For the purposes of this title, certain words and terms used in this title are defined as provided in this chapter.

"Access corridor" means a portion of the site providing access from a street and having a minimum dimension less than the required site width, except that no portion of a site having side lot lines radial to the center of curvature of a street from the street property line to the rear lot line shall be deemed an access corridor. The area of an access corridor shall not be included in determining the area of a site.

"Accessory dwelling unit" means an attached or a detached residential dwelling unit which provides complete independent living facilities for one or more persons and is located on a lot with one or more proposed or existing primary residences. It shall include permanent provisions for living, sleeping, eating, cooking, and sanitation on the same lot as the one-family or multi-family dwelling are situated. An accessory dwelling unit also includes the following:

"Active ground-floor uses" are those that promote an active pedestrian environment on the ground floor of a commercial building and attract walk-in customers. Active ground-floor uses include retail establishments, restaurants, bars and brew pubs, art and craft studios, and other uses determined by the director of community development to be substantially similar to the foregoing or to have unique characteristics such that the objectives of the overlay district would be met. Active ground-floor uses do not include personal services.

"Agriculture" means the cultivation of land and raising of plants or animals for commercial use and includes agricultural processing, crop storage and related facilities and structures, and housing of agricultural employees. Retail sales of products is limited to the sale of wine at wineries and products grown on the premises from roadside stands.

"Alley" means a public way permanently reserved primarily for vehicular service access to the rear or side of properties otherwise abutting on a street.

"Alter" means to make a change in the supporting members of a structure, such as bearing walls, columns, beams or girders, which will prolong the life of the structure.

"Amateur radio facility" means antennas and related equipment for the purpose of self-training, intercommunication, or technical investigations carried out by an amateur radio operator who is interested in radio technique solely for personal interests and without pecuniary interest, who holds a written authorization from the federal communications commission to operate an amateur radio facility.

"Antenna" means any system of poles, panels, rods, or similar devices used for the transmission and reception of radio frequency signals.

"Antenna, façade mounted" means an antenna that is directly attached or affixed to any façade of a building.

"Antenna, ground mounted" means an antenna with its support structure placed directly on the ground.

"Antenna, roof mounted" means an antenna generally freestanding, directly attached or affixed to the roof of an existing building or structure other than a personal wireless service facility tower.

"Bar" means any premises in which alcoholic beverages are regularly offered for sale and on-site consumption excluding restaurants that only sell alcoholic beverages between 6:00 a.m. and 11:00 p.m. A restaurant which sells alcoholic beverages any time after 11:00 p.m. and before 6:00 a.m. shall be classified as a bar for purposes of this zoning code.

"Basement commercial storage, public" means storage space located in the basement of any commercial building that is made available to the public.

"Body art facility" means a business used by a body art practitioner licensed by the Alameda County Department of Environmental Health to provide tattoo, body piercing and/or permanent cosmetic services to a client's arms, legs, or trunk, in addition to a client's face, ears, hands or feet. Accessory retail sales of related products may also be sold.

"Small bed and breakfast" means a residential building offering overnight accommodations to guests on a temporary basis. A small bed and breakfast may serve meals to guests and shall contain between three and five guest sleeping rooms, inclusive.

"Bed and breakfast inn" means a residential building or buildings offering overnight accommodations to guests on a temporary basis. A bed and breakfast inn may serve meals to guests and shall contain between six and 15 guest sleeping rooms, inclusive.

"Best available control technology" means commercially available equipment, processes, and actions to reduce air pollution to the greatest extent possible.

"Block" means the properties abutting on one side of a street and lying between the two nearest intersecting or intercepting streets, or nearest intersecting or intercepting street and railroad right-of-way, unsubdivided land, watercourse, or city boundary.

"Biodiesel" means a fuel processed from soybean oil, other vegetable oil, and/or recycled cooking oil.

"Brew pub" means a business that brews and sells beer for on site consumption. Ancillary retail sales are also permitted. A brew pub may be operated separately or in conjunction with a restaurant.

"Brewery and distillery" means a business taking up 10,000 square feet or more in floor area that brews beer and/or distills spirits for wholesale sales. No on site consumption of beer and/or spirits is permitted except as part of quality testing and/or tours. Ancillary retail sales are also permitted.

"Building" means any structure having a roof supported by columns or walls, for the housing or enclosure of persons, animals, chattels or property of any kind.

