Chapter 18.08 DEFINITIONS

Chapter 18.08
DEFINITIONS

Sections:

18.08.010 Purpose.

The purpose of the definitions provided below is to define those words and terms that have a specialized meaning and/or may be used in an unfamiliar way for the purposes of this title. In addition, the following definitions, where deemed necessary, include examples or clarifications that will assist in the understanding of the terms and in the application and enforcement of the zoning code.

The following definitions will pertain to the regulations, processes, and standards contained within this title only. Definitions found in other adopted titles, ordinances, resolutions, codes, and/or regulations will be subordinate in meaning to the definitions contained herein in applying the provisions of this title. (Ord. 2020-004 § 2 (Exh. B); Ord. 2014-011 § 1 (Exh. A); Ord. 97-019 § 4, Exh. B)

18.08.020 Definitions.

For the purposes of this title, certain words are defined as follows: Words in the present tense include the future tense; words in the singular will include the plural; the word “will” is mandatory; the word “should” indicates that which is recommended but not required; the word “may” is permissive.

Each definition below will be considered a subsection of this code section pursuant to RCW 35A.13.190.

All words in this title will have their plain and ordinary meaning unless otherwise defined hereinbelow:

“Access road” means a road that links homes and properties to the larger road system.

“Accessory” means a use, activity, structure or part of a structure that is subordinate and incidental to the main activity or structure on the subject property.

“Accessory dwelling unit (ADU)” means a second dwelling unit added to, created within, or detached from an existing single-family detached dwelling to use as a completely independent or semi-independent unit with provisions for cooking, eating, sanitation and sleeping.

“Accessory structure” means a subordinate structure detached from but located on the same lot as the principal structure, the use of which is incidental and accessory to that of the principal structure and will not create a nuisance or hazard.

“Accessory use” means a use that is located on the same lot and incidental to a principal use.

“Adjacent” means a lot or parcel of land that shares all or part of a common lot line with another lot or parcel of land. Properties separated by public rights-of-way are not considered adjacent.

Affordable Housing. Where the term “affordable” is used it refers to the federal definition of affordability in place up to the year 2002; annual housing costs will not exceed one-third of a family’s annual income. When establishing affordability standards for moderate to extremely low income families and individuals the latest median income levels established for Clallam County by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development continue to be used.

Under the definition of “affordable,” the following categories would apply:

Extremely Low:	0 – 30% of area median income (AMI)
Very Low:	31 – 50% of AMI
Low and Moderate:	51 – 80% of AMI
Moderate:	81 – 120% of AMI

“Agricultural processing (heavy)” means facilities and uses associated with high-intensity agricultural activities such as grain elevators, stockyards, feed lots, commercial slaughterhouses, rendering plants or other similar uses.

“Agricultural processing (light)” means facilities and uses associated with agricultural activities such as dairy processing, packaging, storage, freezing and canning for commercial distribution when not associated with agricultural lands.

“Agriculture” means the commercial production of horticultural, viticultural, floricultural, dairy, apiary, vegetable, or animal products or of berries, grain, hay, straw, turf, seed, Christmas trees not subject to the excise tax imposed by RCW 84.33.100 through 84.33.140, or livestock and that has long-term commercial significance for agricultural production. Agriculture does not include the production or processing of marijuana plants.

“Airports” or “airfields” means any area of land designed and set aside for the landing and takeoff of aircraft, including all necessary facilities for the housing and maintenance of aircraft.

“Alcohol beverage sales (packaged)” means stores selling primarily alcohol beverages, usually under state license.

“Alley” means a public or private way permanently reserved as a secondary, but not primary, means of access to abutting property.

“Alteration” means any change, addition, or modification in construction or occupancy.

“Alteration, structural” means any change in the supporting members of a building or structure, such as bearing walls, columns, beams, or girders.

“Amateur radio” means the noncommercial operation and use of broadcast and/or radio transmission facilities for public or private uses. No provision of this title will fail to conform to the limited preemption entitled “Amateur Radio Preemption, 101 FCC 2nd 952 (1985)” issued by the Federal Communications Commission.

“Antenna” means any system of wires, poles, rods, reflecting discs, or similar devices used for the transmission or reception of electromagnetic waves external to or attached to the exterior of any building.

“Aquaculture” means the cultivation of fish, shellfish, and/or other aquatic animals or plants, including the incidental preparation of these products for human use.

“Aquifer” means a geologic stratum containing ground water that can be withdrawn and used for human purposes.

“Arterial” means a road that carries inter-regional and interlocal vehicular traffic. Arterials provide the highest degree of mobility and limited access to local property. Access is primarily limited to traffic from other arterials and collectors; however, some direct access to abutting properties may occur in certain situations.

1. “Major arterial” means roads which convey traffic along corridors to areas of a high density of commercial or industrial activity. Major arterials emphasize mobility and de-emphasize access.

2. “Minor arterial or secondary arterial” means roads which link activity centers and convey traffic onto major arterials. Minor arterials provide both mobility and access.

“Auditorium” means a large room or building used for meetings, lectures, public performances, concerts, and other events.

“Available public facilities” indicates that facilities or services are in place or that a financial commitment has been made to provide the facilities or services within a specified time. In the case of transportation, the specified time is six years from the time of development.

“Bakeries, retail” means those businesses which produce and sell baked goods for the purpose of on-site consumption or retail sales. Baked goods may be produced on site or purchased from a wholesale bakery for resale. Incidental retail sales of packaged goods, foods and beverages, and associated retail are included.

“Bakeries, wholesale” means those businesses which produce and sell baked goods for the purpose of wholesale sales. Incidental retail sales of baked goods are included.

“Banks and financial institutions” means those businesses engaged in the provision of financial services including the provisions of financial services for individuals and corporations, such as banks, credit unions, saving and loans, mortgage and brokerage agencies, and saving and investment consultants. Provision of “drive-through” services may be allowed consistent with traffic safety concerns.

“Barbers and beauty shops” means those businesses operated by a state-licensed barber or beautician, which provide personal hygiene services to individuals including hair care, manicures, and pedicures. Other personal care services allowed by state license may be offered. Incidental sale of hair and beauty products is allowed.

“Bars and taverns” means any premises wherein alcoholic beverages are sold at retail for consumption on the premises and minors are excluded therefrom by law. It should not mean a premises wherein such beverages are sold in conjunction with the sale of food for consumption on the premises and the sale of said beverages comprises less than 25 percent of the gross receipts.

“Basement” means that portion of a building that is partly or completely below grade as defined by the current version of the International Building Code.

“Battery charging station” means an electrical component assembly or cluster of component assemblies designed specifically to charge batteries within electric vehicles, which meets or exceeds any standards, codes, and regulations set forth in Chapter 19.28 RCW and consistent with rules adopted under RCW 19.27.540.

“Battery electric vehicle (BEV)” means any vehicle that operates exclusively on electrical energy from an off-board source that is stored in the vehicle’s batteries, and produces zero emissions or pollution when stationary or operating.

