means farming, including plowing, tillage, cropping, installation of best management practices, seeding, cultivation, livestock pasturing, or harvesting for the production of food or fiber products, but not including commercial logging and timber harvesting and not including agricultural processing. Low impact agricultural production is agricultural activity within an urban area that is managed to minimize impact to surrounding urban uses, particularly residences.

means any structure designed for transmitting or receiving television, radio, data, communication, or other electromagnetic signal via antenna, satellite, or other means, including associated structures to house equipment.

means instruction of technical and industrial advances, procedures, design, assembly and other information and skill topics associated with creating new ideas or products or improving existing ideas and products.

means diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of health issues in a wide range of facilities including hospitals, medical laboratories and clinics, and professional offices providing medical treatment.

means delivery of goods and/or services that have large-scale wholesale and warehouse characteristics and that may include delivery of off-site services and incidental on-site retail. Examples are plumbing, electrical, paint and roofing contractor; consumer fuel sale and distribution; and cabinet sales and assembly/installation (but excluding manufacture of product from raw materials). The permitted warehouse use includes mini-storage warehouses.

means civic, public or semi-public activity in one or more buildings that is in a central location to provide access to the entire community to provide services generally accessible to all residents. Examples include a college branch campus, cultural center, and museums.

means industrial use that involves the fabrication and/or assembly of products from components delivered to the site and is conducted entirely within a structure that is designed to preclude impacts of noise, odor, particulates, and light/glare to surrounding uses and properties. Warehouse use that is directly associated with the primary industrial use is incidental to the primary use.

means government facilities and services that meet the communities' needs for health, safety, and welfare, including water systems, waste water systems, transportation, parks, lighting, community centers, civic centers, fire stations, police stations, libraries, sanitation facilities, and schools. Major public facilities are those buildings that are of a larger scale and intensity of occupancy of their surrounding land uses such as water and waste water plants, police and fire stations, schools, and community centers; and large parks and other activity sites that generate noise, traffic, and light not typical of their surroundings. Minor public facilities are those activities, with or without buildings, that pose limited impact to their urban surroundings due to their limited scale and levels of activity such as water booster stations, sewer lift stations, and mini-parks.

means a building for public worship by a congregation or membership including church, chapel, cathedral, temple, synagogue, mosque, and other place of organized worship by an established group of religious or spiritual purpose. A place of worship does not include structures used exclusively for residential, educational, recreational or other uses not associated with worship.

means research and development of innovative ideas or products in technology-intensive fields, including development and construction of prototype products. Activities are performed totally inside a building meeting design standards for visual character and landscaping and mitigating all noise, odor and lighting impacts to surrounding properties. Warehouse activity as storage for research and development activities is incidental to the primary use.

means multiple dwelling units physically attached to other dwelling units in one or more structures. Types of attached residences include apartments, townhouses, duplexes, two-unit homes, triplexes, three-unit homes, condominium buildings and all structure types that have two or more dwelling units, regardless of whether owner-occupied or rented.

means single dwelling units not physically connected to other living units, generally occupied by one family unit as an owner or renter; may also allow accessory living unit and/or home occupation under limitations. Types of detached residences include houses, manufactured homes, and cottage housing.

are a food-service use that has both retail and personal service characteristics. For the purposes of this chapter, restaurants are defined as a retail use with regulatory distinction related to whether the use has drive-through, take-out, and/or on-premises dining elements.

means a commercial enterprise that provides goods and associated services directly to the consumer when the goods are available for immediate purchase and removed from the premises by the purchaser, and the intended consumer is a resident of the greater community that relies on Sequim for regular retail purchases. Community retail includes all activities of neighborhood retail plus retail activities that are larger in scale and/or more specialized in nature to serve all retail purchase needs of area residents such as supermarkets, major appliance sales, flooring and window covering sales, auto parts, garden nursery/landscape supply, home medical equipment, and sporting goods.

means a small-scale, commercial enterprise that provides goods directly to the consumer when the goods are available for immediate purchase and removed from the premises by the purchaser and the location and property design are oriented to automobile traffic. Fuel dispensing is included as a retail transaction. Convenience retail is not a substitute for neighborhood retail as it is limited in size and location to serve a visiting or traveling consumer at interchanges along a major highway.

means a commercial enterprise that provides goods and associated services directly to the consumer when the goods are available for immediate purchase and removed from the premises by the purchaser and the intended consumer is a resident of the neighborhood in which the business is located. The market of neighborhood retail is a subarea of the larger community, and most customers live or work within two miles and a five-minute drive. Examples of common uses include delicatessen, bakery, and similar food shops; pet shops; hardware stores; book, clothing, and music sales; art gallery, home decoration, arts and crafts; wine and spirits; and grocery stores of neighborhood scale. Neighborhood retail does not include businesses that exist to serve the entire community or region, whether by the scale of their property, by marketing and sales beyond the neighborhood, or transactions that rely on truck delivery.

means a commercial enterprise that provides goods and associated services directly to the consumer when the goods are available for immediate purchase and removed from the premises by the purchaser and the intended market capture area is the entire county and beyond. Regional retail includes shopping malls, retail-warehouse ("big box") stores, new car sales, home improvement centers, superstores, nationally-marketed "chain" retail and service businesses, and community retail and services.

means work done for others, predominantly on the premises of the business, by someone trained and engaged in the work as a career to provide assistance rather than a made product to individuals, business, industry, government and other enterprise and customer. Typical personal/professional services include certified public accounting, real estate sales, engineering, architecture/planning, consulting, medical and dental outpatient care, legal advice, life insurance sales, beauty salons and barbers. Services in the community business and more intensive zone districts may have drive-through activity consistent with auto-oriented locations. Mini-storage warehouse is a large-scale service use that serves the greater community, and by its size and physical characteristics is specified as a service use in specified, community-serving retail zones.

means accommodations for transient occupancy of limited duration that are operated as a business enterprise to meet the lodging needs of tourists, business travelers, and other short-term visitors. Typical facilities include motel, hotel, motor inn, and extended-stay inn. Facilities may include conference centers, recreation facilities, and food-service operations as common uses incidental to the primary lodging use.

means businesses or offices that provide assistance or information to transient visitors, whether for tourism, business, or other activity accessed by travelers at the primary accesses to the city from a major highway. Common activities are visitor and tourism information center and tour and activity agencies and businesses.