17.02.100: DEFINITIONS XVII:
   A.   "Parcel" means a piece of land held under separate ownership; also includes tracts.
   B.   "Parklike" means exhibiting characteristics of a park, i.e., land with clusters of trees and shrubs in a cultivated or natural condition used or suitable for use as a park.
   C.   "Party wall" means a shared common wall between two (2) otherwise separate structures.
   D.   "Performance standards" means the limitations on certain nuisance-generating characteristics of various activities including vibration, noise, odor, humidity, heat, cold, glare, and other dangerous or objectionable matter or phenomena, as established in chapter 17.07, article II, "Performance Standards Regulations", of this title.
   E.   "Person" means an individual, firm, partnership, joint venture, association, nonprofit organization, corporation, estate, receiver, syndicate, city, county, special district, or any other group or combination acting as an entity, except that it does not include the City.
   F.   "Planned unit development" means a unified development adhering to a comprehensive development plan and located on a single tract of land or, on two (2) or more tracts of land which may be separated only by a street or other right-of- way, whose approval would serve to implement the City Comprehensive Plan, and which is subject to the planned unit development regulations, chapter 17.07, article III of this title.
   G.   "Premises" means a lot or plot of property conveyed by separate conveyance.
   H.   "Principal activity" means an activity which fulfills a primary function of an establishment, institution, household or other entity.
   I.   "Principal facility" means a main building or other facility which is designed for or occupied by a principal activity.
   J.   "Principal use" includes principal activity and principal facility.
   K.   "Private tree" means a tree that is not a public tree.
   L.   "Property line" means the same as "lot line".
   M.   "Public tree or shrub" means a tree or shrub that is situated in such a manner so that fifty one percent (51%) or more of the tree trunk or shrub base at ground level is on public property or public right-of-way. (Ord. 2109 §3, 1988: Ord. 2049 §13, 1987: Ord. 1691 §1(part), 1982)