Development Code Definitions (L to R)

Land use permit. Authority granted by the Town to use a specified site for a particular purpose, including Conditional Use Permits and Minor Conditional Use Permits, Development Plans and Minor Development Plans, Planned Development Permits, Temporary Use Permits, Variances and Minor Variances, and Zoning Clearances, as established by Article IV (Land Use and Development Permit Procedures) of this Development Code.

Large Family Day Care Home. See "Child Day Care Facilities."

Lattice tower. A structure with three or four steel support legs that supports a variety of antennae. These towers generally range in height from 60 to 200 feet and are constructed in areas where increased height is needed, microwave antennas are required or where the weather demands a more structurally-sound design.

Laundries and Dry Cleaning Plants. Service establishments engaged primarily in high volume laundry and garment services, including: power laundries (family and commercial); garment pressing and dry cleaning; linen supply; diaper service; industrial laundries; carpet and upholstery cleaners. Does not include coin-operated laundries or dry cleaning pick-up stores without dry cleaning equipment; see "Personal Services."

Laundromat. Service establishments providing washing and/or drying machines on the premises for rental use to the general public.

Libraries and Museums. Public or quasi-public facilities including aquariums, arboretums, art exhibitions, botanical gardens, historic sites and exhibits, libraries, museums, and planetariums, which are generally non-commercial in nature.

Live/Work Quarters (Loft). Buildings or spaces within building that are jointly used for commercial/industrial and residential purposes where the residential use of the space is clearly secondary or accessory to the primary use as a place of work.

Lot or parcel. A recorded lot or parcel of real property under single ownership, lawfully created as required by the Subdivision Map Act and Town ordinances, including this Development Code. Types of lots include the following. (See Figure 7-2, Lot Types)

1. Corner lot. A lot located at the intersection of two or more streets, where they intersect at an interior angle of not more than 135 degrees. If the intersection angle is more than 135 degrees, the lot is considered an interior lot.

2. Flag lot. 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. A lot abutting only one street.

4. Key lot. An interior lot, the side of which adjoins the rear property line of a reverse corner lot.

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

6. Through lot. A lot with frontage on two generally parallel streets.

Lot area. 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 exclusive of vehicular access easements which limit the use of the lot.

Lot coverage. See "Site Coverage."

Lot depth. The average linear distance between the front and the rear lot lines or the intersection of the two side lot lines if there is no rear line. (See Figure 7-3, Lot Features). The Director shall determine lot depth for parcels of irregular configuration.

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

Lot line or property line. Any recorded boundary of a lot. Types of lot lines are as follows (See Figure 7-3, Lot Features):

1. Front lot line. 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 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. Any lot line not abutting a street.

3. Rear lot line. 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. Any lot line that is not a front or rear lot line.

Lot width. 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 7-3, Lot Features). The Director shall determine lot width for parcels of irregular shape.

Lumber and Wood Products. Manufacturing, processing, and sales uses 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
firewood
milling operations
trusses and structural beams
turning and shaping of wood products
wholesaling of basic wood products
wood product assembly

Craft-type shops are included in "Handcraft Industries and Small-Scale Manufacturing." Other wood and cabinet shops are included under "Furniture and Fixture Manufacturing." The indoor retail sale of building materials, construction tools and equipment is included under "Building Material Stores."

 

Machinery Manufacturing. The manufacturing of machinery and equipment for purposes and products including the following:

boats
bulldozers
carburetors
construction
conveyors
cranes
die casting
dies
dredging
engines and turbines
farm and garden
food products manufacturing
gear cutting
heating, ventilation, air conditioning
industrial trucks and tractors
industrial furnaces and ovens
industrial molds
laundry and dry cleaning
materials handling
mining
oil field equipment
paper manufacturing
passenger and freight elevators
pistons
printing
pumps
refrigeration equipment
textile manufacturing

Major wireless communication facility. A wireless communication facility that:

1. Is ground-mounted on property not within the public right-of-way;

2. Is ground-mounted within the public right-of-way, but does not qualify as a microcell facility; or

3. Is roof- or structure-mounted and exceeds 10 feet in height and/or exceeds the maximum height allowed in the zoning district in which the facility is located.

