13.80.020 - Definitions of specialized terms and phrases.

As used in this title, the following terms and phrases shall have the meaning ascribed to them in this section, unless the context in which they are used clearly requires otherwise.

A.    Definitions, A.

Abut means having property lines, street lines, or zoning district lines in common.

Accessory retail or services mean the retail sale of various products, or the provision of certain personal services within a health care, hotel, office, or industrial complex, to employees or customers. Examples of these uses include pharmacies, gift shops, and food service establishments within hospitals; convenience stores and food service establishments within hotel, office and industrial complexes; and barber and beauty shops within residential care facilities.

Accessory structure means a structure that is physically detached from, secondary and incidental to, and commonly associated with a primary structure on the same site. See also Agricultural accessory structure, and Residential accessory uses and structures.

Accessory use means a use customarily incidental to, related and clearly subordinate to a primary use on the same parcel, which does not alter the primary use nor serve property other than the parcel where the primary use is located.

Adult-oriented business means a business based upon materials or performances that depict, describe, or relate to specified sexual activities or specified anatomical areas, as defined in the municipal code.

Affordable rent means monthly housing expenses, including a reasonable allowance for utilities, for rental units reserved for very low or low income households, not exceeding the following calculations:

1.     Very low income means fifty percent of median income as defined by state law (Health and Safety Code Section 50105) and the HUD income limits.

2.     Low income means eighty percent of median income as defined by state law (Health and Safety Code Section 50079.5) and the HUD income limits.

3.     Extremely low income means thirty percent of the median income as defined by state law (Health and Safety Code Section 50106) and the HUD income limits.

Affordable sales price means a sales price at which very low and low income households can qualify for the purchase of designated dwelling units, calculated on the basis of underwriting standards of mortgage financing available for the development.

Agent means a person authorized in writing by the property owner to represent and act for a property owner in contacts with town employees, committees, commissions, and the council, regarding matters regulated by this title.

Agricultural accessory structure means a structure for sheltering or confining animals, or agricultural equipment, hay, feed, etc. Examples of these structures include barns, noncommercial greenhouses, coops, corrals, and pens. Does not include pasture fencing.

Agricultural products processing means the processing of harvested crops to prepare them for on-site marketing or processing and packaging elsewhere. Examples of this land use include the following:

Alfalfa cubing

Corn shelling

Cotton ginning

Custom grist mills

Custom milling of flour, feed and grain

Dairies (but not feedlots, see instead livestock operations, sales yards, feedlots, stockyards)

Drying of corn, rice, hay, fruits and vegetables

Grain cleaning and custom grinding

Hay baling and cubing

Precooling and packaging of fresh or farm-dried fruits and vegetables

Sorting, grading and packing of fruits and vegetables

Tree nut hulling and shelling

Does not include wineries, which are separately defined.

Agriculture means and includes the activities defined by this title under the terms agricultural accessory structure, agricultural products processing, animal keeping, and crop production, horticulture, orchard, vineyard, plant nursery, and winery; and as defined by the state of California under the term agricultural use in Government Code Section 51200 (the “Williamson Act”).

Alcoholic beverage sales mean the retail sale of beer, wine, and/or distilled spirits for on-premises or off-premises consumption.

Alley means a public or private roadway that provides vehicle access to the rear or side of parcels having other public street frontage, that is not intended for general traffic circulation.

Allowed use means a use of land identified by Division 2 as a permitted or conditional use that may be established with land use permit and, where applicable, design review and/or building permit approval, subject to compliance with all applicable provisions of this title.

Alteration means any construction or physical change in the internal arrangement of rooms or the supporting members of a structure, or a change in the external appearance of any structure, not including painting.

Ambulance, taxi, or limousine dispatch facility means a base facility from which taxis and limousines are dispatched, and/or where ambulance vehicles and crews standby for emergency calls.

Animal keeping. See Section 13.42.060.

Apartment. See Multifamily housing.

Applicant means any person who is filing an application requesting an action who is:

1.     The owner or lessee of property;

2.     A party who has contracted to purchase property contingent upon that party’s ability to acquire the necessary approvals required for that action in compliance with this title, and who presents written authorization from the property owner to file an application with the town; or

3.     The agent of either of the above who presents written authorization from the property owner to file an application with the town.

Approval means and includes both approval and approval with conditions.

Arborist means: (1) A person currently certified by the Western Chapter of the International Society of Arboriculture as an expert on the care of trees; (2) a consulting arborist who satisfies the requirements of the American Society of Consulting Arborists; or (3) other qualified professionals who the director determines have gained through experience the qualifications to identify, remove, or replace trees.

Architectural feature means an exterior building feature including roof, windows, doors, porches, etc.

Artisan/craft product manufacturing means establishments manufacturing and/or assembling small products primarily by hand, including jewelry, pottery and other ceramics, as well as small glass and metal art and craft products.

Artisan shop means a retail store selling art glass, ceramics, jewelry, paintings, sculpture, and other handcrafted items, where the store includes an area for the crafting of the items being sold.

Assessed value means the value of a structure as shown in the records of the county assessor.

Attached means connected, or solidly incorporated together, through the extension of a common wall or similar main component for at least five feet and not capable of being removed without damage to the structure and not simply joined together by a breezeway or similar smaller connecting structure.

Attic means the area located between the uppermost plate and the roof or ridge of a structure.

Auto and vehicle sales/rental means a retail or wholesale establishment selling and/or renting automobiles, trucks and vans, trailers, motorcycles, and bicycles (bicycle sales are also included under “General retail”). May also include repair shops and the sales of parts and accessories, incidental to vehicle dealerships. Does not include: the sale of auto parts/accessories separate from a vehicle dealership (see auto parts sales); mobile home, recreational vehicle, or watercraft sales (see mobile home, RV and boat sales); tire recapping establishments (see vehicle services); businesses dealing exclusively in used parts, (see recycling—scrap and dismantling yards); or gas stations, which are separately defined.

Auto parts sales means and includes stores that sell new automobile parts, tires, and accessories. Establishments that provide installation services are instead included under “Vehicle services—repair and maintenance—minor.” Does not include tire recapping establishments, which are found under “Vehicle services” or businesses dealing exclusively in used parts, which are included under “Recycling—scrap and dismantling yards.”

Auto repair. See vehicle services.

Automated teller machine (ATM) means computerized, self-service machines used by banking customers for financial transactions, including deposits, withdrawals and fund transfers, without face-to-face contact with financial institution personnel. The machines may be located at or within banks, or in other locations.

B.     Definitions, B.

Bank, financial services means financial institutions including:

Banks and trust companies

Credit agencies

Holding (but not primarily operating) companies

Lending and thrift institutions

Other investment companies

Securities/commodity contract brokers and dealers

Security and commodity exchanges

Vehicle finance (equity) leasing agencies

See also, automated teller machine.

Bar/tavern means a business where alcoholic beverages are sold for on-site consumption, which are not part of a larger restaurant. Includes bars, taverns, pubs and similar establishments where any food service is subordinate to the sale of alcoholic beverages. May also include beer brewing as part of a microbrewery (“brew-pub”), and other beverage tasting facilities. Does not include adult-oriented businesses.

Bed and breakfast inn (B&B) means a residential structure with one or more bedrooms rented for overnight lodging, where meals may be provided subject to applicable Environmental Health Department regulations. Does not include room rental, which is separately defined (see Boarding/rooming house).

Building and landscape materials sales mean retail establishments selling hardware, lumber and other large building materials, plant materials and other landscaping materials. Includes paint, wallpaper, glass, fixtures. Includes all these stores selling to the general public, even if contractor sales account for a major proportion of total sales. Establishments primarily selling electrical, plumbing, heating, and air conditioning equipment and supplies are classified in Wholesaling and distribution.

Building height. See Section 13.30.050.

Business support service means an establishment within a building that provides services to other businesses. Examples of these services include:

Blueprinting

Computer-related services (rental, repair)

Copying and quick printing services

Film processing and photofinishing (retail)

Outdoor advertising services

Mailing and mail box services

Protective services (other than office related)

Security systems services

C.     Definitions, C.

Cabinet shop. See furniture and fixtures manufacturing, cabinet shops.

California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) means state law (California Public Resources Code Sections 21000 et seq.) requiring public agencies to document and consider the environmental effects of a proposed action, prior to allowing the action to occur.

California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) means the governmental agency which regulates the terms and conditions of public utilities in the state.

Card room means an establishment offering legal gambling activities in compliance with a state license.

Caretaker/employee unit means a permanent residence that is secondary or accessory to the primary use of the property, and used for housing a caretaker employed on the site of any nonresidential use where needed for security purposes or to provide twenty-four-hour care or monitoring of people, plants, animals, equipment, or other conditions on the site.

Carriage house means a secondary residential unit located over a detached garage.

Catering service means a business that prepares food for consumption on the premises of a client.

Cemetery, mausoleum, columbarium means an interment establishment engaged in subdividing property into cemetery lots and offering burial plots or air space for sale. Includes animal cemeteries; cemetery, mausoleum, crematorium and columbarium operations, and full-service mortuaries and funeral parlors accessory to a cemetery or columbarium.

Change of use means the replacement of an existing use on a lot or parcel, or any portion thereof, by a new use, or a change in the nature of an existing use; but does not include a change of ownership, tenancy, or management associated with a use for which the previous nature of the use will remain substantially unchanged.

Club, lodge, private meeting hall means permanent, headquarters-type and meeting facilities for organizations operating on a membership basis for the promotion of the interests of the members, including facilities for:

Business associations

Civic, social and fraternal organizations

Labor unions and similar organizations

Political organizations

Professional membership organizations

Other membership organizations

Includes grange halls and similar facilities.

Commercial recreation facility—indoor means establishments providing indoor amusement and entertainment services for a fee or admission charge, including:

Bowling alleys

Coin-operated amusement arcades

Dance halls, clubs and ballrooms

Electronic game arcades (video games, pinball, etc.)

Ice skating and roller skating

Pool and billiard rooms as primary uses

This use does not include adult-oriented businesses, which are separately defined. Four or more electronic games or coin-operated amusements in any establishment, or a premises where fifty percent or more of the floor area is occupied by amusement devices, are considered an electronic game arcade as described in this definition; three or fewer machines are not considered a land use separate from the primary use of the site.

Commercial recreation facility—outdoor means a facility for various outdoor recreational activities, where a fee is charged for use. Examples include:

Amusement and theme parks

Go-cart tracks

Golf driving ranges

Miniature golf courses

Water slides

May also include commercial facilities customarily associated with the above outdoor commercial recreational uses, including bars and restaurants, video game arcades, etc.

