For the purpose of this article certain words and terms used herein are defined in the following sections. Words used in the present tense include the future, words in the singular number include the plural, and words in the plural number include the singular unless the natural construction of the wording indicates otherwise. The word "shall" is mandatory; and the word "may," permissive.

For the purpose of this title the Uniform Building Code, as amended periodically, and subject to any amendments, additions, and deletions set forth in this chapter, shall define all words, phrases, and terminology which are not otherwise defined herein. In the event that the definition of any word, phrase, or terminology herein conflicts with a definition within the Uniform Building Code, the definitions set forth herein shall prevail.

"Accessory dwelling unit" or "ADU" means an attached or a detached residential dwelling unit located on a single lot with a proposed or existing single-family residence or existing multifamily residence 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 parcel as the single-family dwelling is situated. At minimum, the kitchen shall contain a sink, refrigerator, and either a cooktop or range. An accessory dwelling unit also includes the following:

"Accessory structure" means a subordinate structure not intended for habitation (excepting approved accessory dwelling units) and detached from but located on the same lot as the primary structure. The use of an accessory structure is incidental to that of the primary structure. Excluded from this definition are trash enclosures, storage sheds, equipment structures, decks and planter boxes with a maximum height of forty-two inches, and similar small structures.

"Accessory use" means a use that is incidental, related, and clearly subordinate to the primary use of the parcel or building, which does not alter the primary use of such parcel or building nor serve property other than the parcel of land on which the primary use is located.

"Adult business" means any business establishment which, as a regular and substantial course of conduct, offers, sells, or distributes adult-oriented merchandise, or which offers to its patrons materials, products, merchandise, services, or entertainment characterized by an emphasis on matters depicting, describing, or relating to sexual activities or anatomical areas, but not including those uses or activities which are preempted by state law.

"Advertising display" means advertising structure or sign.

"Advertising structure" means a structure of any kind or character erected or maintained for outdoor advertising purposes on which any poster, bill, printing, painting, or other advertisement of any kind whatsoever may be placed, including statuary. Such term does not include:

"Alley" means any public thoroughfare which affords only a secondary means of access to abutting property.

"Alternative energy structure" means a structure or installation such as a windmill, solar collecting array, or geothermal system, which is designed and intended to produce energy from natural forces such as wind, sunlight, or geothermal heat.

"Amusement game center" means a public place of amusement or public place of business in which more than three amusement machines are installed. As used herein, an "amusement machine" is any device, machine, apparatus, or other instrument (including, but not limited to, electronic games, marble games, and pinball games) the operation of which is permitted, controlled, allowed, or made possible by the deposit or placing of any coin, plate disk, slug or key into any slot, receptacle, crevice, or other opening, or by the payment of any fee or fees, for its use as a game or contest of any description, or which may be used for any such game or contest, and the use or possession of which is not prohibited by laws of the state.

"Arcade" means a structure designed to provide a passage or pedestrian way through all or a portion of the structure, having as the primary function the provision of access to stores or offices from such pedestrian way.

"Banks and other financial" means a financial institution licensed to receive deposits and make loans. Banks may also provide financial services such as wealth management, currency exchange, and safe deposit boxes. This definition does not include institutions that fall under professional offices as defined by this chapter.

"Bars, nightclubs, and lounges" means businesses primarily engaged in the serving of alcoholic beverages to paying customers, and in which the service of food is only incidental to the consumption of such beverages.

"Boardinghouse" means a dwelling other than a hotel where lodging and meals for three or more persons is provided for compensation with a host for a rental period of thirty or more consecutive calendar days.

"Building" means any structure having a roof supported by columns or by walls and designed for the shelter or housing of any individual, animal, process, equipment, goods, or materials.

"Building coverage" means all of the area of any building site occupied by any main building or accessory building.

"Main building" means a building in which is conducted the principal use of the lot and/or building site on which it is situated. A parking structure under a building shall be considered part of the main building.

