An ADU that is either attached to (by a minimum of one shared wall), or completely contained within, the primary existing space of the single-unit dwelling unit or existing accessory structure.

An ADU that provides new residential square footage not attached or sharing any walls with the primary existing single-unit dwelling.

A structure that is located upon the same site as the structure or use to which it is accessory. Accessory structures may consist of detached structures or additions to primary structures. The use of an accessory structure is incidental and subordinate to the use of the principal structure, or to the primary land use of the site. Does not include habitable accessory structures such as accessory dwelling units (ADUs).

A use that is customarily associated with, and is incidental and subordinate to, the primary use and located on the same parcel as the primary use. Accessory Use includes active or passive solar heating systems and cogeneration facilities.

A place to which the public is allowed or invited and coin-operated or slug-operated, or electronically, electrically, or mechanically controlled still or motion picture machines, projections, or other image-producing devices are maintained to show images to five or fewer persons per machine at any one time, and where the images so displayed are distinguished or characterized by the depicting or describing of specified sexual activities or specified anatomical areas.

An establishment that has as a substantial portion of its stock-in-trade, a majority of its floor area, or revenue derived from and offering for sale for any form of consideration, any one or more of the following:

A bar, nightclub, or similar establishment which features dancers, strippers, or similar entertainers who expose specified anatomical areas of their bodies.

A hotel, motel, or similar commercial establishment which:

A commercial establishment where, for any form of consideration, films, motion pictures, video cassettes, slides, or similar photographic reproductions are regularly shown which are characterized by the depictions or description of specified sexual activities or specified anatomical areas.

A business establishment where patrons receive tanning services in groups of two or more and where patrons or employees of the establishment expose specified anatomical areas. Adult tanning salon or parlor also includes a business establishment where a patron and an employee of the establishment are nude or expose specified anatomical areas. An adult tanning salon or parlor also includes a business establishment where the employees are nude or expose specified anatomical areas.

A place, building, enclosure, theater, concert hall, auditorium, or structure, partially or entirely used for live performances or presentations, which place, building, enclosure, theater, concert hall, auditorium, or structure is used for presenting matter characterized by an emphasis on depicting, exposing, describing, or relating to specified sexual activities or specified anatomical areas for observation by patrons. This place shall also include an adult theater where persons are regularly featured appearing in a state of nudity or giving live performances which are characterized by the exposure of specified sexual activities or by specified anatomical areas.

Any place where a person who appears in a state of nudity or displays specified anatomical areas is provided to be conversed with or be observed, sketched, drawn, painted, sculptured, photographed, or similarly depicted by other persons, for any form of consideration. Nude model studio shall not include any classroom of any school licensed under State law to provide art education, while the classroom is being used in a manner consistent with a State license.

An area or areas in an adult-oriented business designed to accommodate no more than five or less patrons or customers for purposes of viewing or watching a performance, picture, show, film, videotape, slide, movie, or other presentation. Private viewing areas shall not be established, maintained, or authorized, and there shall be no doors, curtains, stalls, or other enclosures creating a private viewing area.

A state of dress in which clothing, including supporting straps or devices, covers no more than the genitals, pubic region, and areolae of the female breast.

The establishment or operation of more than one type of adult-oriented business or use as defined in these Zoning Regulations within the same structure.

A business or commercial enterprise that, as one of its primary business purposes, offers, in any form of consideration, physical contact in the form of wrestling or tumbling between persons of the opposite sex and/or activities between male and female persons and/or persons of the same sex when one or more of the persons is in a state of nudity or is semi-nude.

An establishment having, as a substantial portion of its stock-in-trade, a majority of its floor area or a majority of its revenue derived from goods which are replicas of or which simulate, specified anatomical areas, or specified sexual activities, or goods which are designed to be placed on or in specified anatomical areas, or to be used in conjunction with specified sexual activities, to cause sexual excitement.

A business where employees or patrons expose specified anatomical areas or engage in or simulate specified sexual activities, or a business which offers to its patrons services or entertainment characterized by an emphasis on matter depicting, exposing, describing, discussing, or relating to specified sexual activities or specified anatomical areas.

Includes any of the following human anatomical areas:

Sexual crime against children; sexual abuse; rape; or crime connected with another adult-oriented business, including, but not limited to, the distribution of obscenity; violations involving the distribution, display, or sale of material harmful to minors; prostitution; or pandering. Specified criminal acts shall exclude those acts that are authorized or required to be kept confidential in compliance with Welfare and Institutions Code Sections 600 to 900.

Includes all of the following:

An establishment engaged in the growth and sale of vegetables, produce, fruit crops, vines, shrubs, trees (including Christmas trees), sod, and nursery plants conducted within an enclosed structure. This use includes, but is not limited to, crop farms, orchards, groves, tree plantations, commercial greenhouses, nurseries, and a temporary stand for the sale of products grown on the premises, but specifically not including cannabis growth and sale.

Any business selling alcoholic beverages as a primary use, including beer, wine, distilled spirits, hard liquor, and/or any other alcoholic beverages. Does not include grocery stores, convenience stores, warehouse stores, or other alcohol sales authorized as part of an off-site wine tasting room or food and beverage product manufacturing.

The commercial provision of shelter and care for dogs, cats, other household animals, and horses (where allowed), including activities associated with such shelter and care (e.g., feeding, exercising, grooming, and incidental medical care).

