The following definitions and those set forth throughout this title shall apply when interpreting the intent or meaning of the requirements and guidelines of this title:
ABANDONMENT: Shall be defined by the Division of Oil, Gas, and Geothermal Resources as it relates to the division's influence.
ABC: The state Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control per division 9 of the state Business and Professions Code.
ABC BEER: Any alcoholic beverage obtained by the fermentation of any infusion or decoction of barley, malt, hops, or any other similar product, or any combination thereof in water, per section 23006 of the Business and Professions Code.
ABC BONA FIDE PUBLIC EATING PLACE: A place of business that is regularly and in a bona fide manner used and kept open for the serving of meals to guests for compensation and which has suitable kitchen facilities connected therewith, containing conveniences for cooking an assortment of foods which may be required for ordinary meals, the kitchen of which must be kept in a sanitary condition with the proper amount of refrigeration for keeping of food on said premises and must comply with all the regulations of the local department of health per sections 23038, 23038.1, 23038.2 and 23038.3 of the Business and Professions Code.
ABC DISTILLED SPIRITS: An alcoholic beverage obtained by the distillation of fermented agricultural products, including all dilutions and mixtures thereof per section 23005 of the Business and Professions Code.
ABC LICENSEE: Any person holding a license, a permit, a certification, or any other authorization issued by the ABC.
ABC OFF-SALE: An ABC retailer that sells packaged alcoholic beverages, including beer, wine and distilled spirits for consumption off the premises where sold.
ABC ON-SALE: An ABC retailer that sells alcoholic beverages, including beer, wine and distilled spirits for consumption on the premises where sold.
ABC PUBLIC PREMISES: A licensed premises that is maintained and operated for the selling or serving of alcoholic beverages to the public for consumption on the premises, and in which food shall not be sold or served to the public as in a bona fide public eating place, and in which minors are not allowed to enter and remain per section 23039 of the Business and Professions Code.
ABC RETAILER: Any on- or off-sale licensee per section 23023 of the Business and Professions Code.
ABC WINE: The product obtained from normal alcoholic fermentation of the juice of sound ripe grapes or other agricultural products per section 23007 of the Business and Professions Code.
ABUTTING, ADJOINING, ADJACENT: Having district boundaries or lot lines in common; however, where properties would have had lot lines in common, except for the existence of an alley, the lot lines of those properties are considered to be abutting, adjoining or adjacent.
ACCESS CORRIDOR: A portion of a site providing access from a street and having a dimension less than the required lot width. The area of an access corridor shall not be included in determining the lot area.
ACCESS RIGHTS: The right, claims, title or privilege of access by pedestrians or vehicles to a public road or way.
ACCESS ROAD: A graded road with such improvements and such width as required in the City's subdivision ordinance and the "Subdivision and Engineering Design Manual" which provides access from a division of land to an existing maintained street or highway.
ACCESSORY STRUCTURE: Any subordinate structure or portions of the main structure, the use of which is incidental to that of the main structure on the same lot or premises, and which is used exclusively by the occupants of the main structure. An accessory structure may be erected only after the principal structure is established.
ACCESSORY USE: Any use customarily incidental to, related and clearly subordinate to a principal use established on the same lot or premises. An accessory use may be established only after the principal use is established.
ACREAGE (GROSS): The total fee ownership of a parcel or land area, including any easements, but excluding any existing offers of dedication, dedications or rights of way.
ACREAGE (NET): The land area that remains after dedication of ultimate rights of way for: a) exterior boundary sheets; b) flood control rights of way; and c) public parks developed to meet minimum standards. Major utility easements and rights of way may not be counted as adjusted net acreage. Areas devoted to park land or active recreational uses may be counted as adjusted net acreage only if such public facilities are proposed over and above the city's minimum park land requirements.
ACTIVE RECREATIONAL USES: Facilities occurring in a planned development or multiple-family project, which are designed to provide individual or group activities of an active nature, including, but not limited to, sports fields, court games, swimming pools, children's play areas, picnic areas, golf courses and recreational community gardening. Active recreational uses do not include natural open space, nature study areas, open space for buffer areas, riding and hiking trails, watercourses or drainage areas.
ADVERTISING STATUARY: An imitation or representation or a person or thing that is sculptured, molded, modeled or cast in any solid or plastic substance, material or fabric and used to identify or advertise a product or service. Advertising statuaries shall be considered and regulated as signs.
AIRPORT: Improvements and activities related to the take off and landing of aircraft for the purpose of recreation or carrying passengers or freight, usually equipped with hangars, facilities for refueling and repair, terminal buildings, operations towers and public safety facilities.
ALLEY: A secondary means of access to property, generally located at the rear or side of the property. An alley is not intended for general circulation of traffic.
ALTER: To make a change in the supporting members of a structure, such as bearing walls, columns, beams or girders, to prolong the life of a structure or to change an exterior or interior dimension of a structure. In case of a sign, "alter" means a change of all or a portion of the copy, message, sign legend or face, except on signs designed to advertise changing messages.
ALTERATION: Any change or modification, through public or private action, to characteristics defining significant physical features of properties. Such changes may include modification of structures, architectural details, visual characteristics, grading, surface paving, addition of new structures, cutting or removal of trees, landscaping, alteration of natural features, disturbance of archeological sites or areas, and placement or removal of any significant objects, such as signs, plaques, light fixtures, street furniture, walls, fences, steps, plantings and landscape accessories affecting the property.
AMBIENT NOISE LEVEL: General noise level one finds in a certain area at a given time.
ANIMAL HOSPITAL: A place where animals are given medical or surgical treatment and are cared for during the time of such treatment. Use as a kennel shall be limited to short time boarding and shall be only incidental to such hospital use.
APARTMENT: One or more rooms with private bath and kitchen facilities comprising an independent, self-contained residential dwelling unit for rent or lease in a building containing more than two (2) residential dwelling units.
APPEAL: A request, pursuant to the provisions of section 6-2-19 of this title, for a review of an action undertaken pursuant to this title.
APPROVED ACCESS: Any one or more of the following:
(A) A dedicated right of way for access purposes.
(B) An offer to dedicate to the city, or an offer to dedicate to Kern County for which the city is a successor in interest, a right of way of a width established by city ordinance, general plan, or any adopted specific plan or highway right of way standards which expressly grants to the owner of the subdivision or development and any successors in interest the right to use the right of way without limit as to the quantity of vehicular traffic from each lot or use created by the owners or successors in interest to improve roadways in the city road system, both of which abut or connect to a publicly maintained roadway or connect to existing traveled roads where a prescriptive right by user has been established for public use.
(C) An offer to dedicate to the city, or an offer to dedicate to Kern County of which the city is a successor in interest, and to the public in general, an easement for public road, highway and public utility purposes, of a width established as adequate for such purpose by the city. The offer to dedicate to the public in general can be accepted by public use, but the easement of road construction thereon shall not become a city roadway until and unless the city council, by appropriate resolution, has caused said roadway to be accepted into the city road system.
(D) An existing traveled way where a prescriptive right by user has been established for public use by a court decree.
ARCADES: A place of business where five (5) or more electronic or coin operated games are operated for compensation.
ARCHITECTURAL FEATURES: Any portion of the outer surface of a structure, including, but not limited to, the kind, color and texture of the building material, the type and style of windows, doors, lights, signs, walls, fences, awnings, canopies, screens, sculptures, decorations, roof shape and materials, and other fixtures appurtenant to a structure.
ARCHITECTURAL PROJECTION: A marquee, fireplace chimney, porch, canopy or similar projection of a building.
AREA (BUILDING): The sum in square feet of the areas of the horizontal projections of all structures on a lot, excluding open pergolas, steps, chimneys, eaves, buttresses, cornices, unenclosed and unroofed terraces, patios, unenclosed private balconies, not used for access, and minor ornamental features projecting from the walls of the building, which features are not directly supported by the ground.
AUTHORIZED AGENT: A person bearing written authority from the property owner to act as the owner's representative.
AUTOMOBILE/AUTOMOTIVE: Motor vehicles, including cars, light duty vans and pickup trucks, sport utility vehicles and motorcycles.
AUTOMOBILE SERVICE STATION OR GASOLINE SERVICE STATION: A retail place of business engaged in supplying goods and services essential to the normal operation of automobiles, whose primary use is the dispensing of automotive fuel and motor oil.
AUTOMOTIVE AND LIGHT TRUCK REPAIR (MAJOR): Activities typically including, but not necessarily limited to, automotive and light truck repair, heavy automobile and truck repair, such as transmission and engine repair and the installation of major accessories.
AUTOMOTIVE AND LIGHT TRUCK REPAIR (MINOR): Activities including, but not necessarily limited to, automotive and light truck repair, the retail sale of goods and services for automobiles and light trucks (less than 6,000 pounds), and the cleaning and washing of automobiles. Uses typically include, but are not necessarily limited to, brake, muffler, smog check and automotive drive-through car washes. Heavier automobile repair, such as transmission and engine repair and auto body shops shall not be included in this land use type.
AWNING: A permanent or temporary structure attached to and wholly supported by a building, and installed over or in front of openings or windows in a building, and consisting of a fixed or movable frame and a top of canvas or other similar material covering the entire space enclosed between the frame and the building.
BAR/COCKTAIL LOUNGE: Any licensed premises operating as a "public premises", as defined, wherein alcoholic beverages are sold for consumption on the premises and minors are excluded therefrom by law.