“Battery exchange station” means a fully automated facility that will enable an electric vehicle with a swappable battery to enter a drive lane and exchange the depleted battery with a fully charged battery through a fully automated process, which meets or exceeds any standards, codes, and regulations set forth by Chapter 19.27 RCW and consistent with rules adopted under RCW 19.27.540.

“Bed and breakfast inns” means a residential dwelling unit which is constructed as, or partially or entirely converted into, an overnight lodging facility where rooms and breakfasts are provided, where the operator of the inn will live on the premises or in adjacent premises full-time.

“Best management practices” means a physical, structural, or managerial practice which has gained general acceptance for its ability to prevent or reduce environmental impacts.

“Boarding house” means an establishment with lodging for five or more persons where meals are regularly prepared and served for compensation and where food is placed on the table family style, without service or ordering of individual portions from a menu.

“Boat building and repair (commercial)” means any business established for the purposes of building and repairing boats. Building and repair of a single boat for use of the property owner, renter, or lessee will not be considered commercial boat building and repair.

“Boat marinas” means those facilities established for the purpose of providing rental slips and storage for commercial and pleasure marine craft. Incidental uses allowed at a marina facility may include fuel sales, marine sewage disposal, facility management offices and meeting spaces.

Bog. See “Critical areas.”

“Buffer or buffer zone” means a neutral area between two areas of concern of sufficient width and quality to ensure that activities on one property do not negatively impact the other.

“Building” means any structure utilized or intended for supporting or sheltering any occupancy (International Building Code (IBC), as adopted and as may be amended). When a use is required to be within a building, or where special authority granted pursuant to this title requires that a use will be entirely within an enclosed building, then the term “building” means one so designed and constructed that all exterior walls of the structure will be solid from the ground to the roof line, and will contain no openings except for windows and doors which are designed so that they may be closed, and required exhaust and ventilation ducting are included.

“Building line, front” means the line, parallel to the property line, that passes through the point of the principal building nearest the front lot line.

“Building official” means a duly appointed officer of the city of Sequim who administers and enforces assigned sections of the Sequim Municipal Code (SMC), the International Building Code, and other relevant codes.

“Bulk and dimensional” measurements are the spatial, four-dimensional limitations of a site, including height, width, depth, and coverage.

“Bus stations and terminals” means those public and private stations and terminals which serve the regional transportation needs of the community, including accessory uses such as cafes, gift stores and lockers, intended for the use of travelers. Transit stops are not considered bus stations and terminals.

“Campground” means an area or tract of land on which accommodations for temporary occupancy are located or may be placed, including cabins, tents, and major recreational equipment, and which is primarily used for recreational purposes and retains an open air or natural character.

“Capacity” means the measure of ability to provide a required level of service for a public service.

“Car wash” means a drive-through facility, automated, attended or coin-operated, for the purposes of washing vehicles.

“Cemetery” 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.

“Charging levels” means the standardized indicators of electrical force, or voltage, at which an electric vehicle’s battery is recharged. The terms 1, 2, and 3 are the most common EV charging levels, and include the following specifications:

1. Level 1 is considered slow charging.

2. Level 2 is considered medium charging.

3. Level 3 is considered fast or rapid charging or DC fast charge.

Level 1 is present in homes and businesses and typically operates on a 15- or 20-amp breaker on a 120-volt alternating current (AC) circuit and standard outlet.

Level 2 is expected to become the standard for home and public charging and typically operates on a 40-amp to 100-amp breaker on a 208- or 240-volt AC circuit.

Level 3 is primarily for commercial and public applications (e.g., taxi fleets and charging along freeways) and typically operates on a 60-amp or higher dedicated breaker on a 480-volt or higher three-phase circuit with special grounding equipment. Note that the term “Level 3” is recommended to identify the increased power need in a numerical fashion (i.e., “3”), but the Level 3 charging level is also sometimes referred to as “DC fast” charging and “rapid” charging (see definition of “rapid or DC fast charging station”).

“Church or place of religious worship” means a building or buildings intended for religious worship including ancillary activity and improvements such as schools providing part-time religious education in association with religious services, assembly rooms, kitchen, reading room, recreation hall and may include a residence for church staff. For the purposes of this title, schools being operated for primarily nonreligious education, and those portions of churches or places of religious worship which house such schools, will not be considered churches or places of religious worship.

“City” means the city of Sequim, a code city. (RCW 36.70A.030)

“Clearing” means the destruction or removal of vegetation, ground cover, shrubs and trees, including, but not limited to, root material removal and/or topsoil removal. Clearing includes grubbing.

“Clinic” means a building designed and used for the diagnosis and treatment of human outpatients excluding overnight care facilities.

“Collective garden” 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:

1. No more than 10 qualifying patients may participate in a single collective garden at any time;

2. A collective garden may contain no more than 15 plants per patient up to a total of 45 plants;

3. A collective garden may contain no more than 24 ounces of usable cannabis per patient up to a total of 72 ounces of usable cannabis;

4. A copy of each qualifying patient’s valid documentation, including a copy of the patient’s proof of identity, must be available at all times on the premises of the collective garden;

5. No usable cannabis from the collective garden is delivered to anyone other than one of the qualifying patients participating in the collective garden;

6. A collective garden may contain separate areas for growing, processing, and delivering to its qualified patients; provided, that these separate areas must be physically part of the same premises, and located on the same parcel or lot. A location utilized solely for the purpose of distributing cannabis will not be considered a collective garden; and

7. No more than one collective garden may be established on a single tax parcel.

“Collector road” means a road that carries local traffic from access roads to the arterial road system. Direct access to abutting properties, while not ideal, is more appropriate than onto an arterial because of lower traffic volumes and speeds.

“Commercial use, general” means an activity that provides merchandise or services for the consumption of the community-at-large through retail and/or wholesale outlets.

“Commercial use, neighborhood” means commercial uses whose primary functions are to serve a limited geographic market area intending to enhance a neighborhood or limited residential market.

“Communication relay or transmission facilities” means telephone, telegraph, television, radio, cable, commercial broadcasting, microwave, transmission or retransmission facilities and substations, and any other communication conveyance for commercial purposes.

“Community center” means an assembly place, structure, area, or other facility used for and providing fraternal, social, and/or recreational programs generally open to the public and designed to accommodate and serve significant segments of the community.

“Comprehensive plan” means the city of Sequim comprehensive plan, as may be amended.

“Conditional use” means a use that would not be permitted outright generally, without restriction, throughout the zoning district but which, if conditioned as to number, area, location, or relation of development or use with respect to the surrounding uses, would not be detrimental to public health, safety, or general welfare.

“Condominium” means an estate in real property consisting of an undivided interest in common with other purchasers in a portion of a parcel of real property, together with a separate interest in space in a residential building, such as an apartment, and may include a separate interest in other portions of such real property.

“Construction yard” means a facility for the storage of construction-related materials and equipment.

“Convenience store” means any commercial establishment offering for sale prepackaged food products, household items, and other goods commonly associated with the same and having a gross floor area of less than 5,000 square feet.

