CALIFORNIA ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY ACT (CEQA) - Cal. Pub. Res. Code §§ 21000 et seq. that requires state, regional, county, and local agencies to conduct environmental review for any discretionary activity proposed to be carried out or approved by those agencies.
CAMPGROUND, PUBLIC - A public area wherein major recreational equipment may be placed as temporary dwellings.
CARPORT - A permanent roofed structure with not more than three enclosed sides used or intended to be used for automobile shelter and storage.
CAR WASH, FULL SERVICE - A structure containing employees and facilities for washing automobiles using a chain conveyor or other method of moving the cars along, or manual, automatic or semiautomatic application of cleaner, brushes, rinse water, and heat for drying. Car-washing employees are located at a full-service car wash.
CAR WASH, SELF-SERVICE - A structure containing facilities for washing stationary automobiles, including the semiautomatic application of cleaner, rinse water, and possibly heat for drying. No car-washing employees are located at a self-service car wash.
CATERING SERVICE - An establishment that prepares and delivers food for consumption off the premises (e.g. banquets or luncheons). A CATERING SERVICE may contain kitchen facilities and may also provide dining supplies such as place settings, tablecloths, and beverage dispensers.
CHECK CASHING SERVICE - Any business where checks are cashed for additional fee or surcharge, excluding banks, savings-and-loans and credit unions that are licensed or chartered by the state or federal government.
CHILDREN - Persons under the age of 18.
CHURCH - Any building utilized primarily as a place of worship or for conducting religious services, and including accessory uses such as fellowship halls, offices, and permitted classrooms. Such building must be fully enclosed with walls, including windows and doors, and must conform to applicable legal requirements affecting design and construction.
CLINIC - An organized outpatient health facility for human patients who remain therein less than 24 hours.
CLUB - Any building or premises used by an association of persons, whether incorporated or unincorporated, organized for some common purpose, but not including a group organized solely or primarily to render a service customarily carried on as a commercial enterprise.
COMMERCIAL USE - See "Use, Commercial Retail" and "Use, Commercial Service."
COMMERCIAL VEHICLE - Any vehicle classified by the State of California as a commercial vehicle pursuant to Cal. Veh. Code §§ 260 and 35701 et seq.
COMMISSION - The Planning Commission of the City of Santa Paula.
COMMUNITY APARTMENT PROJECT - Has the same meaning as Cal. Civil Code § 1351(d).
COMMUNITY CARE FACILITY - Any facility, place, or building where six or more persons live together which is maintained and operated to
provide nonmedical residential care, day treatment, or foster family agency services for children, adults, or children and adults, including, but not limited to, physically handicapped, mentally impaired, mentally incompetent persons, abused or neglected people, and substance abusers; which includes residential facilities, day treatment facilities, foster family homes, small family homes, social rehabilitation facilities, community treatment facilities, shelters for battered women, substance abuse treatment facilities and social day care facilities.
COMPENSATION - Compensation in money, services or other things of value.
CONDITIONAL USE - A use permitted on a particular site and within a zone only upon a finding by a discretionary body that such use in a specified location will comply with all the conditions and standards for the location or operation of such use as specified in this ordinance and authorized by the City Council.
CONDITIONAL USE PERMIT - An approval that is required for a use to be carried out in a particular zone that is not a use permitted by right. Each application is considered on its individual merits.
CONDOMINIUM - The interior airspace of two or more dwelling units that are individually owned and where the balance of the property is owned in common by the owners of the units.
CONDOMINIUM CONVERSION - The development of land and existing structures as a condominium, regardless of the present or prior use of such land or structures, and regardless of whether substantial improvements have been made to such structures.
CONGREGATE CARE HOUSING - A multi-family residential facility with shared kitchen facilities, deed-restricted or restricted by an agreement approved by the city for occupancy by low or moderate income households, designed for occupancy for periods of six months or longer, providing
services which may include meals, housekeeping and personal care assistance as well as common areas for residents of the facility.
CONTAINER - A bin, used either for commercial or private residential purposes, provided by an approved solid waste collector for the accumulation and collection of solid waste, recyclable materials, and green waste from any premises in the city.
CONVALESCENT HOME or HOSPITAL - A state-licensed facility that provides long-term nursing, dietary, and other medical services, except surgery or primary treatments customarily provided in a hospital, to convalescents or invalids.
CONVENIENCE STORE - See "Mini-market."
COUNCIL - The City Council of the City of Santa Paula
COUNTY MEDIAN HOUSEHOLD INCOME - The annual income figure, adjusted for household size, as published by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) or the California Department of Housing and Community Development (HCD), or any successor agency, which represents the "middle" of the income range in the County of Ventura. The median income figure indicates that half of all households have incomes larger than that value, and half have less.
COUNTY MEDIAN MONTHLY INCOME - The county median household income divided by 12.
COVERAGE - See "Building or Lot Coverage"
(Ord. 1100, passed 7-6-04; Am. Ord. 1159, passed 6-19-06; Am. Ord. 1169, passed 2-5-07)