means a detached building or structure, not including any dwelling unit, on the same lot with a main building, the design, construction, appearance, and use of which is appropriate to, subordinate to, and incidental to that of the main building, and which is used exclusively by the occupants of the main building. Where a structure or building is part of or joined to the main building, such structure or building shall be counted as part of the main building.

means an accessory building or accessory structure that is more than 50% protected from the elements.

means an accessory building or accessory structure that is 50% or more open to the elements.

means an attached or a detached residential dwelling unit that provides complete independent living facilities for one or more persons and includes permanent provisions for living, sleeping, eating, cooking, and sanitation on the same parcel where a single-family dwelling unit is situated. The term also includes an "efficiency unit" as defined in Health and Safety Code Section 17958.1 and a "manufactured home" as defined in Health and Safety Code Section 18007.

means an appropriate use customarily incidental and clearly subordinate to the principal use of a lot or building, located on the same lot or building site, and which is exclusively used by the occupants of the main building. For example, as it relates to a commercial premises, the scope and size of the use or activity is an important factor in the determination of whether it is accessory and a use shall be considered as accessory if it would not appreciably alter the nature of the business operation in terms of parking demand, number of customers, revenue generated, floor area utilized for principal use and such. Typically, no substantive sign identification would be provided for an accessory use. A use need not be termed accessory merely because a principal use already exists, since more than one principal use could occupy a commercial premises.

means a State-licensed community-based facilities or program that provide non-medical care and supervision to adults who are 18 years of age or older, who are in need of personal services, supervision or assistance essential for sustaining the activities of daily living, or for the protection of these individuals, for periods of less than 24 hours.

means advertising structures and signs.

means a structure of any kind or character erected or maintained for advertising purposes on which any sign, billboard, poster, bill, printing, painting, or other advertisement of any kind whatsoever, including statuary, may be placed.

includes alcohol, spirits, liquor, wine, beer, brandy, and every liquid or solid containing alcohol, spirits, wine, or beer, and which contains one-half of one percent or more of alcohol by volume and which is fit for beverage purposes either alone or when diluted, mixed, or combined with other substances.

means the manufacture or production within the City of Norwalk of beer, wine, brandy or distilled spirits by any person licensed by the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control of the State of California and includes the sale or distribution of said products both within and without the jurisdiction of the City.

means a beer manufacturer, a winegrower, a distilled spirits manufacturer, or a brandy manufacturer, licensed by the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control of the State of California, or any officer, director, employee or agent of any such person.

"Off-sale alcohol" means the sale of alcoholic beverages to consumers for consumption off the premises where sold, in accordance with a valid off-sale license issued by the State of California.

"On-sale alcohol" means the sale of alcoholic beverages to consumers for consumption on the premises where sold, in accordance with a valid on-sale license issued by the State of California.

means a public way, primarily for vehicular use, which affords a secondary means of access to abutting properties.

means a change in the wording, context or substance of this title, or a change in the zone boundaries or classification upon the Zoning Maps, a part of this title, when adopted by ordinance and passed by the City Council in the manner prescribed by law.

means any structure with a roof covering erected or used primarily to shelter or protect animals from weather.

shall be defined as an open area, not including open space as required by Section 17.05.360, structures, parking areas, driveways, and vehicle turnaround areas, utilized exclusively for the exercise, feeding, and maintenance of animals.

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

means a building or cluster of buildings containing multiple-family dwelling units in which the dwelling units are intended to be rented or leased to the occupants.

means the same as net area unless, otherwise specified or used in a context where reference to a general geographical vicinity or district is made.

"Net area" means that area of a lot, parcel of land or unit of development exclusive of streets, parkways, and alleys.

means the surface area within the outer limits, including any frame or border, of a single faced sign, or one-half of the total surface area of a double-faced or multiple-faced sign. The area of a sign without a border, frame, or background shall be computed by enclosing the entire sign, or collectively all of the letters or other units thereof within sets of parallel lines touching the outer limits of the sign.

includes places of public assembly that allow for the gathering for people for governmental, instructional, recreational, cultural and religious services or purposes, such as places of worship, banquet facilities, recreational uses, and classes. A principle use may incorporate an assembly use component; the assembly use may only occupy portions of a primary use. Therefore, some uses may be listed within this use category and another use category.

means any sign which is fastened, attached, connected, or supported in whole or in part by a building or structure other than a sign structure which is supported wholly by the ground.

means the part of a church, school, college, university or other public building assigned to the audience or a room assigned for public assembly, lectures, entertainment, dance or similar uses.

means the temporary storage of automobiles and vehicles held in custody for insurance claims, for the police, or similar purposes; shall not include auto wrecking or dismantling for salvage of parts nor for processing for ultimate sale to the steel industry; and shall not include auto grave yards.

means a motor vehicle other than a van, bus, motor truck or truck tractor designed to carry not more than 10 adult persons, including the driver, not more than seven feet in width, and used or maintained for the transportation of persons.

means any person or business who is engaged wholly or in part in the business of selling vehicles or buying or taking in trade, vehicles for the purpose of resale, selling, or offering for sale, or consigned to be sold, or otherwise dealing in vehicles, whether or not such vehicles are owned by such person.

means the dismantling or wrecking of used motor vehicles or trailers, or the storage, sale or dumping of dismantled or wrecked vehicles or their parts.

means a roof-like structure that projects from the wall of a building for the purpose of shielding a doorway or window from the elements and may or may not be capable of being retracted into the face of the building.

means one room and bath, without cooking facilities, in a multiple dwelling.

means the entire surface area of each face of a sign, including the frame or border.

means an establishment, other than a cocktail lounge, wherein the primary use is the sale of alcoholic beverages for consumption on the premises, with or without food service, from which minors are excluded by law, and which requires a "public premises"-type license issued by the California Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control, and where no cover charge or admittance fee is charged to patrons.

means that portion of a building between floor and ceiling, which is partly below and partly above grade but so located that the vertical distance from grade to the floor below is less than the vertical distance from grade to ceiling. A basement, except rumpus rooms and recreation rooms without kitchens, when designed for, or occupied for business or manufacturing, or for dwelling purposes, shall be considered a story.

means a private habitable room planned or used for sleeping, separated from other rooms by a door or similar partition, except as provided herein. All rooms (other than a living room, family room, dining room, bathroom, toilet compartment, hall, foyer, closet, pantry, or utility room) having 70 square feet or more of floor area, or less than 50% of the total length of any wall open to an adjacent room or hallway, shall be considered a bedroom.

