent property. For this determination the average level of undisturbed ground measured near the adjacent property lines shall be used; except that if any property line is more distant than twenty-five feet from the building, the average elevation of undisturbed grade measured on a line twenty-five feet from and parallel to the building shall be used. A basement, when designed for or occupied by dwellings, business or manufacturing, shall be considered to be a story in determining the height of the building.

"Bath, Turkish Bath, and Spa House" shall mean any commercial establishment in a C-S, M-1, or M-2 zone having a fixed place of business that offers any form of bath, Turkish bath, hot tubs, spa or similar services to a regular or substantial segment of its patrons, and who pay a fee, or other consideration, or a gratuity, for said "Bath, Turkish Bath, and Spa House" shall not be construed to include facilities that have baths, Turkish baths, or spa houses as an "accessory" use to hotel, motel, town house, condominium, apartment, private residence, or similar facility. No segment of said use shall be permitted in any zone other than as specified above.

"Beauty or Cosmetology Salon" shall mean any location, place area, structure, or business which provides all or any combination of the following services to its patrons:

"Building" shall mean a permanently located structure having a roof (all forms of vehicles excluded).

"Billiard Hall" shall mean the same as "Pool Hall" for permitted use and parking requirements.

"Building Frontage" shall mean that side thereof which faces upon a public or private street or parking area between such building and the street. Where a building faces two or more streets, the frontage containing the principal entrance to the building shall be considered to be the building frontage.

"Building Height" shall mean the vertical distance measured from the average level of the highest and lowest point of that portion of the site covered by the building to the ceiling of the uppermost story.

"Building Identification Sign" shall mean a sign containing the name and/or address of a building, which sign is located on the same site as the building.

"Building Line" shall mean a line between which line and the street line no building, structure and/or improvement, or portion thereof, may be erected, constructed and/or established.

"Building Site" shall mean the ground area of a building or group of buildings together with all open spaces required by this Chapter.

"Boarding House" shall mean a building where lodging and meals are provided for compensation for five, but not more than fifteen persons, not including rest homes.

"Bungalow Court" shall mean a group of three or more detached one-story, one- or two-family dwellings located upon a single lot, together with all open spaces as required by this Chapter. Two-family dwellings shall mean two units as defined under "Dwelling, Two-Family."

"Business or Commerce" shall mean the purchase, sale or other transaction involving the handling or disposition of any article, substance or commodity for profit or livelihood, or the ownership or management of office buildings, offices, recreational or amusement enterprises or the maintenance and use of offices by professions and trades rendering services.

"By Right" shall mean that the proposed project is exempt from approval of a Special Use Permit, Planned Assembly Development (PAD), design review, or other planning discretionary approvals and site plan review except when nonobjective design standards are applied.

"Check Cashing Service" shall mean any business where checks are cashed for an additional fee or surcharge, excluding banks, savings-and-loans and credit unions that are licensed or chartered by the state or Federal government. This definition shall also include payday advance, deferred deposit originator, money order, money wiring services and the like.

"Chiropractor" shall mean a licensed person that practices chiropractic in the State of California.

"City Sponsored" shall mean subject to an agreement with the City; located on City-owned property; the City participates in an official capacity in the planning, preparation or promotion of the event and may at its discretion contribute resources in the form of funds, labor, staff time, materials, or event space.

"Classic/Vintage Car Sales Use" means a use where a fine or distinctive automobile, either American or foreign built, is sold or displayed and is twenty-five years or more in age.

"Collectible/Luxury Care Sales Use" means a use where a fine or distinctive automobile, either American or foreign built, is sold or displayed and that offers more technology, higher quality materials and may be built in smaller numbers than more affordable mass market cars; and is less than twenty-five years in age and is recognized by automobile or insurance industry analysts as a collectible/luxury car.

"Club" shall mean an association of persons for some common nonprofit purpose but not including groups organized primarily to render a service which is customarily carried on as a business.

