For the purposes of carrying out the intent of this title, words, phrases and terms shall be deemed to have the meanings ascribed to them in the following sections covering definitions. (Ord. 1000 § 6.00, 1955)

   A.   When not inconsistent with the context, words used in the present tense include the future; words in the singular number include the plural, and those in the plural number include the singular.

   B.   The word "building" includes the word "structure".

   C.   The word "City" means the City of Redlands.

   D.   The word "commission" means the Planning Commission of the City of Redlands.

   E.   The word "Council" means the City Council of Redlands.

   F.   The word "shall" is mandatory and the word "may" is permissive.

   G.   The word "used" includes the words "arranged for, designed for, occupied, or intended to be occupied for". (Ord. 1000 § 6.10, 1955)

"Accessory buildings" means a detached, subordinate building located on the same lot with a main building, the use of which is customarily incidental to that permitted in the main building, or to the land upon which the main building is located. A garage attached to the main building shall be considered a part of the main building. (Ord. 1000 § 6.20, 1955)

For "accessory living quarters", see definition of guesthouse (accessory living quarters). (Ord. 1000 § 6.20, 1955)

"Accessory use" means a use incidental or subordinate to and devoted exclusively to the main use of the land or building thereon. (Ord. 1000 § 6.20, 1955)

The city planning commission is designated as the "advisory agency" to the mayor and city council on all matters related to the zoning and use of land and structures. (Ord. 1000 § 6.20, 1955)

"Airport" means any area which is used or is intended to be used for the taking off and landing of aircraft, including helicopters, and any appurtenance areas which are used, or are intended to be used, for airport buildings or facilities, including open spaces, taxiways and tie down areas. (Ord. 1000 § 6.20, 1955)

"Alley" means a public or private way, at the rear or side of property, permanently reserved as a means of secondary vehicular access to abutting property. (Ord. 1000 § 6.20, 1955)

For "altered", see definition of Structural Alterations. (Ord. 1000 § 6.20, 1955)

"Animal hospital" means a place where animals or pets are given medical or surgical treatment and are cared for during the time of such treatment. The use of the premises as a kennel or a place where animals or pets are boarded for remuneration may be permitted only when incidental to the principal use. (Ord. 1000 § 6.20, 1955)

For "apartment", see definition of Dwelling Units. (Ord. 1000 § 6.20, 1955)

"Apartment hotel" means a building or portion thereof containing individual guestrooms or suites of rooms and dwelling units. (Ord. 1000 § 6.20, 1955)

"Apartment house" means a building, or portion thereof, designed or used for three (3) or more dwelling units, or a combination of three (3) or more dwelling units, and not more than five (5) guestrooms or suites of rooms. (Ord. 1000 § 6.20, 1955)

"Auto and/or trailer camp" means any area or tract of land where space is rented or held for rent to owners or users of trailer coaches, or where free camping is provided owners or users of trailer coaches for the purpose of securing their trade. (Ord. 1000 § 6.20, 1955)

"Automobile and trailer sales lot" means an open area used for the display, sales and/or rental of new or used automobiles and trailer coaches, but where no repair, repainting or remodeling is done. (Ord. 1000 § 6.20, 1955)

"Automobile service stations" means an area which provides for the servicing of motor vehicles, including tube and tire repairs, battery charging, storage of merchandise and supplies related to the servicing of motor vehicles, sale of gasoline and lubricants, automobile washing (not including automatic carwash) and grease racks, but excluding automobile repairs, body and fender work, engine overhauling, and other similar activities. (Ord. 1000 § 6.20, 1955)

"Automobile trailer and/or house trailer" means any building or structure used for living or sleeping purposes, and equipped with wheels or other means to facilitate movement from place to place, and vehicles when used for living or sleeping purposes. (Ord. 1000 § 6.20, 1955)

"Automobile wrecking" means the wrecking or dismantling of used motor vehicles or trailers, or the storage of, sale of or dumping of dismantled, partly dismantled, obsolete or wrecked motor vehicles, or their parts. (Ord. 1000 § 6.20, 1955)