BARRIER STRIP: A strip of land one foot (1') or more in width dedicated to the city for street purposes and access control at the end of a dead end street or along the side of a part width dedicated street or other public right of way.
BASE FLOOD: The flood having a one percent (1%) chance of being equaled or exceeded in any given year (sometimes referred to as a 100-year flood).
BASEMENT: Area of the building having a subgrade floor (below ground level) on all sides.
BED AND BREAKFAST USE: A special accessory use to a one- family residential dwelling where a limited or specified number of guestrooms are made available to transient guests for rent to provide overnight sleeping accommodations on a less than weekly basis. Bed and breakfast uses are subdivided into three (3) basic categories as follows:
(A) Bed And Breakfast Home: One-family dwelling containing three (3) to five (5) guestrooms where said dwelling is occupied by the owner of the property.
(B) Bed And Breakfast Inn/Lodge: An existing one-family dwelling which has been designated a historical structure containing a minimum of six (6) and a maximum of ten (10) guestrooms where said dwelling is occupied by the owner or manager of the property.
(C) Host Home: One-family dwelling containing one to two (2) guestrooms where said dwelling is occupied by the owner of the property.
BICYCLE LOCKER: A fully enclosed space accessible only to the owner or operator of the bicycle. This space may also serve other purposes.
BICYCLE, MONITORED PARKING: An area for the parking of bicycles which is under constant surveillance.
BICYCLE, RESTRICTED ACCESS PARKING: Facilities within a locked room or locked enclosure accessible only to the owners or operators of bicycles parked within, or facilities within the common locked garage areas of a multiple-family residential development which is accessible only to residents of the units for which the garage is provided.
BICYCLE WAY: An area either within or outside the right of way of a dedicated street where bicycle travel is the designated use.
BILLBOARD: See definition of Sign (Off Site Advertising Sign).
BLINDER RACK: An opaque device, which serves to obscure the lower two-thirds (2/3) of any material displaying harmful matter.
BOARDING OR ROOMING HOUSE: A building containing a dwelling unit where lodging is provided, with or without meals, for compensation for seven (7) or more persons.
BRIDGE: The construction of or addition to a bridge identified in the circulation element of the general plan or is part of a major thoroughfare and spans a waterway, railway, roadway, highway or freeway.
BUILDING: Any structure having a roof supported by columns or by walls and designed for the shelter or housing of any person, animal or chattel and having a fixed location upon the ground.
BUILDING, ACCESSORY: A subordinate building, including shelters or swimming pools, the use of which is incidental to that of the main building on the same lot and/or building site.
BUILDING EXPOSURE: The linear measurement of exterior building walls enclosing interior spaces that are facing an outdoor area.
BUILDING FACE: The area of one building elevation, either the front, rear or side.
BUILDING FRONTAGE: The side of a building that contains the main entrance for pedestrian ingress and egress. If more than one main entrance exists, the one that more nearly faces or is oriented to the street of highest classification as portrayed in the circulation element of the general plan shall be considered the building frontage. If all streets are of the same classification, either side of the building may be considered to be the building frontage.
BUILDING HEIGHT: The vertical distance from the grade to the highest point of the coping of a flat roof or to the deck line of a mansard roof or to the highest point of the highest gable of a pitch or hip roof, but exclusive of vents, air conditioners, chimneys or other such incidental appurtenances.
BUILDING, MAIN: A building in which is conducted the principal use of the lot and/or building site on which it is situated.
BUILDING OFFICIAL: The building official of the city of Taft, or his/her designee.
BUILDING SETBACK AREA (FRONT): See definition of Yard (Front).
BUILDING SETBACK AREA (REAR): See definition of Yard (Rear).
BUILDING SETBACK AREA (SIDE): See definition of Yard (Side).
BUILDING SITE: A legally created parcel or contiguous parcels of land in single or joint ownership, which provide the area and the open spaces required by this title, exclusive of all vehicular and pedestrian rights of way and all other easements that prohibit the surface use of the property by the owner thereof.
BUILDING SPACE: Building or portion of a building devoted to a single business interest without direct interior connections to other business interests.
BULLETIN BOARD: A board, kiosk or wall area not greater than eight (8) square feet on which are affixed personal notices, lost and found notices, business cards, and similar small informal notices referring to products, services, activities or other items not offered on the same premises. The term "bulletin board" shall not include attraction boards.
BUSINESS: A commercial, office, institutional or industrial establishment.
BUSINESS PARK: A group of two (2) or more businesses located on a single parcel or contiguous parcels which utilize common off street parking and access and/or share a common theme.
CABANA: Any portable, demountable or permanent room, enclosure or other structure erected, constructed or placed on a mobilehome space and used in conjunction with a mobilehome, and not used for sleeping purposes.
CANOPY: A small roof or awning attached to the wall of a structure, which is supported by no means other than its attachment to the wall.
CARPORT: A permanently roofed structure with not more than two (2) enclosed sides used for automobile shelter and storage.
CHURCH: An institution that people regularly attend to participate in or hold religious services, meetings and other activities. The term "church" shall not carry a secular connotation and shall include buildings in which the religious services of any denomination are held.
CITY: The city of Taft, California.
CITY COUNCIL: The city council of the city of Taft.
CITY ENGINEER: The city engineer of the city of Taft.
CITY MANAGER: The city manager of the city of Taft, or his/her designee.
CITY STANDARDS: All building and development regulations enacted by ordinance, resolution or city policy, including standard drawings prepared by the public works director/city engineer, showing the nature of various items of improvement work to be constructed and/or made a part of on site and off site improvements associated with a development project.
CLUBS: An association of persons for some common purpose, but not including groups organized primarily to render service which is customarily carried on as a business.
COLLOCATED: Locating wireless communications antennas and related equipment from more than one provider on a single tower, building, structure or site.
COMBINING DISTRICT: Any district in which the general district regulations are combined with those special districts for the purpose of additional special regulations.
COMMERCIAL: Any activity or use of land which involves buying, selling, processing or improving things not produced on the land, and having financial gain as the primary aim of the activity or use, whether or not such activity or use is for hire or on account of buyer, seller, processor or improver.
COMMUNICATION AND TELECOMMUNICATION FACILITIES: Includes cable television reception facilities, cellular telephone facilities and centers for employee telecommuting, communication receiving and broadcasting facilities and the like.
COMMUNICATION ANTENNA: A transmitting or receiving device mounted on a tower, building or structure, that is designed to transmit or receive communications, as authorized by the federal communications commission, including, but not limited to, radiation or capture of electromagnetic waves, digital signals, analog signals, radio frequencies, wireless telecommunications signals or other communication signals which transmit or receive radio signals. Antennas typically are either in dish, panel or whip type structures.
COMMUNICATION EQUIPMENT: Any communication antenna or related equipment designed to transmit or receive communications as authorized by the federal communications commission.
COMMUNICATION TOWER: A tower greater than thirty five feet (35') in height (including antenna) which supports communication (transmission or receiving) equipment. The term "communication tower" shall not include amateur radio operators' equipment, as licensed by the federal communication commission.
COMMUNITY CARE FACILITY: Elderly housing licensed by the state health and welfare agency, department of social services, typically for residents who are frail and need supervision. Services normally include three (3) meals daily, housekeeping, security and emergency response, a full activities program, supervision in the dispensing of medicine, personal services, such as assistance in grooming and bathing, but no nursing care. Sometimes referred to as residential care personal care.
COMMUNITY NOISE EQUIVALENT LEVEL (CNEL): The noise level during a twenty four (24) hour day, in decibels, weighted to account for the lower tolerance of people to noise during evening (7:00 P.M. to 10:00 P.M.) and night (10:00 P.M. to 7:00 A.M.) hours relative to daytime hours. CNEL shall be computed as prescribed by title 25 of the Administrative Code of the state of California.
COMMUNITY SERVICES DISTRICT: A community services district that has the power to construct and maintain streets, landscaping or other public improvements as appropriate with the context used.
CONDOMINIUM: An estate in real property consisting of an undivided interest in real property, coupled with a separate interest in space called a unit, the boundaries of which are described on a recorded final map, parcel map or condominium plan in sufficient detail to locate all boundaries thereof, and as more specifically defined by California Civil Code section 1351(f).
CONSERVATION ZONE: An area of the city, whether commercial or residential, a majority of whose buildings are fifty (50) years old or older, which the city wishes to maintain and revitalize so as to emphasize their importance to the past, present and future of the city.
CONSTRUCTION (NEW): Structures for which the "start of construction" commenced on or after the effective date of this title.
CONSTRUCTION (START OF, SUBSTANTIAL): The placement of permanent construction of a structure (other than a mobilehome) on a site, such as the pouring of slabs or footings or any work beyond the stage of excavation. Permanent construction does not include land preparation, such as clearing, grading and filling; nor does it include the installation of streets or walkways; nor does it include excavation for a basement, footings, piers or foundations, or the erection of temporary forms; nor does it include the installation on the property of accessory buildings, such as garages or sheds not occupied as a principal use as defined by the district within which the property is located.
CONTIGUOUS PARCELS: Adjacent parcels of land, which shall be considered contiguous even if separated by roads, streets, utility easements, alleys or railroad rights of way.
CONVALESCENT CARE: A facility licensed by the state department of public health, the state department of social welfare or the Kern County health department, which provides bed and ambulatory care for patients with postoperative convalescent, chronically ill or dietary problems, and persons aged or infirmed, unable to care for themselves; but not including alcoholics, drug addicts or persons with mental or contagious diseases or afflictions.
