For the purposes of vertical encroachments pursuant to Sec. 14.2.5.B.1.e. (Safety Barriers), a safety barrier is defined as a vertical barriers that is 45 inches in height or less and required for safety and protection by Chapter IX. (Building Regulations) of this Code to protect occupants from falling from walking surfaces including but not limited to parapets, railings, or banisters. For the purposes of the remainder of this Zoning Code (Chapter 1A), a safety barrier is defined as anything put in place to prevent people from moving easily from one place to another for the purpose of mitigating risk including fences, walls, parapets, and railings.

Sales floor area is defined as the interior floor area of a retail use devoted to the retail sale of merchandise where customers can view, select, and carry merchandise from an inventory display to the point of sale. Areas not included in sales floor area include, showrooms, restrooms, office space, storage areas, open-air retail areas.

Pursuant to Sec. 5D.9.3. (Salvage Yard), a salvage yard is defined as any heavy industrial use having any portion of the use located outdoors where a junk dealer or automobile dismantler operates, or where partially dismantled, obsolete, or wrecked automobiles are stored. This use does not include motor vehicle storage, for such uses see Sec. 5D.7.5. (Storage, Outdoor).

Pursuant to Sec. 5D.3.9. (School), school is defined as an institution of academic learning and social development that provides facilities for teaching and instruction to accommodate a student body such as preschool, K-12, post-secondary education, and associated athletic and recreational facilities. This use does not include avocational, recreational, or other educational or instruction-based uses, for such uses see Sec. 5D.6.6. (Instructional Services). This use does not include a campus auditorium or stadium facilities with a seating capacity greater than 3,000 seats, for such uses see Sec. 5D.4.1. (Amphitheater or Stadium).

Pursuant to Sec. 5D.3.9.B. (School: K-12), school: K-12 is defined as an institution of learning which offers instruction in grades Kindergarten through 12th grade, and associated recreation and athletic facilities serving its students.

Pursuant to Sec. 5D.3.9.C. (School: Post-Secondary), school: post-secondary is defined as an institution offering a formal educational program beyond K-12, including programs whose intent is academic, vocational, or continuing professional education. School: post-secondary includes college, technical school, trade school, and university.

Pursuant to Sec. 5D.3.9.A. (School: Preschool/Daycare), school: preschool/daycare is defined as a facility providing care, supervision, and educational services to children during the day. A school: preschool/daycare includes all forms of early childhood education, daycare, and after school supervision. This use does not include in-home child care, for such uses see Sec. 5D.2.2.A. (Household Business: Family Child Care).

Screening is defined as an arrangement of structures, vegetation, or site elements that are intended to block or obscure views into a lot or structure. See Div. 4C.8. (Screening).

Screening plants are defined as plants that are arranged for the purposes of obscuring views into a lot or structure.

A screening structure is defined as a structure obstructing visibility from outside an enclosed area to another space, object, or structure.

For the purposes of Sec. 13B.9.1. (Coastal Development Permit (Pre-Certification)) sea is defined as the Pacific Ocean and all harbors, bays, channels, canals, estuaries, salt marshes, sloughs and other areas subject to tidal action through any connection with the Pacific Ocean, excluding nonestuarine rivers, streams, tributaries, creeks, and flood control and drainage channels.

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Senior care facility is defined as any assisted living, senior independent living, or skilled nursing home for senior citizens. See Sec. 9.4.3. (Senior Care Facilities Incentive Program).

Senior citizen is defined as an individual at least 62 years of age, except that for projects of at least 35 units that are subject to Div. 9.2. (Affordable Housing Incentive Programs), a senior citizen may be a person of 55 years of age.

As defined pursuant to California Civil Code, Sec. 51.3 (b)(4), a housing development project for senior citizens that has at least 35 dwelling units.

Unless otherwise provided in this Code or City guidelines for a specific purpose, sensitive use is defined as any permitted use in the residential use group, a hospital use, a school use, or any use in the open space & recreation use group shall be considered a sensitive use.

Service floor area is defined as all indoor floor area within an eating & drinking use where the customer can be served, including an indoor dining or lounge area, bar-top and bar seating area, service counter, customer waiting area, customer restrooms, and indoor paths of travel accessible to customers.

