"Railroad ROW" means a strip of land occupied by railroad tracks and spur tracks, and, if permitted in the applicable zoning district, loading and unloading platforms or structures.
"Railroad-yard, shop" means an area of land, a portion of which is covered by a system of tracks for the making up of trains by one or more railroads or private industry concerns. Necessary functions of a rail-yard or shop include the classifying, switching, storing, assembling, distributing, consolidating, moving, repairing, weighing, or transferring of cars, trains, engines, locomotives, and rolling stock.
"Rear yard." See "Yard."
"Rear-yard setback." See "Setback."
"Reclamation." See "Surface mining operation" and related definitions.
"Reconstruction" means the rebuilding of a structure in such a manner and to such an extent as to substantially replace the existing structure.
"Recreational vehicle (RV)" means any of the following:
1. Travel trailer: a vehicular portable structure built on a chassis designed to be used as a temporary dwelling for travel, recreational, and vacation uses permanently identified as a travel trailer by the manufacturer.
2. Camper: a structure designed primarily to be mounted upon a motor vehicle and with sufficient facilities to render as suitable for use as a temporary dwelling for camping, travel, recreational, and vacation purposes.
3. Motorized home: a portable dwelling designed and constructed as an integral part of a self-propelled vehicle.
4. Full tent trailer: a folding structure mounted on wheels and designed for travel and vacation use.
5. Boats and boat trailers: boats, floats, and rafts, and associated highway transport equipment.
"Recyclable material." See "Recycling facility" and related definitions, for the definition of this term as it relates to recycling uses.
"Recycling facility" and related definitions:
1. "Recycling facility, convenience" means a recycling facility located in a convenience zone and certified by the California Department of Conservation under the California Beverage Container Recycling and Litter Reduction Act (California Public Resources Code section 14500 et seq.). Refer to chapter 17.228 for convenience recycling facility development standards and criteria.
2. "Recycling facility-minor, major, greenwaste" means a facility for the acceptance of recyclable materials from the general public, other recycling facilities, local government agencies, and other business enterprises. The facility is used for the collection, short-term storage, processing, and transfer of recycled materials having a residual solid waste of 10% or less of non-putrescent material requiring transport to a landfill. A recycling facility may use portable or permanent equipment to chip, crush, grind, or process recyclable waste products. The categories of recycling facilities used by this title are:
a. Minor recycling facility. A "minor recycling facility" is a recycling facility that is not a major recycling facility and is not a convenience recycling facility. A minor facility cannot accept greenwaste. Refer to chapter 17.228 for facility development standards and criteria.
b. Major recycling facility. A "major recycling facility" is a facility with an operation involving 50 tons or more of material per day; or that includes on-site stockpiled material of 5,000 tons or more; or that includes more than 50 truck trips per day; or with a site area that exceeds three acres. A major facility cannot accept greenwaste. Refer to chapter 17.228 for facility development standards and criteria.
c. Greenwaste facility. A "greenwaste facility" is a facility that accepts garden, wood, and other organic waste to reprocess into compost, wood chips, or other products. "Chip and ship" or "chip and grind" facilities are included in this type of facility. Such a facility must meet the criteria and standards listed in chapter 17.228. Facilities which receive greenwaste (garden, wood, or other organic waste) for shipment to another facility for reprocessing or composting are included in this type of facility. Such a facility may use power-driven processing equipment. Refer to chapter 17.228.
3. "Greenwaste" means organic waste generated by landscape, garden or agricultural operations consisting of lawn clippings, tree and shrub prunings, wood, and miscellaneous soil material. This is categorized as material which can be used to process into compost or wood chips for reuse.
4. "Process" means the act of physically altering collected materials, including crushing cans and breaking glass bottles by hand or with manual or power-driven equipment.
5. "Recyclable material" means reusable material, including without limitation metals, glass, plastic, paper, concrete, and organic material that is intended for reuse, remanufacture, or reconstitution for the purpose of using the altered form. Recyclable material does not include refuse or hazardous material.
6. "Reverse vending machine" means a mechanical device that accepts one or more types of empty CRV beverage containers and issues a cash refund or a redeemable credit slip with a value not less than the container's refund value.
