"Adult or sexually oriented businesses"shall have the same meaning as defined in Chapter
5.04, "Business Licenses Generally," Chapter
5.40, "Adult or Sexually Oriented Businesses" (see Section
5.40.020 of this Code), and shall be deemed to be a First Amendment protected use.
"Amendment"means a change in the wording, context, or substance of this title or a change in the zone or overlay zone boundaries or zone or overlay zone classifications upon the Zoning Map.
"Ancillary retail use"means a retail use customarily incidental or subordinate to a person's permitted use, as further described in Section
17.22.040 that does not occupy more than 10% of the gross floor area occupied by the person's permitted use. Any retail activity exceeding this limit shall be considered a primary use of property and subject to the land use regulations applicable to such use. Ancillary retail use shall not include mail-order or internet sales in connection with a permitted use.
"Ancillary structure"means any structure that is built or constructed to be used in connection with the use of the property on which it is located, including items such as a fence, wall, steps, sign, or other structure built or composed of parts joined together in some definite manner, excluding a building, and shall also include any equipment anchored to the ground.
"Ancillary use"means a use customarily incidental or subordinate to a person's permitted use, as further described in Section
17.22.020(J), such as office space or showroom space that does not occupy more than 20% of the gross floor area occupied by the person's permitted use. Ancillary use shall include mail-order or internet sales in connection with a permitted use.
"Art galleries"means a physical location where art is shown to the public and may be made available for purchase.
"Artisan industrial"means industrial uses under 5,000 square feet per space which do not produce noise, vibration, fire hazard or noxious emissions that would disturb or endanger neighboring units or properties. Examples include artist and artisan studios, custom manufacturing, photofinishing or photography studios, commercial kitchens, and print shops.
"Awning"means an architectural projection that provides weather protection, identity, or decoration, and which projects from and is wholly supported by the exterior wall of a building to which it is attached, requiring no additional structure(s) for support. An awning is typically composed of canvas or other similar material.
"Big box retail"means a retail use with individual tenant space(s) over 40,000 square feet housed in a newly constructed standalone commercial building. These types of uses engage in selling goods or merchandise to the general public as well as to other retailers, contractors, or businesses, and rendering services incidental to the sale of the goods.
"Building"means any structure having a permanent roof supported by columns or walls and attached to the ground.
"Canopy"means any fixed roof-like structure or architectural projection of rigid construction that is structurally independent or supported by attachment to a building on one end and by not less than one stanchion on the outer end.
"Cell tower"means a structure intended to support equipment used to transmit and/or receive telecommunications signals, including monopoles, guyed, and lattice construction steel structures.
"CEQA"means the California Environmental Quality Act, California Public Resources Code Sections
21000—
21189.
"Change of use"means any new use or change of activity, including any commencement of a new business activity, purpose, or use that requires a permit from the Department of Public Works pursuant to this title, except that a use permitted by a Temporary Use Permit or a Special Events Permit shall not be considered a change of use.
"City"means the City of Vernon.
"Code"means the City Code of the City of Vernon.
"Cold storage warehouse"means a building or part of a building used primarily to store non-durable, perishable goods under refrigeration at temperatures of 35º Fahrenheit or lower, excluding areas used for the processing, preparing, or packaging of such goods for storage.
"Commercial use"means businesses that provide goods or services, including, but not limited to, banks, publishing and printing shops, equipment rental and leasing, offices, automotive repair, and urgent care facilities.
"Community facilities"means buildings and facilities intended to be used by the general public (or segments of the general public), including, without limitation, government offices, public schools, private schools (including special purpose schools, such as nursery schools or special interest schools, but not including trade schools), libraries, museums, senior citizen centers, day care centers, hospitals and emergency rooms, multi-use facilities, such as YMCAs and community centers, cemeteries, and other similar facilities, but not including a religious use, fitness and recreational facilities, or a convention venue, as defined below.
"Conditional Use Permit"means a discretionary permit granted by the City Council for certain uses of property not permitted of right because such uses require special review and may be subject to special conditions. The requirements for a Conditional Use Permit are set forth in Chapter
17.72.