means any alcoholic beverage obtained by the fermentation of any infusion or decoction of barley, malt, hops, or any other similar product, or any combination thereof in water, and includes ale, porter, brown, stout, lager beer, small beer, and strong beer, but does not include sake, known as Japanese rice wine. Beer aged in an empty wooden barrel previously used to contain wine or distilled spirits shall be defined exclusively as "beer" and shall not be considered a dilution or mixture of any other alcoholic beverage.

means any person licensed by the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control of the State of California that has facilities and equipment for the purposes of, and is engaged in, the commercial manufacture of beer.

means a sign and sign structure designed to accommodate sales messages, which may be changed from time to time, and which are primarily located along major transportation routes for display to the traveling public. Billboards are normally located "off site," generally owned by an outdoor advertising company, usually standardized in size ("poster panels" being 12′3″ x 24′6″ = 300 sq. ft. and "painted bulletins" 14′ x 48′ = 672 sq. ft.), and include the terms outdoor advertising signs, displays, and structures.

means any property on one side of a street between intersecting and intercepting streets, or between a street and a right-of-way, waterway, terminus of dead end street, or city boundary. An intercepting street shall determine only the boundary of the block on the side of the street which it intercepts.

means a building where lodging and meals are provided for compensation for not less than five and not more than 15 persons, but shall not include rest homes or convalescent homes.

means any person licensed by the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control of the State of California that is engaged in the manufacture of brandy only and not in the manufacture of any other distilled spirits.

means any structure built, erected or used for the support, shelter or enclosure of persons, animals, chattels, or property of any kind, but excluding all forms of vehicles even though immobilized.

means the surface area of a building elevation excluding any vertical projections, such as a parapet or pylon, more than four feet above the top wall plate. Building face area shall be determined by the Director or his or her duly authorized deputy in the case of A-frame structures or other similar structures upon which the exposed roof area comprises an unusually large portion of the elevation; no more than half of the roof portion of the elevation shall be included.

means the vertical distance from the "grade" to the highest point of the coping of a flat roof or to the deck line of a mansard roof, or to the average height of the highest grade of a pitched or hipped roof.

means: (1) the ground area of one lot or parcel; or (2) the ground area of two or more lots, or parcels when used in combination for a building or permitted group of buildings, together with all open spaces as required by this title.

means a motor vehicle other than an automobile, van, motor truck or truck tractor, designed, used and maintained for the transportation of 16 or more adult persons, including the driver. This definition shall also include minibuses which are generally less than 30 feet in length and have less than 25 passenger capacity.

means the purchase, sale or other transaction involving the handling or disposition of any article, service, substance or commodity for livelihood or profit; or the management of office buildings, offices, recreational or amusement enterprises; or the maintenance and use of offices, structures and premises by professions and trades rendering services.

means a freestanding, roof-like structure without enclosing walls, supported by columns, poles or braces extending from the ground.

means a dwelling unit designed for a person who takes charge and care of any premises and whose presence is determined vital for purposes of security and/or performance of work activity peculiar to the particular business.

means an accessory residential use consisting of a reserved space, roof, and usually attached to a dwelling, and established for the storage of automobiles and the loading and unloading of passengers.

means a facility for the supervision and care of seven or more children, not members of a single-family group, for compensation. (Child care center includes nursery school, day nursery and day camp.)

means any building regularly devoted to religious worship, and includes any mosque, church, synagogue or temple.

means 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.

means shopping center.

means facilities that provide parking as a principal use.

means the Planning Commission of the City.

means any electronic device designed or intended to access the Internet, or for interconnection with other devices for playing electronic games.

means an estate in real property, consisting of an undivided interest in common in a portion of real property, together with a separate interest in space in a residential, industrial or commercial building on such real property, as defined in California Civil Code Section 1351.

means a building or group of buildings containing residential condominium units which are owned by individual investors and may be made available for rental as hotel guest rooms or suites as required and enforced by a rental pool agreement and/or the covenants, conditions, and restrictions of the condominium development.

means and includes rest home and guest home, and means a home operated as a boardinghouse and in which nursing, dietary and other personal services are furnished to five or more convalescents, invalids or aged persons, but in which are kept no persons suffering from a contagious or communicable disease, and in which no surgical or other primary treatment such as are customarily provided in sanitariums or hospitals are performed, and in which no persons are kept or served who normally would be admitted to a mental hospital as defined herein.

means a market or grocery store having an enclosed gross floor area of less than 10,000 square feet, and engaged primarily in the sale of a limited range of prepackaged food items, and secondarily in a limited range of household items, magazines, off-sale alcoholic beverages and similar items. Food items may be cooked or heated, but not consumed, on the premises.

means that area for the location of mobile recycling units and reverse vending machines, which encompasses a one-half mile radius around a supermarket with gross annual sales of at least two million dollars ($2,000,000.00).

means any and all letters, words, numerals, characters, illustrations, insignias, symbols, statuary, or any other advertising material placed upon a sign.

means the actual area of the sign copy which shall be determined by sets of parallel lines touching and encompassing the individual units or words comprising the sign copy.

means a triangular area of a corner lot at the street intersection corner of the lot. Such triangle shall be formed by the front and side lot lines and a diagonal line drawn between two points located along the front and side lot line from their point of intersection, or, in the case of a rounded corner lot, from the point of intersection of the lot lines if extended.

means any portion of the interior of a lot or building site, other than required front, side or rear yards, which is wholly or partially surrounded by buildings.

means an admission fee imposed upon patrons, including advanced prepayment for meals and similar fees.

means any premises where three or more cows, three or more goats, one or more cows and two or more goats, or two or more cows and one or more goats are kept, milked or maintained.

See "Child care center."

means the number of multiple dwelling units that may be constructed per acre, square foot, or other specified unit of net area. While calculating the maximum number of dwelling units permitted on any lots or parcels, fractions less than five-tenths dwelling units shall be rounded down to the next whole number and fractions of five-tenths or more dwelling units shall be rounded up to the next whole number.

means any sign not supported in whole or in part by a building or structure other than a sign structure which is supported wholly by the ground.

means a sign designed to guide or direct vehicular or pedestrian traffic and containing no copy other than directional words or symbols.

means the Deputy City Manager/Community Development or authorized designee.

means a person who has a physical or mental impairment that limits or substantially limits one or more major life activities. This includes anyone who is regarded as having such impairment, or anyone who has a record of such impairment, as those terms are defined in the fair housing laws. Such impairment shall not include an individual's current, illegal use of a controlled substance.

means an alcoholic beverage obtained by the distillation of fermented agricultural products, and includes alcohol for beverage use, spirits of wine, whiskey, rum, brandy, and gin, including all dilutions and mixtures thereof.

means any person licensed by the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control of the State of California who produces distilled spirits from naturally fermented materials or in any other manner.

means an animal, which is commonly maintained in residence with humans.

means a facility used principally for sleeping accommodations where such facility is related to an educational or public institution, including religious institutions.

includes any commercial facility in which a service is provided, or goods, food or beverages are sold, to an operator or passengers of a vehicle without the necessity of the operator or passengers disembarking from the vehicle.