The commercial provision of bathing and trimming services for dogs, cats, and other household animals permitted by the Municipal Code. Overnight boarding is not included with this use (see "Animal Boarding/Kennels").

The retail sales of household animals within an entirely enclosed building. These uses include grooming, if incidental to the retail use, but specifically excludes boarding of animals other than those for sale (see "Animal Boarding/Kennels").

An establishment that provides a temporary home for dogs, cats, and other animals that are commonly offered for adoption with the provision of adequate heat, ventilation, sanitary shelter and wholesome and adequate food and water, in each case consistent with the normal requirements and feeding habits of the animal's size, age, species, breed, and physical condition.

Veterinary services for livestock, farm animals, and other large animals. This classification allows 24-hour accommodation of animals receiving medical services.

Veterinary services for household pets. This classification allows 24-hour accommodation of animals receiving medical services, but does not include kenneling of animals not receiving medical services (see "Animal Boarding/Kennels").

Storage and display of commercial goods or materials entirely within an enclosed building.

Storage and display of commercial goods or materials in open lots, outside of a structure other than fencing, either as an accessory or principal use.

A person 21 years and older who is authorized by, and in compliance with, State law and the provisions of this chapter relating to the cultivation of cannabis for personal use.

All parts of the plant Cannabis sativa Linnaeus, Cannabis indica, or Cannabis ruderalis, whether growing or not; the seeds thereof; the resin, whether crude or purified, extracted from any part of the plant; and every compound, manufacture, salt, derivative, mixture, or preparation of the plant, its seeds, or resin. "Cannabis" also means the separated resin, whether crude or purified, obtained from cannabis, and any product containing cannabis. "Cannabis" includes cannabis that is used for medical, non-medical, or other purposes. "Cannabis" does not include the mature stalks of the plant, fiber produced from the stalks, oil or cake made from the seeds of the plant, any other compound, manufacture, salt, derivative, mixture, or preparation of the mature stalks (except the resin extracted therefrom), fiber, oil or cake, or the sterilized seed of the plant which is incapable of germination. "Cannabis" also does not include industrial hemp, as defined in California Health and Safety Code Section 11018.5.

The cultivation, possession, manufacture, distribution, processing, storing, laboratory testing, labeling, packaging, transportation, delivery or sale of cannabis and cannabis products for non-medical, medical or any other purpose, and includes the activities of any business licensed by the State or other government entity under Division 10 of the California Business and Professions Code or any other provision of State law that regulates the licensing of cannabis businesses. Notwithstanding any of the foregoing, "Commercial Cannabis Activity" shall not include: (1) an individual aged 21 years or older who possesses, processes, transports, purchases, obtains, or gives away to adults aged 21 years or older without compensation whatsoever, non-medical recreational cannabis; or (2) personal cultivation of cannabis in accordance with Section 17.39.040.

Any activity involving the planting, growing, harvesting, drying, curing, grading, or trimming of cannabis.

The commercial transfer of cannabis or cannabis products to a customer. Delivery also includes the use by a retailer of any technology platform owned and controlled by the retailer.

A space within a building that complies with the California Building Code ("CBC") as adopted by the City, or if exempt from the permit requirements of the CBC, a structure that has a complete roof, a foundation, slab, or equivalent base to which the floor is secured by bolts or similar attachments, is secure against unauthorized entry, and is accessible only through one or more lockable doors. Walls and roofs must be constructed of solid materials that cannot be easily broken through such as two-inch by four-inch nominal or thicker studs overlaid with three-eighths inch or thicker plywood or the equivalent. Plastic sheeting, regardless of the mil or inches, or similar products do not satisfy this requirement. If skylights are used, security bars shall be added to the skylights. The structure must provide complete visual screening.

Space within a fully enclosed and secure structure.

The Medicinal and Adult-Use Cannabis Regulation and Safety Act, as codified in Division 10 of the California Business and Professions Code (Section 26000 et seq.) as the same may be amended from time to time.

Any location that is not within a fully enclosed and secure structure.

Any person, firm, corporation, partnership, joint venture, limited liability company, collective, cooperative, non-profit, trust, estate, association, club, receiver, syndicate, society, or other organization. "Person" shall include any owner, manager, proprietor, employee, volunteer, or salesperson.

A house, apartment unit, condominium, mobile home, or other similar dwelling that is lawfully used as a residence.

A structure or building substantially exposed above ground intended to be used for the inurnment of the cremated remains of a deceased person(s).

A structure designed, intended to be used, or used for the cremation of human or animal remains.

Privately owned facilities for various indoor spectator or participant sports and types of recreation where a fee is charged for use. Indoor commercial recreation uses include, but are not limited to:

Privately owned facilities for various outdoor spectator or participant sports and types of recreation where a fee is charged for use. Outdoor commercial recreation uses include, but are not limited to:

See "Multiple-Family Dwelling."

See "Single-Family Dwelling."

Any establishment that sells or serves alcoholic beverages for consumption on the premises and is holding or applying for a public premises license from the State Department of Alcoholic Beverages and in which persons under 21 years of age are restricted from the premises. References to the establishment shall include any immediately adjacent area that is owned, leased, or rented, or controlled by the licensee. This use includes wine tasting rooms and micro-breweries where alcoholic beverages are sold and consumed on site and any food service is subordinate to the sale of alcoholic beverages. Does not include adult entertainment businesses.

