Ordinance 1847-92 - Laserfiche WebLink

Self service storage means a building or buildings containing separate storage spaces of a limited size leased or rented on an individual basis, which does not include warehouses or loading docks. Sensitive land uses means those land uses which are particularly sensitive to the secondary effects of adult use businesses. Sensitive land uses include the following: a. Single Family and Multiple Family Residential Zones b. Churches, or other religious facilities or institutions c. Public and private schools, training facilities, and technical schools which have twenty-five (25) percent or more of their students under the age of eighteen (18) d. Public parks and playgrounds e. Community Development Block Grant designated neighborhoods Setback means the required minimum distance between any lot line and any structure, building or use. Setback, front means the required minimum distance between the front lot line and any structure, building or use. Setback, rear means the required minimum distance between the rear lot line and any structure, building or use. Setback, side (corner) means the required minimum distance between the side lot line abutting the street on a corner lot and any structure, building or use. Setback side (interior) means the required minimum distance between the side lot line which does not abut a street and any structure, building or use. Shopping center means a grouping of retail business and service uses on a single development site with common parking facilities. Shoreline Management Master Program means the City of Everett adopted Shoreline Management Master Program. Sign means any device, structure, fixture, placard, painted surface, awning, banner or balloon using graphics, lights, symbols, and/or written copy designed specifically for the purpose of advertising, identifying or promoting the interest of any person, institution, business, event, product, goods or services, provided that the same is visible from any street, way, sidewalk or parking area open to the public. Sign area means the entire area of a sign on which copy is to be placed. Sign structure, architectural embellishments, framework and decorative features which contain no written or advertising copy shall not be included. Sign area shall be calculated by measuring the perimeter enclosing the extreme limits of the module or background containing the advertising or identifying message; provided, that individual letters using a wall as the background, without added decoration or change in wall color, shall have a sign area calculated by measuring the smallest rectangle enclosing each letter and totalling the square footage thereof. For double-faced signs, total sign area shall be calculated by measuring only one face.