"Building site" means a lot or parcel of land, in single or joint ownership, and occupied or to be occupied by a main building and accessory buildings, or by a dwelling group and its accessory buildings, or by any use permitted herein, together with such open spaces as required by the terms of this article and having its principal frontage on a street, road or highway. (See Section 12.80.290, Lot.)

"Business services" means an establishment that provides services to other businesses on a fee or contract basis. This definition includes computer rental and repair, catering, food services, printing and duplicating services, outdoor advertising services, package delivery services, and other similar land uses.

"Car-share service" means a service or company that owns and maintains vehicles for use by its members or employees. Membership means that individuals are pre-approved to use vehicles and are not approved by the car-sharing organization at the time of proposed use. Vehicles are made available to members for periods of use as short as one hour and at variable rates based on duration of use.

"Cemetery" means a place used for the interment of human or animal remains or cremated remains. This definition includes burial parks, crematoriums, mausoleums, columbariums, associated sales and maintenance facilities, and other similar land uses.

"CEQA" means the California Environmental Quality Act of 1970, setting forth requirements for governmental agencies at all levels to develop standards and procedures necessary to protect environmental quality, and setting forth regulations for environmental impact reports (EIR).

"Check cashing establishment" means a business, other than a bank or similar financial institution, which cashes checks for a fee as a principal business activity.

"Chief financial officer" means the chief financial officer of the city of San Bruno.

"Child nursery" means an establishment for the part-time care and instruction whether or not for compensation of seven or more children, other than those residents on the site.

"College and university" means a private or public institution that provides full-time or part-time education beyond high school, and grants associate, bachelor, or similar higher degrees. Trade and vocational schools are excluded from this definition.

"Commercial recreation and entertainment" means an establishment that provides recreational or entertainment activities or services for a fee or admission charge. This definition includes movie theaters, amusement game centers, gaming clubs and card rooms (as may be subject to separate city regulations), bowling alleys, electronic game arcades, skating rinks, billiard rooms, sports clubs, golf driving ranges, water parks, commercial sports centers, and other similar land uses. Food sales may be permitted as an accessory and incidental use to commercial recreation and entertainment uses.

"Community apartment" means a development in which an undivided interest in land is coupled with the right of exclusive occupancy of any apartment located thereon. "Community apartment" includes a stock cooperative, which is a corporation formed or availed of primarily for the purpose of holding title to, either in fee simple or for a term of years, improved real property, if all or substantially all of the shareholders of such corporation receive a right of exclusive occupancy in a portion of the real property, title to which is held by a corporation, which right of occupancy is transferable only concurrently with the transfer of the share or shares of stock in the corporation held by the persons having such right of occupancy. For the purposes of this code, community apartments are subject to the same restrictions, conditions, requirements and taxes as condominiums.

"Community development director" or "director" means the community development director of the city of San Bruno.

"Community facility" means a public or private facility that provides meeting space for public gatherings or that functions as a cultural institution within the community. This definition excludes hospitals, schools, police and fire stations, parks and recreational facilities, cemeteries, or government offices.

"Conditional use" means a use which is allowed in a zoning district subject to obtaining a use permit.

"Condominium" means an estate in real property consisting of an undivided interest in common in a portion of a parcel of real property together with a separate interest in space in a residential, industrial or commercial building on such real property, such as an apartment, office or store. A condominium may include, in addition, a separate interest in other portions of real property. Such separate interest may, with respect to the duration of its enjoyment, be either: (a) an estate or inheritance or perpetual estate; (b) an estate for life; (c) an estate for years, such as a leasehold or subleasehold; or (d) a right of use. Condominiums shall include town-houses.

"Condominium project" means the entire parcel, or portion thereof, of real property, including all structures thereon, subdivided or to be subdivided for the purpose of constructing or converting existing structures to condominium units.

"Construction, maintenance, and repair services" means businesses that provide construction, maintenance, and repair services off site, but which store equipment and materials or perform fabrication or similar work on site. This definition includes off-site plumbing shops, general contractors, contractors' storage yards, appliance repair, janitorial services, electricians, pest control, heating and air conditioning, roofing, painting, landscaping, septic tank service, and other similar uses.

