Sumner City Zoning Code

means bordering upon, to touch upon, in physical contact with. Properties are considered abutting even though the area of contact may be only a point.

means a way or means of approach to provide vehicular or pedestrian physical entrance to a property.

means any driveway or easement used to gain entry to property across or through other property.

means a use or structure customarily incidental to a permitted principal use located on the same lot. An accessory use or structure is subordinate and functionally supports the principal use. Swimming pools are considered an accessory structure for the purposes of this title.

means an antenna including, but not limited to, test, mobile and global positioning (GPS) antennas, which are less than 12 inches in height or width, excluding the support structure.

means a second dwelling unit located on the same lot as a single-family housing unit, duplex, triplex, or townhome, either in or added to the principal unit, or in a separate accessory structure on the same lot as the principal unit, for use as a complete, independent living facility with provision within the accessory apartment for cooking, eating, sanitation, and sleeping. Such a dwelling is an accessory use to the main dwelling. Accessory units are also commonly known as "mother-in-law" units or "carriage houses."

means any conduct, enterprise, or use on a lot, tract or parcel of land.

means nearby and not necessarily abutting.

means a decision, ruling or interpretation related to either the comprehensive plan or this title, by the director.

means a retail establishment in which 10 percent or more of the "stock in trade" consists of books, magazines, periodicals, pictures, posters, or other printed material distinguished or characterized by an emphasis on matter depicting, describing or relating to "specified sexual activities" or "specified anatomical areas," as defined herein.

means a facility which provides, on a recurrent basis for periods of less than 24 hours, supervision and social activities in a group setting, and which serves socially isolated persons, or persons who cannot be left unsupervised. Persons may have physical, cognitive, or emotional impairments, but any required treatment is provided outside the social day care program.

means one, or a combination of more than one, of the following types of businesses: adult motion picture theater, adult mini-motion picture theater, or adult cabaret or nightclub featuring topless or bottomless or nude dancers, strippers, or similar entertainers of either sex displaying specified anatomical areas in the course of any performance or exhibition, which are further defined by the provisions of SMC § 5.56.000.

means a regular family abode of a person or persons who are providing personal care, room, and board to more than one, but not more than six, adults who are not related by blood or marriage to the person or persons providing the services; except that a maximum of eight adults may be permitted if the Department of Social and Health Services determines that the home is of adequate size and that the home and provider are capable of meeting the standards and qualifications established in chapter 70.128 RCW.

also referred to as "panoram" or "peep show," means a building having as its principal use the presentation of material characterized by emphasis or portrayals of specified anatomical areas and/or specified sexual activities for observation in individual viewing booths by patrons therein, which is further defined by the provisions of SMC § 5.56.000(A)(4).

means a building with the capacity of two or more persons, having as its principal use the display therein of motion pictures characterized by their emphasis on portrayals of specified anatomical areas and/or specified sexual activities for observation by patrons, which is further defined by the provisions of SMC § 5.56.000 (A)(5).

means a retail establishment in which 10 percent or more of the "stock in trade" consists of equipment, items or products distinguished or characterized by an emphasis on matter depicting, describing or relating to "specified sexual activities" or "specified anatomical areas," as defined herein.

means a retail establishment in which 10 percent or more of the "stock in trade" consists of prerecorded video tapes, discs or similar material distinguished or characterized by an emphasis on matter depicting, describing or relating to "specified sexual activities" or "specified anatomical areas," as defined herein.

means housing that meets the definition of affordable at SMC § 3.52.020(A).

means a condition or activity which occurs on a farm in connection with recreational and/or commercial use or production of farm and timber products and includes, but is not limited to marketed produce at roadside stands or farm markets; noise; odors; dust; fumes; smoke; operation of machinery and pumps; movement including but not limited to, use of current city roads and ditches, streams, rivers, canals, and drains, and use of water for agricultural activities; ground and aerial application of seed, fertilizers, conditioners and plant protection products; employment and use of labor; roadway movement of equipment and livestock; protection of damage from wildlife; prevention of trespass; construction and maintenance of buildings, fences, roads, bridges, ponds, drains, waterways and similar features, and maintenance of stream banks, and watercourses; and conversion from one agricultural activity to another.

means manufacturing operations that separate air into its component parts including oxygen, nitrogen, and carbon dioxide and store and distribute these materials.

means any system of poles, panels, rods, reflecting discs or similar devices used for transmission or reception of radio or electromagnetic frequency signals.

means an antenna which transmits and receives radio frequency signals in a specific directional pattern of less than 360 degrees. Also known as a panel antenna.

means an antenna which transmits and receives radio frequency signals in a 360-degree radial pattern. Also known as whip antenna.

means an antenna which is a bowl-shaped device for the reception and/or transmission of radio frequency communication signals in a specific directional pattern. Also called a dish antenna.

means an antenna installed inside a non-antenna structure, or camouflaged to appear as a non-antenna structure or a roof antenna, also called a concealed or camouflaged antenna.

means a building designed for the purpose of human habitation containing more than two dwelling units where units are stacked vertically one upon another, but does not include a multiplex such as a triplex or fourplex.

means an administrative appeal on the record to a local government body or officer, including the legislative body, following an open record hearing on a project permit application when the appeal is on the record with no or limited new evidence or information allowed to be submitted and only appeal argument allowed.

means a water-bearing stratum of permeable rock, gravel or sand yielding considerable quantities of water to wells or springs.

means the points at which surface water enters aquifers.

is defined as a freestanding structure attached to a fence that has a lattice or lattice type structure whose siting serves to cover or define a gate or entranceway.

means the production and assembly of finished products or component parts, typically by hand, and including design, processing, fabrication, assembly, treatment, and packaging of finished products. Typical artisan manufacturing trades include but are not limited to food and bakery products; beverage production; printmaking; leather products; jewelry and clothing/apparel; metal work; woodwork; furniture; and glass or ceramic production.

means attached rooms or dwellings in a multi-unit complex, with common dining and recreational areas, but which also include in the rent services such as meals, light housekeeping, laundry and recreational programs, as well as more personal care services such as giving medications, care by a healthcare professional, assisting with bathing, dressing, transporting to a doctor, etc. Some assisted living facilities specialize in dementia care where a secured environment is needed for confused residents who might wander off. An assisted living facility may serve persons of any age.

means a retail sales and service use in which automobiles and small motorized vehicles, such as cars, light duty trucks up to 14,000 pounds gross vehicle weight rating, similar passenger vehicles, motorcycles, and ATVs, snowmobiles, and similar small passenger vehicles are leased or sold. This does not include heavy duty commercial trucks, buses, boats, or recreational vehicles.

"Vehicle repair, minor" and "Vehicle repair, major."

means development which primarily caters to or attracts drivers of vehicles such as businesses which operate drive-in and drive-through facilities.

means a portion of a restaurant premises wherein alcoholic beverages are sold at retail for consumption on the premises and minors are excluded therefrom by law.

means a building on a farm used for the storage of farm products, feed, farm animals, and farm equipment.

means any floor level below the first story in a building, except that a floor level in a building having only one floor level shall be classified as a basement unless such floor level qualifies as a first story as defined herein.

means a retail or wholesale business engaged in any one or more of the following activities: importation of prepared batteries from either a foreign or domestic source; repackaging, relabeling, or other cosmetic alteration of batteries; shipping, reselling, or otherwise distributing batteries to retail or wholesale customers; minor additions of fluids to batteries to restore their electrical properties; storage of batteries incidental to on-site retail or wholesale operations; and related office activities.

is a facility consisting of any combination of electrochemical storage batteries, battery chargers, controls, power conditioning systems and/or associated electrical equipment, including transmission lines, whether assembled together or separately, capable of storing at least 200 megawatt hours of electrical energy in order to supply energy at a future time to the electrical grid of a public utility provider(s).