Map Act. See "Subdivision Map Act."

Marinas. Recreationally-oriented commercial or public small craft harbors that may include mooring and launching facilities and accessory facilities for boat servicing and the rental of watercraft.

Massage parlor. An establishment where, for any form of consideration, alcohol rub, electric or magnetic treatment, fomentation, massage or similar treatment or manipulation of the human body is administered unless the treatment or manipulation is administered by a acupuncturist, chiropractor, massage therapist, medical practitioner, physical therapist or similar professional person licensed by the State.

This definition does not include an athletic club, gymnasium, health club, reducing salon, school, spa or similar establishment where massage therapy or similar manipulation of the human body is offered as an incidental or accessory service.

Mean sea level. The National Geodetic Vertical Datum (NGVD) of 1929 or other datum, to which base flood elevations shown on a Flood Insurance Rate Map are referenced.

Medical Services - Clinics and Laboratories. Facilities primarily engaged in furnishing outpatient medical, mental health, surgical and other personal health services, but which are separate from hospitals, including:

health management organizations (HMOs)
medical and dental laboratories
medical, dental and psychiatric offices
out-patient care facilities
other allied health services

Counseling services by other than medical doctors or psychiatrists are included under "Offices."

Medical Services - Extended Care. Residential facilities providing nursing and health-related care as a principal use with in-patient beds, such as: board and care homes; convalescent and rest homes; extended care facilities; skilled nursing facilities. Long-term personal care facilities that do not emphasize medical treatment are included under "Residential Care Homes."

Medical Services - Hospitals. 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").

Membership Organization Facilities. 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
country clubs (golf courses separately defined)
labor unions and similar organizations
political organizations
professional membership organizations
other membership organizations

Metal Fabrication, Machine and Welding Shops. Establishments engaged primarily in the assembly of metal parts, including the following uses that produce metal duct work, tanks, towers, cabinets and enclosures, metal doors and gates, and similar products.

blacksmith and welding shops
sheet metal shops
machine shops and boiler shops

Microcell. A wireless communication facility that:

1. Contains a maximum of four whip or panel antennae. Each whip antenna does not exceed four inches in diameter and four feet in length. Each panel antenna does not exceed two square feet in surface area;

2. Contains a maximum of one microwave antenna no larger than 10 square feet in surface area;

3. Has an array of antennae less than 10 feet in height;

4. Is roof- or structure-mounted or, if within the public right-of-way, is located on top of a light pole or telephone pole or a metal or precast concrete monopole (similar in design to a street light pole or street tree); and

5. Has a total height, if roof- or structure-mounted, that does not exceed the maximum height allowed in the applicable zoning district in which the facility is located.

Mined lands. The surface, subsurface, and ground water of an area in which surface mining operations will be, are being, or have been conducted, including private ways and roads appurtenant to any area, land excavations, workings, mining waste, and areas in which structures, facilities, equipment, machines, tools, or other materials or property which result from, or are used in, surface mining operations are located.

Minerals. Any naturally occurring chemical element or compound, or groups of elements and compounds, formed from inorganic processes and organic substances, including, but not limited to, coal, peat, and bituminous rock, but excluding geothermal resources, natural gas, and petroleum.

Mining waste. Includes the residual of equipment, liquid, machines, mineral, rock, soil, tools, vegetation or other materials or property directly resulting from, or displaced by, surface mining operations.

Mining and Quarrying. Surface mining operations for aggregates (sand and gravel), and/or other surface or subsurface mineral extraction operations.

Minor wireless communication facility. A wireless communication facility that:

1. Consists of a microcell; and

2. Is roof- or structure-mounted and is less than 10 feet in height and does not exceed the maximum height permitted in the zoning district in which the facility is located.

Mixed Use. Properties on which various uses, such as office, commercial, institutional, and residential, are combined in a single building or a single site in an integrated development project with significant functional inter-relationships and a coherent physical design. A "single site" may include contiguous properties.