"Collectible" shall mean a cultural or art object that due to its limited availability or rarity appreciates in value and is worthy of being cataloged and collected by fanciers of the object. Collectibles may include, but are not limited to, philately, numismatics, memorabilia, jewelry, fine art, vintage books and vintage clothing.

"Convalescent Homes" shall mean the same as "Rest Homes."

"Cosmetology School" shall mean a type of trade school licensed by the Board of Barbering and Cosmetology providing technical instruction in the field of cosmetology, barbering, electrology, esthetics, nail care, hair styling and/or skin care. Instruction shall include demonstration, lecture, classroom participation, practicum experience and examinations. Practicum experience may include both student work conducted on mannequins as well as student work on paying customers (by appointment or walk-in) during business hours of the school. Services advertised to the public shall be clearly described as student-provided services and a rate schedule shall be posted at all times.

"Large Group Counseling/Tutoring" means a use where eleven or more members receive counseling, tutoring or similar services that are provided for personal, family, educational, health, employment or other considerations.

"Small Group Counseling/Tutoring" means a use where ten or fewer members receive counseling, tutoring or similar services that are provided for personal, family, educational, health, employment or other considerations.

"Court" shall mean any space on a building site, the boundaries of which space are formed by three or more exterior walls of a single building, and which space is open and unobstructed from the ground to the sky.

"Court, Inner" shall mean a court bounded entirely by the exterior walls of a single building.

"Court, Outer" shall mean any court which is not an inner court.

"Day Care" shall mean the supervision and nonmedical care of persons, at a facility that is not the primary residence of such persons, for periods less than twenty-four hours each day.

"Director" shall mean the Director in charge of the Planning Division or designee.

"Disabled Person" shall mean any person who has a physical or mental impairment that substantially limits one or more major life activities; anyone who is regarded as having such impairment; or anyone who has a record of such impairment. People who are currently using illegal substances and who do not have a separate disability are not included in this definition.

"Drive-Through Facility" shall mean a retail or service facility where products or services are provided to motorists who remain in their vehicles. These facilities include drive-thru fast-food restaurants, drive-up bank teller windows, dry cleaners, pharmacies, and the like.

"Dwelling" shall mean a building or portion thereof designed for or occupied exclusively for residential purposes, including one-family, two-family, multiple dwellings, transitional housing, supportive housing, and short-term rental (subject to the regulations contained within Article 11 of Chapter 8 of the IMC), but not including hotels, boarding and lodging houses.

"Dwelling, Multiple" shall mean a building or portion thereof, designed for or occupied by three or more families living independently of each other.

"Dwelling, One-Family" shall mean a detached building designed for or occupied exclusively by one family.

"Dwelling, Two-Family" shall mean a building designed for or occupied exclusively by two families, living independently of each other.

"Dwelling Unit" shall mean two or more rooms in a dwelling or apartment hotel designed for or occupied by one family for living or sleeping purposes and having only one kitchen.

"Educational Institutions" shall mean colleges or universities supported wholly or in part by public funds and other colleges, universities or other schools giving general academic instruction, as determined by the State Board of Education.

"Emergency Shelter for the Homeless" shall mean housing with minimal supportive services for homeless persons that is limited to occupancy of six months or less by a homeless person. No individual or household may be denied emergency shelter because of an inability to pay.

"Entrance-Way" shall mean an opening or passageway in a building or structure which permits pedestrian or vehicular access to such building or structure.

"Escort or Dating Services Business" shall mean any premises in a C-S, M-1, or M-2 zone on which there is conducted the business on a regular and substantial basis of furnishing escorts, dates, introduction or similar services for patrons who pay a fee, gratuity, or other consideration for said services. The words "Escort or Dating Services Business" shall not be construed to include get acquainted programs offered by non-profit groups such as churches or other non-profit groups.