"Contractor's yard"means a permanent site that houses a contractor's equipment or materials which are stored outdoors.
"Convention venues"means establishments providing space for public or private gatherings and meetings, including, but not limited to, banquet rooms, auditoriums, and conference/convention facilities. This definition does not include adult or sexually oriented businesses, religious uses, fitness and recreational facilities, or bars.
"Data center"means a building with a controlled environment used for housing a large amount of electronic equipment, typically computers and communications equipment, for the purpose of creating a hosted computer environment.
"Density"means the total number of permanent residential dwelling units per acre of land, exclusive of all existing public right-of-way surfaces or similar property.
"Development Agreement"means a contract duly executed and legally binding between the City of Vernon and a developer(s) pursuant to Government Code Section
65864 et seq.
"Development standards"means the development and performance standards described in Section
17.22.070, "Development and performance standards," and/or development and performance standards identified for individual overlay zones in this title.
"Digital display"means the face of a sign or outdoor advertising structure that is comprised of a digital or electronic face with intermittent changeable messages.
"Director"means the City of Vernon Director of Public Works, or designee.
"Distributed generation"means decentralized power generating facilities interconnected to the City's distribution system and used exclusively to meet the customer's load requirements at the site to offset power consumption normally provided by the City and may include, but not be limited to, solar photovoltaic (PV) facilities, diesel and natural gas fueled facilities, wind generators, biomass-fueled facilities, fuel cells, water-powered energy systems, combined heat and power facilities, energy storage devices, microturbines and waste burning power facilities.
"Drive-through" or "drive-up facilities"means an establishment that sells products or provides services to occupants in vehicles, including drive-in or drive-up windows and drive-through services; examples include fast food restaurants, banks, and pharmacies.
"Emergency shelter,"pursuant to California Health and Safety Code Section
50801(e), means a facility that provides immediate and short-term housing to homeless persons or families on a first-come, first-served basis where the individual(s) must vacate the facility each morning and have no guaranteed bed for the next night. No individual or household may be denied emergency shelter because of inability to pay.
"Encouraged"means a use permitted of right in the mixed-use zones and which, when combined with other encouraged uses, triggers incentives per Chapter
17.53.
"First Amendment protected uses"means those uses with legal precedent to be protected by the First Amendment to the United States Constitution, specifically those uses constitutionally protected due to "freedom of association" in the form of intimate association ("intimate human relations") or expressive association ("engaging in those activities protected by the First Amendment—speech, assembly, petition for the redress of grievances, and the exercise of religion"). First Amendment protected uses shall include, but not be limited to, adult or sexually oriented businesses and tattoo parlors.
"Fitness and recreational facilities"means buildings and facilities used for fitness and recreational purposes, including, but not limited to, cross-fit and rock-climbing gyms, dance and martial arts studios, skate parks, roller derby, and spectator-related events related thereto.
"Floor area"means the total horizontal area of all floors contained within the exterior walls of all buildings, measured by the exterior dimensions of the building, on a lot. It shall include elevated storage areas and platforms, walkways, and similar interior structures or facilities used to provide access to such storage areas, but not where the same are used to provide access solely to machinery or equipment and are not normally occupied, except to maintain the equipment. Outdoor dining areas and balconies shall be considered floor area for determining the required parking and loading requirements. It shall not include awnings, or garages that are required parking for a permitted residential use.
"Floor area ratio"means the ratio of the floor area of all buildings on a lot to the buildable area of that lot.
"Force majeure"means an event that is not within the control of the owner of the property, including, without limitation, earthquake, flood, fire, and acts of war or terrorism.
"Freight terminal"means any lot, building, or portion thereof where goods or freight, excluding perishable goods, are transferred or redistributed from one vehicle to another; provided, however, that such use in connection with the operation of a warehouse use or cold storage warehouse shall not be deemed to be a freight terminal. A freight terminal shall not include any use involved in the storage of products for more than 72 hours. (For products stored longer than 72 hours, see "Warehouse use.")