A service road is defined as that part of a major or secondary highway, containing a roadway that affords access to abutting property, but is adjacent and approximately parallel to, and separated from the principal roadway.

Pursuant to Sec. 5D.6.13. (Sexually Oriented Business), sexually oriented business is defined as any commercial use involving the retail sale, rental or exhibition, of any goods or services that are characterized by an emphasis on the exposure or display of specified sexual activities or specified anatomical parts. Each sexually oriented business use shall constitute a separate sexually oriented business, even if operated in conjunction with another sexually oriented business at the same establishment, for the intent of meeting applicable use standards.

Pursuant to Sec. 5D.6.13.A. (Sexually Oriented Business: General), sexually oriented business: general is defined as any sexually oriented business use, other than a sexually oriented business: sexual encounter establishment. This use includes but is not limited to adult arcades, adult bookstores, adult cabaret theaters, adult motion picture theaters, or striptease venues.

Pursuant to Sec. 5D.6.13.B. (Sexually Oriented Business: Sexual Encounter), sexually oriented business: sexual encounter is defined as any sexually oriented business use, other than lodging offering public accommodations, which, for any form of consideration, provides a place where two or more persons may congregate, associate or consort in connection with specified sexual activities or the exposure of specified anatomical parts. This use does not include a use where a medical practitioner, psychologist, psychiatrist, or similar professional licensed by the State of California engages in sexual therapy, for such uses see Sec. 5D.6.8. (Medical Clinic).

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Pursuant to Sec. 14.2.2.A.3. (Sheltered) a space or structure is considered sheltered if no portion of its area is open to the sky.

Sheltering structure is defined as any structure, including entry features, canopies, or roofs, that creates a covered, unenclosed space.

Pursuant to Sec. 3D.6.5.C.3. (Shopfront Cornice), shopfront cornice is defined as a continuous molded projection located above a series of display windows on the ground story facade.

A shopping cart is defined as a basket of any size, mounted on wheels, rollers or a similar device, including parts, provided by a retail establishment for the purpose of transporting groceries or merchandise of any kind within a retail establishment or associated parking area.

Shopping cart containment plan is defined as a plan sheet that includes a specific written plan with a corresponding site plan that identifies areas of shopping cart containment to prevent customers from removing shopping carts from the premises. See Sec. 4C.12.8. (Shopping Cart Containment).

Shopping cart corral is defined as a stable structure that provides an enclosure for the collection of shopping carts on a lot.

Shoreline project is defined as any development in streams, wetlands, and other waters of the United States, and may include depositing of fill and dredged material, jetties, marinas, and piers.

For the purposes of the Home-Sharing Program (Sec. 5C.3.2.), short-term rental is defined as a rental unit, rented in whole or in part, to any person(s) for use of 30 consecutive days or less. Rental units within City-approved lodging uses shall not be considered a short-term rental.

Showroom area is defined as the interior floor area of a retail use devoted to the display of heavy/large goods, such as furniture, mattresses, major household appliances, carpet, cars, or wholesale fabric where the assistance of a sales associate, special order, or delivery of goods is required.

Shrub is defined as a small to medium sized perennial woody plant. Unlike herbaceous plants, shrubs have persistent woody stems above the ground. They are distinguished from trees by their multiple stems and shorter height and for purposes of this Zoning Code (Chapter 1A) are less than 15 feet.

Pursuant to Sec. 14.2.12.C.5. (Side Lot Line), side lot line is defined as any lot line not determined to be a primary street lot line, side street lot line, rear lot line, alley lot line, or special lot line.

Pursuant to Sec. 14.2.12.C.2. (Side Street Lot Line), side street lot line is defined as a lot line separating a lot from a side street right-of-way. Any street lot line not determined to be a primary street lot line is considered a side street lot line.

Pursuant to Sec. 14.2.16.B.3. (Side Street Yard), side street yard is defined as the area between a side street lot line and an imaginary line running parallel to the side street lot line. The imaginary line shall be drawn 15 feet back from the portion of the side street lot line-facing facade nearest to the side street lot line, measured perpendicularly to the lot line.

Pursuant to Sec. 14.2.16.B.5. (Side Yard), side yard is defined as the portions of a lot between a side lot line and a principal structure. All portions of a lot that do not meet the yard designation criteria for any other yard shall be designated as a side yard.