"Family" shall mean a single individual, or two or more persons sharing a dwelling unit in a living arrangement usually characterized by sharing household/living expenses and sharing household operational/maintenance duties, as well as maintaining a single lease or rental agreement for all members of the household and other similar characteristics indicative of a single household.

"Farmers Market" shall mean an outdoor, temporary market, comprised of multiple vendors, whose primary purpose is the sale and promotion of fresh fruits and vegetables as well as healthy eating and active living educational activities.

"Flea Market" shall mean the same as "Swap Meet."

"Freeway" shall mean a highway in respect to which the owners of abutting lands have no right or easement of access to or from their abutting lands or in respect to which such owners have only limited or restricted right or easement of access, and which is declared to be such in compliance with the Streets and Highways Code of the State of California.

"Fully Enclosed Building" shall mean a permanently located structure having a roof, four walls and doors and windows that close, all of which conform to the Uniform Building Code.

"Garage" shall mean an accessory building or an accessory portion of the main building, designed and used only for the shelter and parking of vehicles owned or operated by the occupants of the main building.

"Grade" shall mean the level of the public sidewalk at the closest distance to the sign in question.

"Grocery Store" shall mean any retail business selling food items for consumption off the premises and devotes no more than fifteen percent of the store floor area for display and storage of alcoholic beverages.

"Gross Floor Area" shall mean the total floor area within a building or structure. Such total area shall be calculated by measuring along the outside dimensions of the exterior surfaces of such building or structure.

"Group Houses" shall mean two or more separate buildings each containing one or more dwelling units.

"Guest Home" shall mean the same as "Rest Home."

"Guest House" shall mean living quarters within an accessory building located on the same premises with the main building, for use by temporary guests of the occupants of the premises, and having no kitchen. A guest house may not be rented or otherwise used as a separate dwelling (except as allowed for a short term rental as defined in Chapter 8, Article 11 of the Inglewood Municipal Code).

"Homeless" shall mean lacking a fixed, regular, or adequate nighttime residence; living in a shelter designated to provide temporary living arrangements; or having a primary nighttime residence that is a public or private place not designed for use as a regular sleeping accommodation for human beings, such as a car, park, abandoned building, or sidewalk.

"Homeless Youth" shall mean a person not older than twenty-four years who is homeless; at risk of becoming homeless; exiting foster care on the basis of age; has run away from home; or not older than seventeen years, emancipated under State law, and either homeless or at risk of becoming homeless.

"Hookah Lounge" shall mean any business whose primary or ancillary business operation is engaged in the retail sale of tobacco for consumption by customers on the premises by the smoking of tobacco or other substances through one or more hookah pipes (also known as a waterpipe, shisha, or narghile) designed with a tube passing through an urn of water, including, but not limited to, establishments known as hookah bars, hookah lounges, hookah cafés, and the like.

"Hostel" shall mean an establishment which provides inexpensive food and lodging for a specific group of people, such as students, workers, or travelers.

"Hotel" shall mean a building designed for or occupied as the more or less temporary abiding place of individuals who are lodged with or without meals, and in which no provision is made for cooking in any individual room or suite. Jails, hospitals, asylums, sanitariums or orphanages, prisons, detention homes or similar buildings where human beings are housed and detained under legal restraint are specifically not included.

"Incentive" means a modification to a City development standard or requirement of Chapter 12 of the Municipal Code.

"Income, Moderate, Lower, or Very Low" means annual income that does not exceed those defined by the California Department of Housing and Community Development (HCD).

"Jewelry Store" shall mean any retail business that devotes at least seventy-five percent of floor area for the exclusive selling of ornaments made of precious and semi-precious metals, gems, stones, gem substitutes or other imitation materials used as adornment.

"Kitchen" shall mean any room used or intended or designed to be used for cooking or the preparation of food.

"Kitchen, Commercial" shall mean a cooking facility used for the preparation of food consumed off the premises only. A commercial kitchen shall include one kitchen or multiple kitchens leased individually.