"Business sign" means a sign devoted to directing attention to a business, profession, commodity or service that is the primary business, profession, commodity, or service sold, manufactured, conducted or offered on the site on which the sign is located.

"Charitable institution" means a nonprofit institution devoted to the housing, training or care of children, or of aged, indigent, disabled or underprivileged persons, but does not include the following: lodging houses or dormitories providing temporary quarters for transient persons; organizations devoted to collecting or salvaging new or used materials; or organizations devoted principally to distributing food, clothing or supplies on a charitable basis.

"Cogeneration facility" means an electrical power generation facility that produces electricity and another useful form of energy (such as heat or steam) used for other purposes, such as heating or an industrial process.

"Collocation" means when more than one personal wireless service facility owned or used by more than one personal wireless service provider is sited on a single building, tower, monopole, or other supporting structure.

"Combined cycle facility" means an electrical power generation facility that consists of one or more turbines and one or more boilers with a portion of the energy input to the boiler(s) provided by the exhaust gas of the turbine.

"Commercial mobile services" means a category of services which encompasses all mobile telecommunications services that are provided for profit, are interconnected with the public switched telephone network, and make service available to the public or to such classes of eligible users as to be effectively available to a substantial portion of the public. The one common element of all commercial mobile services is that they use a radio frequency or channel instead of a wire to communicate to and from one or more devices which are mobile, such as pager or cellular phone. The definition of commercial mobile services includes fixed/local loop services.

"Community facility" means any of the following uses or buildings not owned or operated by a local, state, or federal government agency or service facility: place of worship, rectory or convent, museum, or other similar use or structure determined to be substantially similar by the director of community development.

"Convenience market" means a food market which carries a limited inventory of food, beverages and convenience items, but excluding liquor stores, delicatessens and specialty food shops.

"Cottage food operation" means an enterprise within the registered or permitted (by the Alameda County department of environmental health food safety division) area of a private home or apartment, or other multi-family housing (i.e., condominiums or townhomes), where the individual, who proposes to operate the cottage food operation in his or her private residence and is the owner of the cottage food operation, prepares and/or packages cottage food products that are not potentially hazardous foods for direct or indirect sale to consumers. See California Health and Safety Code Section 113758.

"Court" means an unoccupied open space on the same site with a building, which is bounded on three or more sides by exterior building walls.

"Coverage area" means the geographical area that is served by an antenna which transmits and receives radio frequency signals.

"Depth" means the horizontal distance between the front and rear property lines of a site measured along a line midway between the side property lines.

"Direct to home satellite services" means the distribution or broadcasting of programming or services by satellite directly to the subscriber's premises without the use of ground receiving or distribution equipment, except at the subscriber's premises.

"District" means a portion of the city within which the use of land and structures and the location, height and bulk of structures are governed by this chapter.

"Drive-in" means an establishment selling food or beverages to customers, some or all of whom customarily consume their purchases outdoors in or near their cars.

"Driveway" means a private road, the use of which is limited to persons residing or working on the site and their invitees, licensees and business visitors, and which provides access to off-street parking or loading facilities.

"Dwelling" means a one-family or multi-family dwelling other than mobilehomes, automobile trailers, hotels, motels, camp cars, tents, railroad cars and temporary structures.

"Dwelling unit" means one or more rooms with a single kitchen, designed for occupancy by one family for living and sleeping purposes.

"Electricity generator facility" means one or more electrical power generators on a site that converts a substance or substances (not including nuclear fuel or heat produced by a nuclear reaction) into electricity through the utilization of an engine or a turbine, and which is further defined as follows:

"Employee housing (agricultural)" means housing as described in California Health and Safety Code Sections 17021.5 and 17021.6, and employee housing as defined in California Health and Safety Code Section 17008.

"Family" means an individual or two or more persons who live together in a dwelling unit. (See Housing Code Chapter 20.28 and 24 C.C.R. Section 202, as amended.)

"Financial institution" means a use where the primary occupation is the receipt, disbursement, and exchange of funds and currencies, including banks, savings and loan offices, finance companies, credit unions, and related services as determined by the director of community development.