"Basement" means a space wholly or partly underground, and having more than one-half (1/2) of its height, measuring from its floor to its ceiling, below the average adjoining grade. If the finished floor level directly above a basement is more than six feet (6') above grade at any point, such basement shall be considered a "story". (Ord. 1000 § 6.20, 1955)

"Block" means a parcel of land surrounded by public streets, highways, freeways, railroad right of way, flood control channel, creek, wash, river, or unsubdivided acreage, or any combination thereof. (Ord. 1000 § 6.20, 1955)

"Building" means any structure having a roof and walls built and maintained for the support, shelter or enclosure of persons, animals, chattels or property of any kind, including an apartment house, hotel or dwelling, either singly or in combination. (Ord. 1000 § 6.20, 1955)

"Height of building" means the vertical distance, measured from the adjoining curb level to the highest point of the structure, exclusive of chimneys and ventilators; provided, however, that where buildings are set back from the street line, the height shall be measured from the average elevation of the finished grade at the front of the building. (Ord. 1000 § 6.20, 1955)

"Building line" means any private property line coterminous with a street, or a building line established by the county or city ordinance. (Ord. 1000 § 6.20, 1955)

"Main building" means a building within which is conducted the principal use permitted on the lot, as provided by this title. (Ord. 1000 § 6.20, 1955)

"Building site" means the ground area of a building, together with all open space required by this title. (Ord. 1000 § 6.20, 1955)

"Unit group building" means two (2) or more buildings grouped on a lot. (Ord. 1000 § 6.20, 1955)

"Business" or "commercial" means the purchase, sale or other transaction involving the handling or disposition (other than that included in the term "industry", as defined in this chapter), of any article, substance or commodity for profit or a livelihood, including, in addition, automobile or trailer camps, tourist courts, and motels, public garages, office buildings, offices of doctors and other professionals, outdoor advertising signs and structures, public stables, recreational and amusement enterprises conducted for profit, shops for the sale of personal services, places where commodities or services are sold or are offered for sale, either by direct handling of merchandise or by agreements to furnish them, but not including dumps and junkyards. (Ord. 1000 § 6.20, 1955)

For "camp trailer", see definition of Auto And/Or Trailer Camp. (Ord. 1000 § 6.20, 1955)

"Carport" means a permanent, roofed structure with not more than two (2) enclosed sides, used or intended to be used for automobile shelter and storage. Each dwelling unit shall have not less than one hundred eighty (180) cubic feet of enclosed storage space within a carport or other acceptable structure. Such storage space shall not encroach into required parking dimensions nor reduce the utility of a parking space. (Ord. 1000 § 6.20, 1955)

For "centerline", see definition of Street Centerline. (Ord. 1000 § 6.20, 1955)

"Private club" means an association of persons (whether or not incorporated), religious or otherwise, for a common purpose, but not including groups which are organized primarily to render a service carried on as a business for profit. (Ord. 1000 § 6.20, 1955)

"Community care facility" has the same meaning as in California Health & Safety Code section 1502. A community care facility for not more than six (6) persons (excluding members of the resident family or persons employed as facility staff) which may operate on a twenty four (24) hour-a-day basis within the meaning of the Community Care Facilities Act is a "dwelling" in the individual zone chapters. Whether or not unrelated persons are living together, a residential care facility that serves six (6) or fewer persons (excluding members of the resident family or persons employed as facility staff) shall be considered a residential use of property for the purposes of these zoning regulations (Calif. Health & Safety Code, section 1568.0831). A community care facility is subject only to those restrictions that apply to other dwellings of the same type within the same zone in the individual zone chapters. (Ord. 2985, 2025)

"Court" means an open, unoccupied space, other than a yard, on the same lot with a building and bounded on two (2) or more sides by such building. (Ord. 1000 § 6.20, 1955)