"Fueling station"means any establishments engaged in the retail sale of gasoline, diesel, and alternative fuel, not including electric vehicle charging, lubricants, parts, and accessories, that may include accessory minor maintenance and repair of automobiles and light trucks, vans, or similar size vehicles (i.e., vehicles that have gross vehicle weights less than 10,000 pounds). Minor repair does include body and fender work.
"Garage"means a structure or portion of a structure completely enclosed by walls or doors on all sides that is designed or used to shelter one or more parking spaces.
"Goods sales"means physical retail spaces where goods are sold. This includes warehouse stores and boutiques.
"Hazardous waste facility"means any facility or location which has a primary function to store or process, treat, transfer, dispose of, or recycle all substances defined as hazardous waste, acutely hazardous waste, extremely hazardous waste, or biohazardous waste, as defined by the State of California in Chapter
6.5 of Division 20 of the Health and Safety Code or in any amendments to or recodifications thereof. The definition shall not include the storage, use, generation, recycling, or disposal of hazardous materials as a secondary effect, product, or input of a permitted use on the same lot as the permitted use.
"Hotel"means any building containing two or more individual rooms or suites of rooms intended or designed to be used, or which are used, rented, or hired out to be occupied for sleeping or housing purposes by guests. Hotels include motels, boarding houses, rest homes, sanitariums, dormitories, hostels, and any other structure or building other than a residence or emergency shelter used for the housing or sleeping of humans. Co-living and executive apartment facilities are also included in this definition. Co-living is dormitory style living with extensive common amenities targeting mostly single professionals. An executive apartment is a short-term, furnished apartment that caters to people who come to work in a community for a defined period of time or who move from another city.
"Incidental use"means a use that is in connection with a person's permitted use, as further described in Section
17.22.020(K), such as office space, design area or showroom space, that occupies more than 20% but less than 50% of the gross floor area occupied by the person's permitted use. Incidental use shall not include a retail use, but may include mail-order or internet sales in connection with a permitted use.
"Industrial gas manufacturing"means the separation of the constituents of air into liquid or gaseous form for storage, transport, or cylinder filling, and the distribution and sale of those products, as well as other related welding gases.
"Industry" or "industrial use"means the manufacture or production of any saleable article, substance, or commodity, so long as the process adds substantial value to the article, substance, or commodity, and shall not include tasks primarily consisting of collecting, sorting, shipping, distributing, or inspecting goods from or in a warehouse or terminal. Industrial use includes uses ancillary to the manufacturing or production process, such as storage, use, generation, and disposal of hazardous materials (as defined in Federal and State laws and regulations) incidental to a manufacturing or production process; recycling incidental to a manufacturing or production process; and use of space for ancillary use.
"Junk or salvage business"means an auto wrecker or any business dealing in, selling, distributing, or buying for resale scrap materials (that is, used or waste materials) that require processing or recycling to be useful, including, without limitation, metal, cloth, paper, glass, wood, cardboard, plastics, or comparable matter, including used consumer products, but shall not include a yard ancillary to an industrial use. Junk or salvage business shall not include a business that processes or recycles the scrap materials on site as a recycling facility.
"Landscaping"means an area devoted to the growing of plants, including trees, shrubs, grasses, or groundcovers for the visual or aesthetic enjoyment of people. Landscaping may include synthetic turf, fountains or sculpture in a minor portion of the area.
"Legal nonconforming building or standards"means a building or ancillary structure or portion thereof which was lawfully erected or altered and maintained but which, because of the application of this title, no longer conforms to the regulations set forth in this Code applicable to the zone or overlay zone in which such building or ancillary structure is located, including failure to comply with the development standards or site planning standards applicable to such zone or overlay zone.
"Legal nonconforming use"means a use which was lawfully established and maintained but which, because of the application of this title, no longer conforms to the regulations set forth in this title applicable to the zone or overlay zone in which such use is located.