"Landscaped Freeway" shall mean a section or sections of a freeway which are now, or hereafter may be, improved by the planting, at least on one side of the freeway right-of-way, of lawns, trees, shrubs, flowers, or other ornamental vegetation which shall require reasonable maintenance.

Planting for the purpose of soil erosion control, traffic safety requirements, reduction of fire hazards, or traffic noise abatement, shall not change the character of a freeway to a landscaped freeway.

"Liquor Store" shall mean any retail business selling distilled spirits (excluding beer and/or wine only) for consumption off-premises, in which fifteen percent or more of the store floor area is utilized for the storage and display of the distilled spirits.

"Live Entertainment" shall mean any performance on the premises by an individual, group of individuals, band or orchestra for purposes of entertaining patrons. (Pre-recorded music, jukeboxes, dancing by patrons to same, televised entertainment, pool, billiards or arcade games do not, by themselves, constitute live entertainment.)

"Live-Work Unit" shall mean a unit configured for both residential and non-residential use in which the primary activity is the non-residential use and the residential use is ancillary to the primary activity; which contains essential living facilities including a sleeping area, cooking facilities, and sanitary facilities; and in which may or may not have walls separating the working and living areas of the unit.

"Loading Space" shall mean 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.

"Lodging House" shall mean a building with not more than five guest rooms where, for compensation, lodging is provided for five but not more than ten persons.

"Lot" shall mean:

"Lot Area" shall mean the total horizontal area within the lot lines of a lot.

"Lot, Corner" shall mean a lot situated at the intersection of two or more streets, having an angle of intersection of not more than one hundred thirty-five degrees and a width not greater than seventy-five feet.

"Lot Depth" shall mean the horizontal distance between the front and rear lot lines, measured in the mean direction of the side lot lines.

"Lot Frontage" shall mean the line separating a lot from a street in a commercial or industrial zone. In the case of a developed lot which abuts more than one street, the street frontage containing the principal entrance to the site or building thereon shall be designated as the lot frontage. "Business Frontage" is the length of exterior wall of a particular business which contains its principal entrance or faces the street on which the address of the business is located.

"Lot, Interior" shall mean a lot other than a corner lot.

"Lot, Key" shall mean the first lot to the rear of a reversed corner lot and not separated by an alley.

In the case of an interior lot, "Lot Line, Front" shall mean a line separating the lot from the street, and in the case of a corner lot, a "Lot Line, Front" shall mean a line separating the narrowest street frontage of the lot from the street, except in those cases where the latest tract deed restrictions specify another line as the front lot line.

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

"Lot Line, Side" shall mean any lot boundary line not a front lot line or a rear lot line.

"Lot, Reversed Corner" shall mean a corner lot, the side street line of which is substantially a continuation of the front lot line of the lot upon which it rears.

"Lot, Through" shall mean a lot having frontage on two parallel or approximately parallel streets.

"Lot, Transitional Use" shall mean an island, triangular or irregular-shaped corner property that is zoned for ("R") residential uses and that directly abuts two or more nonresidential streets. The development of a transitional use lot is intended to act as a physical buffer for other residential lots that are located further from the abutting non-residential streets.

"Lot Width" shall mean the horizontal distance between the side lot lines, measured at right angles to the lot depth at a point midway between the front and rear lot lines.

"Sports and Entertainment Complex" shall mean the same as defined in Section 12-38.91(E).

"Major Sports or Entertainment Facility" shall mean a facility with indoor and/or outdoor seating capacity of not less than six thousand attendees operated to host events including, but not limited to, sporting events, concerts, entertainment events, exhibitions, conventions, conferences, meetings, banquets, civic and community events, social, recreation, or leisure events, celebrations, and other similar events or activities.