means a lodging where five or fewer guest rooms are provided to guests by a resident operator for a fee by prearrangement on a daily or short-term, temporary basis. A breakfast and/or light snacks may be served to those renting rooms in the bed and breakfast. No cooking facilities are provided in the individual rooms.

means an inpatient facility licensed and regulated by the state of Washington, staffed to provide on-site care and that is not a hospital or group home. Such facilities may include fixed-site opioid treatment programs, harm reduction programs, substance use disorder treatment facilities, mental health facilities, and enhanced services facilities. Behavioral health facilities, inpatient, are deemed to be essential public facilities.

means an outpatient facility licensed and regulated by the state of Washington, staffed to provide on-site care and that is not a hospital or medical office. Such facilities may include fixed-site opioid treatment programs, harm reduction programs, substance use disorder facilities, and mental health treatment facilities. Behavioral health facilities, outpatient, are deemed to be essential public facilities.

means the frontage of property along one side of a street bound on three sides by the centerline of platted streets and on the fourth side by an alley or rear property lines. (Refer to Figure 18.04-A.)

means homes generally licensed to care for 10 to 15 functionally disabled or frail older adults. Services provided include meals, social activities, laundry, housekeeping, medication supervision, and personal care services. Typically, residents have a sleeping room (private or semi-private) and share living rooms and family rooms. They are often large homes adapted for board and care. Usually there is 24-hour a day staff coverage. Some specialize in caring for developmentally disabled or chronically mentally ill adults. They may also be referred to as "residential care facilities" and "congregate care facilities."

means a landscaped area or area of natural vegetation designed to provide space, obstruct undesirable view, serve as an acoustic screen, and in other ways reduce the impact of adjacent uses upon one another.

means any structure used or intended for supporting or sheltering any use or occupancy.

means a building which is not attached to any other building or structure.

means the vertical distance from the existing or finished grade, whatever is lower, at any point on the building perimeter to the highest point of the underside of the ceiling beams in the case of a flat roof; to the deck line of a mansard roof; and to the mean level of the underside of the rafters between the eaves and the ridge of the gable, hip or gambrel roof. (Refer to Figure 18.04-B.)

means the city building official or designee.

means the ground area devoted to a main building and its accessory buildings, or to a group of main buildings and their accessory buildings, together with all yards and open spaces required by this title, whether the area so devoted is comprised of one lot, a combination of lots, or combination of lots and fraction of lots, or a piece of unsubdivided land.

means any room, place, or space whatsoever in the city in which any music, singing, dancing, or other similar entertainment is permitted in connection with any hotel, restaurant, cafe, club, tavern, eating place, directly or indirectly selling, serving, or providing the public with or without charge, food or liquor. (Examples would include dance floors, bands, karaoke, as well as other forms of entertainment.) The words "music and entertainment" as used in this chapter shall not apply to radios.

means a private garage which is open to the weather on at least two sides.

means a business where passenger cars (as defined in RCW 46.04.382 as amended) are rented to others, without a driver provided by the rental car business, for periods of not more than 30 consecutive days. Car rental agency does not include: (A) vehicles rented or loaned to customers by automotive repair businesses while the customer's vehicle is under repair; or (B) vehicles licensed and operated as taxicabs.

means an area of land and/or a structure with machine- or hand-operated facilities used principally for the cleaning, washing, polishing, or waxing of motor vehicles.

means land used or intended to be used for the burial of the dead and dedicated for cemetery purposes, including columbariums, crematories, mausoleums, and mortuaries when operated in conjunction within the boundaries of such cemetery.

means an establishment or group of people with the principal purpose of religious worship and for which the principal building or other structure contains the sanctuary or principal place of worship.

means a state-licensed facility, other than a child care home, providing regularly scheduled care for a group of children one month of age through 12 years of age, including early childhood education and early learning services for periods of less than 24 hours.

means a licensed child care facility operated in the permanent residence of the provider that regularly provides care for 12 or fewer children, including children who reside at the home, for periods of less than 24 hours. A child care home shall not be licensed as a child care center without first meeting the requirements of the state.

means buildings or facilities owned or operated by a corporation, association, or persons for a social, educational, or recreational purpose; but not primarily for profit or to render a service that is customarily carried on as a business. (Examples include, but are not limited to, the Masons, Veterans of Foreign Wars, etc.)

means a multifamily residential development with sleeping units that are independently rented or owned and lockable, each providing living and sleeping space, in which residents share kitchen facilities with other sleeping units in the building or meals are provided.

means the growing, production, processing, transportation, and delivery of cannabis, by qualifying patients, for medical use, as set forth in chapter 69.51A RCW, and subject to the following conditions:

means a public or private post-secondary educational institution, granting associate, bachelor and/or graduate degrees.

means a facility where clothing or other fabrics are washed, dried, or dry cleaned for other businesses or institutions. This definition does not include laundromats.

means the providing of goods, merchandise or services for compensation, including, but not limited to, retail shopping, commercial recreation, business and professional offices, highway-oriented business, automotive, boat and cycle mechanical sales and services as included in the commercial classifications of this title.

means the city planning commission.

means a group care facility operated for the care of juveniles committed to the department under RCW 13.40.185. A county detention facility that houses juveniles committed to the department under RCW 13.40.185 pursuant to a contract with the department is not a community facility.

means a garden for growing produce that serves the local community and is managed by and located on the premises of a public agency, nonprofit organization, or private development.

means the "comprehensive plan of the city of Sumner" as adopted.

means a use permitted in one or more zones as defined by this title, but which, because of characteristics peculiar to each such use, or because of size, technological processes or equipment, or because of the exact location with reference to surroundings, streets, and existing improvements or demands upon public facilities, requires a special degree of control to make such uses consistent and compatible with other existing or permissible uses in the same zone or zones.

means joint ownership of real property in which each owner enjoys exclusive ownership of an individual apartment or unit with or without a parcel of land and retains an undivided interest, as tenants in common, in the common facilities and areas of buildings.

means any building or portion thereof which contains facilities for living, sleeping, and sanitation, and may include facilities for eating and cooking, for occupancy by other than a family. A congregate residence may be a shelter, convent, monastery, dormitory, fraternity, or sorority house but does not include jails, hospitals, nursing homes, hotels, lodging houses, or group homes. Congregate residences are not essential public facilities.

means materials in permanent positions and fastened in a permanent manner, and demolition, elimination and removal of one or more existing structures in connection with such construction; providing, that actual construction work shall be diligently carried on until the completion of the structure involved.

means the same as "abutting."

means a type of senior housing, consisting of a variety of living arrangements from small houses, to retirement apartments, to assisted living facilities to nursing home levels, designed and operated as an integrated community. Residents may move from one level or type of housing to another as their needs change. A variety of services such as beauty and barber shops, organized social activities, exercise, and crafts may be offered.

means a use which combines administrative offices with on-site storage of construction-related vehicles, equipment and/or materials.

means any retail establishment offering for sale prepackaged or site-prepared food products, household items, and other goods commonly associated with the same and having a gross floor area of less than 7,500 square feet. Convenience stores or markets do not include gas stations.

means detached single-family housing which has the following characteristics:

means the Sumner city council.

means Pierce County.

means a type of craft production that involves the roasting of small batches of coffee utilizing primarily manually operated, small-scale equipment, where such roasting is incidental and accessory to a primary retail use on the premises. Roasted or packaged coffee may be sold on the premises directly to consumers, but craft roasting does not include wholesale distribution.

means a commercial use that involves the production of arts, crafts, foods, beverages or other product with on-site production and assembly of goods in small batches, primarily involving the use of hand tools and/or small-scale equipment. Due to the limited scale of the activities and small boutique nature of craft production establishments, they are compatible, and are often co-located with, retail sales and service uses. This use category includes but is not limited to ceramic art, glass art, candle-making, custom jewelry manufacture, hand-made bakery and confections, specialty beverages; and micro-breweries and micro-distilleries co-located with a retail use.