7. "Solid waste" means any material consisting of inert, putrescible, or non-putrescible material generated by residential, commercial, industrial, and agricultural uses. Inert materials generally have no active material that can break down into other forms, and therefore are considered not to decompose. Putrescible materials are capable of being decomposed by microorganisms with sufficient rapidity as to cause nuisances because of odors, vectors, gases, or other offensive conditions. Non-putrescible materials are not easily decomposed into other matter or decomposed into other materials.
8. "Scrap metals" includes materials and equipment commonly used in construction, agricultural operations, irrigation, and electrical power generation and transmission, railroad equipment, automobile parts, oil well rigs, scrap iron, nonferrous materials, copper, stainless steel, and nickel that are offered for sale to any junk dealer or recycler, but does not include household generated waste or aluminum beverage containers.
"Related equipment." See "Antenna; telecommunications facility" and related definitions.
"Relocation" means the moving of a building or structure from one place to another.
"Remodel" means any improvement to the exterior or interior of a building that requires an electrical, plumbing, or HVAC permit and that is not a structural alteration, new construction, reconstruction, or enlargement.
"Repair" means restoration of a facility or components to such condition that it may be used effectively for its designated purpose, by overhaul, or replacement of constituent parts or materials that have deteriorated by action of the elements, vandalism, and wear and tear that cannot be corrected through maintenance.
"Residential care facility" means a facility that provides primarily nonmedical resident services to seven or more individuals in need of personal assistance essential for sustaining the activities of daily living, or for the protection of the individual, excluding members of the resident family or persons employed as facility staff, on a 24-hour-aday basis. A facility that provides this service to six or fewer individuals is a "family care facility."
"Residential driveway" means a driveway that serves a single unit dwelling or duplex dwelling.
"Residential hotel" means a building containing six or more guestrooms or efficiency units intended or designed to be used, rented, or occupied for sleeping or living purposes by guests, and that is the primary residence of the guests. An "efficiency unit" means an "efficiency living unit" as defined in section 8.100.230.
"Resource." See "Historic preservation" related definitions, for the definition of this term as it relates to historic preservation and the review of a development project involving a landmark or a contributing resource.
"Restaurant" means an establishment where food and drink are prepared, served, and consumed primarily within the principal building. A restaurant use may or may not have within its premises a bar for the sale of alcoholic beverages for onsite consumption.
"Retail floor area" means floor area where merchandise is displayed for sale, including outdoor sales ar{[a-z]}-as. Retail floor area does not include warehouse and storage areas used to support the retail areas.
"Retail store" means an establishment engaged in selling goods or merchandise to the general public for personal or household consumption or use. Goods or merchandise may be new or used. A retail store promotes itself to the general public; may buy, receive, and sell merchandise; may process or manufacture some of the products in stock, such as jewelry or baked goods; and may process articles owned by the customer, such as cleaners or shoe repair. Membership-type stores, indoor markets, bazaars, antique malls, consignment shops, thrift stores, and secondhand stores are examples of retail stores. Regulation of this use varies, depending on size of building. "Retail store" does not include superstores.
"Reverse vending machine." See "Recycling facility" and related definitions, for the definition of this term as it relates to recycling uses.
"Reversed corner lot." See "Lot."
"Reversed frontage" means the situation where the rear lot line of a corner lot is contiguous to the side lot line of the adjacent interior lot.
"Revised tentative map" means a tentative map filed for approval under section 17.828.140 showing a revised arrangement of the streets, alleys, easements, or lots, or a modification of the boundary of property, or a change in the number of lots for which a tentative map has been previously approved.
"Riding stable" means a commercial horse, donkey, or mule facility, including a horse ranch, boarding stable, and riding school. A riding stable may have barns, stables, corrals, and paddocks accessory and incidental to the riding stable.
"Roadway" means that portion of a right-of-way for a street, highway, or alley designed or used to accommodate the movement of motor vehicles.
"Rooftop emergency facility" means a clear area of the roof of a tall building that is not permitted or licensed as a heliport or helistop and is not intended to function as a heliport, yet is capable of accommodating helicopters engaged in firefighting or emergency evacuation operations. Rooftop emergency facility is also known as an "emergency evacuation facility."
"Rooftop farming" means cultivating food crops on the rooftop of a building. (Ord. 2017-0009 § 6; Ord. 2015-0005 § 8; Ord. 2013-0020 § 1; Ord. 2013-0007 § 1)