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For the purposes of this definition,an adult is a person eighteen years of age or older,and a minor child is a person under the age of eighteen years old. "Geologist" means a person who is licensed in the state of Washington under the provisions of Chapter 18.220 RCW and Chapter 308-15 WAC,and who has at least one year of practical experience in the Pacific Northwest. "Grading" means any excavating,filling,or clearing of land or any combination thereof. "Hearing examiner"means the land use hearing examiner for the city. "Historical commission"means the historical commission for the city. "Homeless" means a person who lacks a fixed,regular,and adequate nighttime residence, and who has a primary nighttime residence that is: 1. A supervised publicly or privately operated shelter designed to provide temporary living accommodations; or 2. An institution that provides a temporary residence for mentally ill individuals intended to be institutionalized;or 3. A public or private place not designed for,or ordinarily used as,a regular sleeping accommodation for human beings. "Landscaping"means the planting,removal and maintenance of vegetation along with the movement and displacement of earth,topsoil,rock, bark and similar substances done in conjunction with the planting, removal and maintenance of vegetation. "Low impact development(LID)" means a stormwater management strategy that emphasizes conservation and the use of existing natural site features integrated with distributed,small-scale stormwater controls to more closely mimic natural hydrologic patterns in developed settings. "Metro Everett"means the regionally designated growth center for Snohomish County identified in Chapter 2 of the Everett Comprehensive Plan. "Minor exterior alteration" means development that alters the exterior envelope to a building whose value over a three-year period does not exceed fifty percent of the building's valuation based on the city of Everett's valuation methods. "Municipal Code" means the various laws of the city contained within the Everett Municipal Code. "Native vegetation"means vegetation on a site or plant species which are indigenous to the area in question;or if the site has been cleared,species of a size and type that were on the site on the effective date of this title or reasonably could have been expected to have been found on the site at the time it was cleared. "Natural topography" means the elevation of a parcel of land prior to any human modification of the topography. "Nonconforming building"means a legally established structure or building,the size,dimensions,or setbacks of which met the applicable Unified Development Code requirements in effect at the time the building was constructed,but which fails by reason of adoption, revision or amendment of the Unified Development Code to conform to the present requirements of the zone in which it is located. "Nonconforming landscaping"means on-site landscaping,the dimensions,area or location of which met the applicable Unified Development Code requirements in effect at the time the use or building was established, but which fails by reason of adoption, revision or amendment of the Unified Development Code to conform to the present requirements of the zone in which it is located. "Nonconforming lot"means a legally established lot,the area,dimensions or location of which met the applicable Unified Development Code requirements in effect at the time the lot was created,but which fails by reason of such Ch.19.04 Definitions 4 City Council Action(11/04/2020)