"Residential driveway" means a paved area providing vehicular access and extending from the street, alley, public right-of-way or other access to a parking space, garage or carport.

"Approved residential driveway" means a paved driveway that provides access to a "legal parking space" and that meets all other requirements for driveways specified for such zone and by the Norwalk Code; or a driveway that is approved by precise development plan or other plan process approved by the City. Within a required front or side yard, the driveway width shall not exceed 50% of the lot width or 25 feet, whichever is less.

means a building or portion thereof designed exclusively for residential purposes, including one-family, two-family and multiple dwellings, but shall not include hotels, boarding and lodging houses or motels.

"Multiple dwelling" means a building, or portion thereof, designed for occupancy by two or more families living independently of each other, and containing two or more dwelling units.

"Single-family dwelling" means a detached building designed exclusively for occupancy by one family and containing one dwelling unit. It shall also include a mobilehome manufactured and certified under the National Mobile Home Construction and Safety Standards Act of 1974 on a permanent foundation system approved by the City.

See Dwelling, Multiple.

means one or more rooms designed for occupancy by one family for living or sleeping purposes, and having one and only one kitchen.

means colleges or universities supported wholly or in part by public funds, and other colleges, universities or other schools offering instruction in several branches of learning and study required to be taught in the public schools by the Education Code of the State, whether operated for profit or not, and in which no pupil is physically restrained.

means 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.

means privately owned housing that is provided by an employer in connection with any work, whether or not rent is involved.

means every form of live entertainment including, without limitation, any music, band or orchestra, act, play, burlesque, revue, pantomime, scene, karaoke, song or dance act or dancing by patrons. "Entertainment" includes, without limitation, a single event, a series of events, or an ongoing activity or business, occurring alone or as part of another business, to which the public is invited to watch, listen, or participate.

means blasting caps or other detonating or fulminating caps or detonator or electric caps, gun powder, dynamite and every other explosive substance having a power equal to or greater than that of ordinary black powder, but does not include such substances in the form of fixed ammunition for small arms.

means a residential building, dwelling unit, or an individual dwelling room or combination of rooms thereof, or building component, assembly, or system manufactured in such a manner that all concealed parts or processes of manufacture cannot be inspected before installation at the building site without disassembly, damage, or destruction of the part, including units designed for use as part of an institution for resident or patient care, which is either wholly manufactured or is in substantial part manufactured at an off-site location to be wholly or partially assembled on-site in accordance with building standards published in the State Building Standards Code. Factory built housing does not include a mobile home, mobile accessory building, or structure, a recreational vehicle, or a commercial coach.

means the "Fair Housing Act" (42 U.S.C Section 3601 et seq.), the "Americans with Disabilities Act" (42 U.S.C. Section 12101 et seq.), and the "California Fair Employment and Housing Act" (California Government Code Section 12900 et seq.), as these statutes now exist or may be amended from time to time, and the implementing regulations for each of these statutes.

means one or more persons living together as a single housekeeping unit in a single dwelling unit, with common access to and common use of all living, kitchen and eating areas within the dwelling unit.

"Gross floor area" means the sum of the horizontal areas of each floor of a building, measured from the interior faces of the exterior walls or from the centerline of walls separating two buildings, but not including underground parking, uncovered steps or exterior balconies.

"Livable floor area" means the sum of the horizontal areas of each floor of an individual residential dwelling unit, measured from the exterior faces of the exterior walls or from the centerline of walls separating two dwelling units, but not including floors that are not capable of containing a habitable room or areas used, or designed to be used for, enclosed parking.

means the gross floor area of all buildings and structures on the lot, excluding parking structures, elevator shafts and stairwells, but including covered storage areas, divided by the total lot area.

Refer to the definition contained in Section 5.60.150 of the Norwalk Municipal Code.

means a home operated as a boardinghouse in which meals, lodging, supervision and other personal services are furnished to five or more children not members of the same family, for compensation.

means a detached sign or a sign which is not attached to or supported by a building, including, but not necessarily limited to, signs erected upon the ground, supported by poles, columns or uprights.

means a highway with restricted access from abutting properties, and which is declared to be a "freeway" pursuant to the "Streets and Highways Code" of the State of California. The term includes the main traveled portion of the traffic way, all land situated within the right-of-way, and all ramps and appurtenant land and structures.

"Private garage" means an accessory building or an accessory portion of the main building, designed or used for the shelter or storage of automobiles.

"Public garage" means a building, other than a private garage, used for the care, repair or equipping of automobiles, or where such vehicles are kept for remuneration, hire or sale.

means a building or structure, owned, operated or occupied by a governmental agency (e.g., City, County, State, or Federal agency) to provide a governmental service to the public.

means the average of the finished ground level at the center of all walls of a building. In case the foundation line of a wall is parallel to and within five feet of a sidewalk, the ground level shall be measured at the sidewalk.

means two or more separate buildings each containing one or more dwelling units.

See Convalescent home.

means space in a structure for living, sleeping, eating or cooking. Bathrooms, toilet compartments, closets, halls, storage or utility space and similar areas, are considered "habitable" space.

means a facility with equipment for exercising and improving physical fitness. A health club may include ancillary uses including exercise classes, a juice bar, retail sales, a child day care, and sales offices.

includes any facility that involves dangerous, noxious or offensive uses or a facility that has smoke, odor, noise, glare, fumes, gas, vibration, threat of fire or explosion, emission of particulate matter, interference with radio, television reception, radiation or any other likely cause, such as metal work, plating or large equipment manufacturing. Use also includes self-service storage and towing yard for vehicles.

