Chapter 18.02 DEFINITIONS

Chapter 18.02
DEFINITIONS

Sections:

18.02.02 Intent and Purpose.

For the purpose of this Ordinance certain terms used are herewith defined. When not inconsistent with the context, words used in the present tense include the future, words in the singular number include the plural number, and words in the plural number include the singular number. The word “shall” is always mandatory and is not merely directory. The word “may” is permissive. See also Section 18.37.04 for definitions relating to signs.

18.02.04 Specific Definitions.

(1) Accessory Building. A subordinate building on the same lot or building site, the use of which is incidental to that of the main building, and which is used exclusively by the occupants of the main building.

(2) Accessory Uses. A use customarily incidental and accessory to the principal use of a lot or building located upon the same lot or building site.

(3) Alley. A public thoroughfare other than a street, having a width of not less than twenty-five (25) feet which affords only a secondary means of access to abutting property.

(4) Animal Parlor. A completely enclosed establishment where animals no larger than the largest breed of dogs are given bathing, clipping, grooming, and incidental veterinary services. Use as a kennel is prohibited.

(4.1) Antenna. Any system of wires, poles, rods, reflecting discs or similar devices used for the transmission or reception of electromagnetic waves which system is external to or attached to the exterior of any building. (Ord. 522, Sec. 2 (part), 1984)

(4a) Auction. The public sale of goods, property, or services to the highest bidder.

(5) Authorized Agent. A person acting with power-of-attorney for a property owner or owners, who is empowered to make decisions and who is authorized in writing by the owner or owners to agree to any conditions which may be imposed with regard to petitions for rezoning, variances, conditional use permits, appeals, building permits, certificates of occupancy, and other actions as provided for in this Ordinance.

(6) Automobile Parking Space. A permanently maintained space on the same lot or building site as the use it is designed to serve, and so located and arranged as to permit the storage of, and be readily accessible to, a passenger automobile of average size under its own power.

(6a) Automobile Service Station. (See Section 18.33.06).

(7) Automobile Wrecking. The dismantling or wrecking of used motor vehicles or trailers or the storage, sale or dumping of dismantled or wrecked motor vehicles. The use of more than two hundred (200) square feet of the area of any lot for this purpose shall be deemed an auto wrecking yard.

(8) Basement. A story partly underground and having at least one-half its height measured from its floor to its finished ceiling, below the average adjoining grade. A basement shall be counted as a story if the vertical distance from the average adjoining grade to its finished ceiling is over four (4) feet.

(9) Boarding, Rooming or Lodging House. A building or portion thereof which is used to accommodate, for compensation, three or more boarders or roomers in addition to the members of the occupant’s immediate family occupying such building.

(10) Borrow Pit. Any lot where dirt, soil, sand, gravel or other material is removed by excavation or otherwise below the grade of surrounding land for any purpose other than that necessary and essential to grading or preparation for building construction or operation on the premises; excluding necessary excavations for installation of public utilities and public rights-of-way or easements.

(11) Building or Shelter. Any structure either temporary or permanent, having a roof and used or built for the shelter or enclosure of persons, animals, or property of any kind. This shall include tents, awnings, or vehicles, situated on private property and used for the purpose of a building.

(11a) Building Face. The total width of the elevation of a structure as viewed from the property line the building is generally oriented to. This includes irregularly faced structures where a portion of the building face can be seen from more than one property line. (Ord. 491, Sec. 1, (part), 1983)

(12a) Building, Height. The vertical distance from grade plane to the average height of the highest roof surface. (Ord. 1052 Sec. 1, 2019; Ord. 513, Sec. 1, 1984)

(12b) Building, Height (Accessory Building). The vertical distance measured from finished floor to the highest point of the roof measured from the front (primary entry whether for vehicle or person) of the building. (Ord. 1052 Sec. 1, 2019)

(13) Building, Main. A building within which is conducted the principal use permitted on the lot, as provided by this ordinance.