Commercial zoning district means any of the commercial zoning districts established by Section 13.20.020.

Community center means a multi-purpose meeting and recreational facility typically consisting of one or more meeting or multi-purpose rooms, kitchen and/or outdoor barbecue facilities, that are available for use by various groups for such activities as meetings, parties, receptions, dances, etc.

Condominium means as defined by Civil Code Section 1315, a development where undivided interest in common in a portion of real property is coupled with a separate interest in space called a unit, the boundaries of which are described on a recorded final map or parcel map.

Conference/convention facility means one or more structures accommodating multiple assembly, meeting, and/or exhibit rooms, and related support facilities (e.g., kitchens, offices, etc.).

Construction contractors mean office, and indoor and/or outdoor storage facilities operated by, or on behalf of a contractor licensed by the state of California for storage of large equipment, vehicles, and/or other materials commonly used in the individual contractor’s type of business; storage of scrap materials used for repair and maintenance of contractor’s own equipment; and buildings or structures for uses such as repair facilities.

Construction/heavy equipment sales and rental means retail establishments selling or renting construction, farm, or other heavy equipment. Examples include cranes, earth-moving equipment, tractors, combines, heavy trucks, etc.

Convenience store means a retail store of three thousand five hundred square feet or less in gross floor area, which carries a range of merchandise oriented to convenience and/or travelers’ shopping needs.

County means the county of Placer, state of California.

Crop production, horticulture, orchard, vineyard means commercial agricultural production field and orchard uses, including the production of the following, primarily in the soil on the site and not in containers, other than for initial propagation prior to planting in the soil on the site, and/or in containers occupying one acre or less:

Field crops

Flowers and seeds

Fruits

Grains

Melons

Ornamental crops

Tree nuts

Trees and sod

Vegetables

Wine and table grapes

Also includes associated crop preparation services and harvesting activities, such as mechanical soil preparation, irrigation system construction, spraying, crop processing and retail sales in the field, not including sales sheds, which are instead defined under produce stand. Does not include greenhouses which are instead defined under plant nursery, and residential accessory use or structure, or containerized crop production, which is instead defined under plant nursery.

D.    Definitions, D.

Day care means facilities that provide nonmedical care and supervision of minor children for periods of less than twenty-four hours. These facilities include the following, all of which are required to be licensed by the California State Department of Social Services:

1.     Child day care center means commercial or nonprofit child day care facilities designed and approved to accommodate fifteen or more children. Includes infant centers, preschools, sick-child centers and school-age day care facilities. These may be operated in conjunction with a school or church facility, or as an independent land use.

2.     Large family day care home means as provided by Health and Safety Code Section 1596.78, a home that regularly provides care, protection, and supervision for seven to fourteen children, inclusive, including children under the age of ten years who reside in the home, for periods of less than twenty-four hours per day, while the parents or guardians are away.

3.     Small family day care home means as provided by Health and Safety Code Section 1596.78, a home that provides family day care for eight or fewer children, including children under the age of ten years who reside in the home.

4.     Adult day care facility means a day care facility providing care and supervision for adult clients.

Deer fencing means a fence that protects property from damage by deer or other animals. It is generally a maximum of eight feet in height, with posts of metal or wood, and open fencing material such as netting, wire or plastic mesh. It may also include such fencing added atop other allowable fences.

Density means the number of housing units per acre, unless otherwise stated, for residential uses.

Density bonus means as defined by state law (Government Code Section 65915 et seq.), an increase of at least twenty-five percent over the maximum density otherwise allowed by the applicable zoning district, that is granted to the owner/developer of a housing project who agrees to construct a prescribed percentage of dwelling units that are affordable to households of very low and/or low income. When determining the number of dwelling units that shall be affordable, the units authorized by the density bonus shall not be included in the calculation.

Department means the town of Loomis planning and building department, referred to in this title as the “department.”

Development means any construction activity or alteration of the landscape, its terrain contour or vegetation, including the erection or alteration of structures. New development is any construction, or alteration of an existing structure or land use, or establishment of a land use, after the effective date of the ordinance codified in this title.

Development agreement means a contract between the town and an applicant for a development project, in compliance with the municipal code, and Government Code Sections 65864 et seq. A development agreement is intended to provide assurance to the applicant that an approved project may proceed subject to the policies, rules, regulations and conditions of approval applicable to the project at the time of approval, regardless of any changes to town policies, rules, and regulations after project approval. In return, the town may be assured that the applicant will provide infrastructure and/or pay fees required by a new project.

Diameter of a tree means trunk diameter measured at fifty-four inches above the ground (also known as “Diameter at breast height,” or “DBH”). In the case of a trunk that is divided into limbs at a point below fifty-four inches, the trunk diameter shall be measured at the narrowest diameter of the trunk between the base of the tree and fifty-four inches above the ground.

Director means the town of Loomis planning director, or designee of the director.

Disabled means any person who has a physical or mental impairment that substantially limits one or more major life activities; anyone who is regarded as having such an impairment or anyone who has a record of such impairment. People who are currently using illegal substances are not covered under the Fair Housing Act, unless they have a separate disability.

Discretionary permit means a town land use review and entitlement process where the review authority exercises discretion in deciding to approve or disapprove the permit. Includes minor use permits, use permits, minor variances, variances, design review approval, master development plans, and subdivision maps.

Diseased tree means a tree afflicted by, but not limited to, any of the following: insect infestation, heart rot, exfoliation, slime flux, crown rot, leaf scorch, root fungus, structural defects or weaknesses.

District. See zoning district.

Downtown means the “downtown/town center area” shown in Figure 3-3 of the general plan.

Drip line means a line that 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 the trees. When depicted on a map, the drip line will appear as an irregular shaped circle that follows the contour of the tree’s branches as seen from overhead.

Drive-through sales or services mean a facility where food or other products may be purchased, or where services may be obtained by motorists without leaving their vehicles. Examples of drive-through sales facilities include fast-food restaurants, drive-through coffee, dairy product, photo stores, pharmacies, etc. Examples of drive-through service facilities include drive-through bank teller windows, dry cleaners, etc., but do not include automated teller machines (ATMs), gas stations or other vehicle services, which are separately defined.

Duplex. See multifamily housing.

Dwelling, dwelling unit, or housing unit means a room or group of internally connected rooms that have sleeping, cooking, eating, and sanitation facilities, but not more than one kitchen, which constitute an independent housekeeping unit, occupied by or intended for one household on a long-term basis.

E.     Definitions, E.

Easement means a grant of one or more of the property rights by the property owner to and/or for the use by the public, a corporation or another person or entity.

Emergency shelter means housing with minimal supportive services for homeless persons that is limited to occupancy of six months or less by a homeless person. No individual or household may be denied emergency shelter because of an inability to pay.

Environmental Impact Report (EIR) means an informational document used to assess the physical characteristics of an area and to determine what effects will result if the area is altered by a proposed action, prepared in compliance with the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA).

Equestrian facility means a commercial facility for horses, donkeys, and/or mules, examples of which 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” as regulated by Section 13.42.060.

Equipment rental means a service establishment that may offer a wide variety of household and business equipment, furniture, and materials for rental. Does not include construction equipment rental, which is separately defined.

Extended hour retail means any business that is open to the public between the hours of 11:00 p.m., and 6:00 a.m.

F.     Definitions, F.

Farm supply and feed store means a retail business selling supplies for use in soil preparation and maintenance, the planting and harvesting of crops, the keeping and raising of farm animals, and other operations and processes pertaining to farming and ranching. Does not include the sale, rental, or repair of farm machinery and equipment, which is instead included in the definition of construction and heavy equipment sales and rental.

Feasible means capable of being accomplished in a successful manner within a reasonable period of time, taking into account economic, environmental, social and technological factors.

Floor area ratio (FAR) means the ratio of floor area to total lot area. FAR restrictions are used to limit the maximum floor area allowed on a site (including all structures on the site). The maximum floor area of all structures (measured from exterior wall to exterior wall) permitted on a site (including carports) shall be determined by multiplying the floor area ratio (FAR) by the total net area of the site (FAR x Net Site Area = Maximum Allowable Floor Area). See Figure 8-1.

Figure 8-1 - Floor Area Ratio

Fuel dealer means a retail trade establishment that sells fuel oil, butane, propane and liquefied petroleum gas (LPG), bottled or in bulk, to consumers.

Fueling station means a motor vehicle fueling component of a warehouse retail store, where warehouse consumers purchase bulk fuel from said warehouse retail store. Fueling stations are located adjacent to and operate in conjunction with a warehouse retail store. Fueling stations are an ancillary use of a warehouse retail use and are subject to siting and design requirements of the CG General Commercial zone Section 13.26.040 and are not subject to Section 13.42.100 regarding gas stations.

Furniture/fixtures manufacturing, cabinet shop means manufacturers producing: wood and metal household furniture and appliances; bedsprings and mattresses; all types of office furniture and public building furniture and partitions, shelving, lockers and store furniture; and miscellaneous drapery hardware, window blinds and shades. Includes furniture re-upholstering businesses, wood and cabinet shops, but not sawmills or planing mills, which are instead included under “Manufacturing—heavy.”

Furniture, furnishings and appliance store means a store that primarily sells the following products and related services, that may also provide incidental repair services:

Computers and computer equipment

Draperies

Floor coverings

Furniture

Glass and chinaware

Home appliances

Home furnishings

Home sound systems

Interior decorating materials and services

Large musical instruments

Lawn furniture

Movable spas and hot tubs

Office furniture

Other household electrical and gas appliances

Outdoor furniture

Refrigerators

Stoves

Televisions

G.    Definitions, G.

Garage or carport means parking space and shelter for automobiles or other vehicles, where the size of the parking space complies with the provisions of Chapter 13.36.

1.     A garage is an attached or detached accessory structure with a door, enclosed on at least three sides.

2.     A carport is an attached or detached accessory structure enclosed on not more than two sides.

A garage or carport complies with the requirements of this title for covered parking spaces.

Gas station means a retail business selling gasoline and/or other motor vehicle fuels, and related products. Where allowed by Division 2, a gas station may also include a convenience store, vehicle services, and/or trailer rental (auto and vehicle sales or rental), which are separately defined.

General plan means the town of Loomis general plan, including all its elements and all amendments thereto, as adopted by the town council in compliance with Government Code Sections 65300 et seq., and referred to in this title as the “general plan.”