"Structural height" means the vertical measurement from the highest point of the structure (excluding any projections which this title expressly authorizes above the maximum height) to the closest finished grade. For properties with a sloping grade, the maximum allowable height shall be measured as the vertical measurement from the closest sloping finished grade to an imaginary plane located the allowed number of feet above and parallel to the finished grade at the time of project submittal.

means a landing and takeoff place for helicopters, including the maintenance, servicing, parking or storage of such aircraft.

means a landing and takeoff place for helicopters, not involving any maintenance, servicing, parking or storage of such aircraft.

means a roadway owned by the Federal, State or County government that is officially designated as a highway.

means the same as convalescent home.

means an occupation incidental to, and subordinate to, the principal residential use, and located on the same lot with such residential use.

means an institution providing physical health services for human beings only, in-patient or overnight accommodations, and medical or surgical care of the sick or injured. Hospital includes sanitarium.

"Animal hospital" means an institution providing physical health services for animals only, in-patient or overnight accommodations, and medical or surgical care. Animal hospitals may include emergency animal hospitals, which include operations overnight, weekends and holidays.

"Mental hospital" means an institution licensed by State agencies under provisions of law to offer facilities, care and treatment for cases of mental and nervous disorders but not licensed to provide facilities and services in obstetrics and general medical practice. Establishments limiting services to juveniles below the age of five years and establishments housing and caring for cases of cerebral palsy are specifically excluded from this definition.

means a building in which there are six or more guest rooms where lodging with or without meals is provided for compensation, and where no provision is made for cooking in any individual room or suite, but shall not include jails, asylums, prisons, detention homes and similar buildings where human beings are housed and detained under legal restraint, or hospitals, sanitariums and orphanages.

includes commercial uses, varying in size, providing daily or regularly scheduled recreation-oriented activities in an indoor setting for the purpose of enjoyment, amusement, pleasure or learning, such as an arcade, amusement center, bowling, theater, gym, recreational classes and other uses with similar operations. An indoor recreation use may incorporate an assembly use component and be subject to other applicable permitting requirements or development regulations.

means one or more lots or parcels, whether individually or separately owned, occupied by one or more industrial buildings or uses, and using, or required to use, as an integral part of the development, a common or mutually accessible off-street parking area.

means an establishment maintained and operated by a society, corporation, individual, foundation or public agency for the purpose of providing charitable, social, educational or similar services to the public, groups or individuals.

means any place including, but not limited to, computer arcades, cyber cafés, Internet access studio, Internet arcades, Internet workstation businesses, on-site computer rentals and PC arcades where a business or portion of a business is devoted to the rental or charge for the use of computers, or a port connection for a portable computer, to gain access to the Internet system (World Wide Web) for any purpose, including, but not limited to, online video games, sending or receiving email, and/or accessing websites. An Internet-related business includes establishments of four or more computers and/or port connections. Hotels and motels providing a port connection in guest rooms and/or less than four computers in accessible areas such as lobbies or ancillary banquet rooms or restaurants shall not be considered an Internet-related business.

means a place where four or more adult dogs are kept, whether by the owner of the dogs or by persons providing facilities or care with or without compensation, including dog hospitals. An adult dog is a canine of either sex, altered or unaltered, that has reached the age of four months.

means any room or space used, or intended or designed to be used, for cooking or the preparation of food.

means the planting and maintenance of a combination of trees, groundcover, shrubs, vines, flowers or grass. In addition, the combination or design may include other materials as specified in Section 17.03.010.

means a lot or parcel: (1) which is separately and differently owned or which has been divided from any contiguous real property as required by this title; and (2) which contains the minimum required area, width, street frontage, and improvements as required by this title and in particular by Section 17.03.220 (subject, however, to any reduction therein pursuant to a variance granted pursuant to this title), the improvement of which is not prohibited by any provision of this code, including all primary or secondary codes incorporated therein, or a lot or parcel. which has been lawfully certified as a legal building site in the manner provided by this title.

includes manufacturing, assembly, repair or servicing of industrial, business, or consumer machinery, equipment, products, or by-products mainly by providing centralized services for separate retail outlets. Use includes brewery, winery, distillery, cidery, contractor services, building maintenance services and similar uses who perform services off-site.

includes any facility conducting light manufacturing operations within a fully-enclosed building. Light manufacturing includes uses such as assembly plants, manufacturing, woodworking, and other similar uses with no emissions of noxious fumes, odors or use of extreme heat or hazardous materials.

means an off street space or berth on the same lot with a building, or contiguous to a group of buildings, for the temporary parking of a commercial vehicle while loading or unloading merchandise or materials.

means a building with not more than five guest rooms where, for compensation, lodging is provided for at least five but not more than 19 persons.

means any warehouse for storage and transportation of goods, distribution facilities, logistics services such as, but not limited to, material handling, production, packaging, inventory, transportation, storage, warehousing, freight forwarding, deposit, storage, safekeeping, or parts thereof, industrial wholesale, portable storage rental facility, truck terminals, hazardous materials and/or hazardous waste facilities, truck yards, cargo container storage and cargo container parking, manufacturing uses with less than 50% of floor area devoted to manufacturing.

means a parcel of land occupied or to be occupied by a use, building or unit group of buildings and accessory buildings and uses, which parcel is of not less than the minimum width and area required by this title, together with such yards and open spaces as are required by this title, and fronting for a distance of at least 10 feet upon a street, or upon a private easement or place determined by the Commission to be adequate for purposes of access.

as applied to any lot, means the total area within the boundary lines of a lot.

"Corner lot" means a lot situated at the intersection of two or more streets, which streets have an interior angle of intersection of not more than 135 degrees.

means the percentage of the lot covered by buildings or structures, including all covered parking spaces, but not including walkways and driveways; swimming pools and semi-enclosed patio structures are not included in single-family residential zones; and recreational-leisure buildings and facilities are not included in multiple-family residential zones.

as applied to any lot, means the horizontal length of a straight line at right angles to the front line, connecting with the mid-point of the rear lot line or the rear lot line extended. In the case of a lot having a curved front, the lot depth means the horizontal length of a line from the front lot line to the rear lot line, or the rear lot line extended, that is at right angles to and which bisects a straight line connecting the points of intersection of the side lot lines of the lot with the front lot line.

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

"Key lot" means the first lot to the rear of a reversed corner lot whether or not separated by an alley.

"Front lot line" means, in the case of an interior lot, the street line as defined in this section. In the case of a corner lot, the front lot line shall be the line separating the narrowest street frontage of the lot from the street. In the case of a through lot each street line is a front lot line.

