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HomeMy WebLinkAboutOrdinance #3108 ORDINANCE NO. 3.108 AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF HUNTINGTON BEACH AMENDING THE HUNTINGTON BEACH ORDINANCE CODE ARTICLE 908, DEFINITIONS TO ALLOW SINGLE ROOM OCCUPANCY/LIVING UNITS WHEREAS, the City of Huntington Beach desires to allow Single Room Occupancy/Living Units in Commercial Zones and within the North Huntington Center Specific Plan; and Allowance of Single Room Occupancy/Living Units will provide alternative housing for low and very low income households; and The investigation of Single Room Occupancy housing has been consistent with the goals and policies of the Housing Element which requires the investigation and feasibility of an SRO Ordinance as a mechanism for providing affordable housing . NOW, THEREFORE, the City Council of the City of Huntington Beach does hereby ordain as follows : SECTION 1. Article 908, Definitions, of the Huntington Beach Ordinance Code is hereby amended to read as follows : Section: 9080 Definitions A Accessory building Accessory use Adult business Alley Animal clinic Antenna, satellite dish Apartment Architectural projections or appurtenances Arterial Attached units Auction Automobile/vehicle repair Automobile storage or parking space Automobile storage yard Automobile wrecking B Basement Bed and Breakfast Inn Bedroom Block Boarding or rooming house Building Building height Building, site Building, main Business or commerce C Child day care facility Carport Church City Clinic Club Commercial recreation use Commercial vehicle Commission Compensation Community apartment project Condominium Convenience Market D Density bonus Director Disposal service operation District Dry cleaning agency .Dwelling Dwelling, multiple unit Dwelling, single unit Dwelling, second unit Dwelling, studio unit Dwelling unit E Educational institution Erected Equestrian Equine F Family Fast Food Restaurant Final approval Final environmental evaluation G Game arcade Garage, private General plan Grade Gross acreage Gross floor area Gross site area H Health club J Hedge Home occupation Horticulture -2- 3108 Hospital Hostel Hotel I Industrial use t J Junk, wrecking, dismantling or salvage yards K Kennel Kitchen L Landscaping j Laundry Line of sight Liquor store Living unit Loading space Local street Lot i Lot area i Lot depth Lot frontage Lot line Lot line, front Lot line, interior Lot line, rear Lot, reverse corner Lot, through Lot, Width is M Mobilehome/manufactured home Mobilehome accessory structure Mobilehome lot or space Mobilehome park Model Home Motel Motor vehicle Maximum wind energy conversion system height N Net site area Nonconforming building Nonconforming parcel Nonconforming use Nontransferable conditional use permit O Occupancy, change of Occupied Open or public land Open space Oversize vehicles I Overspeed control �y P Parking structure Person Personal Enrichment Services Permanent open space Place of public assembly Planned residential development Private street R Recreational vehicle park Recreational vehicle '{ Recreation space Rental unit Residence Restaurant -3- 3108 5 Retail store Retaining wall S Senior citizen housing Service station Service station, idle School Setback line, front yard Setback line, side or rear yard Single room occupancy (SRO) Site Site coverage Site plan Stable, commercial Stock cooperative Story Street Street lineis Structure Structural alteration Structure, temporary T Temporary outdoor event U Ultimate right-of-way Use W Wall or fence Warehouse Waterfront lot Wet bar Wholesale use I Wind energy conversion system Y Yard Yard, front Yard, rear Yard, side Z Zone Zoning district maps 9080 Definitions . Words and phrases wherever used in this division shall be construed as defined in this article unless the content clearly indicates otherwise. When not inconsistent with the context, words used in the present tense include the future tense; words used in the singular number include the plural number; and words of the masculine gender include the feminine and neuter gender . The word "shall" is always mandatory and the word "may" is { permissive. A. Accessory building. A detached building on the same site as a main building, the use of which is incidental to that of the main building, and which is used exclusively by the occupants of the main building . Accessory use. A use customarily incidental and accessory to the principal use of a lot or a building located upon the same site. 3108 li Adult business. A business as defined in Article 975 . Allev. A public or private thoroughfare, permanently reserved which affords a secondary means of access to abutting property. Animal clinic. A place where animals or pets are given medical or surgical treatment and are cared for during the time of such treatment . Kennel uses shall be incidental to such hospital use and limited to short-time boarding for medical purposes . Antenna, satellite dish. An apparatus capable of receiving communications from a transmitter or transmitter relay located in planetary orbit . Apartment. A room or suite of two (2) or more rooms in a multiple family dwelling occupied or suitable