Agenda 02/10/2005 SPOKANE VALLEY PLANNING COMMISSION AGENDA
Council Chambers -City Hall 11707 E. Sprague Avenue
CORRECTED AGENDA
Meeting Will Begin at 6pm
6:00 p.m.—9:00 p.m.
***February 10, 2005***
I. CALL TO ORDER
II. PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE
III. ROLL CALL
IV. APPROVAL OF AGENDA
V. APPROVAL OF MINUTES
• January 27, 2005
VI. PUBLIC COMMENT
VII. COMMISSION REPORTS
VIII. ADMINISTRATIVE REPORT
IX. COMMISSION BUSINESS
Old Business:
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rtcrial Road Plan Withdrawn by Applicant- No Public Hearing
• Uniform Development Code: Definitions (discussion)
• Matrix and Schedule of Permitted Uses (discussion)
X. FOR THE GOOD OF THE ORDER
XI. ADJOURNMENT
COMMISSIONERS CITY STAFF
Fred Beaulac Marina Sukup, AICP
Robert Blum Greg McCormick, AICP
John G. Carroll, Vice-Chair Scott Kuhta, AICP
David Crosby, Chair Sue Pearson
William Gothmann
Gail Kogle
Ian Robertson www.spokanevalley.orq
Spokane Valley Planning Commission
Draft Minutes
Council Chambers —City Hail 11707 E. Sprague Ave.
January 27, 2005
I. CALL TO ORDER
Planning Commission Chair Crosby called the meeting to order at
6:30 p.m.
Staff attending the meeting are Marina Sukup, Community Development
Director; Gregory McCormick, Planning Manager; Sue Pearson, Deputy
City Clerk; and Thomas Scholtens, Building Official.
II. PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE
The Commission, audience, and staff recited the Pledge of Allegiance.
III. ROLL CALL
Fred Beaulac— Present Bill Gothmann — Present
Bob Blum — Present Ian Robertson — Excused Absence
David Crosby— Present John G. Carroll — Present
Gail Kogle — Present
IV. APPROVAL OF AGENDA
For the good of the order: Change the meeting times
Commissioner Beaulac moved that the January 27, 2005 agenda be
approved as presented. Commissioner Kogle seconded the motion
as amended. Motion passed unanimously.
V. APPROVAL OF MINUTES
Commissioner Blum stated on page 8 last paragraph 4th line, he would like
the words "clear and distinctive" instead of"clear and distinct."
It was moved by Commissioner Kogel and seconded by
Commissioner Carroll that the minutes of the January 13, 2005
Planning Commission meeting be approved as amended. Motion
passed unanimously.
VI. PUBLIC COMMENT
There was no public comment.
VII. COMMISSION REPORTS
Commissioner Blum attended the January 25, 2005 council meeting. The
Pines/Mansfield agreement presentation was informative.
VIII. ADMINISTRATIVE REPORTS
Ms. Sukup City Council adopted the comp plan amendments. Sign
ordinance Joint city council meeting Feb 1 dinner 5:00 in 2"d floor
conference room meeting started 6:00
Michael Friedman consultant team Sprague/Appleway March 1
tentative. Meeting with community and with council in evening.
Todd Whipple gotten with Mr. McCormick about rebuttal not yet.
IX. COMMISSION BUSINESS
A. OLD BUSINESS:
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B. NEW BUSINESS:
Hazard Mitigation Plan: Study Session
Darrell Ruby, representative of Spokane County Emergency
Services, was introduced to the Planning Commission. He was
present to help explain the issues and answer any questions the
Commission may have. Ms. Sukup explained the plan. Mr.
Scholtens worked on the inventory with Ms. Sukup. The plan was
discussed.
Tentative dates to remember. Staff should complete the
preliminary draft Hazard Mitigation Plan for circulation to agencies
and service providers by the end of February 2005.
Agency/provider review completed not later than March 30, 2005.
Update the draft and have a public hearing scheduled before the
Planning Commission during April 2005. Then the Planning
Commission recommendation will be forwarded to the City Council
for approval of the plan.
Street Vacation Ordinance Amendments
Four street vacations have been processed and some needed
changes came to light.
1. City signatures on survey documents are unnecessary on
documents prepared by a licensed Washington Surveyor;
2. Survey of properties outside the area of the actual vacation add
additional cost to the survey without commensurate benefit to
the petitioner;
3. Monuments provide control points for property owners, as well
as establishing monuments in areas where monuments have
been destroyed as a result of past street construction activities;
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4. Providing the governing body with necessary findings by the
hearing body who receive public testimony establishes the basis
for legislative findings;
5. Requiring documentation of the transfer of title by means of a
quit claim deed formalizes the transfer to abutting owners; and
6. The renumbering of this section provides a more cogent
organization of regulations within the Spokane Valley Uniform
Development Code (Title 10 Spokane Valley Code of
Ordinances).
The DNS, Determination of Non-significance, was issued on
January 20, 2005 and the proposed ordinance distributed to CTED
and adjacent jurisdictions. The public hearing is scheduled for
February 10, 2005.
Matrix and Schedule of Permitted Uses & Uniform
Development Code
The Planning Commission was asked to review this document and
come to this meeting with comments.
Commission Blum had no comments.
Ms. Sukup explained that she consolidated the matrix into one from
the commercial and industrial matrix. This will make it easier to use
Commissioner Gothmann stated he had gone through the list and
made comments on his matrix. He asked about animal processing,
the definition of air strip, possibly use only Federal Aviation
Administration definitions for airports, computer manufacturing,
hardware versus software, and more. Ms. Sukup requested that a
copy be made of the sheet for staff and Commissioners to review.
Definitions that need to be looked at are chemical manufacturing,
The definitions of a hospice, a hospital, and a birthing center should
be reviewed for how they are alike and where they are zoned.
Commission Beaulac asked how best to get his comments on the
definitions and matrix to Ms. Sukup. She indicated that e-mail
would work the best. It will be easier to make that changes and get
them redistributed for review. He requested that any "Spokane
County" designations be replaced with "Spokane Valley."
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Commissioner Carroll asked about using the SIC codes or the new
NIC codes from the Washington Department of Revenue to
designate the different types of definitions of business types.
Commission Chair Crosby requested the new office zone be put on
the list.
Commissioner Kogel asked about a Spokane County footnote. Ms.
Sukup said that the City will be footnoting the definitions and matrix
incorporating the Spokane County footnotes.
Commission Chair Crosby stated he would like to see the
homework come back to Ms. Sukup by e-mail sometime before the
next meeting.
Commissioner Gothmann gave a more extensive list of items to
look at.
On page one at the bottom, specific anatomical areas are listed on
page 25. Do we need them twice?
Instead of using the type of aircraft to define and airport, use
ownership of the land and number of aircraft. He indicated that
airstrip is not allowed in the matrix at this time. There was a
discussion about helicopters and ports and the need to add them to
the matrix. Commissioner Carroll suggested looking at utility
runway and ultra lights.
Commissioner Gothmann asked if the sign definitions could be
added.
He indicated that the "inoperable" definition is in conflict with the
junk car ordinance.
He requested that the definition of 35 feet for recreational vehicles
could be reviewed.
Ms. Sukup was asked to add Liberal Arts to the College category.
She indicated the whole area needs to be looked at. Hotels/Motels
will be another area to review.
Commissioner Carroll asked to have adult day care added. He
wanted to know if there is a standard that could be used to identify
active farms that could be incorporated into the definition
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X. FOR THE GOOD OF THE ORDER
Commission Chair Crosby requested to bring our meeting times in
conjunction with City Council times. It is staff friendlier. The consensus is
to change the meeting times to 6:00 pm — 9:00 pm and have staff prepare
documents to that effect.
Commissioner Kogle made a motion to amend rules &procedures
for meeting times to be moved from 6:30 pm -9:30 pm to 6:00 pm and
no later than 9:00 pm. Commissioner Beaulac seconded the motion.
Motion passed unanimously.
XI. ADJOURNMENT
There being no further business, the meeting was adjourned at 8:12 p.m.
SUBMITTED: APPROVED:
Sue Pearson, Deputy City Clerk David Crosby, Chairman
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CITY OF SPOKANE VALLEY
Request for Commission Action
Meeting Date: February 10, 2005
Item: Check all that apply: ❑ consent ❑ old business ❑ new business ❑ public hearing
® information ❑ admin. report ❑ pending legislation
AGENDA ITEM TITLE: Discussion of Schedule of Permitted Uses and Definitions
GOVERNING LEGISLATION: RCW 36.70A.040, WAC 365-195-800 et seq., Spokane
Valley Ordinance 03-53
PREVIOUS COUNCIL ACTION TAKEN: The Schedule of Permitted Uses and definitions
were discussed on January 27, 2005.
BACKGROUND: WAC 365-195-810 requires that development regulations implementing the
Comprehensive Plan be enacted concurrently or within six months of the adoption of the Plan.
Planning Commission has reviewed definitions and has recommended amendments to interim
regulations. Zoning regulations are the implementing regulation most closely associated with
control of land uses. The City Council adopted the Spokane County Comprehensive Plan
pursuant to Ordinance No. 03-52, subsequently adopting the Zoning Code of Spokane County
as interim development regulations for the new city (Ordinance 03-53).
The interim zoning regulations contain three matrices identifying permitted uses within
residential, commercial and industrial zoned properties. The permitted uses should be re-
examined in light of the proposed land use plan and the definitions evaluated for consistency
and clarity. The three interim matrices have been consolidated into a single schedule. It is
recommended that the Commission consider whether uses should be permitted, permitted
subject to conditions, or not permitted across all zoning districts. It may also be desirable in
some cases to consolidate uses within categories (e.g. "Chemical Manufacture" rather than a
listing of various chemicals) or conversely, itemizing uses that have previously been lumped
together. The former might list chemicals "...including but not limited to,.." within the definition,
while the latter might require new definitions.
Commissioner Gothmann has reviewed the schedule in detail: his notes and comments are
included in red on the attached charts. The consolidated matrix also include three zoning
classification proposed in the discussion draft of the Comprehensive Plan: "0" Office, "OT"
Office Technology and "CF" Capital Facilities. The key to the abbreviations are included under
the tab "Footnotes". Under the "Combo" tab, you will find groupings prepared by staff for
possible definition or use consolidation. Mr. Gothmann suggested Animal Processing,
greenhouse/nursery, chemical, airports and computers as possibilities for
definition/consolidation. Staff has also included residential, special residential, animals,
agriculture, schools, and transit for your consideration. Uses similar in type and intensity should
be treated similarly (e.g. if the storage of hazardous material requires a conditional permit, then
all uses storing hazardous materials should be subject to the same conditions.
OPTIONS: Not applicable.
RECOMMENDED ACTION: Discussion and direction to staff.
BUDGET/FINANCIAL IMPACTS: Not applicable.
STAFF CONTACT: Marina Sukup, Community Development Director
ATTACHMENTS: Consolidated Matrix—Schedule of permitted uses
Consolidated Use Matrix
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Aboveground tank storage of liquefied
petroleum gas(LPG) P-Acc(1) P-Acc(1) P-Acc(1) N
P-Acc(1) P-Acc(1) P-Acc(1) P-Acc(1) Accessory Structure(s)
N N N N Acetylene gas manufacturing N N P N
N N N N Acid manufacturing N N N N N P N
N N N N Adult Entertainment Establishment N P(1) P(1) N P(1) N P(1) N P(1) N P(1)
N N N N Adult Retail Use Establishment N P(1) P(1) N P('l) N P(1) N P(1) N P(1)
N N N N Agricultural crops,grazing N N N N N N P N
N N N N Agricultural processing plant,warehouse N N N N P P N
N N N N Agricultural product stand P P P P P P N
N N N N Aircraft manufacturing N N N N N P N
N N N N Airstrip for crop dusting/spraying N N N N N N N
N N N N Airstrip,personal N N N N N N N
N N N N Airstrip,private N N N N P P P
N N N N Alcohol manufacturing including gasohol N N N N N P N
N N N N Ambulance service CU P P P P P N
N N N N Ammonia/chlorine manufacturing N N N N N P N
N N N N Animal clinic-veterinary-large animals N N P N N N N
Animal clinic/veterinary,large and small
N N N N animals N P P N N N N
N N 6,1.6 N P{1)N Animal clinic/veterinary,small animals P(1) P P P P N N
N N N N Animal Processing Facility N N N N N P N
N N N N Animal raising and/or keeping N N N N N N P
N N N N Animal Shelter N N N N P P N
Animal Wildlife Rehabilitation or Scientific
N N N N Research Facility N P(1) P(1) P(1) P(1) P(1) N
N N N N Antique store N P P N N N N
N N N N Apparel/tailor shop P P P N N N N
Appliance sales/service N P P N
Archery,rifle,pistol,gun range or club
N N N N (indoor only) N P P N N N N
N N N N Art gallery/studio P P P N N N N
N N N N Asbestos manufacturing N N N N N P N
N N N N Asphalt plant/manufacturing N N N N N P P
N N N N Assembly-heavy N N N N N P N
N N N N Assembly-light N N N P P P N
N N N N Auction yard(excluding livestock) N N N N P P N
N N N N Auction yard,Livestock N N N N N P N
Auto wrecking,recycling,junk and salvage
N N N N yards N N N N CU P(1) N
Automobile and recreational vehicle repair
N N N N &maintenance N N N N P P N
N N N N Automobile assembly plant 1 NI N N N N P N
Consolidated Use Matrix
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N N N N Automobile Impound yard N N N N P P N
N N N N Automobile painting establishment N N N N P P N
N N N .N Automobile/taxi rental N P P P P P N
Automobile/truck painting,repair,body and
N N N N fender works N N P N P P N
N N N N Automobile/truck sales N N P N
N N N N Bakery,retail P P P N
Bank,savings/loan and other financial
N N N N institutions P P P P P P N
N N N N Barber/beauty shop P P P P P N N
N N N N Battery rebuilding/manufacturing N N N N P P N
N N N N Beekeeping,commercial N N N N N P P
P-Acc.(1) N N N Bee-keeping,hobby N N N N N N P-Acc(1)
N N N N Bicycle sales/service P P P N N N N
N N N N Billboard N N N N N N N
N N N N Biotechnology laboratory/manufacture N N N P P P N
N N N N Blast furnace/coke oven N N N N N P N
Bleach,bleaching powder and dye
N N N N manufacturing N N N N N P N
N N N N Boat building,repair and maintenance N N N N P P N
N N N N Book/stationery store P P P N N N N
N N N N Bottling plant N N N P P P N
N N N N Bowling alley N P P N
Bread and Bakery Products manufacturing,
N N N N including retail bakery N P P P P P N
N N N N Brewery,winery and/or distillery N N N P P P N
N N N N Brick,tile and terra cotta manufacturing N N N N N PP
N N N N Broom manufacturing N N N N P P N
Building supply and hardware distribution
N N N N and sales N N P N P P N
N N N N Butcher shop/meat market P P P N N N N
Candy and confection making including
N N N N sales P P P P P P N
N N N N Carbon manufacturing N N N N P N
N N N N Caretaker's residence N N P-Acc.(1) N P-Acc(1) P-Acc(1) P
Carpenter Shop,excluding planing mills,
N N N N saw mills,etc.) N N P P P P N
N N N N Carpet and rug cleaning plants N N N N P P N
N N N N Carpet,canvas,and cordage manufacturing i N N P P N
Carwash,automatic self service(more than
N N N N 1 bay) N P . P P P P N
N N N N Car wash,Self-service-1 bay CU P P N
Catalog and mail order houses including
N N N N showroom 2 N N P N P P N
Consolidated Use Matrix
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N N NI N Cellulose material manufacturing N N N N N P N
Cement,gypsum,lime,plaster of paris and
N N N N terracotta manufacture N N N N N P P
N P N P N N Cemetery P P N N N N N
N N N N Ceramic manufacturing N N N N P P N
N N N N Ceramics Shop N P P N
N N N N Chain and cable manufacturing N N N N P P N
Charcoal manufacturing and pulverizing
N N N N NI N N N N P N
N N N N Chemical manufacturing N N N N N P N
P P P p Church and parsonage P P P N
N N N N Circus P(3) P P P P P N
N N N N Clothes cleaning&dyeing N P P N P P N
PUD PUD PUD PUD Clustered housing N N N N N N N
N N N N Cold storage N N N N P P N
N N N N Colleges,(public and private) N p P N P P N
Commercial composting
N N N N storage/processing N N CU N N CU CU
Commercial laundry,linen supply,and dry
N N N N cleaning I\i N N N P P N
Commercial printing,reprographics,
N N N N bookbinding services N N N P P P N
N N N N Communication service/sales&facilities N P P P P P N
Communications Equipment Manufacturing
N N N N (NEC) N N N N P P N
P(1) P P P Community hall,club or lodge P P P N N N N
P-Acc.(1) P-Acc.(1) P-Acc.(1) P-Acc.(1) Community recreational facility P P P N N N N
Community residential facility(8 or less
P N N N residents) N N N N N N N
Community residential facility,greater than
N P P P 8 residents,no more than 25) N N N N N N N
P(1) P(1) P(1) P(1) Community transit center P P P P P P N
Community treatment facility(8 or less
C.U. N N N residents) C.U. C.U. N N N N N
Community treatment facility,greater than 8
N C.U. C.U. C.U. residents,no more than 20) N N N N N N N
N N N NI Computer manufacturing assembly and N N N N P P N
Computer programs or systcros
N N N N development p P P P P P N
Computer software systems analysis,and
• N N N N hardware design and assembly N N N N P P P N
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Consolidated Use Matrix
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Concrete product manufacturing/ready-mix
concrete(excluding extraction/mining)
N N N N N N N N P P P
C.U.(1) N N N Conditional residential accessory unit N N N N N N N
Construction materials manufacturing
N N N N (N.E.C.) N N N N P P
N N N N Contractor's office and yard N N P N P P N
N N N N Convenience Store P P P P P P N
Cosmetic manufacturing and distribution
including perfumes and toiletries
N N N N N N N N P P N
N N N N Creamery and dairy product manufacturing N N N N P P N
N N N N Creosote manufacturing/treatment N N N N N P N
Crisis Residential Center 8 or fewer
CU N N N residents N N N N N N N
Crisis Residential Center,more than 8
N CU CU CU residents N N N N N N N
N N C.U. C.U. Day care center P P P P P P N
Day care center(in a church or a public or
P(1) P(1) P(1) P(1) private school) P P P P N N N
Day care center in connection with an
N N N N industrial use P P P P P P N
PUD PUD PUD PUD Density bonus(under Chapter 14.704) N N N N N N N
N N N N Department/variety store N P P N N N N
Dependent Relative manufactured(mobile)
T T T T home
N N N N Die casting N N P N N N N N P N
N N N N Disinfectant and insecticide manufacturing N N N N N P N
N N N N Distribution center for home delivery N N N P P P N
P P P P Dormitory N N N N N N N
N N N N Drop hammer or forge N N N N N P N
N N N N Drug Store P P P P P N N
Dry cleaners/laundromat(serving only one
N N N N outlet) P P P P N N N
N N N N Dry Kiln N N N N N P N
P P P P Dwelling,Duplex N N N N N N N
Dwelling unit P(1) P(1) P(1) N N N N
Electrical component
N N N N manufacturing/assembly N N N P P P N
Electrical machinery,equipment&supplies
N N N N manufacture(NEC) N N N N P P N
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Consolidated Use Matrix
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Electronics systems
development/operations,including testing
and/or light assembly of electronics,
communications and/or computer
components,subsystems and systems P P P N
N N N N N N N
Electronics systems
N N N N development/testing/operations, N P P N
N N N N Electroplating of metal N N N N N P N
N N N N Emergency Clinic N P P N P P N
N N N N Emery cloth and sandpaper manufacturing N N N N P P N
N N N N Enameling manufacturing N N N N N P N
Entertainment/recreation facilities
N N N N (bingodance,skating hall NEC N P P N
N N N N Equipment sales,repair,and maintenance N N N N P P N
N N N P(1) Exercise facility/gym athletic club N P P P P P N
N N N N Explosive manufacturing N N N N N P N
N N N N Explosive storage N N N N P P P
N N N N Fabric and textile mills including knitting N N N N P P N
P P P p Family day care home N N N N N N N
N N N N Farm machinery sales&repair N N P N N N N
N N N N Feed and fuel yard N N N N P P N
N N N N Feed lot N N N N N P N
N N N N Feed mill N N N N P P N
N N N N Feed/cereal mill N N N N P P N
Fertilizer manufacturing and manure
N N N N processing N N N N N P N
N N N N Film/camera sales/service P P P N N N N
p P P p Fire station P p P P P P N
N N N N Firewood sales/lot/processing N N CU N P P N
N N N N Fish hatchery N N N N P P N
N N N N Floriculture flower growing N N N P P N N
N N N N Florist Shop P P P P P N N
N N N N Flour mill N N N N P P N
N N N N Food locker N P P N
N N N N Food product manufacturing/storage(NEC) N N N N P P N
P P P P Fraternity,sorority N N N N N N N
N N N N Freight forwarding including terminal N N N N P P N
N N N N Funeral home N P P N N N N
N N N N Furniture manufacturing and sales 5 N P P N
Consolidated Use Matrix
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N N N N Furniture sales/repair N P P N
N N N N Galvanizing/dip plating N N N N N P N
P P P P Gardening,arivate. N N N N NI N N
Garment manufacturing including leather
N N N N goods/apparel N N N P P P N
Gas illuminating or heating
N N N N manufacturing/storage N N N N N P N
N N N N Gasohol plant N N N N N P N
N N N N Gelatin manufacturing N N N N N P N
N N N N General personal service(N.E.C.) N P P N N N N
N N N N General retail sales(N.E.C.) N P P N N N N
N N N N Gift shop P P P N
N N N N Glass and glass product manufacturing N N N N P P N