"Massage" shall mean any method of pressure on or friction against, or stroking, kneading, rubbing, tapping, pounding or stimulating the external parts of the body with the hands or other parts of the body, including acupressure, the stimulation or sedation of specific meridian points and trigger points near the surface of the body by the use of pressure in order to prevent or modify the perception of pain or to normalize physiological functions, including pain control, in the treatment of certain diseases or dysfunctions of the body.

"Massage Establishment" or "Massage Parlor" shall mean any establishment having a fixed place of business or any individual, firm, association, partnership, corporation or combination of individuals engaged in conducting, carrying on, or permitting to be engaged in, conducted or carried on, massages or health treatments involving massage as the principal function.

"Massage Therapist" shall mean a person who, for any form of consideration whatsoever, gives or administers to another person a "massage" which means any method of pressure on or friction against, or stroking, kneading, rubbing, tapping, pounding or stimulating the external parts of the body with the hands or other parts of the body, or any other type system for treating or manipulating the human body with or without the aid of any mechanical or electrical apparatus or appliances, or with or without supplementary aids such as rubbing alcohol, liniments, antiseptics, oils, powders, creams, lotions, ointments or other similar preparations commonly used in this practice.

"Miscellaneous Adult Oriented Business" shall mean any establishment in a C-S, M-1, or M-2 zone having a fixed place of business or any individual, firm, association, partnership, corporation or combination of individuals which offers on a regular and substantial basis its patrons services, products, or entertainment distinguished or characterized by an emphasis on matter depicting, describing or relating to "specified sexual activities" or "specified anatomical areas." Evidence of the intent to operate an adult oriented business may be established by considering such factors as the name, signage, advertising or other public promotion utilized by said establishment. The specific intent of this definition is to include any and all other businesses that now or in the future may exist or that may otherwise inadvertently escape zoning requirements and regulations that are intended to regulate adult oriented businesses.

"Mortuary" shall mean a place of business conducted in a building which is used for the preparation, arrangement, embalming, viewing, funeral transportation and storage of bodies prior to their burial, cremation or other disposition.

"Motel" shall mean the same as "hotel."

"Net Floor Area" shall mean the total floor area within a building or structure, excepting therefrom inner courts, public areas not usable for rental space (restrooms, hallways, stairs and elevators), and mechanical or electrical equipment rooms when used primarily for lighting, heating or air conditioning the building or structure.

"Nonconforming Building or Use" shall mean a building or use which although conforming to the zoning law originally, became nonconforming upon the enactment of a zoning ordinance.

"Nudity or State of Nudity" shall mean the showing of the human male or female genitals, pubic area, or buttocks with less than a fully opaque covering, the showing of the female breast with less than fully opaque covering of any part of the areola.

"Nursery School or Child Care Center" shall mean an establishment which, for compensation, cares for more than six children, which number shall include those children who live on the premises.

"Obstruction" shall mean any object, which completely or partially blocks a path of travel or circulation and includes all permanent and temporary structures, appurtenances, furnishings and furniture attendant to a permitted use under this Chapter.

"Owner" shall mean the person having sufficient proprietary interest in land sought to be subdivided or otherwise developed to commence and maintain proceedings to subdivide or otherwise develop the same under this Chapter.

"Outdoor Restaurant on the Public Sidewalk" shall mean the public sidewalk restaurant or food service use created by this Chapter.

"Parking Space, Automobile" shall mean space within a building or public parking area for the temporary parking or storage of one automobile.

"Parking Area, Public" shall mean an open area other than a street, alley or place, 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.

"Photo Studios Using Live Models" shall mean the same as defined in Section 8-1.35 of the Inglewood Municipal Code.

"Planning Commission" shall mean the "City Planning Commission" or "Planning and Zoning Board."

"Pool Hall" shall mean any business that has three or more pool or billiard tables. "Pool Hall" shall also mean any business that has a maximum of two pool or billiard tables as a sole or primary land use. A maximum of two pool or billiard tables will be considered ancillary to that business if the pool or billiard tables do not comprise more than thirty percent of the gross floor area of the subject business.