as a residence for one (1) family. Architectural projections or appurtenances. Features on buildings which provide visual variation and/or relief but do not serve as interior or exterior living or working space. Arterial. Any street, highway or road designed as an arterial in the general plan circulation element. Attached units. Separate residential or commercial units sharing one or more common walls but with no common interior space. Auction. The sale of new and used merchandise offered to bidders by an auctioneer for compensation. Automobile/vehicle repair. A retail and service business engaged in the following activities : k (a) Minor repair : Light repair and sale of goods and services for vehicles including brake, muffler, tire shops, oil and lube and their accessory uses, but not including any of the activities listed below as major repair. (b) Major repair: Heavy automotive/vehicle repair including but not limited to transmission, battery, radiator, and engine repair or overhaul ; welding; turning brake drums; steam cleaning, body and fender work; painting; and upholstery. ii Automobile storage space or parking space. A permanently maintained, privately-owned space on the same site as the use it is intended to serve and located and arranged to permit the readily accessible temporary storage of an -5 is - it 3108 average size automobile under its own power . Such space shall be exclusive of driveways , walks , ramps and columns . Automobile storage yard. A storage yard for motor vehicles whether impounded or not on any portion of a lot . This definition shall not include any dismantling, wrecking or repair of any vehicle. is Automobile wrecking. The dismantling or wrecking of motor vehicles or trailers, or the storage, sale or dumping of dismantled, obsolete or wrecked vehicles or their parts outside of an enclosed building, but not including the incidental storage of vehicles in connection with a repair shop provided the storage period of any one vehicle does not exceed sixty (60) days . is B. Basement. A story partly underground and having at least one-half its height below the average adjoining grade as measured from the floor to the finished ceiling . A basement shall be counted as a story if the vertical distance from the average adjoining grade to its finished ceiling is over five (5) feet . Bed and Breakfast Inn. A residential dwelling in which rooms are rented to paying guests on an overnight basis with breakfast served daily, the entire service to be for ? one stated price for a total period of time not to exceed 14 days during any consecutive 90-day period. Bed and Breakfast Inn does not include rest homes, convalescent homes, hotels, motels or boarding houses . Bedroom. Any room which meets the minimum requirements of the building code for a habitable room, which is constructed in such a manner that less than 50 percent of one wall is open to an adjacent room or hallway and which can be readily used for private sleeping purposes shall be counted as a bedroom in order to determine the parking areas or other requirements . Exceptions to this definition shall be those rooms which regularly make up a standard dwelling unit such as one kitchen, living, family or recreation room and dining room, and the customary is sanitary facilities . k. Bloc The real property abutting the side of a street between two consecutive cross streets or between a city limit line and the nearest cross street. Boarding or rooming house. A building where lodging and meals are provided for a minimum of six (6) , but not more than fifteen (15) persons, not including rest homes . Building. Any structure that is completely roofed and enclosed on all sides or supported by columns and which is j build and maintained for the support, shelter, or enclosure of persons, animals, chattels, or property of !' any kind. -6- 3108 Building height. The vertical distance above a reference datum measured to the highest point of the coping of a flat roof or to a deck line of a mansard roof or the average height of the highest gable of a pitched or hipped roof . For the Single Family Residential District only, the highest point of any roof shall not be more than five feet above the maximum permitted height . The reference datum shall be selected by either of the following, whichever yields a greater height of building : is (1) The elevation of the highest adjoining sidewalk or ground surface within a five (5) foot horizontal distance of the exterior wall of the building when such a sidewalk or ground surface is not more than four (4) feet above the lowest grade. j (2) An- elevation four (4) feet higher than the lowest grade when the sidewalk or ground surface described in (1) above is more than four (4) feet above lowest grade. Building site. The ground area occupied or to be occupied by a building together with all yards and open spaces adjacent thereto. Building, main. A building in which the principal use of the lot is conducted. In a residential district, any dwelling shall be deemed to be a main building . is Business or commerce. The purchase, sale, or other transaction involving the handling or disposition of any article, substance, or