N N N N Glue manufacturing N N N N N P N
P N P N P N P Goif course N N N
N CU N CU N CU f(1)CU Golf drivin range/training center N N CU P P P N
Governmental offices/
N N N Nadministrative/maintenance facilities N N N P P P N
N N N N Grain elevator N N N P P P N
N N N N Graphite manufacturing N N N N N P N
N N N N Grazing N N N N N N N
N N N N Greenhouse-commercial N N N P P P P
N N N N Grocery store P(1) P P N N N N
CU N N N Halfway House(8 or fewer residents) CU CU N N N N N
N CU CU CU Halfway House(more than 8 residents) CU CU N N N N N
N N N N Hardware store P P P P N N N
Hazardous waste treatment and off-site
N N N N storage N N N N N P(1) N
Hazardous waste treatment and on-site
N N N N storage P-Acc.(1) P-Acc.(1) P-Acc.(1) P-Acc(1) P-Acc(1) P-Acc(1) P-Acc.(1)
N N N N Hobby shop P P P N N N N
Home improvement store(flooring,paint,
N N N N etc) N P P N N N N
C.U. N N N Home industry N N N N N N N
P-Acc.(4) P-Acc.(4) P-Acc.(4) P-Acc.(4) Home profession N N N N N N N
N N N N Horse boarding and training N N N N N N N
N N N N Horticulture vegetable growing N N N P P P P
P P P P Hospital P P P N N N N
N N N N Hotel/motel N N P P P N N
Household appliances manufacturing
N N N N (N.E.C.) N N N N P P N
P P P P Household pets NI N N N N N N
N N N N Ice plant N N N N P P N
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Consolidated Use Matrix
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N N N N Incinerator N N N N P(1) P(1) N
N N N N Inflammable liquid/gas storage N N N N N P N
Inherently Dangerous Mammal/Reptile
N N N N Keeping N N N N N N N
N N N N Ink manufacturing N N N N N P N
N N N N Jewelry sales/repair P P P P N N N
Jewelry,clock,musical instrument
N N N N assembly,sales/service P P P P P P N
N N N N Jobber distribution plant N N N P P P N
N N N N Kennel N P(1) P(1) N P(1) P(1) N
C.U. N N N Kennel,private N N N N N N N
Laboratories incl.research testing,medical,
N N N N dental N N N P P P N
N N N N Landfill N N N N N CU CU
N P P P Library P P P P N N N
N N N N Lighting Equipment manufacturing(N.E.C.) N N N N P P N
Linoleum&oil cloth
N N N N manufacturing/reduction N N N N N P N
N N N N Liquor store N P P N N N N
N N N N Locksmith P P P N N N N
N N N N Log pole storage N N N N N P N
Lubrication grease manufacturing or oil
N N N N compounding N N N N N P N
Lumbermill,sawmill,shingle mill,plywood
N N N N mill N N N N N P P
N N N N Lumberyard N N P N P P N
N N N N Machine shop,large N N N N N P N
N N N N Machine shop,small N N N N P P N
N N N N Machine/machinery manufacturing N N N N P P N
P(2) P(2) P(2) N Dwelling, Manufactured(mobile)home N N N N N N N
P(2) P(2) P(2) P(2) Manufactured(mobile)home park N N N N N N N
N N N N Manufactured(mobile)home sales N N P N N N N
N N N N Manufactured(mobile)home fabrication N N N N P P N
N N N N Massage parlor P P P N N N N
N N N N Match manufacturing N N N N N P N
Meat packaging(excluding slaughtering)
N N N N N N N N P P N
Meat/fish canning,curing and smoking
N N N N (excluding slaughtering) N P P N
Medical and laboratory instrument/appratus
N N N N manufacture N N N N P P N
N N N P Medical Office P P P P P P N
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Medical services including minor
N N N N emergency clinic N N N P P P N
Medical,dental,and hospital equipment
N N N N supply/sales N N N P P P N
N N N N Metal fabrication N N N N P P N
Metal manufacturing,reduction,reclamation
N N N N &refining N N N N N P N
N N N N Metal reduction furnace N N N N N P N
p p P P Mini-day care center(in a dwelling) N N N _ N N N N
N N P P Mini-day care center(not in a dwelling) P P P P P P N
N N N N Mining N N N N N P P
Motor vehicle parts sales and service
N N N N including tires N N P N P P N
Motorcycle/ATV manufacture,repair and
N N N N maintenance N N N N P P N
N P P P Dwelling,Multifamily N N N N N N N
N N N N Museum N P P N N N N
N N N N Music store P P P N N N N
N N N N Nitrating process N N N N N P N
N P N P N P N P Nonmotorized trail system P P P P P P P
P P P P Nursery school N N N N N N N
N N N N Nursery/Greenhouse wholesale N N N P P P N
N N N N Nursery/greenhouse,retail/wholesale N P P P P P N
N P P P Nursing home,convalescent home N N N N N N N
N N N N Office supply and computer sales N P P P N
N N P P Office,business P P P P P P N
N N P P Office,professional P P P P P P N
N N N N Orchard,commercial N N N P P P
N N N N Oxygen manufacturing N N N N N P N
Paint,lacquer,thinner,turpentine&varnish
N N N N manufacture N N N N N P N
N N N N Paper product manufacturing(N.E.C.) N N N N P P N
N N N N Paper/pulp mills N N N N N P P
Park,public(including caretakers
P P P P residence) P P P P P P N
P(1) P(1) P(1) P(1) Park-and-ride facility P P P P P P N
N N N N Pawnshop N P P N N N N
N N N N Pet shop N P P N N N N
N N N N Petroleum manufacturing or refining N N N N N P N
N N N N Pharmaceutical manufacturing N N N P P P N
N N N N Photographic studio P P P N N N N
P-Acc.(1) N N N Pigeon,performing/show N N N N N N N'
N N N N Pipe manufacturing from clay or metals 8 N N N N N P N
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N N N N Planing mill N N N N N P P
N N N N Plaster/wallboard manufacturing N N N N N P N
Plastic injection molding,Including tool&
N N N N dye making N N N N P P N
N N N N Plastic manufacturing N N N N N P N
Plywood&veneer lamination(including
N N N N structural products) N N N N P P N
P P P P Post office P P P P P P N
N N N N Potash works or manufacturing N N N N N P N
Power plant(excluding public utility
N N N N facilities) N N N N N P N
N N N N Prefabrication construction including sales N N N P P P N
Print,blueprinting,photostating,
N N N N xerographic shop N P P P P P N
N N N N Prison,jail,or institution N N N CU CU CU N
P P P P Private repeater facility P P P P P P P
Professional,vocational&trade schools
N N N P P P P P P P N
N N N N Public pay parking garage/lot N P P P P N N
N N N N Public utility gas works N N N N N P N
P P P P Public utility local distribution facility P P P P P P P
P(1) P(1) P(1) P(1) Public utility transmission facility P(1) P(1) P(1) P(1) P(1) P(1) P(1)
N N N N Punch press N N N N P P N
N N N N Pyroxylin manufacturing N N N N N P N
Racetrack(horses,dogs,autos,go-carts
N N N N snowmobiles,etc) N N CU N N N N
N N N N Radio/TV sales/service N P P N N N N
N N N N Railroad yard,repair shop and roundhouse N N N N N P N
N N N N Recreational area,commercial N N N N CU CU N
N N N N Recreational vehicle park N CU P(1) N N N N
Recreational vehicle sales-large(>twelve
N N N N feet) N N P N N N N
Recreational vehicle sales-small(<twelve
N N N N feet) N P P N N N N
N N N N Recycle collection center N P P P P P N
N N N N Recycling plant N N N N P P N
N N N N Rendering plant N N N N N P N
N N N N Rental shop N P P N N N N
N N N N Repair shop for power equipment N P P N P P N
N N N N Research facility N N N P P P N
N N N N Resort N N P N N N N
N N N N Restaurant9 N P P P P P N
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N N N N Restaurant,alcoholic N P P P P P N
N N N N Restaurant,drive-in N P P P P P N
N N N N Restaurant,nonalcoholic P P P P P P N
Retail Sales,related and accessory to
N N N N allowed uses N N N P-Acc(1) P-Acc(1) P-Acc(1) N
N P P p Dwelling,Retirement/elderly apartment N N N N N N N
N N N N Riding stable N N N N P P
N N N N Rock crusher N N N N N P P
N N N N Roiling mill N N N N N P N
N N N N Roofing materials manufacturing N N N N N P N
N N N N Rope manufacturing N N N N P P N
Rubber reclamation,
N N N N manufacturing/fabrication N N P N N N N N P N
N N N N Sandblasting/cutting N N P-Acc.(1) N P-Acc(1) P N
N N N N Sanitarium N N N N N
Sauerkraut,pickle and similar
N N N N manufacturing N N N N P P N
N N N N Sawmill and lumber mill N N N N N P N
P P P P Schools-public and private P P P N N N N
P P P P 1.kindergarten P P P N N N N
P P P P 2.elementary P P P N N N N
P P P P 3.middle P P P N N N N
P P P P 4.junior high P P P N N N N
N N P P 5.high P P P N N N N
P P P P 6.junior college P P P N N N N
P P P P 7.college or university P P P N N N N
8. Expansion of existing structure on
P P P P adjacent property Cu CU Cu N N N N
N N N N Secondhand store N P P N N N N
N N N N Self-service storage facility N P P N N P N
N N N N Service station,automobile P(1) P P P P P N
N N N N Sewage sludge land application N N N N N N CU
N N N N Sign manufacturing/repair N N N P P P N
N N N N Sign painting shop N P P N N N N
N N N N Silane,polysilicon manufacturing N N N N P P N
Dwelling,Single-family,expansion or
accessory structure P P P P P P N
P P P P Dwelling,Single-family new N N N N N N N
N N N N Smelter and ore reduction N N N N N P P
Soap and cleaning compound
N N N N manufacturing N N N _ N N P N
P-Acc. P-Acc. P-Acc. P-Acc. Solar collector&associated sys P P P P P P P
N N N N Solid waste hauler N N P(1) N CU P(1) N
N N N N Solid waste recycling/transfer site N N P(1) N P(1) P(1) P(1)
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N N N N Solid waste recycling/transfer site,private N N CU N P(1) P(1) P(1)
Specialized training/learning schools or
studios(dance,gymnastics,martial arts,
N N N N etc.) CU P P P P N N
Specialty agricultural production(including
retail nursery,greenhouse,and food crops
N N N N grown under cover) N N N P P P N
N N N N Starch product manufacturing N N N N N P N
N N N N Stockyard N N N N N P N
N N N N Stoneware,earthenware manufacturing N N N N P P N
N N N N Storage,general-indoors N N N P P P N
N N N N Storage,general-outdoors N N N P(1) P(1) P N
N N N N Sugar refinery N N N N N P N
N N ' N N Tallow manufacturing N N N N N P N
Tank storage of critical material
N N N N (above/below ground) N N N P-Acc(1) P-Acc(1) P(1) N
Tank storage of critical material
N N N N Aboveground N N N N N CU N
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Tank storage of critical material below
N N N N ground P-Acc. P-Acc. P-Acc. N N CU N
N N N N Tanning,curing of hides and skins N N P N
N N N N Tavern N P P N N N N
N N N N Taxidermy N P P N N N N
N N N N Theater,indoor N P P N N N N
N N N N Theater,outdoor N N P N N N N
N N N N Tire Salvage Yard N N N N CU CU N
N N N N Tire,recap and retread manufacturing N N N N N P N
N N N N Tobacco products manufacturing N N N N N P N
N N N N Tower P(1) P(1) P(1) P(1) P(1) P(1) P(1)
P-Acc.(1) P-Acc.(1) P-Acc.(1) P-Acc.(1) Tower,private P-Acc.(1) P-Acc.(1) P-Acc.(1) P-Acc.(1) P-Acc.(1) P-Acc.(1) N
N N N N Trade/Technical school N P P P P N N
N N N N Transient-agricultural labor residence N N N N N N N
Transitional community facility(8 or less
C.U. N N N residents) N N N N N N N
Transitional community facility(greater than
N C.U. C.U. C.U. 8 residents,no more than 20 residents) N N N N N N N
Transportation services/sales inc.
N N N N equipment storage N N N N P P N
N N N N Tree farming N N N N N - N
Truck equipment sales,repair and
N N N N maintenance N N N N P P N
N N N N Truck gardening 11 N N N N P P
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N N N N Truck Stop N N P P P P N
Truck,automobile,and equipment rental
N N N N facility N N P P N
N N N N Upholstery shop N P P P P P N
N N N N Utility services and systems(NEC) N N N P P P N
Vegetable oil manufacturing(no fat
N N N N rendering) N N N N P P N
Veterinary supplies and services,including
N N N N vet P P P N
N N N N Video Board N N N N N N N
N N N N Vineyard N N N N P P N
N N N N Warehousing N N P P P P N
N N N N Welding,sheet metal shops N N N N P P N
N N N N Wholesaling(retail sales prohibited) N N N P P P N
N N N N Winery N N N P P P P
Wireless Communication Antenna Array P-Acc.(1) P Acc. 1 P-Acc.(1) P-Acc.(1) P-Acc. 1 P-Acc.(1) P-Acc(1)
P-Acc.(1) P-Acc.(1) P-Acc.(1) P-Acc.(1) O O O O O O
Wireless Communication Support Tower
C.U. C.U. C.U. C.U. P(1) P(1) P(1) P(1) P(1) P(1) CU
N N N N Zoological Park N P(1) P(1) N N N N
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Schools
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N N N N p I Professional,vocational 8 trade schools p p P P P P N
P P P P P R Schools-public and private P P P N N N N
P P P P P R 1.kindergarten P P P N N N N
P P P P P R 2.elementary P P P N N N N
p P P P P R 3.middle P P P N N N N
P P P P P R 4.junior high P P P N N N N
N N N P P R 5.high P P P N N N N
N P P P P R 6.junior college P P P N N I! N
N P P P P R 7.college or university P P P N N N N
N N N N N C Colleges,(public and private) N P P N P P N
8.Expansion of existing structure on adjacen
P P P P P R property CU CU CU N N N N
N N N N N I Trade/Technical school N P P P P N N
Specialized traininglleaming schools or
N N N N N I studios(dance,gymnastics,martial arts,etc.) CU P P P P N N
p P P P P R Mini-day care center(in a dwelling N N N N N N N
N N N P P R Mini-day care center(not in a dwelling) P P P P P P N
P P .P P P R Nursery school N N N N N N N
Day care center(in a church or a public or
P(1) P(1) P(1) P(1) P(1) R private school) P P P P N N N
Day care center in connection with an
N N N N N I industrial use P P P P P P N
p P P P P R Family day care home N N N N N N N
ANIMALS
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Animal clinic-veterinary-large animals
N N N N N 1 N N P - N N N N
Animal clinic/veterinary,large and small
N N N N N C animals N P P N N N N
Animal clinic/veterinary,small animals p(1) p P p P N N
N l N GU:N N 1
- - .Veterinary supplies and services,including
P
N -N. N "N N t vet - - P_ -..P . N ...
N N N N N C Pet shop . N P P N N N N
N N N N N C Kennel • N P(1) P(1) N P(1) P(1) N
C.U. C.U. N N N R Kennel,private N N N N N N N
P(1) N N N N R Animal raising and/or keeping N N N N N N P
N N N N N I Animal Shelter N N N N P P N
Animal Wildlife Rehabilitation or Scientific
N N N N N C Research Facility N P(1) P(1) P(1) P(1) P(1) N
N N N N N R Beekeeping,commercial N N N N N P P
P-Acc.(1) P-Acc.(1) N N N Bee-keeping,hobby N N N N N N P-Acc(1)
N N N N N Agricultural crops,grazing N N N N N N R N
N N N N N R Grazing N N N N N N N
P(1) N N N N R Horse boarding and training N N N N N N N
N N N N N R Riding stable N N N N P P
P P P P P R Household pets N N N N N N N
Inherently Dangerous Mammal/Reptile
N N N N N R Keeping N N N N N N N
P-Acc.(1) P-Acc.(1) N N N R Pigeon,performing/show N N N N N N N
Racetrack(horses,dogs,autos,go-carts
N N N N N C snowmobiles,etc) N N CU N N N N
N N N N N C Zoological Park N P(1) P(1) N N N N
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Residential
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PUD PUD PUD PUD PUD R Clustered housing N It t: II I: I: tt
C.U.(1) C.U.(1) N N N R Conditional residential accessory unit N N• N N t'
Dependent Relative manufactured(mobile)
T T T T T R home
N P P P P R Dormitory N N N N N N N
N P P P P R Dwelling,Duplex N N N N N N N
C Dwelling unit P(1) P(1) P(1) N N N N
N P P P P R Fraternity,sorority N N N N N N N
P(2) P(2) • P(2) P(2) N R Dwelling,Manufactured(mobile)home N N N N N N N
N P(2) P(2) P(2) P(2) R Manufactured(mobile)home pard N N N N N N N
N N P P P R Dwelling,Multifamily N N N N N N N
N N P P P R Dwelling,Relirement/elderly apartment N N N N N N N
Dwelling,Single-family,expansion or
C accessory structure P P P P P P N
p P P P P R Dwelling,Single-family new N N N N N N N
N N N N N R Transient-agricultural labor residence N N N N N N N
Special residential
N CU N N N Crisis Residential Center 8 or fewer residents N t\ N N N N N
Crisis Residential Center,more than 8
N N CU CU CU residents N N N N N N N
N CU N N N Halfway House(8 or fewer residents) CU CU N N N N N
N N CU CU CU Halfway House(more than 8 residents) CU CU N N N N N
Transitional community facility(8 or less
C.U. C.U. N N N R residents) N N N N N N N
Transitional community facility(greater than 8
N N C.U. C.U. C.U. R residents,no more than 20 residents) N N N N N N N
Community treatment facility(8 or less
C.U. C.U. N N N R residents) C.U. C U N N N N N
Community treatment facility,greater than 8
N N C.U. C.U. C.U. R residents,no more than 20) N N N N N N N
N N N N N R Prison,tail,or institution N N N CU CU CU N
AGRICULTURE
• N N N f; Agricultural crops,grazing N N N N N N P N
N N N N N R Floriculture flower growing N N N P P n N
N P P P P R Gardening.private N N N N N N N
N N N N N R Greenhouse-commercial N N N P P P P
N N N N N R Horticulture vegetable growing N N N I' P P P
N N N N N I Nursery/Greenhouse wholesale N N N p P P N
N N N N N C Nursery/greenhouse,retail/wholesale N P P P P P N
N N .N N N R Orchard commercial N N N P p
P
Specialty agricultural production(including
retail nursery,greenhouse,and food crops
grown under cover)
N N N N N I N N N P P P N
N N N N N R Tree farming N N N N N P N
N N N N N R Truck gardening N N N N P P
N N N N N R Vineyard N N N N P P N
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TANKS&STORAGE i
N N N N I Inflammable liquidlgas storage N N N N N P N
Aboveground tank storage of liquefied
C petroleum gas(LPG) P-Acc(1) P-Acc(1) P-Acc(1) N
Tank storage of critical material(above/belov.
11 IJ N N N I ground) i! I! N P-Acc(1) P-Acc(1) P(1) N
N N N N N C Tank storage of critical material Abovegrounc N N N N N CU N
N N N N N C Tank storage of critical material below grounc p_Accp_Acc. P-Ace. N N CU N
BUILDING SUPPLY
Building supply and hardware distribution anc
sales N N P N P p N
N N N N P! I
N N N N N C Hardware store p p P _ P N N N
N N N N N C Home improvement store(flooring,paint,etc) N P P N N N N
, N N N N N I Lumberyard N N P N P p N
MILLS
N N N N N I Feed and fuel yard N N N N P P N
N N N N N I Feed lot N N N N N P N
N N N N N R Feed mill N N N N P P N
N N N N N I Feed/cereal mill N N N N P P N
II N N N N I Flour mill N N N N P P N
TRANSIT
N P(1) P(1) P(1) P(1) I Community transit center P P P P P P N
' N P(1) P(1) P(1) P(1) C Park-and-ride facility P p P p p p N
-COMPUTERS&ELECTRONICS
=
N N N N N I Computer programs or-systems development :-p.... - P P. - P P P N -
Computer software systems-analysis,and -
N N N N N I hardware design and assembly N N N N P P P N
Electrical component
N N N N N 1 manufacturing/assembly N N N P P P N
Electronics systems development/operations
including testing and/or light assembly of
electronics,communications and/or computer
components,subsystems and systems
N N N N N I N N N P p P N
Electronics systems
N N N N N C development/testing/operations, N P p N
Communications Equipment Manufacturing
N N N N N I (NEC) N N N N P P N
N N N N N I Computer manufacturing assembly and N N rq N P P N
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LUMBER&PAPER
IJ
Lumbermill,sawmill,shingle mill,plywood mil
N N t: N I N N tJ N N P P
N N N N N I Planing mill N N N N N P P
Paper product manufacturing(N.E.C.) N N N N P P N
N 11 N N N I
N N N N N I Paper/pulp mills N N N N N P P
Plywood&veneer lamination(including
structural products)
N N N N N I N N N N P P N
N N N N N R Sawmill and lumber mill N N N N N P N
N N N N N I Creosote manufacturing/treatment N N N N N P N
Firewood sales/lot/processing
N N N N N I N N CU N P P N
SOLID WASTE
N N N N N C Solid waste hauler N N P(1) N CU P(1) N
N N N N N C Solid waste recycling/transfer site N N P(1) N P(1) P(1) P(1)
Solid waste recycling/transfer site,private
N N N N N C N N CU N P(1) P(1) P(1)
ANIMAL PROCESSING
N N N N N I Stockyard N N N N N P N
N N N N N I Animal Processing Facility N N N N N P N
N N N N N I Gelatin manufacturing N N N N N P N
N N N N N I Glue manufacturing N N N N N P N
Meat packaging(excluding slaughtering) N N N N P N
N N N N N
Meatfish canning,curing and smoking
(excluding slaughtering) N P P N
N N N N N
N N N N N I Rendering plant N N N N N P N
N N N N N I Tallow manufacturing N N N N N P N
CHEMICALS
N N N N N I Acetylene gas manufacturing N N P N
N N N N N I Acid manufacturing N N N N N P N
N N N N N I Alcohol manufacturing including gasohol N N N N N P N
N N N N N I Ammonia/chlorine manufacturing N N N N N P N
N N N N N I Asbestos manufacturing N N N N N P N
Bleach,bleaching powder and dye
N N N N N 1 manufacturing N N N N N P N
N N N N . N I Carbon manufacturing N N N N P N
IJ N N N N 1 Cellulose material manufacturing N N N N N P N
N N N N N I Chemical manufacturing N N N N N P N
N N N N N I Creosote manufacturing/treatment N N N N N P N
IJ N N N NI Disinfectant and insecticide manufacturing N N N N N P N
N N N N N 1 Enameling manufacturing N N N . N N P N
N N N N N I Oxygen manufacturing N N N N N P N
Paint,lacquer,thinner,turpentine&varnish
manufacture
N N N N N N N N N N P N
I
I
Pharmaceutical manufacturing
N N N N N N N N P P P N
I
Potash works or manufacturing
N N N N N N N N N N P N
N N N N N I Pyroxylin manufacturing N N N N N P N
N N N N N I Silane,polysilicon manufacturing N N N N P P N
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METAL FABRICATION
N N N N N I Electroplating of metal N N N N N P N
N N N N N I Metal fabrication N N N N P P N
Metal manufacturing,reduction,reclamalion 8
refiningN N N N P N
t! N N N N I '°
N N N N N I Metal reduction furnace N N N N N P N
N N N N N I Nitrating process N td N N N P N
Pipe manufacturing from clay or metals N N N N N P N
N N N N N 1
N N N N It I Rolling mill N N N N N P N
N N N N N I Welding,sheet metal shops N N N N P P N
WINERY •
Brewery,winery and/or distillery
N N N N N I N N N P P P N
N N N N N R Winery N N N P P P P
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Other uses may be permitted pursuant to sectio!, 14.604.160 or as determined by the
Hearing Body in public hearing as an amendment to the Zoning Code.
14.623.080 Index of Letters and Symbols
P Permitted use
P(1)See Chapters 14.624(B-1),14.626(13-2)and 14.628(B-3)for specific
standards for locating and approving these uses.
P(2)See Section 14.804.180 for location and setback requirements.
P(3)Not displaying Inherently Dnagerous Mammal/Reptile as defined in this Code
(Res.No.99-1061,dated November 30,1999)
P-ACC.Permitted accessory use
C.U.Conditional use
N.E.C.Not elsewhere classified
N Not permitted use
(1)Specific standards exist for approving and locating these uses
Industrial
P Permitted use
P(1)See Chapters 14.630 (I-1), 14.632(1-2)and 14.634 (1-3)for specific standards
for locating and approving these uses.
P(2) See Section 14.804.180 for location and setback standards.
