"Sacramento register of historic and cultural resources" or "Sacramento register." See "Historic preservation" related definitions.
"Satellite receive-only antenna." See "Accessory antenna" and related definitions.
"School-dance, music, art, martial arts" means a school that primarily teaches skills in the fine arts, performing arts, and martial arts.
"School, K-12" means any building, portion of building, or group of buildings designed, constructed, and used for public or private education or instruction for any or all grades from kindergarten through grade 12.
"School, vocational" means a school that primarily teaches usable skills to prepare students for jobs in a trade. This use is also known as a business school/college or trade school.
"Secretary of the Interior's Standards." See "Historic preservation" related definitions.
"Senior housing" means housing intended for elder adults, usually age 50 or over, with varying levels of care. The definition includes independent living and assisted living.
"Service road." See "frontage road."
"Setback" means the line beyond which the main wall of a building or structure may not project. A required setback for one building or structure may not serve as the required setback for any other building or structure.
1. A front-yard setback, and a rear-yard setback that is adjacent to an alley, extend across the full width of the lot and are measured from the adjacent right-of-way line to the nearest point of the main wall of the building.
2. A rear-yard setback that is not adjacent to an alley extends across the full width of the lot and is measured from the property line to the nearest point of the main wall of the building.
3. An interior side-yard setback extends from the front-yard setback to the rear-yard setback and is measured from the property line to the nearest point of the main wall of the building.
4. A street side-yard setback extends from the front-yard setback to the rear-yard setback and is measured from the adjacent right-of-way line to the nearest point of the main wall of the building.
"Shopping center" means a group of five or more commercial establishments on one or more parcels with common off-street parking and vehicular access points. A shopping center can include an anchor tenant that wholly or partially occupies a structure in a shopping center; occupies not less than 4,000 square feet; and is a retail food store, drug store, department store, retail discount house, home improvement center, variety store, movie theater, or restaurant.
"Side yard." See "Yard."
"Significant feature or characteristic." See "Historic preservation" related definitions.
"Site" means a contiguous area of land, including a lot or lots or a portion thereof, upon which a project is developed or proposed for development.
"Site plan and design review" means a review process that ensures that the physical aspects of a development project are consistent with the general plan and applicable specific plan or transit village plan and with all applicable neighborhood specific and city-wide design guidelines and development standards. Site plan and design review is a discretionary permit and is not the automatic right of an applicant.
"Solar energy system, commercial (city property)" means a facility used for the conversion of solar energy for the commercial sale of electricity and located on a lot owned by the city. A solar energy system-commercial (city property) does not include a system that is accessory to the primary use of the lot and that generates electricity that is primarily used on-site or credited to the use of the lot.
"Solar energy system, commercial (non-city property)" means a facility used for the conversion of solar energy for the commercial sale of electricity and located on a lot that is not owned by the city. A solar energy system-commercial (non-city property) does not include a system that is accessory to the primary use of the lot and that generates electricity that is primarily used onsite or credited to the use of the lot.
"Solid waste." See "Recycling facility" and related definitions, for the definition of this term as it relates to recycling uses.
"Solid waste landfill" means a solid waste landfill defined in California Public Resources Code section 40195.1.
"Solid waste transfer station" means a facility where solid waste is unloaded and then consolidated for shipment to a landfill.
"Special use" means uses that may have an impact on the area in which they are located, or are capable of creating special problems for bordering properties unless given special attention.
"Special permit." See "Conditional use permit."
"Specific plan" means a plan addressing land use distribution, open space availability, infrastructure, and infrastructure financing for a portion of the community. (See California Government Code section 65450 et seq.)
"Sports complex" means a commercial indoor or outdoor structure with tiers of seats rising around a field or court, intended to be used primarily for the viewing of athletic events. A sports complex may also be used for entertainment and other public gathering purposes, such as conventions, theater, circuses, or concerts. The facility may also provide other regular organized or franchised events, health and fitness club facilities, swimming pool, snack bar, restaurant, retail sales, offices, and other support facilities.
"Stand-alone parking lot" means a parking facility not intended to serve a particular building or use, or that does not include parking spaces required under chapter 17.608.
"Storage facility." See "Hazardous waste facility" and related definitions.
"Street" means a public thoroughfare, including a public road and highway, that affords the principal means of access to abutting property.
"Street, arterial" means a street with high traffic volumes (20,000 daily trips or more) that typically link freeways to collector streets and local streets.