Mobile Home. 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 40 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. 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.

Monopole. A structure composed of a single spire used to support antennae and related equipment.

Mortuaries. Funeral homes and parlors, where deceased are prepared for burial or cremation, and funeral services may be conducted.

Motor Vehicles and Transportation Equipment. 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.

Mounted. Attached or supported.

Multi-Family Dwellings. See "Dwelling, Multi-Family."

Multiple Tenant Site/Center. A commercial or industrial development consisting of two or more separate businesses that share either the same parcel or structure and use common access and parking facilities.

Municipal Code. The Town of Truckee Municipal Code, as it may be amended from time to time by the Council.

Museum. An institution devoted to the procurement, care, study, and display of objects of lasting interest or value.

 

Nature reserves. Sites with environmental resources intended to be preserved in their natural state.

Negative Declaration. 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).

Noise disturbance. Any sound which endangers or injures the safety or health of human beings or annoys or is objectionable to a reasonable person of normal sensitivity.

Noise in question. Noise suspected of exceeding the standards of this Section.

Noise source. The activity responsible for the noise in question or noise which in fact exceeds the standards of this Section.

Nonconforming Use, Structure, or Parcel. (See Chapter 18.130 (Nonconforming Uses, Structures, and Parcels).

Non-shedding Roof. A roof with materials that allow snow to be retained on the roof and to melt off, as opposed to a roof that does not retain snow and allows snow to slide off.

 

Occupancy. All or a portion of a structure occupied by one tenant.

Offices, Accessory to Primary Use. Incidental offices that are customarily accessory to another use and are allowed as part of an approved principal use.

Offices, Business. Establishments providing direct services to consumers, such as insurance agencies; title insurance companies; real estate offices; post offices (e.g. MailBox Etc., American Mailboxes), but not including bulk mailing distribution centers, which are included under "Vehicle and Freight Terminals".

Does not include: medical offices (see "Medical Services - Clinics and Laboratories"); or offices that are incidental and accessory to another business or sales activity that is the principal use.

Offices, Professional. Professional or government offices including:

accounting, auditing and bookkeeping services
advertising agencies
architectural, engineering, planning and surveying services
attorneys
counseling services
court reporting services
data processing and computer services
detective agencies and similar services
educational, scientific and research organizations
employment, stenographic, secretarial and word processing services
government offices including agency and administrative office facilities
management, public relations and consulting services
photography and commercial art studios
writers and artists offices outside the home

Does not include: medical offices (see "Medical Services - Clinics and Laboratories") or offices that are incidental and accessory to another business or sales activity that is the principal use. Incidental offices that are customarily accessory to another use are allowed as part of an approved principal use.

Offices, Temporary. A mobile home, recreational vehicle or modular unit, or space within a permanent structure used as a temporary office facility. Purposes for 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.

Offices, Temporary Real Estate. The temporary use of a dwelling unit within a residential development project as a sales or rental office for the units on the same site, which is converted to residential use at the conclusion of its office use.

One hundred year flood. A flood that has a one percent probability of being equaled or exceeded in any given year. It is identical to the base flood.

One hundred year floodplain. The area subject to innundation by a 100-year flood.

Open space. Land that is maintained in a primarily natural state, and/or primarily without structures other than facilities in support of outdoor recreation.

Operator. Any person who is engaged in surface mining operations, or who contracts with others to conduct operations on their behalf, except a person who is engaged in surface mining operations as an employee with wages as the sole compensation.

Outdoor Commercial Recreation. Facilities for various outdoor participant sports and types of recreation where a fee is charged for use, including:

amusement and theme parks
drive-in theaters
go-cart and miniature auto race tracks
health and athletic club outdoor facilities
miniature golf courses
skateboard parks
swim and tennis clubs
tennis courts
water slides
zoos

May also include commercial facilities customarily associated with the above outdoor commercial recreational uses, including bars and restaurants, fast-food restaurants, video game arcades, etc. Spectator facilities are included in the definition of "Sport Facilities and Outdoor Public Assembly."