"Conversion" means a change in the type of ownership of one or more lots or parcels of real property, together with the existing attached structures, to that defined as a condominium project or a community apartment project or a stock cooperative, regardless of the present or prior use of such land and structures and whether substantial improvements have been made or are to be made to such structures.

"Council" means the city council of San Bruno.

"Day care center" means a facility that provides non-medical care and supervision of minors for periods of less than twenty-four hours. Examples include nursery schools, day nurseries, childcare centers, infant day care centers, cooperative day care centers, and similar uses.

"Demolition" means the removal of a building. A building is considered demolished upon removal of fifty percent of more of the existing floor area and/or removal of fifty percent or more of the existing exterior walls.

"Development standards" mean regulations that limit or determine the size, bulk or placement of structures or other improvements and modifications to a property.

"Discretionary action or permit" means an action by the city by which individual judgment is used as a basis to approve or deny a proposed project.

"Disabled person" means a person who has a combination of partial or total physical incapacity and inability to work (as defined in the California Workers Compensation Law), or the inability to engage in any substantial gainful activity by reason of any medically determined physical or mental impairment, or blindness (a central visual acuity of 20/200 or less in the better eye with the use of a correcting lens).

"Drive-through facility" means a facility where a customer is permitted or encouraged, either by the design of physical facilities or by the service procedures offered, to be served while remaining seated within a vehicle. This definition includes drive-through facilities associated with restaurants, coffee shops, pharmacies, banks, automatic car washes, and other similar uses.

"Duplex home" means a residential structure that contains two dwelling units, each with its own entrance. Each unit within a duplex home provides complete, independent living facilities for one or more persons, including permanent provisions for living, sleeping, eating, cooking, and sanitation.

"Dwelling unit" means a building or a portion of a building containing one or more habitable rooms used or designed for occupancy by one family for living and sleeping purposes, including kitchen and bath facilities.

"Emergency shelter" means housing with minimal supportive services for homeless persons that is limited to occupancy of six months or less by a homeless person, and where no individual or household may be denied emergency shelter because of an inability to pay. (Health and Safety Code Section 50801(e).) Emergency shelter includes other interim interventions, including, but not limited to, navigation centers, bridge housing, and respite or recuperative care.

"Employee housing" means a housing accommodation, or property upon which a housing accommodation is located, that meets the requirements as set forth in Health and Safety Code Section 17008. Employee housing can include farmworker housing.

"Excess housekeeping unit" means a housekeeping unit which, when added to other housekeeping units on the same lot, would result in the presence of a number of units on such lot in excess of the maximum number permitted on such lot under the regulations of the applicable zoning district.

"Floor area" means the gross sum of the horizontal areas of each floor of a structure, measured from the exterior wall faces of exterior walls for detached structures and from the centerline of interior party walls for attached structures. Floor area shall also include that portion of a structure with an interior ceiling height of seven feet or more, including crawlspaces, storage areas, attics and similar spaces which are not built or used as habitable space. Areas devoted to interior stairways between two or more floors shall only be counted once for the purposes of determining floor area.

"Floor area ratio" means the gross floor area of a building divided by the total lot area of the parcel on which the building is situated.

"Freeway" means a highway as to which abutting lands have no right or easement of access, or limited or restricted right of easement or access, and which is declared to be such in compliance with the Streets and Highway Code of the state.

"Firearm dealers" means a business that sells firearms as defined in San Bruno Municipal Code Chapter 6.08 (Firearms).

"Gambling club" means any establishment where legal gambling or gaming is conducted or licensed, specifically including any business or other enterprise that conducts or operates legal gambling or gaming. "Gambling club" does not include any facility operated by any bona fide nonprofit society, club, fraternity, labor, or other organization organized for similar purposes, which has adopted bylaws and duly elected directors and members, where the tables are for the exclusive use of the members of the organization, and no charge is made for any of the facilities.

