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9100. Short Title. This ordinance shall he known as, and may be cited as "The Zoning Ordinance of the City of La Habra Heights". (Ord. #110, S9100)
9101. List of Zones. In order to classify regularly and restrict the location of residential buildings and the location of buildings for special uses, and the use, and area of premises for the general welfare of the City of La Habra Heights as regulations for the execution of the General Plan pursuant to Chapter 3 and 4 of Title? of the Government Code, the Planning Law, or any statute superseding those chapters, the incorporated area of the City of La Habra Heights is divided into classes of zones, as follows:
Zone R-A - Residential Agricultural
Zone C-H - Commercial Highway
The spatial distribution of these zones is reflected on the "Official Zoning Map", which is adopted concurrently with this article and is on file in the office of the City Clerk. (Ord. ~l 10, S9101) (Zoning Map amendment - Ord. #111)
9102. Suffixes to Zoning Symbols. The following additional symbols are established in order to carry out the purposes of this ordinance:
Minimum Lot Size - The numeral following the R-A Zoning classification shall designate the required lot area per dwelling unit. (Ord. #110, 59102)
9103. Relationship to the General Plan. The Zoning Ordinance is an implementing measure for the La Habra Heights General Plan. Pursuant to State law the zoning designations established shall be consistent with the designations contained in the General Plan Land Use Element. (Ord. #110, 59103)
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9104. Purpose. It is hereby declared that in the creation by this article of the respective zones set forth herein, the City Council has given due and special consideration to the peculiar suitability of each and every such zone herein created for the particular uses enumerated therefor, the area requirements, density of land occupancy, and the necessary, proper and comprehensive groupings and arrangements of uses in the City in accordance with a well-considered general plan of land use for the development of the entire City. (Ord. #110, 59104)
9105. Ordinance Requirements as Minimums. In interpreting and applying the provisions of this article, they shall be held to be the minimum requirements for the promotion of the public health, safety, comfort, convenience and welfare. (Ord. #110, 59105)
9106. Violations and Penalties. Every person violating any provision ot this article or of any permit, license, or exception granted hereunder is guilty of a misdemeanor. Upon conviction thereof he shall be punishable by a fine not to exceed five hundred ($500.00) dollars, or by imprisonment in the County Jail for not to exceed six (6) months, or by both such fine and imprisonment. Each separate day or any portion thereof during which any violation of this article occurs or continues constitutes a separate offense and upon conviction thereof shall be punishable as herein provided.
In addition to the penalties herein above provided, any condition caused or permitted to exist in violation of any of the provisions of this article or of any permit, license or exception granted hereunder shall be deemed a public nuisance and may be, by this City, abated as such in accordance with the provisions of law, and every day or portion thereof such condition continues shall be regarded as a new and separate offense. (Ord. #110, S9106)
9107. Application. Except as hereafter provided, land or buildings may be used and st:ructures may be erected or altered only in accordance with the following provisions:
a. No building may be erected and no existing building shall be moved, altered, or enlarged nor shall any land, building or premises be used, designed or intended to be used for any purpose or in any manner other than a use listed in this article, or amendments thereto, as permitted in the zone in which such land, building or premises is located.
b. No building shall be erected nor shall any existing building be moved, reconstructed or structurally altered to exceed in height the limit established by this article or amendments thereto for the zone in which such building is located.
c. No building shall be erected nor shall any existing building be moved, altered, enlarged or rebuilt, nor shall any open spaces surrounding any buildings be encroached upon
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or reduced in any manner except in conformity with the requirernents outlined in this article, or amendments thereto, and the wne in which such building is located.
d. No yard or open space provided adjacent to any building for the purpose of complying with the regulations of this article or amendments thereto shall be considered as providing a yard or open space for any other building or structure.