General retail means stores and shops selling many lines of merchandise. Examples of these stores and lines of merchandise include:

Antique stores

Art galleries, retail

Art supplies, including framing services

Auction rooms

Bicycles

Books, magazines, and newspapers

Cameras and photographic supplies

Clothing, shoes, and accessories

Collectibles (cards, coins, comics, stamps, etc.)

Department stores

Drug stores and pharmacies

Dry goods

Fabrics and sewing supplies

Florists and houseplant stores (indoor sales only—outdoor sales are building and landscape materials sales)

Hobby materials

Jewelry

Luggage and leather goods

Musical instruments, parts and accessories

Orthopedic supplies

Religious goods

Small wares

Specialty shops

Sporting goods and equipment

Stationery

Toys and games

Variety stores

Golf course, country club means golf courses, and accessory facilities and uses including: clubhouses with bar and restaurant, locker and shower facilities; driving ranges; “pro shops” for on-site sales of golfing equipment; and golf cart storage and sales facilities.

Grade means the ground surface immediately adjacent to the exterior base of a structure, typically used as the basis for measurement of the height of the structure.

Grocery store means a retail business where the majority of the floor area open to the public is occupied by food products packaged for preparation and consumption away from the store.

Guest house means a detached structure accessory to a single-family dwelling, accommodating living/sleeping quarters, but without kitchen or cooking facilities.

H.    Definitions, H.

Habitable space means space within a dwelling unit for living, sleeping, eating, or cooking.

Health/fitness facility means a fitness center, gymnasium, health and athletic club, which may include any of the following: sauna, spa or hot tub facilities; indoor tennis, handball, racquetball, archery and shooting ranges and other indoor sports activities. Does not include adult entertainment businesses.

Height. See Section 13.30.050.

Home occupation means the conduct of a business within a dwelling unit or residential site, employing only the occupants of the dwelling, with the business activity being subordinate to the residential use of the property.

Hotel or motel means a facility with guest rooms or suites, with or without kitchen facilities, rented to the general public for transient lodging. Hotels typically include a variety of services in addition to lodging; for example, restaurants, meeting facilities, personal services, etc. Also includes accessory guest facilities such as swimming pools, tennis courts, indoor athletic facilities, accessory retail uses, etc.

Household pets mean the keeping/raising of birds, cats, dogs, or other common household pets, as determined by the director, accessory to a residential use.

I.      Definitions, I.

Industrial research and development (R&D) means a facility for scientific research, and the design, development and testing of electrical, electronic, magnetic, optical and computer and telecommunications components in advance of product manufacturing, and the assembly of related products from parts produced off-site, where the manufacturing activity is secondary to the research and development activities. Includes pharmaceutical, chemical and biotechnology research and development. Does not include soils and other materials testing laboratories (see laboratory), or medical laboratories (see medical service—clinic, laboratory, urgent care).

Industrial zoning district means any of the industrial zoning districts established by Section 13.20.020.

Intensification of use means a change in the use of a structure or site, where the new use is required by this title to have more off-street parking spaces than the former use; or a change in the operating characteristics of a use (for example, hours of operation), which generates more activity on the site.

J.      Definitions, J. No specialized terms beginning with the letter “J” are defined at this time.

K.    Definitions, K.

Kennel, animal boarding means a commercial facility for the grooming, keeping, boarding or maintaining of five or more dogs (four months of age or older), or five or more cats except for dogs or cats for sale in pet shops, or patients in animal hospitals. See also veterinary clinic, animal hospital.

Kitchen means a room or space within a building used or intended to be used for the cooking or preparation of food, which includes any of the following: refrigerator, stove, oven, range top, dishwasher, kitchen sink.

L.     Definitions, L.

Laboratory—medical, analytical, testing means a facility for testing, analysis, and/or research. Examples of this use include medical labs, soils and materials testing labs, and forensic labs.

Land use means the purpose for which land or a structure is designed, arranged, intended, occupied, or maintained.

Land use permit means authority granted by the town to use a specified site for a particular purpose. Land use permit includes use permits, minor use permits, limited term permits, variances, minor variances, design review, master development plans, and zoning clearances, as established by Division 6 of this title.

Large family day care home. See day care.

Laundry, dry cleaning plant means a service establishment engaged primarily in high volume laundry and garment services, including: carpet and upholstery cleaners; diaper services; dry cleaning and garment pressing; commercial laundries; linen supply. These facilities may include accessory customer pick-up facilities. These facilities do not include coin-operated laundries or dry cleaning pick-up stores without dry cleaning equipment; see personal services.

Library, museum means public or quasi-public facilities, examples of which include: aquariums, arboretums, art galleries and exhibitions, botanical gardens, historic sites and exhibits, libraries, museums, planetariums, and zoos. May also include accessory retail uses such as a gift/book shop, restaurant, etc.

Live/work unit means an integrated housing unit and working space, occupied and utilized by a single household in a structure, either single-family or multifamily, that has been designed or structurally modified to accommodate joint residential occupancy and work activity, and which includes:

1.     Complete kitchen space and sanitary facilities in compliance with the building code; and

2.     Working space reserved for and regularly used by one or more occupants of the unit.

Lot area means gross lot area is the total area included within the lot lines of a lot, exclusive of adjacent dedicated street rights-of-way. Net lot area is the gross area of the lot, exclusive of easements for streets or driveways that are not for the exclusive use of the lot on which the easement is located.

Lot, or parcel means a recorded lot or parcel of real property under single ownership, lawfully created as required by applicable Subdivision Map Act and town ordinance requirements, including this title. Types of lots include the following. See Figure 8-2 (Lot Types).

1.     Corner lot means a lot located at the intersection of two or more streets, where they intersect at an interior angle of not more than one hundred thirty-five degrees. If the intersection angle is more than one hundred thirty-five degrees, the lot is considered an interior lot.

2.     Flag lot means a lot having access from the building site to a public street by means of private right-of-way strip that is owned in fee.

3.     Interior lot means a lot abutting only one street.

4.     Key lot means an interior lot, the front of which adjoins the side property line of a corner lot.

5.     Reverse corner lot means a corner lot, the rear of which abuts a key lot.

6.     Through lot means a lot with frontage on two generally parallel streets.

Figure 8-2 - Lot Types

Lot coverage. See site coverage.

Lot depth means the horizontal distance between the front and the rear lot lines measured longitudinally at the midpoints of the front and rear lot lines.

Lot frontage means the boundary of a lot adjacent to a public street right-of-way.

Lot line or property line means any recorded boundary of a lot. Types of lot lines are as follows (see Figure 8-3 (Lot Features)):

1.     Front lot line means on an interior lot, the property line separating the parcel from the street. The front lot line on a corner lot is the line with the shortest frontage. (If the street-fronting lot lines of a corner lot are equal in length, the front lot line shall be determined by the director.) On a through lot, both lot lines are front lot lines and the lot is considered to have no rear lot line.

2.     Interior lot line means any lot line not abutting a street.

3.     Rear lot line means a property line that does not intersect the front lot line, which is most distant from and most closely parallel to the front lot line.

4.     Side lot line means any lot line that is not a front or rear lot line.

Figure 8-3 - Lot Features

Lot width means the horizontal distance between the side lot lines, measured at right angles to the lot depth at a point midway between the front and rear lot lines. See Figure 8-2 (Lot Features). The director shall determine lot width for parcels of irregular shape.

M.    Definitions, M.

Maintenance service, client site services mean base facilities for various businesses that provide services on the premises of their clients. Includes gardening, janitorial, pest control, water and smoke damage recovery, and similar services; and appliance, computer, electronics, elevator, equipment, HVAC, instrument, plumbing, and other maintenance and repair services not operating from a retail establishment that sells the products being maintained or repaired. When these services operate from a retail establishment that sells the products being maintained or repaired, they are instead considered part of the retail use.

Manufacturing/processing—heavy means a facility accommodating manufacturing processes that involve and/or produce basic metals, building materials, chemicals, fabricated metals, paper products, machinery, textiles, and/or transportation equipment, where the intensity and/or scale of operations may cause significant impacts on surrounding land uses or the community. Heavy manufacturing uses are not allowed within the town of Loomis except where limited varieties are included under the definition of manufacturing—intensive. Examples of heavy manufacturing uses include the following:

1.     Chemical product manufacturing means an establishment that produces or uses basic chemicals, and other establishments creating products predominantly by chemical processes. Examples of these products include: basic chemicals, including acids, alkalies, salts, and organic chemicals; chemical products to be used in further manufacture, including synthetic fibers, plastic materials, dry colors, and pigments; and finished chemical products to be used for ultimate consumption, including drugs/pharmaceuticals, cosmetics, and soaps; or to be used as materials or supplies in other industries including paints, fertilizers, and explosives. Also includes sales and transportation establishments handling the chemicals described above, except as part of retail trade.

2.     Concrete, gypsum, and plaster product manufacturing means an establishment that produces bulk concrete, concrete building block, brick, and/or other types of precast and prefabricated concrete products. Also includes ready-mix concrete batch plants, lime manufacturing, and the manufacture of gypsum products, including plasterboard. A retail ready-mix concrete operation as an incidental use in conjunction with a building materials outlet is defined under building and landscape materials sales.

3.     Glass product manufacturing means an establishment that manufactures glass and/or glass products by melting silica sand or cullet, including the production of flat glass and other glass products that are pressed, blown, or shaped from glass produced in the same establishment. Artisan and craftsman type operations of a larger scale than home occupations are instead included under (manufacturing—light—handcraft industries and small-scale manufacturing).

4.     Paving and roofing materials manufacturing means the manufacture of various common paving and petroleum-based roofing materials, including bulk asphalt, paving blocks made of asphalt, creosote wood, and various compositions of asphalt and tar. Does not include the manufacture of wood roofing materials (shingles, shakes, etc.) (lumber and wood product manufacturing).

5.     Petroleum refining and related industries mean industrial plants for purifying petroleum, and the compounding of lubricating oils and greases from purchased materials. Also includes oil or gas processing facilities, liquefied natural gas (LNG) facilities, the manufacture of petroleum coke and fuel briquettes, tank farms, and terminal facilities for pipelines. Does not include petroleum pipeline surge tanks and pump stations (public utility facilities), or petroleum product distributors (petroleum product storage and distribution).

