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"Salvage yard" means any area, lot, parcel, building, or structure, or part thereof, used for the storage, collection, processing, purchase, sale, or abandonment of wastepaper, rags, scrap metal, or other scrap or discarded goods, materials, machinery, or other types of junk. Salvage yard uses also include the baling of cardboard, cardboard boxes, paper, and paper cartons, and areas that store materials from demolished houses, structural steel materials, and equipment.
Sanitarium. See "Convalescent home."
"Satellite dish antenna" means any dish-shaped antenna designed to receive satellite signals for the purpose of telecommunications reception.
"School" means any public or private child care facility or educational institution for minors that offers instruction in those courses of study required by the California Education Code or that is maintained pursuant to standards set by the State Board of Education. Schools include nursery schools, pre-schools, schools with any of the grades kindergarten through twelfth grade, or any special educational institution for minors, but does not include vocational or professional institutions of higher education such as a community college, junior college, college, or university. See "Educational institution."
"Second dwelling unit" is a second permanent dwelling that is accessory to a primary dwelling on the same site. A secondary unit provides complete, independent living facilities for one or more persons, including permanent provisions for living, sleeping, eating, cooking, and sanitation. See Section 19.07.090.
"Secondhand store" means a retail or wholesale business in which the largest portion of the merchandise is secondhand or used.
"Senior citizen housing development" means senior citizen housing as defined in Section 51.3 (a housing development developed, substantially rehabilitated, or substantially renovated for senior citizens that has at least thirty-five dwelling units) and Section 51.12 of the California Civil Code, or a mobile home park that limits residency based on age requirements for housing for older persons pursuant to Section 798.76 or 799.5 of the Civil Code.
"Senior housing" is housing units that are age-restricted for residents aged sixty-two and older.
"Service road" means a road that is part of a highway right-of-way but separated from the highway by means of a median or divider, except at controlled points of access. A service road serves as an access route to property abutting the highway.
"Screening" means a method of visually shielding or obscuring one abutting or nearby structure or use from another by fencing, walls, berms, or densely planted vegetation.
"Semi-public use" means a use owned or operated by a private nonprofit, religious, or charitable institution that provides educational, cultural, recreational, religious, or similar types of programs to the general public.
"Service station" means a building or lot used primarily for the retail sale of motor fuels, but also incidentally supplying goods and services required in the operation and maintenance of motor vehicles and in fulfilling motorists' needs. When the retail sale of gasoline is incidental to the use of a public garage, the premises shall not be considered an automobile service station.
"Setback" means the distance from a defined point or line governing the placement of buildings, structures, parking, or uses on a lot.
"Setback line" means a line within a lot, parallel to and measured from a corresponding lot line, forming the boundary of a required yard and governing the placement of buildings, structures, parking, or uses on a lot.
Shared Parking. See Parking, Shared.
"Shopping center" means a group of commercial establishments planned, constructed, and managed as a total entity, with customer and employee parking provided on-site, and provision of goods delivery separated from customer access.
Sign. Signs are defined as established in Chapter 19.25 (Signs) of this Title 19.
"Single-family attached dwellings" are dwelling units that are structurally connected with at least one other such dwelling unit and typically two or three stories in height. Each unit has its own front and rear access to the outside, no unit is located over another unit, and each unit is separated from any other unit by one or more common fire resistant walls. Examples of single-family attached dwellings include townhomes, rowhouses, and courtyard/cluster housing.
"Single room occupancy" (efficiency) unit, also known as an SRO, means housing consisting of single-room dwelling units typically with no more than four hundred 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.
"Site plan" means a plan drawn to scale, showing uses and structures proposed for a property as required by the applicable regulations, including lot lines, streets, grades, building sites, reserved open space, and other specific development proposals.
"Slope" means the degree of deviation of a surface from the horizontal, usually expressed in percent or degrees.
"Solid waste" means solid waste shall be defined as set forth in Section 40191 of the California Public Resources Code.