commodity for profit or livelihood; or the ownership or management of offices, recreational or amusement enterprises; or the maintenance and use of office by professions and service trades . J C. Child day care facility. A facility which provides nonmedical care to children under eighteen (18) years of age in need of supervision on less than twenty-four (24) basis . Child care facilities include: a) Small Family Day Care Homes.. A single family residence in which care is provided to six (6) or fewer children. (b) Large Family Day Care Home. A single family residence in which care is provided to seven (7) to twelve (12) children. (c) Day Care Center. Any child day care facility other than family day care home and includes infant centers, preschools, extended day care facilities . Carport. A permanent roofed accessory structure with not more than two (2) enclosed sides which is intended for automobile storage for the occupants of the premises . -7- 3108 Church. A permanently located building commonly used for religious worship and conforming to applicable requirements for design and construction. City. The city of Huntington Beach, California. Clinic. A place used for the care, diagnosis and treatment of sick, infirm or injured persons and those in need of medical or surgical attention, but which does not provide room and board or permit persons to stay on the premises overnight. Club. A nonprofit association for p persons who are bona fide members, and pay regular dues, which is organized for some common purpose, but not including a group primarily I. organized to provide a commercial service or enterprise. Commercial recreation use. Any recreational facility operated as a business and open to the general public. Commercial vehicle. Any motorized or non-motorized vehicle used or maintained to transport property for profit, or persons for hire or compensation. Commission. The Huntington Beach Planning commission. Compensation. The word "compensation" means anything of value. Communit y apartment Project. A project in whic h an individual interest in the land is coupled with the right exclusively to occupy an individual unit . Condominium. An estate in real property consisting of an undivided interest in common in a portion of a parcel of real property together with a separate interest in space in a residential, commercial, or industrial building on such real property, such as an apartment, office or store. A condominium may include a separate interest in other portions of such real property. The duration of the estate may be an estate of inheritance or perpetual estate, an estate for life, or an estate for years such as a leasehold or subleasehold. Convenience market. A retail use in conjunction with gasoline sales in which the sales room exceeds two-hundred (200) square feet . D. Density bonus. A density increase over the otherwise maximum residential density allowable by the zoning code and general plan. A density bonus may be processed only for a housing development on a lot which is allowed five (5) or more dwelling units prior to a density bonus . Director. The Director of Community Development for the city of Huntington Beach or a duly authorized representative. _g� 3108 Disposal service operation. Any area for the storage and maintenance of vehicles and equipment used in the collection, transportation, and removal of garbage and rubbish, but not including storage or dumping of the garbage and rubbish. District. Any classified area shown by specific designation on the zoning maps which are a part of the ordinance code. Dry cleaning agency. A commercial use in which the cleaning of clothes is incidental to a laundry or coin-operated dry cleaning service and which uses nonvolatile materials . Dwelling. A building or portion thereof designed and occupied exclusively for residential purposes including single-unit and multiple-unit dwellings , but not including hotels or boarding houses . Dwelling, multiple unit. A building or buildings designed with two (2) or more dwelling units . Dwelling, single unit. A detached building designed primarily for use as a single dwelling, no portion of which is rented as a separate unit, except as permitted by this Code. Attached single family dwellings shall be considered as multi-family. Dwelling, second unit. A fully equipped dwelling unit which is ancillary and subordinate to a principle dwelling unit located on the same lot in the Rl zone. Dwelling, studio unit. A dwelling unit consisting of one (1) kitchen, one (1) bathroom, and one (1) combination living room and sleeping room. The gross floor area shall not exceed 500 square feet or it shall be considered as a one bedroom unit . Also known as a single, a bachelor, or an efficiency unit . Dwelling Unit. One or more habitable rooms with only one kitchen, and designed for occupancy as a unit by one or more persons living as a household unit with common access to all living, kitchen, and bathroom areas . is E. Educational institution. Any school, college or university providing general instruction as determined by the California State Board of Education. Erected. The word "erected" includes built, built upon, added