6.     Plastics, other synthetics, and rubber product manufacturing means the manufacture of rubber products including: tires, rubber footwear, mechanical rubber goods, heels and soles, flooring, and other rubber products from natural, synthetic, or reclaimed rubber. Also includes establishments engaged primarily in manufacturing tires; products from recycled or reclaimed plastics or styrofoam; molding primary plastics for other manufacturers, manufacturing miscellaneous finished plastics products, fiberglass manufacturing, and fiberglass application services. Does not include establishments engaged primarily in recapping and retreading automobile tires (vehicle services—major repair/body work).

7.     Primary metal industries mean an establishment engaged in: the smelting and refining of ferrous and nonferrous metals from ore, pig, or scrap; the rolling, drawing, and alloying of metals; the manufacture of castings, forgings, stampings, extrusions, and other basic metal products; and the manufacturing of nails, spikes, and insulated wire and cable. Also includes merchant blast furnaces and by-product or beehive coke ovens.

8.     Pulp and pulp product manufacturing means an establishment that manufactures pulp, paper, or paperboard. Includes pulp, paper, and paperboard mills. Does not include establishments primarily engaged in converting paper or paperboard without manufacturing the paper or paperboard, including envelope manufacturing, converted paper products, paper coating and glazing, paper bags, assembly of paperboard boxes, wallpaper (manufacturing—light—paper product manufacturing).

9.     Textile and leather product manufacturing means an establishment that converts basic fibers (natural or synthetic) into a product, including yarn or fabric, that can be further manufactured into usable items (manufacturing—light—clothing and fabric product manufacturing), and industries that transform hides into leather by tanning or curing. Includes:

Coating, waterproofing, or otherwise treating fabric

Dressed and dyed furs

Dying and finishing fiber, yarn, fabric, and knit apparel

Leather-tanned, curried, and finished

Manufacture of knit apparel and other finished products from yarn

Manufacture of felt goods, lace goods, nonwoven fabrics and miscellaneous textiles

Manufacturing of woven fabric, carpets, and rugs from yarn

Preparation of fiber and subsequent manufacturing of yarn, threads, braids, twine cordage

Scouring and combing plants

Upholstery manufacturing

Yarn and thread mills

Manufacturing/processing—intensive means a facility accommodating manufacturing processes that involve and/or produce building materials, fabricated metal products, machinery, and/or transportation equipment, where the intensity and/or scale of operations is greater than those classified under manufacturing—light, but where impacts on surrounding land uses or the community can typically be mitigated to acceptable levels. Examples of intensive manufacturing uses include the following:

1.     Lumber and wood product manufacturing means manufacturing, processing, and sales involving the milling of forest products to produce rough and finished lumber and other wood materials for use in other manufacturing, craft, or construction processes. Includes the following processes and products:

Containers, pallets and skids

Manufactured and modular homes

Matches (wood)

Milling operations

Trusses and structural beams

Turning and shaping of wood products

Wholesaling of basic wood products

Wood product assembly

Does not include craft-type shops (handcraft industries and small-scale manufacturing); other wood and cabinet shops (furniture and fixture manufacturing, cabinet shops); or the entirely indoor retail sale of building materials, construction tools and equipment (building and landscape materials sales).

2.     Machinery manufacturing means an establishment that makes or processes raw materials into finished machines or parts for machines. Does not include the manufacture of electronics, equipment, or appliances (electronics, equipment, and appliance manufacturing).

3.     Metal products fabrication, machine and welding shops mean an establishment engaged in the production and/or assembly of metal parts, including the production of metal cabinets and enclosures, cans and shipping containers, doors and gates, duct work, forgings and stampings, hardware and tools, plumbing fixtures and products, tanks, towers, and similar products. Examples of these uses include:

Blacksmith and welding shops

Plating, stripping, and coating shops

Sheet metal shops

Machine shops and boiler shops

4.     Motor vehicles and transportation equipment means manufacturers of equipment for transporting passengers and cargo by land, air and water, including motor vehicles, aircraft, spacecraft, ships, boats, railroad and other vehicles such as motorcycles, bicycles and snowmobiles. Includes manufacture of motor vehicle parts and accessories; trailers and campers for attachment to other vehicles; self-contained motor homes; and van conversions. Does not include mobile home and modular home assembly (listed under lumber and wood products).

5.     Stone and cut stone product manufacturing means an establishment that cuts, shapes, and/or finishes marble, granite, slate, and/or other stone for construction and miscellaneous uses. Does not include establishments engaged primarily in buying or selling partly finished monuments and tombstones (handcraft industries, small-scale manufacturing).

6.     Structural clay and pottery product manufacturing means an establishment that produces brick and structural clay products, including pipe, china plumbing fixtures, vitreous china articles, and/or fine earthenware and porcelain products. Does not include artist/craftsman uses (see handcraft industries and small scale manufacturing, home occupations).

Manufacturing/processing—light means a facility accommodating manufacturing processes involving and/or producing: apparel; food and beverage products; electronic, optical, and instrumentation products; ice; jewelry; and musical instruments. Light manufacturing also includes other establishments engaged in the assembly, fabrication, and conversion of already processed raw materials into products, where the operational characteristics of the manufacturing processes and the materials used are unlikely to cause significant impacts on surrounding land uses or the community. Examples of light manufacturing uses include the following:

1.     Clothing and fabric product manufacturing means an establishment that assembles clothing, draperies, and/or other products by cutting and sewing purchased textile fabrics, and related materials including leather, rubberized fabrics, plastics and furs. Does not include custom tailors and dressmakers not operating as a factory and not located on the site of a clothing store (see personal services). See also, manufacturing—heavy—textile and leather product manufacturing.

2.     Electronics, equipment, and appliance manufacturing means an establishment that manufactures equipment, apparatus, and/or supplies for the generation, storage, transmission, transformation and use of electrical energy, including:

Appliances including stoves/ovens, refrigerators, freezers, laundry equipment, fans, vacuum cleaners, sewing machines

Aviation instruments

Computers, computer components, peripherals

Electrical transmission and distribution equipment

Electronic components and accessories, semiconductors, integrated circuits, related devices

Electrical welding apparatus

Lighting and wiring equipment such as lamps and fixtures, wiring devices, vehicle lighting

Industrial controls

Instruments for measurement, testing, analysis and control, associated sensors and accessories

Miscellaneous electrical machinery, equipment and supplies such as batteries, X-ray apparatus and tubes, electromedical and electrotherapeutic apparatus, electrical equipment for internal combustion engines

Motors and generators

Optical instruments and lenses

Photographic equipment and supplies

Radio and television receiving equipment

Surgical, medical and dental instruments, equipment, and supplies

Storage media, blank and pre-recorded, including magnetic, magneto-optical, and optical products such as compact disks (CDs), computer diskettes and hard drives, digital versatile disks (DVDs), magnetic tape products, phonograph records, etc.

Surveying and drafting instruments

Telephone and telegraph apparatus

Transformers, switch gear and switchboards

Watches and clocks

Does not include testing laboratories (soils, materials testing, etc.) (see business support services), or research and development facilities separate from manufacturing (see research and development).

3.     Food and beverage product manufacturing means manufacturing establishments producing or processing foods and beverages for human consumption, and certain related products. Examples of these uses include:

Bottling plants

Breweries

Candy, sugar and confectionery products manufacturing

Catering services separate from stores or restaurants

Coffee roasting

Dairy products manufacturing

Fats and oil product manufacturing

Fruit and vegetable canning, preserving, related processing

Grain mill products and by-products

Meat, poultry, and seafood canning, curing, by-product processing

Soft drink production

Miscellaneous food item preparation from raw products

Does not include: bakeries, which are separately defined; or beer brewing as part of a brew pub, bar or restaurant (see bar/tavern, and night club).

4.     Handcraft industries, small-scale manufacturing means establishments manufacturing and/or assembling small products primarily by hand, including jewelry, pottery and other ceramics, as well as small glass and metal art and craft products, and taxidermists. Also includes manufacturing establishments producing small products not classified in another major manufacturing group, including: brooms and brushes; buttons, costume novelties; jewelry; musical instruments; pens, pencils, and other office and artists’ materials; sporting and athletic goods; toys; etc.

5.     Paper product manufacturing means an establishment that converts pre-manufactured paper or paperboard into boxes, envelopes, paper bags, wallpaper, etc., and/or that coats or glazes pre-manufactured paper. Does not include the manufacturing of pulp, paper, or paperboard (see manufacturing—heavy—pulp and pulp product manufacturing).

6.     Photo/film processing lab means a facility that provides high volume and/or custom processing services for photographic negative film, transparencies, and/or prints, where the processed products are delivered to off-site retail outlets for customer pick-up. Does not include small-scale photo processing machines accessory to other retail businesses.

Map Act. See Subdivision Map Act.

Media production means facilities for motion picture, television, video, sound, computer, and other communications media production. These facilities include the following types:

1.     Backlots/outdoor facilities mean outdoor sets, backlots, and other outdoor facilities, including supporting indoor workshops and craft shops.

2.     Indoor support facilities mean administrative and technical production support facilities, including administrative and production offices, post-production facilities (editing and sound recording studios, foley stages, etc.), optical and special effects units, film processing laboratories, etc.

3.     Soundstages means warehouse-type facilities providing space for the construction and use of indoor sets, including supporting workshops and craft shops.

Medical services—clinic, urgent care means a facility other than a hospital where medical, mental health, surgical and other personal health services are provided on an outpatient basis. Examples of these uses include:

Medical offices with four or more licensed practitioners and/or medical specialties

Out-patient care facilities

Urgent care facilities

Other allied health services

These facilities may also include accessory medical laboratories. Counseling services by other than medical doctors or psychiatrists are included under offices—professional.

Medical services—doctor office means a facility other than a hospital where medical, dental, mental health, surgical, and/or other personal health care services are provided on an outpatient basis, and that accommodates no more than three licensed primary practitioners (for example, chiropractors, medical doctors, psychiatrists, etc., other than nursing staff) within an individual office suite. A facility with four or more licensed practitioners is instead classified under medical services—clinic, urgent care. Counseling services by other than medical doctors or psychiatrists are included under offices—professional.

Medical services—extended care means residential facilities providing nursing and health-related care as a primary use with in-patient beds. Examples of these uses include: board and care homes; convalescent and rest homes; extended care facilities; and skilled nursing facilities. Long-term personal care facilities that do not emphasize medical treatment are included under residential care.

Medical services—hospital means hospitals and similar facilities engaged primarily in providing diagnostic services, and extensive medical treatment, including surgical and other hospital services. These establishments have an organized medical staff, inpatient beds, and equipment and facilities to provide complete health care. May include on-site accessory clinics and laboratories, accessory retail uses and emergency heliports (see the separate definition of accessory retail uses).