"Emergency standby electricity generator, fuel cell, or battery facility" means one or more electrical power generators (not including nuclear power generators), fuel cells, and/or batteries on a site which produce electricity via an engine, turbine, fuel cell, or battery, and which are only operated during interruptions of electrical service to the electrical power grid in Pleasanton or when the generators, fuel cells, or batteries are tested or serviced.

"Family daycare home" means a home which regularly provides care, protection and supervision of children in the provider's own home for periods of less than 24 hours per day while the children's parents or guardians are away, including the following:

"Firearm" means a gun, pistol, revolver, rifle or any device, designed or modified to be used as a weapon, from which is expelled through a barrel a projectile by the force of explosion or other form of combustion.

"Firearm sales" or "sale of firearms" means the sale, transfer, lease, offer, registration, or advertising for sale, transfer, lease, offer or registration of a firearm.

"Antique firearm sales" means the sale of any firearm not designed or redesigned for using rimfire or conventional center fire ignition with fixed ammunition and manufactured in or before 1898 (including any matchlock, flintlock, percussion cap, or similar type of ignition system or replica thereof, whether actually manufactured before or after the year 1898), and also any firearm using fixed ammunition manufactured in or before 1898, for which the ammunition is no longer manufactured in the United States and is not readily available in the ordinary channels of commercial trade.

"Basic floor area" means the total amount of gross floor area a building contains, expressed as a percentage of the total area of the lot.

"Gross floor area" means the sum of the gross horizontal area of the several floors of a building and its accessory buildings on the same site excluding: basement or cellar areas used only for storage; space used for off-street parking or loading; steps, patios, decks, terraces, porches, and exterior balconies, if not enclosed on more than three sides. Unless excepted above, floor area includes, but is not limited to, both residential and non-residential uses in a building, elevator shafts and stairwells measured at each floor (but not mechanical shafts), penthouses, enclosed porches, interior balconies and mezzanines.

"Frontage" means the property line of a site abutting on a street, other than the side line of a corner lot. "Frontage" shall be measured as the shortest distance between the points at which the side property lines intersect the street property line.

"Fuel cell facility" means one or more electrical power generators which convert either hydrogen or a hydrocarbon based fuel into electricity through an electrochemical reaction, and which is further defined as follows:

"Game arcade" means any business which provides for public use two or more commercial "amusement devices" as defined by Section 6.04.010 of this code, or any business with fewer such devices where their operation is the primary business function.

"Garage" or "carport" means a class I accessory structure or a portion of a main structure, having a permanent roof, and designed for the storage of motor vehicles.

"Parking garage" means a structure or part thereof used for the storage, parking or servicing of motor vehicles, but not for the repair thereof.

"Repair garage" means a structure or part thereof where motor vehicles or parts thereof are repaired or painted.

"Garden center" means a site or structure where, in addition to the services offered by a nursery, flora materials, garden accessories (such as lawn and garden furniture, statuary, swimming pool supplies and equipment, irrigation supplies, greenhouses, lawn mowers, etc.) and landscape and garden construction and bulk materials (such as decking, decorative rock, tan bark, paving stones, bender board, etc.) may be sold and garden or landscape related services (such as lawn mower sharpening and repair, garden equipment rental, etc.) may be offered.

"Governmental facility" means an administrative, clerical, or public contact and/or service office of a local, state, or federal government agency or service facility. Examples of such uses would include, but are not limited to: post offices, passport and visa service offices, court houses.

"Grid" means the electrical distribution and transmission system in Pleasanton.

"Habitable room" means a room meeting the requirements of the uniform building code for sleeping, living, cooking or dining purposes, excluding such enclosed spaces as closets, pantries, bath or toilet rooms, service rooms, connecting corridors, laundries, unfinished attics, foyers, storage spaces, cellars, utility rooms and similar spaces.

"Home occupation" means the conduct of an art or profession, the offering of a service, the conduct of a business, or the handcraft manufacture of products in a dwelling in accord with the regulations prescribed in Chapter 18.104 of this title.

"Homeless shelter" means housing with minimal supportive services for homeless persons that is limited to occupancy of six months or less. (See California Health and Safety Code Section 50801(e).)

See definition of Motel or Hotel.

"Household pet" means any animal of a domesticated species kept inside a dwelling or any dog or cat kept on the same premises by the occupant of a dwelling. The term shall not be deemed to include any rabbit, fowl, pigeon, sheep, goat, hog or other livestock kept in the open or in an accessory structure.