"Sound-amplifying equipment" means any machine or device for the amplification of the human voice, music, or any other sound, not including standard automobile radios when used and heard only by the occupants of the vehicle in which the radio is installed, nor warning devices on authorized emergency vehicles, horns, or other warning devices on any vehicle used only for traffic safety purposes.
"Soundtruck" means any motor or other vehicle, whether in motion or stationary, having mounted thereon or attached thereto any sound-amplifying equipment.
"Specific adverse impact" means a significant, quantifiable, direct, and unavoidable impact, based on objective, identified, written public health or safety standards, policies, or conditions as they existed on the date that the application for the housing development was deemed complete. Mere inconsistency with the zoning ordinance or general plan land use designation shall not constitute a specific, adverse impact upon the public health or safety.
"Specific plan" means under Article 8 of the California Government Code 9 Section 65450 et. seq.), a legal tool for detailed design and implementation of a defined portion of the area covered by a general plan. A specific plan may include all detailed regulations, conditions, programs, and/or proposed legislation which may be necessary or convenient for the systematic implementation of any general plan element(s).
Standards, Development. "Development standards" means requirements in this Title 19 that govern building and development, including, but not limited to, lot area, height limits, frontage, landscaping, and floor area ratio.
Standards, Performance. "Performance standards" means requirements in this Title 19 that govern the operation and maintenance of uses in a particular zone.
"Station" means a position on an automatic irrigation controller that indicates the control point of automatic irrigation valves.
"Story" means that portion of a building included between the upper surface of any floor and the upper surface of the floor next above, except that the topmost story shall be that portion of a building included between the upper surface of the topmost floor and the ceiling above.
"Street" means a public thoroughfare or right-of-way, or approved private thoroughfare or right-of-way determined by the city to be adequate for the purpose of access, which affords the principal means of access for abutting property including avenue, place, way, drive, land, boulevard, highway, road, or any other thoroughfare. The word "street" shall include all major and secondary highways, traffic collector streets, and local streets.
Street, Arterial (Major). "Arterial street (major)" means a one hundred-feet wide street that provides regional, subregional, and intra-city travel service.
"Street centerline" means the line representing the midpoint between either side of a street or right-of-way, as established by official surveys or the director of public services.
Street, Collector. "Collector street" means a street that provides circulation in a defined geographic area and connects this area to major arterial and secondary streets and freeways.
"Street frontage" means the lot line adjoining a street or an easement; the length of the lot line that abuts a street or easement.
"Street line" means the boundary line between the street and an abutting lot or parcel of land.
Street, Local. "Local street" means a dedicated street serving as a principal means of access to property, but not a major or secondary highway, or a collector or through industrial street, as designated in the general plan circulation element.
Street, Secondary. "Secondary street" means an eighty-foot wide street designed to function as a major arterial street but carrying a lesser volume of through traffic.
Street Width, Planned. "Planned street width" means the proposed final width of a street right-of-way, as shown in the circulation element of the commerce general plan, the master plan of highways, or as established by an official action of the city.
"Structural alteration" means a change in the supporting framework of a building, such as foundation, bearing walls, columns, beams, floor or roof joists, girders, or rafters; a change in roof or exterior lines of a building.
"Structure" means a building or facility constructed and fixed on the ground, as defined in the Building Code, excluding fences and walls used as fences that are less than seven feet in height.
"Substantially enlarged" means the increase in floor area occupied by the business by more than ten percent of its floor area as it exists on the effective date of this Title 19.
"Sundeck" means an elevated uncovered platform on top of a garage or roof. A sundeck may be supported from below or cantilevered and enclosed with a railing or balustrade.
"Superintendent" means the director of the streets of the city, his assistants and deputies, or any other public officer designated by the city council to perform the duties imposed by Title 9 of the Commerce Municipal Code.
"Supportive housing" means housing with no limit on length of stay, that is occupied by the target population, and that is linked to onsite or offsite 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 (per Health and Safety Code Section 50675.14(b)).
(Ord. 544 § 1(part), 2000).
(Ord. No. 656, § 10 (Exh. G), 11-19-2013)