Mixed-use project means a project that combines both commercial and residential uses, where the residential component is typically located above the commercial.

Mobile home means a trailer, transportable in one or more sections, that is certified under the National Manufactured Housing Construction and Safety Standards Act of 1974, which is over eight feet in width and forty feet in length, with or without a permanent foundation and not including recreational vehicle, commercial coach or factory-built housing. A mobile home on a permanent foundation is included under the definition of single-family dwellings.

Mobile home park means any site that is planned and improved to accommodate two or more mobile homes used for residential purposes, or on which two or more mobile home lots are rented, leased, or held out for rent or lease, or were formerly held out for rent or lease and later converted to a subdivision, cooperative, condominium, or other form of resident ownership, to accommodate mobile homes used for residential purposes. May include a common storage area for recreational vehicles owned by residents only.

Mobile home park conversion means changing the use of a mobile home park for a purpose other than the rental, or the holding out for rent, of two or more mobile home sites to accommodate mobile homes used for human habitation. Such conversion may affect an entire mobile home park or any portion thereof. A conversion shall include, but is not limited to, a change of any existing mobile home park or any portion thereof to condominium, stock cooperative, planned unit development, or any form of ownership wherein spaces within the mobile home park are to be sold, and the cessation of use of all or a portion of the park as a mobile home park, whether immediately or on a gradual basis, or the closure of the park. Conversion shall not include the purchase of the park by its existing residents.

Mobile home, RV, and boat sales mean retail establishments selling both mobile home dwelling units, and/or various vehicles and watercraft for recreational uses. Includes the sales of boats, campers and camper shells, jet skis, mobile homes, motor homes, and travel trailers.

Mortuary, funeral home means funeral homes and parlors, where deceased are prepared for burial or cremation, and funeral services may be conducted.

Motel. See hotel or motel.

Multifamily housing means a dwelling unit that is part of a structure containing one or more other dwelling units, or a structure containing a nonresidential use. An example of the latter is a mixed-use project where, for example, one or more dwelling units are part of a structure that also contains one or more commercial uses (retail, office, etc.). Multifamily dwellings include carriage units, duplexes, triplexes, fourplexes (buildings with two, three or four dwelling units, respectively, in the same structure); apartments (five or more units in a single building); and townhouse development (three or more attached dwellings where no unit is located over another unit). Multifamily housing may also comprise a row of single-family homes adjacent to existing single-family homes within a larger multifamily project.

N.    Definitions, N.

Natural or existing grade means the contour of the ground surface before grading.

Negative declaration means a statement describing the reasoning that a proposed action will not have a significant adverse effect on the environment, in compliance with the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA).

Night club means a facility serving alcoholic beverages for on-site consumption, and providing entertainment, examples of which include live music and/or dancing, comedy, etc.

Nonconforming parcel means a parcel that was legally created prior to the adoption of this title or amendment, but does not comply with the current area, width, depth, or other applicable requirements of this title.

Nonconforming sign means a sign that lawfully existed prior to the effective date of this title or amendment, but does not comply with the current sign regulations of this title.

Nonconforming structure means a structure that was legally constructed prior to the adoption or amendment of this title, but does not comply with the current setback, height limit, and/or other applicable requirements of this title.

Nonconforming use means a use of land and/or a structure (either conforming or nonconforming) that was legally established and maintained prior to the adoption of this title or amendment, but does not conform to the current title requirements for allowable land uses within the applicable zoning district.

Nonprime agricultural land means and consists of property used for the production of food or fiber, with soils that qualify for rating as Classes III through VII in the Soil Conservation Service land capability classifications.

O.    Definitions, O.

Occupancy means all or a portion of a structure occupied by one tenant.

Off-sale liquor establishment means any establishment at which alcohol is sold, served, or given to patrons, to be consumed off-site, except food markets, supermarkets, drugstores, and other retail establishments in which the sale of alcohol for off-site use constitutes less than twenty percent of the total sales.

Off-site means an activity or accessory use that is related to a specific primary use, but is not located on the same site as the primary use.

Office means this title distinguishes between the following types of offices. These do not include medical offices (see medical service—clinic, laboratory, urgent care, and medical service—doctor office.)

1.     Accessory means office facilities that are incidental and accessory to another business or sales activity that is the primary use.

2.     Business/service means establishments providing direct services to consumers. Examples of these uses include employment agencies, insurance agent offices, real estate offices, travel agencies, utility company offices, etc. This use does not include bank, financial services, which are separately defined.

3.     Government means administrative, clerical, or public contact and/or service offices of a local, state, or federal government agency or service facilities. Includes post offices, but not bulk mailing distribution centers, which are under truck or freight terminal.

4.     Processing means office-type facilities characterized by high-employee densities, and occupied by businesses engaged in information processing, and other computer-dependent and/or telecommunications-based activities. Examples of these uses include:

Airline, lodging chain, and rental car company reservation centers

Computer software and hardware design and development

Consumer credit reporting

Data processing services

Health management organization (HMO) offices where no medical services are provided

Insurance claim processing

Mail order and electronic commerce transaction processing

Telecommunications facility design and management

Telemarketing

5.     Professional means office-type facilities occupied by businesses that provide professional services and/or engaged in the production of intellectual property. Examples of these uses include:

Accounting, auditing and bookkeeping services

Advertising agencies

Attorneys

Commercial art and design services

Construction contractors (office facilities only)

Counseling services

Court reporting services

Detective agencies and similar services

Design services including architecture, engineering, landscape architecture, urban planning

Educational, scientific and research organizations

Financial management and investment counseling

Literary and talent agencies

Management and public relations services

Media post-production services

News services

Photographers and photography studios

Psychologists

Secretarial, stenographic, word processing, and temporary clerical employee services

Security and commodity brokers

Writers and artists offices

6.     Temporary means a mobile home, recreational vehicle or modular unit used as a temporary office facility. Temporary offices may include: construction supervision offices on a construction site or off-site construction yard; a temporary on-site real estate office for a development project; or a temporary business office in advance of permanent facility construction.

7.     Temporary real estate means the temporary use of a dwelling unit within a residential development project as a sales office for the units on the same site, which is converted to residential use at the conclusion of its office use.

Office-supporting retail means a retail store that carries one or more types of merchandise that will typically be of frequent interest to and/or needed by the various businesses listed under the definition of office, and/or the employees of those businesses. Examples of these types of merchandise include:

Books

Computer equipment

Flowers

Newspapers and magazines

Office supplies, stationery

Photographic supplies and cameras

On-sale liquor establishment means any establishment at which alcohol is sold, served, or given to patrons, to be consumed on-site.

On-site means an activity or accessory use that is related to a specific primary use, which is located on the same site as the primary use.

Open fencing means a barrier constructed of material which is transparent, such as glass, plastic panels or wrought iron, used in conjunction with recreation and seating areas.

Ordinary maintenance and repair means work for which a building permit is not required, the purpose and effect of which is to correct deterioration of or damage to a structure or any part thereof and to restore the structure to its condition before the deterioration or damage.

Organizational house means a residential lodging facility operated by a membership organization for its members and not open to the general public. Includes fraternity and sorority houses, student dormitories, convents, monasteries, and religious residential retreats.

P.     Definitions, P.

Parking facility, public or commercial means parking lots or structures operated by the town, or a private entity providing parking for a fee. Does not include towing impound and storage facilities, which are instead defined under storage—outdoor.

Parcel. See lot or parcel.

Pedestrian orientation means any physical structure or place with design qualities and elements that contribute to an active, inviting and pleasant place for pedestrians including:

1.     Building facades that are highly articulated at the street level, with interesting uses of material, color, and architectural detailing, located directly behind the sidewalk;

2.     Design amenities related to the street level such as awnings, paseos, arcades;

3.     Visibility into buildings at the street level;

4.     A continuous sidewalk, with a minimum of intrusions into pedestrian right-of-way;

5.     Continuity of building facades along the street with few interruptions in the progression of buildings and stores;

6.     Signs oriented and scaled to the pedestrian rather than the motorist;

7.     Landscaping; and

8.     Street furniture.

Pedestrian-oriented use means a land use that is intended to encourage walk-in customers and that generally does not limit the number of customers by requiring appointments or otherwise excluding the general public. A pedestrian-oriented use provides spontaneous draw from sidewalk and street due to visual interest, high customer turnover, and social interaction.

Person means any individual, firm, partnership, corporation, company, association, joint stock association; city, county, state, or district; and includes any trustee, receiver, assignee, or other similar representative thereof.

Personal services mean establishments providing nonmedical services to individuals as a primary use. Examples of these uses include:

Barber and beauty shops

Clothing rental

Dry cleaning pick-up stores with limited equipment

Home electronics and small appliance repair

Laundromats (self-service laundries)

Locksmiths

Massage (licensed, therapeutic, nonsexual)

Pet grooming with no boarding

Shoe repair shops

Tailors

Tanning salons

These uses may also include accessory retail sales of products related to the services provided.

Personal services—restricted means personal services that may tend to have a blighting and/or deteriorating effect upon surrounding areas and which may need to be dispersed to minimize their adverse impacts. Examples of these uses include:

Check cashing stores

Fortune tellers

Palm and card readers

Pawnshops

Psychics

Spas and hot tubs for hourly rental

Tattoo and body piercing services

Planning commission means the town of Loomis planning commission, appointed by the Loomis town council in compliance with Government Code Section 65101, referred to throughout this title as the “commission.”

Plant nursery means a commercial agricultural establishment engaged in the production of ornamental plants and other nursery products, grown under cover either in containers or in the soil on the site, or outdoors in containers. The outdoor production of ornamental plants in the soil on the site is instead included under crop production, horticulture, orchard, vineyard. Also includes establishments engaged in the sale of these products (e.g., wholesale and retail nurseries) and commercial-scale greenhouses (home greenhouses are included under residential accessory use or structure). The sale of house plants or other nursery products entirely within a building is also included under general retail.

Primary structure means a structure that accommodates the primary use of the site.

Primary use means the main purpose for which a site is developed and occupied, including the activities that are conducted on the site a majority of the hours during which activities occur.

Primary zoning district means the zoning district applied to a site by the zoning map, to which an overlay zoning district may also be applied.

Prime agricultural land means any of the following, in compliance with Williamson Act Section 51201:

1.     All land that qualifies for rating as Class I or Class II in the Soil Conservation Service land capability classifications.