“Convenience store, neighborhood” means a commercial establishment offering basic goods and services for sale that does not have gas pumps located on the premises and has a limited square footage of less than 2,000 square feet.

“Correctional institute” means a facility established for the detention and incarceration of convicted criminals, or court-ordered juveniles.

“Critical areas” means areas which include the following areas and ecosystems:

1. Wetlands;

2. Areas with a critical recharging effect on aquifers used for potable water;

3. Fish and wildlife habitat conservation areas;

4. Frequently flooded areas; and

5. Geologically hazardous areas. (RCW 36.70A.030)

“Day care facility” means an agency or person regularly providing care for a group of children for periods of fewer than 24 hours. Includes the following subcategories as defined by Chapter 35.63 RCW:

1. “Family day care home” means a day care home for the care of 10 or fewer children located in the family dwelling of the provider. The home must meet Washington State child day care licensing requirements. Family day care homes are considered a home business.

2. “Day care center” provides for the care of 13 or more children. If located in a private family residence, the portion where the children have access must be separate from the family living quarters, or that portion where the children have access must be exclusively used for their care during the hours that the day care center is operating.

“Density” means a measure of the intensity of development, generally expressed in terms of dwelling units per acre or in terms of population (i.e., people per acre).

“Development” means any change in use, enhancement of use, or extension of the use of the land, including, but not limited to, land disturbing activities, structural development, including construction, installation or expansion of a building or other structure; creation of impervious surfaces; Class IV general forest practices that are conversions from timber lands to other uses; subdivisions, short subdivisions and binding site plans, as defined in RCW 58.17.020, as well as redevelopment of an already developed site.

“Development regulations” means any controls placed on development or land use activities by a county or city, including, but not limited to, zoning ordinances, subdivision ordinances, and binding site plan ordinances.

“Development standards” means a set of requirements establishing parameters to be followed in site and/or building design and development.

“Domestic water systems” means any system providing a supply of potable water which is deemed adequate pursuant to RCW 19.27.097 for the intended uses of a development. (WAC 365-195-210)

“Drainage” means the collection, conveyance, containment and/or discharge of surface and stormwater runoff.

“Drainage control” means a pipe, swale, natural feature or manmade improvement for the purpose of carrying and/or retaining drainage.

“Dry cleaners and laundries” means facilities which provide services for the cleaning of clothing and household items. Laundries include coin-operated laundries.

“Dwelling, multifamily” means a building used for occupancy by two or more families living independently of each other.

“Dwelling, single-family” means a residential building containing not more than one dwelling unit on the lot.

“Dwelling unit” means a single unit providing complete independent living facilities for one or more persons, including permanent provisions for living, sleeping, eating, cooking, and sanitation.

“Easement” means a covenant which grants or restricts a specific right of use.

“Electric scooters and motorcycles” means any two-wheeled vehicle that operates exclusively on electrical energy from an off-board source that is stored in the vehicle’s batteries and produces zero emissions or pollution when stationary or operating.

“Electric vehicle charging station – private” means an electric vehicle charging station that is (A) privately owned and has restricted access (e.g., single-family home, multifamily parking, executive parking, religious facility patrons, patients of a medical clinic/hospital, patients of a dental clinic, designated employee parking) or (B) publicly owned and restricted (e.g., fleet parking with no access to the general public).

“Electric vehicle charging station – public” means an electric vehicle charging station that is (A) publicly owned and publicly available (e.g., park and ride parking, public library parking lot) or (B) privately owned and publicly available (e.g., shopping center parking, nonreserved parking in multifamily parking lots).

“Electric vehicle infrastructure” means structures, machinery, and equipment necessary and integral to support an electric vehicle, including battery charging stations, rapid charging stations, and battery exchange stations.

“Electric vehicle parking space” means any marked parking space that identifies the use to be exclusively for the parking of an electric vehicle.

“Electric vehicle waiting space” means an off-street parking space where electric vehicles, plug-in hybrid electric vehicles, electric scooters, and electric motorcycles wait to use a public electric vehicle charging station.

Emergency Shelter. See “Group home, other.”

“Enhancement” means alteration of an existing resource to improve or increase its characteristics and processes without degrading other existing functions.

“Equestrian facility” means a facility that provides boarding and training services for horses, which may include barns, pastures, corrals, and riding trails.

“Erosion” means the wearing away of the earth’s surface as a result of the movement of wind, water, or ice.

“Espresso stands (drive-through)” means a retail business which offers primarily coffee beverages (hot or cold) and related merchandise to the traveling public.

“Espresso stands (sidewalk)” means a retail business which offers primarily coffee beverages (hot or cold) and related merchandise and is established in a cart or other portable structure.

“Essential public facilities,” mandated by the GMA, include airports, public educational facilities, state and regional transportation facilities, state and local correctional facilities, and other facilities of a state or regional scope. For the purpose of this title, wastewater reuse facilities will be considered to be essential public facilities.

“Facade” means the exterior wall of a building exposed to public view or that wall viewed by persons not within the building.

“Facility” means the physical structure or structures in which a service is provided.

“Family” means an individual or two or more persons related by blood or marriage, or a group of not more than 12 persons (excluding servants) living together as a single housekeeping unit and doing their cooking on the premises, as distinguished from a group occupying a boarding house or rooming house or hotel.

“Farm or farmland” is a parcel or parcels of land, in one or more ownerships, that is used primarily for the commercial, soil-dependent cultivation of agricultural crop production and/or for the raising of livestock. The term “one ownership” will include an individual, corporation, business trust, estate, trust, partnership, association, or two or more having a joint or common interest in the land.

“Fence” means an artificially constructed barrier of any material or combination of materials erected to enclose or screen areas of land.

“Fire area” means the floor area, in square feet, used to determine the required fire flow.

“Fire flow” means the flow rate of a water supply, measured at 20 psi residual pressure, that is available for fire fighting.

“Fire flow requirement” means the requirement for all buildings to meet the UFC for minimum required fire flow and flow duration for buildings.

“Fitness center” means facilities offering the use of exercise equipment for public use, and services such as, but not limited to, expertise and instruction for fitness training, and aerobics classes.

“Floor area, gross” means the sum of the areas of all of the floors of a building, including areas used for human occupancy in basements, attics, and penthouses, as measured from the exterior faces of the walls, but not including cellars, unenclosed porches, or attics not used for human occupancy, or any floor space in accessory buildings or in the main building intended and designed for the parking of motor vehicles in order to meet the parking requirements of this code, or any such floor space intended and designed for accessory heating and ventilating equipment. It will, however, include the horizontal area at each floor level devoted to stairwells and elevator shafts.

“Floor area ratio” is determined by dividing the gross floor area of all buildings on a lot by the area of that lot.

“Frontage” means that side of a lot abutting on a street or public or private right-of-way and ordinarily regarded as the front of the lot.

Funeral Home. See “Undertaking establishment.”

“Garage, private” means a building for the private use of the owner or occupant of a principal building situated on the same lot of the principal building for the storage of motor vehicles with no facilities for mechanical service or repair of a commercial or public nature.