"Daycare center" means any child daycare facility other than a small or large family daycare home, and includes infant centers, preschools and extended child daycare facilities providing nonmedical care and supervision of clients in need of supervision and assistance essential for sustaining the activities of daily living and protection of the individual on less than a twenty four (24) hour basis. (Ord. 2094 § 1, 1989)

"Dormitory" means a guestroom designed, intended or occupied as sleeping quarters by more than two (2) persons. Every one hundred (100) square feet of superficial floor area in a dormitory shall be considered as a separate guestroom. (Ord. 1000 § 6.20, 1955)

"Dump" means a place used for the disposal, abandonment, discarding, dumping, reduction, burial, incineration, or by any other means, of any garbage, sewage, trash, refuse, waste material, offal or dead animals; provided, that this definition shall not be deemed to include means of disposal of such substances customarily incidental and accessory to dwellings, institutions, commercial, industrial and agricultural uses, unless such disposal endangers the health and safety. (Ord. 1000 § 6.20, 1955)

For "duplex", see definition of Dwelling, Two-Family. (Ord. 1000 § 6.20, 1955)

"Dwelling" means a building, or portion thereof, designed and used exclusively for residential occupancy, including one-family, two-family and multiple dwellings, but not including hotels, boarding houses or lodging houses. (Ord. 1000 § 6.20, 1955)

"Dwelling group" means two (2) or more dwellings located on a single lot. (Ord. 1000 § 6.20, 1955)

"Multiple dwelling" means a detached building designed and used for occupancy by two (2) or more families, all living independently of each other. (Ord. 1000 § 6.20, 1955)

"One-family dwelling" means a detached building designed exclusively for the occupancy of one family. (Ord. 1000 § 6.20, 1955)

"Three-family or four-family dwelling" means a building or portion thereof used and/or designed as a residence, with separate dwelling units for occupancy by three (3) or four (4) families living independently of each other. (Ord. 1000 § 6.20, 1955)

"Two-family dwelling" means a building designed and/or used exclusively for the occupancy of two (2) families living independently of each other. (Ord. 1000 § 6.20, 1955)

"Dwelling units" means a group of two (2) or more habitable rooms, one of which is a kitchen, designed for occupancy by one family for living and sleeping purposes. (Ord. 1000 § 6.20, 1955)

"Easement" means a space on a lot or parcel of land, and so indicated on a subdivision map or in a deed restriction, reserved for and/or used for public utilities. No building may be built within the space so designated. (Ord. 1000 § 6.20, 1955)

"Educational institution" means a school, college or university, supported wholly or in part by public funds, or giving general academic instruction equivalent to the standards prescribed by the state board of education. (Ord. 1000 § 6.20, 1955)

   A.   "Employee housing" means both of the following:

      1.   Qualified employee housing providing accommodations for six (6) or fewer employees, pursuant to California Health and Safety Code section 17021.5(b), shall be deemed a single-family dwelling and is allowed in residential zones. Employee housing is subject to all Municipal Codes, regulations, and other standards generally applicable to other residential dwellings of the same type in the same zone.

      2.   Qualified employee housing providing accommodations for seven (7) or more employees and consisting of no more than thirty six (36) beds in group quarters or twelve (12) units or spaces designed for use by a single family or household, pursuant to Health and Safety Code Section 17021.6(b), shall be deemed an agricultural land use and is allowed in such zones for agricultural use or an equivalent agricultural district within a City approved Specific Plan. Employee housing is subject to all Municipal Codes, regulations, and other standards generally applicable to other agricultural activity in the same zone.

   B.   Employee housing is not included within the definition of a boarding house, rooming house, single room occupancy residence, hotel, dormitory, or other similar term that implies that the employee housing is a business run for profit or differs in any other way from a family dwelling.