(14) Building Site. The ground area of a building, together with all open spaces as required by this ordinance.

(14.1) Business Districts. An area located in a commercial or industrial zone comprised of contiguous property which is primarily in use for business and distinguished by common characteristics or a discernible boundary. (Ord. 597, Sec. 1, 1989)

(14a) Canopy. A roofed structure or architectural feature that covers vehicle or pedestrian passageways. Awnings and arcades are considered canopies. (Ord. 491, Sec. 1 (part), 1983)

(14b) Child Home Care. A service provided in a dwelling which consists of supervision and care of not to exceed six children who are not members of the family providing such service. Such service shall be non-institutional in character an shall be licensed and supervised by those governmental agencies having jurisdiction in the matter. (Ord. 277, Sec. 2 (part), 1974)

(15) City Council. The City Council of the City of Norco.

(16) Club. A nonprofit association of persons, whether incorporated or unincorporated, for some common purpose, but not including groups organized primarily to render a service customarily carried on as a business.

(17) Cluster Housing. A grouping of individually owned dwelling units, which may or may not be attached, on lots smaller than the minimum required in the base zone, with usable common open space areas around the grouping at least equal to the difference in lot sizes between that required and that proposed.

(18) Compensation. The word “compensation” shall include payment made directly or indirectly in money, goods, wares, merchandise, labor or anything else of value.

(18.5) Commercial Coach. A structure transportable in or ore more sections, designed and equipped for human occupancy for industrial, professional, or commercial purposes, which is required to be moved under permit. (Ord. 471, Sec. 1, 1982)

(19) Dwelling. Any building or portion thereof which is used as the private residence or sleeping place of one or more human beings, but not including any institution such as an asylum, hospital, or jail where human beings are housed by reason of illness or under legal restraint.

(20) Dwelling, Caretaker. A permanent attached or detached dwelling secondary to the main dwelling unit and used exclusively by an individual or family employed to assist in the full time maintenance, operation, or surveillance of a licensed agricultural enterprise, a public or private institution allowed within the zone, or a residential estate. (Ord. 497, Sec. 1, 1983)

(21) Dwelling: Multiple-Family. A building or portion thereof used to house two or more families, including domestic employees of each such family, living independently of each other and doing their own cooking, including “Row Houses,” “Town Houses,” and “Apartments.”

(22) Dwelling: Single-Family. A dwelling containing but one kitchen, designed or used to house not more than one family including all domestic employees of such family and including not more than two roomers or boarders, but not including hotels, motels, clubs, mobile homes, trailers, or lodging houses.

(22a) Eave Height (or Roof Eave). The height of a side wall where it meets the eave of the roof. (Ord. 1019 Sec. 1, 2017)

(23) Educational Institution. Schools, colleges, or universities, supported wholly or in part by public funds, and other schools, colleges, and universities giving general instructions, as determined by the California State Board of Education.

(23a) Emergency Shelter. Housing with minimal supportive services for homeless persons that is limited to occupancy of six months or less. No individual or household may be denied emergency shelter because of an inability to pay. (Ord. 969 Sec. 1, 2014)

(24) Equestrian. A facility or facilities or land dedicated or used for activity relating to the use of horses, and closely related activities.

(25) Erected. The word “erected” includes built, built upon, altered, added to, constructed, reconstructed, moved upon, or any physical operations on the premises required for building or structure.

