4-11-150 DEFINITIONS O:

OCCASIONAL BREEDER: An owner/tenant with household pets and/or domestic animals that has a single litter no more frequently than one time every two years and keeps the offspring no longer than one hundred twenty (120) days.

OFF-SITE SERVICES: See SERVICES, OFF-SITE.

OFFICE, GENERAL: A place at which the affairs of a business, profession, service, or industry are conducted and generally furnished with desks, tables, files and communication equipment. This definition includes associated accessory uses including but not limited to exercise rooms and cafeterias for use by employees and clients. This definition excludes conference centers, medical and dental offices, veterinary offices/clinics, city government offices, other government offices and facilities, social service organizations, and construction/contractor’s offices.

OFFICE, MEDICAL AND DENTAL: Any office used by physicians, dentists, and/or other medical professionals to examine, diagnose, and treat patients, and to administer day-to-day accessory office functions relating to the medical or dental practice.

ON-SITE SERVICES: See SERVICES, ON-SITE.

OPEN RECORD APPEAL: An administrative appeal to a local governmental body or officer, including the legislative body, that creates the local government’s record through testimony and submission of evidence and information, under procedures prescribed by RMC 4-8-110.

OPEN-RUN AREA: An enclosed area that allows domestic animals and/or household pets to move about freely within the confines of the enclosure. Fencing such as residential fencing that is typically located along property lines and encloses residential yards is excluded from this definition.

OPEN SPACE: Any physical area that provides visual relief from the built environment for environmental, scenic or recreational purposes. Open space may consist of developed or undeveloped areas, including urban plazas, parks, pedestrian corridors, landscaping, pastures, woodlands, greenbelts, wetlands and other natural areas, but excluding stormwater facilities, driveways, parking lots or other surfaces designed for vehicular travel.

OPEN SPACE: (This definition for RMC 4-3-090, Shoreline Master Program Regulations, use only.) A land area allowing view, use or passage which is almost entirely unobstructed by buildings, paved areas, or other manmade structures.

OPEN SPACE, CONTIGUOUS: Land permanently set aside as open space located in recorded tracts. Contiguous open space lands typically exclude critical areas such as wetlands and steep slopes, but may include wetland buffers enhanced with amenities such as pedestrian trails and seating areas, as well as stormwater ponds enhanced per the techniques and landscape requirements set forth in “The Integrated Pond,” King County Water and Land Resources Division.

OPEN SPACE, CONTIGUOUS, URBAN SEPARATOR: Land permanently set aside as open space located in recorded tracts. Contiguous open space lands may include critical areas, such as wetlands and steep slopes, and wetland buffers, as well as stormwater ponds enhanced per the techniques and landscape requirements set forth in “The Integrated Pond, King County Water and Land Resources Division.”

OPERATOR: See RMC 4-5-120G.

ORDINANCE: See RMC 4-9-070R.

ORDINARY HIGH WATER MARK (OHWM): On lakes and streams, that mark 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 as of the effective date of regulations, as it may naturally change thereafter, or as it may change in accordance with permits issued by the City or State. The following criteria clarify this mark on lakes and streams:

A. Lakes: Where the ordinary high water mark cannot be found, it shall be the line of mean high water.

B. Streams: Where the ordinary high water mark cannot be found, it shall be the line of mean high water. For braided streams, the ordinary high water mark is found on the banks forming the outer limits of the depression within which the braiding occurs.

OUTDOOR RETAIL SALES AREAS: Specially designed areas for the retail sale of automobiles, small trucks, vans or other similar type motor vehicles. It does not generally include commercially licensed motor vehicles such as buses or trucks.

OUTSIDE STORAGE: See STORAGE, OUTSIDE.

OWNER: See RMC 4-5-120G.

OWNER: (For purposes of the aquifer protection regulations in RMC 4-3-050, Critical Areas Regulations, and RMC 4-9-015, Aquifer Protection Area permits, only.) May include a duly authorized agent or attorney, a purchaser, fiduciary, and/or a person having vested or contingent interest in the property and/or facility in question.

(Ord. 4517, 5-8-1995; Ord. 4587, 3-18-1996; Ord. 4716, 4-13-1998; Ord. 4851, 8-7-2000; Ord. 4857, 8-21-2000; Amd. Ord. 4963, 5-13-2002; Ord. 5100, 11-1-2004; Ord. 5132, 4-4-2005; Ord. 5356, 2-25-2008; Ord. 5633, 10-24-2011; Ord. 5749, 1-12-2015; Ord. 5910, 12-10-2018)