(Ord. #110, S9107)
9108. Conflicting Permits and Licenses to be Voided. All departments, officials and public employees of the City vested with the duty or authority to issue permits or licenses shall conform with the provisions of this article and shall issue no permits or licenses for uses, buildings or any purpose in conflict with the provisions of this article. Any such permit or license issued in conflict with this article shall be null and void. (Ord. #110, 59108)
9109. Administrative Authority. The Director of Planning may authorize a representative to carry out any of the duties and responsibilities delegated to the Director by this article. (Ord. #110, S9109)
9110. Determination of Permitted Uses. When a use is not specifically listed or is determined by the Director of Planning to not be included in a general category of use in the chapters defining uses permitted, it shall be assumed that such uses are prohibited unless it is determined by the action of the Planning Commission, following receipt of a recommendation from the Director, and a public hearing, that the use is similar to and not more objectionable than the uses listed. A determination of similar use may be initiated by a resolution of intention by the Planning Commission. (Ord. #110, S91 10)
9111. Conflict with Other Regulations.
a. Where conflicts occur between the regulations of this article and the building code or other regulations effective within the City, the more restrictive of any such regulations shall apply.
b. It is not intended that this article shall interfere with, abrogate or annul any easement, covenant or other agreement now in effect, provided, however, that where this article imposes a greater restriction upon the use of buildings or land, or upon the height of buildings, or requires larger open spaces that are imposed or required by other ordinances, rules or regulations or by easements, covenants or agreements, the provisions of this article shall apply.
C. Nothing contained in this article shall be deemed to repeal or amend any regulation of the City requiring a permit or license or both for any business, trade or
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occupation nor shall anything in this article be deemed to repeal or amend the Building Code of the City of La Habra Heights.
(Ord. #110,59111)
9112. Consistency with General Plan. An application approved by any review body must be found consistent with the objectives, policies, general land uses, and programs of the La Habra Heights General Plan. (Ord. #110, 59112)
9113. - 9119. Reserved.
9120.1. (A)
Accessory Building or Structure shall mean a detached subordinate building or structure, the use of which is custorrarily incidental to that of the main building or to the main use of the land, and which is located in the same or a less restrictive zone and on the same lot or parcel of land with the main building or use.
Accessory Use shall mean a use customarily incidental to, related and clearly subordinate to a principal use established on the same lot or parcel of land, which accessory use does not alter said principal use nor serve property other than the lot or parcel of land on which the principal use is located.
Area, Net shall mean that portion of a lot, or parcel of land which is:
a. Not subject to any easement or included as a proposed public or private facility such as an alley, highway or street except as provided in subparagraph c, or other necessary public site within a proposed development project.
b. Subject to an easement where the owner of the underlying fee has the right to use the entire surface except that portion where the owner of the easement may place utility poles or minor utility structures.
c. Subject to that portion of a highway easement or private street easement shown on an alternate cross-section in Section 54 of Los Angeles County Ordinance No. 4478, entitled "Subdivision Ordinance", adopted March 19, 1945, marked with an asterisk(*).
d. That portion of a corner lot or corner parcel of land not to exceed five (5%) percent of the net area within a corner cutoff.
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Except as above provided, portions of a lot or parcel of land subject to a highway easement or any other private or public easement shall not be counted as a part of the net area. (Ord. #110, S9120.l)
9120.2. (B)
Borrow Pit shall mean the same as quarry.
Building shall mean any structure having a roof supported by columns or by walls and intended for the shelter, housing or enclosure of persons, anirnals, chattels or property of any kind.
Building, Enclosed shall mean a building enclosed on all sides.
(Ord. #110, S9120.1)
9120.3. (C)
Camp Car shall mean a vehicle with motive power, which is designed for human habitation and which contains plumbing, heating or electrical equipment
Center Line shall mean where reference is made to the center line of any parkway, major or secondary highway such center line is deemed to be the center line established by the City Engineer for any proposed or dedicated public way which, in whole or in part, is included in any such parkway, major or secondary highway. Said established center lines are those shown on a series of maps entitled, "County Surveyor's Maps" or "County Surveyor's Field Maps" on file in the office of the County Engineer, except that, where two (2) or more such center lines are shown on any map in said series of maps, the center line labeled "Proposed
Center Line" is deemed to be the center line of the parkway, major or secondary highway.
Commercial Parking Lot or Building shall mean a parking area or structure established or operated as a business, providing off-street parking for a fee or charge.
Commission shall mean the Planning Commission of the City of 1-,a Habra Heights.