"Legal gambling" means any card or other game, except for bingo, or played for currency, check, credit or any other thing of value which is not prohibited and made unlawful by Chapter 9 (commencing with Section 319) or Chapter 10 (commencing with Section 330) of Title 9 of Part 1 of the Penal Code, or otherwise prohibited by any ordinance of the city of San Bruno.

"Garage" or "carport" means a covered area at least ten feet by twenty feet, designed and usable for storage of motor vehicles and accessible to an improved street.

"Garage apron or driveway" means the paved area not exceeding the width of the garage entrance by more than six inches on either side of the garage entrance.

"Subterranean garage" means a garage structure wholly or partly underground, no portion of which is more than half of the distance above the average level of the adjoining ground, except for openings for ingress and egress.

"Gas and service stations" means any facility used primarily for the retail sale and dispensation of motor fuels, lubricants, and motor vehicle accessories. Included in this definition are incidental food and beverage sales and car wash facilities.

"Ground transportation provider" means any person providing ground transportation services to and from an airport by taxi, limousine, charter party carrier, van, shuttle, bus, or other ground transportation common carrier to the general public, shuttle services for airline employees, or courtesy transportation provided for business purposes. This definition also includes courier operators.

"Habitable space" means space in a structure used for living, sleeping, eating or cooking with an interior ceiling height of at least seven feet. Bathrooms, toilet compartments, closets, halls, utility spaces, and similar areas, are not considered habitable space.

"Health and exercise clubs" means a place of business with exercise equipment and facilities for the use of paying members. This may include use of outside swimming pools or sports courts.

"Heavy equipment sales and rental" means businesses selling, renting, or servicing tools, trucks, tractors, construction equipment, agricultural implements, and similar heavy equipment. Heavy equipment sales and rental uses may include the storage, maintenance and servicing of such equipment.

"Height of buildings" means the vertical distance from the average level of the highest and lowest point of that portion of the lot covered by the building to the topmost point of the roof.

"Home day care" means a licensed facility providing daytime supervision and care for children, located in the provider's own home. Home day care facilities serve between one and fourteen children.

"Home occupation" means a commercial activity conducted which is clearly incidental and secondary to the use of the dwelling for residential purposes, and in accordance with the regulations of this title.

"Hospital" means a medical facility engaged primarily in the provision of diagnostic services and extensive medical treatment, including surgical services and in-patient beds.

"Hotel" means a facility containing guestrooms where lodging is provided for a fee, with or without cooking facilities in individual rooms or suites. Included in this definition are meeting facilities, personal services, recreational facilities, guest dining room, and retail sales that are incidental to guestroom facilities and intended to primarily serve hotel or motel guests.

"Housekeeping unit" means a single living unit, consisting of a room or suite or combination of rooms, providing complete, independent living facilities for one or more persons, including permanent provisions for living, sleeping, eating, cooking, and sanitation.

"Impervious surface" means any surface that does not permit the passage of water. Impervious surfaces include buildings, driveways, parking areas, and impervious paved surfaces unless otherwise constructed of a substantially pervious material.

"Interested party" or "interested person" means any person who is either:

"Junior accessory dwelling unit" or "JADU" means a residential unit that is no more than five hundred square feet in size and contained entirely within a single-family dwelling unit, including an attached garage. A junior accessory dwelling unit must contain an entrance separate from the entrance for the single-family dwelling and shall either include separate sanitation facilities (bathroom containing a sink, toilet, and shower/tub) or share sanitation facilities with the single-family dwelling. An efficiency kitchen is required, which must include a sink, a cooking facility with appliances (e.g., microwave, toaster oven, hot plate), as well as a food preparation counter and storage cabinets.

"Junkyard" means the use of more than one hundred square feet of the area of any lot for any scrap materials or for the dismantling or wrecking of automobiles or other vehicles or machinery, whether for sale or storage.

"Land use" means an activity conducted on a site or in a structure, or the purpose for which a site or structure is designed, arranged, occupied, or maintained.