"Rear lot line" means a lot line which is opposite and most distant from the front lot line. The rear lot line of an irregular, triangular or gore-shaped lot shall be a line 10 feet in length within the lot and farthest removed from the front lot line and parallel to the front lot line.

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

"Reversed corner lot" means a corner lot, the side street line of which is substantially a continuation of the front lot line of the lot upon which the rear of such corner lot abuts.

"Through lot" means a lot having front lot lines on two parallel or approximately parallel streets.

as applied to any lot, means the horizontal distance between the side lot lines measured at right angles to the line comprising the depth of the lot at a point midway between the front and rear lot lines.

means a roofed building designed, intended, constructed, occupied or maintained in connection with any use of the premises, and not subordinate or incidental to any other building on the same lot or parcel, and shall include every building which is not an accessory building.

includes public or private infrastructure serving the general community and possibly having on-site personnel. Major utilities includes the following uses: aeration facility, artesian well, electric or gas generation plant, wireless telecommunications facility, and water or sanitary sewer treatment plant.

"Factory-built housing," "mobile home" (as defined in Section 19971 of the California Health and Safety Code), or "manufactured home" (as defined in Section 18007 of the California Health and Safety Code), or any successor provisions thereto. The term "manufactured home," as defined herein, does not include "mobilehome" (as defined in Section 18008 of the California Health and Safety Code), "recreational vehicle" (as defined in Section 18010 of the California Health and Safety Code), "special purpose commercial modular" (as defined in Section 18012.5 of the California Health and Safety Code), or "commercial modular" (as defined in Section 18001.8 of the California Health and Safety Code), or any successor provisions thereto, or "modular structure."

means a site that contains or is intended for the long-term location of manufactured homes that may include services and facilities for the residents. Includes manufactured home park (with leased or condominium spaces), manufactured home subdivision (individually platted spaces), trailer park or court, and mobilehome park or court.

means a lot that contains or is intended to contain manufactured home spaces for lease or unit ownership (condominium) pursuant to the California Health and Safety Code.

includes a residential development involving an area or tract of land used or designed to accommodate two or more manufactured homes. Use category includes, manufactured home development, manufactured home park, trailer park or court, and mobilehome park or court.

means a permanent, projecting roofed structure, attached to and supported by a building wail, which may project over a public right-of-way.

means any method of treating the external parts of the body for remedial, hygienic, relaxation, or any other reason or purpose, whether by means of pressure on, friction against, or stroking, kneading, tapping, pounding, vibrating, rubbing or other manner of touching external parts of the body with the hands, or with the aid of any mechanical or electrical apparatus or appliance with or without supplementary aids such as rubbing alcohol, liniment, antiseptic, oil, powder, cream, ointment, or other similar preparations commonly used in this practice.

means any business conducted within the City of Norwalk where any person, firm, association, partnership, corporation, or combination of individuals engages in, conducts, carries on or permits to be conducted or carried on, for money or any other consideration, the administration to another person of a massage. This definition shall not apply to the administration of a massage by coaches and trainers of student, amateur or professional athletes. Additionally, except as set forth in the following sentence, this definition also shall not apply to the administration of a massage by cosmetologists, barbers or persons licensed to practice a healing art pursuant to Business and Professions Code Section 500 et seq., or the Chiropractic Act. Notwithstanding the preceding sentence, this definition shall apply to the administration of a massage by an independent contractor of any person listed in the preceding sentence if the independent contractor is engaged in, or purports to be engaged in, the business of massage.

means any person, including a responsible employee, operator or owner of a massage establishment, who administers to another person a massage in exchange for anything of value whatsoever. The terms "massage therapist," "massage practitioner," and "CAMTC certificate holder" are included within this definition for purposes of Chapter 5.52.

includes any facility providing health service and/or medical, surgical, or dental care. "Medical use" shall include "medical office," which shall also include, but not be limited to, a health center, health clinic, doctor's office, chiropractor's office, dentist's office, or any office offering therapeutic service or care.

includes public or private infrastructure serving a limited area with no on-site personnel. Minor utilities includes the following uses: on-site storm water retention or detention facility, neighborhood-serving cable, telephone, gas or electric facility, sustainable energy system, water and wastewater pump station or lift station, electrical substation, and utility service.

includes the development of a site with two or more different land uses, such as, but not limited to, a combination of residential, office or retail uses in a single or physically integrated group of structures, or the development of a combination of different land uses in a single zone.

means a properly licensed automobile, truck, trailer, or van which is used for the collection of recyclable material such as aluminum, glass, plastic and paper.

means a factory constructed structure that is assembled and inspected according to the Uniform Building Code.

means a low-profile sign not exceeding seven feet in height with a wide supporting base, between the sign and the ground, of approximately the same dimension as the sign.

means a building or a group of buildings:

means a sign any part of which revolves, exhibits motion or animation, or which flashes, pulsates, blinks, scintillates, changes color, or simulates such characteristics; except, for the purposes of this title, public service time and temperature signs or change copy signs shall not be considered motion signs if the messages are displayed at intervals of no less than five seconds.

means a motor vehicle originally designed, or permanently altered, and equipped for human habitation, or to which a camper has been permanently attached. A motor vehicle to which a camper has been temporarily attached is not a motor home. A motor home shall not be deemed to be a motor truck.

means any premises in which motion pictures, slides or similar photographic reproductions are shown as the principal use of the premises or are shown as an adjunct to some other business activity which is conducted on the premises and constitutes a major attraction; and wherein fees of any kind are charged; and wherein such movies are shown on a regular basis; and not to include school or public auditoriums used on an occasional basis for generally noncommercial showings as described herein.

means an on-site wall sign containing no copy other than the name and address of an occupant of the property.

means a building, or portion thereof, which was lawfully erected or altered and maintained, but which no longer conforms to the setback, height or area regulations of the zone in which it is located.

means a use which was lawfully established and maintained but which no longer conforms to the use regulations of the zone in which it is located.