Businesses preparing and/or packaging food for off-site consumption, excluding those of an industrial character in terms of processes employed, waste produced, water used, and traffic generation. Typical uses include catering kitchens, bakeries, and small-scale specialty food production. Food Preparation may also be considered accessory to allowed restaurant uses.

Establishments where food and beverages may be consumed on the premises, taken out, or delivered.

A restaurant that provides alcohol service.

See "Drive-Through or Drive-Up Facilities."

A food facility limited to serving labeled prepackaged food, including, but not limited to, candy, chips, prepackaged cookies, canned beverages, hot dogs, sandwiches, or comparable items which are considered nonpotentially hazardous and limited to single service utensils.

A facility that provides care for nine to 14 children, including children who reside at the home and are under the age of 10. See Health and Safety Code Section 1596.78.

A facility that provides care for eight or fewer children, including children who reside at the home and are under the age of 10. See Health and Safety Code Section 1596.78.

An attached or detached accessory structure enclosed on no more than two sides.

An attached or detached accessory structure enclosed on no more than two sides.

Any person applying to the City for a Conditional Use Permit or a land use decision concerning a specified hazardous waste facility, as defined under the term "proponent" of State Health and Safety Code Section 25199.1(i).

A board formed to review the appeal of an "Applicant," as defined in this section, of a specified hazardous waste facility land use decisions disapproved by the City or of one or more conditions of approval placed on an approved specified hazardous waste facility or an appeal by an "Interested Person," as defined in this section, based solely on the ground that the conditions imposed do not adequately protect the public health, safety, or welfare. The Governor's Appeal Board's membership, purpose, and procedures are defined by State Health and Safety Code Sections 25199.9 through 25199.14.

A waste, or combination of wastes, which because of its quantity, concentration, toxicity, corrosiveness, mutagenicity or flammability, or physical, chemical, or infectious characteristics may: (1) cause, or significantly contribute to an increase in mortality or an increase in serious irreversible, or incapacitating reversible illness; or (2) pose a substantial present or potential hazard to human health or the environment when improperly treated, stored, transported or disposed of, or otherwise managed.

A technical and environmental evaluation of a proposed facility, site, and surrounding area before approval of a Conditional Use Permit. The assessment shall consider the qualities and the physical and chemical characteristics of the specific types of waste that would be handled. The assessment shall include a hydraulic evaluation as well as risks due to flooding, earthquakes, and potential water or air pollution. It is not intended that the health and safety assessment duplicate information developed for environmental impact reports or risk assessments required under local, State, or Federal regulations.

Occupants associated with schools, hospitals, convalescent homes, prisons, facilities for the mentally ill, and other similar facilities.

A person who participated in one or more public meetings or hearings held to consider an application for a land use decision for a specified hazardous waste facility project. "Participation" as defined in State Health and Safety Code Section 25199.1(c) includes, but is not limited to, the giving of oral or written testimony at a meeting or hearing, submission of questions at a meeting or hearing, or attendance at the meeting or hearing.

A discretionary decision of the City concerning a specified hazardous waste facility including the issuance of a permit, a Conditional Use Permit, the granting of a variance, the subdivision of property, and the modification of existing property lines in compliance with Title 7 (commencing with Section 65000) of the Government Code.

A State-required committee of locally appointed representatives, designed to represent, generally, the interests of the residents in the City and residents in adjacent communities in meetings with the applicants of a proposed hazardous waste facility. The membership, duties, and mission of the committee are defined by State Health and Safety Code Section 25199.7(d), as reiterated in this chapter under (Local Assessment Committee).

Any structures, other appurtenances, and improvements on the land, and all contiguous land serving more than one producer of hazardous waste and used for the treatment, transfer, storage, resource recovery, disposal, or recycling of hazardous waste, including, but not limited to:

A waste disposal facility specifically restricted to receiving only residuals from hazardous waste treatment facilities.

A specific off-site facility project proposal.

Planning and administering educational, recreational, and social activities designed to help patients or individuals with disabilities, regain physical or mental functioning or to adapt to their disabilities;

Diagnosing and treating speech, language, or hearing problems. These practitioners operated private; and

Administering medically prescribed physical therapy treatment for patients suffering from injuries or muscle, nerve, joint, and bone disease.

A full-service fitness center, gymnasium, or health and athletic club which is over 2,500 square feet in size and may include any of the following: sauna, spa, or hot tub facilities; weight rooms; indoor tennis, handball, or racquetball courts; rock climbing wall, boxing ring, cheerleading, aerobic classes and other indoor sports activities; locker rooms, and showers.

An indoor facility of 2,500 square feet or less in size where passive or active exercises and related activities are performed using minimal muscle-building equipment or apparatus for the purpose of physical fitness, improved circulation or flexibility, and/or weight control. Examples of uses include Pilates, personal training, dance, yoga, and martial arts studios.

A facility other than a hospital, providing medical, psychiatric, or surgical service for sick or injured persons exclusively on an out-patient basis, including emergency treatment, diagnostic services, administration, and related services to patients who are not lodged overnight. Services may be available without a prior appointment. This classification includes licensed facilities such as blood banks and plasma centers, and emergency medical services offered exclusively on an outpatient basis such as urgent care centers. Typically operates beyond standard medical office hours and may provide emergency treatment. May include educational aspects such as medical instruction and/or training as well as house a lab, radiology, pharmacy, rehabilitation, and other similar services as accessory uses. This classification does not include private medical and dental offices that typically require appointments and are usually smaller scale, see "Office, Medical and Dental Office."