Communication Equipment Building shall mean a building housing operating electrical and mechanical equipment necessary for the conducting of a public utility communications business, with or without personnel.
Council shall mean the City Council of the City of La Habra Heights. (Ord. #110, S9120.3)
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9120.4. (D)
Day Care for Children, Family Home shall mean any family residence, noninstitutional in character, providing nonresident day care only for not more than six (6) children under sixteen (16) years of age, as defined and licensed by or under the regulations of the Department of Social Welfare of the State of CaliforniL
Day Care for Children, Special Home shall mean any facility, noninstitutional in character, providing noniesident day care only for seven (7) to ten (10) children under sixteen (16) years of age, as defined and licensed by or under the regulations of the Department of Social Welfare of the State of California.
Day Nursery, Children shall mean any facility, institutional in character, or providing nonresident day care and supervision for more than ten (10) children under sixteen (16) years of age, as defmed and licensed by the Department of Social Welfare of the State of California. "Day Nursery, Children" includes all types of group day care programs including, but not limited to, day nurseries, nursery schools for children under the minimum age for admission to public schools, parent-cooperative nursery schools, play groups for preschool children and programs giving after school care to school age children.
Detached Living Quarters shall mean living quarters within a detached accessory building located on the same premises as the main building, for use by temporary guests of the occupants of the premises. Such accessory building shall have no plumbing facilities of any kind except for space heating, or air conditioning, or both and except in or for the purpose of supplying water to, or disposing of wastes from, a toilet or bathroom.
Director shall mean the Planning Director of the City of La Habra Heights.
Domestic Animal shall mean an animal which is commonly maintained in conjunction with rural residential living.
Dwelling Unit shall mean one (1) or more rooms in a building or portion thereof designed, intended to be used, or used for occupancy by one (1) family for living and sleeping quarters and containing only one (1) kitchen. (Ord. #110, S9l20.4)
9120.S. (E)
Earth Station shall mean structures comprising one (1) or more large parabolic reflectors which may be mounted on a circular control building and all appurtenant equipment necessary for the receiving, amplifying or transmitting of microwave signals in connection with a public utility communication route or system employing such earth stations and satellites in space.
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Electric Distribution Substation shall mean an assembly of equipment which is part of a system for the distribution of electric power where electric energy is received at a subtransrnission voltage and transformed to a lower voltage for distribution for general consumer use.
Electric Transmission Substation shall mean an assembly of equipment which is part of a system for the transmission of electric power where electric energy is received at a very high voltage from its source of generation by means of a network of high voltage lines and where, by means of transformers, said high voltage is transformed to a lower subtransmission voltage for purposes of supplying electric power to large individual consumers, interchange connections with other power producing agencies or electric distribution substations for transformation to still lower voltage for distribution to smaller individual users.
(Ord. #110, S9120.5)
9120.6. (F)
Frontage, Street or Highway shall mean that portion of a lot or parcel of land which borders a public street, highway or parkway. Street or Highway Frontage shall be measured along the common lot line separating said lot or parcel of land from the public street, highway or parkway.
(Ord. #110, S9120.6)
9120.7. (G)
Grade (ground level) shail mean the average of the finished ground level at the center of all wails of a building.
Guest Room shall mean one (1) room which does not contain cooking facilities and is designed, used or intended to be used as temporary sleeping accommodations for any person. (Ord. #110, 59120.7)
9120.8. (H)
Height of Structure shall mean the vertical distance from the lowest footing to the peak of the structure, excluding any portion of the structure which is not visible because it is below grade.
Heliport shall mean any helicopterilanding area used, designed or intended to be used for the receiving or discharging of passengers and cargo and shall include any appurtenant facilities for passengers, cargo, or for the servicing, repair, shelter or storage of helicopters.
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Helistop shall mean any helicopter/landing area used, designed or intended to be used for the receiving or discharging of passengers and cargo but shall not include other appurtenant facilities permitted at a heliport other than a shelter for passengers.
Highway Line shall mean the right-of-way line established for a parkway, major or secondary highway or street by this ordinance. Such line is coterminous with the lot line on property adjoining a fully widened parkway, highway or street, except where the alternate cross-section is used as delineated in Section 54 of Ordinance No. 4478 (Subdivision Ordinance). Property Line as defined in this ordinance shall be deemed the highway line.