   C.   Employee housing does not include housing that is provided by someone other than an agricultural employer or an agent thereof if such housing is offered and rented to nonagricultural employees on the same terms that it is offered to agricultural employees, none of the occupants of the housing are employed by the owner or property manager of the housing, none of the occupants of the housing have rent deducted from their wages, negotiation of the terms of occupancy of the housing is conducted between each occupant and the owner or manager of the property, the occupants of the housing are not required to live in the housing as a condition of employment, and the occupants of the housing are not referred to live in the housing by the employer of the occupants or the employer's agent, or an agricultural employer.

   D.   "Employee" as used in this section does not include a person engaged in household domestic service or a person employed under circumstances in which his or her wages are incidental to professional training or training for a religious vocation and where the employer is exempt from taxation under the California Constitution. In addition to the requirements of this section, employee housing shall comply with the requirements of the Employee Housing Act (Calif. Health & Safety Code, section 17000 et seq.). (Ord. 2985, 2025)

"Family" means an individual or group of two (2) or more persons living together in a dwelling unit, with common access to, and common use of all living, kitchen, and eating areas within the dwelling unit on a continuous non-transient basis. Each member of the family has access to all parts of the dwelling; interact with each other; share meals; and/or share household activities. If the dwelling unit is rented, all adult residents have chosen to jointly occupy the entire premises of the dwelling unit, under a single written lease with joint use and responsibility for the premises. Further, the makeup of the household occupying the rental is determined by the residents of the dwelling unit rather than the landlord, property manager, or agency. The term "family" shall not include institutional group living situations such as dormitories, fraternities, sororities, monasteries, convents, or similar group living arrangements whose association is temporary or of limited duration (i.e., school term, completion of a program, rehabilitation, etc.); nor does it include group living arrangements such as boarding houses, single-room occupancy residences, hotels, or motels. Indications that a household may not be operating as a "family" may include but are not limited to: members of the household have separate, private entrances; each member of the household has locks or deadbolts on their bedroom door; members of the household have separate food storage facilities; members have restricted access to certain portions of the dwelling; and/or lease a specific room or portion of the dwelling. (Ord. 2985, 2025: Ord. 1000 § 6.20, 1955)

"Farm site" means a lot or parcel of land two and one-half (21/2) acres in area, or larger. (Ord. 1000 § 6.20, 1955)

"Fence" means any structural device forming a physical barrier which is so constructed that not less than fifty percent (50%) of the vertical surface is open to permit the transmission of light, air and vision through such surface in a horizontal plane. This shall include wire mesh, steel mesh, chainlink, louvered, stake, and other similar materials. planting shall be regulated to maintain the required open areas in the fence structure. (Ord. 1000 § 6.20, 1955)

"Flag lot" means a lot with a narrow strip of land (the staff) which extends from the body of the lot to the right of way in order to meet minimum street frontage requirements. (Ord. 2279 § 1, 1995)

"Body of a flag lot" means the main area of a lot which would be landlocked without the staff extension to the right of way. The body portion of any lot begins at the point the lot meets the minimum width of the respective zone. (Ord. 2279 § 1, 1995)

"Staff of a flag lot" means the portion of the lot extending from the right of way to the point where the lot meets the minimum width of the respective zone. (Ord. 2279 § 1, 1995)

"Front wall" means the wall of a building or structure nearest the street upon which the building fronts, but excluding certain architectural features such as cornices, canopies, eaves or embellishments. (Ord. 1000 § 6.20, 1955)

"Frontage" means all property fronting on one side of a street between a street and right of way, waterway, or between intersecting or intercepting streets, the end of a dead-end street or city boundary, measured along a street line. An intercepting street shall determine only the boundary of the frontage on the side of the street that it intercepts. (Ord. 1000 § 6.20, 1955)

"Private garage" means a detached accessory building or a portion of a main building on the same lot as the dwelling for the housing of vehicles of the occupants of the dwelling, including carports. (Ord. 1000 § 6.20, 1955)

"Public garage" means any garage other than a private garage. (Ord. 1000 § 6.20, 1955)

"Storage garage" means any premises used exclusively for the storage of vehicles. (Ord. 1000 § 6.20, 1955)