"Light industrial"means industrial uses that do not create smoke, gas, odor, dust, noise, vibration of earth, soot, lighting, or other similar output to a degree that is offensive when measured at the property line of the subject property. The facilities have an emphasis on activities other than manufacturing and typically have minimal office space. Typical light industrial activities include printing, material testing, and assembly of data processing equipment. These land uses are generally less than 50,000 square feet in gross floor area. Other examples include photographic processing shops, textiles, apparel and furniture upholstery, leather and leather products, appliance repair shops, and mechanical assembly cleaning.
"Live/work"means units that combine a residential space and an adequate artistic, office or productive (work) space within the same unit.
"Loading space"means an off-street space that is maintained for the parking of a vehicle while loading or unloading merchandise or materials from the vehicle into a building located on the same lot as the space.
"Lot"means a quantity or parcel of land in the possession of, or owned by, or recorded as the property of the same claimant or person, and that is:
1. A parcel of real property when shown as a delineated parcel of land with a number or other designation on a tract or plat map recorded in the office of the County Recorder;
2. A parcel of land, the dimensions and boundaries of which are defined by a record of survey recorded pursuant to the provisions of the Subdivision Map Act of the State in the office of the County Recorder; or
3. A legal lot or parcel as defined in the California Subdivision Map Act.
Where parcels of land in the same ownership are separately legally described and are developed as permitted by this Code, such individual parcels shall be considered as separate lots, but if a covenant that ties two or more lots has been recorded, all of the tied lots shall be treated as one lot. |
"Major alteration or repair"means a renovation, alteration, or repair for which the hard costs charged, incurred, or paid for such renovation, alteration, or repair, over a three-year period, commencing when the permit, if required, is issued, or if no permit is required, when the physical portion of the renovation, alteration, or repair is commenced, equals or exceeds 50% of the current fair market value of all of the buildings located on the same lot. For purposes of this title, the cost of the renovation, alteration, or repair shall exclude any costs incurred for environmental investigation, testing, and remediation. For purposes of this title, current fair market value shall be determined based only on the value of the building, and shall not include the value of the unimproved land, any personal property or equipment, or any parking lot or landscaping. Fair market value shall not include the cost or value of the contemplated renovation, alteration, or repair, and shall be determined without reference to damage caused by an event of force majeure, if any. If the owner and the City do not agree on the current fair market value, the parties shall rely on a current appraisal by an independent third party MAI appraiser having at least five years' commercial real estate appraisal experience in the Los Angeles, California metropolitan area, obtained by the owner, at the owner's expense.
"Manure fertilizer business"means a business dealing in, buying, selling, handling, processing, or storing of manure; provided, however, that manure fertilizer business shall not mean or include: (1) the storage and drying, grinding, and grading of manure upon the property where the same is produced as a result of or in connection with the operation of any business permitted in the S Overlay Zone; (2) manufacture of chemical fertilizers; or (3) fertilizer generated from sludge.
"Marijuana dispensary, store, co-op, or cultivation operation"means and includes any location, structure, facility, residence, or similar to the same used, in full or in part, as a place at or in which marijuana is sold, traded, exchanged, bartered for in any way, made available, located, stored, placed, planted, cultivated, or processed, including any of the foregoing if used in connection with the delivery of marijuana.
"Market"means a physical storefront with a focus on selling food and drink for off-site preparation, including a farmers' market.
"Media production studios"means studio space for media production activities including: storyboarding, photography, audio recording, video recording, post-production editing, sound design, and any other media production activity.
"Minor alteration or repair"means a renovation, alteration, or repair for which the hard costs charged, incurred, or paid for such renovation, alteration, or repair, over a three-year period, commencing when the permit, if required, is issued, or if no permit is required, when the physical portion of the renovation, alteration, or repair is commenced, does not equal or exceed 50% of the current fair market value of all of the buildings located on the same lot. For purposes of this title, the cost of the renovation, alteration, or repair shall exclude any costs incurred for environmental investigation, testing, and remediation. For purposes of this title, current fair market value shall be determined based only on the value of the building, and shall not include the value of the unimproved land, any personal property or equipment, or any parking lot or landscaping. Fair market value shall not include the cost or value of the contemplated renovation, alteration, or repair, and shall be determined without reference to damage caused by an event of force majeure, if any. If the owner and the City do not agree on the current fair market value, the parties shall rely on a current appraisal by an independent third party MAI appraiser having at least five years' commercial real estate appraisal experience in the Los Angeles, California metropolitan area, obtained by the owner, at the owner's expense.