CONVENIENCE STORE: Any retail establishment offering for sale prepackaged food products, household items and other goods commonly associated with the same and having a gross floor area of less than five thousand (5,000) square feet.
COUNTY: The County of Kern, California.
COUNTY ASSESSOR: The County Assessor of the County of Kern.
COUNTY RECORDER: The County Recorder of the County of Kern.
COVERAGE (LOT OR SITE): The ratio between the ground floor area of the building or buildings and the lot area.
DAYCARE FACILITY: A facility which provides no medical care to children under eighteen (18) years of age in need of personal services, supervision or assistance essential for sustaining the activities of daily living or for the protection of the individual on less than a twenty four (24) hour basis. Daycare facility includes family daycare homes, infant centers, preschools and extended daycare facilities. A "family daycare home" is a daycare facility located in a residence which regularly provides care, protection and supervision of children from more than one other family, in the provider's own home, for periods of less than twenty four (24) hours per day, while the parents or guardians are away and includes the following:
(A) "Large family daycare facilities" are those which provide family daycare for seven (7) to twelve (12) children, including children who reside at the home.
(B) "Small family daycare facilities" are those which provide family daycare to six (6) or fewer children, including children who reside at the home.
DEMOLITION: Any act or process that destroys in part or in whole a structure.
DENSITY: The number of permanent dwelling units per unit of land, excluding accessory dwelling units per section 6-12-23 of this title.
DENSITY BONUS: The allocation of development rights that allow a parcel to accommodate additional square footage or additional residential units beyond the maximum for which the parcel is zoned, usually in exchange for the provision or preservation of an amenity at the same site or at another location. For example, under California law, a housing development that provides twenty percent (20%) of its units for lower income households, or ten percent (10%) of its units for very low income households, or fifty percent (50%) of its units for seniors, is entitled to a density bonus.
DERRICK: Any portable framework, tower, mast or structure which is required or used in connection with drilling, reworking, operating or maintaining a well for the production of oil, gas or other hydrocarbons from the earth.
DESERTION: As defined in California Public Resources Code section 3237, particularly section 3237(a)(3)(A)-(F), meaning that a reputable presumption of desertion will be found to exist if:
(A) A well has not been completed to production or injection and drilling machinery has been removed from the well site for at least six (6) months;
(B) A well's production or injection equipment has been removed from the well site for at least two (2) years;
(C) An operator has failed to comply with an order of the supervisor within the time provided by the order or has filed to challenge the order on a timely basis;
(D) An operator fails to designate an agent as required by Public Resources Code section 3200;
(E) A person who is to acquire a well that is subject to a purchase, transfer, assignment, conveyance, exchange or other disposition fails to comply with Public Resources Code section 3202;
(F) If an operator has failed to maintain the access road to a well site passable to oil field and emergency vehicles.
DESIGN GUIDELINES: The principals contained in a document that illustrates appropriate and inappropriate methods of rehabilitation and construction. The purpose of using design guidelines is to aid design and decision making with regard to retaining the integrity of scale, design intent, materials, feeling, patterns of development, and historical character of a cultural resource.
DESIGNATED SITE: A parcel or part thereof on which a cultural resource is or has been situated, and any abutting parcel or part thereof constituting part of the premises on which the cultural resource is situated, and which has been designated a cultural resource.
DEVELOPMENT: Any manmade change to improved or unimproved real estate, including, but not limited to, buildings or other structures, mining, dredging, filling, grading, excavation or drilling operations.
DEVELOPMENT AGREEMENT 1 : An agreement between the city and project applicant specifying at a minimum the use, density or intensity of use, the maximum height and size of proposed buildings, and provisions for the reservation or dedication of land for public purposes for a proposed development project. A development agreement may also include other conditions, terms and restrictions, and requirements for subsequent discretionary actions.
DEVELOPMENT PROJECT: Any of the following:
(A) A project for which a building permit is required for a commercial, industrial or institutional building, or residential building having five (5) or more living units.
(B) Any new public facility where solid waste is collected and loaded and any improvements for areas of a public facility used for collecting and loading solid waste.
(C) The definition of development project only includes subdivisions or tracts of single- family detached homes if, within such subdivisions or tracts, there is an area where solid waste is collected and loaded in a location which serves five (5) or more living units. In such instances, recycling areas as specified in this title are only required to serve the needs of the living units that utilize the solid waste collection and loading area.
DISH ANTENNA: A dishlike antenna used to link communications sites together by wireless transmission of voice or data. Also called microwave antenna or microwave dish antenna.
DIVISION OF OIL, GAS, AND GEOTHERMAL RESOURCES: The division of oil, gas, and geothermal resources (DOGGR) under the department of conservation of the state of California.
DRILL SITE: The premises used during the drilling or reworking of a well or wells located thereon.
DRILLING: Digging or boring a hole in the earth for the purpose of exploring for, developing or producing of oil, geothermal resources, injection and hydrocarbons.
DRILLING EQUIPMENT: The derrick, together with all parts of and appurtenances to such structure, every piece of apparatus, machinery or equipment used or erected or maintained for use in connection with drilling.
DRIPLINE: A line which may be drawn on the ground around a tree directly under its outermost branch tips and which identifies that location where rainwater tends to drip from a tree.
DRIVE-THROUGH FACILITY: A facility, including a restaurant which, by its design, allows people to receive goods and/or services while remaining in their automobiles.
DRIVE-THROUGH RESTAURANT: A place of business that sells food products or beverages and which:
(A) Delivers such food products or beverages to customers outside of the building in which they are prepared by means of a service window, counter or similar method or device; or
(B) Delivers such food products or beverages to customers within a building that is designed in such a manner that a majority of the customers will remove such food products or beverages from the building.
DWELLING: A building or a portion thereof designed and used exclusively for residential occupancy, including single- and multiple-family dwellings, including mobilehomes and manufactured housing, but not including hotels, motels, boarding houses or trailers.
DWELLING (MULTI-FAMILY): A building containing two (2) or more dwelling units, either attached or detached.
DWELLING (SINGLE-FAMILY): A building containing one dwelling unit on one lot.
DWELLING UNIT: A building or mobilehome, or portion thereof, designed for residential occupancy for not more than one family.
DWELLING UNIT, ACCESSORY (ADU): A secondary dwelling unit located on the same parcel as primary single-family residential unit or multi-family residential development. The unit may be attached, detached, or a conversion of a room(s) in the primary dwelling per the provisions in section 6-12-23 of this title.
DWELLING UNIT, JUNIOR ACCESSORY (JADU): An ADU of no less than 70 square feet and no more than 500 square feet in size and contained entirely within a single-family residence. A JADU can only be created through conversion of an existing portion of a single-family dwelling, not a garage or other accessory building per the provisions in section 6-12-23 of this title.
EASEMENT: The right to use property owned by another for specific purposes or to gain access to another property. For example, utility companies may have easements on private properties to be able to install and maintain utility facilities.
EDGE OF A RIGHT-OF-WAY: A measurement from the limit of the public right-of-way measured along a line equidistant from and parallel to the centerline of the freeway, highway or roadway.
EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS: Public and other institutions conducting regular academic instruction at kindergarten, elementary, secondary or collegiate levels, and including graduate schools, universities, research institutions and religious institutions. Such institutions must offer general academic instruction equivalent to the standards prescribed by the State Board of Education, confer degrees as a college or university of undergraduate or graduate standing, conduct academic or scientific research, or give religious instruction. This definition does not include commercial or trade schools.
EMERGENCY SHELTER: Housing with minimal supportive services for homeless persons that is limited to occupancy of six (6) months or less by a homeless person. No individual or household may be denied emergency shelter because of an inability to pay, as defined in Health and Safety Code section 50801(e).
ENTERTAINMENT (LIVE): This term, when used in this title in connection with the performing arts and other methods of live performances by entertainers, shall apply to the following activities where they occur on a scheduled basis three (3) or more days during a calendar year on the site of a use other than a public or semipublic use:
(A) A musical, theatrical or dance recital performed by one or more persons, regardless of whether performers are compensated;
(B) Any form of dancing by patrons or guests at a business establishment;
(C) A fashion show, except when conducted within an enclosed building used primarily for manufacture or sale of clothing.
ENVIRONMENTAL CONSTRAINT NOTE: Any note or notes required by the conditions of approval to be shown on an environmental constraint sheet and reference made thereof on the final map. This shall be required when constraints involving (but not limited to) any of the following are conditioned by the city council: archaeological sites, geologic mapping, grading, building, building setback lines, flood hazard zones, fire protection, water availability, sewage disposal and signalization mitigation.
ENVIRONMENTAL CONSTRAINT SHEET: A duplicate of the final map on which are shown the environmental constraint notes. This sheet shall be filed simultaneously with the final map, with the city engineer and labeled environmental constraint sheet in the top margin. Applicable items will be shown under a heading labeled environmental constraint notes. The environmental constraint sheet shall contain the following, or a similar statement:
The environmental constraint information shown on this map sheet is for informational purposes describing conditions as of the date of filing, and derived from public records or reports and does not imply the correctness or sufficiency of those records or reports by the preparer of this map sheet.
ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT REPORT (EIR): A report complying with the requirements of the California environmental quality act (CEQA) and its implementing guidelines. This term is synonymous with an environmental impact statement (EIS) as defined in federal law.