2.     Land that qualifies for a rating of eighty through one hundred in the Storie Index Rating.

3.     Land that supports livestock used for the production of food and fiber and which has an annual carrying capacity equivalent to at least one animal unit per acre as defined by the United States Department of Agriculture.

4.     Land planted with fruit- or nut-bearing trees, vines, bushes, or crops that have a nonbearing period of less than five years and which will normally return during the commercial bearing period on an annual basis from the production of unprocessed agricultural plant production not less than two hundred dollars per acre.

5.     Land that has returned from the production of unprocessed agricultural plant products an annual gross value of not less than two hundred dollars per acre for three of the previous five years.

Printing and publishing means an establishment engaged in printing by letterpress, lithography, gravure, screen, offset, or electrostatic (xerographic) copying; and other establishments serving the printing trade such as bookbinding, typesetting, engraving, photoengraving and electrotyping. This use also includes establishments that publish newspapers, books and periodicals; establishments manufacturing business forms and binding devices. Quick printing services are included in the definition of business support services.

Private residential recreation facility means a privately owned, noncommercial outdoor recreation facility provided for residential project or neighborhood residents, including swimming pools, swim and tennis clubs, park and sport court facilities. Does not include golf courses and country clubs, which are separately defined.

Production of food or fiber means any type of commercial agricultural operation that produces food or fiber products, including but not limited to all types of: irrigated field crop production (vegetables, fruits, grains, seed crops, etc.), dry farming operations (grain, etc.), orchards and vineyards, berries, etc.; and animal raising operations such as the raising of cattle, fowl or poultry, goats, sheep, swine, or other animals used for food or clothing products; but not including timber production.

Property line means the recorded boundary of a parcel of land.

Proposed project means a proposed new structure, new addition to an existing structure, or area of other new site development; these do not include the alteration of any portion of an existing structure other than an addition.

Public buildings and uses mean facilities owned and operated by the town, and/or state or federal governments, or a local agency (e.g., a special district).

Public safety facility means a facility operated by a public agency including fire stations, other fire prevention and fire-fighting facilities, police and sheriff substations and headquarters, including interim incarceration facilities.

Q.    Definitions, Q.

Qualifying resident means a senior citizen or other person eligible to reside in senior citizen housing.

R.     Definitions, R.

Recreational vehicle (RV) means a motor home, travel trailer, truck camper, or camping trailer, with or without motive power, originally designed for human habitation for recreational, emergency, or other occupancy, which:

1.     Contains less than three hundred twenty square feet of internal living room area, excluding built-in equipment, including wardrobe, closets, cabinets, kitchen units or fixtures, and bath or toilet rooms;

2.     Contains four hundred square feet or less of gross area measured at maximum horizontal projections;

3.     Is built on a single chassis; and

4.     Is either self-propelled, truck-mounted, or permanently towable on the highways without a towing permit.

Recreational vehicle park means a site where one or more lots are used, or are intended to be used, by campers with recreational vehicles or tents. Recreational vehicle parks may include public restrooms, water, sewer, and electric hookups to each lot and are intended as a higher density, more intensively developed use than campgrounds. May include accessory retail uses where they are clearly incidental and intended to serve RV park patrons only.

Recreational use means for the purposes of Chapter 13.52, the use of land by the public, with or without charge, for walking, hiking, picnicking, camping, swimming, boating, fishing, hunting, or other outdoor games or sports for which facilities are provided for public participation.

Recycling facility means this land use type includes a variety of facilities involved with the collection, sorting and processing of recyclable materials.

1.     Collection facility means a center where the public may donate, redeem or sell recyclable materials, which may include the following, where allowed by the applicable zoning district:

a.     Reverse vending machines;

b.     Small collection facilities which occupy an area of three hundred fifty square feet or less and may include:

i.      A mobile unit;

ii.     Bulk reverse vending machines or a grouping of reverse vending machines occupying more than fifty square feet; and

iii.    Kiosk-type units which may include permanent structures.

c.     Large collection facilities which occupy an area of more than three hundred fifty square feet and/or include permanent structures.

2.     Mobile recycling unit means an automobile, truck, trailer, or van used for the collection of recyclable materials, carrying bins, boxes, or other containers.

3.     Processing facility means a structure or enclosed space used for the collection and processing of recyclable materials for shipment, or to an end-user’s specifications, by such means as baling, briquetting, cleaning, compacting, crushing, flattening, grinding, mechanical sorting, re-manufacturing and shredding. Processing facilities include the following types, both of which are included under the definition of scrap and dismantling yards, below:

a.     A light processing facility occupies an area of under forty-five thousand square feet of collection, processing and storage area, and averages two outbound truck shipments each day. Light processing facilities are limited to baling, briquetting, compacting, crushing, grinding, shredding and sorting of source separated recyclable materials sufficient to qualify as a certified processing facility. A light processing facility shall not shred, compact, or bale ferrous metals other than food and beverage containers; and

b.     A heavy processing facility is any processing facility other than a light processing facility.

4.     Recycling facility means a center for the collection and/or processing of recyclable materials. A “certified” recycling or processing facility is 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 located on a residentially, commercially or industrially designated site used solely for the recycling of material generated on the site. See collection facility above.

5.     Recycling or recyclable material means reusable domestic containers and other materials which can be reconstituted, re-manufactured, or reused in an altered form, including glass, metals, paper and plastic. Recyclable material does not include refuse or hazardous materials.

6.     Reverse vending machine means an automated mechanical device which accepts at least one or more types of empty beverage containers and issues a cash refund or a redeemable credit slip with a value not less than the container’s redemption value, as determined by state law. These vending machines may accept aluminum cans, glass and plastic bottles, and other containers.

A bulk reverse vending machine is a reverse vending machine that is larger than fifty square feet, is designed to accept more than one container at a time, and issues a cash refund based on total weight instead of by container.

7.     Scrap and dismantling yards mean outdoor establishments primarily engaged in assembling, breaking up, sorting, and the temporary storage and distribution of recyclable or reusable scrap and waste materials, including auto wreckers engaged in dismantling automobiles for scrap, and the incidental wholesale or retail sales of parts from those vehicles. Includes light and heavy processing facilities for recycling (see the definitions above). Does not include: places where these activities are conducted entirely within buildings; pawnshops, and other secondhand stores; the sale of operative used cars; or landfills or other waste disposal sites.

Religious facility means a permanent facility operated by a religious organization exclusively for worship, or the promotion of religious activities, including accessory uses on the same site. Examples of these types of facilities include churches, mosques, synagogues, and temples. Examples of allowable accessory uses on the same site include living quarters for ministers and staff, facilities for child day care and religious instruction operated at the same time as religious services (where authorized by the same type of land use permit required for the religious facility itself). May also include fund-raising sales, bazaars, dinners, parties, or other indoor and outdoor events on the same site. Other facilities maintained by religious organizations, including full-time day care centers, full-time educational institutions, hospitals and other potentially related operations (for example, a recreational camp) are defined in this chapter according to their respective activities. Does not include the temporary use of an approved public assembly facility (for example, a private meeting hall, community center, theater, or auditorium) by a congregation for religious meetings, which is instead defined under the type of meeting facility hosting the congregation.

Repair service—equipment, large appliances, etc. means a service and facility where various types of electrical, electronic, and mechanical equipment, and home and business appliances are repaired and/or maintained away from the site of the equipment owner. Does not include vehicle repair or maintenance, which is included under vehicle services, the repair of small home appliances and electronic equipment, which is included under personal services, or maintenance and repair activities that occur on the client’s site, which are included under maintenance service—client site services.

Residential accessory use or structure means any use and/or structure that is customarily a part of, and clearly incidental and secondary to a residence, and does not change the character of the residential use. This definition includes the following detached accessory structures, and other similar structures normally associated with a residential use of property. See also agricultural accessory structure.

Garages

Gazebos

Greenhouses (noncommercial)

Spas and hot tubs

Storage sheds

Studios

Swimming pools

Tennis and other on-site sport courts

Workshops

Also includes the indoor storage of automobiles (including their incidental restoration and repair), personal recreational vehicles and other personal property, accessory to a residential use. Does not include: second units, which are separately defined; guest houses, which are included under the definition of second units; or home satellite dish and other receiving antennas for earth-based TV and radio broadcasts (see telecommunications facilities).

Residential care facility means a single dwelling unit or multiple-unit facility licensed or supervised by a federal, state, or local health/welfare agency that provides twenty-four-hour nonmedical care of unrelated persons who are handicapped and in need of personal services, supervision, or assistance essential for sustaining the activities of daily living or for the protection of the individual in a family-like environment.

Residential care facility for the elderly (RCFE) means a housing arrangement chosen voluntarily by the residents, or the residents’ guardians, conservators or other responsible persons; where seventy-five percent of the residents are at least sixty-two years of age, or, if younger, have needs compatible with other residents; and where varying levels of care and supervision are provided, as agreed to at the time of admission or as determined necessary at subsequent times of reappraisal (definition from California Code of Regulations Title 22, Division 6, Chapter 6, Residential Care Facilities for the Elderly). RCFE projects may include basic services and community space.

RCFE projects include assisted living facilities (board and care homes), congregate housing, independent living centers/senior apartments, and life care facilities as defined in this definition:

1.     Assisted living facility means a residential building or buildings that also provide housing, personal and health care, as permitted by the Department of Social Services, designed to respond to the daily, individual needs of the residents. Assisted living facilities may include kitchenettes (small refrigerator, sink and/or microwave oven) within individual rooms. Assisted living facilities are required to be licensed by the California Department of Social Services, and do not include skilled nursing services.

2.     Independent living center/senior apartment means independent living centers and senior apartments and are multifamily residential projects reserved for senior citizens, where common facilities may be provided (for example, recreation areas), but where each dwelling unit has individual living, sleeping, bathing, and kitchen facilities.

3.     Life care facility means sometimes called continuing care retirement communities, or senior continuum of care complex, these facilities provide a wide range of care and supervision, and also provide health care (skilled nursing) so that residents can receive medical care without leaving the facility. Residents can expect to remain, even if they become physically incapacitated later in life. Life care facilities require multiple licensing from the State Department of Social Services, the State Department of Health Services, and the State Department of Insurance.

Residential zoning district means any of the residential zoning districts established by Section 13.20.020.

Rest stop means a public or private facility providing restrooms, sitting and/or picnic areas, traveler information kiosks, and similar facilities to serve the traveling public on Interstate 80.