"Minor Conditional Use Permit"means a discretionary permit granted by the Director for certain uses of property not permitted of right because such uses require special review and may be subject to special conditions.
"Multifamily dwelling"means a building or a portion of a building used and/or designed as residences for two or more households living independently of each other. Apartments and condominium flats are multi-family dwellings while townhomes (attached single-family dwellings within a condominium parcel) are not considered multifamily dwellings.
"New construction"means the construction of a new building that is not attached to an existing building.
"Nightlife"means establishments that primarily serve alcoholic beverages (not including restaurants that primarily serve food, and that also serve alcoholic beverages), including, without limitation, bars, breweries, taverns, lounges, and nightclubs. Nightlife shall not include an adult or sexually oriented business, even if it serves alcoholic beverages.
"Occupancy"means the purpose for which a building, or part thereof, is used or intended to be used.
"Office manufacturing"means a dual purpose space containing office spaces as well as spaces within which to manufacture goods, where manufacturing activities are directly related to and subservient to the office activities, such as design, engineering, testing, etc. Examples include R&D campuses and maker spaces.
"Offices"means uses where professional, administrative, or common business services are provided and which are not ancillary uses or incidental uses as defined by this title, such as, but not limited to, real estate firms, medical and professional offices, stock brokerages, and bond and insurance firms.
"Outdoor advertising structure"means any sign, logo, picture, transparency, mechanical device, billboard, or other representation (whether or not it includes words or logos) that is located off-site from the property where the product or service is offered and is intended to attract attention to any commodity, good, product, or service for any business or non-profit purpose or entity. An outdoor advertising structure shall not include any such sign or other structure that directs attention to the activity conducted, sold, or offered upon the property where the sign or other structure is located.
"Outdoor storage and activities"means any use of property for purposes of temporary or permanent storage of raw materials, storage or display of finished products or other materials, and including installation or storage of equipment (whether operational in the business or not operational) that is located outside of a building, except for parking of cars and trucks.
"Parking space"means a readily accessible space or area other than a street or alley that is permanently reserved, maintained, and accessible for the parking of one motor vehicle.
"Permitted use"means a use that is permitted on a lot, either by right as set forth in this title or by means of a Conditional Use Permit, Minor Conditional Use Permit, Temporary Use Permit, or as a legal nonconforming use.
"Person"means an individual, entity, or governmental agency other than the City of Vernon.
"Personal services"means personal care services provided in storefronts. These services include dry cleaners, beauty salons, fitness studios, barbers, dog groomers, nail salons, massage businesses and similar uses. Massage businesses are separately regulated by Chapter
17.108.
"Petroleum refinery"means an establishment or plant primarily engaged in producing gasoline, kerosene, distillate fuel oils, residual fuel oils, lubricants, and other products from crude petroleum and its fractionation products through straight distillation, redistillation, cracking, or other processes.
"Petroleum-related use"means an establishment or plant for the blending or processing of petroleum products but not including a petroleum refinery or petroleum storage facility. Petroleum-related use does not include storage of fuel as an ancillary use to a permitted use.
"Petroleum storage facility"means an establishment, including a tank farm, for keeping and storing gasoline, kerosene, distillate fuel oils, residual fuel oils, lubricants, and other petroleum products, but not including storage of fuel as an ancillary use.
"Production retail"means retail uses with artisan or light industrial uses, where retail activities involve sale of the goods produced or processed on site. This includes production beverage, production fashion, production furniture, and commercial food production.
"Property"means all adjacent lots under common ownership.
"Public storage"means a structure or series of structures divided into small sections and used by the general public for storage of goods or materials.
"Public utilities"means facilities owned or operated by an entity that is not the City of Vernon, that is subject to governmental regulation such as the California Public Utilities Commission, and that provides an essential commodity or service such as water, power, transportation, or communication to the public. It shall include electrical substations, water or wastewater treatment plants, and similar facilities of public agencies or public utilities, but shall not include property used solely for telecommunications antennae, cell towers, and related equipment.