"Diffused illumination" means illumination by means of light which travels through a material, other than the bulb or tubing necessary to enclose the light source, so that the light is spread evenly over the surface of the diffusing material.

"Direct illumination" means illumination by means of light which travels directly from its source to the viewer's eye.

"Indirect illumination" means illumination by means only of light cast upon an opaque surface from a concealed source.

"Heavy industrial" means manufacturing of products, primarily extracted of raw materials, or bulk storage and handling of such products and materials which pose significant risks due to the involvement of explosives, radioactive materials, pesticides, and other hazardous materials. Uses in this category typically involve more intense impacts associated with large industrial uses, their accessory outdoor storage uses, and large building areas. This use category includes, but is not limited to, wrecking yards, building material manufacturing, chemical plants, concrete and asphalt plants, and freight facilities.

"Light industrial" means a category of uses that is capable of operation in such a manner as to control the external effects of manufacturing processes such as smoke, noise, vibration, soot, and odor. It includes limited intensity levels of manufacturing and assembly activities primarily from previously prepared or refined materials, or from raw materials that do not need refining, warehousing with limited direct public access, research and development, packaging, and associated offices and similar uses as determined by the director of community development within an enclosed building. This use category includes, but is not limited to, food processing, contractors, call centers, textiles, wood products, printing, pharmaceuticals, machinery manufacturing, research and development, laundry plants, laboratories, and regional distribution, but excludes basic industrial processing from raw materials, and vehicle/equipment services.

"Street intersection" means the area common to two or more intersecting streets.

"Junior accessory dwelling unit" means an area not exceeding 500 square feet in size excluding any shared sanitation facility with the primary residential unit that is entirely contained within the space of a proposed or existing one-family residential dwelling unit. It shall include its own separate exterior entrance, sink, cooking appliance, counter surface for food preparation, and storage cabinets of reasonable size in relation to the size of the junior accessory dwelling unit. The junior accessory unit may share a bathroom with the existing residential dwelling unit or may have its own bathroom.

"Junkyard" means a site or portion of a site on which waste, discarded or salvaged materials are bought, sold, exchanged, stored, baled, cleaned, packed, disassembled, or handled, including used furniture and household equipment yards, house wrecking yards, used lumberyards and similar uses; excepting a site on which such uses are conducted within a completely enclosed structure and excepting "motor vehicle wrecking yards," as defined in this chapter. An establishment for the sale, purchase or storage of used cars or salvaged machinery in operable condition and the processing of used or salvaged materials as part of a manufacturing operation shall not be deemed a junkyard.

"Kennel" means any premises, except where accessory to a permitted or conditional agricultural use, where any combination of dogs or cats totaling four or more animals four months of age or older are kept.

"Live-work" unit means a single unit consisting of a commercial or office use containing a residential component that is occupied by an owner or employee of the commercial or office use. The live-work unit shall be the primary dwelling of the occupant.

"Living room" means the principal room designed for general living purposes in a dwelling unit. Each dwelling unit shall have a living room.

"Lodging house" means a dwelling in which lodging or lodging and meals are provided for compensation for more than three but not more than 15 persons other than members of the resident family, excepting a "nursing home," as defined in this chapter.

See definition of Site or Lot.

"Corner lot" means a site bounded by two or more adjacent street lines which have an angle of intersection of not more than 135 degrees.

"Double frontage lot" means an interior lot having frontage on two parallel or approximately parallel streets. For the purpose of determining front yard requirements, each frontage from which access is permitted shall be deemed a front lot line.

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

"Key lot" means the first interior lot to the rear of a reversed corner lot.

"Front lot line" means a line separating an interior lot from a street, or a line separating either the narrower or the wider street frontage of a corner lot from a street at the option of the owner.

"Rear lot line" means a lot line, not a front or side lot line, which is generally opposite the front lot line, and not necessarily a straight line.

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

"Reversed corner lot" means a corner lot the side line of which is substantially a continuation of the front property line of the first lot to its rear.

"Major transit stop" means a site containing either of the following, or as amended by state law:

"Megawatt" means 1,000 kilowatts or 1,000,000 watts.

"Microbrewery" means a business taking up no more than 10,000 square feet in area that brews beer primarily for retail sales. Ancillary wholesale sales are also permitted. No on site consumption of beer is permitted except as part of quality testing and/or tours. A business where customers brew beer on site for their personal use shall be classified as a microbrewery for purposes of this zoning code.