“Gas station” means a facility which provides fuel for automobiles. Gas stations may include limited service facilities for the provision of emergency repairs, and retail sales of auto-related supplies and equipment. Facilities which combine convenience stores and fast food will be required to locate where those uses are permitted.

“Geologically hazardous areas” means areas that, because of the susceptibility to erosion, sliding, earthquake, or other geological events, are not suited to the siting of commercial, residential, or industrial development consistent with public health or safety concerns. (RCW 36.70A.030)

“Government buildings” means those buildings which are owned and operated by a government agency for the purpose of conducting government business.

“Grade” means the lowest point of elevation of the finished surface of ground, paving or sidewalk within the area between the building and the property line or, when the property line is more than five feet from the building, between the building and a line five feet from the building at any point around the building.

“Grading” means the physical manipulation of the earth’s surface and/or drainage pattern in preparation for an intended use or activity.

Grandfathered Use. See “Nonconforming land use or grandfathered use.”

“Grocery stores” means retail stores selling primarily food and household goods.

“Group home for the functionally disabled” means a dwelling shared by 13 or more functionally disabled persons, including resident staff, who live together as a single housekeeping unit and in a long-term, family-like environment in which staff persons provide care, education, and participation in community activities for the residents with the primary goal of enabling the residents to live as independently as possible in order to reach their maximum potential, which complies with the provisions of Chapters 74.29 and 74.39 RCW.

“Group home, other” means a dwelling shared by 13 or more persons, including resident staff, who live together as a single housekeeping unit and in a long-term, family-like environment in which staff persons provide alcohol or drug treatment and rehabilitation, transitional supervision, emergency shelter, care, education, and participation in community activities for the residents. Group homes for drug and alcohol treatment, transitional supervision, and emergency shelter with less than 13 residents are permitted as single-family homes.

“Growth Management Act (GMA)” means the Growth Management Act as enacted in 1990 and amended by the state of Washington (Chapter 36.70A RCW).

“Habitat” means the place or type of site where a plant or animal naturally or normally lives and grows.

“Hardware stores” means retail stores which sell tools and equipment used in the building, maintenance and repair of homes and businesses.

“Hazardous substance” means any material, substance, product, commodity, or waste, regardless of quantity, which exhibits any of the characteristics or criteria of hazardous waste as described in rules adopted under Chapter 70.105 RCW.

“Hazardous waste” means those solid wastes designated by 40 CFR Part 261, and regulated as hazardous waste by the United States EPA. Any discarded, useless, unwanted, or abandoned radioactive or nonradioactive substances, including but not limited to certain pesticides, or any residues or containers of such substances which are disposed of in such quantity or concentration as to pose a substantial hazard to human health, wildlife, or the environment because such wastes or constituents or combinations of such wastes:

1. Have short-lived toxic properties that may cause death, injury, or illness or have mutagenic, teratogenic, or carcinogenic properties; or

2. Are corrosive, explosive, flammable, or may generate pressure through decomposition or other means; or

3. Will persist in a hazardous form for several years or more at a disposal site; or

4. Present a significant environmental hazard and may be concentrated by living organisms through a food chain or may affect the genetic make-up of man or wildlife; or

5. Are highly toxic to man or wildlife.

“Hazardous waste, moderate risk” means any “solid waste” that exhibits the characteristics of a hazardous waste but is exempt per Chapter 173-303 WAC of the State Dangerous Waste Regulations, due to the fact that it is a household hazardous waste per WAC 173-303-071(3)(c) or conditionally exempt small quantity generator waste per WAC 173-303-070(8).

“Hazardous waste, moderate risk waste treatment and storage facilities” means a staffed and dedicated location with secondary waste containment that is specifically built at a permanent fixed site for the purpose of collecting, treating, recycling, exchange, storage and/or transfer of moderate risk waste.

“Hazardous waste treatment and storage facilities” means facilities which treat and/or store hazardous wastes through such means as containers (such as barrels or drums), above ground and underground tanks, and waste piles and surface impoundments that will be cleaned up and not closed as landfills. Hazardous waste treatment and storage facilities are those facilities which require an interim or final status permit pursuant to Dangerous Waste Regulations, WAC 173-303-240. These regulations apply to hazardous waste generators who produce 2.2 pounds or more of dangerous waste per month.

“Health club” means an establishment that provides exercise facilities such as running, jogging, aerobics, weight lifting, court sports, body building, martial arts, dancing, and swimming, as well as locker rooms, showers, massage rooms, tanning salon, saunas and related accessory uses.

“Height” means the vertical distance above a reference datum measured to the highest point of the coping of a flat roof or to the deck line of a mansard roof or the average height of the highest gable of a pitched or hipped roof. The reference datum will be selected consistent with the requirements as described in the International Building Code.

“Home occupation” means a clearly accessory and secondary use of a dwelling unit for gainful employment involving the manufacture, provision, or sale of goods and/or services. Synonymous with “Home business.”

“Hospitals and sanitariums” means any facility specializing in giving clinical, temporary, and emergency services of a medical or surgical nature to human patients and injured persons, and licensed by state law to provide facilities and services in surgery, obstetrics, and general medical practice including overnight and extended stays.

“Hotel” means a facility offering transient lodging accommodations on a daily rate to the general public and may include additional services, such as restaurants, meeting rooms, and recreational facilities. (See “Transient accommodations.”)

“Household” means all persons who occupy a housing unit which is intended as separate living quarters and having direct access from the outside of the building or through a common hall. The occupants may be a single family, one person living alone, two or more families living together, or any other group of related or unrelated persons who share living arrangements. (U.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of the Census)

“Impervious surface” means a non-vegetated surface area which either prevents or retards the entry of water into the soil mantle as under natural conditions prior to development. A non-vegetated surface area which causes water to run off the surface in greater quantities or at an increased rate of flow from the flow present under natural conditions prior to development. Common impervious surfaces include, but are not limited to, rooftops, walkways, patios, driveways, parking lots or storage areas, concrete or asphalt paving, gravel roads, packed earthen materials, and oiled, macadam or other surfaces which similarly impede the natural infiltration of stormwater. Open, uncovered retention/detention facilities will not be considered as impervious surfaces for the purposes of determining whether the thresholds for application of minimum requirements are exceeded. Open, uncovered retention/detention facilities will be considered impervious surfaces for purposes of runoff modeling.

“Incidental food service” means the on-site retail sale of meals and nonalcoholic beverages that provides an accessory service to a single primary use.

“Industrial park” means a facility which is designed as a coordinated environment for a variety of industrial and related activities, and will be developed and/or controlled by a single management entity with special attention given to traffic, parking, utility needs, aesthetics, and compatibility with surrounding properties. Industrial parks will have appropriate master plans and/or covenants, conditions, and restrictions as required.

“Industrial use” means any activity that is involved in the production, processing, manufacturing, fabrication, or assembling of goods and materials, including the storage of material used in the industrial process, including warehousing, wash down facilities, blacksmithing, welding, wholesale bakery, recycling facilities and distribution centers.

