Shelton City Zoning Code

means any structural addition to a mobile/manufactured home, including awnings, carports, cabanas, porches, ramadas and similar structures.

means a city street primarily serving through traffic to, from and between principal population, commercial or industrial areas; such arterial routes are designated on the city’s arterial system.

means an accessory shade supported by posts or columns and partially supported by a mobile/manufactured home.

means a line on a plat indicating the limit beyond which buildings or structures may not be erected.

means a room enclosure erected or constructed adjacent to a mobile/manufactured home for use as an addition to the home.

means a street that carries traffic from secondary collectors, local access and marginal access streets to a major system of arterial streets and highways. Generally primary collectors will serve an area containing more than one hundred lots.

means that portion of the park site which is eight feet or more in width, unobstructed by other than structures used for common area by tenants or landowners, which reside in the park subsequent to the development. Such common space may be dedicated to the city as open space if the city elects to accept such space.

means a plan adopted by the city of Shelton, pursuant to RCW 36.70A, which is used as a guide to the growth, development and improvement of the city, including modifications or refinements, which may be made from time to time.

means a lot of which at least two adjacent sides abut streets, other than alleys; provided, the angle of intersection of the adjacent streets does not exceed one hundred thirty-five degrees.

means a minor street with only one outlet, which typically terminates with a circular turnaround.

means the line dividing the roadway from the planting strip or sidewalk.

means the number of mobile/manufactured homes or spaces allowed per gross acre.

means the design of any street or alley alignments, grade or width, alignment of width of easements and rights-of-way for drainage or irrigation purposed and sanitary facilities, and lot area, width or layout.

means a lot having frontage on two parallel or approximately parallel streets.

means a home consisting of two coach units constructed on two separate chassis that are combined horizontally at the site to complete one living unit.

means a minor private way used by vehicles and pedestrians on a mobile/manufacture home lot or for common access to a small group of lots or common facilities.

means a grant of the right to use a strip of land for specific purposes.

means a room or rooms that fold, collapse or telescope into a mobile home during transport, which can be expanded at the site to provide additional living space.

means a surface constructed of concrete, asphalt, paver blocks or other similar material that complies with WAC 51-40.

means a separate accessory building or area designated and provided within the park for use by all mobile/manufactured home park residents for the storage of privately owned RVs, boats, vehicles, etc.

means a certificate for operation issued by the city pursuant to this chapter.

means a street that primarily serves a limited number of abutting properties. Generally, local access streets shall serve twenty-five or fewer lots and will be wholly contained within the subdivision and afford no possibility of extension.

means the total area of a lot measured in a horizontal plane with the lot boundary lines.

means the property line bounding a lot.

means a residential unit on one or more chassis for towing to the point of use and designed to be used with a foundation as a dwelling unit on a year-round basis, and which bears an insignia issued by a state or federal regulatory agency indicating that the mobile/manufactured home complies with all applicable construction standards of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) definition of a manufactured home. A commercial coach, recreational vehicle or motor home is not a mobile/manufactured home. The term “manufactured home” shall hereinafter be used to refer to mobile/manufactured homes.

means any site or place where four or more mobile/manufactured dwellings are located within five hundred feet of one another on a lot, tract or parcel of land under the same ownership. The primary purpose of which is to rent space or keep space for rent to any person for a charge or fee paid or to be paid for the rental or use of facilities; or, to offer space free in connection with securing the trade or patronage of such person. Mobile/manufactured homes in legally zoned mobile/manufactured home parks shall comply with all requirements of Chapter 18.06. “Mobile/manufacture dwelling park” does not include a lot or lots located with a subdivision being rented or leased for occupancy by no more than one mobile/manufactured home per lot if the subdivision was approved by the city.

means a motor vehicle built on a truck or bus chassis and equipped to serve as self-contained living quarters for recreational travel and further defined as a recreational vehicle.

means the area of an individual mobile/manufactured home lot which has been covered by a home and its accessory structures.

means the map or maps upon which the land use zones in the city are indicated in detail and with exactness, so as to furnish the basis for property acquisition or building restrictions.

means land area that is not occupied by buildings, structures, parking areas, streets, driveways or alleys, which is space designed for joint use of tenants occupying the mobile/manufactured home development. Open space area may be devoted to landscaping, preservation of natural features or used as active or passive recreation areas; however, this does not include off-street parking areas.

means the individual, firm, association, syndicate, partnership, corporation or other entity having sufficient proprietary interest in the land sought to be developed to commence and maintain proceedings to develop same under these regulations.

means a right-of-way for pedestrian traffic.

means natural persons of either sex and associations, co-partnerships and corporations, whether acting by themselves or by a servant, agent or employee.

means an outside walking area, the floor of which is elevated from the ground.

means a freestanding roof or shade structure installed above the roof of a mobile/manufactured home that provides protection from rain, snow, sun or other forms of inclement weather.

means a tract of land that is occupied or designed for occupancy by two or more recreational vehicles (RVs) for transient dwelling purposes in accordance with this title; provided, that at no time shall guest RVs be occupied for any longer than three weeks in any sixty-day period on the premises; provided further, that landowners using their land for personal gatherings shall not be considered an RV park, as long as the gathering lasts no longer than five days and that no health problems, litter problems, etc., develop.

means land in which the state, a county or a municipality owns the fee simple title, or has an easement dedicated for a transportation or utility use. That which provides vehicular circulation or the principal means of access to abutting properties and which may also include provisions for public utilities, pedestrian walkways, cut and fill slopes and drainage.

means strapping or cables attached to the mobile/manufactured home and connected to anchors embedded in the ground, which secure a mobile/manufactured home from damage and movement during high winds or similar adverse weather conditions.

means a recreational vehicle that is not used as a permanent residence, is transportable on the public highway by permanently attached axles, and does not exceed thirty-two feet in length or eight feet in width, or any equivalent dimension combination.

means a recreational vehicle, camper, or canopy that fits onto the bed of a pickup or flat-bed truck, and that is not used as a permanent residence.