P-Acc. Permitted accessory use
N Not permitted use
(1)Specific standards exist for approving and locating these uses
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Chapter 14.300 I
DEFINITIONS )(I/A.0
Section:
14.300.000 Procedures
14.300.100 Definitions
14.300.000 Procedures
1. For the purpose of this Code certain words and terms are herein defined. The word "shall" is
always mandatory. The word "may" is permissive, subject to the judgement of the person
administering the Code.
2. Words not defined herein shall be construed as defined in Webster's New Collegiate
Dictionary.
3. The present tense includes the future, and the future the present.
4. The singular number includes the plural, and the plural the singular.
14.300.100 Definitions
Accessory: A building, area, part of a building, structure or use which is subordinate to, and the
use of which is incidental to, that of the main building, structure or use on the same lot. Within
residential zones the accessory structure or use shall be limited in area as set forth within the
underlying zone classification, unless the building is used in conjunction with permitted farming
or animal raising.
Access Lane: An area of land allowing ingress and egress to and from a parcel of land which
may or may not have minimum lot frontage on a public street, road, or right-of-way.
Administrative Exception: A minor deviation from standards specified in this Code_, as set
forth-in-Section 1,1.506.020.
Adult Entertainment Establishment: A - - - - • -••-• -- •-- -. .. = -hapter 7.80 of
- •• . _ - _-- -• _- ••• An enclosed building,
or any portion thereof, used for presenting performances, activities, or material or relating to
"specific sexual activities" or"specified anatomical areas," as defined in this section for
observation by patrons therein_; Provided, however, that a motion picture theater shall be
considered an adult entertainment establishment if the preponderance of the films presented is
distinguished or characterized by an emphasis on the depicting or the describing of"specified
sexual activities" or"specified anatomical areas"; provided further, however, that a hotel or
motel shall not be considered an adult entertainment establishment merely because it provides
adult closed circuit television programming in its rooms for its registered guests.
Adult Retail Use Establishment: A retail use establishment which, for money or any other
form of consideration, devotes a significant or substantial portion of stock in trade, to the sale,
exchange, rental, loan, trade, transfer, or viewing of adult oriented merchandise.
"Adult oriented merchandise" means any goods, products, commodities, or other ware,
including but not limited to, videos, CD Roms, DVDs, magazines, books, pamphlets, posters,
cards, periodicals or non-clothing novelties which depict, describe or simulate specified
anatomical area or specified sexual activities.
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1) Les than comple eeve,ed-human genitals, pubic region, buttock, or
female breams below-a-peint—i mediatety-above the top of the areelaor
2}-Human,Rale g- • • . - -•ely-turgid--stere, eve -sr pletely--and-o ely
covered.
Specified Sexual-Aetivi#es" means-any-of the-follewiF g
1) Human genitals in a state of sexual-stimulation or arousa-1
2) Acts of human masturbation, sexual-intercoursc, sodomy, oral copulationT or
bestiality-Har
3) Fondling or-other erotic touching of human go • . , - - -, Buttocks, or female
breasts, ^ her-clothed or unclothed, of oneself of one person by another,
Agricultural: Relating to the science or art of cultivating soil or producing crops to be used or
consumed directly or indirectly by man or livestock, or raising of livestock.
Agricultural Direct Marketing Activities: Those accessory activities associated with the retail
sale of agricultural products produced on and off the premises. This includes the sale of non-
agricultural products (e.g. crafts, antiques, kitchen goods, etc.), educational classes and tours,
commercial farms rides on premises, and limited restaurant services as defined.
Agricultural land: Defined in WAC 365-190-030(1) as now or hereafter amended. DO WE
NEED THIS?
Agricultural Processing: The series of operations taken to change agricultural products into
food products.
Agricultural Zones: Those zones outright permitting various agricultural uses including the
Exclusive Agricultural and General Agricultural zones. SHOULD THIS BE KEPT?
Airport: Any area of land or water which is designated and set aside for landing and taking off
of aircraft and which is utilized, or which is certified on a plan to be utilized, in the interest of the
public for such purposes.
Airport Hazard: Any structure or tree or use of land which obstructs the airspace required for
the flights of aircraft in landing or taking off at an airport or which is otherwise hazardous to such
landing or taking off of aircraft, and any use of land which is hazardous to persons or property
because of its proximity to an airport.
Airstrip, Personal: A landing area for only one (1) aircraft for personal use by only the owner.
Airstrip, Private: A landing area for more than one (1) aircraft.
Alley: A public right-of-way which provides access only to the rear and/or side of properties
abutting and having access to a public road.
Altered/Alteration: Any change, addition or modification in construction or any change of
occupancy from one use to another or from one division of a trade to another.
Amendment: A change in the wording, context, or substance of this Code, or change in the
zone boundaries upon the zoning map, which map is a part of this Code.
Animal, Large: Animals, including, but not limited to, horses, donkeys, burros, llamas, bovines,
goats, sheep, swine, bison, camels and other animals or livestock of similar size and type,
except inherently dangerous mammals and inherently dangerous reptiles. Young of horses,
mules, donkeys, burros, llamas, alpaca, bison, and camels under one (1) year in age, bovines,
under ten (10) months in age, and sheep, goats and swine under three (3) months in age shall
not be included when computing intensity of large animals. (ReNe=99-1-O6-/Fdated
MOVeRiber-3O-r999)
Animal, Small: Animals or fowl other than a household pet, large animal, inherently dangerous
mammals or inherently dangerous reptiles, but not limited to, chickens, guinea hens, geese,
ducks, turkeys, pigeons not otherwise defined, emu, ostriches (struthious), kangaroos, rabbits,
mink, chinchilla, nutria, gnawing animals in general and other animals or fowl of similar size and
type. Young small animals or fowl under three (3) months of age shall not be included when
computing intensity of small animals or fowl. Young or miniature large animals are not included
in this definition and are considered large animals. (Res. No. W 1061, dated--Nevember-30;
1-09-9))
Animal, Wildlife Rehabilitation or Scientific Research Facility: A building, structure, pen or
portion(s) thereof or an area of land where animals are housed, kept or maintained for the
purpose of wildlife rehabilitation; or for the purpose of investigation, aimed at the discovery and
interpretation of facts or the collecting of information about a particular subject. (Res-;No. 99-
1061, dated--November-30, 1999)
Antique: Any item which, because of age, rarity or historical significance, has a monetary value
greater than the original value, as determined at applicant's expense by an independent
appraiser, or which has an age recognized by the United States government as entitling the
article to an import duty less than that prescribed for contemporary merchandise.
Antique Store: A shop selling, or offering for sale, antiques. Such a shop shall not be
considered as a dealership handling used or second hand merchandise.
Aquifer: That array of geologic formations supplying virtually all potable water to the Spokane
metropolitan area. Its area, extent and characteristics are defined in the "Spokane Aquifer Water
Quality Management Plan" and "Cause and Effect Report," both reports of the '208' Water
Quality Management Program. IS THIS CURRENT?
Aquifer Sensitive Area (ASA): The area from which water runoff directly recharges the
Aquifer, including the surface over the Aquifer itself, and the hillside areas immediately adjacent
to the aquifer as defined and adopted by Spokane County in the "Spokane County
Comprehensive Wastewater Management Plan, July, 1981" as amended. IS THIS CURRENT?
Arterials - Principal, Major and Minor: Street classification per the Spokane County Engineer's
office.
Arteria' DrinGinnl v"Mor and Collector:-Street or road classification per the Spokane-County
Engineer-Is-Office adopted definitions and-definitions-of Chapter 14.710.
Arterial/Road Map: The adapted-official maps ADOPTED AS PART OF THE Comprehensive
Plan. uses _nzonjunotion-wit s Ch Pter 1'' 74 n ac off-ioial-controls pursuant to RCW Chapter
36.70:
Assembly - Light: The assemblage of metals and/or materials into products normally used in
the home. ADEQUATE TO HANDLE ELECTRONIC ASEMBLY?
Assembly - Heavy: The assemblage of materials and/or metals into products normally not used
in the home. CLARIFICATION HELPFUL.
Auction Yard: An open area or an area entirely enclosed within a building where items are
stored or displayed for not more than seven (7) consecutive days within any given thirty (30)-
day period and where persons are permitted to attend sales and offer bids on such items.
Auto Wrecking, Junk and Salvage Yards: Any area, lot, land, parcel, building, structure or
part thereof where waste, discarded or salvaged materials are exchanged, handled, bought,
sold, baled, packed, stripped, stored, dumped or disassembled, including but not limited to
inoperable vehicles, machines or remnants thereof, and/or metals, paper, rags, tires and bottles.
The following establishments shall not be considered an Auto Wrecking, Junk, and Salvage
Yard when all activity, storage, odor and noise is confined wholly within an enclosed building:
the private, noncommercial storage of inoperable vehicles and remnants thereof; pawn shops;
secondhand stores; used furniture stores and public garages. Also, open sales lots for the sale
of new and used motor vehicles and machinery which are in operable condition; motor vehicle
towing services and auto and/or body repair establishments which do not store inoperable
vehicles for more than ninety (90) days; and accessory storage areas for recyclable items
associated with permitted uses shall not be considered an Auto Wrecking, Junk and Salvage
Yard.
Automobile Sales: An area, other than a street, used for the display and sale of more than two
(2) new or used automobiles or trucks in any thirty (30)-day period and where no repair work is
done except that necessary for completion of the sale.
Automobile/Taxi Rental: An area, or building, used to park and repair automobiles to be rented
to the general public and where no other automobile repair work is done; such area may include
customer service and support space.
Beehive: A structure designed to contain one colony of honey bees (apis mellifera) and
registered with the Washington State Department of Agriculture per RCW Chapter 15.60 or as
hereafter amended.
Beekeeping, Commercial: An activity, generally operated for a profit, where more than twenty-
five (25) beehives are kept on a lot.
Beekeeping, Hobby: An activity, generally engaged in for personal use, where twenty-five (25)
or fewer beehives are kept on a lot.
Billboard: A structure for the purpose of leasing advertising space to promote an interest other
than that of an individual, business, product or service available on the premises on which the
billboard is located. {,ResoIu-tion--No. 99 1030, dated November 16. 199-)
Binding Site Plan: A document per standards of RCW 58.17 or local ordinance which allows
divisions of land within the B-1, B-2, B-3, I-1, 1-2 and 1-3 zones, approved administratively by the
P-lanr ,g-Director and signed-by the Board Department of Community Development, which
legally obligates a person making a proposal to conditions, standards or requirements as
specified by this Code or by a group with approval authority.
Block: A group of lots, tracts or parcels within well-defined and fixed boundaries.
Board: The-Board of-Gouety-Comers-ef Spol<anc County,Statc of Washington=
Border Easement: a dedicated easement on private property adjacent to public street right(s)-
of-way established for the purposes of utility, drainage facilities, pedestrian access or other
public purpose.
Building: A structure with a single roof or connected with a roof built for the support, shelter, or
enclosure of persons, animals, stored items, mechanical devices, or property of any kind, and
permanently affixed to the ground. This shall include any vehicle affixed to the ground for any of
the previously mentioned purposes. LAST SENTENCE???
Building Coverage: The area of a lot occupied by a main building or structure and its
accessory building(s) or structure(s), not including patios, driveways, open steps and
buttresses, terraces, cornices, and ornamental features projecting from building(s) or
structure(s)which are not otherwise supported by the ground. LOT COVERAGE IS USED-
BUILDING COVERAGE IS NOT.
Building Height: This definition differs from the building height definition contained in the
Uniform Building Code because it is based on the visual impact of building height rather than its
structural strength and integrity. THE DEFINITIONS SHOULD BE CONFORMED.
Building height shall be-rn cured from-the-average-finished grade to the highest point of the
roof, except for-skylights, chimneys, wireless masts and—ether—previsions of Section 14.810.120
herein. The average finished grade shall be determined by first-delineating-the smallcst
rectangle which can enclose the build+n ging-the-elevatiofs alcen at-the
midpoint of ach side of the rectangle-provided—that—the measured elevations de-not-include
beer backfil - - *•-* - - -- e' -orizon+.,n,, tl rom-the building.NOTE:
PROVISIONS FOR ACTUAL MEASUREMENT SHOULD BE INCLUDED IN THE
REGULATIONS BUT NOT WITHIN THE DEFINITION.
Building Setback Line: A line established as the minimum distance a building structure may be
located from any property line or border easement. as-determined-by-the-standards of this Code
or, if applicable, determined-per-Seetion 11.810.140.
- • - _ . - . _ .on-er-organ+z-ation on the premises-on-which it
e.. _ .. - _ . • -c name of the institution or organization, the-names-of
individuals-connected—,ith nd general--anti:.- ----- _ - er activities-occurring at the
institution o' ¢imjlnr message -See Reader Rnard.
Camping Units: A structure, shelter or vehicle designed and intended for temporary
occupancy by persons engaged in camping or use of a camping unit for recreation. Camping
units include but are not limited to recreational vehicles, recreational park trailers and campers,
camping cabins, tents, tepees, yurts and other similar shelters. Camping-units such-as-camping
c-b.- , _ - .ctures constructed o- -, -• - - - - - - -- --°- "-- of
Labor-and-lndustfy-certification, require-a building-permit-from-Spokane-Gou roping units
shall not exceed 400 square feet in floor-area and not exceed a maximum height of fifteen feet
DEFINITION SHOULD NOT INCLUDE THE RULE- CIRCULAR DEFINITIOIN.
Caretaker's Residence: A manufactured (mobile) home, or an existing building or structure
used as a residence, that is owned by the owner of the property it resides upon and is occupied
by a bona fide employee of the property owner.
Category: A land use classification as defined and used within the Comprehensive Plan Text
which applies policies to designated areas in Spokane County Valley as displayed on the Future
Land Use Plan map of the Comprehensive Plan.
Cemetery: Land or facilities on such land legally used or planned for use for the preparation for
burial and for the burial of the human dead or household pets including columbariums,
crematories, mausoleums, and mortuaries when operated in conjunction with and within the
boundary of such cemetery.
Child day-care center: is a facility which regularly provides care for a group of children for
periods less than twenty-four(24) hours. REDEFINE AS DAY CARE, CHILD..
Church: An establishment, the principal purpose of which is religious worship and for which the
main building or other structure contains the sanctuary or principal place of worship, and
including accessory uses in the main building or in separate buildings or structures, including
Sunday school rooms and religious education classrooms, assembly rooms, a common kitchen,
a library room or reading room, recreation hall and quarters on site for nuns and clergy, but
excluding facilities for training of religious orders. A single family dwelling (parsonage) is
included in this definition with its use for the pastor or caretaker.
Circus: A commercial variety show of a temporary nature which includes animal acts for public
entertainment. (-Resolution No. 09-1-061, dated-N: -- - -e,
Clinic: A building or portion of a building containing offices for providing medical, dental, or
psychiatric services for out-patients only.
Club: An association of persons for some common purpose, but not including groups organized
primarily to render a service which is customarily carried on as a business.
Clustered Housing: A group of dwelling units, consisting of permitted uses in the underlying
zone, designed in such a manner as to make efficient use of existing or planned facilities and
whereby the amount of resultant common open space per dwelling unit is equal to or greater
than the open space requirements for conventional development under the pertinent zone and
zoning standards. SHOULD BE RE-ALPHABETIZED UNDER DWELLING, CLUSTER
HOUSING.
Code: Zoning-Godc of the County-ef Spokane, `—�"va-si 1ngton,Spokane Valley Uniform
Development Code.
College: A public or private institution offering instruction usually in liberal arts, or a
professional, vocational, or technical field beyond the 12th grade.
Co-location: Locating wireless communication equipment from more than one provider on one
structure on one site.
Commercial Farm Rides: Farm rides (hayrides, pony rides, wagon riges, tractor pulled rides,
etc.) given in exchange for payment.
Commercial Use: Any activity carried out for pecuniary gain or loss. Commercial Zones: Those
zones outright permitting commercial uses including the Business Zones B-1, B-2, and B-3.
Commission: The Spokane County--Valley Planning Commission. or-a y-stheomFn4ttee-thereof
- •e s - . _ . e. •c duties e- - • - ' - ' .Z. e --fiction the Board of
Spol emmiesronefs-ha-s-delegated to the Plan g-Com iesien,
Community: See "Neighber-hee Fb
Community Hall: A building and related grounds used for social, civic, or recreational purposes
and owned and operated by a nonprofit group serving the area in which it is located and open to
the general public on equal basis.
Community-Recreational Facility: Any public or private building, structure, or area which
provides amusement, relaxation, or diversion from normal activities for persons within the area
in which it is located and which is not operated for profit.
Community Residential Facility: Any dwelling licensed, certified or authorized by state,
federal or local authorities as a residence for children or adults with physical, developmental or
mental disabilities, dependent children or elderly individuals in need of supervision, support
and/or independent living training. Does not include Half-way House, Crisis Residential Center
or Secure residential Treatment Facility. May include: specialized group home for the
developmentally disabled, group care facility for children, and boarding home.
Community Swimming Pool: An outdoor or indoor pool owned jointly by two or more property
owners, designed to be used by residents of a subdivision or community, and not operated for a
profit. A community swimming pool shall not include an individual's private pool, a semi-public
pool, a public pool, or a pool operated for a profit.
Community Transit Center: A bus transfer area or facility located at major points providing
passenger access to routes and adjacent activities.
Community Treatment Facility: Any dwelling or place licensed, certified or authorized by
state, federal or local authorities as a residence and treatment facility for children or adults with
mental disabilities, alcoholism or drug abuse problems needing a supervised living arrangement
and rehabilitation services on a short-term or long-term basis. Does not include detoxification
centers, Half-way House, Crisis Residential Center or Secure residential Treatment Facility.
May include alcohol and/or drug abuse treatment facilities and adult treatment facilities.
Comprehensive Plan: The Generalized Comprehensive Plan Text and Future Land Use Plan
Map of Spokane County, Washington, and additional elements as adopted or later amended by
the Board pursuant to Chapter 36.70 RCW.
Conditional Residential Accessory Unit: One (1) additional residential unit as defined per
standards in Chapter 14.816.
Conditional Use: An activity listed among those in any given zone but permitted to locate only
after a public hearing and the decision to grant a permit (conditional use permit) imposing such
performance standards as will make the use compatible with other permitted uses in the same
vicinity and zone and ensure against imposing excessive demands upon public utilities as
determined by the Hearing Body Examiner.
Contractor's Yard: An area and/or building used to store equipment, trucks and motor vehicles,
construction supplies, building equipment and raw materials for an individual or for a contractor
engaged in building or other construction businesses, including but not limited to plumbing,
electrical, structural, finish, demolition, transportation, masonry, excavating or other construction
work. Normal maintenance of equipment is allowed.
The definition of a contractor's yard shall not apply to those instances where materials stored
are to be used within one hundred eighty (180) days for the improvement of a residence or
business on the property where it is to be constructed.
Convalescent Home: A residential facility licensed by the State or County to provide special
care and supervision to convalescents, invalids, and/or aged persons, but where no persons are
kept who suffer from mental sickness or disease or physical disorder or ailment which is
normally treated within sanitariums or hospitals. Special care in such a facility includes, but is
not limited to, nursing, feeding, recreation, boarding and other personal services.
Crisis Residential Center: A protective residential facility operated to provide secure or semi-
secure temporary shelter for children under the age of eighteen years.
I Critical Material (Critical-Materials List): A substance present in sufficient quantity that its
accidental or intentional release would result in the impairment of one or more beneficial uses of
aquifer water. Current beneficial uses of aqu. - • - - • -- , eat a - '= "--• -e ', "•'and-industrial-water supply, agricultural-irrigation, sto d-fish raising. For the
+ho Gri+ce - - tablishcd as part-of this
purpose of adna+nistration of-this-Ceder-the-Grit-ice - -
Code. The list includes the name-ef--specific chemicals-and classes of chem ls-which, based
en current criteria and standards, ar- -- • - - .-- -e beneficial use of-water,
Critical Materials Activity List: A list of commercial and industrial activities known to use
critical materials, coupled with the names and threshold levels of quantities of critical materials
normally associated with the activity. Tic Critic^' Materials °c+� tiv`i -List is established-as-a-part
of this-Godes
.•dboek: A doeument-prepared-specifical . • - -- -dministration
of this Code and containing examples-of-bcst nagemeft-praotioes-wh-is •-- - -' - -
meetthe performance criteria of this Code as associated-wtth—o tica' ^'"+n�,�terI;T
Critica ' - _ "qty or las o wh.,, -"a=been-deters c' eQ eti ng
to-the-procedures of this-cede, to-use;-transport-eF-store a critical-material..
Dairy: Any premises where three (3) or more cows, three (3) or more goats, or any combination
thereof are maintained and milked for a period exceeding sixty (60) days.
Day(s): Shall mean calendar days unless otherwise specified and shall be computed pursuant
to RCW 1.12.040.
I Day Care Facility, Child: A facility furnishing care, supervision and guidance of a child or group
of children up to twelve (12) years of age or under for a period of more than four(4) hours, but
less than twenty-four(24) hours, per day which facility meets all state and local licensing
requirements. Day care facility is further defined as follows:
1. "Day Care Center": A facility for the care of thirteen (13) or more children with resident or
nonresident license(s). No day care center shall be located in a dwelling unit unless that portion
of the dwelling unit to which the children have access is used exclusively for the children during
the hours the center is in operation or is separate from the usual living quarters of the family;
2. "Mini-Day Care Center": A facility for the care of twelve (12) or fewer children in a facility
other than the dwelling unit of the person(s) under whose direct care or supervision a child(ren)
is placed, or for the care of from seven (7) to twelve (12) children in the dwelling unit of such
person(s). In accordance with WAC Chapter 388-75 the total number of children actually
permitted in a mini day care center is reduced by the number of children in the dwelling unit of
preschool age and all other children through twelve (12) years of age during non-school hours;
and
3. "Family Day Care Home": A facility which regularly provides care during part of the twenty-
four(24)-hour day to six (6) or fewer children in the dwelling unit of the person(s) under whose
direct care and supervision a child(ren) is placed. In accordance with WAC Chapter 388-73-422
the total number of children actually permitted in a family day care home is reduced by the
number of children in the dwelling unit of preschool age and all other children through twelve
(12) years of age during non-school hours. A facility providing care for less than four(4) hours
per day is classified as a "Nursery School."
Day Care Facility, Adult:
Deciduous: For purposes of this Code, deciduous shall include the following vegetative
species. Ailanthus, Ash (Mountain), Birch (White), Catalpa, Elm (American), Locust (Black and
Honey), Maple (Silver, Sugar, and Sycamore), Oak (Pin), Sweet Gum (Liquid Amber),
Thundercloud Plum, Wing Nut.
Density, Gross: The total number of residential units per dross acre.
Density, Net: The number of dwelling units per acre of land, including parcels for common open
space and associated recreational facilities within the area, storm water drainage facilities and
tax exempt open spaces, after deducting the area for roads, parks, churches and schools,
public/private capital facilities, dedicated public lands, and any other nonresidential use; except
lots five (5) acres in size or larger shall not have the area for roads deducted.
Department, Community Development: The Spokane County Valley planning-Department of
Community Development.
Department, Public Works: The Spokane Valley Public Works Department.
