Supportive services are defined as services that are provided on a voluntary basis to residents of supportive housing or transitional housing, including, but not limited to, intensive case management, medical and mental health care, substance abuse treatment, employment services, benefits advocacy, and other services or service referrals necessary to obtain and maintain housing. See Sec. 9.4.1. (Permanent Supportive Housing Incentive Program).

Surrounding grade is defined as the elevation of finished grade measured along the perimeter of an object, assembly, or structure.

Surveyed historic resource is defined as any building, structure, object, site, landscape, or natural feature identified through an historic resources survey as potentially eligible for listing as either an individual resource, or as a contributor to a historic district, under a local, state or federal designation program, including but not limited to listing in the National Register of Historic Places or California Register of Historical Resources, or designation as a historic-cultural monument or as an Historic Preservation Overlay Zone. This term does not include a non-contributor to an eligible historic district.

Surveyor is defined as a licensed land surveyor authorized to practice in California.

Sustainable energy systems is defined as any equipment which uses renewable energy sources, such as solar or wind power, to generate electricity, heating or cooling.

Pursuant to Sec. 3D.9.1.C.5. (Symmetrical Lite Pattern), symmetrical lite pattern is defined as window panes that are arranged or designed so that the left-side of the window composition is a mirror image of the right-side of the window composition.