to, altered, constructed, reconstructed, moved upon, or any physical operations required prior to building . Equestrian. That which pertains to horses or horseback riders . -9- 3108 li Equine. A horse, mule, pony, jackass, and other quadripeds of the genus equus . F. Family. Two or more persons living together in a dwelling unit, sharing common cooking facilities, and possessing the character of a relatively permanent single bona fade housekeeping unit in a domestic relationship based upon birth marriage, or other domestic bond of social g , - n i eco om c and commitment to each other, as psychological distinguished from a group occupying a boardinghouse, club, dormitory, fraternity, hotel, lodging house, motel, rehabilitation center, rest home or sorority. Fast-food restaurant. Any commercial establishment serving food or drinks which encourages consumption at home or on other premises . Final approval. Ten (10) days after approval by the discretionary body and no appeal of that decision has been filed. Final environmental evaluation. That point in time prior to the decision on an entitlement for a project where an environmental assessment and a recommended action have been provided to the discretionary body. Dates shall be determined as follows : Exempt projects : Date of application acceptance. Negative declaration: Expiration date of the required posting period. Environmental impact report : The date when public hearings on the project are concluded. G. Game arcade. Any place of business with more than four (4) commercially-operated amusement devices . Garage, private. An accessory building or a portion of a main building used for the storage of self-propelled vehicles of not more than one-ton rated capacity and other goods owned or operated by the occupants of the main building and where there is no service or storage for compensation. General plan. The general plan map and text for Huntington Beach adopted by the City Council . Grade. The surface of the ground or pavement at a stated i location as it exists prior to disturbance in preparation for a project by this code, includes natural grade. Gross acreage. The area computed within all of the exterior property lines of a proposed development including the area to the center line of any abutting streets . -10- 3108 r Gross floor area. The total area of each floor within the building exterior walls . Gross site area. The area computed within the lot lines of a parcel of land before public streets, easements, or other areas to be dedicated or reserved for public use have been deducted. H. Heath club. A commercial or private health center providing opportunities for recreational and physical fitness activities such as, but not limited to, handball, racquetball, weight training and dance exercises . Hedge. A plant or series of plants, shrubs or other landscape material so arranged as to form a physical barrier or enclosure. - Home occupation.. A business use incidental and secondary to the principal use of a residential dwelling, subject to the standards outlined in this division. Horticulture. The science and art of growing fruits, vegetables, flowers , vines, trees, or field crops for wholesale purposes . Hospital. An institution for the diagnosis, care and treatment of human illnesses . Hostel. A supervised, inexpensive lodging for use by youth . See Hotel . Hotel. A building designed for or occupied as a temporary abiding place for individual who are lodged with or without meals in which there are six (6) or more guest rooms and in which no provision for cooking is made in any individual suite. Industrial use. The manufacture, assembly, storage or wholesale distribution of a product. J. Junk, wrecking, dismantling or salvage yards. The use of one hundred (100) or more square feet of any parcel of land for outside storage, wrecking or dismantling of any used materials, including but not limited to lumber, auto parts, household appliances, pipe, drums, machinery or furniture. K. Kennel. A use in which four (4) or more dogs or cats over four 4 h f k o n n f n ou ( ) months o age are kept any lot or any purpose. Kitchen. Any room or portion thereof containing facilities designed or used for the preparation of food including a sink and stove, oven, range and/or hot plate. Kitchen shall not include a wet bar. i -11- 3108 L. Landscaping. The planting and continued maintenance of is suitable plant materials and which includes an adequate irrigation system. is Laundry. A building or portion of a building where clothing and fabrics are washed. Line of sight. A visual path emanating from an average eye level adjudged to be five (5) feet above ground level . Liquor gtore. Any establishment in which the primary use is to offer any alcoholic beverage for retail sale for consumption off-premises . Living unit. A unit within a Single Room Occupancy suited to accommodate up to two persons . Loading space. An off-street space for the temporary parking of commercial vehicles while loading or unloading and which has a permanent means of access . Local street. A low-speed, low-volume thoroughfare used primarily for access to abutting residential or other properties . A local