See Child care center.

includes activities conducted in an office setting and generally focusing on government, business, professional or financial services. Such uses may include banking, advertising, insurance, real estate, attorneys, accountants, engineers and other uses with similar operations.

means any zoning ordinance, or amendment thereof, herein or hereafter adopted by the City Council and shall include any general plan, precise plan or regulation as provided for in Title VII of the Government Code of the State, or any amendment thereto, adopted by the City Council.

means that map delineating location and boundaries of zones as described in Section 17.01.080, and shall include such other maps as may hereafter be adopted as official zoning maps in accordance with the provisions of this title.

means any sign which is not located on the same property as the business or entity advertised by such sign, unless within a commercial or industrial center.

means a sign on which the copy refers only to occupants, products, services, uses on or disposition of, the real property upon which the sign is located.

means an outdoor area where tables and chairs are provided exclusively for the seating, service and/or consumption of meals adjacent to a restaurant, which provides seats for patrons.

means any merchandise, equipment, or other materials which are not located within a building enclosed on at least three sides, which are designed, arranged, intended, and used solely for the purpose of identifying the general nature of products or services available on the premises upon which such display is located, and which does not exceed a quantity, height, and bulk which is reasonably necessary for such purpose.

means a ramp used in extreme sports, such as cycling, skating and skateboarding. Riders/skaters may use the ramp to launch themselves into the air, landing back on the ramp transition.

includes uses, varying in size, providing daily or regularly scheduled recreation-oriented activities for the purpose of enjoyment, amusement, pleasure or learning. Activities take place predominately outdoors or within outdoor structures. Such uses may include athletic fields, extreme sports, batting cages, amusement park, outdoor entertainment, and other similar uses.

means any merchandise, equipment, or other materials which are not located within a building enclosed on at least three sides, and which are not outdoor displays as defined herein.

includes any facility that involves accommodations arranged for short-term stays, not exceeding 30 days. Overnight lodging includes hotel, motel, bed and breakfast, and other similar uses.

as applied to any parcel, means the total area within the boundary lines of a parcel.

means a contiguous quantity of land owned by, or recorded as the property of, the same person.

as applied to any parcel, means the width of such parcel computed as though such parcel were a lot. See Lot width.

means an area, other than a street or alley, which is used for the temporary parking of more than four automobiles.

"Public parking area" means a parking area which is available for public use, whether free, for compensation, or as an accommodation for clients or customers.

"Semi-public parking area" means a parking area not available for public use, but available as an accommodation for clients, customers, or employees.

"Automobile parking space" means an area, other than a street or alley, reserved for the parking of an automobile, such space having a dimension not less than nine feet by 18 feet and having adequate and unimpaired ingress and egress, which is legally and permanently available for such use.

"Covered parking space" means a parking space which is covered by a roof supported by poles, columns, walls or other structural elements, including carports and porte cocheres.

"Legal parking space" means an on-site area reserved for the parking of a motor vehicle, such space having a dimension not less than nine feet by 18 feet, adjacent to such additional area as is necessary to afford adequate and unimpaired access which is legally and permanently available for such use, not located within a required front yard, meets all requirements of the Norwalk Code including required covering and paving, or that met all City and/or County requirements at the time the space was provided, or that is approved by precise development plan or other plan process by the City.

"Approved residential parking space" means a paved parking area or space that has been approved by the City by precise development plan or other plan process.

includes facilities that provide parking as a principal use. Includes commercial parking facility and remote parking facility.

means that portion of the public or private street right-of-way, other than portions thereof which are improved with roadway or sidewalk, including, but not limited to, that area between the curb of any street and the public right-of-way boundary adjacent to the nearest private property; or, where there is no curb. "Parkway" means that area between the edge of pavement and the public or private street right-of-way boundary adjacent to the nearest private property. Parkways shall also include any area within a roadway that is not open to vehicular travel.

means any entranceway or exit way which extends a minimum distance of 10 feet, has building walls on both sides, and is roofed, covered or has a ceiling overhead. Excluded from this definition are interior halls and corridors.

means a person or entity that engages in conduct regulated by Division 10, Section 23000 et seq., of the California Financial Code relating to deferred deposit transactions as defined therein.

means a shop where loans are made with personal property as security.

includes any facility or establishment providing non-medical services as a primary use, including barber and beauty/hairstyling establishments, shoe repair shops, spas, dry cleaning pick-up establishments, tailors, home electronics repair, tanning salons, self-service laundromats, animal care, animal clinics or hospitals, massage establishments, and mortuaries, undertaking establishments, and other uses with similar operations. These uses may also include accessory retail sales of products related to the services provided.

means any place of business where dogs under four months of age, or cats, monkeys, birds, reptiles, fish or any other animals, to be used as pets, are kept for sale and which may also include pet grooming and the sale of pet supplies.

means a large scale development of a parcel, or of a combination of related parcels, to be developed by a single owner or group of owners acting jointly, involving a related group of uses, planned as an entity, and having a predominant developmental feature which serves to unify or organize development and is, therefore, susceptible to development and regulation as one unified land unit, rather than as a mere aggregation of individual buildings and structures located on separate lots.

means the Planning Commission of the City.

means a scaled drawing of a lot or parcel and the adjacent and surrounding areas, showing the use and location of all buildings and improvements existent or contemplated by the owner, with dimensions of such lot, parcel, building and improvements, and drawn to such scale, size, detail and description as may be required by the Commission.

means a sign advertising any candidate for public office, propositions or other issues to be voted on by the electorate.

means and includes the games of billiards, pool, snooker, bagatelle and any other table game played with balls and cue sticks.

means any table on which the game of pool is played.

means any sign, excluding roof signs, attached to, supported by, or suspended from, any part of a building or structure and projecting more than 18 inches therefrom.

means a lot or parcel of land, and the rights of use and enjoyment thereof, accruing to its owner by virtue of his or her ownership.

means a roofed structure over a parking space or driveway, attached to the front or side of a building, and established for the convenient loading and unloading of passengers.

means a dance to which attendance is limited to persons individually invited and for which no admittance charge is made, or a dance conducted by a bona fide club, society or association, having a benevolent, charitable, dramatic, literary or dancing organizational purpose, which holds regular meetings, has an established membership, and provided, when proceeds, if any, arise from such dance, said proceeds are used for said organizational purpose and for which no admission is charged or paid for entrance into such dance at the location of the dance immediately prior to the time of said dance or during said dance.

means a road or street that is not owned and maintained by the City, and that is used or set aside to provide vehicular and pedestrian access and circulation within a development.

includes any facility that provides public places or services as they pertain to government functions, life safety, educational, cultural and religious services. Uses may include places of worship, museums, vocational schools, public/private K-12 schools, and other similar uses.

means a temporary, on-site sign on which the copy refers only to the sale, lease, rental, or other disposition of real property.

means any modification requested or granted from the City's zoning and land use laws, regulations, policies, and procedures or any combination thereof, that may be reasonable and necessary for a disabled person to have an equal opportunity to use and enjoy a dwelling.