"Porte Cochere" shall mean a small protective roof that is located over a driveway and that is attached on one side to a dwelling structure and is unenclosed on all remaining sides, except for necessary support columns.

"Public Sidewalk" shall mean any paved surface ordinarily used for pedestrian travel and lying between the property line of any property and the curbing.

"Rent-to-Own" shall mean a business that primarily rents or leases new merchandise to customers (such as household appliances, furniture, electronics, personal medical equipment, and the like) with the intent that the merchandise will be, purchased by the customer during or at the conclusion of the rental or lease term.

"Recreational Vehicle" shall mean a motorized or non-motorized vehicle and any appurtenant equipment that is intended for recreational, camping or travel use, including, but not limited to, motor homes, truck campers, camping trailers, all-terrain vehicles, boats, and jet skis.

"Rest Home" shall mean the same as boarding house, but permitting nursing, dietary and other personal services rendered to convalescents, invalids and aged persons, but excluding cases of contagious or communicable diseases, and excluding surgery or primary treatments such as are customarily provided in sanitariums and hospitals.

"Restaurant" shall mean an establishment that is maintained, operated, and/or advertised or held out to the public as a place where food and beverage are prepared and served for customer consumption.

"Restaurant, Dine-in" shall mean a type of restaurant that is maintained, operated, and/or advertised or held out to the public as a place where food and beverage are served to the public on demand from a printed menu during stated business hours, served primarily in and on reusable dishes, to be consumed primarily on the premises at tables, booths or counters, with chairs, benches or stools. This use may include incidental delivery service.

"Restaurant, Fast-Food" shall mean a type of restaurant that is maintained, operated, and/or advertised or held out to the public as a place where food and beverage are served to customers from a serving counter and where food and meals are generally prepared in advance for immediate sale, and which may include limited seating. Fast-food restaurants shall include, cafeterias, doughnut shops, and bakeries (baked goods sold only on-premises).

"Outdoor Restaurant" shall mean a type of restaurant and place of business required to be licensed under the provisions of this Code, which sells or serves food products or beverages for consumption on the premises where such place of business is located, and which provides facilities for, or permits, consumption of such food products or beverages on any portion of such premises not within a fully enclosed building as defined hereinafter in this Chapter.

"Sanitarium" shall mean a health station or retreat or other place where patients are kept and where medical or surgical treatment is given.

"School" as used for the purpose of regulating adult-oriented businesses and massage related businesses shall mean any child or day care facility, or an institution of learning for minors, whether public or private in any permitted zone offering instruction in those courses or study required by the California Education Code and maintained pursuant to standards set by the State Board of Education. This definition includes a nursery school, kindergarten, elementary school, middle or junior high school, senior high school, or any special institution of education, but it does not include a vocational or professional institution of higher education, including a community or junior college, college, or university.

"School, Elementary and High" shall mean an institution of learning which offers instruction in the several branches of learning and study required to be taught in the public schools by the Education Code of the State of California.

"Self-Storage Facility" shall mean a fully-enclosed building designed and used for the purpose of renting or leasing individual storage spaces to customers for the purpose of storing and removing property on a self-service basis. No self-storage space shall be used as living quarters. No retail, repair, or other business activity shall be conducted out of the individual rental storage spaces. No activities other than rental of storage spaces and pick-up and deposit of storage shall be allowed on the premises.

"Semi-Nude" shall mean a state of dress in which clothing covers no more than the genitals, pubic region, buttocks, areola of the female breast, as well as portions of the body covered by supporting straps or devices.

"Senior Citizen Housing" shall mean one or more multiple-dwelling unit residential structures, without medical care facilities, that are specifically designed and restricted for present and future habitation by at least one resident in each unit that meets the definition of "senior citizen" under the California Civil Code Section 51.3, or its successor statute. Without restriction as to age of occupant, units may also be occupied by management or maintenance personnel who are required to live on the premises.