"Grade" means the average of the finished ground level at the center of all of the exterior walls of a building. In case the front wall is parallel to and within five feet (5') of a sidewalk, the grade shall be measured at the sidewalk at the centerline of the front of the lot. (Ord. 1000 § 6.20, 1955)

"Guest" means any transient person who occupies a room for sleeping purposes. (Ord. 1000 § 6.20, 1955)

"Guesthouse (accessory living quarters)" means living quarters within a detached accessory building located on the same premises with the main building, for use by temporary guests of the occupant of the premises, such quarters having no kitchen facilities and not rented or otherwise used as a separate dwelling unit. (Ord. 1000 § 6.20, 1955)

"Guestroom" means a room which is designed to be occupied by one or more guests for sleeping purposes, but not including dormitories. (Ord. 1000 § 6.20, 1955)

"Half story" means a story under a gable, hip or gambrel roof, plates of which are not more than three feet (3') above the floor of such story. (Ord. 1000 § 6.20, 1955)

"Hedge" means a plant or series of plants, shrubs or other landscape material, so arranged as to form a physical barrier or enclosure. (Ord. 1000 § 6.20, 1955)

For "height of building" see definition of Building, Height Of. (Ord. 1000 § 6.20, 1955)

"Home occupation" means any use customarily conducted entirely within a dwelling and carried on by the inhabitants thereof, which use is clearly incidental and secondary to the use of the structure for dwelling purposes, and which use does not change the character thereof, or does not adversely affect the uses permitted in the district of which it is a part, and wherein no products are sold on the premises other than those produced thereon, no signs are displayed except as permitted by this title, no persons are employed other than domestic help, and no mechanical equipment is used other than that necessary or convenient for domestic purposes. (Ord. 1000 § 6.20, 1955)

"Hospital" means any building or portion thereof used for the in-patient accommodation and licensed medical care of sick, injured, or infirm persons, and includes sanitariums, alcoholic sanitariums, and commercial institutions for the cure of chronic drug addicts and mental patients. (Ord. 2985, 2025: Ord. 1000 § 6.20, 1955)

For "animal hospital", see definition of Animal Hospital. (Ord. 1000 § 6.20, 1955)

"Hotel" means any building or portion thereof designed or used or containing six (6) or more guestrooms or suites of rooms, or a combination of six (6) or more guestrooms or suites of rooms, and not more than two (2) dwelling units, but not including any institutions in which human beings are housed or detained under legal restraint. (Ord. 1000 § 6.20, 1955)

"Industry" means the manufacture, fabrication, processing, reduction or destruction of any article, substance or commodity, or any other treatment thereof in such a manner as to change the form, character or appearance thereof, including, but not limited to, the following: animal hospitals, bottling plants, building or contractors yards, cleaning and dyeing establishments, creameries, dog pounds, junkyards, laundries, lumberyards, milk bottling and distribution stations, automobile wrecking yards, stockyards, storage elevators, truck storage yards, warehouses, wholesale storage, and other similar types of enterprise. (Ord. 1000 § 6.20, 1955)

"Junkyard" means any lot, or the use of any portion of a lot, for the dismantling or wrecking of automobiles or other motor vehicles or machinery, or for the storage or keeping for sale of parts and equipment resulting from such dismantling or wrecking, or for the storage or keeping of junk, including scrap metals or other scrap materials. (Ord. 1000 § 6.20, 1955)

"Kennel" means any lot or premises on which more than three (3) or more dogs at least four (4) months of age are kept, boarded or trained. (Ord. 1000 § 6.20, 1955)

"Kitchen" means any room designed to be used or maintained for the cooking and/or preparation of food. (Ord. 1000 § 6.20, 1955)

"Loading space" means an off street space or berth on the same lot with a main building, or contiguous to a group of buildings, for the temporary parking of commercial vehicles while loading or unloading. It shall abut a street, alley or other appropriate means of ingress or egress. (Ord. 1000 § 6.20, 1955)

