18.24.030

Other

• Attached accessoryAccessory useA secondary activity customarily incidental to the main use of the lot — a garage, a home office. building deemed part of main building

  Except in the case of garden structures, if any accessory building is attached to the main building by a common wall or a connecting roof, such accessory building shall be deemed to be a part of the main building.

• Building exclusions

  Mobile homes, travel trailers and other vehicles, even though permanently immobilized shall not be deemed to be buildings.

• Carports subject to yardYardThe open space left between a building and its lot line — the space a setback creates. requirements

  Carports, whether attached or detached, shall be subject to all minimum yard requirements of the underlying zoning district.

• Dwelling includes mobile homesManufactured homeA dwelling built in a factory to a federal standard and transported to the site., supportive, transitional housing

  Dwelling means a building or portion thereof, designed exclusively for residential purposes, including one-family and multifamily dwellings; including mobile homes, supportive housing, and transitional housing; not including hotels, apartment hotels, boarding and lodging houses, fraternity and sorority houses, rest homes, convalescent homes, nursing homes, child care nurseries, or house trailers even though permanently immobilized.

• Guest house kitchen prohibition

  Such quarters shall have no kitchen facilities and shall not be rented.

• Household includes residential care facilities and group homesGroup homeA dwelling shared by unrelated residents receiving supervision or care. for people with disabilities

  A household includes, for example, the residents of residential care facilities and group homes for people with disabilities.

• Lot coverageLot coverageThe share of a lot that buildings may cover, as a percentage. exclusions

  Lot coverage means that portion of a lot or building site which is occupied by any building or structure, excepting paved areas, walks and swimming pools.

• Structure exclusions

  Structure means anything constructed or erected which requires a fixed location on the ground, including a building or sign pole or standard, but not including a fence or wall used as a fence, a patio, walk, driveway or raised planting bed.

• Supportive housing treated as residential

  Supportive housing shall be considered a residential use subject only to those restrictions that apply to other residential uses of the same type in the same zoning district.

• Transitional housing treated as residential

  Transitional housing shall be considered a residential use subject only to those restrictions that apply to other residential uses of the same type in the same zoning district.

• Incidental structures and uses does not include wireless communication facilities

  Incidental structures and uses does not include wireless communication facilities (e.g., cellular phone, enhanced specialized mobile radio, personal communication systems, or other communication technologies based on wireless radio wave transmission) which emit, broadcast, or repeat signals intended primarily for commercial use beyond the immediate site upon which the facility is located.