A facility providing medical, psychiatric, or surgical services for sick or injured persons primarily on an in-patient basis, and including ancillary facilities for outpatient and emergency treatment, diagnostic services, training, research, administration, and services to patients, employees, or visitors.

An establishment with guest rooms or suites, with or without kitchen facilities, rented to the general public for overnight lodging to transient patrons. These establishments may provide additional services, such as conference and meeting rooms, restaurants, bars, personal services, retail services, or recreational facilities available to guests or to the general public. This use classification includes short-term residential rental, which is a dwelling unit that are shared, in whole or in part, for transient occupancy for periods of up to 30 consecutive days as a way of generating rental income. This use classification does not include boarding or rooming housings (see "Boarding Houses") or bed and breakfasts (see "Bed and Breakfast Inns"), or hostels (see "Hostels") which are separately defined and regulated.

A lot having a common property line or separated by a public path or lane, private street, or easement to the subject lot.

A lot bounded on two or more sides by street lines that have an angle intersection that is not more than 135 degrees.

A lot located on the curving portion of a cul-de-sac street.

A lot that is located to the rear of another lot and is shaped such that the main portion of the lot area does not have access to a street other than by means of a corridor having less than 25 feet of width.

A lot bounded on one side by a street line and on all other sides by lot lines between adjacent lots or that is bounded by more than one street with an intersection greater than 135 degrees.

A lot of irregular, rather than rectangular, shape.

An interior lot, the front of which adjoins the side property line of a corner lot.

A corner lot, the rear of which abuts the side of another lot, whether across an alley or not.

A lot having frontage on two parallel or approximately parallel streets.

The area of a lot including planned or existing right-of-way dedications, private street easements, and all other easements.

The ultimate lot area after the area of right-of-way dedications and private street easements have been subtracted.

The percentage of the net area of the lot covered by structures. This includes the perimeter of the building as viewed from a plan view, plus the area of all accessory buildings and structures, including but not limited to: covered porches and patios (including trellis covers), carports, porte-cocheres, storage sheds, and permanent playhouses.

On an interior lot, the line separating the lot from the street. On a corner lot, the shorter lot line abutting a street. On a through lot, the lot line abutting the street providing the primary access to the lot. On a flag lot, the interior lot line most parallel to and nearest the street from which access is obtained.

A lot line which is opposite and most distant from the front lot line. Where no lot line is within 45 degrees of being parallel to the front lot line, a line 10 feet in length within the lot, parallel to and at the maximum possible distance from the front lot line (or from a straight line drawn at a tangent to the midpoint of a front lot line on a curved street), will be deemed the rear lot line for the purpose of establishing the minimum rear setback.

Any lot boundary line that is not a front lot line or a rear lot line.

On a corner lot, the longer lot line abutting a street.

Offices of firms or organizations providing professional, executive, management, or administrative services, such as accounting, legal offices, financial, insurance, and tax preparation but excluding banks and savings and loan associations (see "Financial Institutions and Related Services" and "Check Cashing and/or Payday Loans").

Office use providing goods or services for building trades or industrial businesses, such as architects, engineers, designers, building contractor management, industrial advisory, maintenance or repair scheduling, import/export offices, insurance or banking to solely industrial business, parts, materials, supplies, or aftermarket product movement.

Medical and Dental Office. Office use providing consultation, diagnosis, therapeutic, preventive, or corrective ser treatment services by doctors, dentists, chiropractors, acupuncturists, optometrists, and similar medical professionals, medical and dental laboratories within medical office buildings but excluding clinics or independent research laboratory facilities and hospitals (see "Hospitals and Clinics"), and similar practitioners of medical and healing arts for humans licensed for such practice by the State of California. Counseling services conducted by any person other than a medical doctor or psychiatrist (e.g., Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor etc.) are included under "Business and Professional Offices" designation. Incidental medical and/or dental research within the office is considered part of the office use, where it supports the on-site patient services.

A workplace for a government establishment engaged in the administration, regulation, licensing, and inspection of utilities, such as communications, electric power (including fossil, nuclear, solar, water, and wind), gas and water supply, and sewerage.

The total land area within a residential development that is not individually owned nor dedicated for public use, and that is designed, intended, and reserved exclusively for the shared use of all the residents of the development and their guests. Examples include barbecue and picnicking areas, play areas, swimming pools, tennis courts, turf areas, and other recreational or leisure features and facilities. Common open space does not typically include enclosed spaces/facilities such as a community center, meeting rooms, etc.

A usable open space adjoining and directly accessible to a dwelling unit, reserved for the exclusive use of residents of the dwelling unit and their guests. May include a combination of landscape and hardscape.

Any open space that has not been landscaped or otherwise provided with amenities, and is generally kept in a natural state.

Outdoor space that serves a recreational function or provides visual relief from the building mass. May include a combination of landscape and hardscape.