Outdoor Retail Sales and Activities. Permanent outdoor sales and rental establishments including autos, lumber, other vehicles and equipment, and other uses where the business is not conducted entirely within a structure.

Overburden. Rock, soil or other materials that lie above a natural mineral deposit or in between deposits, before or after their removal, by surface mining operations.

Owner. In addition to those definitions provided by State law, Municipal Code and case law, the registered owner which includes, but shall not be limited to, the property owner, renter, lessor and/or other residents or guests residing permanently or temporarily on a residential property.

 

Paper Products. The manufacture of paper and paperboard, from both raw and recycled materials, and their conversion into products such as paper bags, boxes, envelopes, wallpaper, etc.

Parcel. See "Lot, or Parcel."

Parking Pad. A platform for vehicle parking, constructed on a residential parcel which slopes downward from a street.

Parks and Playgrounds. Public parks, play lots, playgrounds, and athletic fields for non-commercial neighborhood or community use, including tennis courts. If privately-owned, the same facilities are included under the definition of "Outdoor Recreation Facilities." See also "Golf Courses/ Country Clubs," "Outdoor Commercial Recreation," and "Sport Facilities and Outdoor Public Assembly."

Paving and Roofing Materials. 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. The manufacture of wood roofing materials (shingles, shakes, etc.) is included under "Lumber and Wood Products."

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

Personal communication services. A digital wireless communication technology that has the capacity for multiple communication services and provides a system in which calls are routed to individuals rather than places, regardless of location.

Personal Services. Establishments providing non-medically related services, including beauty and barber shops; clothing rental; dry cleaning pick-up stores; laundromats (self-service laundries); psychic readers; shoe repair shops; tanning salons. These uses may also include accessory retail sales of products related to the services provided.

Pet Shop. A retail store selling live household pets and related supplies. Does not include overnight boarding services or facilities for animals other than those for sale on the site.

Pipelines. Transportation facilities for the conveyance of: crude petroleum; refined petroleum products such as gasoline and fuel oils; natural gas; mixed, manufactured or liquified petroleum gas; or the pipeline transmission of other commodities. Also includes pipeline surface and terminal facilities, including pump stations, bulk stations, surge and storage tanks.

Planning Commission. The Planning Commission of the Town of Truckee, appointed by the Truckee Town Council as provided by Government Code Section 65101, referred to throughout this Development Code as the "Commission."

Plant Nurseries and Garden Supply Stores. Commercial agricultural establishments engaged in the production of ornamental plants and other nursery products, grown under cover or outdoors. Includes stores selling these products, and commercial scale greenhouses. The sale of house plants or other nursery products entirely within a building is also included under "Retail Stores, General Merchandise." Home greenhouses are included under "Residential Accessory Uses and Structures."

Plastics and Rubber Products. The manufacture of rubber products such as: 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. Also includes: establishments engaged in molding primary plastics for other manufacturers, and manufacturing miscellaneous finished plastics products; fiberglass manufacturing, and fiberglass application services. Establishments engaged primarily in recapping and retreading automobile tires are classified in "Repair and Maintenance - Vehicle."

Premises. Any structure, parcel, real estate or land or portion of land whether improved or unimproved, including adjacent parkways, parking strip, sidewalks and streets.

Primary structure. A structure that accommodates the primary use of the site.

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

Principal use. The primary or predominant allowed use of any site or structure.

Printing and Publishing. Establishments engaged in printing by letterpress, lithography, gravure, screen, offset, or electrostatic (xerographic) copying, and other "quick printing" services; 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; and establishments manufacturing business forms and binding devices.

Private Residential Recreation Facilities. Privately-owned, non-commercial outdoor recreation facilities provided for members or project/neighborhood residents, including swim and tennis clubs, park and sport court facilities. Does not include golf courses/country clubs, which are separately defined.

Private wireless communication facility. A wireless communication facility that has not been granted a Certificate of Public Convenience and Necessity by the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC).

Professional center. An integrated building or site for two or more separate, commercial businesses or tenants. Separate businesses or tenants shall be evident by such factors as separate ownership interests, separate leases, and separate ingress/egress.