"Mixed-use development" means a project that integrates two or more of the following land uses in a single building or on a single site: office, commercial, residential, or other use determined by the director of community development.

"Motel" or "hotel" means a structure or portion thereof or a group of attached or detached structures containing completely furnished individual guestrooms or suites, occupied on a transient basis for compensation, and in which more than 60 percent of the individual guestrooms and suites are without kitchens or cooking facilities.

"Motor vehicle wrecking yard" means a site or portion of a site on which the dismantling or wrecking of used vehicles, whether self-propelled or not, or the storage, sale or dumping of dismantled or wrecked vehicles or their parts is conducted. The presence outside a fully enclosed structure of three or more used motor vehicles which are not capable of operating under their own power shall constitute prima facie evidence of a motor vehicle wrecking yard.

"Multi-family dwelling" means a structure containing more than one dwelling unit, designed for occupancy or occupied by more than one family.

"Nonconforming sign" means a sign, outdoor advertising structure, or display of any character, which was lawfully erected or displayed, but which does not conform with standards for location, size or illumination for the district in which it is located by reason of adoption or amendment of this chapter, or by reason of annexation of territory to the city.

"Nonconforming structure" means a structure which was lawfully erected, but which does not conform with the standards for yard spaces, height of structures, or distances between structures prescribed in the regulations for the district in which the structure is located, by reason of adoption or amendment of this chapter, or by reason of annexation of territory to the city.

"Nonconforming use" means a use of a structure or land which was lawfully established and maintained, but which does not conform with the use regulations or required conditions for the district in which it is located, by reason of adoption or amendment of this chapter, or by reason of annexation of territory to the city.

"Nuclear power facility" means one or more electrical power generators that convert heat produced in a reactor by the fissioning of nuclear fuel into electricity by using the heat created to drive an engine or turbine.

"Nursery" means a site or structure where only plants, plant materials, or garden supplies (such as fertilizer, pesticides, herbicides, small garden tools, etc.) are offered for sale; plants are raised or stored; and landscape design services may be offered.

"Nursery school" means a school for preelementary school-age children, or use of a site or portion of a site for a group daycare program (including, but not limited to, a day nursery, play group, after school group or childcare center) for children when not located in the provider's own home, and a school and/or group daycare program for 13 or more children when located in the provider's own home.

"Nursing home" means a structure operated as a lodging house in which nursing, dietary and other personal services are rendered to convalescents, invalids or aged persons, not including persons suffering from contagious or mental diseases, alcoholism or drug addiction, and in which surgery is not performed and primary treatment, such as customarily is given in hospitals or sanitariums, is not provided. A convalescent home or a rest home shall be deemed a nursing home.

"Business, professional, or administrative office" means a space used for conducting the affairs of a business, profession, service industry, or government, where the activities are primarily mental or intellectual. Examples of such uses would include, but not be limited to, the offices of lawyers, accountants, brokers, insurance agents, counselors, realtors, title companies, mortgage companies, and contractors.

"Medical office" means an office or clinic used exclusively by physicians, dentists, chiropractors, acupuncturists, physical therapists, and other health-related offices. No overnight patients occupy the premises.

"Off-street loading facilities" means a site or portion of a site devoted to the loading or unloading of motor vehicles or trailers, including loading berths, aisles, access drives, and landscaped areas.

"Off-street parking facilities" means a site or portion of a site devoted to the off-street parking of motor vehicles, including parking spaces, aisles, access drives and landscaped areas.

"One-family dwelling" means a structure containing one dwelling unit, designed for and/or occupied exclusively by one family. Also includes manufactured homes on a foundation.

"Oriel window" means a window which projects from the main line of an enclosing wall of a building and is carried on brackets or corbels.

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

"Covered patio" means an attached or detached structure not exceeding 14 feet in height, and enclosed on not more than three sides, except for posts necessary for roof support.

"Personal services" means a use that provides individual services generally related to personal, non-medical needs, including, but not limited to: barbers; beauty salons; day spas; holistic healing centers; nail salons; hair removal and/or replacement; body art (tattoo, body piercing and/or permanent cosmetic services) that is only provided to a client's face, ears, hands or feet; massage establishments; acupressure services; tailors; and other services of a similar nature. Accessory retail sales of related products may also be sold.