"Landscaped freeway" means one or more sections of a freeway as to which at least one side of the right-of-way is or may be improved by the planting of lawns, trees, shrubs, flowers, or other ornamental vegetation, which shall require reasonable maintenance. The character of a freeway is not changed to a landscaped freeway merely by planting for the purpose of erosion control, traffic safety requirements, reduction of fire hazards or traffic noise abatement.

"Landscaping" means the planting and maintenance of living plant material, including the installation, use and maintenance of any irrigation system for the plant material, as well as nonliving landscape material (such as rocks, pebbles, sand, mulch, artificial turf, walls, fences, or decorative paving materials).

"Live/work" means a building or space within a building that is used jointly for office, light industrial or commercial use combined with a residential use.

"Lot" means a separate parcel of land which has its principal frontage on a public street, road, highway, or private road as approved by the city. The various classifications of lots are as follows:

"Lot area" means the computed area contained within the lot lines.

"Lot coverage" means all the area of a lot, as projected on a horizontal plane, which is:

"Lot depth" means the horizontal distance between the front and rear property lines of a site measured in the mean direction of the side property lines.

"Lot line" means the boundary of a lot.

"Lot width" means the horizontal distance between the side lines measured at the required front setback line.

"Low barrier navigation center" is a temporary living facility with a low barrier for entry for persons experiencing homelessness that provides services focused on helping homeless individuals and families to quickly obtain permanent housing.

"Lumber yards" means an area used for the storage, distribution, and sale of finished or rough-cut lumber and lumber products.

"Major repair or renovation" means as such term is used in Chapter 12.88, any repair or renovation of a building or structure for which an expenditure of more than five thousand dollars was made.

"General manufacturing and processing" means any establishment engaged in any of the following activities within enclosed structures: manufacturing or compounding of raw materials, agriculture product and food processing, manufacturing of finished products or parts from predominantly previously prepared materials, fabrication, assembly, processing or distribution.

"Light manufacturing and processing" means the manufacture, predominantly from previously prepared materials, of finished products or parts, including processing, fabrication, assembly, treatment and packaging of such products, and incidental storage, sales and distribution of such products, but excluding basic industrial processing and custom manufacturing.

"Massage establishment" means an establishment having a fixed place of business where massage baths, or health treatments, involving massage or baths as the principal function, are given, engaged in, carried on, or permitted to be given, engaged in, or carried on in any manner described in the provisions of this code governing massage, bathing, and health establishments. "Massage establishment" does not include any health club, health spa, gymnasium, or other similar facility designed or intended for general physical exercise or conditioning in which the furnishing of massage or bathing services or facilities is subordinate and incidental.

"Mixed use" means two or more different land uses located in one structure or on one parcel or development site.

"Mobile home park" means a residential development designed and developed for occupancy by mobile homes.

"Multifamily home" means a residential structure that contains three or more dwelling units. Each unit within a multifamily dwelling provides complete, independent living facilities for one or more persons, including permanent provisions for living, sleeping, eating, cooking, and sanitation. Examples include apartment buildings, residential condominiums, attached townhouses, and shared housing or co-housing structures.

"Nonconforming building/structure" means a structure which was lawfully erected prior to the adoption of the ordinance codified in this article, but which, under this article, does not conform with the development standards prescribed in the regulations for the district in which the structure is located.

"Nonconforming sign" means:

"Nonconforming use" means a use of a building/structure or land which was lawfully established and maintained prior to the adoption of the ordinance codified in this article but which, under this article, does not conform with the use regulations for the district in which it is located.

"Nursing and convalescence homes" means an establishment providing long-term and twenty-four-hour nursing and personal care for the elderly or for other individuals incapacitated in some manner.

The term "off-site" as used in conjunction with the terms "advertising display," "advertising structure," or "sign," refers to a display, structure or sign which announces or directs attention to:

"Off-site construction staging area" means the storage of construction materials or equipment outdoors on property that is not the site of the construction itself. "Off-site construction staging areas" may include temporary structures that are used only during daytime hours, such as construction trailers, sheds, or portable toilets.