Property. Any parcel of land and shall include any alley, parkway, sidewalk or unimproved public easement abutting the parcel.

Property frontage. The front or frontage is that side of a parcel or development site abutting on a public street.

Property owner. The person(s) or entity to whom property tax is assessed, as shown on the latest equalized assessment roll of the County.

Public Improvements and Engineering Standards. The Town of Truckee Public Improvements and Engineering Standards, as adopted by the Council.

Public Buildings and Structures. Public agency (including special district) facilities other than public safety and utility facilities as defined below.

Public Safety Facilities. Facilities operated by public agencies including fire stations, other fire prevention and fire fighting facilities, police and sheriff substations and headquarters, including interim incarceration facilities.

Public Service Easement. A right-of-way, easement, or use restriction acquired for public use for sewers, pipelines, polelines, electrical transmission and communication lines, pathways, storm drains, drainage, water transmission lines, and similar purposes.

Public Utility Facilities. Fixed-base structures and facilities serving as junction points for transferring utility services from one transmission voltage to another or to local distribution and service voltages. 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"); equipment and material storage yards; or public, commercial, and private electromagnetic and photoelectrical transmission, broadcast, repeater and receiving stations for radio, television, telegraph, telephone, cellular or wireless telephone, and data network communications (classified as "Telecommunications Facilities") .

Public wireless communication facility. A wireless communication facility that has been granted a Certificate of Public Convenience and Necessity by the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC).

 

Radio frequency radiation. Electromagnetic radiation in the portion of the spectrum from three kilohertz to 300 gigahertz.

Reclamation. The combined process of land treatment that minimizes water degradation, air pollution, damage to aquatic or wildlife habitat, flooding, erosion, and other adverse effects from surface mining operations, including adverse surface effects incidental to underground mines, so that mined lands are reclaimed to a usable condition which is readily adaptable for alternate land uses and create no danger to public health or safety. The process may extend to affected lands surrounding mined lands, and may require backfilling, grading, resoiling, revegetation, soil compaction, stabilization, or other measures.

Recreational vehicle (RV). 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 meets all of the following criteria:

1. It contains less than 320 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. It contains 400 square feet or less of gross area measured at maximum horizontal projections;

3. It is built on a single chassis; and

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

Recreational Vehicle Park. 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.

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

1. Collection facility. A center where the public may donate, redeem or sell recyclable materials, which may include the following:

a. Reverse vending machine(s);

b. Small collection facilities which occupy an area of 350 square feet or less and may include:

(1) A mobile unit;

(2) Bulk reverse vending machines or a grouping of reverse vending machines occupying more than 50 square feet; and

(3) Kiosk-type units which may include permanent structures.

c. Large collection facilities which occupy an area of more than 350 square feet and/or include permanent structures.

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

3. Processing facility. 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, remanufacturing and shredding. Processing facilities include the following types, both of which are included under the definition of "Scrap and Dismantling Yards:"

a. Light processing facility occupies an area of under 45,000 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. 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. Reusable domestic containers and other materials which can be reconstituted, remanufactured, 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. An automated mechanical device which accepts 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 50 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. 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; pawn shops, and other secondhand stores; the sale of operative used cars; or landfills or other waste disposal sites.

Religious Retreats and Organizational Camps. Lodging facilities operated by religious or secular organizations for their members and not open to the general public. Includes convents and monasteries.

Removal of clothing. Striptease, or the removal of clothing, or the wearing of transparent or diaphanous clothing, including models appearing in lingerie, to the point where "specified anatomical areas" are exposed.

Repair and Maintenance - Vehicle. The repair, alteration, restoration, painting, or finishing of automobiles, trucks, recreational vehicles, boats and other vehicles as a principal use, including the incidental wholesale and retail sale of vehicle parts as an accessory use. This use includes major and minor categories. Major vehicle repair facilities deal with entire vehicles. Minor facilities specialize in limited aspects of repair and maintenance (i.e., muffler and radiator shops, quick-lube, etc.).