"Personal wireless service" means commercial mobile services and unlicensed wireless service. For the purpose of this definition, radio towers and television towers are not considered personal wireless services. Common examples of personal wireless services are personal communications service (PCS), cellular radiotelephone service, and paging.

"Personal wireless service facility" means an unstaffed facility, generally consisting of transmitters, antenna structures, and other types of installations which receive and transmit radio frequency signals for the provision of personal wireless services including support structure, ancillary equipment cabinet or structure, and related equipment.

"Personal wireless service facility tower" means a monopole, lattice tower, freestanding tower, antennas (including building-mounted antennas) or other structure designed to support antennas.

"Personal wireless service provider" means any authorized provider of personal wireless services.

"Photovoltaic facility" means one or more electrical power generators that convert sunlight into electricity through the utilization of semiconductor cells.

"Plant shop" means a use located wholly within a structure where the principal activity is the retail sale of indoor plants.

"Portable, temporary electricity generator, fuel cell, or battery facility" means one or more electrical power generators (not including nuclear power generators), fuel cells, and/or batteries on a site which produce electricity via an engine, turbine, fuel cell, or battery, and which are portable, less then 10 kW in combined total size, and which are used only on a temporary and intermittent basis.

"Preexisting" means in existence prior to the effective date of Ordinance 520, May 3, 1968.

"Private school" means a private institution where children attend and receive their primary instruction for any combination of schooling between grades kindergarten and 12. This does not include stand-alone nursery schools.

"Radioactive materials uses" means any use which would require the user to obtain a specific license for activities specified in Part 30, 40, 50, or 70, Title 10, Code of Federal Regulations, or equivalent requirements of the state. Activities exempted or permitted by general license are excluded from this definition except for exemption for common carriers listed in paragraphs 30.13 and 70.12, Title 10, Code of Federal Regulations.

"Railroad right-of-way" means a strip of land on which railroad tracks, switching equipment and signals are located, but not including lands on which stations, offices, storage buildings, spur tracks, sidings, yards or other uses are located.

"Large recycling collection facility" means a center for the acceptance by donation, redemption or purchase, of recyclable materials from the public which occupies an area of more than 500 square feet. A large recycling facility may include permanent structures and may use power-driven processing equipment pursuant to the requirements set forth in Section 9.22.060 of this code.

"Small recycling collection facility" means a center for the acceptance by donation, redemption or purchase, of recyclable materials from the public which occupies an area no larger than 500 square feet. A small recycling collection facility may include one or more reverse vending machines, a mobile unit, kiosk type units (which may include permanent structures), and unattended containers placed for the donation of recyclable materials. A small recycling facility may not use power driven processing equipment except as set forth in Section 9.22.060 of this code.

"Large recycling processing facility" means a building or enclosed space used for the collection and processing of recyclable materials which occupies an area of gross collection, processing and storage that is 45,000 square feet or greater, and which has an average of more than two outbound truck shipments per day. Processing means the preparation of materials for efficient shipment, or to an end user's specifications, by such means as baling, briquetting, compacting, flattening, grinding, crushing, mechanical sorting, shredding, cleaning and remanufacturing.

"Small recycling processing facility" means a building or enclosed space used for the collection and processing of recyclable materials which occupies an area of gross collection, processing and storage that is less than 45,000 square feet, and which has up to an average of two outbound truck shipments per day. Small recycling processing facilities are limited to baling, briquetting, crushing, compacting, grinding, shredding and sorting of source separated recyclable materials and repairing of reusable materials sufficient to qualify as a certified processing facility. A light processing facility shall not shred, compact or bale ferrous metals other than food and beverage containers.

"Residential care facility" means a single-family dwelling or group residential facility licensed or supervised by a federal, state, or local health/welfare agency that provides 24-hour non-medical or medical care of unrelated persons who are disabled and in need of personal services, supervision, or assistance that is essential for sustaining the activities of daily living or for the protection of the individual in a family-like environment.

"Restaurant" means any room, building, place or portion thereof intended to provide seated and/or take-out service of food selections, prepared on the premises, typically appropriate for a complete breakfast, lunch or dinner meal, but also includes bakeries, specialty coffee establishments, cafes, tea rooms, ice cream shops, delicatessens, providing incidental seating/table accommodations for the convenience of the retail customer and similar retail establishments as determined by the director of community development.