(25.5) Factory-built Housing. A residential building, dwelling unit, or an individual dwelling room or combination of rooms thereof or building component, assembly, or system manufactured in such a manner that all concealed parts or processes of manufacture cannot be inspected before installation at the building site without disassembly, damage, or destruction of the part, including units designed for use as part of an institution for resident or patient care, which is either wholly manufactured or is in substantial part manufactured at an off-site location to be wholly or partially assembled on-site in accordance with building standards published in the State Building Standards Code and other regulations adopted by the Planning Commission pursuant to Section 19990 of the California Health and Safety Code. Factory-built housing does not include a mobile home, mobile accessory building, or structures, a recreational vehicle, or a commercial coach. (Ord. 471, Sec. 2, 1982)

(26) Family. One or more persons, related or unrelated, living together as a single integrated household in a dwelling unit. (Ord. 969 Sec. 1, 2014)

(26a) Game Arcade. Any place of business to which the public is admitted wherein six or more coin or slug operated, or electrically, electronically, or mechanically controlled amusement machines are maintained. (Ord. 468, Sec. 1, 1981)

(27) Garage, Private. A detached accessory building or a portion of a main building on the same lot for the parking of vehicles of the occupants of the premises, with no service or storage for compensation.

(28) Garage, Public. A garage other than a private garage, used for the storage, care or repair of self-propelled vehicles or where any such vehicles are equipped for operation of kept for hire.

(29) Garage, Storage. Any building or portion thereof, other than one defined herein as a public garage or private garage, used only for storage of self-propelled vehicles.

(30a) Grade. The lowest point of elevation of the finished surface of the ground between the exterior wall of a building and a point five feet distant from said wall, or the lowest point of elevation of the finished surface of the ground between the exterior wall of a building and the property line if it is less than five feet distant from said wall. In case walls are parallel to and within five feet of a public sidewalk, alley, trail, or other public way, the grade shall be the elevation of the sidewalks, alley, trail or other public way. (Ord. 1052 Sec. 1, 2019)

(30b) Grade Plane. A reference plane representing the average of finished ground level adjoining the building at exterior walls. Where the finished ground level slopes away from the exterior walls, the reference plane shall be established by the lowest points within the area between the building and the lot line or, where the lot line is more than six feet from the building, between the building and a point six feet from the building. (Ord. 1052 Sec. 1, 2019)

(31) Home Occupation. A home occupation is any use conducted within a dwelling and private garage on the same lot by only the inhabitants thereof, which use is clearly incidental and secondary to the use of the dwelling for dwelling purposes and does not change the character thereof.

(32) Hospital. Any building or portion thereof, used for the accommodation of sick or injured persons, and shall include sanitarium, convalescent and rest homes, and boarding homes for children and aged persons; also orphanages; but shall not include asylums, detention, or similar building where human beings are housed or detained under legal restraint.

(33) Hospital, Large Animal. An establishment where large animals and livestock (such as equines, bovines, and swines), as well as small animals, are given medical and surgical treatment. Boarding of animals shall be limited to that necessary for and incidental to the principal use as herein described.

(34) Hospital, Small Animal. A completely enclosed establishment where animals no larger than the largest breed of dogs are given medical or surgical treatment. Use as a kennel shall be limited to short-time boarding necessary for and incidental to the principal use as herein described.

(35) Hotel. A building containing six or more guest rooms intended to be occupied by six or more guests for compensation and in which no more than 10 percent of the guest units contain kitchens. No hotel guestroom shall be rented to the same individual or group for a period exceeding 30 consecutive calendar days, counting portions of calendar days as full days. Jails, hospitals, asylums, sanitariums, orphanages, prisons, detention homes, and similar facilities where persons are housed and detained under legal restraint are not included. (Ord. 1108 Sec. 1, 2024)

(35a) Industrial Park. Any property or combination of properties that primarily contains manufacturing or administrative uses in a singly planned development of at least 10 acres. (Ord. 491, Sec. 1 (part), 1983)

(35b) Interior Property Line. A property line other than a street line. (Ord. 491, Sec. 1, (part), 1983)

(36) Junk Yard. The use of more than 200 square feet of the area of any lot for the storage of junk, including scrap metals or other scrap materials.

(37) Kennel. Any lot, building, structure, enclosure, or premises whereupon or within which 5 or more dogs over 120 days of age are kept or maintained for any purpose or reason whatsoever.