means the line at the face of the curb nearest to the street or roadway. In the absences of a curb, the curbline shall be established by the city engineer.

means a calendar day.

means an outdoor, roofless, flat surface(s) that may or may not be attached to a residential structure. The deck is connected to the ground by structural supports.

means a measure of the intensity of permitted residential development in terms of dwelling units per acre. For the purposes of calculating density for co-living housing, sleeping units count as one quarter of a dwelling unit.

means the total number of dwelling units divided by the total land area of the site, excluding nothing.

means the total number of dwelling units divided by the net area of the lot or site. The net area excludes streets, alleys, public open spaces, utility rights-of-way, easements, and other public facilities or utility facilities.

means:

means any controls placed on development or land use activities by the city of Sumner, including, but not limited to, zoning ordinances, official controls, planned unit development ordinances, subdivision ordinances, and binding site plan ordinances.

means the director of the city's development services department or the director's designee.

means a producer of alcohol spirits that produces fewer than 50,000 gallons per year; is independently owned and operated; and is transparent regarding its ingredients, its distilling and bottling location, its distilling and bottling process, and its aging process.

means a business or a portion of a business where a customer is permitted or encouraged, either by the design of physical facilities or by service and/or packaging procedures, to carry on business while seated in a motor vehicle and passing by one or more service windows in order to pay for and receive food, beverages, and other products. This definition shall include, but not be limited to, car washes, pharmacies, drive-through restaurants, dry cleaners, or banks.

means a drive-through business that serves predominantly espresso/coffee beverages for retail sale to the general public.

means a type of ground-related housing that is a single structure containing only two dwelling units. Single-family dwellings with attached accessory dwelling units are not duplexes.

means a covering of material applied to the ground to enhance travel such as stone, concrete, grass-crete or asphalt which when put in place or treated reduces the presence of dust particles. Gravel may be used if treated to reduce dust with a product used for binder of gravel aggregates as approved by the city engineer.

means one or more rooms designed for or occupied by one family for living or sleeping purposes and containing kitchen facilities for use solely by one family. All rooms comprising a dwelling unit shall have access through an interior door to other parts of the dwelling unit. A "bachelor," "studio," or "efficiency" apartment constitutes a dwelling unit within the meaning of this title.

means that area within the boundaries of the East Sumner Neighborhood Plan adopted March 5, 2001, and designated as such on the city's official zoning map as hereafter amended.

means the production of electricity for consumption by facilities on site or in a district. "Electrical power cogeneration" is the simultaneous production of electricity and useful heat from the same fuel or energy or the use of a production by-product to generate power. Facilities with cogeneration systems use them to produce their own electricity, and use the unused excess (waste) heat for process steam, hot water heating, space heating, and other thermal needs. They may also use excess process heat to produce steam for electricity production.

means temporary indoor accommodations for individuals or families who are homeless or at imminent risk of becoming homeless that is intended to address the basic health, food, clothing, and personal hygiene needs of individuals or families. Emergency housing may or may not require occupants to enter into a lease or an occupancy agreement.

means a facility that provides a temporary shelter for individuals or families who are currently homeless. Emergency shelter may not require occupants to enter into a lease or an occupancy agreement. Emergency shelter facilities may include day and warming centers that do not provide overnight accommodations.

means licensed residential facilities with up to 16 beds that will provide community placement options for individuals whose personal care and behavioral challenges do not rise to a level that requires an institutional setting. Rather than unnecessary and extended stays at state hospitals, patients who have been assessed as stable and ready for discharge can be referred to an ESF.

means a facility that is typically difficult to site, including facilities such as airports, state educational facilities, state or regional transportation facilities, state and local correctional facilities, solid waste handling facilities, treatment programs (including both mobile and fixed-site medication units), harm reduction programs excluding safe injection sites, substance use disorder treatment facilities, mental health facilities, group homes, recovery residences, community facilities, and secure community transition facilities.

means single-family, manufactured home, or multifamily residences constructed with a valid building permit and existing on June 6, 1994. Existing residential dwellings shall also include single-family, manufactured home, and multifamily dwellings built after June 6, 1994, constructed with a valid building permit prior to annexation by the city or constructed with a valid building permit prior to the sunset of conditional or contract rezones.

means the entire building front, or street wall face, including grade to the top of the parapet or eaves, and the entire width of the building elevation.

means any structure designed primarily for human occupancy other than a mobile home, the structure or any room of which is either entirely or substantially prefabricated or assembled at a place other than a building site.

means a group of persons who may be related who are living and sharing kitchen facilities together as a single housekeeping unit.

means a structure, other than a building, which is naturally grown or constructed as a barrier and is used as a boundary or means of confinement. Fences include hedges when located in the front or side yard of a property.

means the area included within the surrounding exterior walls of a building or portion thereof, exclusive of vent shafts and courts. The floor area of a building, or portion thereof, not provided with surrounding exterior walls shall be the usable area under the horizontal projection of the roof or floor above. For commercial uses which customarily are not confined to a building and which in significant part occur in the open air on a lot or site, which may or may not contain a building, the floor area shall be calculated as the total of the square feet of floor space in the building, if any, and of the square feet of land comprising that area of the lot or site where the commercial use occurs in the open air. Such uses shall include, but not be limited to, gasoline service stations, drive-in restaurants, drive-in theaters, drive-through businesses, new and used car businesses having outdoor car lots, and pitch-and-putt golf establishments and other similar outdoor uses.

means the square footage area as measured at the exterior of the foundation line of the structure.

means the gross floor area of all buildings on a lot divided by the lot area.

means an operable motorized vehicle or trailer vending unit used to prepare and serve food or vend prepackaged food.

means a semi-permanent collection of two or more food trucks that operate together on privately owned property under an agreement with the property owner.

means the sale of primarily food and/or nonalcoholic beverages from a food truck.

means any state, federally or locally approved dwelling used as a home for children or adults not including nursing homes.

means the measurement of the length of the property line, or length of the building front, located along a public street.

means an establishment with facilities for the preparation of the dead for burial or cremation, for the viewing of the body, and for funerals. The definition shall include mortuaries and funeral parlors, but shall not include crematoriums.

means an accessory building or an accessory portion of the main building, enclosed on not less than three sides and designed or used primarily for the shelter or storage of vehicles owned or operated only by the occupants of the main building or buildings.

means any publicly owned garage facility for the temporary, less than 24 hours, shelter or storage of vehicles less than 10,000 pounds gross vehicle weight.

means the sale of used household or personal articles such as furniture, tools, or clothing held on the seller's own premises.

means an automotive use providing retail sales of fuel for motorized vehicles, and in which accessory uses may include tow trucks, minor vehicle repair, car wash facilities, a convenience store, and electric vehicle charging stations.

means the average of the natural or existing topography of the portion of the lot, parcel or tract of real property which will be directly under the proposed building or structure; provided, that in the case of structures to be built over water, average grade level shall be the elevation of ordinary high water. Calculation of the average grade level shall be made by averaging the elevations at the center of all exterior walls of the proposed building or structure.

means the natural surface contour of a lot, including minor adjustments to the surface of the lot in preparation for construction. For the purposes of this title, "minor adjustments" include, but are not limited to tilling of soil, and addition or removal of no more than 12 inches of topsoil.

means the ground surface level at its final elevation, including top soil, after completion of development.

means movement of earth requiring the removal of most or all of the existing vegetation and in sufficient quantities to alter the natural topography and general character of a site.

means that vegetation which covers the ground surface, consisting of low-growing plants and grasses.

means subsurface water.

means a dwelling unit with individual unit entries no more than four vertical feet from the street grade and direct access to private ground-level usable open space. In no case shall individual units be stacked vertically one upon another. Examples of ground-related dwellings include single-family detached, single-family semi-attached, cottages, tandem houses, and zero lot line dwellings.