_ - - , a - e : -e-department or-office in charge of the major-Licensing or
permitting duties shall be the designated-Department, unless etherise agreed to by the other
-- e e. ••-- er offices. In theme^t-of-ofetainty +ho r-„u ty-Admit-istrative--9ffiser
shall acsign Designated Department status,
Dependent Relative: One who is related by direct blood line, marriage, adoption, unmarried
partner relationship or court-appointed guardianship; has been determined by a licensed
physician to be physically or mentally incapable of caring for themselves and/or their property;
and who is over the age of 18. The Planning Director shall exercise discretion to decide
qualifying relationships.
Director,-(-Planning): That The person individual or his/-her designee, appointed by the Beard of
County Commissi0ncrsCity Manager pursuant 6.70.1-6O d+reet-ifg--the activities-of-the
Planning-Department.responsible for the interpretation and enforcement of all or part of the
provisions of this Code.
Dormitory: A building used as group living quarters for a student body or religious order as an
accessory use for a college, university, boarding school, orphanage, convent, monastery, or
other similar institutional use.
Driveway: Any area, improvement or facility between the roadway of a public or private street
and private property, which provides ingress/egress for vehicles from the roadway to a lot(s) or
parcel(s).
Dwelling, single-family: A building, manufactured or modular home, or portion thereof
designed exclusively for single-family residential purposes, with a separate entrance and
facilities for cooking, sleeping, and sanitation. en a permanent basis--ate ddistinguished-from-a
transient basis and-which-therefore-does not-include hotels, motels, dormitories convalesceft
homes-or-aGGery buildings or structures.
Dwelling, duplex: A building designed exclusively for occupancy by two (2) families , with
separate entrances and individual facilities for cooking, sleeping, and sanitation, but sharing a
common or party wall.
Dwelling, Multi-Family: A building designed for occupancy by three (3) or more families , with
separate entrances and individual facilities for cooking, sleeping, and sanitation.living
independently-of each other-within three (3) or more dwelling units.
Dwelfing;-Muiti- ami1y-mow-loGeme): A multi-family-dwelling-designed and constructed to
primarily -- - e- -• - -• .-come as defined by the U. S. Census Bureau.
Dwelling�irtgle-Famil wilding designed-for-lo bitation-e-xcl-usivety--hy-ene fames
having-complete-r-.-e - • . - - e enstituting one-dwelling unit,-This term shall include
manufactured homes and mobile homes.
Dwelling -• `-- ): A building designede c usiyely ler occupancy-b ow0-()
families living indepen e-- • e - - e -- . - • g units.-
13wellirrgkJrait:
One-(-1)-0E-more rooms-in a dwell-ing designed, occupied or intended for
occupancy as sem-qUa'*� s than-individual entrance, cooking;sleeping-a-nd
sanitary-facilities provided-within-the-dwelling unit for the exclusive use of arae-family-maintaining
a-househele
Electric Sign: A sign or sign structure in-which-electrical-wiring, connections and/or fixtures arc
used as pa- e -- •e - e-
€IeetFonically-Gl-iangeable Message Sign: A sign-upen-whichi bels or-words can be
varied upon-the-face or faces of a sign by-a-computer controller to displ eratureT
public-service, community-service and commere-ial-i-nfermation,
Explosive: Any substance that alone, or in combination or contiguity with another substance,
may decompose suddenly and generate any destructive blow to surrounding objects.
FAA: Federal Aviation Administration.
FCC: Federal Communications Commission.
Family: An individual or two or more persons related by blood, marriage, or adoption, or a group
of not more than five (5) persons, excluding dependents, who are not related by blood, marriage
or adoption, living together as a single nonprofit housekeeping unit,in a dwelling-unit,
Family Day care provider: a child day care provider who regularly cares for not more than
twelve (12) children in the family living quarters of the providers residence. CONSOLIDATE
WITH Day-care, child.
Farm Machinery Sales and Repair: A specialized retail facility located in a rural area which
caters exclusively to the sale and repair of farm machinery including tractors, farm implements,
combines, loaders, applicators, and their accessories. Such a facility shall not normally carry
products related to the road construction, mining, or forest products industries. The facility shall
not be established as a car or truck sales lot or carry items normally handled by a hardware
store, lumber yard, home improvement center, or an automotive service station. THIS IS A
RULE NOT A DEFINITION.
Farmstead: One (1) or more residential and/or nonresidential structures located on a primary
agricultural parcel, the residents or users of which devote their time almost exclusively to the
production of food/or fiber or derive at least half(1/2) their income from agricultural pursuits. DO
WE NEED THIS ONE?
Feed Lot: A confined area or structure used for feeding, breeding or holding livestock for •
eventual sale or slaughter and in which animal waste accumulates faster than it can naturally
dissipate without creating a potential for a health hazard, particularly with regard to surface and
ground water; but not including barns, pens or other structures used in a dairy operation or
structures on farms holding livestock primarily during winter periods.
Feed Mill: A structure or building used to store or grind grain for animal or human consumption.
Fence: A wall or a barrier composed of stone, brick or posts connected by lumber, rails, panels,
or wire for the purpose of enclosing space, marking boundaries, serving as an obstruction or
barrier or separating parcels of land.
Fire Lane: An access designed for emergency escape from an entrance to a parcel of land or
its improvements.
l=. - - - e-: - - cctrical sign or portion-thereofhi hmomh-ehanges ligIt-- tensity-in a brief
brilliant, or sudden and-transient outburst of light-e-ausing a st ady-en and off-glittering
sparkling, or scintillating pattern. (This definition shall not include-electronically changeable
message-signs or-si Mate-motion for-mood lighting-pur-poses-in-which no mere
than one-third [1/3] of the changing light source is off at any time.)
Floor Area, Livable: The square footage amount of covered area used, or planned to be used,
for living purposes, not including garages, carports, crawl spaces and other generally not lived
in spaces. THIS DEFINITION IS NOT USED NOR USEFUL.
Floriculture: The cultivation of ornamental flowering plants. THIS DEFINITION IS NOT
LIMITED TO COMMERCIAL OPERATIONS-WHY DIFFERENT THANT GREENHOUSE? DO
WE CARE?
Food Locker: A commercial building designed to prevent spoilage of food and to store food for
retail food stores or persons buying in large quantities. IS THIS COLD STORAGE?
Forest Land: Defined in WAC 365-190-030(6), as now or hereafter amended.
Fraternity: A men's organization formed chiefly for social purposes which may function as a
place for living and eating, especially for college students.
F�u4r azure-A`qGis tion Area: The land area between-the existing-road or street right-of-way
bou-e. _ -- _ . - -et right of-way as defined on adopted Arterial Road Plan of the
County-Comprehensive Plan. This area-will--be used for-future-right-of-way-acquisition, roadway
improvements and utilities improvements as the area-wide-v+e-,mty dddevelegs--and-insrease4
traffic-wag-ants the roadway-expansion.
Garage, Public: A building or portion thereof, other than a private garage, used for the care,
parking, repair, or storage of automobiles, boats, and/or recreational vehicles or where such
vehicles are kept for remuneration or hire.
Grade: The average elevation of the finished ground level at the center of all exterior walls of a
building. In case of any wall which is parallel to and within five (5)feet of a lot line, elevation at
the lot line adjacent to the center of the wall shall be considered the finished ground level. In the
case of any sign, grade shall be measured or determined at the sign support structure(s).
Greenhouse, Commercial: An establishment where flowers, shrubbery, vegetables, trees and
other horticultural and floricultural products are grown both in the open and in an enclosed
building for sale on a retail or wholesale basis. FLORICULTURE, HORTICULTURE?
Halfway House: Any dwelling or place licensed, certified or authorized by state, federal or local
authorities for inmates on release from more restrictive custodial confinement or initially placed
in lieu of such more restrictive custodial confinement, wherein supervision, rehabilitation and
counseling are provided to transition residents back into society, enabling them to live
independently.
Hard Surface: A hard surface shall consist of asphalt, Portland cement concrete, crushed rock,
grass pavers or other technologies laid to the specifications set forth by the Spokane County
Engineer and this Code. THIS NEEDS FIXED. WHERE REFERENCED?
Hazardous Waste: All dangerous and extremely hazardous waste as defined in Section
70.105.010 (15) RCW, except for moderate risk waste as set forth in Section 70.105.010 (17)
RCW.
Hazardous Waste Storage: The holding of hazardous waste for a temporary period, as
regulated by State Dangerous Waste Regulations, Chapter 173-303 WAC.
Hazardous Waste Treatment: The physical, chemical or biological processing of hazardous
waste for the purpose of rendering these wastes nondangerous or less dangerous, safer for
transport, amenable for energy or material resource recovery, amenable for storage, or reduced
in volume.
Hazardous Waste Treatment and Storage Facility, Off-Site: Treatment and storage facilities
which treat and store hazardous wastes generated on properties other than those on which the
off-site facilities may be located. This use is always the primary use of a property. THIS MAKES
NOT A LOT OF SENSE. IS THE DISTINCTION MEANINGFUL?
Hazardous Waste Treatment and Storage Facility, On-Site: Treatment and storage facilities
which treat and store hazardous wastes generated on the same property. This activity is always
an accessory use to a primary activity on the property. DUPLICATIVE.
Hearing Body Examiner: The individual, committee, or agency-designated by the Board-City
Council to conduct public hearings and render decisions on amendments, special permits,
conditional uses, appeals and other matters as set forth in this Code.
High Occupancy Vehicle (HOV): A motorized vehicle carrying two (2) or more passengers.
Home Industry: An occupation, profession, or craft, excluding an adult retail use establishment
adult bookstore or adult entertainment establishment, in association with a primary residence,
which is of such intensity or broad scope of operation that public hearing review, as a
Conditional Use Permit, is necessary. Therefore, by character and definition, a home industry is
different than a home profession or general commercial, industrial and business uses. (-Res—Ne,
9D nJ_��,-627ed_Se_pt mber-7 999-) IT IS NOT CLEAR WHAT THIS IS.
Home Profession: A profession or craft, excluding an adult retail use establishment adult
bookstore or adult entertainment establishment, carried on within a residence by the occupants,
which activity is clearly incidental to the use of said residence as a dwelling and does not
change the residential character of the dwelling or neighborhood, and is conducted in such a
manner as to not give any outward appearance of a business in the ordinary meaning of the
term. An---activity-which does not-comply-with the-following criteria-shall not be doomed a home
profession. (Res. Ne-99-0762, dated September-7-749W BALANCE OF THIS BELONGS IN
THE RULE, NOT IN THE DEFINITION.
4—Thcrc shall be-no exterior alterations to th- e - - - -.ages-the
recidentialappearance or character thereof.
2. The use, in -- - - - .4- --ce, shall-not-occupy more than-forty-nine (49) percent-of-the
residence's livable floor area. No home prefescio- - - - ectachcd acce goy+building.
All storage-she e -- in-the-residence-
manly e bers-o •- _ - "de on the premises shall be engaged in the-home
profession..
4,-O^^ (,� )sig+-identifying-a-home-profession a _ _ - . - . - . _ • - 'mum of four (4)
square feet, be unlighted, and be placed flat against the-residence-
5. There shall be no window-display-nor shall sample commodities be-displayed-outside-the
building, except that horticultural and florieu - - - --- - - - -e premises may be so
displayed.
6 here shall be no stock stored nor commodity-kept-for-sale on-the--premises which is not
necessaryy to the profcsJion or craft.
;—1-1 r", ter ial-o;me_c"a^,ical-eouipMe hall-be-us^d'��, in-a manner as tc be in compliance-with
WAC 173 60 regarding noise.
8. Traff - -- . - • - -ods the folio e _. . *rima facie-evidence that
the aotivity-is--a-primar-y business and not a home-profession-
a. The parking-of-more than-two-(2)-customer vehicle . - e-- ••
b. The use of loading-docks or other-meehanical loading-devices.
c. Deliveries of materials or products at such intervals so as to create-a-nuisance to the
neighborhood:
9-- -hc hours of operation for a home profession shall be limited from se,en '. r to ten (10)
p.m. The applicant--shall-specify-on-thc home profession permit-the-hours of operation.
10. A home profe-cion permit shall be issued-by--he-Depa tfcnt per fee established by-the
Board.
Horse Boarding: A barn, stable, or other structure where owners or users of the property
commercially bathe, train, house and/or feed more than three (3) horses or other riding animals
any of which are not owned by the users or owners of the property for more than twenty-four
(24) consecutive hours.
Horticulture: The cultivation of a garden or orchard._ DITTO FLORICULTURE
Hospital: An institution licensed by the state agencies under provisions of law to offer facilities
and temporary or emergency services in surgery, obstetrics, and general medical practice for
human patients who are ill or injured. SHOULD SPECIALIZED HOSPITALS, SUCH AS
HOSPICES AND BIRTHING CENTERS BE IDENTIFIED HERE?
Hotel: A building in which there are six (6) or more guest rooms where lodging with or without
meals is provided for compensation, and where no provision is made for cooking in any
individual room or suite.
Household Pet: Any animal or bird, other than inherently dangerous mammals / reptiles,
livestock, large or small animals and animals or birds considered to be predatory or wild, which
normally lives in or is kept in a residence. (Res. No. 99 1061, dated November-3Q, 1999)
I-cidcn . - --: ' •- - onelcctric information sign4eur /,�gu1a+-feet or-less in area which
peva-ins-to-goods, products, services, or faciliti- - - - - -=o on the premises-where-the
sign--occurs-and-intended primarily for the convenience of the public-while-en-the-premise-B.
Incinerator: A vessel, device, apparatus, or structure designed to burn solid waste under
controlled, nuisance-free conditions, and at a relatively high temperature, for the purpose of
reducing the combustible components to a non-putrescible residue capable of ready disposal.
Industrial Zones: Those zones outright permitting various industrial and manufacturing uses
including the I-1, 1-2, and 1-3 zones. ONLY "COMMERCIAL USE" DEFINED - CONSISTENCY
Inherently Dangerous Mammal: Inherently dangerous mammal means any live member of the
canidae, felidae, or ursidae families, including hybrids thereof, which, due to their nature, may
be considered dangerous to humans, and which includes: ., Ne 99-1-n6-=t;doted-l\tovember
30, 1999)
1.Canidae, including any member of the dog (canid) family not customarily domesticated
by man, or any hybrids thereof, but not including domestic dogs (Canis lupus familiaris)
or wolf hybrids which are a cross between a wolf and a domestic dog.
2. Felidae, including any member of the cat family not customarily domesticated by man,
or any hybrids thereof, but not including domestic cats (Felis catus).
3. Ursidae, including any member of the bear family, or any hybrids thereof.
Inherently Dangerous Reptile: Inherently dangerous reptile means any live member of the
class reptilia which: (Res-1 9-1-A61, dated--November-38 999)-)
1. is venomous, including, but not necessarily limited to all members of the following
families: Helodermidae; Viperidae; Crotalidae; Altractaspidae; Hydrophilidae; and
Elapidae; or
2. is a "rear fanged" snake of the family Colubridae that are known to be dangerous to
humans, including but not necessarily limited to, all members of the following families:
Dispholidus tupus; Thebtornis kirtlandii; and Rhabdophis spp.; or
3. is a member of the order Crocodilia (crocodiles, alligators and caiman).
Inherently Dangerous Mammal / Reptile Keeper: Any person who is licensed by the Spokane
County Animal Control Authority to harbor and/or own one (1) or more inherently dangerous
mammals/ reptiles. {Res. Rio-99-1-96-1;dated-November -30 19991)
Inoperable: When a machine or vehicle does not function as it was originally designed because
an essential component(s) has stopped functioning properly, is missing or absent. CONFORM
DEFINITION TO JUNK AUTO?
Kennel: An establishment or place, other than an animal or veterinary hospital or clinic or
animal shelter, where eleven (11) or more dogs and/or eleven (11) or more cats over six (6)
months of age are housed, groomed, bred, boarded, trained or sold commercially or as pets.
Kennel, Private: The domicile of a person or persons who own or breed five (5) or more dogs
and/or cats but less than eleven (11) dogs and/or cats over six (6) months of age, primarily for
personal recreational use, such as participation in recognized conformation shows, field or
obedience trials, racing, scenting, pulling, specialized hunting or working trials, and water trials,
search and rescue, tracking and for the purpose of improving the physical soundness,
temperament, and conformation of a given breed to a standard.
Landfill: A method of final disposal of solid waste by utilizing land in a manner that allows the
disposal of solid waste without creating hazards to public health, significant impacts to the
environment, or nuisances.
Landscape Materials Sales Lot: The sale of organic and inorganic materials, including but not
limited to, soil and soil amendment,bark, sod, gravel, pea gravel, hardscape products, crushed
rock, river rock and landscape boulders primarily used for landscaping and site preparation
purposes. The exclusive sale of horticultural or floricultural stock that is permitted in a
commercial greenhouse or nursery-wholesale shall not be considered landscape materials.
Library: An establishment for the sole purpose of loaning and circulating books or providing a
reading room and reference service to the public whether conducted by a public or private
agency or whether the service is with or without direct cost to the user.
Livestock: Animals, including but not limited to, horses, cattle, llamas, sheep, goats, swine,
reindeer, donkeys and mules. IS THIS DEFINITION NECESSARY OR USEFUL?
Loading Berth: An off-street space, designated area or berth located on the same lot or site as
the buildings or use served, which provides the temporary parking of a commercial vehicle while
loading or unloading merchandise, materials, or passengers.
Lot: A platted or unplatted parcel of land defined by the Spokane County Assessor as being
segregated and/or separated from other parcels of land and being in compliance with State and
local platting laws.
Lot Area: The total horizontal space within the lot lines of a lot, excluding any street rights-of-
way.
Lot, Buildable: A division of land created in compliance with State and local platting laws of at
least sufficient size and lot frontage to meet any minimum local or State Code requirements for
use as a building site. DOES THIS MEAN LOTS THAT ARE NOT PLATTED ARE NOT
BUILDABLE, OR CONVERSELY THAT ALL LOTS THAT ARE PLATTED ARE?
Lot Depth: The horizontal length of a straight line drawn from the midpoint of the lot front line
and at right angles to such line to its intersection with a line parallel to the lot front line and
passing through the midpoint of the lot rear line. In the case of a lot having a curved front line,
the lot front line for purposes of this section shall be deemed to be a line tangent to the curve
and parallel to a straight line connecting the points of intersection of the lot side lines with the
curved lot front line.
Lot F-rentage (Frontage): The length of-that portion-of-a-let-abutting-t-hc public-(private)-street
pneviding-principal access to the-let.- THIS HAS BEEN USED INTERCHANGEABLY WITH A
REQUIREMENT FOR MINIMUM LAT WIDTH AND SHOULD BE DELETED.
Lot Lines-
1. Lot-Front Line A line separating-the lot-from-the street, or public right-of-way-ether-than--an
alley-if a street does-notsRs 4n-the case of-a-eomer-lot he shor4est-eontieuous-1 ne sepafating
th- _• -- -- : :ublic right-of-way-shall-be the lot-front-line—lmcase of corner lots
having-equal lines abutting a street or public right-ef-wavy that-prepe►#-y-line-lHeh-when
extended-creates the-front-pn-epeFtyline forthc greatest-number of intorie, lets-in4he same-block
shall--be considered as the lot front line of such corner lot WI ore a--lot-does-rot-a-but-a public
right-ef-way or street the lot front line shall be the let-line nearest-to a street or public right-of-
way
2. Lot Rear Line A lot line-which is opposite and most distant from-the-let-front-line. For the
purposes of establishing t
the t,�rea e rne-the-fel owing-shall-appl-
a. In the e-orear boundary formed by a single--tine that-is-parallel-to-the
lot front line, su - -- e* •e- e lot rear line-
b In the case of a lot, the rear-boundary-of-which Is formed-lay-two-Ryer-more lines, the
lot rear line-shall be a I -- -- -- -- length within-the-lot and farr hest-removed rom
the lot-frent-line and at right-angles to the line-comprising the depth of such-a--lot:
c. In the case of a trapezoidal-let, the rear line of whit - 4. - - he lot front line;
the lot rear-line shall be deemed to be a line at right angles te-the-lin ising-the
depth-of-such-let and drawn through a point-bisecting the-recorded lot rear line:
d. In no case shall-the application of the above-be-interpretedl as-permitting-a-main
building4e-locate dos- -- _ -- _ . eroperty-line unless such building
portion is bele _ __ - _ e - eertien above grade:
3. Lot Side Line Any lot-boundary-line-net a lot front line.or a lot rear line-
NOT CLEAR WHY THESE DEFINITIONS ARE IMPORTANT, EXCEPT TO INCORPORATE
THE RULE ABOUT SUIDE YARD SETBACKS.
Lot of Record: An area of land designated as a residential lot on the plat or subdivision
recorded or registered, pursuant to statute, with the Auditor for Spokane County.
Lot Types:
1. Corner Lot-A lot situated at the intersection of two (2) or more streets, the street
frontage of which lot form an angle not greater than one hundred and twenty-eight (128)
degrees, and not less than forty-five (45) degrees,
2. Interior Lot-A lot other than a corner lot.
Lot Width: The horizontal distance between the lot side lines measured at right angles to the
line comprising the depth of the lot. Minimum lot width shall be the-same-for-the-entire depth-of
the-parcel measured at the building setback line.-
L-ow--lcitensity-Lighting=Lighting not exceeding-the equivalent-of eight hundred-(800)
milliamperes flou - - - e e- - _• - -e-inc- • -- - , - ef-ex-posed neon-not
cxceedine • - ' •• •-ecres.
Main Building: The principal building or other structure on a lot or building site designed or
used to accommodate the primary use to which the premises are devoted. Where a permitted
use involves more than one building or structure designed or used for the primary purpose,
each permitted building or other structure on a lot or building sign as defined by this Code shall
be construed as comprising a main building. THIS MAKES LITTLE SENSE.
Manufactured Home: A dwelling unit forty (40) feet or more in length and at least eight (8) feet
or more in width when erected on site, four hundred (400) or more square feet in floor area,
constructed in accordance with Federal mobile home construction standards as evidenced by
the attachment of an insignia and, upon relocation into or within Spokane County, a certification
by the Washington State Department of Labor and Industries that said manufactured home has
passed their"Alteration Inspection" or its equivalent, designed for transportation after fabrication
in one (1) or more sections on its own permanent chassis, designed to be used as a dwelling
and arriving at the site where it is placed on a foundation, or tied down and skirted with towing
tongue removed or completely disguised. Floor area will not include accessory structures or
additions and shall be determined by measurement of the structure's exterior dimension after
erection on site. Such a unit includes the connection to electric power, water supply and sewage
disposal facilities.
--_ - _ -: obile)-Hemc: A manufa bile-bomc as defined-hezin-
Manufactured (Mobile) Home Park: A site having as its principal use the rental of space for
occupancy by two (2) or more manufactured (mobile) homes, and the accessory buildings,
structures, and uses customarily incidental to such homes.
Massage Parlor: A building or structure where persons obtain massage treatment and/or
advice or where persons use facilities for nonsexual relaxation purposes. SERVICES
PROVIDED BY LICENSED THERAPIST?
Medical Office: See "Clinic."THESE MAY NEED TO BE DIFFERENTIATED
Mineral resource lands: Defined in WAC 365-190-030(14) as now or hereafter amended.
Mobile Home: A factory-built dwelling constructed prior to June 15, 1976 to standards other
than the Manufactured Home Construction and Safety Standards Act, having a minimum size of
eight (8) feet wide and thirty-two (32)feet long, being completely selfcontained, designed for
use as a dwelling for a single family, and otherwise acceptable under state and local codes
which were in effect at the time of manufacture, introduction into Spokane County or relocation
of the mobile home within Spokane County which acceptability is evidenced by certification by
the Washington State Department of Labor and Industries that said mobile home has passed
their"Alteration Inspection" or its equivalent. Such a unit includes the connection to electric
power, water supply and sewage disposal facilities. WHY THE DISTINCTION?