Home Occupation shall mean an occupation carried on by the occupant of a dwelling as a secondary use in connection with which there is no display, nor stock in trade, and no commodity sold on the premises except house plants or horses, no more than one (1) person employed, and no mechanical equipment used for commercial purposes other than farm equipment, provided such use will not be materially detrimental to the property of other persons located in the vicinity.
(Ord. #110, 59120.8; Ord. #175,51)
9120.9. (I) - 9120.10. (J) Reserved.
9120.11. (K)
Kitchen shall mean any room or space used, or intended or designed to be used for cooking or the preparation of food.
(Ord. #110, S9120.l1)
9120.12. (L)
Land Reclamation Project shall mean a project established to restore otherwise unsuitable land to useful purposes through the use of fill materials such as rubbish, waste, soil and other unwanted materials. "Land Reclamation Project" shall include a dump or waste disposal facility.
Lot, Corner shall mean a lot or parcel of land situated at the intersection of two (2) or more parkways, highways or streets, which parkways. highways or streets have an angle of intersection measured within said lot or parcel of land of not more than one hundred thirty-five (l35~) degrees.
Lot, Flag shall mean a lot or parcel of land taking access by a strip, the owner of which lot or parcel of land has fee simple title to said strip extending from the main portion of the lot or parcel of land to the adjoining parkway, highway or street.
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Lot, Interior shall mean a lot or parcel of land other than a corner or flag lo~
Lot, Key shall mean an interior lot adjoining the rear lot line of a reversed corner lot.
Lot Line shall mean a boundary line of a lot or of a parcel of land.
Lot Line, Front shall mean a line separating the front yard from the parkway, highway or street upon which the yard fronts or, in the case of a flag lot where the front yard is oriented
toward an adjoining lot, the line separating such front yard from said adjoining lot.
Lor Line, Rear shall mean a lot line which is opposite and most distant from the front lot line. For a triangular or gore-shaped lot, the rear lot line shall mean a line ten (10') feet in length within the lot which is parallel to the front lot line, or parallel to the chord of a curved front lot line, and at the maximum distance from the front lot line.
Lot Line, Side shall mean any lot boundary line which is not a front lot line or a rear lot line.
Lot, Reversed Corner shall mean a comer lot, the parkway, highway or street side lot line of which is substantially a continuation of the front lot line of a lot or parcel of land which adjoins the rear lot line of said corner lot.
Lot, Through shall mean a lot having frontage on two (2) parallel or approximately parallel parkways, highways and/or streets.
(Ord. #110, S9120.l2)
9120.13. (M)
Major Highway shall mean a major highway as shown on the Master Plan or Highways of the County of Los Angeles.
Microwave Station shall mean a building housing equipment necessary for the receiving, amplifying or transmitting of microwave signals, including necessary antenna systems, along a communications route or system which employs microwave frequencies assigned by the Federal Communications Commission.
Mobile home shall mean a vehicle, other than a motor vehicle used as temporary housing designed for human habitation, for carrying persons and property on its own structure, and for being drawn by a motor vehicle and shall include a trailer coach. (Ord. ~l10, S9120.13)
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9120.14. (N)
Nonconforming Building or Structure shall mean any building or structure that was lawfully established and in compliance with all applicable ordinances and laws at the time of this ordinance or any amendment thereto became effective, but which due to the application of this ordinance or any amendment thereto, no longer complies with all of the applicable regulations and standards of the zone in which it is located.
Nonconforming Use shall mean any use of land or property that was lawfully established and in compliance with all applicable ordinances and laws at the time of this ordinance or any amendment thereto became effective, but which due to the application of this ordinance or any amendment thereto, no longer complies with all of the applicable regulations and standards of the zone in which it is located.
(Ord. #110, 59120.14)
9120.15. (0)
Outside Storage shall mean the storage of goods, equipment or materials outside of a building for any purpose.
(Ord. #110, 59120.15)
9120.16. (P)
Parcel of Land shall mean a contiguous quantity of land, owned by, or recorded as the property of the same claimant or persons, or in the possession of the same claimant or person pursuant to a recorded lease with a term of not less than twenty (10) years.
