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Easement

  • Easement is defined as a non-possessory right given to a person or entity to use another's property for a limited purpose, such as for access to other properties.

Eating & Drinking

  • Pursuant to Sec. 5D.6.3. (Eating & Drinking), eating & drinking is defined as the sale of prepared, ready-to-consume meals or drinks for consumption by the public.

Eating & Drinking: Alcohol Service

  • Pursuant to Sec. 5D.6.3.A. (Eating & Drinking: Alcohol Service), eating & drinking: alcohol service is a use that involves the serving and dispensing of alcoholic beverages primarily for consumption on-site. Eating & drinking: alcohol service includes the provision of alcoholic beverages to customers in a dining setting, while gathered at a bar or tasting room, or in conjunction with another use, such as an entertainment venue, stadium, hotel, indoor recreation, brewery or distillery. This use does not include the sale of alcoholic beverages for off-site consumption, without prepared food orders, for such uses see Sec. 5D.6.12.B. (Retail: Alcohol).

Eating & Drinking: General

  • Pursuant to Sec. 5D.6.3.A. (Eating & Drinking: General), eating & drinking: general is defined as an eating & drinking use that involves serving and sale of prepared food and drinks for on or off-site consumption. Eating & drinking: general uses includes table service at a restaurant, counter service for off-site consumption, and self-service cafeteria dining. This use does not include the dispensing of alcoholic beverages for consumption on-site, for such uses, see Sec. 5D.6.3.B. (Eating & Drinking: Alcohol Service). This use does not include the sale of alcoholic beverages for off-site consumption, without prepared food orders, for such uses see Sec. 5D.6.12.B. (Retail: Alcohol).

Efficiency Dwelling Unit

  • Efficiency dwelling unit is defined as a dwelling unit serving as a residency having an occupancy of greater than 30 days consecutively, and that contains only one habitable room, is limited to 455 square feet in floor area, may include a kitchenette, but may not include a full kitchen. The dwelling unit may include an exterior entry or an entry from a common interior corridor.

Electric Vehicle Charging Station

  • An electric vehicle charging station is defined as one or more electric vehicle charging spaces served by an electric vehicle charger or other charging equipment allowing charging of electric vehicles.

Elevation

  • Elevation is defined as the position or location of something along a vertical direction above or below a given vertical datum.

Elevation Projection

  • Elevation projection is defined as an orthographic projection of the exterior face of a building, represented as a two-dimensional drawing of the building facade. Elevation projections have an angle of elevation of zero degrees (horizontal).

Eligible Tenant

  • For the purposes of Div. 11.5. (Condominiums, Community Apartments, & Stock Cooperatives), eligible tenant is defined as any tenant who was a resident of the property both on the date of tentative tract map or preliminary parcel map application and the date of approval of such map, or at any time after that, and who does not intend to purchase a unit in the conversion project.

Emergency

Enclosed

  • Pursuant to Sec. 14.1.4.A.1. (Enclosed), an enclosed space is considered to be enclosed when the perimeter of the space has an enclosure of at least 66.7 percent.

Enclosure

  • Pursuant to Sec. 14.1.4. (Enclosure), enclosure is defined as the measurement of how closed off an occupiable space is to its surroundings.

End Stall

  • An end stall is defined as the last parking stall in a row, beyond which the drive aisle does not continue.

Entertainment Venue, Indoor

  • Pursuant to Sec. 5D.6.4. (Entertainment Venue, Indoor), entertainment venue, indoor is defined as any indoor assembly use designed or intended for entertainment, includes live music venues, performing arts theaters, movie theaters, dance clubs, comedy clubs, karaoke lounges, and banquet halls.

Entertainment Venue, Indoor: Local

Entertainment Venue, Indoor: Regional

Entrance Spacing

Entry Feature

  • Pursuant to Sec. 3C.5.2. (Entry Feature), entry features are defined as improved design standards applied to each entrance along the public realm.

Entry Feature Option

Environmentally Sensitive Habitat Area

  • For the purposes of Sec. 13B.9.2. (Coastal Development Permit (Post-Certification)) an Environmentally Sensitive Habitat Areas (ESHA) is defined as any officially mapped area in which plant or animal life or their habitats are either rare or especially valuable because of their special nature or role in an ecosystem and which could easily be disturbed or degraded by human activities and developments, and any area identified as a wetland, an environmentally sensitive habitat or as a sensitive coastal resource area, in a certified local coastal program, a certified land use plan or a certified Specific Plan.

Equine

  • Equine is defined as any horse, pony, donkey, burro, or mule which is 12 months of age or older, and is issued a current Equine License by the City Department of Animal Services. An animal which is under 12 months of age, and is the offspring of or is unweaned and being nursed by a female equine lawfully kept on the property where said animal is kept, shall not be considered an equine.

Evaluation Of Non-Compliance

  • Pursuant to Sec. 13B.6.1. (Evaluation Of Non-Compliance), evaluation of non-compliance is the procedure to modify, discontinue, or revoke any discretionary zoning approval where needed to remedy non-compliance with the conditions of any conditional use or similar quasi-judicial approvals.

Existing Building

  • An existing building is defined as a building lawfully constructed and completed under a building permit, if a building permit was required.

Existing Grade

  • Existing grade is defined as the grade prior to grading.

Existing Uses

Extended Home-Sharing

Exterior Face

  • Exterior face is defined as the outermost surface of any object such as a window, wall, or building.

Exterior Material Option

Exterior Modification

Exterior Wall

  • Exterior wall is defined as any wall which forms the envelope of a building, separating its interior from its exterior.

Extremely Low Income Household

  • A extremely low income household is a household whose annual income, adjusted for family size, does not exceed 30 percent of the area median income as designated for this category in California Health and Safety Code, Sec. 50106.