FAMILY: An individual, or two (2) or more persons related by birth, marriage or adoption (U.S. bureau of the census) or of not more than six (6) persons living together who constitute a bona fide single-family housekeeping unit in a dwelling unit, not including a fraternity, sorority, club or other group of persons occupying a hotel, lodging house or institution of any kind.
FARM OR FARM PARCEL: A tract of land containing at least twenty (20) acres, devoted primarily to agricultural uses, together with dwelling and/or other accessory uses.
FARM RELATED BUSINESS: A business operated on a farm parcel, related to or supportive of agricultural activities, such as cold storage facilities, sheds, maintenance shops, farm implement repair and roadside sale of agricultural products.
FARMERS' MARKET: A designated area or building where farm direct produce is allowed to be sold to the public.
FAST FOOD RESTAURANT: Any retail establishment intended primarily to provide short order services for on site dining and/or takeout, including self-serve restaurants (excluding cafeterias where food is consumed on the premises), drive- through restaurants, and formula restaurants required by contract or other arrangement to offer standardized menus, ingredients and fast food preparation.
FEASIBLE: Capable of being accomplished in a successful manner within a reasonable period of time, taking into account economic, environmental, social and technological factors.
FENCE: Any structural device forming a physical barrier by means of hedge, wood, metal, chain, brick, stake, plastic or other similar materials.
FIRE HYDRANT: An appliance meeting city standards and approved by the Kern County fire department which has the suppression of fires as its primary function.
FLAT ROOF: A roof which is horizontal without a sloping, pitched or mansard portion above.
FLOOR AREA (FAR): The numerical value obtained by dividing the aboveground gross floor area of a building or buildings located on a lot or parcel of land by the total area of such lot or parcel of land.
FLOOR AREA (GROSS): The total enclosed area of all floors of a building measured to the inside face of the exterior walls, including halls, stairways, elevator shafts at each floor level, service and mechanical equipment rooms, and basement or attic areas having a height of more than seven feet (7'), but excluding areas used exclusively for vehicle parking or loading.
FLOOR AREA (NET): The total building floor area, excluding garages, hallways, lobbies, elevators and other common spaces.
FRONT FOOTAGE OF BUILDING OCCUPANCY: The single linear dimension measured at the ground floor along the building frontage that defines the limits of the particular occupancy at that location.
FRONTAGE (BUILDING): The side or face of the building that is parallel to or is at an angle of forty five degrees (45o) or less to a public street or a public parking area.
FRONTAGE ROAD: A minor street which is parallel to, and adjacent to, an arterial street or freeway, and which provides access to abutting properties and protection from through and fast traffic.
FRONTAGE (STREET OR HIGHWAY): That portion of a lot or parcel of land that borders and has access to a public street, highway or parkway. The frontage shall be measured along the common lot line separating the lot or parcel of land from the public street, highway or parkway.
FRUIT/VEGETABLE STAND: Temporary structure used for the sale of cultivated fruits and/or vegetables grown on site.
GARAGE: A permanently roofed structure with three (3) enclosed sides and a garage door which is used for automobile shelter and storage.
GARAGE (PRIVATE): A detached accessory building or a portion of a main building on the same lot for the parking and temporary storage of vehicles of the occupants of the premises.
GARAGE (PUBLIC): Any garage other than a private garage.
GAS: Any fluid, either combustible or noncombustible, which is produced in a natural state from the earth which maintains a gaseous or rarified state at standard temperature and pressure conditions. It shall also mean the gaseous components or vapors occurring in or derived from petroleum or natural gas.
GENERAL PLAN: The city general plan, as adopted by the city council and subsequently amended.
GRADE (EXISTING): The surface of the ground or pavement at a stated location as it exists prior to disturbance in preparation for a project regulated by this title.
GROUNDWATER RECHARGE: The natural process of infiltration and percolation of rainwater from land areas or streams through permeable soils into water holding rocks that provide underground storage ("aquifers").
GROVE: A planting of fruit or nut trees or other manmade planting of trees without underbrush.
GUEST QUARTERS: Living quarters located on the same premises with the primary dwelling unit or attached to the main portion of the primary dwelling unit for the sole use of persons employed on the premises, members of the family living in the primary dwelling unit, or for temporary use by guests of the family living on the premises. Such quarters shall have no kitchen and shall not be rented or leased or otherwise used as a separate dwelling.
GUESTROOM: Any rented or leased room which is used or designed to provide sleeping accommodations for one or more guests in apartments, hotels, motels, private clubs, lodges and fraternal organizations. In a suite of rooms, each room that provides access to a common hall or direct access to the outside area shall be considered as one guestroom.
HARMFUL MATTER: As defined in accord with Penal Code section 313(a)(1)(2), means matter which, when taken as a whole, appeals predominately to the prurient interests of the average person and, when applying contemporary statewide standards with respect to what is suitable material for minors, lacks significant literary, artistic, political, educational or scientific value for minors.
HAZARDOUS MATERIAL: Any substance that, because of its quantity, concentration or physical or chemical characteristics, poses a significant present or potential hazard to human health and safety or to the environment if released into the workplace or the environment. The term includes, but is not limited to, hazardous substances and hazardous wastes.
HEIGHT: A vertical dimension measured from existing grade unless otherwise specified by this title, title X, "Subdivisions", of this code, the "Subdivision And Engineering Design Manual", and the city's adopted California building code.
HERBICIDE: A chemical used to kill plants (a class of pesticide).
HIGHWAY BUILDING FRONTAGE: A building wall parallel or nearly parallel to an adjacent highway.
HIGHWAY LOT FRONTAGE: A property line adjacent to a highway right of way.
HISTORICAL LANDMARK: Any object designated as a historical landmark by city council action.
HOME OCCUPATIONS: Any occupation customarily conducted entirely within a dwelling by its inhabitants, the purpose being incidental to the use of the dwelling for dwelling purposes, as provided in section 6-12-18 of this title.
HOOKAH: Any water pipe made of metal, glass, or other material, usually decorated and shaped like a bottle or small tank, with a mouthpiece at the end of a long flexible hose or cord; also referred to as narghile, shisha, and goza, typically used to smoke a flavored or sweetened tobacco.
HOOKAH LOUNGE: Commercial or industrial establishments that include designated areas, indoor or outdoor, for the use of hookahs. The establishment of or engaging in the business of or occupation of conducting, operating or maintaining a hookah lounge is prohibited within the city limits. The prohibition applies to the free or paid use of hookahs and applies to all patrons of the establishment, including all owners, employees and staff of the establishment. The private use of hookahs within personal residences is not included within this definition and prohibition.
HOSPITAL: An institution for the diagnosis, care and treatment of human illness, including surgery and primary treatment.
HOTEL/MOTEL: A structure, or portion thereof, or a group of attached or detached structures containing completely furnished individual guestrooms or suites on a transient basis for compensation.
HOUSEHOLD: All those persons, related or unrelated, who occupy a single housing unit (see definition of Family).
HOUSING, DEPENDENT: Residential occupancy of a temporary accessory living unit located on the same parcel as the principal unit, which is occupied by one or two (2) adults, who: a) have reached the age of sixty (60); or b) are dependents of the residents of the principal unit; or c) are court appointed conservators of a resident of the principal unit. For the purpose of this definition, "dependent" means a related individual who is dependent upon the resident of the principal unit for financial support or healthcare. An individual will be determined to be a dependent for healthcare reasons if he or she is considered blind or disabled as defined in section 1614(a) of part A of title XVI of the Social Security Act.
HOUSING, GROUP: Multi-residential living facilities, each of which contains group quarters in permanently fixed buildings, or those portions thereof, which accommodate or are intended to accommodate residential land use types.
HUNTING CLUBS: See definition of clubs.
IDLE 1 : To curtail for a period of one year or more surface mining operations by more than ninety percent (90%) of the operation's previous maximum annual mineral production, with the intent to resume those surface mining operations at a future date.
ILLUMINATION (DIRECT): Illumination by means of light that travels directly from its source to the viewer's eye.
ILLUMINATION (INDIRECT): Illumination by means only of light cast upon an opaque surface from a concealed source.
IMPROVEMENT: Such street work and utilities to be installed or agreed to be installed, by a subdivider or developer on land to be used for public or private streets, highways and easements, as are necessary for the general use of the parcel owners and local neighborhood traffic and drainage and flood control needs as a condition of approval precedent to the approval and acceptance of a final map or issuance of a certificate of occupancy. "Improvement" also refers to such other specific improvements or types of improvements, the installation of which, whether by the subdivider or developer, by private or public utilities, or by any other entity approved by the City, or by a combination thereof, is necessary or convenient to ensure conformity to or implementation of the General Plan or any adopted specific plan.
IMPROVEMENT STANDARDS: The standards for improvements set forth in this and other regulations related to the development of land within the City.
INTENSIVE AGRICULTURAL USE: Agricultural activities that typically are associated with one or more of the following impacts: strong offensive odors, substantial runoff, noise, large concentrations of animal waste and extensive use of chemicals, compost and manure piles.
KENNEL (COMMERCIAL): Any premises wherein any person engages in the business of boarding, breeding, buying, letting for hire, training for a fee, or selling dogs or cats, except a facility operated by a humane society, or a governmental agency or its authorized agents, for the purpose of impounding or caring for animals.
KENNEL (NONCOMMERCIAL): Any premises where five (5) or more dogs and/or cats over the age of four (4) months are kept or maintained for the use and enjoyment of the occupant for noncommercial purposes.
KIOSK: Any off site subdivision or business directional sign or structure, of four (4) sides or less, typically constructed of four inch by six inch (4"x6") posts upon which business directional or subdivision signs may be mounted.