"Off-street parking facilities" means an area on a lot or within a building, or both, including one or more parking spaces together with driveways, aisles, turning and maneuvering areas, clearances, and similar features, and meeting the requirements established by this article. The term shall include parking lots, garages and parking structures.

"Offices" include the following:

"Open space" means any public, quasi-public, or private lands or areas devoted to passive or active recreation or any zoning, to recreation, agricultural, common area, or other use other than a building site or sites, not including parking areas or driveways.

"Operable motor vehicle or trailer" means a motor vehicle or the trailer upon which a recreational vehicle is stored with a current registration. The vehicle or trailer also must have all parts and equipment necessary, is in running order and has the ability to operate legally and safely on public streets.

"Outdoor dining" means outside dining permitted on the public sidewalk through an encroachment permit in a zoning district that allows restaurants when incidental to and part of a restaurant.

"Overlay" means a zoning designation applied to one or more lots which adds special regulations in addition to those of the zoning district in which the property is situated (i.e., the "M" overlay adds the individual district regulations to the zoning district on which it is imposed).

"Off-street parking space" means an area, covered or uncovered, designed and usable for the temporary storage of a vehicle, which is paved and accessible by an automobile without permanent obstruction.

"Commercial parking structure" means a structure with two or more levels used for the parking and storage of vehicles. Included in this definition are mechanical and automated parking systems.

"Parks and recreational facilities" means a noncommercial public facility that provides active or passive recreational opportunities. Such facilities include neighborhood parks, regional parks, ball fields, tennis courts, indoor and outdoor swimming pools, recreation centers, and other similar facilities. Does not include health clubs, commercial amusement or similar recreational facilities, such as water slides, go-carts, and miniature golf courses.

"Permitted use" means a land use that is allowed by right in its applicable zone with no discretionary review and approval.

"Personal services" means an establishment that provides services to individuals and that may provide accessory retail sales of products related to the services provided. Personal services include:

"Personal storage" means a structure or group of structures with controlled access that contains individual and compartmentalized stalls or lockers for storage of customers' goods.

"Phased development project" means a project that includes discrete, integrated elements to be constructed over a defined period of time.

"Place," or "to place" (in relation to a sign) means to erect, construct, post, paint, tack, nail, glue, stitch, carve, or otherwise fasten, affix, or make visible any sign to the ground or any tree, bush, rock, fence, post, wall, building, structure or thing.

"Place of worship" means a site or structure used by a religious group for regular organized worship. This definition includes churches, synagogues, mosques, temples, and other similar religious places of assembly. This definition also includes related facilities such as meeting halls, offices for administration, and childcare facilities for use during religious services.

"Primary structure" means a structure that accommodates the primary use of the site.

"Primary use" means the main purpose for which a site is developed and occupied, including the activities that are conducted on the site a majority of the hours during which activities occur.

"Public dance/public entertainment event" means any dance or live audible or visible dramatic or musical performance, or any other type of live entertainment, to which the public is admitted, or at which an admission fee is charged for persons attending the dance or event, whether such admissions is charged at the door or entry, through the sale of tickets, or in any manner whatsoever.

"Public floor area" means the primary floor area open and accessible to customers of the business. Utility rooms, storage areas, restrooms, kitchens, and back of house operation areas are not included in public floor area.

"Public maintenance facilities" means facilities providing material storage areas and vehicle maintenance and repair services for governmental agencies.

"Public safety facility" means a facility operated by a public agency for the purpose of protecting public safety. This definition includes fire stations and other fire-fighting facilities, police stations, public ambulance dispatch facilities, and other similar land uses.

"Recycling collection facility" means a center for the acceptance by donation, redemption, or purchase, of recyclable materials from the public.

"Recycling processing facility" means a building or enclosed space used for the collection and processing of recyclable materials. Processing means preparation of material 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.