No meals served or prepared on the premises for compensation and/or for sale. (Ord. 1000 § 6.20, 1955)

"Lot" means a parcel of land, occupied or to be occupied by a use, building or group of buildings and accessory buildings, together with such yards, open spaces, lot width, depth and area as are required by this title, and fronting upon a dedicated street or upon a private easement or street determined by the commission as being adequate for purposes of access. (Ord. 1000 § 6.20, 1955)

"Lot area" means the total of the lot area, measured in a horizontal plane, within the lot lines of a lot. (Ord. 1000 § 6.20, 1955)

"Corner lot" means a lot located at the intersection of two (2) or more streets, or a street and an alley, having an angle of intersection of not more than one hundred thirty five degrees (135°). (Ord. 1000 § 6.20, 1955)

"Reversed corner lot" means a corner lot, the side line of which is substantially a continuation of the front lot lines of the lots to its rear, whether across an alley or not. (Ord. 1000 § 6.20, 1955)

"Lot depth" means the horizontal distance between the front and rear lot lines measured in the mean direction of the side lot lines. (Ord. 1000 § 6.20, 1955)

"Interior lot" means a lot other than a corner lot. (Ord. 1000 § 6.20, 1955)

"Key lot" means any lot where the side lot line abuts the rear lot line of other lots. (Ord. 1000 § 6.20, 1955)

"Lot line" means any line bounding a lot, as defined in this chapter. (Ord. 1000 § 6.20, 1955)

For "front lot line", see definition of Frontage. (Ord. 1000 § 6.20, 1955)

"Lot of record" means a parcel of land, as shown on the records of the county assessor at the time of the passage of the ordinance codified in this title. (Ord. 1000 § 6.20, 1955)

"Through lot" means a lot having frontage on two (2) parallel, or approximately parallel, dedicated streets. The lot frontage in instances such as this shall be determined by the planning commission. (Ord. 1000 § 6.20, 1955)

"Lot width" means the horizontal distance between the side lot lines, measured at right angles to the lot depth at the building setback line, as established for each district in this title. See section 18.152.020 of this title for hilly areas. (Ord. 1000 § 6.20, 1955)

"Marquee" means a permanent roofed structure attached to and supported by the building, and projecting over public property. (Ord. 1000 § 6.20, 1955)

One "mile" means and is defined as a linear distance of not less than five thousand two hundred eighty feet (5,280'), measured radially on a horizontal plane between the closest boundaries of the properties under consideration. (Ord. 1000 § 6.20, 1955)

"Minimum frontage" means the required frontage of a lot which must be located on dedicated right of way in order to obtain a building permit. The minimum frontage on right of way in any zone is thirty feet (30'). (Ord. 2279 § 2, 1995)

"Minimum lot size" means the minimum lot area square footage as required by the respective zoning district. The staff portion of the lot is not included in the calculation of the minimum lot size. (Ord. 2279 § 2, 1995)

"Motel" means a group of dwellings used for commercial purposes, such as a building or group of two (2) or more detached, semidetached or attached buildings containing guestrooms or dwelling units, with automobile storage space provided in connection therewith, which building or group is designed, intended or used primarily for the accommodation of transient automobile travelers, including groups designated as auto cabins, motor courts, motels and similar designations. (Ord. 1000 § 6.20, 1955)

"Nonconforming structure" means a building existing at the time of the adoption of the ordinance codified in this title, which does not conform to the regulations for the district in which it is located, as set forth in this chapter. (Ord. 1000 § 6.20, 1955)

"Nonconforming use" means a use of a building or land existing at the time of the adoption of the ordinance codified in this title, which does not conform to the regulations for the district in which it is located, as set forth in this title. (Ord. 1000 § 6.20, 1955)

"One-half mile" means a linear distance of not less than two thousand six hundred forty feet (2,640'), measured radially on a horizontal plane between the closest boundaries of the properties under consideration. (Ord. 1000 § 6.20, 1955)

