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Chapter 19.04 EMC, Definitions Page 27 of 55 <br />The Everett Municipal Code is current through Ordinance 4031-24, passed May 22, 2024. <br />“Marine terminal” means a water-dependent transportation facility furnishing services <br />incidental to barge, marine shipping and other marine vessels. <br />“Railyard” means a complex series of railroad tracks for the assembly, storing, sorting, <br />maintenance, or loading and unloading, of railroad cars and locomotives. Railyards have many <br />tracks in parallel for keeping rolling stock stored off the mainline, so that they do not obstruct <br />the flow of traffic. <br />“Storage yard” means the use of land to store material, equipment, or vehicles, and any <br />structures associated with the outdoor storage. This use includes bulk fuel, vehicle impound lot, <br />bulk materials, large equipment and cargo shipping containers. <br />“Warehouse” means a building used to store merchandise, materials or commodities. (Ord. <br />3774-20 § 5(D) (Exh. 3), 2020.) <br />19.04.080 Use definitions, public, institutional, quasi-public. <br />This section defines uses set forth in Table 5-4 in EMC 19.05.110. <br />“Aboveground utility and communications facility, major” means a structure or improvement <br />built or installed aboveground for the purpose of providing utility services or communications <br />services to more than one lot. Included in this definition for purposes of this title are electrical <br />substations; water storage reservoirs or tanks or pumping stations; telephone exchanges; <br />manmade regional drainage detention or retention facilities; natural gas regulating facilities <br />greater than four feet in height; sewer lift stations; wireless communications facilities including <br />personal wireless service facilities; television or radio transmission or reception towers, <br />antennas; and other ancillary or similar facilities or structures housing utility or <br />communications equipment or improvements as determined by the planning director. This <br />term shall not apply to equipment and vehicle storage yards, offices and buildings used to <br />support the operations of utility or communication service providers. <br />“Aboveground utility and communications facility, minor” means fire hydrants; amateur radio <br />antennas or towers and television reception dishes or antennas for private residential use <br />regulated by EMC 19.22.090; utility poles carrying electrical transmission lines with fifty-five <br />thousand volts or less of electrical power; pad-mounted switches and transformers; telephone <br />or television cables; utility structures less than four feet in height above grade, minor