“Industrial use, heavy” means a use engaged in the basic processing and manufacturing of materials or products predominantly from extracted or raw materials, or a use engaged in storage of or manufacturing processes using flammable or explosive materials, or storage or manufacturing processes that potentially involve hazardous or commonly recognized offensive conditions.

“Industrial use, light” means a use engaged in manufacturing, typically having low impacts on the environment, in which articles are either produced, assembled, finished and/or packaged from prepared materials made at another location, or raw materials, such as premilled wood, paper, wool, textiles, leather, cork or semiprecious metals or stones. For the purposes of this definition, light industrial uses will include the canning or bottling of food or beverages for human consumption using a mechanized assembly line, and printing plants. The incidental storage, sales and distribution of products manufactured on site will be permitted.

“Infrastructure” means facilities, utilities and services needed to sustain industry, residential, and commercial activities.

“Intensity” means a measure of land use activity based on use, mass, size and impact, relative to adjacent land uses, locally and regionally.

“Junk” means scrap or abandoned metal, paper, building material and equipment, bottles, glass, appliances, abandoned household goods, rags, rubber, motor vehicles, and parts thereof.

“Kennel” means an establishment in which five or more dogs more than six months old are, for compensation, housed, groomed, bred, boarded, trained, or sold.

“Laboratories for research and testing” means a building or group of buildings in which are located facilities for scientific research, investigation, testing, or experimentation, but not facilities for the manufacture or sale of products, except as incidental to the main purpose of the laboratory.

“Land use” means a description of how land is being, or is to be, used or occupied.

“Landfill” means a disposal site employing an engineering method of disposing of solid wastes in a manner that minimizes environmental hazards by spreading, compacting to the smallest volume, and applying cover material over all exposed waste at the end of each operating day.

“Landscaping” or “landscape parkways” means the combination of natural elements such as trees, shrubs, groundcovers, vines, or other living organic and inorganic materials which are installed for purposes of creating an attractive and pleasing environment, screening unsightly views, reducing environmental impacts (including treatment of stormwater runoff), and filtering matter from the air.

“Lock and gunsmiths” means retail and service business engaged in the sale and repair of locks, keys, guns, and incidental retail.

“Lot” means a designated parcel, tract, or area of land established by plat, subdivision, or as otherwise permitted by law, to be used, developed or built upon as a unit.

“Lot area” means the total horizontal area within the boundary lines of a lot.

“Lot, corner” means a lot at the junction of and fronting on the intersection of two or more streets.

“Lot coverage” means the total ground coverage of all buildings or structures on a site measured from the outside of external walls or supporting, but not to include at-grade, off-street parking lots; deck areas; terraces; swimming pools; pool deck areas; walkways; roadways; and driveways.

“Lot depth” means the horizontal length of a straight line drawn from the midpoint of the front property line to the midpoint of the rear property line.

“Lot, flag” means a lot with access provided to the bulk of the lot by means of a narrow corridor.

“Lot, interior” means a lot fronting on one street.

Lot Line, Front. Any property line of a lot which abuts a public street, private street or dedicated vehicular access easement is considered a frontage and will meet the minimum front yard setback requirements of this code. On a corner lot, or lot bounded by more than one public or private street or dedicated easement, the “front lot line” will be the lot line providing principal access from the adjacent street.

“Lot line, rear” means the property line of a lot that is most opposite or most distant from the designated front lot line and that does not intersect any front lot line. In the case of a triangular lot, it means a line 10 feet in length within the lot parallel to and at the maximum distance from the front lot line. In the event that the front lot line is curved, then the rear property line will be assumed to be a line tangent to the front property line at its midpoint.

“Lot line, side” means any lot line that is not a front or rear lot line, or any lot line that intersects a front lot line.

“Lot of record” means a lot whose existence, location, and dimensions have been legally recorded or registered in a deed or a plat.

“Lot, substandard” means a lot or parcel of land that has less than the required minimum area or width as established by the zone in which it is located; and provided, that such lot or parcel was of record as a legally created lot on the effective date of this title.

“Lot, through” means a lot having its front and rear yards each abutting on a street, alley or right-of-way.

“Lot width” means the horizontal distance between side lot lines, measured at the required front setback line, or in an irregularly shaped lot, the dimension across the lot at the building line.

“Low impact development” (LID) means a stormwater and land use management strategy that strives to mimic pre-disturbance hydrologic processes of infiltration, filtration, storage, evaporation and transpiration by emphasizing conservation, use of on-site natural features, site planning, and distributed stormwater management practices that are integrated into a project design.

“Lumber yards” means facilities for the storage and sale, retail and wholesale of primarily wood building products.

“Manufactured housing” means a factory assembled structure intended solely for human habitation installed on a permanent foundation with running gear removed and connected to utilities on an individual building lot.

“Manufactured housing park” means a parcel of land under single ownership that has been planned and improved for the placement of manufactured housing for dwelling purposes.

“Marina” means a facility that may include areas for storing, servicing, fueling, berthing, securing and launching of private pleasure craft, including the sale of fuel and incidental supplies for the boat owners, crews, and guests.

“Master planned community” means a self-contained and fully integrated development intended to provide a mix of uses to provide jobs, housing and services to residents, including protecting critical areas and preserving significant areas in open space.

“Master planned resort” means a self-contained and fully integrated development in a setting of significant natural amenities that includes short-term visitor accommodations associated with a range of developed on-site indoor or outdoor recreation facilities. It may also include permanent residential uses as an integrated part of the overall resort development. (WAC 365-195-210)

“Medium-speed electric vehicle” means a self-propelled, electrically powered four-wheeled motor vehicle, equipped with a roll cage or crush-proof body design, whose speed attainable in one mile is more than 25 miles per hour but not more than 35 miles per hour and which otherwise meets or exceeds the federal regulations set forth in 49 CFR 571.500.

“Mini-storage” means a facility which provides storage spaces on a rental basis for the storage of domestic goods.

“Mitigation” means the process of avoiding, reducing, or compensating for the environmental impact(s) of a proposal. (WAC 197-11-768)

“Mixed use” means development that combines two or more different land uses on the same lot or contiguous lots in the same zone, such as retail uses and residential uses.

“Mobile home” means a factory-assembled structure intended solely for human habitation and equipped with the necessary service connections and made so as to be readily movable as a unit on its own running gear. It is without a permanent foundation and is a single-wide unit.

“Mobile home park” means a tract of land designed and maintained under a single ownership of unified control where two or more spaces or pads are provided solely for the placement of mobile or manufactured housing for residential purposes, with or without charge.

“Motel” means a building or group of detached buildings designed or used primarily for providing sleeping accommodations for automobile travelers and having a parking space adjacent to a sleeping room. (See “Transient accommodations.”)

Mother-in-Law Apartment. See “Accessory dwelling unit (ADU).”

“Multifamily residential development” means developments containing buildings with two or more residential dwelling units. Multifamily residential developments are those that are designed and intended for residential occupancy in multifamily structures regardless of the type of building or ownership in which such use occurs. Examples include, but are not limited to, townhouses, duplexes, multiplexes, condominiums, apartment houses, boarding houses, and lodging houses. Accessory dwelling units (i.e., mother-in-law and accessory apartments) will not be considered multifamily residences.

