Unless the contrary is stated or clearly appears from the context, the following terms and phrases shall have the meaning as indicated below.
BUILDING OFFICIAL or OFFICIAL means the City’s Building Official or designee.
CHARGING STATION(S) means Electric Vehicle Charging Station(s) or Hydrogen Fueling Station(s). “Electric Vehicle Charging Station(s)” means an electric vehicle supply equipment station, of any level, that delivers electricity from a source outside an electric vehicle into a plug-in electric vehicle and is designed and built in compliance with 24 California Code of Regulations §§ 625.1, et seq., as it reads on the effective date of this Chapter, or as it may be subsequently amended.
ELECTRONIC SUBMITTAL means the utilization of one or more of the following:
(A) Email;
(B) The internet via a City portal;
(C) Facsimile.
NONCONFORMING CHARGING STATION(S) means any Charging Station that was lawfully established and in compliance with all applicable laws at the time it was installed, but which, due to enactment of this Chapter, no longer complies with all the applicable regulations and standards of the zone in which the property is located.
HYDROGEN FUELING STATION(S) means the equipment used to store and dispense hydrogen fuel to vehicles according to industry codes and standards that are open to the public.
SPECIFIC, ADVERSE IMPACT means a significant, quantifiable, direct, and unavoidable impact, based on objective, identified, and written public health or safety standards, policies, or conditions as they existed on the date the City found the Electric Vehicle Charging Station or Hydrogen Fueling Station application complete.
(Ord. 3332 § 2 (part), 2024)