means a residential dwelling used as a home for unrelated persons to whom medical or psychological treatment, supervision, training, or other support services may be provided. Supervision may be provided by a resident or nonresident. Group homes may include adult family homes and recovery residences, and include:

includes group homes with up to eight residents.

includes group homes with nine or more residents.

does not include dwellings in a federally, state or locally approved institution (see "Behavioral health facility, inpatient").

means living quarters within an accessory building for the sole use of the occupants of the premises, persons employed on the premises or for temporary use by the guests of the occupants of the premises. Guest houses shall have no kitchen facilities and shall not be rented or otherwise used as a separate dwelling.

means a support structure for a wireless communication facility, consisting of metal cross strips or bars, which is steadied by wire guys in a radial pattern around the tower.

means the use, storage, manufacture, or other land use activity involving hazardous substances, but does not include individually packaged household consumer products or quantities of hazardous substances of less than five gallons in volume per container.

means and includes all dangerous waste and extremely hazardous waste as designated pursuant to chapter 70.105 RCW, chapter 173-303 WAC.

means a facility that treats and stores hazardous waste and is authorized pursuant to chapter 70.105 RCW, chapter 173-303 WAC. It includes all contiguous land and structures used for recycling, reusing, reclaiming, transferring, storing, treating, or disposing of hazardous waste. Treatment includes physical, chemical, or biological processing of hazardous wastes to make such waste nondangerous or less dangerous and safer for transport, amendable for energy or material resource recovery. Storage includes the holding of waste for a temporary period but not the accumulation of waste on the site of generation as long as the storage complies with applicable state requirements.

means a program that emphasizes working directly with people who use drugs to prevent overdose and infectious disease transmission, improve the physical, mental, and social well-being of those served, and offer low threshold options for accessing substance use disorder treatment and other services.

means a use featuring exercise, sports and other active physical fitness conditioning.

means the hearing examiner of the city.

means a retail sales and service use in which equipment, including, but not necessarily limited to, construction and farm tractors, excavating machinery, and machinery for mining and similar uses, are rented or sold.

means a place which has considerable and significant importance because of past events, experience or phenomena of the city of Sumner as formally designated by the National Register of Historic Places, the Washington State Office of Archaeology and Historic Preservation, or by the city of Sumner.

means any state, federally or locally approved dwelling providing board and domiciliary care but no nursing or medical care except incidental health care to aged persons not related by blood.

means any accessory activity customarily conducted in a dwelling, or in a building or structure accessory to a dwelling, for gainful employment involving the manufacture, provision or sale of goods and/or services, and where the residential character of the dwelling and neighborhood is maintained.

means an individual or family who lacks a fixed, regular, and adequate nighttime residence.

means a group of homeless persons temporarily residing out of doors on a site with services provided by a sponsor and supervised by a managing agency. A managing agency may only be an established church.

means a facility set up to provide for the needs of homeless people, including shelter, food, sanitation and other forms of support. This definition does not include homeless encampments or community food banks.

means a facility or program designed to provide a caring environment for supplying the physical and emotional needs of the terminally ill.

means any building containing six or more guest rooms intended or designed to be used, or which are used, rented or hired out to be occupied, or which are occupied for sleeping purposes by guests. Access to individual units is predominately by means of common interior hallways.

means those hard surfaced areas either which prevent or retard the entry of water into the soil in the manner that such water entered the soil under natural conditions preexistent to development, or which cause water to run off the surface in greater quantities or an increased rate of flow than that present under natural conditions preexistent to development, including, without limitation, such surfaces as roof tops, asphalt or concrete paving, driveways and parking lots, walkways, patio areas, storage areas or other surfaces which similarly affect the natural infiltration or runoff patterns existing prior to development. (Refer to Figure 18.04-C.)

means the passage or movement of water into the soil surface.

means the rate at which water is absorbed into the soil over a given period of time.

means construction activities that modify interior space(s) within an existing building. The term excludes modifications that alter building height, alter the exterior building footprint, alter existing building parking facilities, or alter any exterior building features or finishes.

means an area of more than 1,000 square feet of any parcel of land where junk, waste, discarded or salvaged materials are bought, sold, exchanged, stored, baled, packed, disassembled or handled, including automobile wrecking yards, building wrecking yards or places or yards devoted to the storage of inoperable vehicles, salvaged building, wrecking or structural steel materials and equipment. A junkyard does not include such uses when conducted entirely within an enclosed building nor pawn shops or establishments for the sale, purchase or storage of used furniture or household equipment, used cars in operable condition or the processing of used, discarded or salvaged materials as part of a manufacturing operation.

when referenced in any administrative hearing or appeal process outlined herein shall mean the appropriate local or federal, municipal, district, superior, appellate or supreme court with jurisdiction to hear the subject matter being appealed or another specifically designated forum.

means any premises wherein a person(s) engages in the business of boarding, breeding, letting for hire, training for a fee, selling of domesticated animals including, but not limited to, dogs, and/or cats, under 200 pounds.

means a room or part of a room which is used, intended, or designed to be used for preparing food. The kitchen includes facilities, or utility hookups for facilities, sufficient to prepare, cook, and store food, and wash dishes, including, at a minimum, countertops, a kitchen-style sink, space and utilities sufficient for a gas or 220/240v electric stove and oven, and a refrigerator.

means a room or part of a room used for basic food preparation, with a sink and at least one 120-volt electrical outlet.

means a support structure consisting of metal cross strips or bars to support antennas and related equipment.

means court-ordered treatment in a setting less restrictive than total confinement which satisfies the conditions set forth in RCW 71.09.092. A less restrictive alternative may not include placement in the community protection program as pursuant to RCW 71A.12.230.

means a retail and service use in which equipment of less than 20,000 pounds gross vehicle weight, including but not necessarily limited to construction and farm tractors, excavation machinery and similar machinery, and consumer equipment for lawn care and similar property maintenance uses, are rented or sold.

means a structure that predominantly functions as a work space and secondarily as a residence, and:

means animals, including but not limited to horses, bovine animals, sheep, goats, swine, reindeer, llama, donkeys and mules.

means an area required to be maintained on certain business and commercial lots, used for the loading and unloading of trucks or other vehicles or passengers of vehicles.

means a platted or unplatted parcel of land unoccupied, occupied or to be occupied by a principal use or building and accessory buildings, together with such yards and open spaces as are required by this title. A lot is not a building site unless it is a lot of record.

means the land space contained within the various lines forming the perimeter boundary of any described lot, tract or parcel of land. For the purpose of this title, any portion of a lot, tract or parcel of land in any access easement, or private street or lying below the line of vegetation or natural shoreline, except for a body of water entirely confined within said lot, tract or parcel of land, shall be excluded from calculated lot area.

means the land space contained within the various lines forming the perimeter boundary of any described lot, tract or parcel of land, excluding land lying below the line of vegetation or natural shoreline (except for a body of water entirely confined within said property), public or private streets, alleys, public open spaces, utility rights-of-way, and other public facilities/uses.

means a lot situated at the intersection of two streets or roads, by which the interior angle does not exceed 135 degrees.

means the area of a site covered by buildings or roofed areas including covered porches and accessory buildings, measured at the building foundation. (Refer to Figure 18.04-C.)

means the horizontal distance between the front lot line and the rear lot line of a lot measured within the lot boundaries.

means a lot other than a corner lot. (Refer to Figure 18.04-F.)

means that boundary of a lot which is along an existing or dedicated public street, or where no public street exists, along a private road, shared driveway or drive aisle. On an interior lot, it is the lot line abutting a street. On a pipestem (flag) lot, it is either the interior lot line most parallel to and nearest the public street from which access is or the interior lot line most parallel to the private road by which the lot accesses the public street. On a corner lot, the front yard shall be determined by the director, to be the yard which best conforms to the pattern of the adjacent block faces. On a "through lot," both street lines shall be deemed front lot lines. (Refer to Figure 18.04-D.)

means a line which is most nearly opposite and most distant from the front lot line. Where the side property lines of a lot meet in a point, the rear property line shall be assumed to be a line not less than 10 feet long, lying within the lot and parallel to the front property line. In the event that the front property line is a curved line, then the rear property line shall be assumed to be a line not less than 10 feet long, lying within the lot and parallel to a line tangent to the front property line at its midpoint. (Refer to Figure 18.04-E.)

means any boundary of a lot which is not a front lot line, side street lot line, or a rear lot line. (Refer to Figure 18.04-D.)

means a lot line abutting upon a street other than a front lot line.

means a lot as shown on an officially recorded plat or short plat or a parcel of land officially recorded or registered as a unit of property and is described by metes and bounds, and lawfully established on the date of recording of the instrument first referencing the lot.