Person shall mean any individual, firm, copartnership, joint venture, association, social club, fraternal organization, corporation, estate, trust, business trust, receiver, syndicate, this, and any other City, City and County, municipality, district or other political subdivision, or any other group or combination acting as a unit.
Plot Plan or Plan shall he construed to mean a site plan.
Principal Use shall mean a primary or dominant use established, or proposed to be established, on a lot or parcel of land.
Project Grading shall mean any excavation or fill or combination thereof, necessary and incidental to impending building construction or other lawful development of the premises. Impending building construction or other development as used in this section shall mean the initiation of such construction or development within one (1) year of the date of application.
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Property Line shall mean the line between that portion of a street cross-section designated within an (*) and the portion thereof not so designated as shown in Section 54 of the County of Los Angeles Ordinance No. 4478 (SubdivIsion Ordinance.)
Pro Shop shall mean an incidental commercial use operated in conjunction with, and on the same premises as a principal recreational use, which offers for retail sale sporting equipment and supplies customarily utilized in participating in such recreational activity. "Pro Shop" does not include a general sporting goods store.
Public Utility Service Yard shall mean any buildings or premises used for the office, warehouse, storage yard, or maintenance garage of a public utility including microwave repeater stations when incorporated as a part of the service yard use.
(Ord. #110, 59120.16)
9120.17. (Q)
Quarry shall mean any place on a lot or parcel of land where dirt, soil, sand, gravel, rock, clay, decomposed granite, or other similar material is removed by excavation and otherwise. Quarry shall include mining operations for the removal of ores, precious stones, or other solid materials but shall not include project grading.
(Ord. #110, 59120.17)
9120.18. (R)
Recreation Club, Commercial shall mean a commercial enterprise offering the use of outdoor recreational facilities to the public.
Recreation Club, Private shall mean an association of persons who are bonafide members, paying regular dues, and organized to provide outdoor recreational facilities for members and their guests but not including an association organized primarily to render a service customarily carried on as a commercial enterprise.
Required Area shall mean:
a. The area of a lot which is shown as a part of a subdivision for purposes of sale, recorded as a final map or filed as a record of Survey Map approved as provided in the Subdivision Map Act or as provided in the County of Los Angeles Ordinance No. 4478, entitled "Subdivision Ordinance", adopted March 19, 1945, except that where a parcel which otherwise would have been shown as one (1) lot, is divided into two (2) or more lots because of a City boundary line or a line between land the title to which was registered under the Land Title Law (Torrens Title) and land the title to which was not so registered, in which case "required area" means the area of such parcel, or;
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b. The area of a lot, or parcel of land the right of possession of which, by virtue of a deed duly recorded, or by a recorded contract of sale, is vested in a person who neither owns nor has a right of possession of any contiguous parcel of property; provided, that the deed or contract of sale by which such right of possession was separated has been recorded prior to the adoption of the Subdivision Ordinance, which imposes the area requirements upon such lot or parcel of land, or;
c. Where a number follows the zoning symbol and neither subsection a nor b apply:
1. A gross area, including that portion, if any, subject to a highway easement or other public or private easement where the owner of the servant tenement does not have the right to use the entire surface, of the number of acres shown by such number if such number is less than one hundred (100), provided that portion of the lot or parcel of land not subject to any such easement shall have an area not less than forty thousand (40,000) square feet.
2. A net area of the number of square feet shown by such number if such number is greater than one hundred (100).
Required area shall not include the access strip of a flag lot extending from the main portion of the lot or parcel of land at the adjoining parkway, highway or street.
d. A lot shown as such on a subdivision for the purpose of lease only does not have the required area unless it complies with paragraph b or c of this section.
Residence, Single Family shall mean a building containing one (1) dwelling unit constructed entirely on site, or a unit constructed and/or assembled off-site, including mobilehomes manufactured and certified under the National Mobilehome Construction and Safety Standards Act of 1974 and located on a permanent foundation system approved by the City Building Department.
Room, Habitable shall mean an enclosing subdivision in a building commonly used for sleeping, living, cooking, or dining purposes, excluding closets, pantries, bath or toilet rooms, service rooms, connecting corridors, laundries, unfinished attics, foyers, storage space, cellars, utility rooms, and similar spaces.