means a class for the purpose of enjoyment, amusement, pleasure or learning. Recreational classes can sometimes result in a certificate, but do not result in school credits towards a diploma or degree. Use may include classes pertaining to cooking, dance, art, music and other similar uses.

means a facility used for the refreshment of body and mind through forms of play, amusement or relaxation. Types of facilities include: golf courses, golf driving ranges, recreational fields, recreation rooms, court game facilities, swimming pools, saunas or Jacuzzis, tot lots and exercise rooms.

means a motor home, house car, trailer coach, camper, or camp trailer, with or without motor power, designed for human habitation for recreational or emergency occupancy with 320 square feet or less in area.

means a facility that provides parking as a principal use for a permitted principal use located on a separate lot.

includes any facility that involves a business selling food and beverages prepared on the site, for on- or off-premises consumption. These include eating establishments where customers are served from a walk-up ordering counter for either on- or off-premises consumption, and establishments where most customers are served food at tables for on-premises consumption, but may include providing food for take-out. Also includes coffee houses, and entertainment with up to two entertainers, non-amplified, in a room with food service.

See Convalescent home.

includes any facility that involves a business that carries on as its principal business the selling of tangible commodities, goods, merchandise or wares, and may be an ancillary use to a principal business.

means a mechanical device which accepts one or more types of empty beverage containers and issues a cash refund or a redeemable credit slip with a value not less than the container's redemption value and applicable redemption bonus, if any.

means a strip of land used or intended to be used for transportation purposes, such as a street or highway, trail or railroad, or for utility infrastructure such as for water, wastewater, telecommunications, electricity or natural gas.

"Habitable room" means a space in a structure and designed or used for living, sleeping, eating, or cooking. Bathrooms, toilet compartments, closets, halls, storage or utility space, and similar areas are not considered habitable rooms.

means any sign erected upon or above the roof of a building, or any sign projecting more than four feet above the top wall plate of a building, or a sign that projects more than four feet above the fascia in the case of a sign on a sloping or shed roof, or a sign affixed to a parapet wall that projects above the highest point of such wall.

means a health station or retreat or other place where resident patients are kept, and which specializes in giving clinical, temporary and emergency services of a medical or surgical nature to resident patients and injured persons, and licensed by State agencies under provision of law to provide facilities and services in surgery, obstetrics or general medical practice, as distinguished from treatment of mental and nervous disorders, but not excluding surgical and post-surgical treatment of mental cases.

means and includes elementary school, junior high school and high school and means 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.

includes facilities providing separate storage areas for personal or business use designed to allow private access by the tenant for storing or removing personal property. Self-service storage includes the following uses: self-service warehouse, fully enclosed indoor multi-story storage, and mini-warehouse.

means any kindergarten, elementary school, middle school, high school, public library, or public park.

means a station to supply gasoline and oil to motor vehicles and including grease racks or elevators and providing minor tire and battery servicing and sales of motor vehicles accessories.

means a commercial center consisting of one or more lots or parcels individually or separately owned, occupied by one or more commercial buildings or uses, and using, or required to use as an integral part of the development, a common or mutually accessible off-street parking area.

means any object or device, including a sign structure, designed, intended, or used for verbal or non-verbal visual communication including, but not necessarily limited to, letters, numerals, words, characters, figures, illustrations, insignias, posters, billboards, or any other object designed or used to identify, advertise, or attract attention to any person, property, building, business, product or service.

See Area of sign.

means any structure designed, intended, or used to support, enclose, or illuminate a sign, including portions of any building or structure when so designed or used.

means the functional equivalent of a traditional family, whose members are a non-transient interactive group, where such persons jointly occupy a single dwelling unit, jointly use common areas, and share household activities and responsibilities (e.g., meals, chores, and expenses).

means a dwelling within a multiple-family dwelling structure, between 150 and 350 square feet, with a room and space for a bed; a closet; a full kitchen including sink, space for a refrigerator and a stove, range top or oven; and a separate bathroom with sink, toilet, and bathtub or shower. An SRO unit shall accommodate a maximum of two persons.

means any establishment, structure, facility, or stand that devotes more than 15% of either its gross floor space or display area to the retail sale, display, marketing, bartering, trading or exchange of any combination of tobacco, tobacco products, or exchange of tobacco paraphernalia, including electronic smoking devices and accessories.

includes any facility that involves residential and nonresidential care of persons and charitable institutions. Social services includes, but is not limited to, the following uses: adult day care, child care center, convalescent home, eleemosynary institution, foster home, and emergency shelter.

means a structure for the display and sale of products, with no space for customers within the structure itself.

means that portion of a building included between the upper surface of any floor and the upper surface of the floor next above, except that the topmost story shall be that portion of a building included between the upper surface of the topmost floor and the ceiling or roof above. If the finished floor level directly above a basement or cellar is more than six feet above grade, such basement or cellar shall be considered a story.

means any public right-of-way adequate in width to provide for vehicle and pedestrian access, or a recorded private right-of-way approved by the Commission as affording adequate vehicular access to a lot or parcel, but excluding alleys as herein defined.

means the boundary line between a street and an abutting lot or parcel.

"Side street" means a street which is adjacent to a corner lot and which extends in the general direction of the line determining the depth of the lot.

means anything constructed or erected which requires location on the ground or which is attached to something having a location on the ground, but not including fences or walls used as fences seven feet or less in height.

means any change in the supporting members of a building such as foundations, bearing walls, columns, beams, floor or roof joists, girders or rafters, or changes in roof or exterior lines.

means housing with no limit on length of stay that is occupied by a specified target population defined in Section 50675.14 of the California Health and Safety Code and that is linked to on-site or off-site 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. Supportive housing is a residential use subject to the same regulations and procedures that apply to other residential uses of the same type in the same zone.

means any off-street parking space designed in such a manner that a vehicle properly parked in such space may, by design, have its ingress to or egress from such space blocked by a vehicle properly parked in a contiguous parking space.

means a separate area on the alcoholic beverage manufacturer's licensed premises maintained and operated by and for an alcoholic beverage manufacturer, wherein alcoholic beverages may be sold and served by an employee or designated representative of the alcoholic beverage manufacturer to consumers of legal drinking age for consumption on the alcoholic beverage manufacturer's licensed premises. The alcoholic beverages served shall be limited to the products that are authorized to be sold by the alcoholic beverage manufacturer under its license issued by the California Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control. Alcoholic beverages manufactured elsewhere may not be sold in the tasting room or on the alcoholic beverage manufacturer's licensed premises. A tasting room is, and at all times shall remain, an ancillary use to the alcoholic beverage manufacturing use.

means any sign which is used, or designed or intended to be used, for a period of six months or less.

means a camp trailer. See Recreational vehicle.

means a facility for the impound and temporary storage of vehicles that is operated by someone engaged in the automobile wrecking or towing business.

means a vehicle designed for carrying materials, goods, equipment and merchandise on its own structure and for being drawn by a motor vehicle.