Restaurant, cafe, coffee shop means a retail business selling ready-to-eat food and/or beverages for on- or off-premises consumption. These include eating establishments where customers are served from a walk-up ordering counter for either on- or off-premises consumption (counter service); and establishments where customers are served food at their tables for on-premises consumption (table service), that may also provide food for take-out.

Review authority means the individual or official town body (the planning director, planning commission, or town council) identified by this title as having the responsibility and authority to review, and approve or disapprove the permit applications described in Division 6.

Rooming or boarding house means a dwelling or part of a dwelling where lodging is furnished for compensation to five or more persons living independently from each other. Meals may also be included. Does not include fraternities, sororities, convents, or monasteries, which are separately defined under organizational house.

S.     Definitions, S.

School means a public or private academic educational institution, including:

Boarding school

Community college, college, or university

Elementary, middle, and junior high schools

High school

Military academy

Also includes schools providing specialized education/training. Examples include the following:

Art school

Ballet and other dance school

Business, secretarial, and vocational school

Computers and electronics school

Drama school

Driver education school

Establishments providing courses by mail

Language school

Martial arts

Music school

Professional school (law, medicine, etc.)

Seminaries/religious ministry training facility

Also includes facilities, institutions and conference centers that offer specialized programs in personal growth and development, such as fitness, environmental awareness, arts, communications, and management. Does not include pre-schools and child day care facilities (see day care). See also the definition of studios—art, dance, martial arts, music, etc. for smaller-scale facilities offering specialized instruction.

Secondhand store means a retail store that buys and sell used products, including clothing, furniture and household goods, jewelry, appliances, musical instruments, business machines and office equipment, tools, motors, machines, instruments, firearms, or any similar secondhand articles or objects. Does not include bookstores (retail stores); secondhand farm and construction equipment (construction, farm, and heavy equipment sales); junk dealers, or scrap/dismantling yards (recycling facilities—scrap and dismantling yards); the sale of antiques and collectibles (retail stores); the sale of cars and other used vehicles (auto and vehicle sales, leasing, and rental, used); or pawnshops (personal services—restricted).

Second unit means a second permanent dwelling that is accessory to a primary dwelling on the same site. A second unit provides complete, independent living facilities for one or more persons, including permanent provisions for living, sleeping, eating, cooking, sanitation, and parking, and if attached to the primary dwelling, is provided exterior access separate from the primary dwelling. Includes guest houses.

Service station. See gas station, and vehicle services.

Setback means the distance by which a structure, parking area or other development feature must be separated from a lot line, other structure or development feature, or street centerline (unless otherwise provided). See also yard, and Section 13.30.110 (setback regulations and exceptions).

Shopping center means a primarily retail commercial site with three or more separate businesses sharing common pedestrian and parking areas.

Sign means a structure, device, figure, display, message placard, or other contrivance, or any part thereof, situated outdoors or indoors, which is designed, constructed, intended, or used to advertise, or to provide information in the nature of advertising, to direct or attract attention to an object, person, institution, business, product, service, event, or location by any means, including words, letters, figures, designs, symbols, fixtures, colors, illumination, or projected images. Does not include murals, paintings and other works of art that are not intended to advertise or identify any business or product. Types of signs include the following:

1.     Abandoned sign means a sign that no longer advertises a business, lessor, owner, product, service or activity on the premises where the sign is displayed.

2.     Animated or moving sign means a sign which uses movement, lighting, or special materials to depict action or create a special effect to imitate movement.

3.     Awning sign means a sign copy or logo attached to or painted on an awning.

4.     Banner, flag, or pennant means cloth, bunting, plastic, paper, or similar nonrigid material used for advertising purposes attached to a structure, staff, pole, line, framing, or vehicle, not including official flags of the United States, the state of California, and other states of the nation, counties, municipalities, official flags of foreign nations and nationally or internationally recognized organizations.

5.     Bench sign means copy painted on a portion of a bench.

6.     Cabinet sign (can sign) means a sign with its text and/or logo symbols and artwork on a translucent face panel that is mounted within a metal frame or cabinet that contains the lighting fixtures that illuminate the sign face.

7.     Changeable copy sign means a sign designed to allow the changing of copy through manual, mechanical, or electrical means including time and temperature.

8.     Directional sign means a sign that is designed and erected solely for the purposes of directing vehicular and/or pedestrian traffic within a project.

9.     Directory sign means a sign for listing the tenants and their suite numbers of a multiple tenant structure or center.

10.   Double-faced sign means a sign constructed to display its message on the outer surfaces of two identical and/or opposite parallel planes.

11.   Electronic reader board sign means a sign with a fixed or changing display composed of a series of lights, but not including time and temperature displays.

12.   Flashing sign means a sign that contains an intermittent or sequential flashing light source.

13.   Freestanding sign means a sign fixed in an upright position on the ground not attached to a structure other than a framework, pole or device, erected primarily to support the sign. Includes monument signs and pole signs.

14.   Illegal sign means a sign that includes any of the following:

a.     A sign erected without complying with all regulations in effect at the time of its construction or use;

b.     A sign that was legally erected, but whose use has ceased, the structure upon which the display is placed has been abandoned by its owner, or the sign is not being used to identify or advertise an ongoing business for a period of not less than ninety days;

c.     A sign that was legally erected which later became nonconforming as a result of the adoption of an ordinance, the amortization period for the display provided by the ordinance rending the display conforming has expired, and conformance has not been accomplished;

d.     A sign that was legally erected which later became nonconforming and then was damaged to the extent of fifty percent or more of its current replacement value;

e.     A sign which is a danger to the public or is unsafe;

f.      A sign which is a traffic hazard not created by relocation of streets or highways or by acts of the town; or

g.     A sign that pertains to a specific event, and five days have elapsed since the occurrence of the event.

15.   Indirectly illuminated sign means a sign whose light source is external to the sign and which casts its light onto the sign from some distance.

16.   Internally illuminated sign means a sign whose light source is located in the interior of the sign so that the rays go through the face of the sign, or light source which is attached to the face of the sign and is perceived as a design element of the sign.

17.   Marquee (canopy) sign means a sign which is attached to or otherwise made a part of a permanent roof-like structure which projects beyond the building wall in the form of a large canopy to provide protection from the weather.

18.   Monument sign means an independent, freestanding structure supported on the ground having a solid base as opposed to being supported by poles or open braces.

19.   Multi-tenant sign means an identification sign for a commercial site with multiple tenants, displaying the names of each tenant on the site.

20.   Nonconforming sign means an advertising structure or sign which was lawfully erected and maintained prior to the adoption of this title, but does not now completely comply with current regulations.

21.   Off-site directional sign means a sign identifying a publicly owned facility, emergency facility, or a temporary subdivision sign, but excluding real estate signs.

22.   Off-site sign means a sign identifying a use, facility, service, or product that is not located, sold, or manufactured on the same premises as the sign, or that identifies a use, service, or product by a brand name which, although sold or manufactured on the premise, is not a principal item for sale or manufactured on the premises.

23.   Permanent sign means a sign constructed of durable materials and intended to exist for the duration of time that the use or occupant is located on the premises; and any other sign that is in place for more than thirty days.

24.   Political sign means a sign designed for the purpose of advertising support of or opposition to a candidate or proposition for a public election.

25.   Pole/pylon sign means an elevated freestanding sign, typically supported by one or two poles or columns.

26.   Portable sidewalk sign means an A-frame or sandwich board sign.

27.   Portable sign means a sign that is not permanently affixed to a structure or the ground.

28.   Projecting sign means a sign other than a wall sign suspending from, or supported by, a structure and projecting outward.

29.   Real estate sign means a sign indicating that a property or any portion thereof is available for inspection, sale, lease, rent, or directing people to a property, but not including temporary subdivision signs.

30.   Roof sign means a sign constructed upon or over a roof, or placed so as to extend above the edge of the roof.

31.   Temporary sign means a sign intended to be displayed for a limited period of time and capable of being viewed from a public right-of-way, parking area or neighboring property.

32.   Vehicle sign means a sign which is attached to or painted on a vehicle which is parked on or adjacent to any property, the principal purpose of which is to attract attention to a product sold or business located on the property.

33.   Wall sign means a sign which is attached to or painted on the exterior wall of a structure with the display surface of the sign approximately parallel to the building wall.

34.   Window sign means a sign posted, painted, placed, or affixed in or on a window exposed to public view. An interior sign which faces a window exposed to public view and is located within three feet of the window.

Sign area means the entire area within a perimeter defined by a continuous line composed of right angles using not more than four lines which enclose the extreme limits of lettering, logo, trademark, or other graphic representation.

Sign height means the vertical distance from the uppermost point used in measuring the area of a sign to the average grade immediately below the sign, including its base or the top of the nearest curb of the street on which the sign fronts, whichever measurement is the greatest.

Single-family dwelling means a building designed for and/or occupied exclusively by one family. Also includes factory-built, modular housing units, constructed in compliance with the Uniform Building Code (UBC), and mobile homes/manufactured housing units that comply with the National Manufactured Housing Construction and Safety Standards Act of 1974, placed on permanent foundations.

Site means a parcel or adjoining parcels under single ownership or single control, considered a unit for the purposes of development or other use.

Site coverage means the percentage of total site area occupied by structures. Structure or building coverage includes the primary structure, all accessory structures (e.g., carports, garages, patio covers, storage sheds, trash dumpster enclosures, etc.) and architectural features (e.g., chimneys, balconies, decks above the first floor, porches, stairs, etc.). Structure/building coverage is measured from exterior wall to exterior wall.

Small-family day care home. See day care.

Social service organization means a public or quasi-public establishment providing social and/or rehabilitation services, serving persons with social or personal problems requiring special services, the handicapped, and the otherwise disadvantaged. Examples of this land use include: counseling centers, welfare offices, job counseling and training centers, or vocational rehabilitation agencies. Includes organizations soliciting funds to be used directly for these and related services, and establishments engaged in community improvement and neighborhood development. Does not include day-care services, emergency shelters and transitional housing, or residential care, which are separately defined.

Sports and entertainment assembly means a large-scale indoor or outdoor facility accommodating spectator-oriented sports, concerts, and other entertainment activities. Examples of this land use include amphitheaters, race tracks, stadiums and coliseums. May also include commercial facilities customarily associated with the above uses, including bars and restaurants, gift shops, video game arcades, etc.