"Research and development" means a business that engages in the study, testing, engineering, product design, analysis and development of devices, products, processes, or services related to current or new technologies. Research and development may include limited manufacturing, fabricating, processing, assembling or storage of prototypes, devices, compounds, products or materials, or similar related activities, where such activities are incidental to research, development or evaluation. Research and development land uses do not involve the mass manufacture, fabrication, processing, or sale of consumer products, and do not produce dust, smoke, fumes, odors or noise at levels that would affect surrounding uses. Examples of "research and development" uses include, but are not limited to, computer software and hardware firms, computer peripherals and related products, electronic research firms, biotechnical and biomedical firms, instrument analysis, genomics, robotics and pharmaceutical research laboratories, and related educational development.

"Residential care facility" means a residential facility providing social and personal care for residents. Examples include children's homes, supportive and transitional houses, orphanages, rehabilitation centers, self-help group homes, and transitional housing for homeless individuals. Excludes facilities where medical care is a core service provided to residents, such as nursing and convalescent homes. A large residential care facility is a residential care facility for seven or more persons. A small residential care facility is a residential care facility for less than seven persons.

"Restaurant" means a retail business that sells and serves cooked or ready-to-eat food or beverages for consumption primarily upon the premises. Restaurants include cafés, coffee shops, ice cream shops, and bakeries. A restaurant may include sales of alcoholic beverages only when incidental to the sales of food for onsite consumption. This definition does not include drive-through facilities.

"Retail sales and service" means a store or shop selling merchandise to the general public. This definition includes food and beverage stores, appliance stores, bookstores, clothing stores, convenience stores, department stores, drug stores, animal and animal accessory sales, grocery stores, liquor stores, pharmacies, pawn shops, smoke shops, furniture stores, art galleries, home improvement stores, vehicle parts and accessories sales, hardware stores, and other similar land uses.

"School" means a facility for primary or secondary education, including elementary, junior high, and high schools. This definition includes both public and private schools but does not include trade or vocational schools.

"Senior citizen" means, as such term is used in Chapter 12.88, any person sixty-two years of age or older at the time of submittal of an application to the planning department.

"Front setback" means a clear distance from the front of any lot within which no building or structure may be permitted except as provided in Chapter 12.96, Chapter 12.280, and Chapter 12.290.

"Rear setback" means a clear distance from the rear of any lot within which no building or structure may be permitted except as provided in Chapter 12.96, Chapter 12.280, and Chapter 12.290.

"Side setback" means a clear distance from the side of any lot within which no building or structure may be permitted except as provided in Chapter 12.96, Chapter 12.280, and Chapter 12.290. The street-side setback is the minimum distance by which a structure must be separated from the streetside property line. The interior-side setback is the minimum distance by which a structure must be separated from the interior side property line.

"Short-term residential rental" means the transient occupancy use of entire dwelling unit or a portion (that is, an individual bedroom) of a dwelling unit to a guest for a rental period of less than thirty consecutive calendar days.

For the purpose of this article, the narrowest frontage of a corner lot facing the street is the front, and the longest frontage facing the intersecting street is the side, irrespective of the direction in which the dwelling faces.

"Sign" means all outdoor advertising and any and all devices which:

"Sign area" means the space enclosed by the outer dimensions of the sign. When a sign is painted on a building, fence, wall, pole, or any other structure, within any border, and with its background the same color as the wall of the building or other structure, the area of the sign shall be computed by enclosing the area containing wording or other images within sets of parallel lines and taking the area thus enclosed.

"Single-family home" means a structure, including manufactured housing units, designed for occupancy by one family. A single-family home provides complete, independent living facilities for one or more persons, including permanent provisions for living, sleeping, eating, cooking, and sanitation.

"Single-room occupancy" is a single room dwelling unit, usually ranging from 150 - 300 square feet in size, that provides living and sleeping space for the exclusive use of the occupant. Each unit is for occupancy by a single eligible individual. The unit must contain either food preparation or sanitary facilities (and may contain both).

