Unless the particular provision of the context otherwise requires, the definitions and provisions contained in this section shall govern the construction, meaning and application of words and phrases used in this chapter. Unless the context otherwise clearly indicates, words used in the singular include the plural and words used in the plural includes the singular.
(A) "Alcohol" and "alcoholic beverage" shall have the same meaning as defined in § 9.17.010 of this code, or any successor section.
(B) "Block frontage" means all property fronting on one side of a street between a street and public right-of-way, waterway or intersecting or intercepting street. An intercepting street shall determine only the boundary of the frontage on the side of the street that it intercepts.
(C) "Cannabis" shall have the same meaning as defined in § 5.36.020 of this code, or any successor section.
(D) "Certified farmers' market" shall have the same meaning as defined in § 17.04.252 of this code, or any successor section.
(E) "Curb face" means the vertical or sloping surface on the roadway side of the curb.
(F) "Director" means the Planning and Development Director for the City of Corona, or his or her designee.
(G) "Display area" means the space occupied by a sidewalk vending receptacle.
(H) "Emergency vehicle access" means the roadway path or other surface that provides police or fire safety vehicular access from the dispatched point of origin to a facility, building, parcel, beach, park or portion thereof. Emergency vehicle access includes, but is not limited to, fire lanes, public and private streets, parking lot lanes, access roadways, and walkways.
(I) "Enforcement Officer" means a person who is a police officer, firefighter, City Code Compliance Officer, City Building Inspector, City Public Works Inspector, City Fire Inspector, County Health Officer, and life safety services officer.
(J) "Food" means any item provided in Health and Safety Code § 113781, or any successor section.
(K) "Heating element" means any device used to create heat for food preparation.
(L) "Merchandise" means any item(s) that can be sold and immediately obtained from a sidewalk vendor which is not considered food. Items for rent shall not be considered merchandise.
(M) "Park" means any area dedicated or established as a public park, including, without limitation, active and passive parks.
(N) "Pathway" means a paved path or walkway for pedestrian travel, other than a sidewalk.
(O) "Person" means and includes all domestic and foreign corporations, associations, syndicates, joint stock corporations, partnerships of every kind, clubs, business or common law trusts, societies, and individuals transacting and carrying on any business in the city.
(P) "Public property" means all property owned or controlled by the city, including, but not limited to, alleys, parks, pathways, streets, parking lots, sidewalks, and walking trails.
(Q) "Public right-of-way" means the area in, upon, above, beneath, or across any of the following that has been dedicated to the public and maintained under public authority or by others and that is located within the city limits: streets, roadways, highways, avenues, boulevards, lanes, alleys; courts, sidewalks, pathways, medians, parkways, easements, rights-of-way, or similar public property that the city from time-to-time authorizes to be included within the definition of a public right-of-way or street.
(R) "Residential zone" means any area zoned exclusively as residential in Title 17 of this code, including, without limitation, A, A-14.4, R-lA, R-20.0, R-12.0, R-1-9.6, R-1.8.4, R-1-7.2, R-1-14.4, R-2, R-3, R-3-C, R-G or MP zone, a residential land use adopted by a specific plan, or an equivalent residential zone, in each case within which residential uses are allowed by right.
(S) "Roaming sidewalk vendor" means a sidewalk vendor who moves from place to place and stops only to complete a transaction.
(T) "Sidewalk" means a public paved or hardscape sidewalk, parkway, pedestrian path, walkway or other public right-of-way specifically designed for the exclusive use of pedestrian travel. A sidewalk shall not include streets, alleys, medians, plazas, or city-owned parking lots or structures.
(U) "Sidewalk vending receptacle" means a pushcart, stand, table, display, shade structure, pedal-driven cart, wagon, showcase, rack, or non-motorized conveyance used for sidewalk vendor activities.
(V) "Sidewalk vendor" means a person(s) who sells food or merchandise from a sidewalk vending receptacle or from one's person, upon a public sidewalk.
(W) "Sidewalk vendor activity(ies)" means to sell, barter, offer for sell, expose or display for sale, or solicit offers to purchase food or merchandise, or to require someone to negotiate, establish or pay a fee for providing food or merchandise, even if characterized as a donation, including, but not limited to the installation, placement, or maintenance of any sidewalk vending receptacles on a sidewalk.
(X) "Special event" means any temporary permitted event approved by the city pursuant to § 9.20.010.
(Y) "Stationary sidewalk vendor" means a sidewalk vendor who vends from a fixed location.
(Z) "Street" means a way or place of whatever nature, publicly maintained and open to the use of the public for purposes of vehicular travel.
(AA) "Street frontage" means the linear frontage of all property abutting the same side of the street as a freeway on and/or off ramp.
(BB) "Swap meet" has the same meaning as an "open air market" in Chapter 17.04 and means a location operated in accordance with Article 6 (commencing with § 21660) of Chapter 9 of Division 8 of the Business and Professions Code, and any regulations adopted pursuant to that chapter, or any successor chapter.
(Ord. 3399 § 4, 2024; Ord. 3398 § 5, 2024)