"Private parking area" means an open area, other than a street, used for the parking of automotive vehicles, and restricted from general public use. (Ord. 1000 § 6.20, 1955)

"Public parking area" means an area, other than a private parking area or street, used for the parking of vehicles and available for public or quasi-public use, either free or for remuneration. (Ord. 1000 § 6.20, 1955)

"Automobile parking space" means space exclusive of driveways, ramps, columns, loading areas, office or work areas, for the parking of one automobile. Such space shall be not less than eight feet (8') in width and eighteen feet (18') in length, and shall be accessible. (Ord. 1000 § 6.20, 1955)

"Person" means an individual, firm, copartnership, joint adventure, association, corporation, estate, trust, receiver, syndicate, the Federal or State government, City, County, district, or any other group or combination acting as an entity. (Ord. 1000 § 6.20, 1955)

"Rest home" means premises used for the housing of and caring for the ambulatory aged or infirm. There shall be only incidental convalescent care not involving either trained nurse or physician residing on the premises. There shall be no surgery, physical therapy or other similar activities. (Ord. 1000 § 6.20, 1955)

"Room" means an unsubdivided portion of the interior of a dwelling unit, excluding bathroom, kitchen, closets, hallways and service porches. (Ord. 1000 § 6.20, 1955)

For "rooming house", see "boarding house". (Ord. 1000 § 6.20, 1955)

For "school", see definition of educational institution. (Ord. 1000 § 6.20, 1955)

"Sign" means and includes all outdoor advertising on any card, cloth, paper, plastic, metal, painted glass, wooden or stone materials, and any and all devices, structural or otherwise, lighted or unlighted, painted or not painted, attached to, made a part of or placed in the window of, in the front, rear, sides or top of any structure on any land, or any tree, wall, bush, rock, post, fence, building or structure, and visible from any public or private street, way, thoroughfare, alley or walk, which device announces or directs attention to the name or nature of a business, occupant of a structure, building or land, or the nature or type of goods, services or products produced, sold, stored, furnished or available at that location or at any other location, including signs specifically for the sale of real property.

The term "placed", as used in this section, means and includes erected, constructed, posted, painted, printed, tacked, glued, stuck, carved, or otherwise fastened, fixed or made visible in any manner whatsoever. (Ord. 1000 § 6.20, 1955)

"Story" means a space in a building between the surface of any floor and the surface of the floor next above, or, if there is no floor above, then the space between such floor and the ceiling or roof above. (Ord. 1000 § 6.20, 1955)

"Street" means a public thoroughfare or right of way dedicated, deeded or condemned for use as such, other than an alley, which affords the principal means of access to abutting property, including avenue, place, way, drive, lane, boulevard, highway, road, and any other thoroughfare, except as excluded in this title. (Ord. 1000 § 6.20, 1955)

"Street centerline" means the centerline of a street or right of way, as established by official surveys. (Ord. 1000 § 6.20, 1955)

"Structural alterations" means any change in the supporting members of a building, such as in a bearing wall, column, beam or girder, floor or ceiling joists, roof rafters, foundations, piles or retaining walls, or similar components. (Ord. 1000 § 6.20, 1955)

"Structure" means anything constructed or built, any edifice or building of any kind, or any piece of work artificially built up or composed of parts jointed together in some definite manner, which requires location on the ground, or which is attached to something having a location on the ground. (Ord. 1000 § 6.20, 1955)

"Supportive housing" means either:

   A.   Supportive housing occupied by the target population, as those terms are defined in California Government Code section 65582; or

   B.   Supportive housing occupied by the target population, as those terms are defined in California Government Code section 65650.