"Recycling facility"means a facility that recycles used or waste materials, excluding hazardous waste, to convert and redistribute them, or a significant portion of them, as raw materials or to convert them and manufacture a product made wholly or partly from recycled materials, including a biodiesel facility. For these purposes, recycling means a process involving reconstituting materials that would otherwise become waste and returning them to the economic mainstream in the form of raw materials for new reuses or reconstituted products which meet the quality standards necessary to be used in the market-place. Recycling facility does not include recycling activities undertaken as an ancillary use to a permitted use.
"Religious use"means use of a lot for religious assemblies, institutions, or structures.
"Rendering plant"means an establishment where one or more of the following items is cooked, melted down, extracted, clarified, or otherwise processed to produce oil, tallow, grease, fertilizer (other than fertilizer from manure), animal feed, or ash: carcasses of animals or fowl, dead animals or fowl, fish, blood, offal, bones, meat, animal or vegetable fat, feathers, food scraps or waste, and other animal, fowl, or fish byproducts. Rendering plant shall not include an establishment exclusively producing fats, oils, lard, or similar products for human consumption; nor, a rendering process in connection with and incidental to a slaughterhouse, abattoir, packing plant, or similar establishment producing food for human consumption.
"Residence"means and includes one or more rooms in a building managed or used as living quarters, including, without limitation: a building or buildings used as a single-family dwelling or a multifamily dwelling; a building or buildings used as a live-in treatment facility, substance abuse center, half-way house, or home for senior citizens, disabled persons, or other residential care facilities. Emergency shelter is specifically excluded from this definition.
"Residential care facilities"means facilities providing 24-hour residential, assisted living, social and personal care for children, the elderly, and people with limited ability for self-care, such as board and care homes, children's homes, orphanages, rehabilitation centers, convalescent homes, nursing homes and similar facilities.
"Residential use"means the development and use of a property exclusively with a residence or residences, and any accessory uses or buildings customarily associated with a residence, such as, but not limited to, private recreational facilities, private open space, and on-site support facilities to residents of the property.
"Restaurant"means a food establishment that serves food to customers for consumption on-or off-premises, including fast-food and full-service dining establishments. It includes, but is not limited to, walk-up counters, coffee shops, cafés, pizza parlors, and dine-in establishments.
"Retail use"means a business providing the point of final sale of goods directly to customers, including, without limitation, restaurants and coffee shops, grocery stores, and vehicle sales. Retail use shall not include mail-order or internet sales.
"Right-of-way"means the planned future ultimate width of a street as determined by the Master Plan of Streets.
"Single-family dwelling"means a dwelling unit that is designed for occupancy by one household, located on a single parcel that does not contain any other dwelling unit (except an accessory dwelling unit, where permitted). Single-family dwellings include townhomes (attached single-family dwellings where no unit is located above or below), even when included within a condominium.
"Slaughtering"means the industrial process of butchering animals and dressing and preparing the products of their carcasses for food or other purposes.
"Solid waste facility"means any facility or location that stores, processes, or transfers solid waste as defined in California Public Resources Code Section
40191, or in any amendments to or recodifications of such statute, and related regulations.
"Sound level"means the quantity in decibels measured by a sound level meter satisfying the requirements of American National Standards Specification for Sound Level Meters S1.4. The sound level meter shall be set at "A" weighting and at "SLOW" dynamic characteristic.
"Special event"means any event intended to attract 25 or more persons for a duration not to exceed 48 hours, such as indoor or outdoor sales event of product normally stored or produced onsite, outdoor or indoor meeting, ground breaking ceremony, holiday or special occasion party or similar event, or spectator event related to fitness and recreational facilities.
"Static display"means the face of a sign or outdoor advertising display that has a fixed, printed face and does not have a digital display.
"Street"means: (1) any public road or street (including a highway or freeway) or sidewalk owned or controlled by any governmental entity; or (2) any private recorded thoroughfare that affords a means of access to an abutting lot.