Motel: One or more attached or detached buildings providing separate sleeping or living
quarters primarily to temporarily accommodate transient individuals or families traveling by
motor vehicle, with attached garages or parking spaces conveniently located to each unit and
may include kitchen facilities. Also commonly referred to as a tourist court, tourist home, motor
lodge, motor inn, and similar designation. DEFINITION A LITTLE DATED!
Multiple Building Complex: A group of structures, or a single structure, with dividing walls and
separate entrances for each business, housing at least two (2) retail businesses, offices,
commercial ventures or independent or separate parts of a business which share the same lot,
access and/or parking facilities.
Neighborhood: A geographic area bounded by distinct physical boundaries, such major or
minor arterials, geologic formations, broad open spaces and similar features, centered around
common interests or facilities and distinguished from a "community"which could be composed
of more than one (1) neighborhood as herein defined. Why is this definition useful?
Nonconforming: A lot, use, building, or structure, which was legal when commenced or built,
but which does not conform to subsequently enacted or amended regulations.
Nonprecision Instrument Runway: A runway having existing or planned "straight-in"
instrument approach procedures, as defined by the Federal Aviation Administration, utilizing air
navigation facilities with only horizontal guidance, and for which no precision instrument
runways are planned or indicated on a document approved by the Department.
Nursery: An area, structure, or building and all accessory areas, structures, or buildings which
are used exclusively for the purpose of nurturing trees, shrubs, flowers, and/or other plants for
the purpose of transplant and/or sale. SAME AS GREENHOUSE.?
Nursery School: A private agency, school, or institution engaged in educational work with
preschool children and in which no child is enrolled on a regular basis for four (4) or more hours
per day. Enrollment for four(4) or more hours per day shall classify the facility as a "Day Care
Facility" or"Kindergarten." WHY IS THE DISTINCTION IMPORTANT? MONTESSORI
SCHOOLS?
Nursing Home: A place licensed by the State Department of Social and Health Services as a
"nursing home" or institution which operates or maintains facilities providing convalescence
and/or chronic care for a period in excess of twenty-four (24) consecutive hours for three (3) or
more patients who are not related to the operator by blood or marriage and who by reason of
illness or infirmity are unable to properly care for themselves. CONSOLIDATE WITH
CONVALESCENT HOME.
On Premise Sign: A sign-which-carries advertisements incident, -to-a-lawfu'�, L eT is premises
en-which it is located, including signs indicating the business transaete -a rvices rendered,
goods sold or produced on th me of the businces and/or name of the person, firm
or corporation occupying-the premises:
One Hundred (100) Year Flood Plain, One Hundred (100)-Year : An area determined by the
Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) or by Spokane County to have a one-percent
(1%) chance of flooding in any given year. ADD FLOODWAY TO DEFINITIONS.
Open Space: The area of a lot or building site that is free and clear of buildings and structures.
THIS IS NOT A GOOD DEFINITION-WHERE THERE ARE REQUIREMENTS FOR "OPEN
SPACE" IT ORDINARILY DOES NOT REFER TO JUST A PORTION OF A LOT FREE OF
BUILDINGS.
Opponent of Record: A person who has provided verbal or written testimony in opposition to a
proposal/project before or during the public testimony portion of a hearing, or filled out and
submitted a Party of Record Notice indicating opposition prior to the close of the public hearing.
Orchard: A planting of trees producing fruit and/or nuts for the purpose of sale.
Ordinary High-Water Mark: That mark on all lakes, streams and surface waters which will be
found by examining the bed and banks and ascertaining where the presence and action of
waters are so common and usual, and so long continued in all ordinary years, as to mark upon
the soil a character distinct from that of the abutting upland in respect to vegetation; provided
that in any area where such a mark cannot be found, the ordinary high water mark shall be the
line of the mean high water.
Owners: Any person, partnership, corporation, association, unincorporated organization,_trust
or any other legal commercial entity having sufficient proprietary interest to seek development of
land. This includes a representative with written owner authorization.
Overlay Zone: Requirements described in the Code text which exist in conjunction with another
zone and which relate to the official zoning map. Developments within such an area must
conform to the requirements of both zones and, in the event of inconsistencies, the most
restrictive requirements shall control. TAKE THE RULE OUT OF THE DEFINITON.
Park-and-Ride Facility: A parking area or structure used for the specific purpose of storing
motor vehicles in order that the occupants can transfer to a higher occupancy vehicle (HOV)
(e.g., buses, vans, carpool autos) to complete a trip.
Park, Public: A site under the control of any Federal, state or local government agency, and
designated or developed for recreational use by the public. Subject to the regulations of the
controlling agency, recreational uses may include, but are not limited to, indoor facilities such as
museums, swimming pools and skating rinks, and outdoor facilities such as athletic fields,
playgrounds, fishing areas, and areas and trails for hikers, equestrians, bicyclists, or off-road
recreational vehicle users.
Parking Area, Satellite: A parking area more than three hundred (300) feet away from the
establishment, building, structure, or use which it is designed to serve.
Parking Facility: A parking area, building, or structure used for the specific purpose of parking
or storage of motor vehicles for compensation and/or to accommodate the patrons of the
establishment providing said parking facility; establishments providing such facilities include
industrial, manufacturing, commercial, recreational, office, institutional and residential uses, but
exclude single family dwellings.
Parking Lot Travel Lane: Privately owned lanes for vehicles to travel through parking lots to
parking stalls, loading areas, public roadways, and other adjacent public or private parking lots.
IS THIS DEFINITION USEFUL?
Party of Record: A person who has provided verbal or written testimony in or regarding a public
hearing on a land use action.
Paved Surface: A paved surface shall consist of asphalt or Portland cement concrete laid to the
specifications set forth by the Spokane County Engineer and this Code. DISTINGUISH FROM
"HARD SURFACE" SHOULD THIS BE DEFINED HERE?
Permitted Use: An allowable activity or use so deli=•- -e • - --within a zoneinq district.,
and-whichr-without special ac-tier--by4he-Board or Hearing--Bad subjeet-t provisiofs
af-thc zone in which it is luted-
Person: A corporation, company, association, society, firm, partnership or joint stock company,
as well as an individual, a state, and all political subdivisions of a state or any agency or
instrumentality thereof.
Person or Party Having Standing: Any party of record.
Pigeon Loft: Any structure which is used for the housing or keeping of performing or show
pigeons.
Pigeon, Performing: Pigeons which are raised and used in the sport, hobby or competition of
racing; which require being released for freedom of flight for purposes of training, maintaining
physical conditioning or competitive performing; and which are identified by a leg band
containing the name or initials of the owner or with an identification or registration number
stamped on said band. Specifically included in this category are flying tipplers, rollers, tumblers
and homing or racing pigeons.
Pigeon, Show: Pigeons which are raised and used in the sport, hobby or competition of show;
which do not require being released for freedom of flight for maintenance of physical
conditioning or training; and which are identified by a leg band containing the name or initial of
the owner, or with an identification or registration number stamped on said band.
Planned Unit Development(P.U.D.): A land development project planned comprehensively as
an entity through a design process prescribed by ordinance which permits some flexibility in the
regulations of the underlying zone as defined in Chapter-1-4.704.
Planning Agency: The Spokane Valley County-Panning- Community Development
Department organized and-funetie . .• _ -- :epartmcnt of-county government, together
with its planning commission.
Planning Commission: See "Commission."
Portable Sign-Any—sign-whish is not permanently-a#+ d and is designed-for or capable-of-being
moved except those signs explicitly-designed for people to carry on their-parson.
Precision Instrument Runway: An existing runway having an existing instrument approach
procedure utilizing an Instrument Landing System (ILS), or Precision Approach Radar(PAR) as
defined by the Federal Aviation Administration, or an existing or planned runway for which a
precision instrument approach system is planned and so indicated on an approved document
from the Planning Department.
Primary Agricultural Parcel: An area of land devoted almost exclusively to agricultural
pursuits. DO WE NEED THIS DEFINITION?
Primary Purpose; Primary Use; Principal Use: The predominant use to which the lot or
property is or may be devoted and to which all other uses are accessory.
Airpo-: Primary Surface: All that land which lies directly under an imaginary surface
longitudinally centered on a runway and extending two hundred (200) feet beyond each end of
all runways which have a specifically prepared surface or planned hard surface and coinciding
with each end of other runways. The elevation of-any-point on the primary-surface-is-the same
as the elevation of the-nearest-po.- = -- - - - terlinc. The width of the primary-surface
1. O ne thousand-07000) feet fog��+�,�R^9 or-planned-precisief instrument-r nways and
nonprecision-in-strume g-visability-min •- • - - - - -e-fourths (3/1)
of- tatute-mile;
2_ F-,oe-h undred--(500) feet for all other-existing or planned-nonprecisio^,-.,,strument
r cual-nenuti
3--T-wo-h+,l-ndred-fifty (250) feet for all other existingec-planned-visual utiles
RULE SHOULD NOT BE INCLUDED IN DEFINITION.
Priority Sewer Service Area (PSSA): That area which is currently urbanized, or most probably
will urbanize, and could feasibly be provided with interceptor sewers within 1987 to 1992 or
earlier and as mapped in the adopted Comprehensive Wastewater Management Plan as
amended to date. Official mapping of the PSSA is maintained in the offices of the County
Planning Department and County Utilities Department. IS THIS CURRENT?
Private Repeater Facility: A facility for the noncommercial reception and retransmission of
radio signals.
Professional Offices: An office maintained and used as a place of business by individuals in
licensed professions and other generally recognized professions which utilize training or
knowledge in the mental disciplines as distinguished from occupations primarily oriented to
manual skills or the handling of commodities.
Prohibited Use: A use not specifically enumerated as a permitted use, conditional use or
nonconforming use. Prohibited uses include, but are not limited to, the enumerated "prohibited
uses" within each zone of this Code.
Public Transportation Benefit Area (PTBA): The geographic area within which the Spokane
Transit Authority provides public transportation service, per the provisions of RCW 37.56. Public
Transportation Plan: A document detailing the location and type of facilities provided for public
transit/ride sharing purposes.
Public Utility: A closely regulated public or private enterprise with an exclusive franchise for
providing a public service paid for directly by the recipient of that service.
Public Utility Local Distribution Facility: Any building, structure, or device which transfers
directly to the public the service or supply provided by a public utility, including telephone,
electric (less than sixty (60) feet in height), gas, cable television, water and sewer, and all other
facilities, equipment and structures necessary for conducting a local distribution service by a
government or public utility.
Public Utility Transmission Facility: Any building, structure, or device which does not directly
transfer to the public the service or supply provided by a public utility, including telephone,
electric (greater than fifty-five thousand [55,000] volts or fifty-five [55] KV), gas, cable television,
water and sewer, and all other facilities, equipment, and structures, including substations,
switching stations, and reservoirs.
Readerboard: A sign face consisting of tracts to hold readily changeable-letters-allewing
frequent changes of copy,
Record: The official file, exhibits, maps and slides including the tape recorded proceedings or
transcription thereof.
Recreational Area, Commercial: An indoor and/or outdoor area or structure(s) operated for
profit and devoted to facilities and equipment for recreational purposes, including, but not limited
to, swimming pools, tennis courts, racquet ball courts, dance and other similar uses whether the
use of such area is limited to private membership or whether open to the public upon the
payment of a fee.
Recreational Vehicle (RV): A vehicular type portable structure without permanent foundation,
not more than thirty-five (35)feet in length, primarily designed as temporary living quarters for
recreational, camping, or travel use, with or without motor power, and occupied in any one place
for a period not exceeding thirty (30) days. This includes, but is not limited to, travel trailers,
truck campers, camping trailers and self-propelled motor homes.
Recreational Vehicle Park: An area where facilities are provided for recreational or camping
vehicles or travel trailers, tents or other portable habitation, utilized by the public as a place for
camping, vacationing, or temporary usage, which are in place for not more than thirty (30) days.
The park may include certain recreational or service facilities for the use of the residents of the
park. Recreat ena1 or-camping-vehic-le--pailKs shall comply-with-ail-applicable State and County
regulations- NO RULE IN THE DEFINITION!
Recreational Vehicle Park/Campground: An area where facilities are provided for camping
units as defined herein, utilized by the public for camping or use of a camping unit for recreation
on a temporary basis and not for long term occupancy. The Recreational Vehicle Park
Campground may include recreational services, facilities and activities
Retail Area: Indoor space where products are displayed and the public is allowed to purchase
items or participate in recreational activities. Indoor eating areas are included. Not included are
office, production and storage areas not accessible to the public.
Residence: A building or structure, or portion thereof, which is designed for and used to provide
a place of abode for human beings, but not including hotels or motel units, or places of abode
having no kitchen within each unit. A residence must include one or more dwelling units. IS
THIS DEFINITION NECESSARY?
Residential Zones: Those zones outright permitting residential uses, including the
5SRr SP.-1, SR 1/2, UR-3.5, UR-7, UR-12, and UR-22, and-RS zones.
Retaining Wall: Any wall not an integral part of a building, used to resist the lateral
displacement of earth material.
Retirement/Elderly Apartments: A multi-family dwelling designed for individuals and couples
who are retired from active employment service, and who are not medically dependent upon
other individuals. HOW DISTINGUISHABLE FROM OTHER APARTMENTS? NOT BE
MEDICAL DEPENDENCY!
Retirement/Elderly Apartments (Low Income Subsidized): A retirement/elderly apartment
developed and owned by a nonprofit sponsor who receives a direct funding loan from HUD-FHA
or some other agency and where rents are subsidized by HUD-FHA or some other agency
based upon low income status.
Roadway: The paved or improved portion of a street/road, designed or ordinarily used for
vehicular travel including shoulders, auxiliary lanes, curbs, sidewalks, etc.
Roof: A structural covering over any portion of a building or structure, including the projections
beyond the walls or supports of the building or structure.
Runway: Any existing or planned paved surface or turf-covered area of an airport which is
specifically designed and used, or planned to be used, for the landing and/or taking off of
aircraft.
Sanitarium: A health station or retreat, or any place where resident patients are housed, which
specializes in giving temporary or emergency clinical services of a medical or surgical nature
including surgical and postsurgical treatment of persons with mental disorders, but excluding the
psychiatric treatment of such mental and nervous disorders.
Schools; Kindergarten, Elementary, Middle, Junior High and High: Public and private
institutions of learning offering instruction from kindergarten to grade 12 required by the
Education Code of the State of Washington.
Seasonal Harvest Festivities: Those temporary and incidental accessory activities associated
with the sale of annual harvest crops. These accessory activities may include hay rides, tours,
food service, retail sales of non-agricultural products (i.e. crafts, antiques), face painting, pony
rides, music, and other similar activities. USEFUL?
Secondhand: Any material or good that has been used and is not specifically addressed by
one of the Zoning Matrices. NEED BETTER DEFINITION
Secure Residential Treatment Facility: Any dwelling or place licensed, certified or authorized
by state, federal or local authorities to confine and treat sex offenders through a rehabilitation
treatment program for those conditionally released from total confinement under a court ordered
civil commitment. May include secure community housing unit operated by the Department of
Social and Health Services and secure community housing unit operated by a contractor on
behalf of the Department of Social and Health Services. A use classified as an Essential Public
Facility.
Self-Service Storage Facility: A facility including buildings and/or structures containing spaces
of varying sizes leased or rented on an individual basis and used exclusively for the storage of
excess property and outdoor storage of vehicles and boats.
SEPA: The Washington State Environmental Policy Act of 1971 and administrative codes
developed pursuant thereto or any amendments thereto.
Service Station, Automobile: A retail establishment for the sale on the premises of motor
vehicle fuel and other petroleum products and automobile accessories, and for the lubrication
and minor repairs of automotive vehicles, but not including tire recapping, engine overhaul, or
body and fender work. DATED DEFINITION — FUELING STATIONS AND GARAGES
POSSIBLE.
Sewage Sludge: The concentrated deposit, sediment, or mass resulting from the treatment of
sewage, including materials pumped from cesspools, septic tanks, sewage holding tanks and
drywells.
Sign: Am; visual communication device, structure, or fixture which is visible from any right-of-
way and is intended to aid t-he ostabfish-menf-in-quest+eR in promoting the sale of products,
goods, services, events or to identify a building using graphics, letters, figures, symbols,
trademarks or written copies. Sign types include: Painted—wall—designs-Or patterns-whish-do net
represent-a-product, sew+se, or registered tradeni rk-er-whieb-do ne iden#+fy-tbe-+ ser;-sh-a-l1-net
be considered signs. If a design or pattern is combined-wit -a-sign-e-nly that-part-of-the design
er-pattern—wlHeh-eaannot be distinguished#;em4he S :^.mac considered as part of the sign,
This definition excludes outdoor advertisingdisplays—T"definition does--not nelude billboards
er-video-beards. (Res. No. 99 1030, dated-November-1-61-9994
o Sign, Abandoned - a sign that advertises a product or service no longer available or a
business no longer in operation; a sign which is illegible, non functional, in disrepair, or
hazardous as a result of lack of maintenance; a nonconforming sign structure that has lost
legal status as a result of abandonment or lack of use.
o Sign, Billboard: A structure for the purpose of leasing advertising space to promote an
interest other than that of an individual, business, product or service available on the
premises on which the billboard is located.
e Sign, Building : An extension of a building (e.g. awning, canopy, marquee), whether
permanent or temporary, which contains copy.
o Bulletin Board: See Reader Board.
O Sign, Copy: letters, characters, illustrations, logos, graphics, symbols, writing or any
combination thereof, designed to communicate information of any kind, or to advertise,
announce or identify a person, entity, business, business product, or to advertise the sale,
rental or lease of premises.
• Sign, Copy Area: the area of the sign containing any copy, symbol, sign, logo or graphic.
o Sign, Directional: Any sign relating solely to internal pedestrian and vehicular traffic
circulation within a complex or project.
• Sign, Electronic: A sign that can be changed by electrical, electronic or computerized
process; inclusive of video boards.
O Sign, Flashing: An electrical sign or portion thereof which changes light intensity in a brief,
brilliant, or sudden and transient outburst of light causing a steady on and off, glittering,
sparkling, or oscillating pattern.
• Sign, Freestanding: A permanent sign not attached to or forming part of a building.
o Sign, Freeway -A permanent free-standing on-premises sign or billboard located on a
parcel adjacent and contiguous to Interstate Highway 90.
o Sign, Inflatable: Any temporary hollow item or character expanded or enlarged by the use
of air or gas.
o Sign, Menu Board: An on-site display of menu items at a restaurant; not meant to be
viewed from the street.
o Sign, Monument: A sign and supporting structure constructed as a solid structure or one
that gives the appearance of a continuous, non-hollow, unbroken mass.
o Sign, Multi-Business Complex : a sign with a primary facility name and a list of the
individual stores or businesses mounted on one structural element. Such a sign type
includes signage describing a mall arrangement, a strip-center development, an industrial
park complex, or a multi-business structure or complex of buildings with a unifying name and
a listing of businesses contained within the grouping.
o Mural: A work of art applied directly to a wall, ceiling, or floor surface where forms and/or
figures are the dominant elements and not intended for commercial advertising. Any form of
wording or logo shall be of secondary nature to a mural.
o Name Plate—a sign showing only the name and address of the owner or occupant of the
premises.
o Sign, Non-conforming: Any sign which was lawfully erected and maintained on private
property which now, as a result of code amendments, does not conform to all applicable
regulations and restrictions of this chapter.
o Si•n Notice: A si.n intended to safe.uard the .remises e... "No Parking" "No
Trespassing", "Watch Dog on Duty"); or which identifies emergency telephone number,
hours, and security information.
o Sign, Obsolete: A sign not removed within thirty-six months by the owner or lessee of the
premises upon which the sign is located when the advertised business is no longer
conducted on the premises.
o Sign, Official - a sign erected by a governmental agency within its territorial jurisdiction for
the purpose of carrying out an official duty or responsibility and including, but not limited to,
traffic signs and signals, zoning signs, and street signs. Special lighting or banners
celebrating seasonal or civic events sponsored and/or endorsed by the City Council may be
Official signs.
o Sian Off-Premise : a si.n dis.la ins co. that sertains to a business person,
organization, activity, event, place, service, or product not principally located or primarily
manufactured or sold on the premises on which the sign is located.
o Sign, On-Premise: a sign which advertises or directs attention to a business, person,
organization, activity, event, place, service, or product which is manufactured and/or
available on the premises where the sign is located.
o Sign, Portable: A sign not permanently attached or affixed to the ground or other
permanent structure, or a sign designed to be transported or moved from place to place,
including, but not limited to signs designed to be transported by means of wheels.
o Reader Board: A sign face consisting of tracks to hold readily changeable letters allowing
frequent changes of copy.
o Sign, Roof: A sign supported by and erected on or above a roof.
o Sign Area -the gross surface area of the sign, including a single surface of a sign with
messages on both sides, the sum of all surfaces where two or more signs share a single
structure, the gross surface area of both faces of a V-shaped sign; and the copy area of a
monument sign. In the case of an irregularly shaped sign, the sign area is calculated by
enclosing the extreme limits of the sign by no more than four (4) rectangles. The sum of the
area of the rectangles shall be the .ross surface area. The maximum allowable area is
reduced by 10% for the second and each subsequent rectangle used in the calculation.
o Sign, Support Structure(s): Posts or columns and the anchors and bolts that structurally
support the sign attached to it.
o Sign, Temporary: A sign which is to be removed within aspecific period of time or upon
the occurrence of a specified event meeting the height and area requirements of Table 7.02:
inclusive of inflatables.
o Sign, Three-Sided: A sign with three faces.
o Sign, Two-Sided: A sign with two faces.
o Sign, Video Board: See Electronic Sign.
Wall Area —the two dimensional res.resentation of a building elevation including windows
and doors, excluding eaves.
o Sign, Wall (attached) -A permanent sign attached or erected parallel to and extending not
more than fifteen (15) inches from the facade or face of any building to which it is attached
and supported throughout its entire length, with the exposed face of the sign parallel to the
plane of said wall or façade. Signs incorporated into mansard roofs, marquees or canopies
are wall signs.
Site Development Plan: A plan drawn to scale for one (1) or more lots, parcels or tracts on
which is shown the existing and proposed conditions of the lot, tract or parcel. Such plan(s) shall
be drawn per specifications identified in this Code or by administrative policy.
Solar Collector: The south face of a structure higher than two (2)feet above the ground level at
the south wall which has solar sky space and can use solar energy to reduce consumption of
energy for space heating, lighting, water heating, and/or to generate electrical energy used by
that structure.
Solar Lot: A platted tract or parcel of land within a solar development which has solar sky space
to the solar shell or solar structure as defined.
Solar Shell: The three dimensional area shown on a site plan or subdivision map which
designates each lot's future limits of building and growth of vegetation which is or can be over
six (6) feet in height and by which shadow patterns shall be determined. The purpose of the
shells to protect solar access of the lot to the north and to designate access area to be
protected on the lot.