Supportive housing is a "dwelling" in the individual zone chapters. Supportive housing occupied by the target population (as defined in Calif. Gov. Code section 65582) is subject only to those restrictions that apply to other dwellings of the same type within the same zone in the individual zone chapters. Supportive housing occupied by the target population (as defined in Calif. Gov. Code section 65650) is eligible for streamlined ministerial approval under Chapter 18.12, section 18.12.190 of this title, in zones where multifamily and mixed uses are permitted if the proposed housing development satisfies the requirements of California Government Code section 65651, subdivision (a). (Ord. 2985, 2025)

"Tourist home" means a home which has been converted into premises offering rooms to transient guests for remuneration. (Ord. 1000 § 6.20, 1955)

For "trailer camp" see definition of Auto And/Or Trailer Camp. (Ord. 1000 § 6.20, 1955)

"Transient" means a person who requests accommodations for a price, with or without meals, for a period of not more than one month. (Ord. 1000 § 6.20, 1955)

"Transitional housing" has the same meaning as in California Government Code section 65582. Transitional housing is a "dwelling" in the individual zone chapters. Transitional housing is subject only to those restrictions that apply to other dwellings of the same type within the same zone in the individual zone chapters. (Ord. 2985, 2025)

"Truck and trailer sales lot" means an open area where trucks and/or trailers are sold, leased or rented, and where no repairs, repainting or remodeling is done. (Ord. 1000 § 6.20, 1955)

"Urban area" means any land within the city limits which is not in the A-1 agricultural district. (Ord. 1000 § 6.20, 1955)

"Urban lot" means a lot containing less than eight thousand (8,000) square feet of area and served by such urban facilities as sanitary sewers, curbs, gutters, sidewalks, etc. (Ord. 1000 § 6.20, 1955)

"Use" means the purpose for which land or a building is arranged, designed or intended, or for which either land or building is or may be occupied or maintained. (Ord. 1000 § 6.20, 1955)

"Visual obstruction" means any combination of fencing, hedges, trees, shrubs and walls which limits the visibility of persons at intersecting or intercepting streets and alleys at a point three feet (3') above the ground, measured in a vertical plane in the sidewalk area. (Ord. 1000 § 6.20, 1955)

"Wall" means any structure or device forming a physical barrier, which is so constructed that fifty percent (50%) or more of the vertical surface is closed, and prevents the passage of light, air and vision through such surface in a horizontal plane. This shall include concrete, concrete block, wood, or other materials that are solids and are so assembled as to form a solid barrier. (Ord. 1000 § 6.20, 1955)

"Permanent wall" means any physical structure composed of materials that are of a permanent nature and which requires no maintenance. This shall include solid masonry, concrete slab, concrete block, and other materials acceptable to the commission. (Ord. 1000 § 6.20, 1955)

"Yard" means any open space, other than a court, on the same lot with a building or a dwelling group, which open space is unoccupied and unobstructed from the ground upward to the sky except for the projections and/or accessory buildings permitted by this title. (Ord. 1000 § 6.20, 1955)

"Front yard" means a yard between the front line of a building and the front boundary line of the lot on which the building is situated. A side yard adjacent to a street shall be the same as a front yard. (Ord. 1000 § 6.20, 1955)

"Rear yard" means a yard between the extreme rear line of a building and the rear of the lot on which the building is situated. (Ord. 1000 § 6.20, 1955)

"Side yard" means a yard extending from the front yard, or from the front lot line where no front yard is required by this title, to the rear yard, or rear lot line, between the side lot line and the nearest wall of the main building, or of an accessory building attached thereto. (Ord. 1000 § 6.20, 1955)

"Zone" means a zoning district, shown on the zone map, to which uniform regulations apply. (Ord. 1000 § 6.20, 1955)

"Change of zone" means the legislative act of removing one or more parcels of land from one zone and placing them in another zone on the official zoning map of the city. (Ord. 1000 § 6.20, 1955)

"Zone map" means the official zoning map of the city of Redlands, which is a part of the comprehensive zoning ordinance of the city of Redlands. (Ord. 1000 § 6.20, 1955)

"Zoning ordinance", "land use ordinance" or "ordinance" means the comprehensive zoning ordinance of the city of Redlands. (Ord. 1000 § 6.20, 1955)