§ 17.06.200. Definitions beginning with "S".
"Sanitarium" or "sanatorium" means the same as "hospital."
"School, elementary and high" means institutions of learning which offer instruction in the several branches of learning and study required to be taught in the public schools by the Education Code of the State of California. High schools include junior and senior.
"Screening" means solid walls, solid fences or dense living hedges, together with a wire fence, for the purpose of concealing from view the area behind such structure or hedges. Such screening shall be maintained in an attractive manner at all times. See also "fence" and "landscaping."
"Secondary highway." See "street and highways."
"Secondary housing unit" means a separate dwelling unit incidental to a single family home that provides a sleeping quarters or a separate residence for a family. It may include permanent improvements for living, sleeping, eating, cooking, and sanitation on the same site as the primary unit is situated.
"Seismograph" means an instrument which measures vibration characteristics simultaneously in three mutually perpendicular planes. The seismograph may measure amplitude and frequency, particulate velocity or acceleration.
"Senior citizen housing" means the same as "housing for the elderly."
"Servants quarters" means an accessory structure located on the same premises with the main building used solely as a dwelling of persons employed on the premises; such quarters having no kitchen facilities and not rented or otherwise used as a separate dwelling unit.
"Setback" means a minimum horizontal distance between the planned street line, or the lot line if there is no planned street line, and the building line, or a line parallel to the lot line if there is no building line. See also "yard" and "building line."
"Shopping center" means a group of commercial establishments planned and developed, owned or managed as a unit, with off-street parking and loading provided on the property, and related in its location, size and type of shops, to the trade area which the unit serves.
"Side yard." See "yard, side."
"Sidewalk" means that portion of a thoroughfare other than a roadway set apart by curbs, barriers, markings or other delineations for pedestrian travel.
"Sign" means any printed or written text (including letter work or numeral), pictorial representation (including illustration, decoration or figure), emblem (including device, symbol or trademark), commercial flag (including advertising banner or pennant), or any other object which:
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Is a structure or any part thereof; or is attached to, painted on, or in any other manner represented on a building, fence, wall, post or any other structure or surface; and
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Is used to identify, instruct, attract, guide or advertise.
"Sign, advertising decoration" means various sign materials used for temporary display and decoration including streamers, banner, pennant, pinwheels, commercial flags, bunting and the like.
"Sign, advertising statuary" means an imitation, representation or similitude of a person or thing which is sculptured, molded, modeled or cast in any solid or plastic substance, material or fabric which for advertising or identifying purposes is erected or attached to the surface of the ground.
"Sign, area" means the total surface area of the sign face including any decorative borders.
"Sign, area of cutout letters and displays" means the area measured within the periphery of the cutout letters of displays.
"Sign, directional" means a sign containing words or symbols indicating an entrance to, exit from, location of or distance to structures or sites.
"Sign, ground" means a sign, the lower part of the base of which is resting entirely or in part on the ground.
"Sign, identification." An on-site sign which carries only the name or address of the firm, the major enterprise or the principal product offered on the premises.
"Sign, nameplate" means a small on-site sign located at an entrance to a building and indicating the name and/or address of an occupant.
"Sign, off-site" means a sign delivering a message or advertisement other than the name, occupation or nature of the activities conducted on such premises or the products sold or manufactured thereon.
"Sign, on-site" means a sign indicating the name, occupation or nature of the activities conducted, services offered or the products sold or manufactured on a property.
"Sign, post" means a sign whose face is above ground level and affixed to poles or posts.
"Sign, poster panel" means an off-site sign comprising a series of small connected panels arranged in the form of a pylon or similar structure, and designed primarily for the application of advertising post displays for pedestrian viewing.
"Sign, project directory" means an on-site sign containing the names and locations, in list or map form, of the individual components making up a planned unit development, shopping center or similar project.
"Sign, project title" means an on-site sign which carries the overall name of a residential subdivision, shopping center, industrial park, medical complex, planned unit development, mobilehome park and similar projects.
"Sign, projecting" means an on-site sign other than a wall sign suspended from or supported by a building or structure and projecting out at any angle to the plane of the wall.
"Sign, real estate" means an on-site sign displayed for the purpose of offering real property for sale, lease or rent.
"Sign, roof" means an on-site sign erected upon or above roof or parapet of a building or structure.
"Sign, wall" means an on-site sign attached to, erected against, or painted onto a wall of a building with the exposed face of the sign in a plane parallel to said wall.
"Site, building" means the same as "lot."
"Solid fill" means any noncombustible material insoluble in water, such as soil, rock, sand, or gravel that can be used for grading land or filling depressions.
"Solid fill project" means any operation on a parcel of land where more than one thousand (1,000) cubic yards of solid fill materials are deposited for any purpose, including the grading or reclaiming of land.
"Sound" means rapid fluctuations of atmospheric pressure which are audible to persons. See also "noise," "impact noise."
"Sound level meter" means an instrument to measure the overall sound pressure level. It shall comply with the applicable specifications of the American National Standards Institute (ANSI S1.4-1961).