street has on-street parking and a significant amount of pedestrian traffic. Lot. Any numbered or lettered parcel shown on a recorded tract map, a record of survey pursuant to an approved division of land, or a parcel map. A lot includes any area of land under one ownership abutting upon at least one street, alley or recorded easement. Lot area. See net site area . Lot depth. The average horizontal distance between the front and rear lot lines measured in the mean direction of the side lot lines . Lot frontage. The linear length of a lot measured along the property line adjacent to a street or easement. Lot line. Any line bounding a lot. "Property line" means the same as "lot line. Lot line front. On an interior lot, the front lot line is the property line abutting the street. On a corner or reverse corner lot, the front lot line is the shorter property line abutting a street, except in those cases where the subdivision or parcel map specified another line as the front lot line. On a through lot , or a lot with three or more sides abutting a street, or a corner or reverse corner lot with lot lines of equal length, the Director shall determine which property line shall be the front lot line for the purposes of compliance with yard iE and setback provisions of this division. On a private street or easement, the front lot line shall be designed as the edge of the easement. -12- 3108 ................ Lot line._ interior. A lot line not abutting a street . Lot line, rear. A lot line not abutting a street which is opposite and most distant from the front lot line; in the case of an irregularly shaped lot, a line within the lot, having a length of not less than ten feet. A lot which is bounded on all sides by streets may have no rear lot lines . Lot, reverse corner. A corner lot, the side line of which is substantially a continuation of the front lot lines of the lot to its rear, whether across an alley or not . Lot, through. A lot having frontage on two dedicated parallel or approximately parallel streets . Lot width. Lot width shall be calculated as indicated for the following types of lots : (a) Rectangular lot shall be measured along a line equidistant to and twenty (20) feet from the front property line. (b) Cul-de-sac and knuckle lots shall be measured twenty (20) feet from the front property line along a line perpendicular to the bisector of the front property line. (c) Cul-de-sac lots siding on another street, channel, or similar properties shall be measured along a line perpendicular to the interior side property line and twenty (20) feet from the frontline property line. M. Mobilehome/manufactured home. A structure transportable in sections which is a minimum of eight (8) feet in width, forty (40) feet in length, and which when erected is a minimum of three-hundred and twenty (320) square feet, and which is built on a permanent chassis and designed to be used as a dwelling with or without a permanent foundation. Manufactured home includes a mobilehome subject to the National Manufactured Housing Construction and Safety Act of 1974 (42 U. S.C. sections 5401 et seq. ) . ii Any structure not meeting the requirements of this definition except for size requirements shall be deemed a mobilehome/manufactured home provided the manufacturer j voluntarily files certification and complies with these provisions . Mobilehome accessory structure. A subordinate building located on a mobilehome space or lot, the use of which is incidental to that of the main dwelling . ( mobilehome lot or space. An improved plot within a mobilehome park which is designated for the occupancy of a mobilehome. -13- 3108 Mobilehome park. Any area or tract of land where mobilehome lots are rented or leased or held out for rent or lease to accommodate mobilehomes used for human habitation. The rental fee paid shall be deemed to include rental for the lot the mobilehome occupies . Model home. A dwelling or residential building intended to be temporarily utilized as an example of the dwellings which have been or are proposed to be built within the same subdivision. Such building shall be constructed upon a lot previously designated as a model home site in the approved site plan, and in a subdivision for which a final map will be recorded. Motel. A building containing guest rooms designed or used primarily for the accommodation of transient automobile travelers and which has sleeping rooms with direct outside access and conveniently located parking spaces . A maximum twenty-five (25%) percent of such sleeping units may have kitchens . Motor vehicle. A self-propelled device used or intended for the transportation of passengers or freight upon streets or highways . is Mgximum wind energy conversion system height. The height of the tower and furthest vertical extension of the rotor measured from grade. N. Net site area. The total horizontal area within the property lines of a parcel of land exclusive of all rights-of-way or easements which physically prohibit the surface use of that portion of the property for other than vehicular ingress and egress . Nonconforming building. Any building or structure or portion thereof which was legal when