"Retail" means the selling of goods, wares, or merchandise directly to the ultimate consumer or persons without a resale license.

"Second unit" means an attached or a detached residential dwelling unit which provides complete independent living facilities for one or more persons. It shall include permanent provisions for living, sleeping, eating, cooking, and sanitation on the same lot as the one-family dwelling is situated. A second unit also includes the following:

"Senior care/assisted living facility" means a group residential facility for seniors which arranges services such as meals, housekeeping, supervision of self-administration of medication, medication administration, incontinence care, limited nursing service, and 24-hour oversight of persons who need assistance with the activities of daily living and instrumental activities of daily living. Some or all of the living units may include kitchenettes and private bathrooms.

"Sign" means any lettering or symbol made of cloth, metal, paint, paper, wood or other material of any kind whatsoever placed for advertising, identification, or other purposes on the ground or on any bush, tree, rock, wall, post, fence, building, structure, vehicle, or on any place whatsoever. The term "placed" shall include constructing, erecting, posting, painting, printing, tacking, nailing, gluing, sticking, carving, or otherwise fastening, affixing, or making visible in any manner whatsoever beyond the boundaries of a site.

"Sign area" means the area of a sign shall be computed as the entire area within a single continuous rectilinear perimeter or not more than eight straight lines enclosing the extreme limits of writing, representation, emblem, or design, together with any material or color forming an integral part of the display or used to differentiate the sign from the background against which it is placed. Sign supports shall not be included in determining sign area unless they are an integral part of the display. The area of a sign or the total area of all signs on a site shall be the total area that would be visible, whether legible or not, to an off-site observer having an unobstructed view of the site from any single point within a horizontal distance of 100 feet from the site boundary at an elevation not more than 100 feet above the site boundary.

"Subdivision sign" means any sign located either on or off a subdivision tract which indicates the direction to or advertises the location, existence, or sale of a subdivision or any part thereof.

"Single ownership" means holding record title, possession under a contract to purchase, or possession under a lease, by a person, firm, corporation or partnership, individually, jointly, in common, or in any other manner whereby the property is or will be under unitary or unified control.

"Single room occupancy unit" means one-room dwelling unit of at least 150 square feet, where the unit is occupied by a single individual or two persons living together as a domestic unit, and where the living and sleeping space are combined, in a building or buildings constructed or converted to such residential living. A single room occupancy unit is not required to contain a bathroom or a kitchen if common bathroom or kitchen facilities are provided on site for residents at a single room occupancy unit facility. Common facilities for laundry may or may not be provided on the site of a single room occupancy unit facility.

"Site area" means the total horizontal area included within the property lines of a site, exclusive of the area of access corridors, streets, portions of the site within future street plan lines; provided, however, all lots in subdivisions with acute angles less than 45 degrees formed by adjacent sides shall be discouraged by the planning commission at the time of tentative map approval.

"Site" or "lot" means a parcel of land or a portion thereof, considered as a unit, devoted to or intended for a use or occupied by a structure or a group of structures that are united by a common interest or use. A "site" or "lot" shall have frontage on a street.

"Skateboard ramp" means any structure greater than two feet high at its highest point containing either an inclined plane or concave surface, whether in the form of a quarter or half ellipse, which is designed for and intended for use by skateboarders.

"Special downtown accessory entertainment use" means the following type of accessory use approved by the city on or after January 4, 2013 in the area designated downtown hospitality central core or downtown hospitality transition area: live entertainment, including music, poetry readings, stand-up comedy, and performance art; disc jockey music; dancing; or other similar use as determined by the zoning administrator. A special downtown accessory entertainment use does not include adult entertainment establishment uses, as defined in Chapter 18.114 of this code.

"Stealth techniques" means design techniques and architectural treatments which blend personal wireless service facilities into the surrounding environment and make them visually unobtrusive. Examples of stealth techniques may include personal wireless service facilities designed to look like trees which are located in landscaped areas, or a roof-mounted facility which is designed to be a flagpole.

"Street" means a thoroughfare right-of-way, dedicated as such or acquired for public use as such, other than an alley, which affords the principal means of access to abutting land.