(38) Kitchen. Any room in a building or dwelling unit which is used for cooking or preparation of food.

(39) Land Improvement. All improvements to the land which render it basically impervious to water absorption. This includes, but is not limited to, buildings and structures, concrete and asphalt improvements, wood planking, stone, masonry or brick slabs, and any other impervious covering over the ground.

(40) Landscaping. A combination of permanently maintained trees, lawn, shrubs, or other plant materials, fountains, ponds, sculpture, and paved areas and gravel or decorative rock where they are an integral part of a landscaping scheme.

(41) Loading Space. Any off-street space or berth on the same lot with a building or contiguous to a group of buildings, for the temporary parking of a commercial vehicle while loading or unloading materials.

(42) Lot. A parcel of land in single or individual ownership of at least sufficient size to meet minimum zoning requirements for use, coverage, and area, and to provide such yards and other open spaces as are herein required. Such lot may consist of:

(a) A single lot of record;

(b) A combination of complete lots or record, of complete lots or record and portions of lots or record, or of portions of lots of record;

provided that in no case of division or combination shall any residual lot or parcel be created which does not meet the requirements of this Ordinance.

(43) Lot Area. The total horizontal area within the lot lines of a lot. In the case of a flag lot, the area of the “stem” or access portion of the lot shall not be included in computing the required minimum lot size.

(44) Lot: Corner. A lot located at the junction of two (2) or more intersecting streets having an angle of intersection of not more than 135 degrees, with a boundary line thereof bordering on two of the streets.

(45) Lot: Interior. A lot other than a corner lot.

(46) Lot: Key. The first lot to the rear of a reversed corner lot and not separated by an alley.

(47) Lot Lines. Lot lines shall include lease lines or other lines defining a building site. The boundary lines of lots are:

(a) Front Lot Lines. The line dividing a lot from a street, or from a permanent access easement located on the same lot. On a corner lot only one street line shall be considered as a front lot line and the shorter street line shall be considered the front lot line.

(b) Rear Lot Line. The line opposite the front lot line.

(48) Lot: Reversed Corner. A corner lot, the side street lien of which is substantially a continuation of the front lot line of the lot upon which it rears.

(49) Lot: Through. An interior lot having frontage on two parallel or approximately parallel streets.

(50) Menagerie. A place where wild or strange animals are kept in cages or enclosures.

(50.1) Miniature Horse. A horse, donkey, or mule which as an adult measures a maximum of 38 inches in height at the withers. (Ord. 624, Sec. 1, 1991)

(50.2) Miniaturized Pig. A swine which as an adult measures a maximum of 18 inches in height at the shoulders, and would have a maximum weight between 30 and 75 pounds. (Ord. 664, 1993)

(50a) Mini-warehouse. A facility designed or operated exclusively for the storage of goods in individual compartments or rooms, none of which exceed five hundred square feet in area and which are available for use by the general public on a rental or lease basis. Except for administration of the facility, a mini-warehouse shall not include any manufacturing, retail or wholesale selling, or office functions. (Ord. 409, Sec. 1, 1978)

(51) Mobile Home. A structure transportable in one or more sections, designed and equipped to contain not more than one dwelling unit to be used with or without a foundation system. A mobile home does not include a recreational vehicle, commercial coach or factory-built housing. (Ord. 471, Sec. 3, 1982)

(52) Mobile Home Park. Any lot on which mobile homes are located and which homes are being used for living and/or sleeping purposes shall constitute a mobile home park.

(53) Motel. A group of attached or detached buildings containing individual sleeping or living units of which a maximum of 10 percent may have kitchens, with garage attached or parking space conveniently located to each unit, all for the temporary use by automobile tourists or transients; includes tourist courts, motor lodges, auto courts. No motel guestroom shall be rented to the same individual or group for a period exceeding 30 consecutive calendar days, counting portions of calendar days as full days. (Ord. 1108 Sec. 1, 2024)

(53a) Name Plate. Deleted Ord. 651, 1992. (Ord. 491, Sec. 1 (part), 1983)

(53b) Neighborhood Center. A group of unrelated commercial businesses located either on the same lot, or as part of an integrated center designed to serve the immediate area or provide services to the traveling public.

