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EVERETT 2044 DEVELOPMENT REGULATIONS 6/17/2025 DEVELOPMENT REGULATIONS Page 39 experiencing homelessness or was at imminent risk of homelessness prior to moving into housing to 1 retain their housing and be a successful tenant in a housing arrangement, improve the resident’s health 2 status, and connect the resident of the housing with community-based health care, treatment, or 3 employment services. Permanent supportfve housing is subject to all of the rights and responsibilitfes 4 defined in chapter 59.18 RCW. 5 “Recreatfonal vehicle (RV) park” means real property rented or held out for rent to others for the 6 placement of recreatfonal vehicles. 7 “Secure community transitfon facility” means a facility, as defined in RCW 71.09.020, for the housing of 8 sexually violent predators. 9 “Short-term rental” means the use of an entfre dwelling unit or portfon thereof by any person or group 10 of persons to occupy for rent for a period of less than thirty consecutfve days. Short-term rentals do not 11 include hotels or motels. 12 “Sleeping Unit” is an independently rented and lockable room for sleeping and living; sleeping units are 13 not required to have private bathrooms or private kitchens because residents typically share bathrooms 14 and/or kitchen facilitfes with other sleeping units in the building. Per the IBC sleeping units must be at 15 least 70 square feet; rooms larger than 240 square feet otherwise meetfng the definitfon here of 16 sleeping unit will be considered dwelling units for other EMC 19 purposes such as parking calculatfons. 17 Rooms for sleeping, regardless of size, when designed as an integral part of a single larger permitted 18 dwelling unit, will not be counted as ‘sleeping units’. 19 “Sponsor” means a local faith-based or other local community-based organizatfon that has an 20 agreement with the managing agency to provide basic services and support for the residents of a 21 homeless encampment, such as shelter, food and sanitatfon, and liaison with the surrounding 22 community and joins with the managing agency in an applicatfon for a temporary use permit. A 23 “sponsor” may be the same entfty as the managing agency. 24 Supportfve housing. See “Permanent supportfve housing.” 25 “Tiny house” and “tfny house with wheels” mean a dwelling to be used as permanent housing with 26 permanent provisions for living, sleeping, eatfng, cooking, and sanitatfon built in accordance with the 27 state building code. 28 “Tiny house communitfes” means real property rented or held out for rent to others for the placement 29 of tfny houses with wheels or tfny houses utflizing the binding site plan process in RCW 58.17.035. 30 “Transitfonal housing” has the same meaning as RCW 84.36.043(2)(c): 31 “Transitfonal housing” means a project that provides housing and supportfve services to homeless 32 persons or families for up to two years and that has as its purpose facilitatfng the movement of homeless 33 persons and families into independent living. 34 19.04.060, USE DEFINITIONS, COMMERCIAL 35 This sectfon defines uses set forth in Table 5-2 in EMC 19.05.090. 36 “Animal day care” means short-term daytfme (not overnight) care for dogs, cats and other small animals. 37