KITCHEN: A room, or any portion of a room, used for cooking and/or preparation of foods.
LANDSCAPING: The planting and maintenance of some combination of trees, shrubs, vines, ground covers, flowers or lawns. In addition, a combination of design may include natural features, such as rock, stone and structural features, including, but not limited to, fountains, reflecting pools, artwork, screens, walls, fences and benches. Organic materials, such as trees, shrubs, etc., are referred to as "soft" landscape. Inorganic materials, such as stone, masonry products, etc., are referred to as "hard" landscape.
LIVESTOCK: Domestic or useful animals normally kept or reared on a farm or ranch for work, breeding, fattening or other purposes, including, but not limited to, horses, bovines, sheep, swine and goats.
LOGO: A trademark or symbol of an organization or business.
LOT: A site or parcel of land under one ownership having frontage upon a street, other than an alley, or a private easement determined by the planning director to be adequate for purpose of access.
LOT (AREA): The horizontal area within the property lines, excluding area to be included in future street right of way as established by dedication.
LOT (CORNER): A site bounded by two (2) or more adjacent street lines that have an angle of intersection of not more than one hundred thirty five degrees (135o).
LOT (DEPTH): The average horizontal distance between the front and rear lot lines measured in the mean direction of the side lot lines.
LOT (DOUBLE FRONTAGE): An interior lot having frontage on more than one street or a corner lot having frontage on more than three (3) streets.
LOT (FLAG OR CORRIDOR): A lot with access provided to the bulk of the lot by means of a narrow corridor.
LOT (INTERIOR): A lot, other than a corner lot.
LOT (KEY): The first interior lot to the rear of a reversed corner lot.
LOT LINE: A line of record that divides one lot from another lot, or from a public or private street, or any other public space.
LOT (NONCONFORMING): A lot which when lawfully created or established, complied with the width, depth and area requirements of the district where located, but which does not conform to the presently existing area or width and depth regulations of the district where located, or which does not conform to the presently existing requirements of the subdivision ordinance governing lot standards.
LOT (REVERSED CORNER): A corner lot, the side line of which is substantially a continuation of the front property line of the first lot to its rear.
LOT (WIDTH): The average horizontal distance between the side lot lines, measured at right angels to the lot depth as a point midway between the front and rear lot lines.
LOW OR MODERATE INCOME HOUSEHOLDS: Persons and families whose income does not exceed one hundred percent (100%) of low income or one hundred twenty percent (120%) of moderate income of Kern County median income.
LOWER INCOME HOUSEHOLDS: Persons or families whose income does not exceed eighty percent (80%) of Kern County median income, adjusted for family size and revised from time to time.
MAINTENANCE: As it relates to the petroleum industry, the repair or replacement of machinery, equipment, apparatus, structure, facility and parts thereof, used on and in connection with an oil operation site or drill site which would constitute a fire or hazard to employees, public health, public safety and public welfare.
MANSARD ROOF/PARAPET: A sloped roof or rooflike facade above and architecturally compatible to a building wall.
MANUFACTURED HOME: A structure, transportable in one or more sections, which is built on a permanent chassis and is designed for use with or without a permanent foundation when connected to the required utilities. For floodplain management purposes, the term "manufactured home" also includes park trailers, travel trailers and other similar vehicles placed on site for more than one hundred eighty (180) consecutive days.
MANUFACTURED HOME PARK OR SUBDIVISION: A parcel (or contiguous parcels) of land divided into two (2) or more manufactured home lots for sale or rent.
MATTER: As defined in accord with Penal Code section 313(b), means any book, magazine, newspaper, or other printed or written material, or any picture, drawing, photograph, motion picture or other pictorial representation, or any statue or other figure, or any recording, transcription or mechanical, chemical or electrical reproduction, or any other articles, equipment, machines or materials.
MEAN SEA LEVEL: For purposes of the national flood insurance program, the national geodetic vertical datum (NGVD) of 1929, or other datum, to which base flood elevations shown on a community's flood insurance rate map are referenced.
MINED LANDS: The surface, subsurface and groundwater of an area where surface mining operations will be, are being, or have been, conducted. This includes private ways and roads appurtenant to any such land excavations, workings, mining waste and areas where structures, facilities, equipment, machines, tools or other materials or property which result from, or are used in surface mining operations are located.
MINERAL EXPLORATION: The search for minerals by geological, geophysical, geochemical or other techniques. These include, but are not limited to, sampling, assaying, drilling, or any surface or underground works needed to determine the type, extent or quantity of minerals present.
MINERALS: Any naturally occurring chemical element or compound, or groups of elements and compounds, formed from inorganic processes and organic substances. These include, but are not limited to, sand, gravel, coal, peat and bituminous rock; but exclude geothermal resources, natural gas and petroleum.
MINING OPERATIONS (SURFACE): 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 operations shall include, but are not limited to:
(A) In place distillation, retorting or leaching.
(B) Production and disposal of mining waste.
(C) Prospecting and exploratory activities.
MINING OPERATOR: Any person who is engaged in surface mining operations, who permits others to conduct surface mining operations on his property and who receives a financial benefit therefrom, or who contracts with others to conduct operations on his behalf, except a person who is engaged in surface mining operations as an employee with wages as his sole compensation.
MINING WASTE: The residual of soil, rock, mineral, liquid, vegetation, equipment, machines, tools or other materials or property directly resulting from, or displaced by, surface mining operations.
MINOR: Any person under the age of eighteen (18) years.
MINOR CHANGE: For purposes of provisions of this title relating to the subdivision of land only, "minor change" shall mean a modification of an approved tentative map that involves a change of lot lines, lot shape, lot dimensions, street alignment width or grade, grading proposals or other elements that do not change the basic design or improvements required in the approved tentative map and the conditions thereof.
MOBILE RECYCLING UNIT: An automobile, truck, trailer or van, licensed by the department of motor vehicles, which is used for the collection of recyclable materials. A mobile recycling center also means the bins, boxes, or containers transported by truck, van, or trailer used for the collection of recyclable materials.
MOBILEHOME: A transportable structure in one or more sections, built on a permanent chassis, and designed to be used with or without a permanent foundation when connected to the required utilities; excluding recreational or travel.
MOBILEHOME PARK: Any area or tract of land where one or more mobile home spaces are rented or leased or held out for rent or lease to accommodate mobilehomes used for human habitation.
MONOPOLE: A structure composed of a single spire used to support communications equipment.
MUNICIPAL CODE: The municipal code of the city, as amended.
NATURAL FEATURE: Any tree, plant form, geographical or geological site or feature.
NEW CONSTRUCTION: For floodplain management purposes, structures for which the "start of construction" commenced on or after the effective date of a floodplain management regulation adopted by the city.
NONCONFORMING USE: A lawfully established and maintained use which does not conform with the development standards for site area per dwelling unit or density for the district in which the use is located by reason of adoption or amendment of this title, or a lawfully established and maintained use of a structure or land which does not conform with the use regulations for the district in which it is located by reason of adoption or amendment of this title.
NUISANCE: An interference with the enjoyment and use of property.
OCCUPANCY: Each separated use of property conducted on the entire lot or within a building or any portion thereof.
OFF SITE SALE: The sale of packaged alcoholic beverages, including beer, wine and distilled spirits for consumption off the premises where sold.
OFF STREET LOADING FACILITIES: A site or portion of a site devoted to the loading or unloading of motor vehicles or trailers, including loading berths, aisles, access drives and landscaped areas.
OFF STREET PARKING FACILITIES: A site or portion of a site devoted to the off street parking of motor vehicles, including parking spaces, aisles, access drives and landscaped areas.
OFFICIAL PLAN LINE: A precise line that established future rights of way along any portion of an existing or proposed street or highway depicted on a map showing the streets and lot line or lines and the proposed right of way lines, and the distance thereof from the established centerline of the street or highway, or from existing or established property lines.
OIL FIELD: An area containing a proved subterranean store of petroleum of economic value.
OIL FIELD (DEVELOPED): Defined area containing equipment for the purpose of extracting subterranean oil deposits that includes, but is not limited to, derricks, storage facilities, drilling equipment, temporary office and storage buildings.
OIL OR GAS EXPLORATION BY SCIENTIFIC MEANS: The search for natural accumulations of oil and gas by any geological, geophysical or other suitable means.
ON SITE SALE: The sale of alcoholic beverages, including beer, wine and distilled spirits for consumption on the premises where sold.
OPEN SPACE (USABLE): Outdoor space that serves a recreational function or provides visual relief from the buildings mass; the minimum dimension of which shall be six feet (6'), excluding required front yards.
ORDINARY MAINTENANCE AND REPAIR: Any work for which a building permit is not required by law where the purpose and effect of such work is to correct any deterioration of or damage to a structure, or any part thereof, and to restore the same to its condition prior to the occurrence of such deterioration or damage.
OVERBURDEN: The soil, rock or other materials that lie above a natural mineral deposit or in between deposits before or after their removal by surface mining operations.
PARK (PRIVATE): Land which is open and available for use by private ownership, membership or other mechanism that precludes park usage by members of general public.
PARK (PUBLIC): Land which is open and available for use by the general public for the active and passive recreational needs of the public.
PARKING FACILITIES: Parking lots and structures.
PARKING, SHARED: A situation where the same parking spaces can be utilized by two (2) or more different uses due to the differing peak hours of operation of the uses involved.