(54) Non-Conforming Structure. A structure which was legal when established, but which because of the adoption or amendment of this Ordinance now conflicts with the provisions of this Ordinance applicable to the district or zone in which it is situated.

(55) Non-Conforming Use. The use of a structure or premises or land which was legal when established, but which because of the adoption or amendment of this Ordinance now conflicts with the provisions of the ordinance applicable to the district or zone in which it is situated.

(55a) Objective Development Standards. Those that involve no personal or subjective judgement by a public official and are uniformly verifiable by reference to an external and uniform benchmark or criterion available and knowable by both the development applicant and public official prior to submittal. (Ord. 1080 Sec. 2, 2022)

(56) Occupancy: Change of. The term “change of occupancy” shall mean a discontinuance of an existing use and the substitution therefor of a use of a different kind or class.

(57) Occupied. The word “occupied” includes arranged, designed, built, altered, converted to, rented, leased, or intended to be occupied.

(58) Off-Street Parking Space. A space permanently allocated off of any vehicular, pedestrian, and/or equestrian easements or right-of-way, and designed and constructed to the dimensional and structural standards of the City of Norco.

(58a) Parapet. Any protective wall or barrier projecting above any canopy, balcony or roof. (Ord. 491, Sec. 1 (part), 1983)

(58b) Parolee-Probationer Home. Notwithstanding the definition of Rooming and Boarding House, any residential structure or unit, whether owned and/or operated by an individual or for-profit or nonprofit entity, which houses two or more parolee-probationers (as defined herein), unrelated by blood, marriage, or legal adoption, in exchange for monetary or nonmonetary consideration given and/or paid by the parolee-probationer and/or any individual or public/private entity on behalf of the parolee-probationer, excluding parolee-probationers who reside in a State-licensed residential care facility.

1. Parolee-Probationer. An individual as follows: (1) convicted of a federal crime, sentenced to a United States federal prison, and received conditional and revocable release in the community under the supervision federal probation officer; (2) who is serving a period of supervised community custody as defined by California State Penal Code Section 3000, following a term of imprisonment in a State prison, and is under the jurisdiction of the California Department of Correction, Parole and Community Services Division; or (3) an adult or juvenile individual sentenced to a term in the California Youth Authority and received conditional and revocable release in the community under the supervision of a Youth Authority parole officer. (Ord. 883, 2007)

(59) Person. The word “person” includes association, company, firm, governmental entity, co-partnership, corporation, partnership, or joint venture.

(60) Pets or Domestic Animals. Those animals, fowls, insects, or fish which are normally and reasonably kept as household pets or for domestic purposes. Specifically not included are beasts, wild animals, or other creatures which if not contained would be construed to be dangerous.

(61) Place of Public Assembly. Any place designed for or used for congregation or gathering of 20 or more persons in one room where such gathering is of a public nature, assembly hall, church, auditorium, recreational hall, pavilion, place of amusement, dance hall, opera house, motion picture theater, outdoor theater, or theater, are included within this term.

(62) Planning Agency. In the City of Norco, the Planning Commission has been designated (by Ordinance 181) as the City’s Planning Agency with the powers and duties necessary to fulfill the functions specified by Article 1 of Chapter 3 of Title 7 of the Government Code of the State of California.

(63) Planning Commission. The Planning Commission of the City of Norco, as provided for by City ordinances and amendments thereto.

(64) Plant Material. Trees, shrubs, vines, ground covers, or flowers.