(flag lot) means an interior lot in which the buildable area is not bounded laterally by a public street or private road, and which gains vehicle access by means of a lot extension, a shared driveway, a private drive aisle, or the terminus of a private road or public street. (Refer to Figure 18.04-F.)

means a corner lot, the side street lot line of which is substantially a continuation of the front lot line of the lot to its rear, whether or not separated by an alley. (Refer to Figure 18.04-F.)

means a lot having a pair of opposite lot lines along two more or less parallel streets and which is not a corner lot. On a "through lot," both street lines shall be deemed front lot lines. (Refer to Figure 18.04-F.)

means a parcel of property or tract of land which has not been created through subdivision procedures. It is a lot of record, but is not described by a lot and block legal description within a named and recorded subdivision.

means the horizontal distance between the lot side lines measured at right angles to the line comprising the depth of the lot as a point midway between the lot front line and the lot rear line, or midpoints of frontage lines on through lots.

means a stormwater management and land development strategy that emphasizes conservation and use of on-site natural features integrated with engineered, small-scale hydrologic controls to more closely mimic predevelopment hydrology. The goal is to prevent measurable harm to streams, lakes, wetlands, and other natural aquatic systems from commercial, residential or industrial development sites.

means a formal subdivision or a "long plat," as described by the Sumner Subdivision Code. A major division of land does not include short plats.

See definition in RCW 36.70A.030(27).

means a sloped roof or roof-like facade architecturally able to be treated as a building wall.

means a single-family dwelling built in accordance with the Department of Housing and Urban Development Manufactured Housing Construction and Safety Standards Act, which is a national, preemptive building code.

means a manufactured home which has not been previously titled to a retail purchaser, and is not a used mobile home.

means a manufactured home constructed after June 15, 1976, in accordance with state and federal requirements for manufactured homes, which:

means a tract of land designed and maintained under a single ownership or unified control where two or more spaces or pads are provided solely for rent or lease for the placement of manufactured homes for residential purposes.

means a space or pad within a manufactured home park, for the accommodation of one manufactured home, its accessory buildings or structures and accessory equipment for the exclusive use of the occupants. The boundaries of a manufactured home site are established on the approved manufactured home park plot plan.

means a subdivision or short subdivision approved in accordance with Sumner subdivision standards in SMC Title 17, meeting or exceeding the requirements of the Sumner Municipal Code, and where the lots are principally intended to accommodate manufactured homes as residences. The lots within the subdivision shall be held in private ownership.

means a manufacturing or industrial use typically having the potential of creating substantial noise, smoke, dust, vibration and other environmental impacts or pollution, and including, but not limited to:

means a manufacturing use, typically having little or no potential of creating noise, smoke, dust, vibration or other environmental impacts or pollution, and including, but not limited to, the following:

means a person licensed by the State Liquor Control Board to process marijuana into usable marijuana and marijuana-infused products, package and label usable marijuana and marijuana-infused products for sale in retail outlets, and sell usable marijuana and marijuana-infused products at wholesale to marijuana retailers (RCW 69.50.101).

means a person licensed by the State Liquor Control Board to produce and sell marijuana at wholesale to marijuana processors and other marijuana producers (RCW 69.50.101).

means a person licensed by the State Liquor Control Board to sell usable marijuana and marijuana-infused products in a retail outlet (RCW 69.50.101).

and "Wetlands."

means an informal meeting, hearing, workshop, or other public gathering of people to obtain comments from the public or other agencies on a proposed project permit prior to the local government's decision. A public meeting may include, but is not limited to, the following: a design commission meeting, a community meeting, or a scoping meeting on a draft environmental impact statement. A public meeting does not include an open record hearing. The proceedings at a public meeting may be recorded and a report or recommendation may be included in the local government's project permit application file.

and "Behavioral health facility, outpatient."

means all surface mining or extraction of rock, stone, gravel, sand, earth, and other minerals, exclusive of reclamation, that include, but are not limited to, accessory uses such as: (1) equipment maintenance, sorting, crushing, and loading; (2) on-site mineral processing, including asphalt or concrete batching, concrete recycling, and other aggregate recycling; and (3) transporting minerals to and from the mine, on-site road maintenance, road maintenance for roads used extensively for surface mining activities, traffic safety, and traffic control.

includes gravel, sand, and valuable metallic substances. Topsoil is not a mineral.

means a facility consisting of separate storage units which are rented to customers having exclusive and independent access to their respective units for storage of residential or commercial-oriented goods.

means a tract of land, building or structure with a variety of complementary and integrated permitted uses, such as, but not limited to, residential, office, manufacturing, retail, public or entertainment, in a compact urban form.

is a single structure containing at least two complementary, integrated, or mutually supporting permitted principal uses (such as housing, offices, light-manufacturing, retail, public service, or entertainment). The structure must achieve physical and functional integration within itself.

means a factory-built dwelling built prior to June 15, 1976, to standards other than the HUD code, and acceptable under applicable state codes in effect at the time of construction or introduction of the home into the state. Mobile homes have not been built since introduction of the HUD Manufactured Home Construction and Safety Standards Act.

means a mobile home which has been previously sold at retail and has been subjected to state retail sales tax, or which has been previously used and has been subjected to state use tax, and which has substantially lost its identity as a mobile unit at the time of sale by virtue of its being fixed in location upon land owned or leased by the owner of the mobile home and placed on a foundation (posts or blocks) with fixed pipe connections with sewer, water, and other utilities.

means any factory-built housing designed primarily for residential occupancy by human beings which does not contain a permanent frame and must be mounted on a permanent foundation.

means a type of wireless communication facility consisting of a single pole support structure.

means a lodging use, located in a structure in which access to individual units is predominately by means of common exterior corridors, and in which a majority of rooms are provided to guests on a daily or short-term basis, and in which off-street parking is provided on the lot.

means any premises in which motion pictures, slides or similar photographic reproductions are shown as the principal use of the premises or are shown as an adjunct to some other business activity which is conducted on the premises and constitutes a major attraction, and wherein fees of any kind are charged, and wherein such movies are shown on a regular basis, and not to include school or public auditoriums used for generally noncommercial purposes on an infrequent basis.

means a retail sales and service use in which motorized vehicles, such as buses, recreational vehicles, travel trailers, and boats, are leased or sold.

means that portion of a building where flammable or combustible liquids or gases used as motor fuel are stored and dispensed from fixed equipment into the fuel tanks of motor vehicles.

means every person, firm, partnership, association or corporation engaged in the business of buying, selling or dealing in vehicles of a type required to be licensed under the laws of the state of Washington for the purpose of wrecking, dismantling, disassembling or essentially changing the form of any motor vehicle.

means a type of housing contained in a single structure with three or more dwelling units. Examples of multifamily dwellings include, but are not limited to, ground-level or multi-level triplexes, fourplexes, senior housing, co-living housing and multifamily residential infill (MRI) dwellings as may be permitted pursuant to SMC § 18.16.040F.

means a multifamily dwelling exclusively allowed within commercial and mixed-use districts and permitted according to the standards of SMC § 18.16.040(F) and other sections.