"Social services and charitable institution" means a facility that provides social services directly to persons in need. This definition includes food banks, soup kitchens, crisis centers, and other similar land uses.

"Standard Industrial Classification Manual (SIC)" means the latest publication prepared by the Statistical Policy Division, Office of Management and Budget, Executive Office of the President of the United States and available from the Superintendent of Documents, United States Government Printing Office, Washington, D.C. As used in this article, the SIC shall constitute the detailed descriptions of uses enumerated in the various use districts, except where such uses are otherwise defined in this article.

"Street" means a public thoroughfare accepted by the city of San Bruno, which affords principal means of access to abutting property, including avenue, place, way, drive, lane, boulevard, highway, road and any other thoroughfare except an alley as defined herein.

"Street line" means the boundary between a street and private property.

"Structure" means anything constructed or erected, the use of which requires location on the ground or attachment to something having location on the ground.

"Structural alternations" means any change in the supporting members of a building, such as bearing walls, columns, beams or girders.

"Supportive housing" means housing with no limit on length of stay that is occupied by the target population, and that is linked to an on-site or off-site service that assists the tenant in retaining the housing; improving his or her health; and maximizing his or her ability to live, and, when possible, work in the community.

"Telecommunication facility" means a facility that transmits or receives electromagnetic signals for the purpose of transmitting voice or data communications.

"Temporary use" means a one-time, occasional, or recurring use of a limited duration as described in Section 12.84.030. This definition excludes public dances or public entertainment events where such events last three days or less, as described in Chapter 4.08.

"This article" means Chapters 12.72 through 12.300 of the San Bruno Municipal Code, as may be amended from time to time.

"Trade and vocational schools" means a specialized instructional establishment that provides on-site training of business, commercial, or trade skills. This definition excludes colleges and universities offering associate, bachelors, and other advanced degrees.

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

"Transportation terminals" means a passenger station for bus and rail mass transit systems.

"Use" means the purpose for which land or premises of a building thereon is designed, arranged, or intended or for which it is, or may be occupied or maintained.

"Major utility" means a large-scale infrastructure facility necessary to support development within San Bruno and the larger region. This definition includes sanitary landfills, electrical distribution lines thirty-five kilovolts or greater, sewage treatment plants, power generation plants, gas metering stations, electrical substations, telephone exchanges, water storage tanks and reservoirs, sewer and water pumping stations, and other similar facilities.

"Minor utility" means an infrastructure facility that is necessary to support development within the immediate vicinity and that involves only minor structures. This definition includes electrical distribution lines less than thirty-five kilovolts, water and sewer lines, storm drainage facilities, telephone and cable television lines, and other similar facilities.

"Valet parking" means the use of employees or other individuals to park vehicles of persons visiting or patronizing a specific business or location.

"Vehicle repair and maintenance" means an establishment for the repair, alteration, restoration, or finishing of any vehicle, including body repair, collision repair, painting, tire and battery sales and installation, motor rebuilding, tire recapping and retreading, and towing. Repair shops that are incidental to a vehicle sales or rental establishment on the same site are excluded from this definition.

"Vehicle sales and rental" means an establishment for the retail sales or rental of new or used vehicles, including automobiles, trucks, motorcycles and recreational vehicles. This definition includes parts sales and vehicle repair, provided that these activities are incidental to the sale of vehicles.

"Veterinarian" means establishments where household animals receive medical and surgical treatment and may be temporarily boarded (more than one-night stay) in association with such medical or surgical treatment. Short-term animal boarding may be provided as an accessory use.

"Warehousing, wholesaling, and distribution" means an establishment used primarily for the storage, selling, or distributing of goods to retailers, contractors, commercial purchasers or other wholesalers, or to the branch or local offices of a company or organization. This definition includes vehicle storage, moving services, general delivery services, cold storage facilities, and other similar land uses.

"Yard" means a required open space, which is unoccupied and unobstructed from the ground upward, except by eaves or uncovered porches.

"Zoning district" means a specifically delineated area of the city, as shown on the zoning map within which uniform regulations apply.