(65) Recreational Vehicles. A motor home, travel trailer, truck camper, or camping trailer, with or without motor power, designed for human habitation for recreational or emergency occupancy, which meets all of the following criteria:

(a) Contains less than 320 square feet of internal living room area, excluding built-in equipment, including, but not limited to, wardrobe, closets, cabinets, kitchen units or fixtures, and bath or toilet rooms.

(b) Contains 400 square feet or less of gross area measured at maximum horizontal projections and does not exceed 40 feet in length.

(d) Is either self-propelled, truck-mounted, or permanently towable on the highways without a permit.

(e) Requires licensing and registration by the State Department of Motor Vehicles. (Amended by Ord. 497 Sec. 2, 1983)

(66) Recreational Vehicle Park. Any area or tract of land where one or more lots are rented or leased or held out for rent or lease to owners or users of recreational vehicles or tents used for travel or recreational purposes and which is occupied on a temporary and transient basis.

(66a) Recreational Vehicle Storage Lot. An area of land used exclusively for the storage of campers, vessels, and other recreational vehicles not in use.

(66b) Regional Center. Any property or combination of properties in which there exists or there is a plan for a commercial development on at least 20 acres of land for establishments that are designed or function as a unit and share a common parking area and/or a common building under a common roof. (Added by Ord. 491, Exhibit A Sec. 1 (part), 1983)

(66c) Rooming and Boarding House. A residence or dwelling, other than a hotel, wherein three or more rooms, with or without individual or group cooking facilities, are rented to individuals under separate rental agreements or leases, either written or oral, whether or not an owner, agent or rental manager is in residence. Included within the definition of Rooming and Boarding House are Parolee-Probationer Home and Sober Living Home as defined herein.(Ord. 883, 2007)

(67) Roof. The outside top covering of a building or structure designed to enclose the building and to provide shade and protection from the elements. False roofs designed for architectural purposes, such as a false mansard, are considered roofs. (Amended by Ord. 491, Exhibit A Sec. 1 (part), 1983)

(67a) Roof Line. Either the uppermost edge of the roof or the top of a parapet wall, whichever forms the top line of the building or structure silhouette. (Added by Ord. 491, Exhibit A Sec. 1 (part), 1983)

(68) School. Any institution or place where organized instruction, or training, or day care of preschool children is provided, whether at no cost or otherwise, including nursery schools.

(69) Screen Planting. Landscaping at least 30 inches high designed to screen or otherwise hide from view certain elements of development such as parking lots, utility structures, etc.

(69a) Senior Citizen. Deleted by Ord. 757 § 1, 2000. (Added by Ord. 509 Sec. 1 (part), 1984)

(69b) Senior Citizen Housing. A professionally managed housing complex consisting of a group of dwelling units and supporting common facilities designed and operated exclusively for the housing of senior citizens and spouse. (Added by Ord. 509 Sec. 1 (part), 1984)

(70) Signs.

(a) Banners, Pendants, Balloons. Any cloth, bunting, plastic, paper, or similar material used for temporary advertising purposes, with or without copy, attached or pinned onto or from any structure, or temporarily installed on the ground.

(b) Billboard. An outdoor advertising sign, other than a directional sign, which directs attention to a business, commodity, service or entertainment conducted, sold or offered elsewhere than upon the premises where the sign is located. Said definition shall not include a subdivision sign.

(c) Building Face. The front, rear or side of a building elevation in which a business is located. In the case of a multi-tenant building, the building face means the length of the frontage, side or rear portion of a building that comprises a tenant suite/unit.

(d) Commercial Center. A commercially zoned property developed with at least one multi-tenant commercial building.

(e) Construction Sign. A temporary, on-premises sign which states the names of those individuals, businesses or organizations connected with the construction of a project such as architects, engineers, contractors, developers, owners, or financial institutions, the name of the project, major future tenants, general leasing information and emergency telephone numbers.

(f) Directional Sign. A sign which contains words such as “entrance,” “enter,” “exit,” “in,” “out” or other similar words or a sign containing arrows or characters indicating traffic directions and used either in conjunction with such words or separately. Directional signs shall not contain any advertising or trade name information.