“Multimodal” means two or more modes or methods of transportation such as bicycling, driving an automobile, walking, bus transit, equestrian and pedestrian trail, or rail.

“Multiplex residential” means a multifamily residential housing category limited to duplex (two units), triplex (three units), or quadruplex (four units) buildings.

“Neighborhood electric vehicle” means a self-propelled, electrically powered four-wheeled motor vehicle whose speed attainable in one mile is more than 20 miles per hour and not more than 25 miles per hour and which conforms to federal regulations under Title 49 CFR Part 571.500.

“Nonconforming land use or grandfathered use” means a use or activity that was lawful prior to the adoption, revision or amendment of the comprehensive plan but fails by reason of such adoption, revision or amendment to conform to the present requirements of the comprehensive plan.

“Nonelectric vehicle” means any vehicle not defined as an electric vehicle.

“Nursery, landscaping material” means a business which offers retail and wholesale sales of landscaping materials including plant materials, gardening supplies, and building materials. Plant materials may be grown on site or purchased wholesale.

“Nursing homes and congregate care facilities” means those facilities which provide for the residential care of ambulatory and non-ambulatory patients, and which include assisted living facilities.

“Office” means a structure that generally houses a business, government, professional, medical or financial institution for the nonresident needs of individuals, groups or organizations.

“Off-street parking” means any space specifically allocated to the parking of motor vehicles that is not located within a public right-of-way, a travel lane, a service drive, or any easement for public use.

“Open space” typically implies a landscape that is primarily unimproved. Open space may include critical areas; wooded areas; parks; golf courses; trails; privately owned nature reserves; abandoned railroad lines; utility corridors; certain low impact development facilities; and other vacant rights-of-way.

“Open space, greenbelts” means a planned open space that may include both improved and unimproved landscaping.

“Open space, multifamily” means the usable and unusable space around and between buildings of a multiple dwelling unit development.

“Outdoor storage, commercial and/or industrial” means the keeping, in an unroofed area, of any goods, junk, material, merchandise, or vehicles, in the same place for more than 24 hours.

“Overlay district” means a specially designated zoning district containing additional standards and requirements, which is applied on top of a basic zoning classification.

“Parcel” means a continuous quantity of land in the possession of or owned by, or recorded as the property of, the same person or persons.

“Park, playgrounds, golf courses, recreation centers, swimming pools; public and private” means those facilities consisting of open space or enclosed space developed for the use of the general public and reserved for recreational, educational, entertainment, gathering or scenic purposes.

“Parking, shared” means the development and use of parking areas on two or more separate properties for joint use by the businesses on those two or more properties used for parking.

“Parking space” means an area which is improved, maintained and used for the sole purpose of temporarily accommodating a motor vehicle that is not in use.

“Pawn shops and secondhand stores” means retail businesses which sell used merchandise on a consignment basis, or outright.

“Performance standards” means criteria that are established and must be met before a particular use will be permitted. These measures are designed to guide development of property and include, but are not limited to, open space requirements, water and wastewater requirements, buffer zones, screening, size and height limits for buildings, noise, vibration, glare, heat, air or water contaminants, and traffic.

“Permitted use” means any use authorized or permitted alone or in conjunction with another use in a specified zoning district and subject to the limitations and regulations of that zoning district.

“Pervious surface” means a surface material that allows stormwater to infiltrate into the ground. Examples include lawn, landscape, pasture, native vegetation areas, and permeable pavements.

“Pharmacy, dispensing” means a retail or wholesale establishment which sells drugs by prescription, and may include sales of over-the-counter medications and incidental health-related products.

“Photographic studio” means an establishment for the purpose of taking pictures and developing film and film-related products, including printing. May include incidental retail sales of photography-related supplies, equipment and products.

“Planned unit development” means a development of land that is under unified control and is planned and developed as a whole in a single development operation or programmed series of development stages. Planned unit developments may include predetermined combinations of residential, commercial and industrial uses within the project area. The development may include streets, circulation ways, utilities, buildings, open spaces, and other site features and improvements.

“Plant nursery” means any lot used to raise trees, shrubs, flowers, and other plants for sale or for transplanting.

“Plat” means a map or plan, especially of a piece of land divided into building lots.

“Plug-in hybrid electric vehicle (PHEV)” means an electric vehicle that (A) contains an internal combustion engine, and also allows power to be delivered to the drive wheels by an electric motor; (B) is able to recharge its battery by connecting to the grid or other off-board electrical source; and (C) has the ability to travel short distances (typically 10 miles or more) powered all, or substantially all, by electricity.

“Plumbing shops and yards” means facilities engaged in the wholesale and retail sale of plumbing and building supplies.

“Principal building” means a building in which the primary use of the lot in which the building is located is conducted.

“Principal use” means the main use of land or structures, as distinguished from a secondary or accessory use.

“Printing, publishing and reproduction establishments” means establishments for the purpose of producing printed materials, including newspapers, books and advertising material. These establishments may include self-service reproduction facilities, and include incidental sales.

“Private gymnasiums, fitness centers, tanning salons, dance studios, body building and martial arts studios” means private recreational facilities or health clubs offering classes or memberships.

“Public facilities” includes streets, roads, highways, sidewalks, street and road lighting, traffic signals, domestic water systems, storm and sanitary sewer systems, parks and recreational facilities, and schools. (RCW 36.70A.030)

“Public services” means services provided by a public agency which include fire protection and suppression, law enforcement, public health, education, recreation, environmental protection and other governmental services. (RCW 36.70A.030)

Public Utilities. See “Utilities or public utilities.”

Reserved.

“Radio, television and small electronic repair and services” means service establishments which primarily provide repair and service of household appliances and consumer electronics. Incidental sales of parts and used equipment allowed.

“Radio, television broadcasting stations” means facilities for the production and broadcasting of radio and television programming.

“Rapid or DC fast charging station” means an industrial grade electrical outlet that allows for faster recharging of electric vehicle batteries through higher power levels, which meets or exceeds any standards, codes, and regulations set forth by Chapter 19.28 RCW and consistent with rules adopted under RCW 19.27.540.

“RCW” means Revised Code of Washington.

“Recreation center” means a place designed and equipped for the conduct of sports, leisure time activities and other customary and usual recreational activities.

“Recreational facility” means any development designed and intended for day use and/or overnight recreational uses, operated as a business, or as part of a business, and/or operated by a nonprofit organization or public entity, including amusement parks, picnic areas and campgrounds.

Recreational Vehicle. For the purposes of this title, all recreational vehicles will be licensed by the state of Washington or other comparable jurisdiction as a vehicle. In addition, mobile homes will not be considered to be recreational vehicles.

“Recreational vehicle park” means any lot or lots upon which two or more recreational vehicle sites are located, established, or maintained for temporary occupancy by recreational vehicles of the general public as temporary living quarters for recreation or vacation purposes.

