"Laboratory, research" means a building or group of buildings that have facilities for scientific research, investigation, testing, or experimentation, but not facilities for the manufacture or sale of products.
"Landmark." See "Historic preservation" related definitions.
"Landscape setback" means an area planted and maintained with a combination of trees, turf, or live ground cover and shrubs.
"Landscaping" means plants, other physical site elements, and plans.
"Laundromat, self-service" means a commercial establishment offering self-serve and assisted laundry facilities for public use.
"Legislative change requests" means an application to change the legislative regulations applicable to a parcel of land. Changes to legislative actions are discretionary.
"Library; archive" means an establishment primarily engaged in maintaining collections of documents (e.g., books, journals, newspapers, music, and other recorded information regardless of its physical form and characteristics) and facilitating the use of the documents to meet the informational, research, educational, or recreational needs of the user. These establishments may also acquire, research, store, preserve, and generally make accessible to the public historical documents, photographs, maps, audio material, audiovisual material, and other archival material of historical interest. All or portions of these collections may be accessible electronically.
"Light rail station, proposed" means a light rail station approved for installation by the board of directors of Sacramento Regional Transit District.
"Listed historic resource." See "Historic preservation" related definitions.
"Livestock yard" means an establishment to which the public may consign livestock for sale by auction open to public bidding or sold on a commission basis.
"Living area" means the interior habitable area of a dwelling unit, including basements and attics, but not including garages or accessory structures.
"Living quarters" means one or more rooms in a building designed for occupancy by one or more persons for living or sleeping purposes.
"Lot" means a parcel of land shown on a subdivision map or a record of survey map recorded in the office of the county recorder with a separate and distinct number or letter, or a parcel described by metes and bounds, or a building site in one ownership having an area for each main building as hereinafter required in each zone.
1. "Corner lot" means a lot situated at the intersection of two or more streets having an angle of intersection of not more than 135 degrees.
2. "Interior lot" means a lot other than a corner lot.
3. "Key lot" means the first interior lot to the rear of a reversed corner lot.
4. "Reversed corner lot" means a corner lot, the rear of which abuts upon the side of another lot.
5. "Through lot" means a lot having frontage and public access on two parallel public streets.
"Lot area" means the total area within the lot lines of a lot.
"Lot area, net" means the area of a lot excluding publicly dedicated land; private streets which meet city standards; and other public use areas.
"Lot coverage" means the amount of lot, stated in terms of a percentage, that is covered by all buildings or structures. Lot coverage includes all buildings, porches, breezeways, patio roofs, and the like, whether open box type or lathe roofs, or fully roofed, but does not include fences, walls, hedges used as fences, uncovered porches or patios that are less than 30 inches in height, or swimming pools. On a residential structure, an eave overhang measuring two feet or less in width, shall not be included in lot coverage. If the overhang exceeds two feet in width, the entire overhang shall be included in lot coverage.
"Lot depth" means the distance between the front and rear lot lines. If the side lot lines differ in length, the depth of the lot is defined as the average of the lengths of the side lot lines.
"Lot line adjustment" means the relocation of a lot line between two or more adjacent parcels, where the land taken from one parcel is added to an adjacent parcel, and where a greater number of parcels than originally existed is not thereby created.
"Lot line, front" means, in the case of an interior lot, a lot line separating the lot from the street, and in the case of a corner lot, a lot line separating the narrowest street frontage of the lot from the street.
"Lot line, rear" means a lot line that is opposite and most distant from the front lot line, and in the case of an irregularly shaped lot, a line 10 feet in length within the lot, parallel to and at the maximum distance from the front lot line.
"Lot line, side" means any lot boundary line that is neither a front lot line nor a rear lot line.
"Lot width" means the distance between the side lot lines measured at the front building setback line.
"Lumber yard, retail" means an area used for the storage, distribution, and sale of lumber and lumber products at retail, but not including the manufacture, remanufacture, or fabrication of lumber, lumber products, or firewood. (Ord. 2021-0024 § 4; Ord. 2018-0055 § 2; Ord. 2017-0009 § 6; Ord. 2017-0008 § 5; Ord. 2013-0020 § 1; Ord. 2013-0007 § 1)