established, but which now is in conflict due to the amendment of the provisions applicable to the district in which it is situated. Nonconforming parcel. Any lot or parcel which was legal when created, but which now is in conflict due to the amendment of the provisions applicable to the district in which it is situated. Nonconforming use. Any use of land, buildings or a portion thereof which was legal when established, but which now is in conflict due to the amendment of the provisions applicable to the district in which it is situated. -14- 3108 .................... i Nontransferable conditional use permit. A conditional use permit which may not be sold, transferred or assigned by a permittee, or by operation of law, to any other person or persons . Any such sale, transfer or assignment, shall be deemed to constitute a voluntary surrender of such permit and such permit shall thereafter be null and void; except that if the permittee is a partnership and one or more of the partners should die, one or more of the surviving is partners may acquire, by purchase or otherwise, the interest of the deceased partner or partners without effecting a surrender or termination of such permit . In such cases, the permit shall be placed in the name of the surviving partners after notifying the Director of I` Community Development . A conditional use permit issued to a corporation shall be deemed terminated and void when any outstanding stock of the corporation is sold, transferred or assigned after the issuance of the permit; or any stock which is authorized but not issued at the time of permit approval is thereafter issued, sold, transferred or assigned . O. Occupancy, change of. A discontinuance of an existing use and a substitution of another use of a different kind or class . I Occupied. Includes used, arranged, converted to, rented, leased, or intended to be occupied. Open or public land. Public parks, waterways, school sites, flood or electric line rights-of--way or easements . Open space. Any part of a lot or parcel unobstructed from the ground upward, excepting architectural features extending no more than thirty (30) inches from the structure. and excluding any area of the site devoted to driveways and other parking areas . Oversize vehicles. Any vehicle which exceeds twenty-five (25) feet in length, seven (7) feet in width, or seven (7) feet in height , motorized or non-motorized. Oversize vehicles include, but are not limited to trucks, buses, truck tractors, trailers, campers, and recreational vehicles, as well as any equipment or machinery regardless of size. I Overspegd control. A mechanism used to limit the speed of blade rotation to within the design constraints of the wind energy conversion system. P. Parking structure. A structure used for parking of vehicles where parking spaces, turning ratio, and drive aisles are incorporated within the structure. Person. The word "person" includes association, company, firm, corporation, partnership, copartnership or joint venture. -15- 3108 Personal enrichment services. Provision of instructional services or facilities, including but not limited to, fine b arts , crafts, dance or music studios, driving schools, and business or trade schools except those leading to a degree as defined by the State of California Education Code. Permanent open space. The phrase shall include golf courses, park sites, public utility easements, flood f control rights--of-way a minimum of one hundred (100) feet in clear width; and for the purposes of establishing dancing, live entertainment or a game arcade, a parking lot or landscaped area a minimum of two hundred .(200) feet in width. Place of public assembly. Any place designed for or used for the gathering of twenty (20) or more persons in one room where such gathering is of a public nature such as an assembly hall, church, auditorium, recreation or dance hall, theater, or amusement enterprise. Planned residential development. A residential development, including statutory and non-statutory condominiums, cluster housing , townhouses and community apartments, in which common open space is integrated into the overall development . Common areas in which each resident has an undivided interest may include outdoor recreational. facilities and assembly buildings intended for the use of residents within the development . Private street. A privately owned and maintained roadway used to provide vehicle access to abutting properties . i R. Recreational vehicle park. Any area or tract of land is where one or more lots are rented or leased or held out for rent or lease for the use of recreational vehicles or tents to be occupied for temporary purposes . Exclusive occupancy of any site shall not exceed thirty (30) continuous days, nor one hundred and twenty (120) days in I' any calendar year. Recreational vehicle. A travel trailer, pickup camper or motorized home with or without a mode of power and designed for temporary human habitation for travel or recreational purposes . Recreation space. Open space used for recreational uses such as sundecks, balconies and patios; and walkways, tennis and shuffleboard courts, swimming and boating areas, bridle