9.99.060: "E" DEFINITIONS:
EASEMENT: A grant of one or more property rights by the property owner for use by the public, a corporation or another person or entity.
EASEMENT, CONSERVATION: A tool for acquiring open space with less than full fee purchase, whereby a public agency buys or is granted only certain specific rights from the landowner. These may be positive rights (providing the public with the opportunity to hunt, fish, hike, or ride over the land), or they may be restrictive rights (limiting the uses to which the landowner may devote the land to in the future).
EATING AND DRINKING ESTABLISHMENTS: Businesses serving prepared food or beverages for consumption on or off the premises. Also refer to the definition of Food And Beverage Sales. Related eating and drinking establishment terms are defined as follows:
   A.   Accessory Food Service: An establishment that sells food and/or beverages as an accessory use in a retail, office, or institutional structure and that does not change the character of the primary use.
   B.   Bars, Lounges, Nightclubs, Taverns (Includes Independent Or Accessory Establishments): Any establishment that sells or serves alcoholic beverages for consumption on the premises and is holding or applying for a public premises license from ABC and in which persons under twenty one (21) years of age are restricted from the premises. References to the establishment shall include any immediately adjacent area that is owned, leased, or rented, or controlled by the licensee.
   C.   Fast Food: A restaurant which supplies food and beverages primarily in disposable containers and which is characterized by high automobile accessibility, self-service and short stays by customers.
   D.   Outdoor Dining: A dining area with seats and/or tables located outdoors of a sit down restaurant, fast food, or other food service establishment. Outdoor dining is located entirely outside the walls of the contiguous structure or enclosed on one or two (2) sides by the walls of the structure with or without a solid roof cover.
      1. Limited: Outdoor dining area encompassing up to eight hundred (800) square feet of area, inclusive.
      2. General: Outdoor dining area encompassing more than eight hundred (800) square feet of area.
   E.   Restaurant: An establishment engaged in the business of selling food and beverages, including alcoholic beverages, prepared on site for primarily on site consumption. Food and beverages are served to the customer at a fixed location (i.e., booth, counter, or table). Food and beverages are ordered from individual menus. Customers typically pay for food and beverages after service and/or consumption. The sale or service of sandwiches, whether prepared in the kitchen or made elsewhere and heated up on the premises, or snack foods, shall not constitute a sit down restaurant. For off site consumption, see definition of Food And Beverage Sales.
   F.   Takeout Service: An establishment that offers a limited variety of food or beverages. Transactions are sales for off site consumption. Customers are served either at a counter or service window. Incidental seating (less than 250 square feet of seating area) may be provided for limited on site consumption of food or beverages. Typical uses include bakeries, coffee stores, ice cream and frozen dessert stores, delivery-only pizza establishments, small delicatessens, and similar establishments.
EAVES: The projecting overhang at the lower edge of a roof.
EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTION: A college or university, supported wholly or in part by public funds or giving general academic instruction equivalent to the standards prescribed by the state board of education.
ELEVATION: A vertical distance above or below a fixed reference level. A dimensioned drawing of the front, rear or side of a building showing features such as windows, doors and relationship of grade to floor level.
EMERGENCY SHELTER: A facility that provides immediate and short term housing and supplemental services. Shelters come in many sizes, but an optimum size is considered to be twenty (20) to forty (40) beds. Supplemental services may include food, counseling, and access to other social programs.
EMISSION: A discharge of pollutants in the air or water.
ENCROACHMENT: The placement or construction of a fence, building, structure or other improvement on another's property, on a public right of way or into a required setback.
ENTERTAINMENT, LIVE: A musical, theatrical, dance, cabaret, or comedy act performed by one or more persons. Any form of dancing by patrons or guests at an eating and drinking establishment or bar is live entertainment. Live entertainment does not include the term "adult entertainment facility" or "adult entertainment establishment".
ENVIRONMENT: The physical conditions which exist within the area which will be affected by a proposed project, including land, air, water, mineral, flora, fauna, noise, and objects of historic or aesthetic significance.
ENVIRONMENTAL CONSTRAINTS: Environmental factors which limit or inhibit the potential for land development, including, but not limited to, flood hazards, seismic hazards, air quality and water supply.
ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT: Projected long or short term effects (adverse or beneficial) which a development project or plan may have on the natural and built environment if the project is carried out.
EQUESTRIAN FACILITY: A commercial facility for horses, donkeys, and/or mules. Examples include horse ranches, boarding stables, riding schools and academies, horse exhibition facilities (for shows or other competitive events), and barns, stables, corrals and paddocks accessory and incidental to these uses. Does not include the simple pasturing of horses, donkeys, and/or mules, which is instead included in "animal keeping". Does not include rodeo arenas, which are under "sports or entertainment assembly".
EQUIPMENT SALES, SERVICES AND RENTALS: Sales, services or rentals of equipment including, but not limited to, construction equipment and agricultural equipment.
EROSION: The wearing away of the ground surface as a result of the movement of wind or water or machine.
EROSION, ACCELERATED: Erosion caused by a human induced alteration of the vegetation, land surface, topography, or runoff pattern. Evidence of accelerated erosion is often indicated by exposed soils, gullies, rills, sediment deposits, or slope failures caused by human activities.
EROSION HAZARD: The susceptibility of a site to erode, based on condition of slope, rock type, soil, and other site factors. Hazard may be determined based on a site specific investigation, and such soil disturbance may be caused by wind, water or machine.
EXCAVATION: Removal or recovery by any means of soil, rock, minerals, mineral substances, or organic substances, other than vegetation.
EXOTIC ANIMAL: Any warm or cold blooded animal of the biological family Animalia, generally considered as wild, exotic, dangerous, venomous or not normally domesticated.
EXPANSION: The use of additional land or floor area.
EXTENSION: An increase in the amount of time that a permit or approval may be valid. (Ord. 252, 11-18-2014)