means three to four dwelling units within a single structure.

means products that are of a substance and quantity considered a hazardous occupancy by the building code, except this does not include "air separation facilities" as defined in SMC § 18.04.0097.

means a geographical subarea of a community commonly identified and recognized as a more or less distinct part of the community.

means a small retail shopping area dealing in convenience goods such as food and pharmaceuticals, or personal services. The area serves the everyday personal needs of a neighborhood population, has considerable walk-in trade, generates little traffic from outside the neighborhood, and is integrated within a residential development or area.

means any building or structure which does not comply with one or more of the provisions of this title with regard to the placement of the structure on the lot, building height, or size.

means a lawful use of land or structure in existence on the effective date of this title or at the time of any amendments thereto and which does not conform to the provisions of the zone, prior zone, or overlay zone in which such use is located, or general provisions of this title.

means any federally, state or locally approved institution providing skilled nursing or medical care as its primary function.

means a building or portion of a building wherein services are performed involving predominantly administrative, professional, or clerical operations.

means a hearing, conducted by a single hearing body or officer authorized by the local government to conduct such hearings, that creates the local government's record through testimony and submission of evidence and information, under procedures prescribed by the local government by ordinance or resolution. An open record hearing may be held prior to a local government's decision on a project permit to be known as an "open record predecision hearing." An open record hearing may be held on an appeal, to be known as an "open record appeal hearing" if no open record predecision hearing has been held on the project permit.

means land used for recreation, resource protection, project utilities, safety or buffers, and is protected by the provisions of the municipal code and ordinances of Sumner to ensure that it remains in such use. Open space shall be left in a substantially natural state except in the case of recreation or other approved uses that may contain limited impervious surfaces.

means a program that (1) engages in the treatment of opioid use disorder with medications approved by the United States Food and Drug Administration for the treatment of opioid use disorder and reversal of opioid overdose, including methadone; and (2) provides a comprehensive range of medical and rehabilitative services.

means a mobile medication unit established as an extension of an existing licensed opioid treatment program. The mobile unit must be a vehicle, lawfully used on public streets, roads, or highways with more than three wheels in contact with the ground, from which behavioral health services are provided at a nonpermanent location(s).

on all lakes, streams, and tidal water is that mark that will be found by examining the bed and banks and ascertaining where the presence and action of waters are so common and usual, and so long continued in all ordinary years, as to mark upon the soil a character distinct from that of the abutting upland, in respect to vegetation as that condition exists on June 1, 1971, as it may naturally change thereafter, or as it may change thereafter in accordance with permits issued by a local government or the Department of Ecology; provided, that in any area where the ordinary high water mark cannot be found, the ordinary high water mark adjoining salt water shall be the line of mean higher tide and the ordinary high water mark adjoining fresh water shall be the line of mean high water.

means owner of record of property or contract purchaser of property.

means any public or private land available for recreational, educational, or aesthetic use.

means an area accessible to vehicles, which area is provided, improved, maintained and used for the sole purpose of accommodating a motor vehicle.

means a walkway used exclusively as a pedestrian trafficway.

means an interior space designated for live performing and entertainment presented to the general public primarily from the local rather than regional area, such as a community theater, dance studio, library space for live readings, and similar venues not exceeding 5,000 square feet of total floor area as defined by SMC § 18.04.0385.

means subsidized, leased housing with no limit on length of stay that prioritizes people who need comprehensive support services to retain tenancy and utilizes admissions practices designed to use lower barriers to entry than would be typical for other subsidized or unsubsidized rental housing, especially related to rental history, criminal history, and personal behaviors. Permanent supportive housing is paired with on-site or off-site voluntary services designed to support a person living with a complex and disabling behavioral health or physical health condition who was experiencing homelessness or was at imminent risk of homelessness prior to moving into housing to retain their housing and be a successful tenant in a housing arrangement, improve the resident's health status, and connect the resident of the housing with community-based health care, treatment, or employment services. Permanent supportive housing is subject to all of the rights and responsibilities defined in chapter 59.18 RCW.

means the person making application for a permit.

means a natural person, heirs, executors, administrators or assigns, and also includes a firm, partnership or corporation, its or their successors or assigns, or the agent of the any of the aforesaid.

means the manufacturing, processing and/or packaging of pharmaceuticals and related products, such as cosmetics and drugs.

means the Sumner comprehensive plan.

means land under unified control to be planned and developed as a whole in a single development or a definitely programmed series of development operations or phases. A planned development includes principal and accessory structures and uses substantially related to the character and purpose of the planned development. It often incorporates innovations or special features in the development of the site.

means a map of a short or long subdivision pursuant to the Sumner Subdivision Code.

means an outdoor, roofed, unheated, flat surface attached to a residential structure. The porch may be enclosed by screen, latticework, broad windows, or other light frame walls extending from the main structure.

means domesticated birds that serve as a source of eggs or meat, including, but not limited to chickens, turkeys, ducks, geese, guinea fowl, peafowl, pigeons, and pheasants.

means buildings in which a use or activity is conducted and/or the grounds over which the operator of the use or activity has direct control.

means an adjacent street that has the highest order of vehicle use and function as classified by the city of Sumner transportation plan.

means the main use of land or buildings as distinguished from an accessory use.

means privately owned parking area accessible to vehicles, which area is provided, improved, maintained, and used for the sole purpose of accommodating the parking of noncommercial vehicles of less than 10,000 pounds gross vehicle weight, except that private off-street parking lots shall not be for the parking of trucks designed or operated for the transportation of commodities, merchandise, produce, freight, animals, or property, and whose body weight or whose combined body and load weight or whose rated capacity exceeds 10,000 pounds. Private off-street parking lots do not include areas used by truck and/or heavy vehicle operators for sleeping, resting, or other extended uses. This use does not include paid parking lots.

means a publicly owned parking area accessible to vehicles, which area is provided, improved, maintained, and used for the sole purpose of accommodating the parking of noncommercial vehicles of less than 10,000 pounds gross vehicle weight, except that private off-street parking lots shall not be for the parking of trucks designed or operated for the transportation of commodities, merchandise, produce, freight, animals, or property, and whose body weight or whose combined body and load weight or whose rated capacity exceeds 10,000 pounds. Public off-street parking lots do not include areas used by truck and/or heavy vehicle operators for sleeping, resting, or other extended uses. This use may include paid parking lots.

means a public or private facility which provides instruction for children who are not old enough to attend a public elementary school. Preschools differ from day care facilities by the number of hours children are kept. Preschools do not keep children for more than four hours. All the children arrive at approximately the same time and leave at approximately the same time.

means a low-intensity office use occupied by an accountant, architect, attorney-at-law, engineer, surveyor, insurance agent, real estate broker, landscape architect, or practitioner of the human healing arts, or other professional business similar in type, scale and character. A professional office is not a retail sales business.

means any land use or environmental permit or license required from a local government for a project action, including, but not limited to, subdivisions, binding site plans, planned unit developments, conditional uses, shoreline substantial development permits, site plan review, permits or approvals required by critical areas ordinances, and site-specific rezones which do not require a comprehensive plan amendment but excludes the adoption or amendment of a comprehensive plan, subarea plan, or development regulations, except as otherwise specifically included in the section.

means that a complete application has been received and acknowledged by the department of development services and that the request has not been approved or denied.

means buildings or uses of land owned and operated by a public agency for such purposes as providing places for public assembly and recreation, operating services of benefit to the public, or for the administration of public affairs. Examples include, but are not limited to, city offices, police and fire stations, senior center, museum, and maintenance facilities. Public housing, utility facilities, streets, and parks do not constitute a public facility.

means a strip of land with tracks and auxiliary facilities for track operation, but not including freight depots or stations, loading platforms, train sheds, warehouses, car or locomotive shops, or car yards. Abandoned right-of-way is included under this definition.