Establishments that provide recurrently needed services of a personal nature. Examples of these uses include:

Personal services with characteristics that have the potential to adversely impact surrounding areas and which may need to be dispersed to minimize their adverse impacts. Examples of these uses include:

A facility available for the general public for the recycling of California Redemption Value (CRV) products such as glass, aluminum cans, and plastic beverage containers as defined by the State's Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery. Also includes reverse vending machines, where an automated mechanical device that accepts, sorts, and processes recyclable materials and issues a cash refund or a redeemable credit slip. Processing and sorting is not conducted on site.

A facility used for the collection and processing of recyclable materials for shipment, or to an end user's specifications, by such means as baling, briquetting, cleaning, compacting, crushing, flattening, grinding, mechanical sorting, remanufacturing and shredding. Processing facilities include the following types, both of which are included under the definition of "Recycling Facilities—Scrap and Dismantling Yards":

A private academic educational institution, including boarding schools; elementary, middle/junior, and high schools; military academies; and businesses providing instruction in arts and languages. This definition does not include "Trade and Vocational Schools," "Tutoring and Education Centers," or non-tuition part-time instruction at religious assembly facilities.

A private academic educational institution, including boarding schools; colleges and universities; elementary, middle/junior, and high schools; military academies; and businesses providing instruction in arts and languages. This definition does not include "Trade and Vocational Schools," "Tutoring and Education Centers," or non-tuition part-time instruction at religious assembly facilities.

A publicly-funded academic educational institution, including colleges and universities; elementary, middle/junior, and high schools; military academies; and charter schools. This definition does not include "Trade and Vocational Schools," "Tutoring and Education Centers," or non-tuition part-time instruction at religious assembly facilities.

The minimum distance required between a structure and the front property line.

The minimum distance required between a structure and the rear property line.

The minimum distance required between a structure and a side property line.

The minimum distance required between a structure and the side property line adjacent to the street. Figure 7-08 (Street Side Setbacks) shows street side setbacks.

A sign that no longer correctly directs or exhorts a person, nor advertises a bona fide business, lessor, owner, product, or activity conducted or product available on the premises where the sign is displayed.

An object, person, item or animal, or other device including, but not limited to, banners, balloons, statues, flags, pennants, lights, portable signs, signs, or landscaping, used to attract attention for the purpose of drawing attention to a site or promoting the sale of goods or services.

A sign generally not securely attached or fixed to the ground or to a permanent structure used as a stationary advertising devise and usually supported by two upright sign faces.

The total area of sign and/or advertising device surface.

A change of copy, sign face, color, size, shape, illumination, position, location, construction, or support of a sign or advertising device.

A sign designed to attract attention through movement or the semblance of movement of the whole or a part, including, but not limited to, signs which swing, twirl, revolve, move back and forth or up and down; or signs which can change color or shades of color; or another method or device which suggests movement, but not including flags or banners.

The entire area within which a single continuous perimeter of not more than six straight lines enclose the extreme limits of the text, representation, emblem, figure, or similar character together with material or color forming an integral part of the display or used to differentiate the sign against which it is placed. Necessary supports or uprights on which the sign may be placed are excluded unless supports or uprights are designed to form an integral background or part of the display. When a sign has two or more faces, the area of all faces shall be included in determining the area of the sign except where two faces are placed back to back.

A roof-like structure, either temporary or portable in nature, that projects from a wall of a structure for the purpose of shielding a doorway or window from the elements and may be periodically retracted into the face of a structure.

A spherical, flexible, nonporous bag or similar object capable of being filled with air or gas.

A publicly visible temporary advertising device made of cloth, paper, plastic, cardboard, metal, or other usually flexible material, which may indicate the identity or give or ask information about or convey a message, either directly or indirectly, about a person, entity, business, commodity, service, or idea.

A seat located upon or adjacent to a public or private right-of-way for the purpose of persons resting and which is capable of displaying a sign or advertising device.

A sign that directs attention to a business, commodity, service, or entertainment conducted, sold, or offered at a location other than the premises on which the sign is located.

A sign lettered to provide the name of a building itself, as opposed to the names of occupants or services.

A sign which contains only the name of a building and/or the address of the building and is incorporated into the architecture of the building.

A sign that signifies an institution or organization on the premises of which it is located and that contains the name of the institution or organization, the names of the individuals connected with it, and general announcements of events or activities occurring at the institution or similar messages.

A political sign but may include an advertising device or sign designed to influence the passage or defeat of a measure on the ballot or designed to influence the voters with respect to the nomination, election, defeat, or removal of a candidate from public office at any national, state, or local election.

See "Awning."

A form of advertising or illumination attached, painted, or constructed on a canopy or awning.

A commercial, industrial, or professional use, consisting of one or more structures sharing common facilities. In each case, a center will consist of two or more retail stores or businesses, but may not necessarily be under a single ownership.

A freestanding sign that advertises or directs attention to a shopping center or area having two or more separate businesses or activities.

A bulletin board or other similar advertising device incident to religious assembly facilities, hospitals, libraries, museums, and other similar public or bona fide nonprofit institutions.

A temporary sign on the premises listing the development, architect, engineer, planner, contractor, or other person or firm participating in the development, construction, or financing of a development.

See "Freestanding Sign."

A variable message sign that utilizes computer-generated messages or some other electronic means of changing copy. These signs generally include displays using LEDs (light emitting diodes), CCDs (charge coupled devices), plasma, or functionally equivalent technologies to display a series of still images or full motion, usually remotely programmable and changeable. Also known as "electronic message centers."

