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Coastal Zone

Collection Bin

  • Collection bin is defined as any box, canister, receptacle, or other container that can be opened and closed, and is used for collecting salvageable personal property, including, but not limited to, clothing, shoes, books, and household items for periodic off-site processing and/or redistribution. For purposes of this definition, salvageable personal property shall not include recyclable materials not intended for re-use, including, but not limited to, newspapers, plastic, glass, aluminum, electronics, toxic or hazardous materials, and solid waste; nor any personal property that, because of its size, does not fit inside the collection bin. See Sec. 13B.10.3.A.2. (Definitions).

Collector Street

  • Collector street is defined as any public right-of-way designated as a collector street on the Citywide General Plan Circulation System maps of the Circulation Element of the General Plan.

Commercial Message

Commercial Vehicle

  • Commercial vehicle is defined as any vehicle, excluding household moving rental trucks and utility rental trailers, which when operated upon a highway is required to be registered as a commercial vehicle by the Vehicle Code of the State of California, or by any other jurisdiction, and that is used or maintained for the transportation of persons for hire, compensation, or profit, or designed, used, or maintained primarily for the transportation of property.

Commercial/Industrial Conversion Project

  • For the purposes of Div. 11.5. (Condominiums, Community Apartments, & Stock Cooperatives) commercial/industrial conversion project is defined as an existing building used exclusively for commercial or industrial purposes, or both, proposed for conversion to a condominium or stock cooperative to be used exclusively for commercial or industrial purposes, or both through approval of a tract map or parcel map. For purposes of this definition, the term existing means that the building was constructed prior to 1945, or if it was built after 1945, a Certificate of Occupancy was issued for the building prior to the time of map application.

Commercial/Industrial to Residential Conversion Project

  • For the purposes of Div. 11.5. (Condominiums, Community Apartments, & Stock Cooperatives) commercial/industrial to residential conversion project is defined as an existing building used exclusively for commercial or industrial purposes, or both, proposed for conversion to a condominium, stock cooperative or community apartment to be used exclusively for residential purposes through approval of a tract map or parcel map. For purposes of this definition, the term existing means that the building was constructed prior to 1945 or, if it was built after 1945, a Certificate of Occupancy was issued for the building prior to the time of map application.

Commissary Kitchen

  • Pursuant to Sec. 5D.6.2. (Commissary Kitchen), a commissary kitchen is defined as a kitchen facility used for cooking and preparing food to be primarily served and consumed off-site. This definition includes multi-tenant shared kitchen facilities, order fulfillment kitchens, and catering kitchen facilities. The following uses are allowed when incidential to the kitchen facility: research and teaching facilities, commercial food processing, and order fulfillment pick-up lobbies.

Common Indoor Amenity Space

Common Lot Line

Common Outdoor Amenity Space

Community Apartment Project

Community Assembly

  • Pursuant to Sec. 5D.3.8. (Community Assembly), community assembly is defined as any non-residential and not-for-profit facility that is oriented around an assembly space used primarily for the temporary gathering of people for a shared social purpose. Access to the general public may be limited based on association. Community assembly includes any place of worship, community meeting room, private club, event space, assembly hall, social club, or union hall.

Community Assembly: Local

Community Assembly: Regional

Community Care Facilities

  • See community care facility.

Community Care Facility

  • Community care facility is defined as any place licensed by the State of California that is maintained and operated as a residential facility or as a social rehabilitation facility to provide non-medical residential care, day treatment, adult day care, or foster family agency services for persons in need of services, supervision, or assistance essential for sustaining the activities of daily living, as defined in the California Health and Safety Code, Sec. 1502 (a). (Definitions). The term includes halfway house, non-medical assisted living, and substance abuse treatment operation. For residential community care facility see Sec. 5D.2.4.A. (Supportive Housing: General). For non-residential community care facility see Sec. 5D.3.10. (Social Services).

Community Plan Implementation Overlay

  • Community Plan Implementation Overlay is defined as a zoning overlay adopted for a community plan area, which provides supplemental development regulations by defined subareas, which may include, public benefits incentives programs available, amount of floor area awarded for public benefits incentives programs, applicable local affordable housing incentive program sets, and development standards. See Sec. 8.2.2. (Community Plan Implementation Overlay).

Condominium

Contributing Element

  • For the purposes of Div. 13.B.8. (Historic Preservation), contributing element is defined as any building, structure, landscaping, natural feature identified on the historic resources survey as contributing to the Historic significance of the Historic Preservation Overlay Zone, including a building or structure which has been altered, where the nature and extent of the alterations are determined reversible by the historic resources survey.

Controlled Drilling Site

  • Controlled drilling site is defined as that particular location within an oil drilling district in an urbanized area upon which surface operations for the drilling, deepening, or operation of a hole or well associated with an oil, gas, or hydrocarbon well, or any incidental operation are permitted subject to the conditions prescribed by written determination by the Zoning Administrator.

Conversion Project

  • For the purposes of Article 11. (Division of Land), a conversion project is an existing building proposed for conversion to a condominium, stock cooperative, or community apartment through approval of a tract map or parcel map. For purposes of this definition, the term existing means that the building was constructed prior to 1945 or, where built after 1945, a Certificate of Occupancy was issued for the building prior to the time of map application. Conversion project includes residential conversion project, residential to commercial/industrial conversion project, and commercial/industrial to residential conversion project.

Corner Lot

  • Corner lot is defined as a lot situated at the intersection of two or more streets having an angle of intersection of not more than 135 degrees.

Covered

  • Pursuant to Sec. 14.2.2.A.1. (Covered), covered is defined as a space or structure with less than 25 percent of its area open to the sky.

Covered Area

CPIO

  • Community Plan Implementation Overlay.

Cultural

  • For the purposes of Historic Preservation (Div. 13B.8.), cultural is defined as anything pertaining to the concepts, skills, habits, arts, instruments or institutions of a given people at any given point in time.

Cultural Heritage Commission