PARKING SPACE: A readily accessible area, within a structure or surface parking area, exclusive of aisles, driveways, ramps and columns, maintained exclusively for the parking of one vehicle.
PARKING STRUCTURE: A structure used for the parking of vehicles where parking is accommodated on two (2) or more levels.
PARKING (TANDEM): A parking space configuration where two (2) or more parking spaces are lined up, one behind the other.
PERMITTED USE: A use that is allowed by right in a particular zone or district without approval of a conditional use permit, and which meets the performance standards within this title.
PERSON: Any individual, firm, association, corporation, organization, partnership; any city, county, district, state; or any department or agency thereof; or other group acting as a unit.
PITCHED ROOF OR GABLED ROOF: A ridge roof with sloping ends over the building walls.
PLACE OF WORSHIP SEATING AREA: The gross floor area of the main assembly hall or auditorium of a place of worship that must be identified for the purpose of calculating parking requirements when fixed seats are not provided. Only the actual seating area (including aisles) shall be counted. The final determination as to what constitutes the "place of worship seating area" shall be made by the approval body of the city.
PLACE OR ERECT: The verbs to place or erect shall mean and include to place, construct, erect, reerect, alter, install, enlarge, move, improve, convert, paint or equip.
POSTER: A sign, temporary in nature and usually on paper or cardboard, used to advertise a coming event or attraction.
PREEXISTING: In existence prior to the effective date of the ordinance enacting this title.
PRESERVATION: The identification, study, protection, restoration, rehabilitation or acquisition of cultural resources.
PROCESSING FACILITY: A building or enclosed space used for the collection and processing of recycling materials for shipment to an end user's specifications, by such means as baling, briquetting, compacting, flattening, grinding, crushing, mechanical sorting, shredding, cleaning and manufacturing. Processing facilities include the following:
(A) A light processing facility under forty five thousand (45,000) square feet of gross collection, processing and storage area and has up to average of two (2) outbound truck shipments per day. These facilities are limited to baling, briquetting, crushing, compacting, grinding, shredding and sorting of source separated recyclable materials and repairing of reusable materials sufficient to qualify as a certified processing facility. This type of facility shall not shred, compact or bale ferrous metals other than food and beverage containers.
(B) A heavy processing facility is any processing facility other than a light processing facility.
PROJECT: Any proposal for new or changed use, or for new construction, alteration or enlargement of any structure, that is subject to the provisions of this title.
PROPERTY LINE (FRONT): The shortest boundary line of a lot that is coterminous with a street line. Boundary lines of a double frontage lot that are coterminous with street lines shall be front property lines. When the boundary lines of a corner lot, which are coterminous with street lines, are of equal or substantially equal lengths, the front lot line shall be determined by the planning director. In determining the front lot line, the planning director shall take into consideration the character of the improvements in the neighborhood of the lot, the relative impact to abutting property owners from the establishment of either of such boundaries as a front lot line, the character of the building proposed to be constructed and the distance that the buildings are set back from the lot lines of the two (2) streets on which the lot in question abuts.
PROPERTY LINE (INTERIOR): A lot line not abutting a street.
PROPERTY LINE (REAR): A lot line that is parallel or approximately parallel to the front lot line. Where no lot line is within forty five degrees (45o) of being parallel to the front lot line, a line ten feet (10') in length within the lot, parallel to and at the maximum possible distance from the front lot line, shall be deemed the rear lot line for the purpose of measuring rear yard depth.
PROPERTY LINE (SIDE): Any lot line that is neither a front lot line nor a rear lot line.
PROPERTY LINE (STREET SIDE): A side lot line abutting a street.
PUBLIC ACCESS:
(A) A dedication to public use or to the city and constructed to the required width for road purposes.
(B) A permanent written easement for road purposes to the required width from the state or federal government.
(C) An "access road", as defined in this section, that has been open to the public without posting for five (5) years or more, provided adequate evidence thereof is submitted to and approved by the city engineer/public works director.
PUBLIC USE: A use operated exclusively by a public body, such use having the purpose of serving the public health, safety or general welfare, and including uses such as public schools, parks, playgrounds, hospitals and administrative and service facilities.
PUBLIC WORKS DIRECTOR: The public works director of the city of Taft, or his/her designee.
QUALIFYING RESIDENT: Any person sixty two (62) years of age or older in a project of one hundred fifty (150) residential units or fewer, or any person fifty five (55) years of age or older in a project greater than one hundred fifty (150) residential units.
QUASI-PUBLIC USE: A use operated by a private nonprofit educational, religious, recreational, charitable or medical institution, such use having the purpose primarily of serving the general public, and including uses such as churches, private schools and universities, community, youth and senior citizen recreational facilities, private hospitals and the like.
RAINY SEASON: Period of the year that, based on historical data for the region, rain can be expected to occur with some frequency. The rainy season is considered to be October 15 through April 15.
RECLAMATION: 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. Mined lands are reclaimed to a usable condition which is readily adaptable for alternate land uses, and creates 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.
RECREATIONAL VEHICLE: A motor home, travel trailer, truck or van camper, tent trailer, camping trailer or trailer borne recreational equipment, with or without motive power, for recreational, travel or emergency purposes. "Recreational vehicle" shall also include boats, boat trailers and recreational off road vehicles.
RECREATIONAL VEHICLE PARK: Any area or tract of land where one or more lots are to be rented, leased or held out for rent or lease to owners or users of recreational vehicles or tents used for travel or recreational purposes and which are occupied on a temporary and transient basis.
RECYCLABLE MATERIAL: Reusable material, including, but not limited to, metals, glass, plastic and paper, which are intended for reuse, remanufacture or construction for the purpose of using the altered form. Recyclable material does not include refuse or hazardous materials.
RECYCLING AREA (AREAS FOR RECYCLING): Space allocated for collecting and loading of recyclable materials. Such areas shall have the ability to accommodate receptacles for recyclable materials. Recycling areas shall be accessible and convenient for those who deposit, as well as those who collect and load any recyclable materials placed therein.
RECYCLING FACILITY: A center for the collection and/or processing of recyclable materials. A "certified recycling facility" or "certified processor" means a recycling facility certified by the California Department of Conservation as meeting the requirements of the California Beverage Container Recycling and Litter Reduction Act of 1986. A recycling facility does not include storage containers or processing activity located on the premises of a residential, commercial or manufacturing use and used solely for the recycling of material generated by that residential property, business or manufacturer. Recycling facilities may include the following:
(A) Collection Facility: A center for the acceptance, by donation, redemption or purchase, of recyclable materials from the public. Such a facility does not use power driven processing equipment, except as indicated in section 6-12-22 of this title. Collection facilities may include the following:
1. Reverse vending machines.
2. A "small collection facility" which occupies an area of not more than five hundred (500) square feet and may include:
(a) A mobile unit;
(b) Bulk reverse vending machines or a grouping of reverse vending machines occupying more than fifty (50) square feet;
(c) Kiosk type units, which may include permanent structures; unattended containers placed for the donation of recyclable materials.
3. A "large collection facility" which may occupy an area of more than five hundred (500) square feet and may include permanent structures.
(B) Mobile Recycling Unit: An automobile, truck, trailer or van, licensed by the Department of Motor Vehicles, which is used for the collection of recyclable materials. A mobile recycling center also means the bins, boxes or containers transported by trucks, vans or trailers, and used for the collection of recyclable materials.
(C) Processing Facility: A building or enclosed space used for the collection and processing of recyclable material. Processing means the preparation of material for efficient shipment, or to an end user's specifications, by such means as baling, briquetting, compacting, flattening, grinding, crushing, mechanical sorting, shredding, cleaning and remanufacturing. Processing facilities include the following:
1. A "light processing facility" occupies an area of under forty five thousand (45,000) square feet of gross collection, processing and storage area, and has up to an average of two (2) outbound truck shipments per day. Light processing facilities are limited to baling, briquetting, crushing, compacting, grinding, shredding and sorting of source separated recyclable materials and repairing of reusable materials sufficient to qualify as a certified processing facility. A light processing facility shall not shred, compact or bale ferrous, other than food and beverage containers.
2. A "heavy processing facility" is any processing facility other than a light processing facility.
(D) Reverse Vending Machine(s):
1. A "reverse vending machine" is an automated mechanical device which accepts at least one or more types of empty beverage containers, including, but not limited to, aluminum cans, glass and plastic bottles and cartons, and issues a cash refund or a redeemable credit slip with a value not less than the container's redemption value as determined by the state. A reverse vending machine may sort and process containers mechanically; provided, that the entire process is enclosed within the machine. In order to accept and temporarily store all three (3) container types in a proportion commensurate with their relative redemption rates, and to meet the requirements of certification as a recycling facility, multiple grouping of reverse vending machines may be necessary.
2. A "bulk reverse vending machine" is a reverse vending machine that is larger than fifty (50) square feet; is designed to accept more than one container at a time; and will pay by weight instead of by container.
REMEDY A VIOLATION: To bring the structure or other development into compliance with state or local floodplain management regulations, or, if this is not possible, to reduce the impacts of its noncompliance. Ways that impacts may be reduced include protecting the structure or other affected development from flood damage, implementing the enforcement provisions of the ordinance or otherwise deterring future similar violations, or reducing federal financial exposure with regard to the structure or other development.