means filed for record with the auditor of the county of Pierce, state of Washington.

means a home-like environment that promotes healthy recovery from a substance use disorder and supports persons recovering from a substance use disorder through the use of peer-recovery support. A recovery residence is considered a type of group home.

means a vehicle which is permanently designed and intended for use for temporary housing or recreational purposes. Recreational vehicles include campers, travel trailers, motor homes, boats, or trailers.

means a salvage and recycling use in which recyclable materials are collected, stored, and/or processed, by crushing, breaking, sorting and/or packaging, but not including any use which is defined as a salvage yard.

means a salvage and recycling use in which weather resistant containers are provided for the collection of the following recyclable materials only: glass, aluminum cans, tin cans, plastic, and paper; and/or fully enclosed containers are provided for the collection of secondhand goods for processing at another location.

means a facility used for recreational, social and cultural activities that has the capacity to serve both the local and regional needs of the population. Services and activities would include but not be limited to swimming pools, fitness centers, gym and recreational court facilities, limited clinical or health care, art centers, community rooms, classrooms and other uses deemed a community service.

means a building or structure or portion thereof, which is designed for and used to provide a place of abode for human beings, but not including hotel or motel units having no kitchen facilities.

means a business establishment used, maintained, advertised and held out to the public as a place with a full dinner, lunch, and/or breakfast menu. The restaurant serves full course meals daily prepared in its own kitchen. The meals are served at a table or counter with take-out meals allowed as an accessory use. Alcoholic beverages may be served as incidental and complementary to the serving of food. A bar with the primary purpose of serving alcoholic beverages can be a part of the restaurant. Where the square footage of the bar exceeds 30 percent of the gross floor area of the restaurant and the bar combined, the establishment shall be considered a "tavern" per SMC § 18.04.1005.

means an establishment that provides ordering kiosks for customers to park their motor vehicles, place orders and consume their food and/or beverages either on or off the premises. Customers are usually served by staff who walk to take orders and deliver food encouraging patrons to remain parked at the kiosk and in their vehicle when they receive and consume their food. Drive-in restaurants may also have drive-up windows or the ability for patrons to order from a walk-up window.

means an establishment that offers quick food service, which is accomplished through a limited menu of items already prepared and held for service, or prepared, fried, or griddled quickly, or heated in a device such as a microwave oven. Orders are not generally taken at the customer's table, and food is generally served in disposable wrapping or containers.

means the selling of goods and services which may include convenience goods, such as food and drugs, personal services, such as tailoring, shoe repairing, and barbershops, and general merchandise, such as apparel, furniture and home furnishings.

means any wall used to resist the lateral displacement of any material.

means individual apartments for residents that meet the age requirements under SMC § 18.04.0927, in an apartment complex featuring a central lobby, common dining area, and recreational rooms, with extra services included in the rent, such as meals, light housekeeping, laundry and recreational programs, but not including nursing or medical care.

means the land held by the public for road and utility purposes. It usually refers to the land required for the traffic lanes plus the shoulders and drainage structures on both sides of highways, roadways, bikeways and alleys.

means an activity or facility that provides a higher incidence of risk to the public from persons conditionally released from the special commitment center. Risk potential activities and facilities include: public and private schools, school bus stops, licensed day care and licensed preschool facilities, public parks, publicly dedicated trails, sports fields, playgrounds, recreational and community centers, churches, synagogues, temples, mosques, public libraries, public and private youth camps, and others identified by the Washington State Department of Social and Health Services following the hearings on a potential site required in RCW 71.09.315. "School bus stops" does not include bus stops established primarily for public transit.

means a salvage and recycling use in which junk, waste, discarded or salvaged materials are bought, sold, exchanged, stored, baled, packed, disassembled, or handled, including automobile wrecking yards, house-wrecking and structural steel materials and equipment. A "salvage yard" shall not be construed to include such activity when conducted entirely within an enclosed building, nor pawnshops and establishments for the sale, purchase, or storage of used furniture and household equipment, used cars in operable condition, used or salvaged machinery in operable condition or the processing of used, discarded or salvaged materials as a minor part of manufacturing operations.

means a public or private facility that provides a curriculum of primary and/or secondary academic instruction, including kindergartens, elementary schools, junior high schools, and high school.

means a structure, transportable in one or more sections, which requires a chassis to be transported, and is designed to be used as an educational space with or without a permanent foundation. The structure shall be trailerable and capable of being demounted and relocated to other locations as needs arise.

means a residential facility for persons civilly committed and conditionally released to a less restrictive alternative. A secure community transition facility has supervision and security, and either provides or ensures the provision of sex offender treatment services. Secure community transition facilities include any community-based facilities established under chapter 71.09 RCW.

means individual apartments for residents that meet the age requirements under SMC § 18.04.0927, in an apartment complex with individual kitchen facilities in each unit versus common dining services. May include common areas, but does not include food service, nursing or medical care except incidental services provided on an individual basis. Senior apartments are designed for independent living and are generally no different than other apartments except for having an age requirement.

refers to various types of housing stock, whether rental or occupant-owned, that specifically cater to residents aged 55 years and older, where the units are occupied by persons 55 years of age or older, except for spouses of such residents for whom there is no minimum age requirement. This definition shall include, at a minimum, all facilities that qualify as "housing for older persons" under the Fair Housing Act. Senior housing types may include zero lot line homes, cottage housing, duplex dwellings, townhomes, continuing care or life care communities, senior apartments, retirement homes, nursing homes or assisted living facilities, provided, residents at each facility meet the age requirements of this section.

means a kitchen used or intended to be used by residents of multiple dwelling units or sleeping units for preparing food simultaneously.

means any home, place of institution for the care and protection of individuals, including children, suffering from abuse or potential abuse or harm.

means a detached building designed exclusively for residential purposes for one family, including site built homes, manufactured homes, or modular homes.

means a building designed to be a detached standalone structure exclusively for residential purposes for one family, and is physically connected to adjacent dwellings at secondary or ancillary building parts such as garages, carports, trellises, porches, covered decks, storage areas and gateways.

means a plan, to scale, showing uses and structures proposed for a parcel of land. It includes, but is not limited to, lot lines, streets, building sites, open space, buildings, parking areas, major landscape features, both natural and manmade, and the locations of proposed utility features.

means an independently rented or owned and lockable unit providing living and sleeping space, with access to shared kitchen facilities within the same building.

means:

means:

means an accessory building for the keeping of domestic animals, especially in a building having stalls or compartments.

means:

means any metal container intended to be used for seagoing travel, that is not moveable under its own power, and must be delivered to the site by means of ship, truck, train, or crane.

means a use engaged in storage, wholesale, and distribution of manufactured products, supplies, and equipment, but excluding bulk storage of materials that are flammable or explosive or that create hazardous or commonly recognized offensive conditions.

means that portion of a building included between the upper surface of any floor and the upper surface of the floor next above, except that the topmost story shall be that portion of a building included between the upper surface of the topmost floor and the ceiling or roof above. If the finished floor level directly above a usable or unused under-floor space is more than six feet above grade as defined herein for more than 50 percent of the total perimeter or is more than 12 feet above grade as defined herein at any point, such usable or unused under-floor space shall be considered as a story.

means the lowest story in a building which qualifies as a story, as defined herein, except that a floor level in a building having only one floor level shall be classified as a first story, provided such floor level is not more than four feet below grade, as defined herein, for more than 50 percent of the total perimeter, or not more than eight feet below grade, as defined herein at any point.

means a public or private thoroughfare or easement which affords primary means of access. For the purposes of this title, the definition of street includes all public and private utilities such as communication lines, cable television lines, electrical lines and equipment, natural gas distribution lines, storm water, water and sewer facilities, and other similar facilities commonly found in street rights-of-way.

means a tree planted in the city right-of-way between the roadway driving surface and adjacent property lines.