"Structure" means anything constructed or erected which requires a location on the ground, including a building or a swimming pool, but not including a fence or a wall used as a fence if the height does not exceed six feet, or access drives or walks.

"Class I accessory structure" means a subordinate structure, the use of which is appropriate, subordinate, and customarily incidental to that of the main structure or the main use of the land, and which is located on the same site with the main structure or use. "Class I accessory structures" shall include those accessory structures designed for possible habitation and include covered patios, garages and carports, any covered or enclosed area with a height greater than six feet.

"Class II accessory structure" means a subordinate structure, the use of which is appropriate, subordinate and customarily incidental to that of the main structure or Class I accessory structure, or the main use of the land, and which is located on the same site with the main structure or use. Class II accessory structures shall include those accessory structures not designed for habitation, and include plant shelters and lathe area and tool storage sheds with a height no greater than six feet and an area no greater than 80 square feet.

"Main structure" means a structure housing the principal use of a site or functioning as the principal use.

"Supportive housing" means housing with no limit on length of stay, that is occupied by the target population 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 must meet the requirements of California Government Code § 65651, as amended. (See California Health and Safety Code § 50675.14(b)(2).)

"Swimming pool" means a pool, pond, lake or open tank capable of containing water to a depth greater than one and one-half feet at any point, including therapeutic pools and hot tubs. All pools shall be deemed Class II accessory structures.

"Trailer" means a mobilehome or similar portable structure having no foundation other than wheels, jacks or skirtings, and so designed or constructed as to permit occupancy for dwelling or sleeping purposes.

"Trailer park" means a site or portion of a site which is used or intended to be used by persons living in trailers or mobilehomes on a permanent or transient basis.

"Transient occupancy" means when a person is entitled to occupancy for a period of 30 consecutive calendar days or less, counting portions of calendar days as full days.

"Transitional housing" means buildings configured as rental housing development, but operated under program requirements that call for the termination of assistance and recirculation of the assisted unit to another eligible program recipient at some predetermined future point in time, which shall be no less than six months. (See California Health and Safety Code 50675.2(h).)

"Transmission lines" means an electric power line bringing power to a receiving substation or a distribution substation.

"Unlicensed wireless services" means the offering of wireless telecommunication services using duly authorized devices which do not require individual licenses from the Federal Communications Commission. The provision of direct-tohome satellite services is not incorporated into this definition.

"Unreinforced masonry (URM) building" is a building or structure which is constructed with unreinforced masonry bearing walls and shall include, but not be limited to:

"Usable open space" means open space meeting the requirements of Section 18.84.170 of this title.

"Use" means the purpose for which a site or structure is arranged, designed, intended, constructed, erected, moved, altered or enlarged, or for which either a site or a structure is or may be occupied or maintained.

"Accessory use" means a use which is appropriate, subordinate, and customarily incidental to the main use of the site and which is located on the same site as the main use.

"Width" means the horizontal distance between the side property lines of a site measured at right angles to the depth at a point midway between the front and rear property lines.

"Wind energy facility" means one or more electrical power generators that convert wind into electricity through the utilization of a shaft turned by blades or similar structure, which are turned by wind.

"Winery" means a business taking up no more than 10,000 square feet in area that makes wine primarily for retail sales. Ancillary wholesale sales are also permitted. No on-site consumption of wine is permitted except as part of quality testing and/or tours. A business where customers make wine on-site for their personal use shall be classified as a winery for purposes of this zoning code.

"Yard" means an open space on the same site as a structure, unoccupied and unobstructed by structures from the ground upward or from the floor level of the structure requiring the yard upward, except as otherwise provided in this chapter, including a "front yard," "side yard," "rear yard" or space between structures.

"Front yard" means a yard extending across the full width of a site, the depth of which is the minimum horizontal distance between the front property line and a line parallel thereto on the site.

"Rear yard" means a yard extending across the full width of a site, the depth of which is the minimum horizontal distance between the rear property line and a line parallel thereto on the site.

"Side yard" means a yard extending from the rear line of the required front yard or the front property line of the site where no front yard is required, to the front line of the required rear yard, or the rear property line of the site where no rear yard is required, the width of which is the minimum horizontal distance between the side property line and a line parallel thereto on the site. On the street side of a corner lot the side yard shall extend from the rear line of the required front yard, or the front property line where no front yard is required, to the rear property line of the site.