"Specific plan" means a definite statement adopted by ordinance of policies, standards and regulations, together with a map or description defining the location where such policies, standards, and regulations are applicable.
"Stable, private" means a detached accessory building for the keeping of horses owned by the occupants of the premises but not kept for remuneration, hire or sale. See also "accessory structure."
"Stable, public" means a stable other than a private stable.
"Stall." See "parking stall."
"Standard condition" or "standard cubic feet" means a volume of gas expressed at a temperature of seventy (70) degrees Fahrenheit and a pressure of fourteen and seven-tenths (14.7) pounds per square inch absolute.
"Steady state." See "vibration, steady state."
"Storage." See "outdoor storage."
"Storage, garage." See "garage, storage."
"Story" means 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 the topmost floor and the ceiling or roof above. If the finished floor level directly above a basement, cellar or unused underfloor space is more than six feet above grade as defined herein for more than fifty (50) percent of the total perimeter, or is more than twelve (12) feet above grade as defined herein at any point, such basement, cellar, or unused underfloor space shall be considered as a story. Compare "basement" and "cellar."
"Story, first" means the lower-most story which is primarily above exterior grade on one or more sides, containing at least fifty (50) percent living accommodations or related nonresidential uses and from which there is direct egress to the exterior. Stories below grade used for storage, parking, mechanical equipment or other services are not considered basement stories. Related nonresidential uses include laundry space, recreation, or hobby room, commercial use and related corridor space.
"Street" and "highways." See also "alley," "public way."
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"Freeway" means a divided highway or through traffic with full control of access and with grade separations at intersections, and declared to be such in compliance with the State Streets and Highways Code.
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"Arterial, major" means any street, existing or proposed, designated as a major arterial on the "circulation element" of the general plan.
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"Arterial, minor" means any street, existing or proposed, designated as a minor arterial on the "circulation element" of the general plan.
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"Street" or "public street" means any public thoroughfare, other than an alley or walk. Where a subdivision has been recorded containing lots which abut only on an alley or walk, said alley or walk may be considered to be a street.
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"Parkway" means that portion of street or highway other than a roadway or sidewalk.
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"Right-of-way" means area of land reserved for public or private easements.
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"Roadway" means that portion of a right-of-way for a street, arterial or alley designed or used for accommodating the movement of vehicles.
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"Service road" or "frontage road" means a street lying adjacent and approximately parallel to and separated from a freeway or arterial and which affords access to abutting property.
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"Street, collector" means a street (including the principal access streets of a subdivision) which carries traffic from local streets either directly, or via other existing or proposed collector streets, to a major or minor arterial.
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"Street, local" means any street other than a collector street, major or minor arterial or freeway, providing access to abutting property and serving local as distinguished from through traffic.
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"Street, private" means a private road easement that the planning official determines to be adequate for access and which conforms to such dimensional and improvement standards adopted by the city council.
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"Private road easement" means a parcel of land not dedicated as a public street, or other private street, and for which:
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A private easement for road purposes has been proposed or granted to the owners of property contiguous or adjacent thereto; and
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An instrument creating the easement has been duly recorded and filed with the county recorder.
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"Street or alley, future" means any real property which the owner thereof has offered for dedication to the city for street or alley purposes, but which has been rejected by the city council, subject to the right of the council to rescind its action and accept by resolution at any later date and without further action by the owner, all or part of said property as public street or alley.
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"Street line, planned" means the proposed boundary of a street or highway as shown on the "planned street line map" or as otherwise designated in the ordinance.
"Structural alteration" means any change other than incidental repairs which would prolong the life of the supporting members of a structure or building such as bearing walls or bearing partitions, columns, beams or girders. Compare "alteration."
"Structure" means anything constructed or erected which is supported directly or indirectly on the earth, but not including any vehicle which conforms to the California Vehicle Code. Structure includes any building or accessory building which can be used for the housing, shelter, or enclosure of persons, animals, chattels or property of any kind, plus fences, wall, billboards, platforms, towers, poster panels and signs.
"Structure, accessory." See "accessory structure."
"Subdivider" means any person, firm, corporation, partnership or association who causes land to be divided into a subdivision for himself, herself or others.
"Subdivision Map Act" means the Subdivision Map Act of the state of California, Chapter 2, Part 2, of Division 4 of the Business and Professions Code, commencing with Section 11500 thereof.
"Suite" means a group of habitable rooms designed as a unit, and occupied by only one family; but not including a kitchen or other facilities for the preparation of food, with entrances and exits which are common to all rooms comprising the suite. Compare "guest room" and "room, light housekeeping."
"Surveyor" means a licensed land surveyor authorized to practice in California.
"Swap meet, indoor" means collective sales or exchange of merchandise by individual vendors occupying separate sales spaces that are not divided by permanent walls. This classification includes both indoor and outdoor swap meets, conducted on either a permanent or recurring basis.
"Swap meet, outdoor" means collective sales or exchange of merchandise by individual vendors occupying separate sales spaces that are not divided by permanent walls. This classification includes both indoor and outdoor swap meets, conducted on either a permanent or recurring basis.
(Prior code § 013.20)
(Ord. No. 1075, § 2, 6-10-15)