"Street, collector" means a street that collects and distributes vehicular traffic moving between arterial streets and local streets and that generally provides direct access to abutting properties.
"Street, cul-de-sac" means a street that is designed to remain permanently closed at one end by a vehicular turnaround. The length of a cul-de-sac street shall be measured from the center line of the intersecting street along the center line of the cul-de-sac street to the center of the radius of the turnaround.
"Street, local" means any street other than a collector street, arterial street, or freeway that provides direct access to abutting properties and serves local as distinguished from through traffic.
"Street, major" means a street carrying the vehicular traffic of minor and collector streets to and from freeways, the central business district, and other major streets, with protected intersections at grade; and generally providing direct access to abutting property.
"Street, minor" means any street other than a collector street, major street, or freeway providing direct access to abutting property and serving local as distinguished from through traffic.
"Street side-yard setback." See "Setback."
"Structural alterations" means any change of the supporting members of a building or structure such as bearing walls, columns, beams, or girders.
"Structure" means anything constructed or erected that requires location on the ground or attached to something having location on the ground, including accessory buildings, signs and billboards, antennas and accessory antennas, swimming pools, paved surfaces, and solar panels, but not including fences or walls used as fences.
"Subdivision" means a subdivision as defined by the Subdivision Map Act.
"Subdivision Map Act" means the Subdivision Map Act of the state of California, California Government Code section 66410 et seq., inclusive.
"Subdivision review committee" means a committee comprised of the director of utilities, the director of public works, and the planning director.
"Superstore" means a retail store with more than 90,000 gross square feet of floor area and more than 10% gross floor area devoted to the sale of non-taxable merchandise. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the term "superstore" shall exclude wholesale clubs or other establishments selling primarily bulk merchandise and charging membership dues or otherwise restricting merchandise sales to customers paying a periodic assessment or fee.
"Supportive housing" means housing with no limit on length of stay, that is occupied by the target population, and that is linked to onsite or offsite services that assist the supportive housing resident in retaining the housing, improving the resident's health status, and maximizing the resident's ability to live and, when possible, work in the community. As used in this definition, "target population" means persons, including persons with disabilities, and families who are "homeless" as that term is defined by section 11302 of Title 42 of the United States Code, or who are "homeless youth," as that term is defined in paragraph (2) of subdivision (e) of section 11139.3 of the California Government Code. (See subdivision (b) of section 50675.14 of the California Health and Safety Code and section 65582 of the California Government Code.) Supportive housing is considered to be a "dwelling" in the individual zone chapters.
"Surface mining operation" and related definitions:
1. "Exploration or prospecting" means the search for minerals by geological, geophysical, geochemical, or other techniques, including sampling, assaying, drilling, or any surface or underground works needed to determine the type, extent, or quantity of minerals present.
2. "Mined lands" includes the surface, subsurface, and ground water of an area in which surface mining operations will be, are being, or have been conducted, including private ways and roads appurtenant to any such area, land excavations, workings, mining waste, and areas in which structures, facilities, equipment, machines, tools, or other materials or property which result from, or are used in, surface mining operations are located.
3. "Minerals" includes any naturally occurring chemical element or compound, or groups of elements and compounds, formed from inorganic processes and organic substances, including coal, peat, and bituminous rock, but excluding geothermal resources, natural gas, and petroleum.
4. "Overburden" means soil, rock, or other minerals that lie above a natural mineral deposit or in between deposits, before or after their removal by surface mining operations.
5. "Reclamation" means the combined process of land treatment that minimizes water degradation, air pollution, damage to aquatic or wildlife habitat, flooding, erosion, and other adverse effects from surface mining operations, including adverse surface effects incidental to underground mines, so that mined lands are reclaimed to a usable condition which is readily adaptable for alternate land uses and create no danger to public health or safety. The process may extend to affected lands surrounding mined lands, and may require backfilling, grading, resoiling, revegetation, soil compaction, stabilization, or other measures.
6. "Surface mining operation" means all, or any part of, the process involved in the mining of minerals on mined lands by removing overburden and mining directly from the mineral deposits, open-pit mining of minerals naturally exposed, mining by the auger method, dredging and quarrying, or surface work incidental to an underground mine. Surface mining operation includes:
a. In place distillation or retorting or leaching;
b. The production and disposal of mining waste; and
c. Prospecting and exploratory activities.
"Survey." 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. (Ord. 2017-0009 § 6; Ord. 2013-0020 § 1; Ord. 2013-0007 § 1)