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Glossary of Terms

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Parallel Parking

  • For purposes of on-site parking, parallel parking is defined as a parking stall having its length parallel to its access drive aisle.

Parcel

  • Parcel is defined as a piece of land with defined boundaries intended for the purpose of ownership, lease, or finance.

Parcel Map

Park Fee

Park Trailer

Parking

Parking Area

  • Parking area is defined as a motor vehicle use area which is used for parking vehicles. Examples include, parking lots and parking structures.

Parking Bay

  • For a double-loaded aisle, parking bay is defined as the width of two rows of parking stalls including the width of the access drive aisle in-between. For a single-loaded aisle, parking bay is defined as the width of a single row of parking stalls including the width of the access drive aisle.

Parking Garage

  • Parking garage is defined as any parking structure that is primarily used for parking. For a parking structure to be considered a parking garage, motor vehicle use area in a building shall be greater than or equal to the floor area of the building. See Sec. 4C.4.6. (Parking Structure Design).

Parking Lot

  • Parking lot is defined as a parking area that has no floor area below or above it.

Parking Setback

  • Pursuant to Sec. 3C.2.1. (Parking Setback), parking setback is defined as an area on a lot along a frontage lot line where motor vehicle use areas are prohibited, including primary street parking setbacks, side street parking setbacks, and special lot line parking setbacks.

Parking Stall

  • See automobile parking stall.

Parking Structure

  • Parking structure is defined as a building that includes parking uses. Parking structure includes parking garages and integrated parking structures. See Sec. 4C.4.6. (Parking Structure Design).

Parkway

  • Parkway is defined as the area between the edge of the roadway and the adjacent property line excluding any area occupied by a sidewalk. Parkway shall also include any area within a roadway which is not open to vehicular travel.

Passenger Loading Area

  • Passenger loading area is defined as areas designated for the on-site or curbside loading and unloading of passenger vehicles.

Passenger Transit Facility

  • Pursuant to Sec. 5D.5.5. (Passenger Transit Facility), a passenger transit facility is defined as any facility that includes a structure accommodating publicly accessible passenger transport vehicles which regularly load and unload passengers along a fixed route. A passenger transit facility include bus terminals, light rail stations and right-of-ways, subway stations and right-of-ways, and passenger train stations and right-of-ways.

Pedestrian Access

  • Pedestrian access is defined as a means of approaching or entering a lot from the public right-of-way as a pedestrian in accordance with Div. 4C.1. (Pedestrian Access).

Pedestrian Access Package

Pedestrian Accessway

  • Pedestrian accessway is defined as a pedestrian path designed to accommodate pedestrian access from the public right-of-way into a lot and to one or more building entrances, in accordance with Div. 4C.1. (Pedestrian Access).

Pedestrian Amenity & Public Amenity-Facing Facade

Pedestrian Amenity Allowance

  • Pursuant to Sec. 3C.1.4. (Pedestrian Amenity Allowance), pedestrian amenity allowance is defined as the width of pedestrian amenity space in the build-to zone that can be counted toward the build-to width requirement.

Pedestrian Amenity Space

Pedestrian Amenity-Facing Facade

  • See pedestrian amenity & public amenity-facing facade.

Pedestrian Passageway

  • Pedestrian passageway is defined as a publicly accessible pedestrian pathway that provides pedestrian through access from the public right-of-way into and directly through a lot, in accordance with Sec. 4C.1.1.C.3.a. (Pedestrian Passageway).

Pedestrian Sign

  • Pursuant to Sec. 4C.11.6.C.7. (Pedestrian Sign), pedestrian sign is defined as a small sign attached perpendicular to the building facade that hangs from a bracket or support.

Pedestrian Walkway

  • Pedestrian walkway is defined as any public right-of-way designated as a pedestrian walkway on the Citywide General Plan Circulation System maps of the Circulation Element of the General Plan.

Perennial

  • Perennial is defined as a plant that lives more than two years, including woody species and other plants that do not die back annually.

Perimeter Plane

  • Pursuant to Sec. 14.2.4.A.3. (Perimeter Plane), perimeter plane is defined as an imaginary vertical plane along the perimeter of a space used to measure the enclosure of a space. A perimeter plane shall be projected for a height of eight feet measured from the floor or ground surface of the space.

Permission Level

  • A permission level is a letter or symbol provided within a Use District table to indicate how an individual use is permitted, as established in Div. 5A.3. (Use Permissions).

Permit

Perpendicular Line

Person

Personal Services

  • Pursuant to Sec. 5D.6.10. (Personal Services), personal services are defined as any commercial use providing an in-person service directly to individuals seeking cosmetic services, counseling services, document services, or servicing of consumer goods. Personal services include: cosmetic services such as hair cutting and styling, nail salon, day spas, licensed massage therapy, tattooing and piercing; counseling services, such as non-medical counseling, legal counseling, financial counseling, psychic counseling; document services such as printing, form and application assistance, notary services, photo developing, visa and passport services; garment services, such as garment tailoring and alterations, laundromat, dry cleaning; and consumer goods repair services when occupying less than 3,000 square feet in area, such as electronics repair, jewelry repair, shoe repair, appliance repair, furniture restoration, and bicycle repair. This use does not include consumer goods repair services when occupying 3,000 square feet in area, or greater, for such uses see Sec. 5D.8.1. (Machine Shop). This use does not include maintenance and repair of motor vehicles, for such uses see Sec. 5D.7.1. (Motor Vehicle Services).

Plant Cultivation

Plant Cultivation: Community Garden

  • Pursuant to Sec. 5D.10.2.A. (Plant Cultivation: Community Garden), plant cultivation: community garden is defined as a plant cultivation use designed and intended for multiple households or organizations to cultivate plants for domestic use. This use may include shared facilities for storage and maintenance or services incidental to the agricultural use such as an educational space.