RESTAURANT, BONA FIDE: A place which is regularly used and kept open for the primary purpose of serving meals to guests for compensation and which maintains a minimum of fifty one percent (51%) of its gross receipts from the sales of meals. For the purpose of verifying compliance with the foregoing sales requirement, the sales receipts, accounting ledgers and any other business records pertaining to the sales of food and alcohol shall be open for inspection by the chief of police or his or her designee during the regular business hours of the restaurant upon seventy two (72) hours' prior written notice.
REWORK OR REPAIR: As it relates to the oil industry, rework or repair is any work at the ground surface of an existing well for recompletion with the existing bore hole or by side tract operation beyond the extremities or sides of the existing bore hole casing.
ROOM (HABITABLE): A room meeting the requirements of this title for sleeping, living, cooking or dining purposes, excluding such enclosed places as closets, pantries, bath or toilet rooms, service rooms, connecting corridors, laundries, unfinished attics, foyers, storage spaces, cellars, utility rooms and similar spaces.
SELF-SERVICE STORAGE FACILITY: A building consisting of individual, small, self-contained units that are leased or owned for the storage of business and household goods or contractor supplies.
SIGN: Any medium for visual communication, including copy, structure and component parts, which is used or intended to be used to attract attention to, identify or advertise an establishment, product, service, activity or location, or to provide information. This definition shall not include the display of the American flag, state flag or other similar political entities.
SIGN (ACCESSORY): A sign whose copy refers to the products, facilities or services available on the premises. Accessory window signs include also temporary posters attached to windows or placed within five feet (5') of any window and legible off the site.
SIGN (ATTRACTION BOARD): A sign capable of supporting copy which is readily changeable, such as a theater marquee, which refers to products, services or coming events on the premises.
SIGN (BANNER, FLAG, PENNANT OR BALLOON): A visual display device, with or without copy, which can vary in shape and is normally made of flexible material, such as cloth, paper or plastic.
SIGN (BUILDING MOUNTED): A sign affixed to a building, including awnings and windows.
SIGN (BUSINESS IDENTIFICATION): A sign whose copy is limited to the name, type of business and address of the premises upon which the sign is located.
SIGN (CABINET): A building mounting sign which consists of a single, internally lighted cabinet with the sign's lettering applied to that face rather than separate letters or figures mounted individually onto a wall or building (e.g., channel letters).
SIGN (CANOPY OR AWNING): A sign painted, placed or installed on any awning or canopy.
SIGN (CHANNEL LETTERS): A sign consisting of individual letters or figures mounted separately on the wall or structure to spell out or otherwise represent a sign's message copy.
SIGN (CONSTRUCTION): A sign containing information pertaining to a future development on a site where the sign is located, including the name of the product, developer, contractor, architect, financing source, future occupants and other information directly related to the development.
SIGN (CONVENIENCE): A sign that conveys information, such as "restrooms", "no parking", "entrance" or minor business identification for directional purposes, and is designed to be viewed on site by pedestrians and/or motorists.
SIGN (COPY): Any words, letters, numbers, figures, designs or other symbolic representations incorporated onto the face of a sign.
SIGN (DIRECTIONAL): A sign directing motorists or pedestrians to parking or building facilities, or providing similar directional information.
SIGN (DIRECTORY): A sign to identify the name of the occupants within a business or residential complex.
SIGN (ELECTRONIC MESSAGE): A sign having the capacity of presenting variable message displays by projecting an electronically controlled light pattern against a contrasting background to change messages by electronic process, or by remote control.
SIGN (EXEMPT): A sign which is designated as not subject to certain regulations of this title.
SIGN (FACE): The exterior surface of a sign, exclusive of structural supports, on which is placed the sign copy.
SIGN (FREESTANDING): A sign supported upon the ground and not attached to any building.
SIGN HEIGHT (FREESTANDING SIGN): The greatest vertical distance between the top of the sign and the elevation measured at the roadbed of the nearest street.
SIGN HEIGHT (WALL OR BUILDING MOUNTED SIGN): The distance between the top of the sign panel inserted into or placed on the wall and the roadbed of the nearest street.
SIGN (IDENTIFICATION): A sign whose copy is limited to the name, type of business, and address of a building, business, office, establishment, person or activity on the premises where the sign is located.
SIGN (IDENTIFICATION, MAJOR): An identification sign facing the public streets or pedestrian paths providing primary access to the premises identified by the sign.
SIGN (IDENTIFICATION, SECONDARY): Any identification sign, other than a major identification sign.
SIGN (ILLUMINATED): A sign in which a source of light is used in order to make readable the message or attract attention to the sign. This definition includes internally and externally lighted signs and glowing or radiating signs.
SIGN (MONUMENT): A freestanding sign whose support structures shall be a solid base constructed of a permanent material, such as concrete block or brick.
SIGN (NONCONFORMING): A sign, outdoor advertising, structure or display of any character which was lawfully erected or displayed, but which does not conform with standards for location, size, illumination or movement for the district in which it is located by reason of adoption or amendment of this title.
SIGN (OFF SITE ADVERTISING SIGN): A sign referring to any person, establishment, merchandise, service, event or entertainment which is not located, sold, produced, manufactured, provided or furnished on the premises upon which the sign is located.
SIGN (ON SITE): A sign referring to a person, establishment, merchandise, service, event or entertainment which is located, sold, produced, manufactured, provided or furnished on the premises where the sign is located.
SIGN (PEDESTRIAN ORIENTED): A small sign readable primarily from the abutting sidewalk or other walkway, but not generally from the street.
SIGN PERMIT: An entitlement from the city to place, erect or alter a sign.
SIGN (POLE): A freestanding on site sign whose support structures consist of bare members having no architectural form and detailing to hide the steel or wood members used to support the basic sign structure. These signs do not include signs whose support structures consist of decorative timbers or masonry structures.
SIGN (POLITICAL): A sign whose text indicates any one or a combination of the following: a) the name and/or picture of an individual seeking election or appointment to public office; or b) related to a forthcoming public election, initiative or referendum.
SIGN (PORTABLE): Any sign designated to be moved easily and which is not permanently affixed to either the ground, structure or a building.
SIGN PROGRAM (PLANNED): A plan providing coordinated signing for a business or a contiguous group of businesses and utilizing one or more common design elements, such as colors, materials, lettering, illumination, sign type and sign shape.
SIGN REVIEW AUTHORITY: The entity that has been given the authority by this title to review and approve or disapprove a sign or planned sign program, or any appeals or variances connected with such signs. The reviewing authorities include the city council and the planning director or her/his designee.
SIGN SIZE OR AREA: The entire area of the sign face, including nonstructural perimeter trim, but excluding structures or uprights on which the sign is supported.
SIGN (SPECIAL EVENT): A temporary sign advertising special events and activities, such as grand openings, special sales, charitable events, Christmas trees, fireworks and other events. Such signs are limited to the provisions listed in this title.
SIGN STRUCTURE: The structural supports, uprights and bracing for a sign.
SIGN (SUBDIVISION): An on site or off site sign advertising the original sale, leasing or renting of units within a subdivision.
SIGN (SURFACE AREA): The area of a sign measured by the smallest geometric form, such as a square, rectangle, triangle or circle, or combination thereof, which will encompass the face of the sign on which the message is displayed.
SIGN (TEMPORARY): A sign utilized to identify a business or other activity for an interim period.
SIGN (UNDER CANOPY): A sign suspended beneath a projecting canopy, walkway cover, awning, ceiling or marquee.
SIGN (WINDOW): Any written representation, emblem or other figure or similar character painted on or otherwise affixed or oriented to a window.
SIGNIFICANT FEATURE: The natural or manmade elements embodying style or type of cultural resource, design or general arrangement and components of an improvement, including, but not limited to, the kind, color and texture of the building materials, and the type and style of all windows, doors, lights, signs and other fixtures appurtenant to such improvement.
SITE: A lot or group of contiguous lots not divided by an alley, street, other right of way or city limit that is proposed for development in accord with the provisions of this title, and is in a single ownership or has multiple owners, all of whom join in an application for development.
SMOKING LOUNGE, PRIVATE: Any commercial or industrial facility or location whose business operation, whether as its principal use or as an accessory use, is denoted by the on site smoking or inhaling of tobacco, liquids, flavorings and nicotine, through cigarettes, cigars, e-cigarettes or vapor smoking devices, or any other substances.
SPECIFIC PLAN: A plan as defined in California Government Code section 65450.
STATE GEOLOGIST: The individual holding office as provided in the California Public Resources Code section 677, article 3, chapter 2, division 1.
STEALTH FACILITY: Any communications facility designed to blend into the surrounding environment. Examples of stealth facilities may include screened roof mounted antennas, building mounted antennas painted to match the existing structure, antennas integrated into architectural elements, and antenna structures designed to look like light poles. Stealth facilities are also referred to as concealed antennas.
STOCKYARD: Enclosure for the holding of cattle, swine, horses and other domestic animals kept for slaughter, market or shipping.
STORY: That portion of a building included between the upper surface of any floor and the upper surface of the floor next above, except that the topmost story shall be that portion of a building included between the upper surface of the topmost floor and the ceiling above. The basement or cellar shall not be considered a story unless the upper surface of the floor above is more than six feet (6') above the average level of the highest and lowest points of the ground surface immediately adjacent to the exterior walls of the building.
STREET, ARTERIAL: A highway intended to serve through traffic, where access rights are restricted and intersections with other streets or highways may be limited.
STREET, COLLECTOR: A street which is intended to serve intensive residential land use, multiple-family dwellings or to convey traffic through a subdivision to roads of equal capacity or greater. It may also serve as cul-de-sac in industrial or commercial use areas, but shall not exceed six hundred sixty feet (660') in length when so used.