Solar Sky Space: The space between the sun and the south face of a solar structure or solar
shell which is unobstructed by topography, by any structure(s), or by vegetation not defined as
Deciduous vegetation within this Code. The sky space is defined as the area between when:
1. the sun, at approximately 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. in January and November, is at an
altitude of seventeen (17) degrees and is at a direction between thirty (30) degrees east
or west of true south; and
2. the sun, at approximately 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. in April and August, is at an altitude of
forty-five (45) degrees and is at a direction between forty-five (45) degrees east or west
or true south.
Solar Structure: Any dwelling unit which is designated to maximize available solar energy for
heating, cooling, or lighting needs and which is located on a solar lot as defined.
Solid Waste: All putrescible and non-putrescible solid and semisolid material, including, but not
limited to, garbage, refuse, bulky wastes, inert waste, agricultural solid waste, sewage sludge
and demolition and construction wastes.
Solid Waste Recycling/Transfer Site: A municipally owned and/or operated area with a
structure or vehicle, the main purpose of which is to hold solid waste or recyclable materials,
prior to transport to a central disposal or collection location. Recycling sites are allowed only in
conjunction with solid waste transfer and disposal sites and shall limit recyclables only to ferrous
metals, aluminum, glass, plastics, paper, and other reusable items. Solid waste
recycling/transfer site is not a sanitary landfill, garbage and refuse dump, or recycling plant.
Solid Waste Recycling/Transfer Site, Private: A structure or vehicle, the main purpose of
which is to hold solid waste or recyclable materials prior to transport to a central disposal or
collection location, and shall limit recyclables only to ferrous metals, aluminum, glass, plastics,
paper, and other reusable items. Solid waste recycling/transfer site is not a sanitary landfill,
garbage and refuse dump, or recycling plant.
Sorority: A female fraternity. BAD DEFINITION!!!
Specified Anatomical Areas: Human genitals, pubic region, buttock, and female breast below
a point immediately above the top of the areola, when such areas are less than completely and
opaquely covered. This definition shall also include human male genitals in a discernibly turgid
state, even if completely and opaquely covered.
Specified Sexual Activities: Human genitals in a state of sexual stimulation or arousal; acts of
human masturbation, sexual intercourse or sodomy; fondling or other erotic touching of human
genitals, pubic region, buttock or female breast.
Stealth: Any Wireless Communications Antenna Array or Wireless Communication Support
Tower which is designed to blend into the surrounding environment. Examples of stealth may
include architecturally screened roof-mounted antennas, building-mounted antennas painted to
match the existing structure, antennas integrated into architectural elements, and wireless
communication support towers designed to look like trees, clock towers, bell steepeles, light
poles or flag poles.
Stormwater Drainage Facility: Constructed and natural features which function together as a
system to collect, convey, channel, hold, inhibit, retain, detain, infiltrate evaporate, divert, treat
or filter stormwater. Stormwater facilities include but are not limited to, pipes, ditches, culverts,
street gutters, detention ponds, retention ponds, evaporation ponds, constructed wetlands,
infiltration devices, catch basins, oil/water separators and swales.
Story: That portion of a building included between the upper surface of any floor and the upper
surface of the floor next above, except that the topmost story shall be that portion of a building
included between the upper surface of a topmost floor and the ceiling or roof above. If the
finished floor level directly above a usable or unused under-floor space is more than six (6) feet
above grade as defined herein for more than fifty percent (50%) of the total perimeter or is more
than twelve (12) feet above grade as defined herein at any point, such usable or unused under-
floor space shall be considered as a story.
Street, Public (Private): A public thoroughfare or private thoroughfare the legal description of
which is recorded-with-the County Auditor either-of-which affords primary-means-of access to
abutting property. A recorded-private thoroughfare may be a recorded easement-for ingress or
egress or a platted strcet-designc- - - - - - - e-ghfarefor access of abutting property-fit
#er-w-• - -- --- - - •es no-responsibility-er-ownershipani a Iable er-use to the
abutting property-owners only,--The-private-road easements and road maintenance agreements
shall meet the requirements of the adopted public-or-private-read-standards-for-Spokane
County, as amended. The private road casements-and-associated maintenance-agreement
shall be recorded-with-the-County-Auditor prior to final subdivision-or-segregation by Certificate
of Exemption-RULE SHOULD NOT BE INCLUDED IN DEFINITION.
Street, Flanking: One of the two streets abutting a corner lot which is not parallel with the
lot front line.
Street, Local Access: Street classification per the Spokane County Road Standards.
Structure: Any object constructed or erected which requires location on or in the ground or is
attached to something having a location on the ground (including towers, smokestacks,
overhead transmission lines, captive balloons, etc.) but not including fences or walls used as
fences less than six (6)feet in height. Excluded from this definition are accessory storage
structures for the sole purpose of the owner or occupant less than one hundred twenty (120)
square feet in area not specifically permitted or prohibited by this Title or written interpretation
thereto. Also excluded are docks and piers, but which may still be governed by the County's
Shoreline Program. SHOULD BE CONFORMED TO THE BUILDING CODE DEFINITION -
BUILDING IS A STRUCTURE AND MAY NO LONGER BE A NECESSARY DEFINITION.
Subdivision: Within this Code, includes both short subdivisions and long subdivisions_ defined
within-the Spokane County-Short Plat Ordinance and-the Spokane--Geu-nty-S-ubdiVisiea
Ordinance.
Temporary Food Establishment: A food service establishment operating at a fixed location
for not more than twenty-ne (21) consecutive days in conjunction with a single event. Event is
defined as a celebration, fair, festival, or other special event generally recognized by the
community and advertised as such. Examples are the Interstate fair, Pig out in the Park or
harvest festivals which are recognized and advertised in the community. SPECIAL EVENT
PROBABLY DESERVES ITS OWN DEFINITION -THE SERVICE OF FOOD SHOULD
PROBABLY BE ACKNOWLEDGED AS ONE OF THE ACTIVITIES INCIDENTAL TO THE
EVENT, RATHER THAN BEING CALLED OUT AS A SEPARATE USE.
Temporary Use: A use approved for location on a lot by the Department for a period not to
exceed six (6) months with the intent to discontinue such use after the time period expires.
Tire Salvage Yard: Any area, lot, land, parcel, building, structure or part thereof where waste,
discarded or salvaged tires are exchanged, handled, bought, sold, stored, chipped, shredded or
dumped. Outdoor storage of up to eight hundred (800) tires and the storage of up to eighteen
hundred (1800) tires inside an enclosed building or semi-trailer, as an accessory use to a
permitted business use, shall not be considered a Tire Salvage Yard.
Title Notice: A document recorded with the County Auditor for the purpose of disclosure of
important information, special conditions, restrictions, and/or circumstances that affect the
property to a purchaser, lender and others.
Tower: A structure not enclosed with exterior walls and which extends more than seventy five
(75) feet above grade or which exceeds the maximum building height for the zone in which it is
located. Public utility structures used for the distribution or transmission of electricity are
excluded from this definition, but structures used for production of energy are included (e.g.
wind tower). Structures less than the above-stated height standard shall be considered
accessory structures.
Tower, Private: A structure less than seventy-five (75) feet in height above grade used for two-
way (2) communication for hobby or emergency service purposes by private individuals.
Transitional Community Facility: Any dwelling or place licensed, certified or authorized by
state, federal or local authorities as a half-way house for adults leaving correctional facilities or
run-away youth needing temporary residence as a transition to community living or as a
temporary shelter in time of crisis. May include: half-way house, crisis residential center. This is
classified as an Essential Public Facility.
True South: That direction one hundred eighty degrees (180 ) from the direction designated as
"True North" on a United States Geological Survey (U.S.G.S.) map. WHY DOES THIS NEED
DEFINITION?
Ultralight vehicles aircraft: A vehicle that
1. Is used or intended to be used for manned operation in the air by a single occupant;
2. Is used or intended to be used for recreation or sport purposes only;
3. Does not have any U.S> or foreign airworthiness certificate; and
4. If unpowered, weighs less than 155 pounds; or
5. If powered
a. Weighs less than 254 pounds empty weight, excluding floats and safety devices,
which are intended for deployment in a potentially catastrophic situation;
b. Has a fuel capacity not exceeding 5 U.S. gallons;
c. Is not capable of more than 55 knots calibrated air speed at full power in level
flight; and
d. Has a power-off stall speed which does not exceed 24 knots calibrated in
airspeed.
Urban Impact Area: That area which is affected by urban-type growth, a major portion of which
is the Priority Sewer Service Area, but is further delineated in Section 14, Urban Impact Area, of
the Spokane County Generalized Comprehensive Plan. DO WE NEED THIS?
Use: The purpose for which land or building is arranged, designed, or intended, or for which
either is or may be occupied or maintained.
Utility Runway: A runway that is constructed for and intended to be used by propeller-driven
aircraft of twelve thousand five hundred (12,500) pounds, maximum gross weight, and less.
Variance: The means by which an adjustment may be made in the application of the specific
regulations of this Code to a particular piece of property, which property, because of special
circumstances applicable to it, is deprived of privileges commonly enjoyed by other properties in
the vicinity and similar zone classification and which adjustment remedies the difference in
privileges: Provided, That a variance granted shall not authorize a use otherwise prohibited in
the zone classification in which the property is located.
Vehicle: An item, not a manufactured (mobile) home, which is designed to transport objects,
merchandise, other articles, or persons from one point to another whether the item (vehicle) is
operable or inoperable.
Veterinary Hospital or Clinic, Small Animal: An establishment other than a kennel in which
veterinary medical services, clipping, bathing, and similar services, are rendered to dogs, cats
and other small animals and domestic pets.
Veterinary Hospital or Clinic, Large Animal: An establishment in which veterinary medical
services and similar services are rendered to large, agriculturally-related animals, such as
horses, cows, donkeys, sheep, pigs, and similar animals.
Vid ideo board or moving-pictufe-beard/sc--recn is a large format-display-showing
active or moving_ r-aR mateelimages-ever finest-0r all of the display-suface-a^u-whish-has
ad-vertsing-images that-are-discernible froma-naevi tg-vehicle-en-a-public4ight-of-wa "
00 1030, dated--November, 9. 99-)
Visual Runway: A runway intended solely for the operation of aircraft using visual approach
procedures, with no "straight-in" instrument approach procedure as defined by the Federal
Aviation Administration and no instrument designation indicated on an approved planning
document.
Wall-S+gn-;-A-non-paper sign attached or erect�aralel to and extending not more-than-one
foot from the facade-or-face-of-any-building- ,-any-building to--which it is attached and-suppor`ed-throughout its
entire leng# -with-tthe-e-x-poscd face of-the-sign parallel to the-plane of-saidivall or facade:-Sig-ns
incor-porated into mansard roofs, marquees er-eanopics shall b� t� treated-a-s-a wall-sign,
Wireless Communication Antenna Array: A wireless communication antenna array is one or
more rods, panels, discs or similar devices used for the transmission or reception of radio
frequency (RF) signals, which may include omni-directional antenna (whip), directional antenna
(panel) and parabolic antenna (dish). Wireless communication antenna array shall be
considered an accessory use provided they are located upon an existing structure.
Wireless Communication Support Tower: A wireless communication support tower is a
structure designed specifically to support a wireless communication antenna array, and may
include a guyed tower, self-supporting tower, a single pole structure (or monopole), lattice
tower, and other similar structures.
Yard: An open space other than a court, on a lot, unoccupied and unobstructed from the ground
upward, except as otherwise provided in this Code.
Yards, Types and Measurements:
1. Front Yard -An area extending across the full width of a lot and lying between the lot front
line and that-portion of a proposed or existing building-or structure-on-the-lot-closest to the let
front line, or-between-the-lot-front-line and the requ. e . - - - - each clac.,ifieation
when-no-building or structure exists or is proposedbuilding setback line.. The front yard is
generally recognized by location of the main entrance to the building and/or orientation to the
primary street. "Front yards" shall-he-measured by a line at right-angle -- = e' -, *Eby
the radial line or radial line extended in the case of a curved lot front line. Any lot extending
between-two--(2) noninterseeting streets shall-be-deemed to-have-front-yards on-both-streets
regardless of building orientation. MEASUREMENT IN RULE NOT DEFINITION. DEFINE
DOUBLE FRONTAGE LOTS
2. Rear Yard -An area extending across the full width of the lot and lying between the lot rear
line and that portion of a proposed or existing building or structure closest to the lot rear line, or
between the lot rear line and the required rear yard depth in each classification when no building
or structure exists or is proposed. "Rear yards" shall be measured by a line at right angles to the
lot rear line, or by the radial line or radial line extended in the case of a curved lot area line.
3. Side Yard -That area of a lot, unoccupied, which is neither a front yard, a rear yard or a
flanking street yard.
4. Flanking Street Yard -That unoccupied area of a lot which is coterminous with a flanking
street bounded by the front yard and rear yard and the flanking street yard depth.
Youth Camp: The use of a site for indoor or outdoor activities for children, including sports,
arts and crafts, entertainment, recreation, educational activities, swimming, fishing, horseback
riding and incidental food service.
Zone, Zoning District: A portion-of-Sp csignated-on ofiG al-zoning--map-er
official arterial/road map as one of the use classifications listed in Chapters 11,604 -1-4,-702
11.701, 11.706 and 11.710 and established for the purpose of promoting orderly and efficient
development of land compatible with surrounding areas and-tie implementing the
Comprehensive Plan_Tt-ineluding-tla- - - - - - - ' ' - -- e-A4 ii Road-P-la-n-
Zoological Park: Any facility other than a pet shop, circus, or kennel displaying, exhibiting or
keeping (one or more) species of animals. Domestic pet shows or farm displays of domestic
animals are excluded from this definition. (Rcs. No. 0* e= , e. -e e -• e'-30, 1999)
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DEFINITIONS
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•AASHTO —American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials.
• Abandoned —knowing relinquishment by the owner, of right or claim to the subject
property or structure on that property, without any intention of transferring rights to the
property or structure to another owner, tenant, or lessee, or of resuming the owner's use
of the property. "Abandoned" shall include but not be limited to circumstances involving
tax forfeiture, bankruptcy, or mortgage foreclosure.
• Accessory dwelling unit (ADU) —a freestanding detached structure or an attached part
of a structure that is subordinate and incidental to the main or primary dwelling unit
located on the same property, providing complete, independent living facilities
exclusively for a single housekeeping unit, including permanent provisions for living,
sleeping, cooking, and sanitation.
•Accessory Use - a use, activity of structure customarily incidental, appropriate and
subordinate to the principal use and located on the same lot therewith.
•ADA—Americans with Disabilities Act.
• Adequate Public Facilities — Facilities which have the capacity to serve development
without decreasing levels of service below locally established minimums.
• Administrative Exception —an exception to the strict enforcement of height, area or
other development regulations authorized by this Code.
• Adult Entertainment— a nightclub or restaurant or similar commercial establishment
which regularly features nude persons, sexually explicit live performances, or films,
motion pictures, video cassettes, slides of other photographic reproductions.
• Adult Day-Care Facility- a licensed or accredited facility that provides counseling,
recreation, food, or any or all of these services to elderly or handicapped persons for a
period of less than twenty-four hours a day.
• Adult Family Home - a residential home in which a person or persons provide personal
care, special care, room, and board to more than one but not more than six adults who
are not related by blood or marriage to the person or persons providing the services.
• Adult Retail Use - a business establishment which sells, exhibits, or offers for sale or
rental sexually explicit books, magazines, periodicals or other printed matter, or
photographs, films, motion pictures, video cassettes or video reproductions, slides,
other visual representations; or instruments, devices or paraphernalia.
• Aged person - a person of the age 65 years or more, or a person of less than 65 years
who by reason of infirmity requires domiciliary care, as defined by RCW 18.20.020(1).
•Agricultural Use - any activity related to the cultivation of the soil, the production of
crops for human food, animal feed or planting seed or for the production of fibers;
floriculture, viticulture or horticulture; the raising or keeping of livestock; the planting of
cover crops or the leaving land idle for the purpose of participating in any governmental
program or recognized, normal crop rotation or livestock rotation procedure. A residential
unit and related outbuildings located wholly on a tract of land used solely for one or more
of the purposes described in the preceding sentence shall be deemed an accessory
agricultural use.
•Airport -An area improved for the landing or take-off of aircraft
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•Air installation compatible use zone - areas upon which limited control is required with
respect to land uses that may obstruct airspace because found generally incompatible
with airport operations, posing no health or safety hazard for aircraft operations.
•Airport Elevation -the highest point airport usable landing area measured in feet above
mean sea level.
•Airport Obstruction - any structure or object of natural growth or use of land which
would exceed the federal obstruction standards established in 14 CFR sections 77.21,
77.23, 77.25 and 77.28, or which obstructs the airspace required for flight of aircraft in
landing or take-off, or is otherwise hazardous to airport operations.
•Airspace Height-the maximum height limits to be measured in feet above mean sea
level.
•Airport Hazard _any structure or object of natural growth located in the vicinity of the
airport which obstructs the airspace required for the flight of aircraft or airport operations.
■ Alley—a public right-of-way providing secondary access along side or rear property
lines.
•Alter or Alteration - any change, addition, or modification in construction, use or
occupancy, or any change in the size, shape, outline, or type of sign.
•Amenity Center—private recreation facilities which may include swimming pools,
meeting rooms, open space, or other amenities maintained by a Homeowner's
Association for the benefit of neighborhood residents.
•Amusement, Commercial (Indoor) —a facility offering indoor entertainment such as a
bowling alley, video arcade or billiard parlor.
•Amusement, Commercial (outdoor) —a facility offering outdoor entertainment or games
of skill to the general public for a fee or charge such as a golf driving range, archery
range, or miniature golf course.
■ Animal, Livestock—horses, donkeys, mules, cattle, sheep, goats, bison, camel, swine
or similar domesticated barnyard animal.
■ Animal, Household Pet—domesticated dogs, cats, canaries, parrots, guinea pigs,
hamsters or similar animals customarily housed within a residence.
■ Animal, Poultry—chickens, ducks, turkeys, geese or similar domesticated fowl.
■ Animal, Wild —deer, antelope, moose, elk, raccoon, skunk, fox, chinchilla, nutria,
beaver or similar undomesticated animal.
■ Animal, Exotic—mammals, birds and reptiles not native to North America.
•Antique Shop- an establishment offering for sale glass, china, objects d'art, furniture or
similar furnishings and decorations which have value and significance as a result of age,
design and sentiment.
■ Aquifer—Spokane Valley/Rathdrum Prairie Aquifer.
■ Aquifer Sensitive Area (ASA) —Aquifer and aquifer recharge area identified in the
Spokane County Wastewater Plan, July 1981.
•Arterial - existing or proposed street identified as such on the adopted Major
Thoroughfare Plan of the City of Spokane Valley.
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•Assisted Living Center— a facility that provides routine protective oversight or
assistance for independent living to mentally and physically limited persons in a
residential setting. Services include, but are not limited to transportation, food service,
pharmacy and medical clinics. An Assisted Living Center may be included as a part of a
nursing home or convalescent center complex.
• Attached —structurally dependent.
• Auction Yard —an area or structure where merchandise is stored or displayed for sale
at auction.
•Automotive Repairs, Major-the repair, rebuilding or reconditioning of engines, air
conditioning systems and transmissions for motor vehicles, wrecker service, collision
services, including body, frame or fender straightening or repair, customizing, painting,
vehicle steam cleaning, undercoating and rust-proofing and any use listed under
Automotive Repairs, Minor.
•Automotive Repairs, Minor— Minor repair or replacement of parts, tires, tubes, and
batteries; diagnostic services, minor motor services such as grease, oil, spark plug, and
filter changing; tune-ups; emergency road service, replacement of starters, alternators,
hoses, brake parts, automobile washing and polishing; performing state inspections and
making minor repairs necessary to pass said inspection; normal servicing of air-
conditioning systems, and other similar minor services for motor vehicles except heavy
load vehicles, but not including any operation named under"Automotive Repair, Major"
or any similar use.
•Automotive sales and service -the sale, rental, or display and service of passenger
cars and light trucks, including Sport Utility Vehicles (SUVs) and trucks with a
manufacturers Gross Vehicle Weight Rating (GVWR) of one (1) ton or less.
• Automotive Rental — an area for the display, storage and service of rental vehicles.
• Automobile service station - a use which provides for the servicing of passenger
automobiles and trucks not exceeding one and one-half tons capacity and operations
incidental thereto, but not including body repair, painting, or automobile wrecking.
• Automobile wrecking - any dismantling or wrecking of motor vehicles or trailers, or the
storage, sale or dumping of dismantled or wrecked vehicles or their parts.
• Available Public Facilities— Means that facilities or services are in place or that a
financial commitment is in place to provide the facilities or services within a specified
time. In the case of transportation, the specified time is six years from the time of
development.
• Average building elevation - a reference datum on ,- -
the surface topography of a property from which ; r
building height is measured. The reference datum
shall be a point no higher than five feet above the 30 ; I r '°
lowest elevation taken at any exterior wall of the
structure either prior to any development activity or at f
Existing
finished grade, whichever is lower, provided the __ Grade
reference datum is equal to or lower than the highest 5' ; _ _ `--:�
elevation at any exterior wall of the structure prior to � `' Point of
Lowest Measurement
development activity. Elevation
• Awning -A roof-like cover that is temporary in nature
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and that projects from the wall of a building for the purpose of shielding a doorway or
window from the elements.
• Beekeeping, Commercial —an area used to maintain twenty-five or more bee hives.
• Beekeeping, Hobby- an area used to maintain less than twenty-five bee hives
• Basement—the portion of a building at least four feet (4'-0") below grade for more than
50% of the perimeter but not more than eight feet (8'-0") below grade at any point of the
structure.
• Bed and Breakfast- a single-family dwelling which provides accommodations for one
or more paying guests on a reservation basis.
Berm - a narrow ledge or shelf of land generally consisting of earth material that may be
natural or artificial.
• Bicycle—A vehicle having two tandem wheels, either of which is more than 16" in
diameter or having three wheels in contact wit the ground any of which is more than 16"
propelled solely by human power, upon which any persons or person may ride.
• Bicycle Path —A bikeway physically separated from motorized vehicular traffic by an
open space or barrier and either within the highway right of way or within an independent
right of way.
• Bicycle Route—A segment of a system of bikeways designated with appropriate
directional and informational markers with or without specific bicycle route number.
• Bikeway—Any road, path, or way, which in some manner is specifically designated and
which may legally be used by bicycles regardless of whether such facilities are
designated for the exclusive use of bicycles or are to be shared with other transportation
modes.
• Block- a parcel of land surrounded by public streets, highways, railroad rights-of-way,
public walks, parks, or green strips, rural land, drainage channels, or a combination
thereof.
• Boarding or Rooming house - a dwelling other than a hotel where meals and lodging
are provided for compensation for three or more unrelated persons on a monthly or
weekly basis, and where no cooking or dining facilities are provided in the individual
rooms.
• Build -to erect, convert, enlarge, reconstruct, or alter a building or structure.
• Buildable Area -the area of the building site not including land located within the 100-
year floodplain, easements, or required yards.
• Buildable Width -The width of a lot not included within the required side yard setbacks.
• Building -Any structure built for the support, shelter and enclosure of persons, animals,
chattels, or movable property of any kind. When subdivided in a manner sufficient to
prevent the spread of fire, each portion so subdivided may be deemed a separate
building.
• Building, Assembly- a building or portion of a building used for the gathering of 50 or
more persons for such purposes as deliberation, education, instruction, worship,
entertainment, amusement, drinking or dining, or awaiting transportation.