(g) Freestanding Sign. A sign not attached to a building structure which is supported wholly by a pole, one or more poles, uprights, or braces, in or upon the ground. Monument and pole signs are freestanding signs.

(h) Inflatable Sign. A sign in the form of characters, animals, shapes or balloons over 36 inches in diameter made of vinyl, fabric, cloth or other lightweight materials held up by means of helium or other form of hot or cold air or gas, attached to any structure or building on the ground with the purpose of gaining attention for temporary advertising purposes.

(i) Monument Sign. A low profile freestanding sign less than eight feet in height, incorporating the design and building materials accenting the architectural theme of the buildings on the same property.

(j) Off-Site Sign. A sign which advertises or directs attention to businesses, services, goods, persons or events that are not provided on the site upon which the signs are located. This definition includes billboards.

(k) Painted Sign. A sign painted directly on the exterior of a building.

(l) Pole Sign. A freestanding sign other than a monument sign that exceeds eight feet in height and that is supported by either one pole or two poles.

(m) Readerboard Sign. A sign or portion of a sign with nonelectronic changeable copy or with electronic changeable copy that includes LED (light emitting diodes) signs, scrolling signs, and video displays.

(n) Real Estate Sign. A temporary sign advertising the sale, or lease, or rental of only the particular building, property, or premises upon which such sign is displayed.

(o) Roof Sign. A sign supported wholly or partially by any portion of a roof or attached to a building wall, parapet wall, or canopy, and extending above the roof line or a sign placed upon or over a roof or parapet wall of a building.

(p) Sign. A device, fixture, surface or structure of any kind or character, made of any material whatsoever, displaying letters, words, texts, illustrations, symbols, forms, patterns, colors, textures, shadows or lights, or any other illustrative or graphic display designated, constructed or placed on the ground, on a building canopy, wall, post or structure of any kind, in a window, or on any other object for the purpose of advertising, identifying or calling visual attention to any place, structure, firm, enterprise, profession, business, service, product, commodity, person or activity, whether located on the site, in any structure on the site, or in any other location. The term “placed” includes constructed, erected, posted, painted, printed, tacked, nailed, glued, stuck, sculpted, carved, or otherwise fastened, affixed, or made visible in any manner whatsoever.

(q) Sign Area. The area of a sign is computed by multiplying the maximum height by the length of all letters and logo combined. For freestanding signs, the area of the sign shall be defined and computed as including the entire area within a single contiguous rectilinear perimeter enclosing the extreme limits of all writing, logos or other display, together with any material or color forming an integral part of the background of the display or used to differentiate the sign from the backdrop or structure against which it is placed.

(r) Suspended Sign. A sign suspended from the underside of a canopy, awning, arcade, or other roofed open structure and oriented to pedestrian traffic.

(s) Temporary or Portable Sign. A sign intended to be displayed for a limited period of time and is not permanently fixed in location.

(t) Time and Temperature Sign. Any mechanism that displays the time and/or temperature, but does not display any advertising or establishment identification.

(u) Wall Sign. A sign attached to or installed against the wall of a building with the exposed face of the sign in a plane parallel to the plane of said wall. A message constructed into or as a part of the wall is considered a wall sign. (Added by Ord. 953 Sec. 2, 2012)

((70a) – (70aa) repealed by Ord. 953 Sec. 2, 2012. Deleted by Ord. 651, 1992.) (Added by Ord. 491, Exhibit A Sec. 1 (part), 1983)

(70a1) Single-Resident Occupancy Unit. Housing consisting of single-resident dwelling units, typically with no more than 400 square feet of habitable space, that is the primary residence of its occupant or occupants. The unit must contain either food preparation or sanitary facilities (and may contain both). An accessory structure such as a garage, storage room, play room, pool house or rumpus room does not qualify as an SRO. (Ord. 969 Sec. 1, 2014)