Sports and active recreation facility means public and private facilities for various outdoor sports and other types of recreation, where the facilities are oriented more toward participants than spectators. Examples include:

Athletic/sport fields (e.g., baseball, football, softball, soccer)

Health and athletic club outdoor facilities

Skateboard parks

Swimming pools

Tennis and other sport courts (e.g., handball, squash)

Storage—accessory means the indoor storage of materials accessory and incidental to a primary use is not considered a land use separate from the primary use.

Storage—outdoor means an area not within a building that is proposed or used for the storage of building materials, other supplies, equipment, or other materials, either as the primary use of a parcel or as storage accessory to another use. Includes towing impound and storage facilities, which are subject to the requirements of Section 13.42.190 for outdoor storage.

Storage—personal storage facility means structures containing generally small, individual, compartmentalized stalls or lockers rented as individual storage spaces and characterized by low parking demand.

Storage—storage yard means the storage of various materials outside of a structure other than fencing, either as an accessory or primary use.

Storage—warehouse, indoor storage means facilities for the storage of furniture, household goods, or other commercial goods of any nature. Includes cold storage. Does not include: warehouse, storage or mini-storage facilities offered for rent or lease to the general public (storage—personal storage facility); warehouse facilities primarily used for wholesaling and distribution (see wholesaling and distribution); or terminal facilities for handling freight (see truck or freight terminal).

Story means that portion of a building included between the surface of any floor and the surface of the floor next above, or if there is no floor above, then the space between the floor and the ceiling or floor next above. Basements are excluded from being considered a story.

Stream corridor means a horizontal distance of one hundred feet measured from each side of the centerline of the stream, totaling a width of two hundred feet; or a horizontal distance of fifty feet measured from the top of each stream or creek bank, whichever is greater. The commission may establish different horizontal measurements to match specific stream environments.

Stream or creek bank means the point where the break in slope occurs between a stream channel and surrounding topography.

Street means a public or private thoroughfare, which affords the principal means of access to abutting property, including avenue, place, way, drive, lane, boulevard, highway, road and any other thoroughfare, except an alley as defined in this subsection.

Structure means anything constructed or erected, the use of which requires attachment to the ground or attachment to something located on the ground. For the purposes of this title, the term “structure” includes “buildings,” but does not include swimming pools.

Studio—art, dance, martial arts, music, etc. means small scale facilities, typically accommodating one group of students at a time, in no more than one instructional space. Larger facilities are included under the definition of schools—specialized education and training. Examples of these facilities include: individual and group instruction and training in the arts; production rehearsal; photography, and the processing of photographs produced only by users of the studio facilities; martial arts training studios; gymnastics instruction, and aerobics and gymnastics studios with no other fitness facilities or equipment. Also includes production studios for individual musicians, painters, sculptors, photographers, and other artists.

Subdivision means the division, by any subdivider, of any unit or portion of land shown on the latest equalized Placer County assessment roll as a unit or contiguous units, for the purpose of sale, lease or financing, whether immediate or future. Property shall be considered as contiguous units, even if it is separated by roads, streets, utility easement or railroad rights-of-way. Subdivision includes the following, as defined in Civil Code Section 1315: a condominium project; a community apartment project; or the conversion of five or more existing dwelling units to a stock cooperative.

Subdivision Map Act or Map Act means and includes Division 2, Title 7 of the California Government Code, commencing with Section 66410 as presently constituted, and any amendments to those provisions.

Supportive housing means housing with no limit on length of stay, that is occupied by the target population, and that is linked to an on-site or off-site service that assists 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.

T.     Definitions, T.

Telecommunications facility means public, commercial and private electromagnetic and photoelectrical transmission, broadcast, repeater and receiving stations for radio, television, telegraph, telephone, data network, and wireless communications, including commercial earth stations for satellite-based communications. Includes antennas, commercial satellite dish antennas, and equipment buildings. Does not include telephone, telegraph and cable television transmission facilities utilizing hard-wired or direct cable connections.

Temporary structure means a structure without any foundation or footings, and which is removed when the designated time period, activity, or use for which the temporary structure was erected has ceased.

Temporary use means a use of land that is designed, operated and occupies a site for a limited time, typically less than twelve months.

Theater, auditorium means an indoor facility for public assembly and group entertainment, other than sporting events. Examples of these facilities include:

Civic theaters, and facilities for “live” theater and concerts

Movie theaters

Similar public assembly facilities

See also sports and entertainment assembly.

Town means the town of Loomis, state of California, referred to in this title as the “town.”

Town council means the Loomis town council, referred to in this title as the “council.”

Transitional housing means buildings configured as rental housing developments, but operated under program requirements that require the termination of assistance and recirculating of the assisted unit to another eligible program recipient at a predetermined future point in time that shall be no less than six months from the beginning of the assistance.

Transit station or terminal means a passenger station for vehicular, and rail mass transit systems; also terminal facilities providing maintenance and service for the vehicles operated in the transit system. Includes buses, taxis, railway, etc.

Truck or freight terminal means a transportation facility furnishing services incidental to air, motor freight, and rail transportation. Examples of these facilities include:

Freight forwarding services

Freight terminal facilities

Joint terminal and service facilities

Overnight mail processing facilities

Packing, crating, inspection and weighing services

Postal service bulk mailing distribution centers

Transportation arrangement services

Trucking facilities, including transfer and storage

U.    Definitions, U.

Use. See land use.

Use, primary. See primary use.

Utility facility means a fixed-base structure or facility serving as a junction point for transferring electric utility services from one transmission voltage to another or to local distribution and service voltages, and similar facilities for water supply and natural gas distribution. These uses include any of the following facilities that are not exempted from land use permit requirements by Government Code Section 53091:

Corporation and maintenance yards

Electrical substations and switching stations

Natural gas regulating and distribution facilities

Public water system wells, treatment plants and storage

Telephone switching facilities

Wastewater treatment plants, settling ponds and disposal fields

These uses do not include office or customer service centers (classified in offices).

Utility infrastructure means pipelines for water, natural gas, and sewage collection and disposal; and facilities for the transmission of electrical energy for sale, including transmission lines for a public utility company. Also includes telephone, telegraph, cable television and other communications transmission facilities utilizing direct physical conduits. Does not include offices or service centers (see offices—business and service), or distribution substations (see utility facility).

V.    Definitions, V.

Vehicle services mean the repair, servicing, alteration, restoration, towing, painting, cleaning, or finishing of automobiles, trucks, recreational vehicles, boats and other vehicles as a primary use, including the incidental wholesale and retail sale of vehicle parts as an accessory use. This use includes the following categories:

1.     Major repair/body work means these establishments include towing, collision repair, other body work, and painting services; tire recapping.

2.     Minor maintenance/repair means minor facilities providing limited repair and maintenance services. Examples include: attended and self-service car washes; detailing services; muffler and radiator shops; quick-lube services; tire and battery sales and installation (not including recapping).

Does not include automobile parking (see parking facilities), repair shops that are part of a vehicle dealership on the same site (see auto and vehicle sales and rental, and mobile home, RV, and boat sales and rental); gas stations, which are separately defined; or dismantling yards, which are included under recycling scrap and dismantling yards.

Vehicle storage means a service facility for the long-term storage of operative cars, trucks, buses, recreational vehicles, and other motor vehicles, for clients. Does not include dismantling yards (classified in recycling—scrap and dismantling yards).

Veterinary clinics, animal hospitals, kennels mean office and indoor medical treatment facilities used by veterinarians, including large and small animal veterinary clinics, and animal hospitals. Kennels and boarding operations are commercial facilities for the keeping, boarding or maintaining of four or more dogs four months of age or older, or four or more cats, except for dogs or cats in pet shops.

W.    Definitions, W.

Warehouse. See storage—warehouse, indoor storage.

Warehouse retail means a retail store that emphasizes the packaging and sale of products in large quantities or volumes, some at discounted prices, where products are typically displayed in their original shipping containers. Warehouse retail includes associated sales of motor vehicle fuels at on-site fueling stations operated by the warehouse retail use. Sites and buildings are usually large and industrial in character. Patrons may be required to pay membership fees.

Wholesaling and distribution means and includes establishments engaged in selling merchandise to retailers; to contractors, industrial, commercial, institutional, farm, or professional business users; to other wholesalers; or acting as agents or brokers in buying merchandise for or selling merchandise to such persons or companies. Examples of these establishments include:

Agents, merchandise or commodity brokers, and commission merchants

Assemblers, buyers and associations engaged in the cooperative marketing of farm products

Merchant wholesalers

Stores primarily selling electrical, plumbing, heating and air conditioning supplies and equipment

Also includes storage, processing, packaging, and shipping facilities for mail order and e-commerce retail establishments.

Williamson Act means California Government Code Section 51200 et seq., as they may be amended from time to time.

Winery means a manufacturing facility where wine grapes are crushed, fermented, aged, bottled, and sold at wholesale as finished wine. May include tasting and accessory retail sales of wine produced on site.

Wine tasting means a facility, or area within a winery where wine and related products are offered for retail sale, where wine may be tasted for a fee, or without charge.

X.    Definitions, X. No specialized terms beginning with the letter “X” are defined at this time.

Y.    Definitions, Y.

Yard means an area between a lot line and a structure, unobstructed and unoccupied from the ground upward, except for projections permitted by this title. See also setback, and Section 13.30.110.

1.     Front yard means an area extending across the full width of the lot between the front lot line and the primary structure.

2.     Rear yard means an area extending the full width of the lot between a rear lot line and the primary structure.

3.     Side yard means an area between a side lot line and the primary structure extending between the front and rear yards.

Yard area of major use is that area to the rear or side of the main residence (usually not both) generally containing a swimming pool, and/or patio area, and/or major landscaping, etc.

Z.     Definitions, Z.

Zero lot line means the location of a building on a lot in such a manner that one or more building sides rests directly on a lot line.

Zoning district means any of the residential, commercial, public, or overlay districts established by Division 2 of this title, within which certain land uses are allowed or prohibited, and certain site planning and development standards are established (e.g., setbacks, height limits, site coverage requirements, etc.).

Zoning ordinance means the town of Loomis zoning ordinance, Title 13 of the Loomis Municipal Code, referred to herein as “this title.”

(Ord. 290 § 2, 2022; Ord. 285 § 1, 2020; Ord. 255 § 1, 2014; Ord. 230 § 4, 2007; Ord. 228 § 1, 2006; Ord. 226 § 1, 2005; Ord. 216 §§ 2, 4, 8, 9, 2005; Ord. 211 § 4, 2004; Ord. 205 § 1 (Exh. A), 2003)