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• Building Codes -the adopted Uniform Building Code, the Uniform Plumbing Code, the
International Mechanical Code and National Electric Code, as amended, and such other
building code as may be adopted by the City to govern buildings and structures.
• Building Setback Line -A line established by zoning regulations, generally parallel to
and measured from the lot line, defining the limits of a yard in which no building or
structure may be located, except as otherwise provided. See definition of"Yard."
• Building Materials Sales—facilities for the wholesale or retail sale of building materials,
tools and hardware customarily used in the construction of buildings and other
structures.
• Building Official -The Administrative Official charged with the responsibility of issuing
permits and enforcing building codes.
• Building Site - a tract of land located within a single block which, at time of filing for a
building permit, is designed to be used, developed, or built upon as a unit.
• Bulk Handling -the transferring of flammable or combustible liquids from tanks or
drums into smaller containers for distribution.
• Camping Units— a structure, shelter or vehicle designed and intended for temporary
occupancy by persons less than 400 square feet.
Caretaker or Guard Residence—Accessory dwellings located on a premises occupied
by a permitted principal use occupied only by guards or caretakers employed on the
premises.
• Carport- a structure open on a minimum of three (3) sides designed or used to shelter
vehicles.
• Carnival or Circus -temporary entertainment facilities providing rides, exhibits, games,
musical productions, food and drink, and items for sale as part of a private commercial
venture.
• Carwash — a facility for the washing of automobiles and light trucks.
• Catering —an establishment that serves and supplies food to be consumed off
premises; a service providing meals and/or refreshments for public or private
entertainment for a fee; provides food and incidental service for a social affair or for a
private dwelling, but does not use commercial vehicles that are equipped in any manner
for purposes of transporting food to be sold directly from such vehicles.
• Cellar- See Basement.
• Cemetery - land used or intended to be used for the burial of the human or animal dead
and dedicated for cemetery purposes, including crematories, mausoleums and
mortuaries if operated in connection with and within the boundaries of such cemetery.
• Certificate of Occupancy - an official certificate issued by the City through the Chief
Building Official that indicates conformance with building requirements and zoning
regulations and authorizes legal use of the premises for which it is issued.
• Certificate of title - a letter, report, opinion, statement, policy, or certificate prepared
and executed by a title describing all encumbrances of record which affect the property,
together with all recorded deeds, including any part of the property included in the plat.
• Change of use - a change in the general character of a use, activity or operation.
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• Church, Temple, Mosque, Rectory - a place of worship and religious training of
recognized religions including the on-site housing of clergy.
• City -The City of Spokane Valley, Washington.
• City Council -The governing body of the City.
• City Engineer-the engineer employed by the City, or the engineer retained as
consultants to the City, or their duly authorized representative(s).
• City Manager-the Chief Executive Officer of the City.
• Clinic, Medical - a group of offices for three or more licensed physicians, dentists or
other medical professionals to treat the sick or injured on an out-patient basis. See also
Medical Office.
• College or University -An academic institution of higher learning accredited or
recognized by the State offering a program or series of programs of academic study.
• Commercial condominium -that portion of a commercial, institutional or office structure
under individual ownership, sharing a common lot with ownership and management of
common areas held by an organization or association of property owners.
• Commission -the Planning Commission of the City.
• Community Center-A building and grounds owned and operated by a governmental
body, homeowner's association, or non-profit organization for the social, recreational,
health or welfare of the community served.
• Community Residential Facility—a licensed residential facility for children or adults
with physical, developmental or mental disabilities, children or elderly persons in need of
supervision, but does not include Halfway House, Crisis Residential Center or Secure
Residential treatment Facility.
• Community Treatment Facility—a licensed residential facility for the care and
treatment of individuals suffering mental disability, alcoholism or drug abuse, but does
not include detoxification centers, halfway house, and crisis residential center or secure
residential treatment facility. May include alcohol and/or drug abuse treatment facilities
and adult treatment facilities.
• Comprehensive Plan -the plan adopted by the Council to guide the future development
of the city pursuant to Chapter 36.70 RCW which includes but is not limited to elements
describing land uses, housing, transportation, utilities, parks, schools and other
community facilities.
• Concrete or Asphalt Batching Plant (Temporary) -A temporary manufacturing facility
for the production of concrete or asphalt during construction of a project, and to be
removed when the project is completed.
• Concrete or Asphalt Batching Plant-A permanent manufacturing facility for the
production of concrete or asphalt.
• Concurrency— Means that adequate public facilities are available when the service
demands of development occur. This definition includes the two concepts of
"adequate public facilities" and of"available public facilities".
• Conditional Use—a use authorized subject to conditions and performance standards
established by the Examiner.
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• Condominium - a building, or group of buildings, in which units are owned individually,
and the structure, common areas, and facilities, are owned by all the owners on a
proportional, undivided basis pursuant to the Horizontal Property Regimes Act, Chapter
64.32 RCW. See also Commercial Condominium and Dwelling, Condominium.
• Congregate Residence- any building or portion thereof that contains facilities for living,
sleeping and sanitation, and may include facilities for eating and cooking, for occupancy
by other than a family, including but not limited to shelters, convents, monasteries,
dormitories, sorority and fraternity houses. Congregate Residence does not include jails,
hospitals, nursing homes, hotels or lodging houses.
• Construction Work Hours—those hours between 7:00 a.m. and 8:00 p.m.
• Contractor's Yard—a building, part of a building or land area used for the storage of
materials, implements, or machinery related to construction activity.
• Convalescent Home—a facility used or occupied by persons recovering from illness or
suffering from the infirmities of age.
• Convenience Store—a retail store of less than 10,000 square feet in size engaged in
the sale of personal or household merchandise, packaged foods and beverages.
• Council -the City Council of Spokane Valley, Washington.
• County—Spokane County, Washington.
• Country Club—a land area and buildings which may include a golf course, clubhouse,
dining room, swimming pool, tennis courts and similar recreational or service uses
available only to members and their guests.
• Court- an open, unoccupied space, bounded on more than two sides by the walls of a
building. An inner court is entirely surrounded by the exterior walls of a building. An outer
court has one side open to a street, alley, yard or other permanent space.
• Coverage -the area of a lot or tract covered by the roof or first floor of a building
expressed as a percentage of lot area. Roof eaves extending three (3)feet or less from
the walls of a building are excluded from coverage computations.
• Crisis Residential Center—a residential facility proving secure or semi-secure
temporary shelter for children under the age of eighteen.
• Critical material —any substance whose release in sufficient quantity would impair
uses dependent on the quality of water in the aquifer.
• Dairy—any premises where three (3) or more cows or three (3) or more goats, or any
combination thereof are maintained and milked for a period exceeding sixty (60) days.
• Day Care Facility- a licensed commercial facility which may be titled a Nursery
School, Kindergarten, Child Development Center, Day Care Center, Private School, etc.,
providing care for less than 24 hours a day for more than 13 children under age 14.
• Department-the Department of Planning and Community Development.
• Density-the number of residential units permitted on a specific tract of land usually
expressed in a total number of units per gross or net acre.
• Developer-the person, business, partnership, corporation, or association responsible
for the development of the subdivision or addition.
• Director-the Director of the Department of Community Development, or designee.
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• District—an approved zoning district to which regulations concerning land use,
occupancy, development, height and area, and other restrictions apply.
• Double Plumbing Dry Side Sewers—A sewer service line installed at the time of on-
site sewage disposal system construction, which will connect the structure
wastewater system to a public sewer, when the public sewer becomes available.
• Drive thru - a building element that allows a customer to obtain goods and services
through a building opening, other than a door, while seated in an automobile
• Driveway stacking -the distance between the street right-of-way line and the near side
of the first intersecting interior aisle or parking stall designed to allow queuing of traffic.
• Dryline Sewer—A sewer line, constructed at the time of property development, that
is not put into service until the public sewer system is extended to the development.
The installation of Dryline Sewers within a development facilitates the simple and
straightforward connection of the development to sewer when the public sewer
system is extended to the boundary of the development.
■ Dwelling Unit- any building or portion thereof that contains living facilities, including
provisions for sleeping, eating, cooking and sanitation for not more than one family, or a
congregate residence for 10 or less persons, but not including hotels or motels.
• Dwelling, Single-Family detached - a dwelling unit contained in a free-standing
structure designed for occupancy by a single family
• Dwelling, Two-Family - a single structure containing two dwelling units. Also referred to
as "duplex".
• Dwelling, Multi-Family - a single structure containing three or more dwelling units.
■ Easement-the right of use over the property of another.
■ Electronic Manufacturing and Assembly—the manufacture and assembly of electronic
components such as circuit boards, chips, cables, computer components.
■ Entry turnaround—an esplanade opening or other accommodation provided at the
entrance to a private street development in order to allow vehicles denied access to re-
enter the public street with a forward motion without unduly disturbing other vehicles at
the entrance.
• Essential public facility- any facility or conveyance which is difficult to site as a result of
unusual site requirements and/or significant public opposition; is a necessary component
of a system, network or program which provides a public service or good; and is owned
or operated by a unit of local or state government, private or nonprofit organization under
contract with or receiving government funding, or private firms subject to a public service
obligation.
• Essential Services - infrastructure for provision of services by public and private utilities
but not including buildings.
• Extraterritorial jurisdiction -the unincorporated territory extending beyond the City limits
subject to joint planning between the City and County.
• Facilities Agreement—a contract for reimbursement of cost based upon a distribution
of use or service.
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• Family - a number of individuals living together as a single housekeeping unit, in which
not more than five (5) individuals are unrelated by blood, marriage, or adoption or one or
more disabled persons protected by the Fair Housing Amendments Act (42 U.S.C.
Section 3601 et seq.) living together.
• Family Day Care - a child day care provider who regularly provides child day care for
not more than 12 children in the provider's home in the family living quarters.
• Family Home - a home that regularly provides care in the caretaker's own residence for
not more than six children under 14 years of age, excluding the caretaker's own children,
and that provides care after school hours for not more than six additional elementary
school children, but where the total number of children, including the caretaker's own,
does not exceed 12 at any time.
• Fence - an artificially constructed barrier enclosing all or part of a tract of land intended
to prevent escape or intrusion, or to establish a boundary.
• Filing date -the date on which a complete application for plat approval is presented to
the Department.
• Fire Lane—an easement allowing the access for emergency vehicles.
• Flea Market- an enclosed or unenclosed marketplace where second-hand, crafts,
antiques or other goods are regularly offered for sale by two or more merchants. Fund-
raising events sponsored by religious, charitable, education, social or political
organizations are not a flea market.
• Floodplain —an area of land subject to inundation by a 100-year frequency flood as
determined using standard engineering practices and generally shown on the Flood
Insurance Rate Map (FIRM) for the City of Spokane Valley
• Floodway -the channel of a stream, plus any adjacent floodplain areas.
• Floodway Fringe -the area between the floodway and 100-year floodplain boundaries.
• Floor area, gross -the total area of a structure measured by taking the outside
dimensions of the building at each floor level intended for occupancy or storage, but
excluding carports or garages.
• Floor area, net -the gross floor area of a structure less stairs, washrooms, restrooms,
elevator shafts, and other common areas open to public or semi-public use.
• Floor Area Ratio (FAR) -the ratio between the gross floor area in a structure and the
total square feet of land in the tract on which the structure is located.
• Food Service—the institutional or retail preparation, packaging, exporting or private
labeling of fresh, frozen, or refrigerated food products.
• Foster-family home - an agency which regularly provides care on a 24-hour basis to
one or more children, expectant mothers, or persons with developmental disabilities in
the family abode of the person or persons under whose direct care and supervision the
child, expectant mother, or person with a developmental disability is placed.
• Fraternal Organization, Lodge or Civic Club-A society or association having a
restricted membership and organized for the pursuit of some common objective.
• Frontage -the portion of any tract which abuts a public street right-of-way affording
primary access to the tract.
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• Fueling station - any building or premises used for the dispensing, sale, or offering for
sale at retail of automobile fuel, oils, lubricants and automobile accessories.
• Garage, Private - an accessory building enclosed on three sides designed or used for
the storage of motor vehicles owned and used by the occupants of the building to which
it is accessory.
• Garage, Public - a building or portion thereof, other than a private or storage garage,
designed or used for storing motor vehicles for a fee.
• Garage Sale - Occasional sales on residential premises.
• General Development Plan - a map or plat designed to illustrate the general design
features and street layout of a proposed subdivision to be developed and platted in
sections or phases.
• Greenway—A greenway is a linear, landscape corridor of significant length
accommodating multiple uses.
• Golf Course - a regulation golf course constructed by a private individual or group and
operated as a commercial enterprise other than a driving range, miniature golf or similar
golf oriented commercial amusement.
• Grade (Adjacent Ground Elevation) -the lowest point of elevation of the finished
surface of the ground, paving or sidewalk within the area between the building and the
property line or, when the property line is more than 5 feet from the building, between
the building an a line five feet from the building.
• Firearms Sales and Repair-An establishment that is primarily engaged in the sale and
repair of firearms and accessories.
•Functional disability - a chronic physical or mental condition or disease substantially
limiting one or more major life activities, but excluding a condition resulting from the
current and illegal use of a controlled substance.
• Group-care facility - an agency, other than a foster-family home, which is maintained
and operated for the care of a group of children on a 24-hour basis.
• Gymnastics Training Center-A Gymnastics Training Center provides training and
exercise in the proper conditioning and preparation for the sport of gymnastics.
•Hazardous substance - any liquid, solid, gas, or sludge, including any material,
substance, product, commodity, or waste, regardless of quantity, that exhibits any of
the characteristics or criteria of hazardous waste as described by Chapter 70.105
RCW, WAC 173-303-090 or 173-303-100.
• Hazardous waste - any dangerous and extremely hazardous waste, as those terms are
defined by RCW 70.105.010(5) and (6), respectively, including substances composed
of radioactive and hazardous components. A moderate risk waste as described by
RCW 70.105.010(17) is not a hazardous waste.
• Hazardous waste generator - any person or site whose act first causes a dangerous
waste to become subject to regulation under the Dangerous Waste Regulations,
Chapter 173-303 WAC.
•Hazardous waste storage - the holding of dangerous waste for a temporary period.
Accumulation of dangerous waste by the generator on the site of generation is not
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storage as long as the generator complies with the applicable requirements of WAC
173-303-200 and 173-303-201.
•Hazardous waste treatment - the physical, chemical, or biological processing of
dangerous waste to make such wastes nondangerous, safer for transport, amenable
for energy or material resource recovery, amenable for storage, or reduced in volume.
•Heavy industrial - an industrial land use such as chemical processing or machinery
manufacturing which has environmental impacts which may require regulation (i.e.,
heavy truck traffic, noise, vibration, light, glare, and odors).
• Height-The vertical distance of a structure measured from the average established
grade at the street line or from the average natural front yard ground level, whichever is
higher, to (1)the highest point of the roof's surface if a flat surface, (2) to the deck line of
mansard roofs, or(3) to the mean height level between eaves and ridge for hip and
gable roofs and, in any event, excluding chimneys, cooling towers, elevator bulkheads,
mechanical equipment, standpipes, telecommunication towers, ornamental cupolas,
domes and spires, and parapet walls not exceeding ten (10) feet in height.
• Heliport- a landing facility for rotary wing aircraft subject to regularly scheduled use
and may include fueling or servicing facilities for such craft.
• Helistop - a landing pad for occasional and infrequent use by rotary wing aircraft. No
on-site servicing of or fueling and not for regularly scheduled stops.
• Helistop, temporary -A landing pad where the use is not to exceed three (3) days, with
no more than three (3) stops per day.
• Home Occupation - an occupation or activity that is incidental and secondary to the
primary use of the premises as a residence,
• Homeowners' association - a group of persons organized as an association,
corporation or other entity which represents homeowners residing in a subdivision or
other development entity.
• Hospice—a facility dedicated to providing emotional, social and spiritual support to the
terminally ill and their families in a residential setting.
• Hospital - an institution in which there are complete facilities for diagnosis, treatment,
surgery, laboratory, x-ray, and the prolonged care of bed patients. Medical clinics may
have some but not all of these facilities.
• Hotel -A building offering overnight or temporary lodging accommodations for travelers
or guestrooms for compensation on a daily rate to the general public and providing
additional services, such as restaurants, meeting rooms, maid service and recreational
facilities.
• Improvement-the construction, enlargement, alteration, repair, removal, conversion, or
demolition of a building or structure.
• Laboratories (Dental) -Any place where a person would perform the duties of a Dental
Technician as defined in Article 455.1.f Section 1 of the Washington Dental Practice Act.
• Laboratories (BIO Safety Level 2, OSHA Standards) - a facility in which work is done
with the broad spectrum of indigenous moderate-risk agents present in the community
and associated with human disease of varying severity.
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• Laboratories (BIO Safety Level 3, OSHA Standards) - a facility in which work is done
with indigenous or exotic agents where the potential for infection by aerosols is real and
the disease may have serious or lethal consequences.
• Laboratories, Scientific (BIO Safety Level 4, OSHA Standards) - a facility in which work
is done with dangerous and exotic agents which pose a high individual risk of life-
threatening disease.
• Laundry/Cleaning Plant, Commercial — a facility of 5,500 square feet or more equipped
for commercial laundry and dry cleaning operations and storing solvents and cleaning
compounds on the premises.
• Laundry/Cleaning Plant, Retail with Pick-up Facilities - a facility of less than 5,500
square feet in gross floor area offering retail services to the public, equipped for
commercial laundry and dry cleaning operations, and storing solvents and cleaning
compounds on the premises
• Laundry/Dry Cleaning - Pick-Up Only - a facility used for picking up individual
consumer's laundry and/or dry cleaning without dry cleaning equipment located on the
premises.
• Laundry, self-service -an unattended facility with coin-operated washing machines
and/or dryers available for the use of the general public. This does not include laundry
facilities provided as an accessory use for the benefit of the residents or tenants of multi-
family development projects.
• Lawn Equipment Sales and Repair-An establishment primarily engaged in the sale
and repair of new and used merchandise, including mowers, blowers, lawn tractors,
edgers or other lawn equipment.
• Livestock Auction - barns, pens and sheds for the temporary holding and sale of
livestock.
• Loading Space - a space within the main building or on the same lot, providing for the
standing, loading or unloading of trucks, together with access and maneuvering areas
provided on the same building lot as the principal use for which the loading space is
intended.
• Location Map - a vicinity map indicating the location of a specific site with reference to
established physical landmarks, including streets, rivers, railroad rights-of-way, and
highways.
• Local Utility Line -facilities provided by a municipality or a franchised utility company
for the distribution or collection of gas, water, surface drainage water, electric power or
communication service.
• Lot- an undivided tract or parcel of land having frontage on a public street and
designated as a distinct tract.
• Lot Area -the area of a horizontal plane intercepted by the vertical projections of the
front, side, and rear lot lines of a building lot.
• Lot Area per Dwelling Unit - is the lot area required for each dwelling unit located on a
building lot.
• Lot, Corner- a building lot situated at the intersection of two streets.
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• Lot Coverage -The percentage of the total area of a lot occupied by the base (first
story or floor) of buildings located on the lot or the area determined as the maximum
cross sectional area of a building.
• Lot Depth -the mean horizontal distance between the front lot line and the rear lot line
of a building lot measured at the respective mid-points of the front lot line and rear lot
line within the lot boundary.
• Lot, Flag - a lot of irregular shape with reduced frontage on a public or private street
with dimensions which are otherwise adequate at the building line.
• Lot, Reverse Flag - a lot of irregular shape with reduced access to a rear alley, amenity
or natural feature.
• Lot, Interior- a lot within a subdivision that is not located at the intersection of any
adjacent public or private street.
• Lot Line — a boundary of a building lot.
• Lot Line, Front -the boundary of a building lot that is the line of an existing or dedicated
street. Upon corner lots either street line may be selected as the front lot line providing a
front and rear yard are provided adjacent and opposite, respectively, to the front lot line.
• Lot Line, Side - is that boundary of a lot which is not a front lot line or a rear lot line.
• Lot Line, Rear- is that boundary of a lot which is most distant from and is, or is most
nearly, parallel to the front lot line.
• Lot of Record - an area of land designated as a lot on a plat of a residential subdivision
recorded or registered pursuant to statutes of the State of Washington, with the Auditor
of Spokane County.
• Lot, radial - lots adjacent to curved streets or circular cul-de-sacs with side lot lines
running roughly perpendicular to the street right-of-way
• Lot Width -The width of a lot at the front building line. Measurements on irregularly-
shaped lots to be taken in a straight line from a point where the front building line
crosses the side property lines
• Main Building —a building or buildings on a lot occupied by the primary use.
• Maintenance and Storage Facilities - land, buildings and structures devoted primarily to
the maintenance and storage of construction equipment and material.
• Manufactured Housing Unit - a pre-assembled self-contained dwelling unit designed to
be transported in one or more parts which is not to be installed on a permanent
foundation. Modular housing units, recreational vehicles and campers are not
manufactured housing units.
• Manufactured Housing Unit Space - an area of land within a Manufactured Housing
Park dedicated for the placement of a dwelling unit.
• Manufactured Housing Unit Pad - a level and graded area to which the manufactured
housing unit will be secured.
• Manufactured Housing Park- a tract of land under single ownership and control that
consists of two or more spaces leased for manufactured housing units.
• Manufactured or Mobile Home Subdivision - a tract of land subdivided into lots which
are designed as permanent sites for mobile or manufactured homes and which are
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served by separate utilities, dedicated street access on a legally filed plat and, are
capable of being conveyed as separate lots.
• Manufacturing (Light) -the manufacturing, fabrication, transformation, or assembly of
products that do not involve the generation of objectionable noise, odor, vibration, and
dust or hazard.
• Manufacturing (Heavy) - establishments engaged in the mechanical or chemical
transformation of materials or substances into new products, including the assembling of
component parts, the manufacturing of products, and the blending of materials such as
lubricating oils, plastics and resins. Manufacturing production usually is carried on for the
wholesale market rather than for direct sales.
• Masonry - construction composed of stone, brick, concrete, gypsum, hollow clay tile,
concrete block or tile, glass block or similar building materials laid up unit by unit and set
in mortar. Synthetic stucco (such as Exterior Finish and Insulation System (E.F.I.S) is
not masonry.
• Massage Therapy—the service of physical therapy performed by a licensed massage
therapist.
• Microbrewery— an establishment where beer, ale, etc. is brewed and served in
conjunction with food service.
• Mobile Home, Travel Trailer and Farm Implement Sales -the sale or rental of new and
used mobile homes, travel trailers or farm implements, but excluding repair work, except
incidental warranty repair of same, to be displayed and sold on the premises.
• Motorcycle Sales and Repair, Including Personal Watercraft - an establishment
primarily engaged in the sale, repair and service of new and used motorcycles,
motorized bicycles, jet skis, or similar merchandise.
• Museum, Library or Art Gallery (Public) - an institution for the collection, display and
distribution of books, objects of art or science, and which is sponsored by a public or
quasi-public agency and which facilities are open to the general public.
• MUTCD —Washington Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices.
• Nonconforming Use— a building, structure, use or occupancy which was lawful on the
effective date of zoning regulations or amendments thereto, or which was in effect when
annexed into the City but which does not conform to the use regulations of the zoning
district in which it is situated.
• Nursery, Plant Materials, wholesale - land, buildings-structures or combinations thereof
for the storage, cultivation, transplanting of live trees, shrubs or plants offered on the
premises and including products used for gardening or landscaping.