(70ab) Sober Living Home. Notwithstanding the definition of Rooming and Boarding House, any residential structure or unit which houses two or more persons unrelated by blood, marriage, or legal adoption, in exchange for monetary or non-monetary consideration who reside in said residential structure or unit for the purpose of recovering from problems related to alcohol, drug, or alcohol and drug misuse or abuse, and the facility does not provide alcohol or drug recovery or treatment services on-site, thereby not requiring a license from the State. (Ord. 883, Sec. 4, 2007)

(71) Stable Commercial. A stable for horses which are let, hired, or used or boarded on a commercial basis and for compensation.

(72) Story. That part of any building included between the surface of any floor and the roof next above or the surface of the floor next above.

(73) Street. A public or an approved private thoroughfare or road easement which affords the principal means of access to abutting property but not including an alley.

(74) Street Line. The boundary line between a street and abutting property.

(75) Street, Side. That street bounding a corner lot and which extends in the same general direction as the line deemed the depth of the lot.

(76) Structure. Anything constructed or erected which requires location on the ground or attached to something having a location on the ground. (Amended by Ord. 491, Exhibit A Sec. 1 (part), 1983)

(77) Structure Alterations. Any change in the supporting members of a building, such as bearing walls, columns, beams, girders, floor joists, or roof joists.

(77a) Supportive Housing. Housing with no limit on length of stay, that is occupied by the target population, and that is linked to on-site or off-site services that assist the supportive housing resident in retaining the housing, improving his or her health status, and maximizing his or her ability to live and, when possible, work in the community. (Ord. 969 Sec. 1, 2014)

(78) Trail, Equestrian and/or Pedestrian. An area devoted to the exclusive use of equestrians and/or pedestrians and which any form of motor vehicle (other than for maintenance purposes) shall not occupy except when crossing perpendicular thereto. Existing equestrian and/or pedestrian trails may have been established formally or informally by dedication, lease, temporary occupancy, accommodation, or habitual use. Equestrian and/or pedestrian trails may exist within, alongside, or completely independent of, motor vehicle rights-of-way.

(79) Trailer. A vehicle designed for carrying persons or property on its own structure and for being drawn by a motor vehicle.

(79a) Transitional Housing. Buildings configured as rental housing developments, but 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, which shall be no less than six months. (Ord. 969 Sec. 1, 2014)

(80) Usable Open Space. See Section 18.17.36.

(81) Use. The purpose for which land or the building or buildings thereon is occupied, used, or maintained.

(82) Used. The word “used” includes occupied, arranged, designed, or intended to be used.

(82a) Vehicle Sales Facility. See Section 18.34.06.

(82b) Wind Energy Conversion System. A machine that converts the kinetic energy in the wind into a usable form (commonly known as a wind turbine or windmill). Said system includes all appurtenant components of the system including the tower and transmission equipment necessary to transmit the energy generated. (Added by Ord. 522 Sec. 2 (part), 1984)

(83) Yard. An open space other than a court unoccupied and unobstructed by any structure or portion of a structure from the ground upward, except as provided in Chapter 18.31 (YARDS, SETBACKS, AND HEIGHT EXCEPTIONS).

(84) Yard Abutting Street. A yard extending along any lot perimeter where abutting a street, and between the street line and a parallel line on the lot.

(85) Yard: Front. A yard extending between side lot lines across the front of a lot adjoining a public street, and between the front lot line and a parallel line on the lot.

(86) Yard: Rear. A yard extending across the rear of the lot, between the side lot lines, and between the rear lot line and a parallel line on the lot. In the case of corner lots, the rear yard shall extend from the rear line of the side yard adjacent to the street to the opposite side lot line.

(87) Yard: Side. A yard extending from the rear line of the front yard to the front line of the rear yard, and between the side lot line and a parallel line on the lot. In the case of corner lots, the side yard adjacent to the street shall extend to the rear lot line.