means that which is built or constructed, an edifice or building of any kind, or any piece of work artificially built up or composed of parts joined together in some definite manner, but not including fences six or less feet in height, driveways or other paved areas.

means any structure which is designed to be freestanding and is covered with metal or canvas material supported by a wood or pipe-type skeletal frame.

means any change in the supporting members of a building or structure, such as foundations, bearing walls, columns, beams, floor or floor joists, girders or rafters, or changes in the exterior dimensions of the building or structure, or increase in floor space.

means a use where someone teaches or creates fine art, such as, but not limited to, paintings, sculptures, ceramics, or photography, within a dedicated workspace known as an artist studio. Where a workshop or fabrication area exceeds 5,000 SF, some zones require a retail component.

means a facility that provides care to individuals, typically on a voluntary basis, with a diagnosis of a substance use disorder.

means two unattached ground-related dwelling units occupying the same lot.

means an establishment, serving alcoholic beverages, in which the principal business is the sale of such beverages at retail for consumption on the premises and where food service may or may not be included as an accessory use.

means a room, cabinet or building used to house equipment for a utility or service provider used in conjunction with wireless communication facilities.

means that area within the boundaries of the Town Center Plan adopted July 18, 2005, and designated as such on the city's official zoning map as hereafter amended.

means a type of ground-related housing that is a multistory building containing two or more dwelling units, each of which has primary ground floor access to the outside and which are attached to each other by common walls without openings.

is a facility that dispatches tow trucks for hire with no automotive storage area for impounded vehicles.

is a facility that dispatches tow trucks for hire with associated storage area for impounded vehicles.

means a fractional part of subdivided lands having fixed boundaries that is not a lot of record and is either: (A) dedicated; or (B) reserved for a specific purpose by appropriate covenants, plat restrictions, or maintenance agreements, for ingress, egress, utility access, open space, drainage, stormwater management, critical area buffers or other purpose necessary to the public welfare.

means allowing variations in density within a project or site while the average density over the site or project remains constant. This concept permits unused allowable densities in one area to be used in another area of the site.

means a project that provides housing and supportive services to homeless persons or families for up to two years and that has, as its purpose, facilitating the movement of homeless persons and families into independent living.

means a freestanding structure, other than a building, on which wireless communication devices are mounted. Support structure types include, but are not limited to, monopoles, lattice towers, wood poles or guyed towers.

means a recreational vehicle which is designed to be transported on public streets or highways and not designed for use as a permanent residence.

is defined as a vertical structure attached to a fence comprised of lattice work designed to support the growth of vines or other vegetation, or a horizontal decorative element composed of lattice work that is predominantly open in design. A trellis which has a horizontal element which is more that 36 inches in width measured perpendicular to the fence shall be considered an arbor and therefore subject to the siting requirements for an arbor.

means a retail sales and service use in which heavy duty commercial trucks are leased or sold.

means a facility for the relief and refreshment of truck drivers wherein diesel fuel and/or gasoline is available and food is available for immediate consumption on the premises. Such a facility may include accessory uses such as maintenance or repair of commercial motor vehicles; restaurants; motels; retail business; and business offices.

means a building or area in which freight brought by truck is assembled and/or stored for routing or reshipment, or in which semitrailers, including tractor and/or trailer units and other trucks, are parked and stored. A truck terminal is not a "truck stop." See SMC § 18.04.1029.

means any use not otherwise specifically listed providing opportunity for the driver-operators of heavy trucks to access needed retail, medical, and/or personal services during either short-term or mandatory long-term stops and lay-overs. Examples include retail related to truck parts, tires, or accessories, retail addressing personal needs such as clothing or personal hygiene items, medical services, gifts, and web access.

of property means the purpose or activity for which the land, or building thereon, is designed, arranged or intended, or for which it is occupied or maintained and shall include any manner of performance or operation of such activity with respect to the provision of this title. The definition of "use" also includes the definition of "development."

is a facility for providing service to an area including:

means:

means a location used for the storage and maintenance of materials, equipment and vehicles to facilitate the provision of utility services. A utility yard is frequently co-located with a utility office.

means the estimated cost to replace the building and structure in kind, based on current replacement costs as determined by the building official.

means an adjustment in the application of the specific provisions of this title to a particular piece of property, which property, because of special circumstances applicable to it, is deprived of privileges commonly enjoyed by other properties in the same vicinity and zone and which adjustment remedies disparity in privileges.

means a use in which one or more of the following activities are carried out:

means a use in which one or more of the following activities are carried out on passenger vehicles and similar small vehicles listed under automotive sales at SMC § 18.04.0135, but not on boats, recreational vehicles or heavy equipment:

means an automotive sales or motorized vehicle sales and service use in which general motor repair work is done as well as the replacement of new or reconditioned parts in motorized vehicles; but not including any operation included in the definition of "major vehicle repair."

means an institution which teaches trades, business courses, hairdressing and similar skills on a post-secondary level, or which teaches fine arts such as music, dance or painting to any age group, whether operated for nonprofit or profit-making purposes.

means the distance measured from the entrance to a train station with a commuter rail stop; or measured from the center point of a front lot line of a subject parcel, along streets and sidewalks for a specified distance (e.g. 1/4 mile).

means any wall or element of a wall, or any member or group of members, which defines the exterior boundaries or courts of a building and which has a slope of 60 degrees or greater with the horizontal plane.

means a site where wetlands are restored, created, enhanced or, in exceptional circumstances, preserved, expressly for the purpose of providing compensatory mitigation in advance of unavoidable impacts to wetlands or other aquatic resources that typically are unknown at the time of certification.

means a producer of wine up to 125,500 liters or 30,000 gallons per year primarily of products produced on site, typically pressed in small batches, and typically including a wine tasting area open to the public. A craft winery is independently owned and operated.

means an unstaffed site containing structural improvements for the transmission and reception of low-power radio signals consisting of antennas, support structure, equipment shelter or cabinet, or related equipment.

means a facility that is affixed to an existing structure such as a building or water tower, and is not considered a component of the attached wireless communication facility.

means a single-support structure such as a building, monopole or lattice tower to which more than one wireless communication provider mounts equipment.

means a facility which includes a separate support structure, including but not limited to monopoles, lattice towers, wood poles or guyed towers.

means an open, unoccupied space, other than a court (as defined in the Uniform Building Code), unobstructed from the ground to the sky, except where specifically provided by this code, on the lot on which a building is situated. (Refer to Figure 18.04-G.)

means a public or private establishment which caters to or is attended in substantial part by minors including, but not limited to, youth community centers, boy scout or girl scout club houses, arcades, miniature golf courses, amusement parks, batting cages, or other similar facilities.

means a detached single-family building located on a lot in such a manner that one or more of the building's sides rests directly on a lot line, with the other building sides separated by a minimum distance of one side yard from other detached dwellings. (Refer to Figure 18.04-H.)

means an attached single-family dwelling that is attached to additional zero lot line dwellings at one or both common side lot lines by means of a common wall. A zero lot line dwelling is attached to no more than one other zero lot line dwelling at any common side lot line. Zero lot line dwellings may be constructed in groups of multiple units as provided in specific zones. Each zero lot line dwelling is located entirely on its own lot, and residents hold a fee simple title to the dwelling and lot. A zero lot line dwelling may be in the form of a duplex, multiplex, townhouse or similar attached single-family dwelling.

means a group of zero lot line dwellings connected to one another along common lot lines/walls.

means an area accurately defined as to boundaries and location, and classified by the zoning ordinance as available for certain types of uses and within which other types of uses are excluded.

means a classification contained in this title which combines with the underlying classification and adds specific restrictions to properties located within such zone. The combination of zones, for the purpose of this definition and title, shall be considered a separately zoned area and shall not be construed as applying different standards to properties within the same zone. An example of an overlay zone would be the planned mixed-use development overlay designation.

means a zone classification applicable to a property which provisions continue in full force in conjunction with an "overlay zone."