• Nursing Home - an extended, long-term, or intermediate care facility licensed or
approved to provide full-time convalescent or chronic care to individuals who, by reason
of advanced age, chronic illness or infirmity, are unable to care for themselves. See
Convalescent Home.
• Noxious Matter- a material which is capable of causing injury to living organisms by
chemical reaction or is capable of causing detrimental effects upon the physical or
economic well-being or comfort of humans.
• Occupancy-the use or intended use of the land or buildings by proprietors or tenants.
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• Office use - administrative, executive, professional, managerial premises not a part of
retail, wholesale or manufacturing operation.
• Off-street Parking - Off-street parking located on the lot or tract occupied by the main
use.
• Office-Showroom/Warehouse - an establishment with a minimum of 75% of its total
floor area devoted to storage and warehousing but not accessible to the general public.
The remaining area may include retail and wholesale sales areas, sales offices, and
display areas for products sold and distributed from the storage and warehousing areas.
• Open Area - "Open Area" is that part of a building lot, including courts or yards, which:
(a) Is open and unobstructed from its lowest level to the sky; and
(b) Is accessible to all residents upon a building lot; and
(c) Is not part of the roof of that portion of the building containing dwelling units.
• Open Space - an area accessible to and permanently reserved for the common use
and enjoyment of the residents for landscaping, leisure and recreational purposes. Open
Space does not include area devoted to parking, accessory uses, fence row easements,
landscaping required pursuant to this code, 100-year flood plain areas, drainage
easements, natural drainage areas, creeks or building separation required under
adopted building codes.
• Open Storage -the storage of any equipment, machinery, commodities, raw, semi-
finished materials, and building materials, not accessory to a residential use, which is
visible from any point on the building lot line when viewed from ground level to six feet
above ground level.
• Outdoor Produce Market - a business which sells fresh fruit, vegetables, small plants,
flowers, and related perishable food products.
• Park or Playground (Public) -An open recreation facility or park owned and operated
by a public agency such as the City of Spokane Valley or a School District and available
to the general public.
• Parking Lot or Structure (Commercial) - an area or structure devoted to the parking or
storage of automobiles for a fee. May include, in the case of a parking structure only, a
facility for servicing of automobiles provided such facility is primarily an internal function
for use only by automobiles occupying the structure and creates no special problems of
ingress or egress. See also Garage.
• Parking Lot, Truck- any area, used for the parking or storage of trucks or trailers larger
than one ton (manufacturer's Gross Vehicle Weight).
• Parking Space - an enclosed or unenclosed all-weather surfaced area of not less than
one hundred sixty-two (162) square feet (measuring approximately 9 feet by 18 feet) not
on a public street or alley, together with an all-weather surfaced driveway connecting the
area with a street or alley permitting free ingress and egress without encroachment on
the street or alley.
• Paving Width—the width of the driving surface that is commonly used by vehicular
traffic, including any associated curbs. This is normally the width of the paved driving
surface as measured from edge of pavement to edge of pavement.
• Pawnbroker—any person engaged in the business of lending money on the security of
pledged goods, or engaged in the business of purchasing tangible personal property on
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condition that it may be redeemed or repurchased by the seller for a fixed price within a
fixed period of time.
• Pawnshop—an establishment where money is loaned on the security of personal
property pledged in the keeping of the owner or proprietor. Also includes the retail sales
of used items.
• Performance Standards - standards or criteria by which qualitative and quantitative
measures are derived for the regulation of uses and activities. The following definitions
are applicable to Performance Standards:
•Atmosphere -the air that envelops or surrounds the earth. Where air
contaminants are emitted into a building not designed specifically as air pollution
control equipment, such emission into the building shall be considered emission
into the atmosphere.
•Atmospheric Pollution -the discharging from stacks, open storage, chimneys,
exhausts, vents, ducts, openings, or open fires of such air contaminants as
visible emissions, sulphur dioxide, particulate matter, hydrocarbons, fumes or
similar material or gases.
• Combustion -the rapid exothermic reaction of any material with oxygen.
• Emission -the act of passing into the atmosphere an air contaminant or a gas
stream that contains or may contain an air contaminant or the material so passed
into the atmosphere.
• Emission Point-the location (place in horizontal plane and vertical elevation) at
which an emission enters the atmosphere.
• Exhaust Gas Volume -the total volume of gas emitted from an emission point.
• Frequency -the number of times per second a vibration or sound wave
oscillates.
• Noise— any sound which annoys or disturbs humans or which causes or tends
to cause an adverse psychological effect on humans.
•A-Weighted Sound Level —the sound pressure level in decibels as measured
on a sound level meter using the A-weighting network. The level read is
designated as dB(A) or dBA.
• Background Noise— noise from all sources other than that under specific
consideration including traffic, established by measuring the noise over an eight-
minute period of time.
• Bounding Lot Line—the far side of any street, alley, stream or other
permanently dedicated open space from the stationary source when such open
space exists between the lot line of the stationary source and adjacent property.
When no such open space exists, the common line between two pieces of
property shall be interpreted as the bounding lot line.
• Daytime—the hours between 7:00 a.m. and 8:00 p.m.
• Decibel (dB) —a unit for measuring the volume of sound, equal to 20 times the
logarithm to the base 10 of the ratio of the pressure of sound measured to the
reference pressure of 20 micropascals (20 Micronewtons per square meter).
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• Sound -the weighted sound pressure level obtained by the use of a sound level
meter and frequency weighting network as specified in the American National
Standards Institute specifications for sound level meters (ANSI SI 4-1971 or the
latest revision thereto).
• Sound Level Meter—an instrument which includes a microphone amplifier,
RMS detector, integrator or time averager, output meter and weighting networks
used to measure sound pressure levels.
• Sound Pressure—the instantaneous difference between the actual pressure
and the average or barometric pressure at a given point in space, as produced
by sound energy.
• Sound Pressure Level—20 times the logarithm to the base 10 of the ratio of the
RMS sound pressure to the reference pressure of 20 micropascals (20
Micronewtons per square meter). The sound pressure level is denoted Lp or SPL
and is expressed in decibels.
• Time Weighted —an established period of time during which the sound pressure
levels are averaged.
• Odor Threshold -the concentration of odorous matter in the atmosphere
necessary to be perceptible to the olfactory nerve of a normal person.
Determination of the Odor Threshold is prescribed by A.S.T.M.D. 1391-57,
Standard Method for Measuring Odor in Atmosphere.
• Operation - any physical action resulting in a change in the location, form of
physical properties of a material, or any chemical action resulting in a change in
the chemical composition or chemical or physical properties of a material,
including but not limited to heat transfer, calcination, double decomposition
fermentation, pyrolysis, electrolysis, combustion material handling, evaporation
mixing, absorption, filtration, fluidization, screening, crushing, grinding,
demolishing, shoveling, bagging, etc..
• Particulate Matter- any material, except uncombined water, which exists in a
finely divided form as a liquid or solid at standard conditions when released into
the atmosphere.
• Person or Operation - any person, firm, association, organization, partnership,
business, trust, corporation, company, contractor, supplier, installer, user, or
owner or any state or local governmental agency or public district or any officer
or employee thereof. It includes the owner, lessor, lessee, tenant, licensee,
manager and operator, or any of such, of any emission point or any source
operation which may constitute a source of atmospheric pollution related thereto,
or any interest in such emission point or operation source.
• Smoke - a visible discharge of particulate matter from a chimney, vent, exhaust
or combustion process.
• Toxic and Noxious Matter- any solid, liquid, or gaseous matter which is present
in sufficient quantities to endanger health, safety and comfort of persons in the
vicinity or which may cause injury or damage to property.
• Vibration - a periodic displacement of the earth measured in inches.
• Personal Service—service involving the care of a person, including barber shop,
beauty shop, tailor, dressmaker, shoe shop, or similar shop offering custom service.
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• Pest Control Service —a commercial enterprise licensed by the state engage in the
eradication of insects and vermin.
• Plat—a map or drawing depicting a tract of land showing lots, blocks, streets and
alleys, or other divisions and dedications.
• Plat, amending —an approved recorded plat resubmitted to correct dimensional or
notational errors and omissions, or to relocate lot lines.
• Plat, final subdivision -the map or drawing of a proposed subdivision prepared in a
manner suitable for recording in the appropriate county records and prepared in
conformance with the conditions of preliminary plat approval.
• Plat, preliminary subdivision -the map or drawing of a proposed subdivision illustrating
the features of development.
• Plat, Short—the map or representation of a short subdivision.
• Plat, street dedication - a map or drawing illustrating only the location of a public street
within a specific tract of land.
• Playfield or Stadium - an athletic field or stadium owned and operated for the general
public including a baseball field, golf course, football field or stadium.
• Project Permit/Project Permit Application —Any land use or environmental permit or
license required from a review authority for a project action, including but not limited
to building permits, short plats, subdivisions, binding site plans, planned unit
developments, conditional uses, variances, shoreline permits, site plan review,
permits or approvals required by the Critical Area Ordinance, site-specific zone
reclassifications, manufactured home parks, and change of condition request.
• Public Service Facility -the erection, construction, alteration, operation, or maintenance
of buildings, power plants or substations, water treatment plants or pumping stations,
sewage disposal or pumping plants and other similar public service structures by a
public utility, by a railroad, whether publicly or privately owned, or by a municipal or other
governmental agency, including the furnishing of electrical, gas, rail transport,
communications, public water and sewage services, and the storage and maintenance
of related equipment and materials.
• Radio, Television or Microwave Towers - structures supporting antennae for
transmitting or receiving any portion of the radio spectrum, but excluding noncommercial
antennae installations for home use of radio or television. See also Telecommunications.
• Recreation Area - a "recreation area" is a privately owned park, playground, or open
space maintained by a community club, property-owners association, or similar
organization.
• Recreation Camp - an area of land on which two or more travel trailers, campers, tents
or other similar temporary recreational structures are regularly accommodated.
• Recreation Center(Public) - a building or buildings housing recreation facilities owned,
operated or leased for operation by the City of Spokane Valley and may include
swimming pools, tennis and other indoor or outdoor athletic facilities.
• Recreational Vehicle - a vehicle manufactured or modified to contain temporary living
quarters for travel, recreation, or vacation purposes. This definition shall include but is
not necessarily limited to campers, travel trailers, truck campers, and motor homes.
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• Replat - a plat of all or part of property incorporated in a previously recorded plat that
has not been vacated.
• Restaurant (No Drive-In Service) - an establishment serving food to the general public
in specific, designated dining areas.
• Restaurant (Drive-In Service) - an establishment designed and constructed to serve
food for consumption on the premises in an automobile or for carry-out for off premises
consumption and which establishment may or may not have on-premises dining room or
counter.
• Restaurant (With Drive-Through) - an establishment serving food to the general public
with designated dining areas and allowing carry-out window(s) serving a single lane of
automobiles for the purpose of serving food to go where food consumption is not allowed
in automobiles on the premises.
• Retail Store— an establishment engaged in selling goods or merchandise to the
general public for personal or household consumption and rendering services incidental
to the sale of such goods.
• Right-of-Way -the land area provided by dedication for public use for streets, utilities,
walks, and other uses, also providing access to adjoining properties.
• Roadway—The portion of the highway, including shoulders for vehicular use.
• School, Business and Trade - a secondary or higher education facility primarily
teaching usable skills that prepare students for jobs in a trade and meeting any State
requirements as a vocational facility.
• School, Public or Denominational - a school under the sponsorship of a public or
religious agency having a curriculum generally equivalent to public elementary or
secondary schools, but not including trade or commercial schools.
• Security Station —the facility controlling vehicular access to private street
developments which may be a mechanism or a manned structure.
• Self-storage, Industrial —a facility providing for the storage of commercial goods,
including outdoor storage of vehicles and equipment on a rental basis.
• Self-storage, Neighborhood —a facility designed to provide for storage of goods on a
rental basis to residential neighborhoods.
• Servant's Quarters— an accessory building located on the same lot as the principal
residential building, occupied only by such persons and their families as are employed
full time by the occupants of the principal residence.
• Service Station - a service station is any building or premises used for the dispensing,
sale, or offering for sale at retail of any automobile fuels or oils. See also Fueling Station.
• Sewers, On-Site - a septic tank or other individual sewage disposal system on an
individual lot which has the approval of health and sanitation officials having jurisdiction.
• Shared Roadway—Any roadway upon which a bicycle lane is not designated and
which may legally be used by bicycles regardless of whether such facility is specifically
designated as a bikeway.
• Shoulder Bikeway/Walkway— Shared roadway designed for bicycle and pedestrian
usage.
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• Sidewalk-That portion of the street right-of-way outside the vehicle travel way which is
for the use of pedestrian traffic.
• Sign - any medium, including its structure and component parts, either a name,
identification, description, display, and/or illustration which is affixed to, or represented
directly or indirectly upon a building, structure, or piece of land which directs attention to
an object, product, place, activity, institution, or business without regard to the message
content or lack thereof.
• Site Plan, Binding—the representation of commercial or industrial developments
drawn to scale which (a) identifies and shows the areas and locations of all streets,
roads, improvements, utilities, open spaces, and any other matters specified herein, and
(b) contains inscriptions or attachments setting forth limitations and conditions, and (c)
contains provisions making the development in conformity with the site plan.
• Specialty Food Store—any store that carries health foods, whole foods, natural foods,
ethnic groceries or other specialty items.
• Specific Use Permit (SUP) -a zoning designation for uses that may be allowed in
specified districts.
• Stable - a commercial enterprise engaged in housing, boarding horses or providing
horses for hire.
• Story-the part of a building, other than a basement, between the surface of a floor and
the ceiling immediately above, or, if there be no floor above it, then the space between
the floor and the ceiling next above it.
• Story, Half- a space under a sloping roof which has the line of intersection of roof
decking and wall face not more than three (3)feet above the top floor level and in which
space not more than two-thirds (2/3) of the floor area is finished out for use.
• Street, Thoroughfare or Road— a right-of-way providing access to adjacent properties
with a part thereof to be used for vehicular traffic.
• Street, Access - any public street within a subdivision or along the boundaries of a
subdivision which would serve any properties outside the plat boundaries or provide a
connection directly with a collector street.
• Street, Alley- a minor street used primarily for vehicular access to the back or side of
properties abutting on another street.
• Street, Arterial - a general term denoting a highway primarily for through traffic carrying
heavy loads and large volume of traffic, usually on a continuous route.
• Street, Collector- a thoroughfare, whether within a residential, industrial, commercial or
other type of development, which primarily carries traffic from local streets to arterial
streets, including the principal entrance and circulation routes within residential
subdivision.
• Street, Cul-de-sac- a local street of relatively short length with one end open to traffic.
• Street, Dead-End -a street temporarily having one outlet for vehicular traffic and
intended to be extended or continued in the future.
• Street, Interior- a street located within a subdivision designed to serve only those
properties within the boundaries of the subdivision in which it is established.
• Street, Local - a street providing access to residential or other abutting property.
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• Street, Loop- a local street, each end of which terminates at an intersection with the
same adjacent street, and whose principal radius points of 180 degree system of turns
are not more than 1,000 feet from said adjacent street, and normally more than 600 feet
from each other.
• Street, private—a platted street or alley providing limited local traffic circulation among
adjacent lots which is privately owned and maintained, contained within a private street
lot, and constructed in accordance with the requirements of this policy.
• Street, stub- a public street not terminated by a permanent circular turnaround, ending
adjacent to undeveloped property or acreage.
• Structure- any construction, including a building or any portion thereof, erected for the
purposes of support, shelter or enclosure of persons, animals or property of any kind,
including swimming pools, decks in excess of thirty (30) inches in height, and roof
overhangs exceeding three (3) feet. A wooden fence of less than eight feet (8'-0") shall
not be considered a structure for purposes of this chapter, nor a masonry, brick,
concrete, or cinder block wall of less than twenty-four inches in height.
• Structure, Principal - a structure in which the principal use of the lot, on which it is
located, is conducted. All residential uses, except bona fide servants' quarters, are
principal uses.
• Structure, Accessory (Residential) —a subordinate structure detached and used for a
purpose customarily incidental to the principal residential use.
• Structure, Accessory (Non-Residential)—a subordinate structure detached and used
for a purpose customarily incidental to the principal use.
• Structure, Permanent—a structure with a foundation, poured-in-place footings, and
underground plumbing, intended not to be temporary.
• Structure, Temporary—a structure without a permanent foundation or poured-in-place
footings, capable of being moved without disassembling or damage, secured by tie-
downs or other means; to be removed when the designated time period, activity, or use
for which the temporary structure was erected has ceased.
• Subdivision - a division of land into two (2) or more parts to lay out a subdivision of the
tract, including an addition to the municipality, or to lay out suburban, building or other
lots, and or to lay out streets, alleys, squares, parks or other parts of the tract intended to
be dedicated to public use or for the sale, lease or transfer of ownership.
• Subdivision, Short—the division or re-division of land into nine (9) or fewer lots, tracts,
parcels, sites or divisions for the purpose of sale, lease or transfer.
• Swim or Tennis Club - a private recreational club with restricted membership, usually of
less area than a Country Club but including a clubhouse and a swimming pool, tennis
courts and similar recreational facilities none of which are available to the general public.
• Target Range- any indoor facility open to the public and occupying all or a portion of a
building where firearms are discharged for testing or recreation purposes.
•Tattoo Studio—premises used for the business of marking or coloring the skin
permanently with dyes or inks and may include body piercing. Tattooing for medical
purposes (e.g. plastic surgery or reconstructive surgery) and for cosmetic purposes (e.g.
permanent eye liner)that are accessory to other uses are not included in this definition.
All tattoo studios must be licensed by the Washington Department of Health.
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• Teen Club - a retail amusement establishment focused on the 13-19 year-old market
group providing entertainment through music, food and nonalcoholic beverage service,
dancing, coin-operated machines, and the like.
• Telecommunications -the transmission, between or among points specified by the
user, of audio and/or visual information and data of the user's choosing, without change
in the form or content of the information as sent and received.
•Alternative Mounting Structure - a water tower, man made tree, clock tower,
church steeple, bell tower, utility pole, light standard, free standing sign, flagpole,
or similar structure, designed to support and camouflage or conceal the presence
of telecommunications antennas.
•Antenna - a structure or device used to collect or radiate radio, television, or
microwave electromagnetic waves, including directional antennas, such as
panels, wireless cable and satellite dishes, and omni-directional antennas, such
as whips, but not including satellite earth stations or noncommercial antennae
installations for home use of radio or television.
•Array - an arrangement of antennas and their supporting structure.
• Dish - a parabolic or bowl shaped device that receives and/or transmits signals
in a specific directional pattern.
• Panel - an antenna which receives and/or transmits signals in a directional
pattern.
• Stealth - a telecommunications antenna that is effectively camouflaged or
concealed from view.
• Telecommunications antenna - an antenna used to provide a
telecommunications service. This excludes lightning rods, private mobile radio
systems, amateur radio antennas less than 35 feet in height in residential
districts and 50 feet in height in non-residential districts, and whip antennas less
than 4 inches (10 cm) in diameter and less than 10 feet in height.
•Whip- an omni-directional dipole antenna of cylindrical shape which is no more
than 6 inches in diameter.
• Collocation - a single telecommunications tower and/or site used by more than
one telecommunications service provider.
• EIA-222 - Electronics Industries Association Standard 222, "Structural
Standards for Steel Antenna Towers and Antennas Support Structures."
• Service -the offering of telecommunications for a fee directly to the public, or to
such classes of users as to be effectively available directly to the public,
regardless of the facilities used.
• Tower- a self-supporting or guyed structure more than twenty feet in height,
built primarily to support one or more telecommunications antennas.
• Electric Transmission -a self-supporting structure in excess of 50 feet in height
designed to support high voltage electric lines. This does not include local utility
or distribution poles (with or without transformers) designed to provide electric
service to individual customers.
• Guyed - any telecommunications tower supported in whole or in part by cables
anchored to the ground.
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• Height-the distance measured from grade to the highest point of any and all
components of the structure, including antennas, hazard lighting, and other
appurtenances, if any.
• Monopole - a self-supporting telecommunications tower, which consists of a
single vertical pole, fixed into the ground and/or attached to a foundation.
• Self-supporting Lattice- a telecommunications tower that consists of an open
network of metal braces, usually triangular or square in cross-section.
• Theater- a structure providing for live or taped entertainment with fixed seating.
• Thoroughfare - See Streets.
• Townhouse - a single-family residence joined to another dwelling on one or more sides
by a party wall with three (3) or more units with each unit located on an individual lot.
• Townhouse condominium - an attached residential unit with three (3) or more units
attached with individual ownership only in the living unit. Ownership and management of
common areas is entrusted to a duly organized association of owners of property as
provided in the Washington Condominium Act.
• Trailer- a vehicle without motor power, designed or used for carrying property wholly
on its own structure and to be drawn by a motor vehicle.
•Wind Turbine Support Tower-A structure not enclosed with exterior walls that exceeds
the height requirement for the zoning district in which it is located, used for the
production of energy such as a wind turbine tower. (Public utility towers used for the
distribution or transmission of electricity and Wireless Communication Support Towers
are not included in this definition.
•WSDOT—Washington Department of Transportation.
• Use -the occupancy, purpose or activity for which the land, or building thereon, is
designed, arranged, or intended, or for which it is occupied or maintained.
• Use, principal - is the main use or occupancy of land or buildings as distinguished from
a subordinate or accessory use.
• Use, Accessory- a use incidental or subordinate to the principal use.
•Variance - an adjustment in the application of the specific regulations of zoning
regulations to a particular parcel of property, which, because of special conditions or
circumstances peculiar to the particular parcel and not the result of applicant actions,
would result in unnecessary and undue hardship.
•Veterinary Hospital or Clinic- a place for the care, grooming, diagnosis and treatment
of sick, ailing, infirm or injured animals which may include boarding of animals as
incidental to the principal use.
•Warehouse - a building in which more than fifty percent of the ground floor area is
utilized for the storage of products, which is not the office or showroom area of the
building.
•Wholesale business -those businesses which sell, broker, transfer, receive or
otherwise handle volume commodities for fabrication, resale or internal commercial or
industrial consumption.
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• Wide Outside Lane—Wider outside vehicle lanes (greater than 12') are created to
accommodate parallel travel of vehicles and bicycles on the outside edge of the lane. In
the absence of bicyclists, vehicles may use the extra width.
•Wrecking, Junk or Auto Salvage Yard - a yard or building where automobiles or
machinery are stored, dismantled and/or offered for sale as whole units, as salvaged
parts or as processed metal.
• Yard -the area between the property line and the building setback line in which no
structure may be located
• Yard, Front-An open, unoccupied space on a lot facing a street extending across the
front of a lot between the side lot lines and from the main building to the front lot or street
line with the minimum horizontal distance between the street line and the main building
line as specified for the district in which it is located.
• Yard, Rear-An open, unoccupied space, except for accessory buildings as herein
permitted, extending across the rear of a lot measured between the side lot lines and
having a depth between the building and the rear lot line as specified in the district in
which the lot is situated
• Yard, Side -An open, unoccupied space or spaces on one side or two sides of a main
building and on the same lot with the building, situated between the building and a side
line of the lot and extending through from the front yard to the rear yard. Any lot line, not
the rear line or a front line, shall be deemed a side line.
• Zoning District Map -The official certified map depicting the boundaries of zoning
districts.
• Zoning Administrator- Director of Community Development.
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