Includes tire recapping establishments. Does not include automobile parking (see "Commercial Parking and Vehicle Storage"), repair shops that are part of a vehicle dealership on the same site (see "Auto, Mobile home, Vehicle and Parts Sales"); automobile service stations, which are separately defined; or automobile dismantling yards, which are included under "Recycling, Scrap and Dismantling Yards."

Repair and Maintenance - Consumer Products. Service establishments in which the repair of consumer products is the principal business activity, including: electrical repair shops; television and radio and other appliance repair; watch, clock and jewelry repair; re-upholstery and furniture repair. Does not include shoe repair (see "Personal Services"), or businesses serving the repair needs of heavy equipment (see "Business Support Services").

Research and Development. Indoor facilities for scientific research, and the design, development and testing of computer software, and electrical, electronic, magnetic, optical and mechanical components in advance of product manufacturing, that are not associated with a manufacturing facility on the same site. Includes chemical and biotechnology research and development. Does not include soils and other materials testing laboratories (see "Business Support Services"), or medical laboratories (see "Medical Services - Clinics and Labs").

Residential Accessory Uses and Structures. 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. These uses include the following detached accessory structures, and other similar structures normally associated with a residential use of property:

docks and piers
garages
gazebos
greenhouses
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 home satellite dish and other receiving antennas for earth-based TV and radio broadcasts; see "Telecommunications Facilities."

Residential Care Home. This land use consists of a dwelling unit licensed or supervised by any Federal, State, or local health/welfare agency which provides 24-hour nonmedical care of unrelated persons who are handicapped and 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, including but not limited to residential care facilities for the elderly and persons with chronic life-threatening illness, foster care homes, alcoholism or drug abuse recovery or treatment facilities, pediatric day health and respite care facilities, intermediate care facilities for the development disabled, and congregate living health facilities. For the purposes of this definition, a "family dwelling unit" includes a single-family dwelling, a unit in a multi-family dwelling, including a unit in a duplex and a unit in an apartment building, a mobile home, including a mobile home located in a mobile home park, a unit in a cooperative, a unit in a condominium development, a unit in a townhouse development, and a unit in a planned development.

Residential district or zone. Any of the residential zoning districts established by Section 18.06.020 (Zoning Districts Established).

Restaurant, Counter Service. A retail business where customers are served prepared food from a walk-up ordering counter for either on- or off-premise consumption. A restaurant with drive-up or drive-through service is instead included under the definition of "Drive-in and Drive-Thru Sales."

Restaurant, Table Service. A retail business selling food and beverages prepared on the site, where most customers are served food at tables for on-premise consumption. These restaurants may also provide food on a take-out basis where take-out is clearly secondary to table service.

Retail Stores, General Merchandise. Stores and shops selling many lines of merchandise. Such types of stores and lines of merchandise include:

antique shop
artists' supplies
auto parts (not repair or machine shops)
bakeries (retail only)
bicycles
books
cameras and photographic supplies
clothing and accessories
department stores
drug and discount stores
dry goods
fabrics and sewing supplies
florists and houseplant stores (indoor sales only—outdoor sales are "Plant Nurseries")
general stores
hardware
hardware
hobby materials
jewelry
luggage and leather goods
musical instruments, parts and accessories
newsstands
orthopedic supplies
pet stores
religious goods
small wares
specialty shops
sporting goods and equipment
stationery
toys and games
variety stores

Review authority. The individual or official Town body (the Director, Planning Commission, or Town Council) identified by this Development Code as having the responsibility and authority to review, and approve or disapprove the permit applications described in Article IV (Land Use and Development Permit Procedures).

Rezoning. An amendment to the Zoning Map which changes the zoning district applied to a site or area to another zoning district.

Roof-mounted. Mounted above the eave line of a structure.

Rooming and Boarding Houses. The renting of individual bedrooms within a dwelling to three or more people, whether or not meals are provided.

Rural Recreation. Facilities for outdoor recreational activities including: outdoor archery, pistol, rifle, and skeet clubs; rodeo facilities; guest ranches; health resorts including outdoor hot springs or hot tub facilities. Hunting and fishing clubs are separately defined.