paths, playgrounds and playing fields . Rental unit. A room, bath, and kitchen as a separate unit . Residence. A building used or intended to be used as a dwelling place for one or more families . -16- 3108 I: I: I Restaurant . A comprehensive term meaning an eating house T providingservice to the general public. Retail store. A business of selling goods, wares and merchandise directly to the ultimate consumer. Retaining wall, A structure designed to protect grade ' cuts or retain the fill of dirt, sand or other grading material . S. Spnior citizen housing. Any housing exclusively designed wherein at least one person per unit is over sixty (60) years of age. Service station. Any lot or portion of a lot used for the dispensing of motor fuel and/or the servicing of motor vehicles . Such servicing may include sale of motor fuels and oils ; lubrication; car washing, waxing, and polishing (with no steam equipment) ; sale and service of tires, tubes, batteries; and service of auto accessories . Such service shall not include tire recapping, sale or rebuilding of engines, battery manufacturing or rebuilding, radiator repair or steam cleaning, body repair, painting or upholstery. Service station, idle. Any service station which has not been open for business for at least sixty (60) , eight (8) hour days out of any one hundred and eighty (180) consecutive days . School. An institution conducting regular academic instruction at kindergarten, elementary, secondary or college levels, operated by a governmental or nongovernmental organization. Setback line, front yard. The line which defines the depth of the required front yard. Such line shall be parallel to the property line and removed therefrom by the perpendicular distance described as the front yard setback. Setback line, side or rear yard. The line which defines the width or depth of the required side or rear yard. it Such line shall be parallel to the property line and removed therefrom by the perpendicular distance described as the side or rear yard setback. l Single Room Occupancy (SRO) . A building designed as a residential hotel consisting of a cluster of guest units providing sleeping and living facilities in which sanitary facilities and cooking facilities are provided within each unit; tenancies are weekly or monthly. Site. Any legally created parcel of land bounded by property lines after dedication. h -1�7_ 3108 Site coverage. The building area of all structures on a site as measured from all exterior building surfaces, including any patio covers, and any balconies and stairways with or without support posts. Architectural features such as bay windows, eaves and fireplaces that do not project more than thirty (30) inches, and decks that do not exceed more than forty-two (42) inches in height 1- are excluded. I Site plan. A plan prepared to scale, showing accurately I and with complete mentioning, all of the buildings, structures and uses and the exact manner of development proposed for a specific parcel of land. !' is Stable. commercial. A stable for horses which are used, hired or boarded on a commercial basis and for compensation. Stock cooperative. A corporation formed for the primary purpose of holding title to, either in fee simple or for a term of years, any real property where the shareholders of the corporation receive a right of exclusive occupancy in a portion of such real property and where the right of occupancy is only transferable by the transfer of shares of stock in the corporation. for That portion of a building included between the surface of any floor and the surface of the floor next above it or the finished under surface of the roof directly above it. Street. A public or an approved private thoroughfare or road easement which affords the principal means of access to abutting property, not including an alley. Street line. The boundary line between a street and abutting property. Structure. A mobilehome or anything constructed or erected, 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 location i# on or in the ground, except swimming pools , patios, walks, tennis courts, and similar paved areas . Structural alteration. Any change in or alterations to the structure of a building involving the bearing wall, column, beam or ceiling joists, roof rafters, roof diaphragms, foundations, tiles, retaining walls or similar components . -18- 3108 E Structure, temporary. A structure which is readily movable and used or intended to be used for a period not r to exceed ninety (90) consecutive days . Such structure shall be subject to all applicable property development standards for the zone district in which it is located. h T. Temporary outdoor event. A temporary use of property not is li exceeding an aggregate of twenty-one (21) calendar days per year, the purpose of which is to conduct a specialized, short-term event such as an art show, I fund-raising events, amusement attractions, sporting events and rabies clinics . Public services which benefit the community such as, but not limited to, bloodmobile or chest X ray are included in this category. Any such event if sponsored by a nonprofit organization shall be exempt from the requirements of Article 