“Recreational vehicle park, seasonal” means those recreational vehicle parks that are approved for stays of no more than 180 days (cumulative) within any calendar year.

“Recreational vehicle park, transient” means those recreational vehicle parks approved for transient stays of not more than 30 consecutive days. These parks are “tourist oriented” and usually have recreation and other facilities.

“Recycling collection point” means a location that serves as a neighborhood drop-off point for temporary storage of recoverable resources.

“Recycling facilities” means any lot, lots, or portions thereof, or building or structure, commercially used for the storage, collection, processing, purchase, or sale of wastepaper, rags, scrap metal, or other scrap or discarded goods, and recyclable materials. Excluded from this definition will be areas used for the storage of materials or objects accumulated by the manufacturer as an integral part of the manufacturing process, and noncommercial recycling centers or substations established for the collection of materials for transport to a commercial recycling facility.

“Recycling, high intensity” means a facility that is not a junkyard and in which recoverable resources, such as newspapers, magazines, books, and other paper products; glass; metal cans; and other products, are recycled, reprocessed, and treated to return such productions to a condition in which they may again be used for production.

“Recycling, low-intensity” means an incidental use that serves as a neighborhood drop-off point for temporary storage of recoverable resources. No processing of such items would be allowed. This facility would generally be located in a shopping center parking lot or in other public/quasi-public areas, such as in churches and schools.

“Recycling plant” means a facility that is not a junkyard and in which recoverable resources, such as newspapers, magazines, books, and other paper products; glass; metal cans; and other products, are recycled, reprocessed, and treated to return such products to a condition in which they may be used again for production.

“Research laboratory” means a building or group of buildings in which are located facilities for scientific research, investigation, testing, or experimentation, but not facilities for the manufacture or sale of products, except as incidental to the main purpose of the laboratory.

“Residential hotels” means hotels which provide fully furnished apartments or rooms for longer temporary stays, usually not to exceed six months, and which are located and designed consistent with hotels. For the purpose of this code, residential hotels will be considered to be hotels.

“Resort” means a facility which includes hotels or motels that serve as a destination point for visitors, and generally provides recreational facilities for persons on vacation and provides self-contained personal services customarily furnished at hotels, including the serving of meals.

“Restaurant” means an establishment that serves food and beverages primarily to persons seated within the building, such as cafes, tea rooms, buffet diners, and diners.

“Restaurant, drive-in” means a restaurant where food or beverages are sold primarily for consumption by customers in motor vehicles.

“Restaurant, fast food” 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, and where orders are not generally taken at the customer’s table, and food is generally served in disposable wrapping or containers. Fast food restaurants may include both drive-in and sit down services.

“Retail sale” means the sale of merchandise, services, or commodities for use or consumption by the immediate purchaser and not meant for resale.

“Retail store” means business engaging in the sale of merchandise, services, or commodities for use or consumption by the immediate purchaser and not meant for resale, including department stores and drug stores.

“Right-of-way” means land owned by a government or an easement for a certain purpose over the land of another, used for a road, ditch, electrical transmission line, pipeline, or public facilities such as utility or transportation corridors.

“Road or vehicular rights-of-way” means a specific right-of-way dedicated or conveyed for a public or private road including the adjoining area designated for road expansion or utility purposes as specified by recorded easements, recorded ownership instruments, or dedications.

“Road, private” means a right-of-way or easement allowing vehicular ingress and egress established as a separate tract for the benefit of certain, adjacent properties, not including private driveways.

“Road, public” means all public rights-of-way reserved or dedicated for street traffic.

“Rooming house” means a building that is the primary residence of the owner and in which rooms are provided, by the owner, for compensation, to three or more adult persons not related by blood, marriage, or adoption to the owner.

“Sanitary sewer systems” means all facilities, including approved on-site disposal facilities, used in the collection, transmission, storage, treatment or discharge of any waterborne waste, whether domestic in origin or a combination of domestic, commercial or industrial waste. (WAC 365-195-210)

“Satellite dish antenna” means a round, parabolic antenna intended to receive signals from orbiting satellites and other sources. Noncommercial dish antennas are defined as being less than four meters in diameter. Commercial dish antennas are typically those larger than four meters and typically used by broadcasting stations.

“School, private or parochial” means a building whose primary use is as a facility where instruction is given to persons of any age to enhance their knowledge or skills, not including buildings where instruction is given primarily on religious matters. For the purposes of this title, buildings belonging to churches but used primarily for the education of children ages five to 18, Monday through Friday, will be considered schools.

“School, public” means a building whose primary use is as a facility where instruction is given to young persons to enhance their knowledge or skills, owned and operated by a public school district.

“Screening” means the method by which a view of one site from another adjacent site is shielded, concealed, or hidden, utilizing techniques that include fences, walls, hedges, berms, or other such features.

“Self-service storage facility” means a building consisting of individual, small, self-contained spaces that are leased or owned for the storage of business and household goods or contractors’ supplies, typically not including hazardous or flammable materials.

“SEPA (State Environmental Policy Act)” requires state agencies, local governments and other lead agencies to consider environmental factors when making most types of permit decisions, especially for development proposals of a significant scale. As part of the SEPA process, EIS may be required to be prepared and public comments solicited. (Chapter 43.21C RCW)

“Service station” means facilities and premises where the primary use is the retail supply and dispensing of motor fuels, lubricants, batteries, tires, and motor vehicle accessories, and may include the minor mechanical service and repair of motor vehicles.

“Setback” means the minimum distance from the road right-of-way line or any other lot line to the nearest projection of a structure placed on the property, excluding eaves of less than 24 inches.

“Sewer” means the closed pipe which carries raw sewage from a home or business to a treatment facility.

“Shopping center” means a grouping of commercial/retail facilities on a single lot with common parking facilities.

“Shoreline Management Act” means state rules which detail the local requirements necessary to protect the state shorelines. (Chapter 90.58 RCW and WAC 173-14-030(1))

“Shoreline master program (SMP)” means the comprehensive use plan and related use regulations which are mandated by the Shoreline Management Act, and used by local governments to administer and enforce the permit system for shoreline management. The city’s master program includes establishment of a jurisdiction for applicability of the program for all lands within 200 feet of Sequim Bay.

“Shorelines” means all of the water areas of the state, including reservoirs and their associated uplands, together with the lands underlying them, except those areas excluded under RCW 90.58.030(2)(d). (RCW 90.58.030(2)(d) and Chapters 173-18, 173-19 and 173-22 WAC)

“Sign” means a structure or device designed or intended to convey information to the public in written or pictorial form.

“Sign painting and manufacture” means a facility for the production and sale of signs.

“Silviculture” means improvements or activities associated with the growing, cultivation, and/or harvesting of forest products. Silviculture uses not associated with silviculture processing as defined herein will be exempt from the provisions of this title.

“Silviculture processing” means facilities and uses associated with high-intensity silviculture activities such as commercial chippers and sawmills, and other similar uses.