"Supportive housing"means housing with no limit on length of stay that is occupied by the target population as defined in California Health and Safety Code Section
50675.14, and that is linked to on-site or off-site services that assist tenants to retain the housing, improve their health status, maximize their ability to live, and when possible, to work in the community.
"Tattoo parlors"means establishments whose principal business activity is one or more of the following: (1) using ink or other substances that result in the permanent coloration of the skin through the use of needles or other instruments designed to contact or puncture the skin; or (2) creation of an opening in the body of a person for the purpose of inserting jewelry or other decoration. Tattoo parlors are considered a First Amendment protected use.
"Telecommunications antenna"means a physical device or system through which electromagnetic, wireless telecommunications signals authorized by the Federal Communications Commission are transmitted or received.
"Temporary Use Permit"means a permit granted by an authorized agent of the City for certain uses of property not permitted of right because such uses might not meet the normal development or use standards of the applicable zone, but may otherwise be acceptable because of their temporary nature.
"Title"means this Title 17, Zoning, of the City of Vernon.
"Trade school"means a facility or teaching unit designed to educate an adult on the skills needed to perform a specific job, apprentice education, and similar training.
"Trailer"means any vehicle or structure having no foundation other than wheels, blocks, skids, jacks, horses, or skirting, and which is, has been, or reasonably may be equipped with wheels or other devices for transporting the structure from place to place whether by motor power or other means. The term "trailer" shall include camp car, house car, mobile home, camper, recreational vehicle (RV), or other vehicle whose uses may include cooking or sleeping.
"Trailer park"means any lot or portion thereof used or designed to accommodate two or more trailers used for housekeeping or sleeping or living quarters, and such definition shall include trailer courts, mobile home courts, and mobile home parks.
"Transitional housing"means temporary rental housing with length of stay that ranges between six months to two years for homeless individuals or families who are transitioning to permanent housing, operated under program requirements that call for the termination of assistance and recirculation of the assisted unit to another eligible program recipient at some predetermined future point in time.
"Transportation-related use"means any use that is the same or similar to a freight terminal or truck terminal, or that supports the movement of goods or people, such as taxi dispatch. A transportation-related use shall not include a public street or railroad right-of-way.
"Truck terminal"means any lot, building, or portion of a lot or a building used primarily for the parking, storage, maintenance, repair, or servicing of highway-type vehicles carrying persons or property, including, but not limited to, trucks, buses, and cargo containers. Truck terminal does not include parking of vehicles in connection with a permitted use or repairing or maintaining vehicles used in connection with a permitted use on the same lot as the permitted use.
"Urgent care facility"means a facility used to provide medical screenings or to treat patients who have an injury or illness that requires immediate care, but is not serious enough to warrant a visit to a hospital emergency room.
"Variance"means an exception to the required development standards or site planning standards applicable to a property granted by the City Council based on the criteria and findings set forth in Chapter
17.68, "Variances."
"Vibration"means discrete ground movement as measured by peak particle velocity in inches per second.
"Warehouse use"means a building or portion thereof used primarily for the storage of saleable goods or raw materials to be incorporated into saleable goods (including storage for distribution to other locations for wholesale or retail sale), but not including a cold storage warehouse. The storage of scrap materials shall not constitute a warehouse use.
"Wholesale use"means a building or part of a building used primarily for the storage and distribution of merchandise that is sold in large volumes to retailers or other professional businesses, but not to a standard retail consumer. Wholesale use includes the storage and distribution of merchandise for more than 72 hours. The storage and sale of scrap materials shall not constitute a wholesale use.
"Zone" and "overlay zone"means a section of the City to which regulations governing the use, area, size of buildings and ancillary structures, and other uniform regulations apply.
"Zoning Map"means the Comprehensive Zoning Map of the City of Vernon, as further described in Section
17.20.020, "Comprehensive Zoning Map."
(Prior code §§ 26.2.1—26.2.15; Ord. 1287 § 4, 2022; Ord. 1293 § 5, 2023; Ord. 1295, 12/5/2023)