PARAPET: The extension of the main walls of a building above the roofline.
PARCEL: A lot, or contiguous group of lots, in single ownership or under single control, usually considered a unit for purposes of development.
PARK: A tract of land, designated and used by the public for active and/or passive recreation.
PARK AND RECREATION FACILITIES: Noncommercial parks, playgrounds, recreation facilities, and open spaces.
PARKING, COMMERCIAL LOT: A business enterprise engaged in providing the service of parking space of vehicles for short term use, typically less than twenty four (24) hours in duration.
PARKING LOT: A site or a portion of a site, devoted to the temporary off street parking of vehicles, including parking spaces, aisles, access drives, and landscaped areas, and providing vehicle access to a public street.
PARKING; OFF STREET LOADING FACILITIES: A site or a portion of a site, including loading berths, aisles, access drives, and landscape areas, devoted to the loading or unloading of people or materials.
PARKING, SHARED: Joint use of a parking area for more than one use.
PARKING SPACE: A readily accessible area maintained exclusively for the parking of one motor vehicle. The parking space may be either within a structure or in the open and does not include driveways, ramps, loading or working areas, and conforms to dimensions and standards established in this title.
PARKWAY: The area of a public street that lies between the curb and the adjacent property line or physical boundary definition such as fences or walls, which is used for landscaping and/or passive recreational purposes.
PAWNSHOP: An establishment engaged in retail sales of new or secondhand merchandise and offering loans secured by personal property.
PEDDLER: A person who engages in peddling.
PEDDLING: Selling merchandise which is transported from place to place in the course of approaching prospective customers or selling merchandise or services from door to door.
PEDESTRIAN FOOD VENDOR: A person who sells or offers for sale any food or beverage from any portable box, pushcart, stand, bag, or similar container on any public street, including parkways or sidewalks within the town.
PERFORMANCE STANDARDS: Zoning regulations that set standards of operation. Performance standards provide specific criteria limiting noise, air pollution, emissions, odors, vibration, dust, dirt, glare, heat, fire hazards, wastes, traffic impacts and visual impact of a use.
PERMIT: Written governmental permission issued by an authorized official, empowering the holder thereof to do some act not forbidden by law but not allowed with such authorization.
PERMITTED USE/STRUCTURE: Any use allowed in a land use district and subject to the provisions applicable to that district.
PERSON: Any individual, firm, copartnership, joint venture, association, social club, fraternal organization, company, joint stock association, corporation, estate, trust, organization, business, business trust, public agency, school district, state of California and its political subdivisions or instrumentalities, receiver, syndicate or any group or combination thereof, acting as a unit, including any trustee or assignee.
PERSONAL IMPROVEMENT SERVICES: Services or facilities including, but not limited to, photography, fine arts, crafts, driving schools, beauty and hair salon, and diet centers.
PERSONAL SERVICE: A commercial land use providing recurrently needed services of a personal nature. Personal services generally include barber and beauty shops, seamstresses, tailors, shoe repair shops, dry cleaning (except bulk processing plants), photo processing, photocopying, and self-service laundries.
PLACES OF ASSEMBLY: Includes public and private institutions, such as religious uses, lodges, clubs, senior citizen centers, youth centers, community centers and YMCA/YWCA facilities.
PLANNED RESIDENTIAL DEVELOPMENT (PRD): A type of development characterized by comprehensive planning for the project as a whole, clustering of structures to preserve usable open space and other natural features, and a mixture of housing types within the prescribed densities.
PLANNING DIVISION: An administrative and professional division within the municipal structure charged with the responsibility of providing long range and short term planning services and zoning administration to the community, as established by the town.
PLANT NURSERY: A place where plants are propagated and grown to usable size. They include retail nurseries which sell to the general public, wholesale nurseries which sell only to businesses such as other nurseries and to commercial gardeners, and private nurseries which supply the needs of institutions or private estates.
PLAT: A map representing a tract of land showing the boundaries and location of individual properties and streets; a map of a subdivision or site plan.
PLAYGROUND: See definition of Park And Recreation Facilities.
PLAZA: An open space which is improved and landscaped, usually surrounded by streets and buildings.
PLOT: A single unit parcel of land; a parcel of land that can be identified and referenced to a recorded plat or map.
PORCH: A roofed open area, which may be screened, usually attached to or part of and with direct access to or from a building.
PORTE-COCHERE: A large entrance gateway into a courtyard. A kind of porch roof projecting over a driveway at an entrance.
PREEXISTING: In existence prior to the effective date of this chapter, as amended.
PREZONING: The process or action by which cities are able to designate that portion of an unincorporated area for future annexation, with specific zoning districts which will apply, upon annexation of the property to the town.
PRINCIPAL BUILDING: A building in which the primary use of the lot on which the building is located is conducted.
PRINCIPAL USE: The primary or predominant use of any lot, building or structure.
PRINTING AND PUBLISHING: A. Limited: The preparation of camera ready artwork and text, photocopying, printing, and binding in a building not exceeding one thousand (1,000) square feet.
B. Unlimited: The preparation of camera ready artwork and text, photocopying, printing and binding in a building exceeding one thousand (1,000) square feet.
PRIVATE CLUBS AND LODGES: An association of persons, whether incorporated or unincorporated and organized for some common nonprofit purpose, but not including a group organized solely or primarily to render a service customarily carried on as a business.
PRIVATE HOME RENTAL, SHORT TERM: A dwelling unit, including either a single-family detached or multi-family attached unit, owned, leased or rented on a less than thirty (30) day basis. This definition includes a second dwelling unit on site. This does not include the ongoing month to month tenancy granted to the same renter for the same unit.
PRIVATE RECREATIONAL FACILITIES: Facilities including, but not limited to, country clubs, tennis and swim clubs, golf courses, racquetball and handball facilities, YMCA, YWCA, and limited commercial uses which are commonly associated and directly related to these primary uses.
PROFESSIONAL OFFICES: See definition of Office.
PUBLIC AND SEMIPUBLIC USES: A class of uses generally open to the public and maintained and supported by public or nonprofit agencies or organizations and which are of a recreational, civic, educational, religious or cultural nature.
PUBLIC IMPROVEMENT: Any improvement or facility, together with the right of way necessary to provide transportation, drainage, utilities, or other facilities that are usually owned, operated and/or maintained by a government agency.
PUBLIC PARK: A park, playground, swimming pool, beach, pier, reservoir, golf course or athletic field within the town which is under the control, operation or management of the town, the county or state.
PUBLIC RIGHT OF WAY: A strip of land acquired by reservation, dedication, prescription or condemnation and intended to be occupied by a road, trail, water line, sanitary sewer and/or other public use(s).
PUBLIC SAFETY FACILITIES: Facilities for public safety and emergency services, including police and fire protection.
PUBLIC UTILITY SERVICE YARD: A premises used for the office, warehouse, storage yard, or vehicle and equipment maintenance of a public utility. Public utility service yard may include microwave, radio, cable, and/or other communication equipment.
PUSHCART: Any wagon, cart or similar wheeled container, not a vehicle as defined in the Vehicle Code of the state of California from which food or beverage is offered for sale to the public. (Ord. 252, 11-18-2014)