STREET, CUL-DE-SAC: A road open at one end only, with special provisions for turning around and the further extension of which is precluded by the land division design.
STREET, EXPRESSWAY: A highway for the through traffic to which access from abutting property is restricted and which intersections with other streets or highways shall be limited to approximately one-half (1/2) mile intervals.
STREET, HIGHWAY: Roads, streets, boulevards, lanes, courts, places, commons, trails, ways or other rights of way or easements used for or lay out and intended for the public passage of vehicles or of vehicles and persons.
STREET, HIGHWAY OR PUBLIC RIGHT OF WAY: A public thoroughfare, avenue, road, highway, boulevard, parkway, way, drive, lane, court or private easement, providing the primary roadway to and egress from the property abutting thereon.
STREET (PRIVATE): A private reciprocal easement providing the primary roadway to and egress from the property abutting thereon.
STRUCTURAL ALTERATION: Any change in alteration to a structure involving bearing wall, column, beam or girder, floor or ceiling joists, roof rafters, roof diaphragms, foundations, piles, retaining walls or similar components.
STRUCTURE: Anything constructed or erected that requires a location on the ground, including a building or a swimming pool, but not including a fence or a wall used as a fence if the height does not exceed six feet (6'), or access drives or walks.
STRUCTURE (MAIN): A structure housing the principal use of a site or functioning as the principal use.
SUBDIVIDER: A person, firm, corporation, partnership or association who proposes to divide, divides or cause to be divided real property into a subdivision for himself or for others, except that employees and consultants of such persons or entities, acting in such capacity, are not "subdividers".
SUBDIVISION: The division, by any subdivider, of any unit improved or unimproved land, or any portion thereof, shown on the latest equalized county assessment roll as a unit or as contiguous units, for the purpose of sale, lease or financing, whether immediate or future, except for leases or agricultural land for agricultural purposes. Property shall be considered as contiguous units, even if it is separated by roads, streets, utility easement or railroad rights of way. "Subdivision" includes a condominium project, as defined in Civil Code section 1350, a community apartment project, as defined in Business And Professions Code section 11004, or the conversion of five (5) or more existing dwelling units to a stock cooperative, as defined in Business And Professions Code section 11003.2.
SUBSTANTIAL CHANGE: A revision to an adopted or proposed application or permit which would increase the intensity of site use or project related traffic, increase the environmental impacts of the development, require a modification of approval findings, or modify conditions of approval specifically imposed by the approving body.
SUBSTANTIAL IMPROVEMENT: Any repair, reconstruction or improvement of a structure, the cost of which equals or exceeds fifty percent (50%) of the market value of the structure either:
(A) Before the improvement or repair is started; or
(B) If the structure has been damaged and is being restored, before the damage occurred. For the purposes of this definition, "substantial improvement" occurs when the first alteration of any wall, ceiling, floor or other structural part of the building commences, whether or not that alteration affects the external dimensions of the structure.
SUMP OR SUMP PIT: As it relates to the oil field, an earthen pit for discharge of oil field waste.
SUPPORTIVE HOUSING: Housing with no limit on length of stay, that is occupied by the target population, and that is linked to on or off site services that assist the supportive housing resident in retaining the housing, improving his or her health status, and maximizing his or her ability to live and, when possible, work in the community, as defined in Government Code section 50675.14(b).
SWIMMING POOLS AND HOT TUBS: Water filled enclosures having a depth of eighteen inches (18") or more used for swimming or recreation.
TARGET POPULATION: Adults with low income having one or more disabilities, including mental illness, HIV or AIDS, substance abuse, or other chronic health conditions, or individuals eligible for service provided under the Lanterman development disabilities services act and may, among other populations, include adults, emancipated minors, families with children, elderly persons, young adults aging out of the foster care system, individuals exiting from institutional settings (e.g., jails, hospitals, prisons, and institutes of mental disease), veterans, or homeless people, as defined in Government Code section 50675.14.
TATTOOING: The act or process of marking or coloring the skin of any person by the insertion of pigment under the skin or by the production of scars.
TEMPORARY USE: A use established for a fixed period of time with the intent to discontinue such use upon expiration of the fixed time period.
TENTATIVE MAP, REVISED: A modification of an approved tentative map wherein the design of the land division is substantially changed from the approved tentative map.
TOBACCO SHOP: Any facility or business establishment, whether as its principal use or as an accessory use, that includes the sale of tobacco products, including, but not limited to, cigars, pipe tobacco, smokeless tobacco, e-cigarettes, vapor cigarettes and smoking accessories.
TRAILER: Any vehicle or structure used for sleeping, living, business or storage purposes and having no foundation, other than wheels, blocks, skids, jacks or skirting, and which is, has been, or reasonably may be, equipped with wheels or other devices for transportation of the structure from one place to another.
TRAILER (NONRESIDENTIAL): Any trailer used as a construction building, temporary office or the like.
TRAILER (TRAVEL): A vehicle or portable structure built on a chassis that is designed to be used as a temporary dwelling for travel and recreational purposes having a body not exceeding eight feet (8') in width.
TRANSITIONAL HOUSING: Buildings configured as rental housing developments, but operated under program requirements that call for the termination of assistance and recirculation of the assisted unit to another eligible program recipient at some predetermined future point in time, which shall be no less than six (6) months, as defined in Government Code section 50675.2(h).
TREE EXPERT: A California registered professional forester or an arborist certified by the western chapter of the International Society Of Arborists.
TRUCK (LARGE): A truck weighing eleven thousand five hundred (11,500) pounds or more unloaded.
USE: The purpose for which a site or structure is arranged, designed, intended, constructed, erected, moved, altered or enlarged for which either a site or structure is or may be occupied or maintained.
USED: Arranged, designed, constructed, altered, rented, leased, sold, occupied and intended to be occupied.
VARIANCE: A grant of relief from the requirements of this code that permits construction or use of land, in a manner that would otherwise be prohibited by this code as provided in section 6-2-6 of this title.
VEHICLE: See definition of Automobile/Automotive.
VISIBLE: Likely to be noticed by a person of average height walking on a street or sidewalk.
WAREHOUSE (MINI): See definition of Self-Service Storage Facility.
WAREHOUSING: The use of a building or buildings for the storage of goods of any type, when such building or buildings contain more than five hundred (500) square feet of storage space and where no retail operation is conducted.
WELL (OIL): Any well or hole already drilled, being drilled or to be drilled from the surface into the earth which is used or intended to be used in connection with the drilling for, prospecting for, or production of oil, natural gas or other hydrocarbon substances. The term "oil well" shall include injection wells for the purpose of secondary recovery and disposal wells for the purpose of disposing wastewater. It shall also include any well for the discovery of geothermal resources or any well of lands producing geothermal resources or reasonably presumed to contain geothermal resources, or any special well, converted, producing wells or reactivating abandoned wells employed for reinjecting geothermal resources or the residue thereof.
WHIP ANTENNA: An antenna that transmits signals in three hundred sixty degrees (360o). Whip antennas are typically cylindrical in shape and are less than six inches (6") in diameter and measure up to eighteen feet (18') in height. Also called omnidirectional, stick or pipe antennas.
WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS FACILITY: A land use facility supporting antennas and microwave dishes that send and/or receive radio frequency signals. Communications facilities include structures or towers, and accessory buildings.
YARD (FRONT): A yard extending across the full width of a site, the depth of which is the minimum horizontal distance between the front property line and a line parallel thereto on the site.
YARD (JUNK OR SALVAGE):
(A) An area, improved or unimproved in excess of two hundred (200) square feet that:
1. Upon which or in which is stored or kept junk, salvage materials, scrap metals, inoperative vehicles or equipment, or any combination thereof;
2. Upon which vehicles or equipment or other property is dismantled or wrecked; or
3. Upon which or in which salvage materials, inoperative vehicles, equipment or parts therefrom, scrap metals or any combination thereof is kept for resale.
(B) Materials or equipment kept on any premises for use in construction of any building on such premises, and materials and equipment customarily used on a farm or ranch, and so situated, shall not be deemed "junk" or "salvage material" within the meaning of this definition.
YARD OR COURT: An open space on the same site as a structure, unoccupied and unobstructed by structures from the ground upward or from the floor level of a structure requiring a yard or court upward from that floor level, except as otherwise provided in this title, including a front yard, side yard, rear yard or court between structures.
YARD (REAR): A yard extending across the full width of a site, the depth of which is the minimum horizontal distance between the rear property line and a line parallel thereto on the site, except that on a corner lot the rear yard shall extend only to the side yard abutting a street.
YARD (SIDE): A yard extending from the rear line of the required front yard, or the front property line of the site where no front yard is required, to the front line of the required rear yard, or the rear property line of the site where no rear yard is required, the width of which is the horizontal distance between the side property line and line parallel thereto on the site, except that the side yard on the street side of a corner lot shall extend to the rear lot line.
ZONING DISTRICT: Those classifications of land, as included herein and identified on the zoning map, which regulate land use and establish standards by which land may be developed and utilized. (Ord. 768-08, 8-19-2008; amd. Ord. 782-10, 4-6-2010; Ord. 812-15, 7-7-2015; Ord. 813-15, 7-7-2015; Ord. 814-15, 7-7-2015; Ord. 815-16, 5-3-2016; Ord. 828-17, 8-1-2017; Ord. 842-21, 9-7-2021; Ord. 849-22, 12-6-2022)
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