A sign erected to serve as a public convenience in directing pedestrian and vehicular traffic, but not used for the purpose of advertising uses and activities on-site.

A sign designed to provide artificial light, either through exposed lighting on the sign face or through transparent or translucent material from a light source within the sign, including, but not limited to, exposed neon signs.

A sign erected to serve as a convenience in directing patrons or guests to a business or residential unit.

The part of a roof which projects over or meets the wall.

A sign containing electrical wiring that is attached, or intended to be attached, to an electrical energy source for the purposes of illuminating its surface.

A directly illuminated sign that presents variable advertising messages displayed by an electronically controlled lighting pattern against a contrasting background, and that may be programmed to change the message display periodically.

Signs exempt from the permit requirements of Chapter 17.26 (Signs).

The exterior walls of a structure exposed to public view.

A broad well-defined horizontal member of color or material having the form of a flat band between the top of a wall and the eaves of a roof. The area used for identification over the front of a shop.

A sign attached to or erected against a wall of a structure, with the face horizontally parallel to the structure wall.

Cloth or other lightweight material of distinctive size, color, and design, used as a symbol, standard, signal, emblem, or a device used to attract attention.

A directly or indirectly illuminated sign that exhibits changing natural or artificial light or color effects by any means whatsoever.

A nonmoveable sign not affixed to a building, including but not limited to pole signs, ground signs, and construction signs.

The lineal measurement of a building façade which fronts on a public or private street.

The linear measurement of a parcel along a public or private right-of-way but not including the lineal measurement along an alley, railroad, or freeway.

A temporary sign announcing the limited sale, from a private residence, of goods, furniture, clothing, or other similar articles.

Calculated by measuring the vertical distance of a sign from the uppermost point of a sign measured from the average elevation of the finished grade surrounding the structure.

A sign, which because of its character, age, or influence, is of historic significance to the community.

A sign that is limited to the name, address, and number of a building, institution, or person and to the activity carried on in the building or institution, or to the occupancy of the person.

A sign not allowed or exempted by this title.

A sign which reflects light from a source intentionally directed upon it; by means of, including, but not limited to, floodlights, gooseneck reflectors, or externally mounted fluorescent light fixtures.

A sign located within the inside of a business that is not visible from any area outside the structure that is open to the public.

An electric sign whose source of illumination is not visible to the viewer.

A freestanding, round, or multiple sided structure whose main purpose is to display signs or information.

The horizontal measurement of a building face, legal parcel, or site.

A name, symbol, feature, or trademark that represents a business, enterprise, group, or activity.

A roof system having a steep slope, normally on all building sides.

A hood, canopy, awning, or permanent construction that projects from a wall of a structure usually above an entrance and able to depict changeable copy.

A sign displaying food or items sold on the premises.

A free-standing sign or trademark incorporated in a wall or structure, constructed of concrete, wood, steel, or other similar building materials.

A single sign identifying each tenant or business individually.

A sign naming the occupant of the premises, the business, and/or address.

An advertising structure or sign which was lawfully erected and maintained before a time as it came within the purview of these Zoning Regulations and amendments of them, and which fails to conform to applicable regulations and restrictions of these Zoning Regulations; or a nonconforming sign for which a special permit has been issued.

See "Billboard."

A sign identifying or advertising a business, person, activity, goods, products, or services located on the premises where the sign is installed and maintained.

A person recorded on official records and including any duly authorized agent or notary, a purchaser, devisee, judiciary, and persons having a vested or contingent interest in the property in question.

The portion of a structure wall that extends above the roof level.

A freestanding sign directly supported by a pole or poles with air space between the grade level and any portion of the sign face.

A sign advocating the election of a specific candidate or candidates for political office, advocating a position with respect to a ballot issue or issues.

A sign not designed to be attached to a structure or anchored to the ground, including, "A-Frame Sign," fence signs and "Vehicle Mounted Sign."

A sign other than a wall sign suspended from or supported by a structure and projecting outward either parallel or perpendicular.

A sign intended primarily to promote items of general interest to the community, including, but not limited to, time, temperature, date, atmospheric conditions, news, or traffic control.

Signs displayed upon service station gas pumps for the purpose of advertising the sale of products incidental to the sale of gas and oil or other automobile service provided on the premises.

A sign or sign structure relating to the sale, lease, or other disposition of the real property on which the sign is located and which is temporary in nature.

A sign provided on a residential parcel for the purpose of identifying the name of the occupants and the address of the residence.

The upper covering of a structure for weather protection or an architectural feature resembling the covering in design or material.

A sign erected, constructed, and maintained upon or connected to the roof, roof system, roof line, or parapet of a structure.

Signs that are used for a historical holiday or special time of the year and installed for a limited period of time.

A parcel or a portion of a parcel used for the servicing of motor vehicles including gas stations or sales.

An identification, description, item, illustration, or device, illuminated or nonilluminated, which is visible from a public place or is located on private property and exposed to the public and which directs attention to a product, service, place, activity, person, institution, business, or solicitation, including permanently installed or situated merchandise; or emblem, painting, banner, pennant, placard, or temporary sign designed to advertise, identify, or convey information.