Rooming House and Boarding House shall mean a lodging house, or other building or structure maintained, advertised, or held out to the public as a place where sleeping or rooming accommodations are furnished to the whole, or any part of the public whether with or without meals. Rooming House includes fraternity and sorority houses.
(Ord. #110, S9l20.18)
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9120.19. (S)
Second Unit shall mean a detached or attached dwelling unit which provides complete, independent living facilities for one (1) or more persons including permanent provisions for living, sleeping, eating, coking and sanitation, on the same parcel as is situated the primary residential structure.
Secondary Highway shall mean a secondary highway as shown on the Master Plan of Highways of the County of Los Angeles.
Sign shall mean any name, figure, character, outline, spectacle, display, delineation, announcement, advertising, billboard, signboard, device, appliance, or any other thing of similar nature to attract attention outdoors or on the face, wall, or window of any building, and shall include all parts, portions, units, and materials composing the same, together with the frame, background and support or anchorage therefor, as the case may be.
Sign Area shall mean the entire surface area, excluding all support structures, of a single faced sign or the largest face of a sign having two (2) or more faces.
Sign Area, Toial shall mean the sum of the surface areas, excluding all support structures, of all faces of a sign.
Sign, Building Jdennficadon shall mean a sign which contains no advertising matter other than the name and/or trademark and/or address of the building to which it is affixed or of the occupant located therein.
Sign, Bulletin or Special Event shall mean a changeable copy sign on which bulletins, notices, messages, or displays are placed.
Sign. Business shall mean a sign directing attention to the principal business. profession or industry located upon the premises upon which the sign is displayed, to type of products sold, manufactured or assembled, or to services or entertainment offered on said premises.
Sign, Changeable Copy shall mean a sign which is characterized by manually changeable copy, letters, symbols or numbers.
Sign, Civic Organization shall mean a sign which contains the names of, or any other information regarding civic, fraternal or religious organizations located within the City but which contains no other advertising matter.
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Sign, Community Identification shall mean a sign which contains the name of the City and appropriate travel directions but which contains no other advertising mafler.
Sign, Construction shall mean a temporary sign denoting the architects, engineers, owners, lenders, contractors, future tenants and others associated with a construction project but which contains no other advertising matter.
Sign, Directional and/or Informational shall mean a sign which indicates the route to, direction of, or location of a given goal, or which provides regulatory or service information of a nonadvertising character.
Sign, Face shall mean that portion of a sign intended to be viewed from one direction at one time.
Sign, Flashing or Scintillating shall mean any sign which, by methods or manner of illumination, flashes on or off, winks, or blinks with varying light intensity, shows motion or creates the illusion of motion, or revolves in a manner to create the illusion of being on or off.
Sign, Freestanding shall mean a sign which is placed on the ground or has as its primary structural support one (1) or more columns, poles, uprights or braces in or upon the ground. "Sign, Freestanding" shall include ground, monument and pole signs.
Sign, Lighted shall mean a sign which is illuminated by any source whether internal, external or indirect.
Sign, Outdoor Advertising shall mean any sign directing public attention to a business, profession, product or service that is not a primary business, profession, product, or service which is sold, manufactured, conducted or offered on the premises which such sign is erected or maintained. "Sign, Outdoor Advertising" shall include billboard.
Sign. Portable shall mean a freestanding sign which is not permanently affixed, anchored or secured to either the ground or a structure on the premises it is intended to occupy.
Sign. Real Estate shall mean a temporary sign advertising the sale, lease or rental of the premises on which the sign is located.
Sign. Revolving shall mean a sign or any portion thereof which rotates, moves or appears to move in some manner by mechanical, electrical, natural or other means.
Sign Structure shall mean a structure existing, erected or maintained to serve exclusively as a stand, frame or background for the support or display of signs.
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Sign, Subdivision Entry shall mean a temporary sign which provides necessary travel directions to and within a subdivision offered for sale or lease for the first time but contains no other advertising matter.
Sign, Subdivision Sales shall mean a temporary sign which contains the name and information relating to, a subdivision being offered for sale or lease for the first time.