“Single-family residence” means a dwelling unit intended for occupancy by one immediate family. For the purposes of this title, an apartment integrated within a dwelling unit and used by a member of the family will not be considered to be a separate dwelling unit.

“Site plan” means a plan, prepared to scale, showing accurately and with complete dimensioning the boundaries of a site and the location of all buildings, structures, uses, and principal site development features proposed for a specific parcel of land.

“Solid waste” means all putrescible and nonputrescible solid and semisolid wastes, including, but not limited to, garbage, rubbish, ashes, industrial wastes, swill, demolition and construction wastes, abandoned vehicles or parts thereof, and recyclable materials. (RCW 70.95.030)

“Special needs housing” means all housing that is designed for 13 or more individual or family members who require supportive social services in order to live independently or semi-independently, including emergency, transitional and permanent housing. Special needs groups include, but are not limited to, the homeless, elderly, AIDS victims, single parents, runaway and homeless youth, severely physically handicapped, mentally and emotionally disturbed, chronically mentally ill, developmentally disabled, farm workers (migrant labor households) and persons with substance abuse problems.

“Sports facilities (stadiums)” means facilities constructed to allow spectators to view athletic events with or without a fee (including, but not limited to, football, soccer, or basketball).

Stadiums. See “Sports facilities (stadiums).”

“Story” means that portion of a building included between the surface of any floor and the surface of the floor next above it, or if there is no floor above it, the space between such floor and the ceiling above it. A basement will be counted as a story if its ceiling is over six feet above the average level of the finished ground surface adjoining the exterior walls of such story, or if it is used for business or dwelling purposes.

“Structure” means that which is built or constructed. A structure is 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, which requires an approval.

“Subdivision” means the division of a lot, tract, or parcel of land into two or more lots, plats, sites, or other divisions of land for the purpose, whether immediate or future, of sale or building development.

“Temporary use” means any short-term use, activity, event, or improvement to property that is nonpermanent in nature, character, or operation, is not defined as a primary land use, and is permitted only for a specified duration.

“Through traffic” means traffic traveling along a right-of-way through a specific area to a destination beyond that area.

“Tower” means a structure situated on a nonresidential site that is intended for transmitting or receiving television, radio, or telephone communications, excluding those used exclusively for dispatch communications.

“Transient accommodations” means a building or group of buildings in which lodging or lodging and meals are provided for transient guests for compensation, including cabins, resorts, hotels, motels, hostels, and campgrounds. For the purposes of this title, “transient” will be defined as being not more than 30 consecutive days’ duration.

“Truck stops/recreational vehicle travel centers” means a facility that provides fuel and travel services for long haul trucking, travel trailers, recreational vehicles and the general traveling public. These facilities include fuel sales, sanitary waste disposal sites for recreational vehicles, and truck stop/recreational vehicle travel center development. These facilities may include supporting uses such as convenience stores, smaller restaurants and limited transient accommodations providing that they are secondary uses, and are supportive of the primary function of providing fuel. Truck stops/recreational vehicle travel centers may be developed on several parcels with separate ownerships; however, a single binding site plan will be required to ensure that the facility is established in a coordinated manner to minimize adverse transportation impacts due to conflicting land uses.

“Undertaking establishment” means a building or part thereof used for human funeral services and containing space and facilities for:

1. Embalming and the performance of other services used in the preparation of the dead for burial;

2. The performance of autopsies and other surgical procedures;

3. The storage of caskets, funeral urns, and other related funeral supplies;

4. The storage of funeral vehicles; and

5. Spaces for conduction of funeral services, but will not include facilities for cremation.

“Urban growth area” means those areas designated by a county pursuant to RCW 36.70A.110.

“Urban level of facilities and services” means those services defined as “urban governmental services” with levels of service as defined within the capital facilities element of the Sequim comprehensive plan.

“Use” means any legal activity pursued on a piece of property, with or without any improvements.

“Utilities” means fixed improvements, including structures and facilities, that convey, generate, transmit or distribute power, gas, oil, water, sewage, surface drainage or communication signals.

“Utilities or public utilities” means facilities serving the public by means of an integrated system of collection, transmission, distribution, and processing through more or less permanent physical conditions between the facility of the serving entity and the premises of the customer. Included are systems for the delivery of natural gas, electricity, telecommunications services, and water for the disposal of sewage. (WAC 365-195-210)

“Variance” means approval to deviate from the requirements or procedures of this title.

“Vehicle repair and service” means facilities and premises where the primary use is the retail supply and dispensing of lubricants, batteries, tires, and motor vehicle accessories, and includes the mechanical service and repair of motor vehicles.

“Vehicle sales, repair and service” means facilities and premises where the primary use is the retail sale of vehicles, including cars, trucks, farm vehicles, and boats and includes the supply and dispensing of lubricants, batteries, tires, motor vehicle accessories, and includes the mechanical service and repair of motor vehicles.

“Veterinary hospital” means any facility specializing in giving clinical, temporary, and emergency services of a medical or surgical nature to animals, especially domestic animals, and licensed by state law to provide such facilities and services.

“WAC” means Washington Administrative Code.

“Warehouse/warehousing” means terminal facilities used for handling freight for redistribution.

“Wholesale sales” means the sale of materials, services, or merchandise, primarily for the purpose of resale, manufacture, or remanufacture.

“WSDOT” means Washington State Department of Transportation.

Reserved.

“Yard” means a required type of setback on a lot adjoining a lot line.

“Yard, front” means a required setback extending across the full width of a lot lying between front lot line to the front building line in depth. Front yard width will be measured at right angles to the front of the lot.

“Yard, rear” means a required setback extending across the full width of a lot and lying between the rear lot line and the nearest line of the building. Rear yard depth will be measured at right angles to the rear of the lot.

“Yard, side” means a required setback lying between the side of a lot line and the nearest line of the building and extending from the front yard to the rear yard, or in the absence of either of such front or rear yards, to the front or rear lot lines. Side yard widths will be measured at right angles to side lines of the lot.

“Zero lot line” means the location of a building on a lot in such a manner that one or more of the building’s sides rest directly on a lot line. A written agreement with the adjacent property owners will be submitted with a building permit application.

“Zone” means a mapped area to which a uniform set of regulations applies. The city of Sequim official zoning map describes the extent and boundaries for the zones described within this title.

“Zoning” means the process by which a county or municipality legally controls the use of property and physical configuration of development upon tracts of land within its jurisdiction. (Ord. 2022-024 § 2 (Exh. B); Ord. 2021-012 § 1 (Exh. B); Ord. 2021-011 § 1 (Exh. A); Ord. 2021-001 § 1 (Exh. B); Ord. 2020-004 § 2 (Exh. B); Ord. 2017-002 § 1 (Exh. A); Ord. 2015-012 § 1 (Exh. A); Ord. 2014-011 § 1 (Exh. A); Ord. 2014-003 § 1 (Exh. A); Ord. 2013-001 § 1 (Exh. A); Ord. 2012-002 § 2 (Exh. B); Ord. 2006-016 § 1; Ord. 2000-007 § 1; Ord. 97-019 § 4, Exh. B)