A comprehensive program intended to provide incentive, latitude, and variety in order to achieve aesthetically appealing and compatible signage for shopping and professional office centers and industrial parks with two or more occupants. A sign program may also be applicable for a single business proposing two or more signs.

The supports, uprights, braces, cables, framework, and display surface of a sign.

A sign made of cloth, paper, cardboard, poster material, plastic, metal, or other material affixed to or upon fences, posts, trees, structures, people, or other surfaces usually found off-site.

A sign constructed of paper, cloth, canvass, or other similar lightweight material, with or without frames, including painted windows, flags, streamers, pennants, banners, and other signs not designed to be attached to a structure or anchored to the ground.

A device that displays the time or temperature whether or not it displays advertising or establishment identification.

A sign provided on residentially zoned property for the purpose of identifying the name of the tract and/or the range of addresses of the residences within the tract.

A structure housed on three sides usually located within the public right-of-way for the purpose of sheltering and seating persons awaiting transit and which is capable of displaying an advertising message.

A sign that is perpendicular to and suspended below the ceiling or roof of a canopy.

A sign which contravenes these Zoning Regulations, or which the administrator may declare as unlawful if it becomes dangerous to public safety by reason of dilapidation or abandonment, or a nonconforming sign for which a permit required under a previous code was not obtained; a sign or group of signs which has been modified or altered so that it or they differ in size, shape, height, width, light intensity, or from the plans submitted and approved by the authorized person or entity.

The purpose for which a building, parcel, sign, or other structure is arranged, intended, designed, occupied, or maintained.

A sign or advertising device attached to a vehicle for the purposes of advertisement.

A sign attached to or erected against the wall of a structure with the face in a parallel plane to the plane of the structure wall.

An opening that is in a wall of a structure; designed to allow light and/or ventilation into the structure and to allow for the display of products and services for commercial and industrial businesses; enclosed by frame and/or mullion; and containing a single pane of glass or other similar transparent or semi-transparent material.

A sign exposed to public view, attached, painted, posted, or displayed, either permanent or temporary, on or within one foot of the interior or exterior surface of a window.

The indoor storage of materials accessory and incidental to the primary use is not considered a land use separate from the primary use.

The storage of various materials outside of a structure other than fencing, either as an accessory or primary use.

The storage of operative or inoperative recreational vehicles. These uses include storage of towed recreational vehicles, impound yards, and storage lots for recreational vehicles, but do not include recreational vehicle dismantling.

A structure containing a separate storage space that is designed to be leased or rented individually. Indoor storage shall mean that access to all storage spaces shall be from common interior corridors, and the facility has only shared loading areas. This use does not include outdoor storage of any kind. Further, such storage does not involve any manufacturing, office or business services, or human habitation in any storage space or anywhere on site. Also known as mini-storage.

A right-of-way or easement used for vehicular or pedestrian traffic privately owned and maintained.

A right-of-way or easement used for vehicular or pedestrian traffic and maintained by public funds.

See "Accessory Structures and Uses."

A structure where the primary use allowed on the parcel is conducted.

A use that is customarily associated with, and is incidental and subordinate to, the primary use and located on the same parcel as the primary use. Accessory use includes active or passive solar heating systems and cogeneration facilities.

Any use of land or activity that was lawfully established and in compliance with all applicable ordinances and laws at the time such use was initiated but which, due to subsequently enacted ordinances or laws, no longer complies with the applicable regulations and standards for the zone in which the use is located.

A primary, principal, or dominant use established, or proposed to be established, on a parcel.

A use or activity allowed for less than one year consisting of activities that represent a variation from the normal business operations. Examples include, but are not limited to, parking lot sales, benefits, and special events.

Utility facilities that include office and/or working space for employees, and/or that require employees to be located on site for general operation of the facility.

Utility facilities that do not include office and/or working space for employees, and where on-site staff are required intermittently only for maintenance and/or infrequent monitoring.

A location that supplies electricity for the recharging of electric vehicles (including plug-in hybrids).

The service and repair of motor vehicles in an enclosed building, including the repair or replacement of engines and transmissions, body and fender repair, and the installation of nonfactory-installed products.

Any equipment associated with the installation of a small wireless facility, including, but not limited to, cabling, generators, air conditioning units, electrical panels, equipment shelters, equipment cabinets, equipment buildings, pedestals, meters, vaults, splice boxes, and surface location markers.

That part of a small wireless facility designed to radiate or receive radio frequency signals or electromagnetic waves for the provision of services, including, but not limited to, cellular, paging, personal communications services (PCS) and microwave communications. Such devices include, but are not limited to, directional antennas, such as panel antenna, microwave dishes, and satellite dishes; omnidirectional antennas; wireless access points (Wi-Fi); and strand-mounted wireless access points. This definition does not apply to broadcast antennas, antennas designed for amateur radio use, or satellite dishes designed for residential or household purposes.

Equipment, switches, wiring, cabling, power sources, shelters or cabinets associated with an antenna, located at the same fixed location as the antenna, and, when collocated on a structure, is mounted or installed at the same time as such antenna.

An antenna and associated antenna equipment.

An antenna that is secured at a fixed and specified location, a structure designed specifically to support an antenna, and/or appurtenances mounted on a structure or antenna.

An analog or digital wireless telecommunications technology that is based on a system of interconnected neighboring cell sites.