973 . U. Ultimate right-of-way. The adopted maximum width for any street, alley or thoroughfare as established by the general plan; by a precise plan of street, alley or private street alignment; by a recorded parcel map; or by a standard plan of the Department of Public Works . Such thoroughfares shall include any adjacent public easement used as a walkway and/or utility easement . Use. The purpose for which land or a building is arranged, designed, or intended, or for which it is occupied or maintained. W. Wall or fence. Any structure or device forming a physical barrier. This definition shall include wood, I concrete, concrete block, brick, stone or other masonry i maternal. i Warehouse. A building or the use of a building for storage of goods of any type in any area greater than five hundred (500) square feet and where no retail operation is conducted. Waterfront lot. Any lot or portion thereof abutting a navigable waterway such as a bay, cove or channel . Wet bar. A fixed installation within a dwelling unit providing cold and/or hot water to a single sink witho ut a garbage disposal at a location other than a kitchen or laundry. A wet bar area shall not include a stove range, or similar appliance usually found in a kitchen, and if such wet bar is located in a room or a portion of a room with a stove, hot plate, range, oven or other type kitchen facility, it shall be deemed a separate kitchen. Y I -19- I' 3108 Wholesale Use. A business which stores large stocks of goods and sells them in bulk quantities to retail outlets . Sales to the general public do not occur on the site, nor is the location of the business advertised through newspapers, flyers or other media designed to reach the consumer . Wind energy conversion system. A machine which converts the kinetic energy of the wind into a usable form of electrical energy, such as a windmill or turbine. (2836-6/86) Y. Yard. An open, unoccupied space on a lot on which a building is situated and, except where provided in the ordinance code, is completely unobstructed, from the round to the sky.y. (2836-6/86) Yard, front. A yard extending across the full width of the lot between the side lot lines and between the front lot line and either the nearest line of the main building or the nearest line of any enclosed or covered porch. The front lot line shall be deemed to be the existing nearest right-of-way line of the abutting street, road or highway, unless a different right-of-way line for future use shall have been precisely fixed by formal action of the City Council pursuant to law or ordinance. j Yard, rear. A yard extending across the full width of the lot between the side lot lines and measured between r: the rear lot line and the nearest rear line of the main building or the nearest line of any enclosed or covered porch. Where a rear p yard abuts a street or is adjacent to or facing a front yard of residentially zoned property, it shall meet front yard requirements of the district; excepting walls and fences and R1 zoned property abutting arterial highways . Yard, side. A yard extending from the front yard to the rear yard between the side property line and the nearest line of the main building or any accessory building . Z . Zone. A district as defined in the state Conservation �? and Planning Act shown on the official zoning maps and to which uniform regulations apply. ,I Zoning maps. The official zoning maps of the city of Huntington Beach which are a part of the comprehensive 'I zoning ordinance. i II -20- 3108 SECTION 2 . This ordinance shall take effect 30 days after its adoption. PASSED AND ADOPTED by the City Council of the City of Huntington 17, Beach a 1 m c t a regular ar meeting thereof held on the 3rd day of g 9 y 1991 . ..a M or ATTEST: APPROVED AS TO FORM: Ty , City Clerk �," + City Att ey 3ii -„-a� REVIEWED AND APPROVED: INITIATED AND APPROVED: f 'r; City Adman strator Director of Community Development is ii is II i I? I Y IE Li f. E I. -21- 3108 Ord. No. 3108 STATE OF CALIFORNIA ) COUNTY OF ORANGE ss: CITY OF HUNTINGTON BEACH I, CONNIE BROCKWAY, the duly elected, qualified City Clerk of the City of Huntington Beach and ex-officio Clerk of the City Council of the said City, do hereby certify that the whole number of members of the City Council of the City of Huntington Beach is seven; that the foregoing ordinance was read to said City Council at a regular meeting therof held on the 20th day of May 19 9t and was again read to said City Council at a regular meeting therof held on the -3.td day of jtfre 19 91 and was passed and adopted by the affirmative vote of at least a majority of all the members of said City Council . AYES: Councilmembers: MacAllister, Winchell, Silva. QLeen, KP11W_ Robitai71e, Moulton-Patterson NOES: Councilmembers: c None ABSENT: Councilmembers: None s #, Cox" Orodmay CITY CL EAK of the C#ty of 'NtOrVtcm Seadt and vaofkcio Clerk a the City Corrrd,do hnby lenity that a synopsis of this City Clerk and ex-offi ci o Clerk ordinance has been pull MO in the Daily Pilot on of the City Council of the City of Huntington Beach, California In aMordarrce with the Cary C.�arfer of sa,:�. Iy. Come 3 ,,,� wa City Clark. City Clerk