Slope. Average shall mean the product of the formula S = 0.002296 1 LIA, where S is average percent slope, I is the contour interval in feet, L is the total length of contours in feet, and A is the area of the site in acres.
Solid Fill shall mean any non-combustible materials, insoluble in water, such as soil, rock, sand or gravel, that can be used for grading land or filling depressions.
Solid Fill Project shall mean any operation on a parcel of land where more than one thousand (1,000) cubic yards of solid fill materials are deposited for any purpose including the grading or reclaiming of land.
Storage Container shall mean any container which is not permanently affixed to the ground and which may be used for transporting or storing equipment or materials including, but not limited to, truck trailers and shipping containers intended for or capable of use on ocean-going vessels, railroads, and trucks.
Story shall mean 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 roof above. "Story" includes a basement but not a cellar.
Street shall mean a public or private right-of-way, other than a parkway, major or secondary highway or alley, whose function is to carry vehicular traffic and/or provide vehicular access to abutting property.
Structure shall mean anything constructed or erected, which requires a fixed location on the ground, or is attached to something having a fixed location on the ground.
(Ord. #110,S9120.19; Ord. #192,S 1)
9120.20. (T)
Telephone Repeater Station shall mean a building used for housing amplifying equipment along aerial or underground telephone cable routes.
Trailer and Trailer Coach shall each include a mobilehome.
(Ord. #110, S9120.20)
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9120.21. (U)
Use shall include construction, establishment, maintenance, alteration, moving onto, enlargement and occupation. Whenever this article prohibits the 'use" of any premises for any purpose, which premises and any building, structure, or improvement on such premises shall not be used, occupied, altered, or improved for such purpose, and no building, structure, or improvement on such premises shall be erected, constructed, established, maintained, allowed to remain, altered, moved onto, or enlarged which is designed, arranged, or intended to be occupied or used for such purpose.
(Ord. #110, S9120.21)
9120.22. (V) Reserved.
9120.23. (W)
Waste Disposal Facility shall mean any dump, transfer station, land reclamation project, incinerator except household incinerators and wood refuse to be burned in a suitable furnace, or other similar site or facility which is used or intended to be used for the transfer, salvage, or disposal of rubbish, garbage, or industrial waste.
Wild Animal shall mean any wild, exotic, dangerous or non-dangerous, or non-domestic animal, including but not limited to mammals, fowl, fish or reptiles.
(Ord. #110, S9120.23)
9120.24. (X) Reserved.
9120.25. (Y)
Yard shall mean an open space on the same lot or parcel of land, other than a court, unoccupied and unobstructed from the ground upward, except as otherwise permitted by this ordinance.
Yard, Front shall mean a yard extending across the full width of the lot or parcel of land. The depth of a required front yard shall be a specified horizontal distance between the highway line of the parkway, highway or street on which the property fronts, and a line parallel thereto on the lot or parcel of land, except as otherwise provided for a flag lot in Section 9301. On corner lots the front yard shall be located across the narrower frontage of the lot. A yard shall not be deemed a front yard if there is not right of access of any kind, pedestrian or vehicular, from the adjoining parkway, highway or street.
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GENERAL PROVISIONS 9120
Yard, Rear shall mean a yard extending across the full width of the lot or parcel of land. The depth of the required rear yard shall be a specified horizontal distance between the rear lot line and a line parallel thereto on the lot or parcel of land
Yard, Corner, Side shall mean a yard bounded by a parkway, highway or street, extending from the required front yard, or the highway line on which the property fronts where no front yard is required, to the required rear yard or to the rear lot line where no rear yard is required. The width of such required side yard shall be a specified horizontal distance between the highway line of the parkway, highway or street on which the property sides, and a line parallel thereto on the lot or parcel of land.
Yard, Interior, Side shall mean a yard extending from the required front yard, or the highway line on which the property fronts where no front yard is required, to the required rear yard or to the rear lot line where no rear yard is required on other than a corner side yard. The width of a required interior side yard shall be a specified horizontal distance between each such side lot line and a line parallel thereto on the lot or parcel of land.
(Ord. #110, S9120.25)
9120.26. (Z) Reserved.
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