"Service Station" shall mean premises to supply gasoline, other fuels and oil to motor vehicles including lubrication, minor tire repair and tire replacement, battery sales and service and the sale and installation of wiper blades, lamps, mirrors and similar minor accessories.

"SEC Development Guidelines" shall mean the same as defined in Section 12-38.94(A).

"Shopping Center" shall mean two or more businesses that are primarily retail but also may include eating and drinking establishments and service uses which function on a single lot or on adjoining lots, but which utilize common vehicular and pedestrian access and/or on-site parking areas.

"Short-Term Rental" shall mean the same as defined in Chapter 8, Article 11, of the Inglewood Municipal Code.

"Sign" shall mean any of various kinds of graphic displays, supporting structures for same, or attention-attracting devices as specifically defined in Article 23 of this Chapter.

"Smoke Shop" shall mean any business with twenty-five percent or more of the retail total floor area allotted to the display and sale of tobacco products or tobacco paraphernalia for off-site consumption.

"Single Apartment" shall mean a living unit with a kitchen, a bathroom (including a toilet, lavatory and shower or bathtub) and one other room and any number of closets.

"Site" shall mean of the contiguous ground area assembled and used as one building or business location.

"Specialty Merchandise Mart" shall mean an enclosed commercial-sales structure containing multiple interior tenant spaces which are typically but not exclusively limited to the promotional display and sales of a specific type of high quality merchandise including, but not limited to, fine jewelry, precious metals and gems, antiques and collectibles, artwork, sculpture, fine furniture or fine apparel.

"Specified Anatomical Areas" shall mean any of the following human areas when they are less than completely and/or opaquely covered: (1) genitals or pubic region; (2) buttocks; and (3) female breast below a point immediately above the top of the areola.

"Specified Sexual Activities" shall mean and include any of the following, whether performed directly or indirectly through clothing or other covering: (1) the fondling or other erotic touching of human genitals, pubic region, buttocks, anus, or female breast; (2) sex acts, actual or simulated, including intercourse, oral copulation, or sodomy; (3) masturbation, actual or simulated; and (4) excretory functions as part of or in connection with any of the other activities described in (1) through (3) of this paragraph.

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

"Street" shall mean a public or private thoroughfare which affords principal means of access to abutting property.

"Street Line" shall mean the boundary line between street and abutting property.

"Street Side" shall mean that street bounding a corner lot and which extends in the same general direction as the line determining the depth of the lot.

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

"Structure" shall mean anything constructed or erected, which requires location on the ground or attached to something having a location on the ground, but not including fences or walls used as fences less than six feet in height.

"Substantially Enlarged" or "Structurally Altered" shall mean any enlargement or structural alteration of a building or structure which increases the gross floor area of a building or structure in any ten-year period where the increased gross floor area equals or exceeds the floor area for which one parking space is required to be provided.

"Supportive Housing" shall mean housing with no limit on length of stay, that is operated by a supportive housing provider, that is occupied by a target population, and that is linked to onsite or offsite services that assist the supportive housing resident in retaining the housing, improving his or her health status, and maximizing his or her ability to live and, when possible, work in the community. The development may include space for ancillary supportive services used by residents only.

"Swap Meet," or flea market, shall mean any indoor or outdoor facility containing multiple tenant spaces, stalls or booths from which new or used merchandise, craftwares or food are sold, exchanged or bought by separate vendors. Any facility bearing the name of, or otherwise being promoted as a swap meet or flea market shall constitute a swap meet for purposes of this Chapter. Any interior multiple tenant facility used for the sale of merchandise that does not conform to the definition of a shopping center shall constitute a swap meet.

"Tailgating" shall mean taking part in activities and congregating for the purpose of an outdoor gathering which may include the consumption of food and nonalcoholic and alcoholic beverages by one or more people prior to a scheduled event occurring at a major sports or entertainment facility.