"Automobile trailer" means a 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, and any self-propelled vehicle having a body designed for such uses.

means a vehicle, other than a motor vehicle, designed for human habitation, or human occupancy for industrial, professional or commercial purposes, for carrying property on its own structure, and for being drawn by a motor vehicle.

means any area or tract of land used or designed to accommodate two or more automobile trailers, and includes Auto and Trailer Park as defined, by Section 18002 of the Health and Safety Code of the State.

means buildings configured as rental housing developments, but operated under program requirements that require the termination of assistance and recirculation of the assisted unit to another eligible program recipient at some predetermined future point in time that shall be no less than six months from the beginning of the assistance.

The noun "use" means the purpose for which land or a building is arranged, designed or intended, or for which either is or may be occupied or maintained; or, where indicated by the context, it means the utilization of either for such purpose.

means a modification of the specific regulations of this title, granted by action of the Planning Commission or City Council in accordance with the terms of this title, for the purpose of assuring that no property, because of special circumstances applicable to it, shall be deprived of privileges commonly enjoyed by other properties in the same vicinity and zone.

means a device by which any person or property may be propelled, moved, or drawn upon a highway, excepting a device moved exclusively by human power or used exclusively upon stationary rails or tracks.

means a facility where general vehicle repair and service is conducted, including transmission, brake, muffler and tire shops, along with body and paint shops. Major vehicle repair does not include any use meeting the definition for minor vehicle repair.

means a facility where minor vehicle repair and service is conducted. Includes audio and alarm installation, custom accessories, quick lubrication facilities, minor scratch and dent repair, bed-liner installation, window tinting, and glass repair or replacement.

means an established place of business operated by a "dealer" for the sale, long-term lease, or rental of new or used automobiles, boats, recreational vehicles, motorcycles or motorized scooters for profit, including automobile auction facilities and the onsite outdoor storage of vehicles for sale, lease or rent. Typical land uses are car lots where vehicles displayed for sale typically include advertising. The term "dealer" is defined in the California Vehicle Code.

includes any facility that involves car wash, repair services (non-automotive), service station, towing service, major vehicle repair and minor vehicle repair. Vehicle services shall not include a business limited to the sale of vehicle accessories, if such accessories are not installed as part of that business and the business does not otherwise qualify as a vehicle service or fuel station.

consists of gasoline stations, including ancillary convenience retail and auto services. Service stations that contain any repair bays are considered vehicle repair (minor).

consists of properties used for the temporary off-site storage of inventory for the type of use automotive—vehicle sales, lease and rental.

consists of establishments providing hand-operated, self-service, or mechanical automobile washing services, and may include detailing.

means a facility for teaching business, technical, computer and similar subjects to adult students who pay tuition, operated by an organization or business other than a public agency.

means a single-faced sign attached to and parallel to the "building face," projecting not more than 18 inches from such building face, and projecting no more than four feet above the top plate of such building, and including painted signs.

includes any facility that involves storage or movement of goods for themselves or other firms. Goods are generally delivered to other firms or the final consumer with little on-site sales activity to customers. Use includes a logistics facility and other uses with similar operations.

includes any facility that is involved in the sale, lease, or rent of products to industrial, institutional or commercial businesses only. The use emphasizes on-site sales or order-taking and often includes display areas. Businesses may or may not be open to the general public, but sales to the general public are not permitted. Products may be picked up on-site or delivered to the customer.

means any sign painted upon, affixed to, or abutting the surface of a window.

means the product obtained from normal alcoholic fermentation of the juice of sound ripe grapes or other agricultural products containing natural or added sugar or any such alcoholic beverage to which is added grape brandy, fruit brandy, or spirits of wine, which is distilled from the particular agricultural product or products of which the wine is made and other rectified wine products and by whatever name and which does not contain more than 15% added flavoring, coloring, and blending material and which contains not more than 24% of alcohol by volume, and includes vermouth and sake, known as Japanese rice wine.

consists of an establishment having as its principal or predominant use the serving of wine for consumption on the premises. Sandwiches, light meals and/or full-service meals may be available for consumption on the premises but are not the principal or predominant use of the establishment. "Winegrower" means any person licensed by the Department who has facilities and equipment for the conversion of grapes, berries, or other fruit into wine and is engaged in the production of wine within the City.

means a space adjacent to a boundary line of a lot or parcel, which is open, unoccupied and unobstructed from the ground upward, except as otherwise provided in this title.

"Front yard" means a yard extending across the full width of the lot or parcel, having at no point less than the minimum required horizontal distance between the front lot or parcel line and the closest permissible location of any building. Such distance shall be measured by a line at right angles to the front lot or parcel line, or by the radial line in the case of a curved front lot or parcel line. When a lot or parcel lies partially within a planned street indicated on an official plan for such a street, and where such planned street is of the type that will afford legal access to such lot or parcel, the depth of the front yard shall be measured from the contiguous edge of such planned street in the manner prescribed in this definition.

"Front line of the required rear yard" means a line parallel to and at a distance from the rear lot line equal to the depth of the required rear yard and extending across the full width of the lot or parcel.

"Rear line of the required front yard" means a line parallel to the front lot or parcel line and at a distance therefrom equal to the depth of the required front yard, and extending across the full width of the lot or parcel.

"Rear yard" means a yard extending across the full width of the lot or parcel, the depth of which yard shall be the minimum required horizontal distance as measured from the part of the main building nearest the rear lot or parcel line towards the rear lot or parcel line, and such measurements shall be along a line representing the shortest distance between the portion of the building nearest the rear lot or parcel line and the rear lot or parcel line.

"Required rear yard" means a yard extending across the full width of the lot or parcel, the depth of which shall be a specified horizontal distance between the rear lot line and the front line of the required rear yard.

"Side yard" means a yard between the main building and the side lot or parcel lines extending from the rear line of the required front yard, or from the front lot or parcel line where no front yard is required, to the front line of the required rear yard, the width of which side yard shall be measured horizontally from, and at right angles to, the nearest point of a side lot or parcel line towards the nearest part of any building.