The same as defined by the FCC in 47 C.F.R. Section 1.40001(b)(2), as may be amended, which defines that term as the mounting or installation of transmission equipment on an eligible support structure for the purpose of transmitting or receiving radio frequency signals for communications purposes.

An antenna structure located within the City limits that provides radio communication service that:

Placement, construction, or modification of a small wireless facility.

A structure, building, or improvement, including without limitation utility poles, reviewed and/or otherwise approved under the applicable zoning or siting process, or under another State or local regulatory review process, provided that a tower that has not been reviewed and approved because it was not in a zoned area when it was built, but was lawfully constructed, is existing for purposes of this definition.

The Federal Communications Commission or its duly appointed successor agency.

A facility mounted to a pole, lattice tower, or other freestanding structure specifically constructed for the purpose of supporting an antenna.

A structure in excess height of 40 feet with three or four steel legs used to support antennae.

A commercial wireless facility, either ground mounted or roof mounted, whether or not the facility employs stealth design or shielding. Exception: a roof-mounted facility that is screened on all four sides by a solid material that does not exceed the maximum height of the applicable zoning district shall be deemed a "Minor Facility."

A commercial wireless facility that is wall mounted, utility mounted, or roof mounted and the entire facility is either: (1) designed to using a stealth approach to integrate the facility into the architectural design of the building on which it is located; (2) screened by solid material on four sides and does not exceed the maximum height of the applicable zoning district; or (3) co-located on an existing wireless communication facility tower.

Any change to an existing small wireless facility that involves any of the following: collocation, expansion, modification, alteration, enlargement, intensification, reduction, or augmentation, including, but not limited to, a change in size, shape, color, visual design, or exterior material. Modification does not include repair, replacement, or maintenance if those actions do not involve a change to the existing facility involving any of the following: collocation, expansion, modification, alteration, enlargement, intensification, reduction, or augmentation.

Attached or supported.

A wireless communication facility where the antennae are mounted on the roof or top of a building or structure, or the side of a building or structure, other than on a stand-alone facility.

means the same as defined in 47 U.S.C. Section 332(c)(7)(C)(i), as may be amended, which defines the term as facilities that provide personal wireless services.

means the same as defined in 47 U.S.C. Section 332(c)(7)(C)(i), as may be amended, which defines the term as commercial mobile services, unlicensed wireless services, and common carrier wireless exchange access services.

A single shaft of wood, steel, concrete, or other material capable of supporting the equipment mounted thereon in a safe and adequate manner and as required by provisions of this Code.

The transmission and/or reception of impulses, writing, signs, signals, pictures, and sounds of all kinds through space by means of electromagnetic waves.

Mounted on any structure (not specifically constructed for the purpose of supporting antennae) in a manner that does not satisfy either the definition of wall mounted or utility mounted; typically mounted on the roof of an existing structure.

A device incorporating a reflective surface that is solid, open mesh, or bar-configured and is in the shape of a shallow dish, cone, horn, or cornucopia, that is used to transmit and/or receive radio, microwave or other electromagnetic waves between terrestrially and/or orbitally based use.

A facility that meets each of the following conditions:

Improvements or treatments added to a wireless telecommunication facility which mask or blend the proposed facility into the existing structure or visual backdrop in such a manner as to render it effectively unnoticeable to the casual observer.

Improvements or treatments added to a wireless telecommunication facility which mask or blend the proposed facility into the existing structure or visual backdrop in such a manner as to render it effectively unnoticeable to the casual observer.

A pole, tower, base station, or other building, whether or not it has an existing antenna facility, that is used or to be used for the provision of personal wireless service (whether on its own or comingled with other types of services).

Mounted to an existing aboveground structure specifically designed and originally installed to support electrical power lines, cable television lines, street lighting, or traffic signal equipment.

A pole or tower owned by any utility company that is primarily used to support wires or cables necessary to the provision of electrical or other utility services regulated by the California Public Utilities Commission.

Mounted on a vertical or nearly vertical surface of a building or other existing structure (not specifically constructed for the purpose of supporting an antenna, including the exterior walls of a structure, an existing parapet, the side of a water tank, the face of a religious institution steeple, or the side of a freestanding sign) and the highest point of the antenna structure is at an elevation equal to or lower than the highest point of the surface on which it is mounted.

A yard extending across the front of a lot for the full width of the lot between the side lot lines. The depth of a front yard shall be at least equivalent to the required setback distance specified by this title for the district in which it is located and measured inward from the front lot line. For the purpose of defining which is the front yard, in the case of an interior parcel, a yard fronting the street; in the case of a corner parcel, the yard facing the narrowest street frontage. (If the frontages of a corner parcel are equal in length, the front yard shall be determined by the Director.) On a through parcel, both yards are considered front yards and the parcel is considered to have no rear yard or parcel line.

A yard extending across the rear of a lot for its full width between side lot lines. The depth of a rear yard shall be at least equivalent to the required rear setback distance specified by this title for the district in which it is located.

A yard extending along an interior side of a lot from the front lot line to the rear lot line. The depth of an interior side yard shall be at least equivalent to the required setback distance specified by this article for the district in which it is located and measured inward from the interior side lot line.

A yard extending along the street side of a corner lot from the front lot line to the rear lot line. The depth of a street side yard shall be at least equivalent to the required street side setback distance specified by this title for the district in which it is located and measured inward from the street side lot line.