"Tailgating Event" shall mean an organized/hosted private gathering of multiple tailgating groups in which a single event organizer provides all entertainment and applicable refreshments which may include food and nonalcoholic and alcoholic beverages subject to securing applicable State licenses, rather than each vehicle individually providing entertainment and refreshments.

"Tanning Device" shall mean any equipment that emits electromagnetic radiation with wavelengths in the air between two hundred and four hundred nanometers used for tanning of the skin, including, but not limited to, a sunlamp, tanning booth, or tanning bed. Tanning device also means any accompanying equipment, including, but not limited to, protective eyewear, timers, and handrails.

"Tanning Salon" shall mean any location, place, area, structure, or business which provides persons access to any "tanning device" for any form of consideration, fee, or gratuity as a regular or substantial segment of its services to patrons of the establishment.

"Target Population" shall mean persons, including homeless individuals with disabilities; homeless individuals and/or families; or homeless youth.

"Tasting room" shall mean an ancillary tasting of alcoholic beverage product associated with a food and beverage manufacturing use or a general retail use when that general retail use includes the sale of beer, wine, and distilled spirits for off-site consumption. A beverage tasting facility cannot exceed twenty percent of the gross floor area of the food and beverage manufacturing or general retail use to which it is associated unless approved by administrative use permit to exceed no more than thirty percent gross floor area.

"Thrift Store" shall mean any place of business for the retail sale of previously used clothing, furniture and other household items that are reusable or have been repaired or restored for reuse.

"Townhouse" shall mean a single family residential unit, constructed from ground to roof, that is attached by one or two common walls to adjacent townhouse units, where each townhouse unit has its own separate exterior entry door and the required garage spaces are either provided within each respective townhouse unit or within a detached garage structure.

"Trailer, Automobile" shall mean any vehicle without motor power, designed to be drawn by a motor vehicle and to be used for human habitation or for carrying persons and property, including a trailer coach.

"Transitional Housing" shall mean one or more buildings configured as a rental housing development that is exclusively designated and targeted for individuals and households at immediate risk of becoming homeless or transitioning from homelessness to permanent housing; and that is operated and managed by a transitional housing provider under program requirements that call for the termination of assistance and recirculation of the assisted unit to another eligible program recipient at some predetermined future point in time, which shall be no less than six months. The development may include space for ancillary supportive services used by residents only. Any communal housing that does not provide individual units must adhere to the requirements for group homes or community care facilities and the like.

"Underground Parking Facilities" shall mean a basement equipped, designed, used or intended to be used for parking automobiles.

"Urban Agriculture" shall mean farming in all its branches, including, but not limited to, the cultivation and tillage of the soil, the production, cultivation, growing, and harvesting of any agricultural or horticultural products, the raising of livestock, bees, fur-bearing animals, dairy-producing animals, and poultry, agriculture education, the sale of produce through field retail stands or farm stands, and any practices performed by a farmer or on a farm as an incident to or in conjunction with farming operations. For purposes of this definition, the term "urban agriculture use" does not include cultivation of marijuana.

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

"Vacation Rental" shall mean the same as defined in Chapter 8, Article 11, of the Inglewood Municipal Code.

"Yard" shall mean an open space other than a court, on a lot, occupied and unobstructed from the ground upward, except as otherwise provided herein.

"Yard, Front" shall mean a yard extending across the full width of the lot, the depth of which is the minimum horizontal distance between the front lot line and the line parallel thereto on the lot.

"Yard, Rear" shall mean a yard extending across the full width of the lot between the main building and the rear lot line; the depth of the required rear yard shall be measured horizontally from the nearest part of the main building toward the rear lot line.

"Yard, Side" shall mean a yard between the main building and the side lot line, extending from the front yard, or front lot line where no front yard is required, to the rear yard; the width of the required side yard shall be measured horizontally from the nearest part of the main building toward the side lot line.