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CHAPTER 7: Administration and Implementation
<br />7-5October 2014
<br />»Accounting, auditing and bookkeeping services
<br />»Advertising agencies
<br />»Attorneys
<br />»Business associations, chambers of commerce
<br />»Commercial art and design services
<br />»Construction contractors (office facilities only)
<br />»Counseling services
<br />»Court reporting services
<br />»Detective agencies and similar services
<br />»Design services including architecture, engineering, landscape
<br />architecture, urban planning
<br />»Educational, scientific and research organizations
<br />»Financial management and investment counseling
<br />»Literary and talent agencies
<br />»Management and public relations services
<br />»Media postproduction services
<br />»News services
<br />»Photographers and photography studios
<br />»Political campaign headquarters
<br />»Psychologists
<br />»Secretarial, stenographic, word processing, and temporary clerical
<br />employee services
<br />»Security and commodity brokers
<br />»Writers and artists offices
<br />Paseo: a public place or path designed for walking; promenade.
<br />Pedestrian-friendly: The practice of addressing the needs of people, once
<br />out of their automobiles, through a series of interdependent urban design and
<br />streetscape principles (e.g., wide sidewalks, street trees and shade, on-street
<br />parking, outdoor dining, inviting storefronts, the feeling of being in an ‘outdoor
<br />room’, short crosswalk distances, interconnected and short blocks).
<br />Personal services: Establishments providing non-medical services to
<br />individuals as a primary use. Examples of these uses include:
<br />»Barber, nail salons and beauty shops
<br />»Clothing rental
<br />»Dry cleaning pick-up stores with limited equipment
<br />»Home electronics and small appliance repair
<br />»Locksmiths
<br />»Pet grooming with no boarding
<br />»Shoe repair shops
<br />»Tailors
<br />These uses may also include accessory retail sales of products related to the
<br />services provided.
<br />Personal services - restricted: Personal services that may tend to have a
<br />blighting and/or deteriorating effect upon surrounding areas and which may
<br />need to be dispersed to minimize their adverse impacts. Examples of these
<br />uses include:
<br />»Laundromats (self-service laundries), which shall comply with the
<br />development and performance standards set forth in Section 41-199
<br />of the SAMC
<br />»Massage establishments (licensed, therapeutic) as defined on Section41-1751.1 of the SAMC. Massage establishments shall comply with Article
<br />XVII.I of Chapter 41 of the SAMC.
<br />»Pawnshops
<br />Planter: The layer of the streetscape which accommodates street trees.
<br />Planters may be continuous or individual according to the Thoroughfare and
<br />location within the neighborhood.
<br />Podium: A continuous raised platform supporting a building, or a large block
<br />of two or three stories beneath a multi-layer block of a smaller area.
<br />Porch: see ‘Frontage Types’
<br />Religious facility: see ‘Community Assembly’
<br />Residential development: The addition of new residential units or the
<br />conversion of apartments to condominiums.
<br />Residential unit: Any single-family home; any separate occupancy unit in
<br />a two-family or multifamily dwelling building; any live-work unit; and any
<br />other structure designed for human occupancy which contains a kitchen.
<br />However, this excludes any other building or structure designed or intended to
<br />be occupied or used for business or commercial purposes, such as sleeping
<br />rooms in hotels and motels without kitchens or kitchen facilities.
<br />Rowhouse: See ‘Building Types’
<br />Setback: The area of a lot measured from a lot line to a building facade or
<br />elevation that must be maintained clear of permanent structures excepting
<br />galleries, fences, garden walls, arcades, porches, stoops, balconies, bay
<br />windows, and terraces which are permitted to encroach into the setback
<br />subject to the standards established in Chapter 3 of this Specific Plan.
<br />Shared parking (joint use or park-once policy): An accounting for parking
<br />spaces that are available to more than one function. The requirement is based
<br />on a range of parking demand found in mature, mixed-use centers. The shared
<br />parking ratio varies according to multiple functions in close proximity unlikely
<br />to require the spaces at the same time. This approach to parking uses the
<br />following types of parking in combination to achieve a balanced and distributed
<br />supply of parking: off-street (surface lots and garages), on-street (parallel and
<br />diagonal).
<br />Shopkeeper: A unit that contains space on the ground floor for use and
<br />operation by a retail merchant or tradesman along with residential space on
<br />the upper floor(s) that can be occupied by the same shop operator or a different
<br />resident. The residential and commercial components each have separate,
<br />dedicated entrances. See also ‘Live-Work’
<br />Shopfront: See ‘Frontage Types’
<br />Single family dwelling: A residential building containing one or more habitable
<br />rooms with only one kitchen, designed for occupancy by one independent
<br />household unit with common access to, and common use of all living, kitchen
<br />and bathroom areas.
<br />Stacked Dwellings: See ‘Building Types’
<br />Stoop: See ‘Frontage Types’
<br />Story: A habitable level within a building from finished floor to finished ceiling:
<br />Attics and basements, as defined by the California Building Code (CBC) are
<br />not considered a story for the purposes of determining building height and are
<br />subject to the applicable requirements of this code and the CBC, except for
<br />when the finished floor level directly above a basement or cellar is more than
<br />six feet above grade, such basement or cellar shall be considered a story.
<br />Streetscape: The urban element that provides the major part of the public
<br />realm as well as paved lanes for vehicles. A streetscape is endowed with two
<br />attributes: capacity and context. Capacity is the number of vehicles that can
<br />move safely through a segment within a given time period. It is physically
<br />manifested by the number of lanes and their width, and by the curb radius.
<br />Studio: A workplace of one or more individuals who are engaged in the
<br />production of art, such as fine and fiber arts, lithography, calligraphy,
<br />photography, music, dance and the performing arts. Galleries, not to exceed
<br />50 percent of the floor area, are permitted as an ancillary use. Any regulated
<br />use, as defined on Section 41-191 of the SAMC is not allowed. Uses meeting
<br />the definition of artisan/craft product manufacturing shall be deemed an
<br />artisan/craft product manufacturing use.
<br />Tandem parking stall: Two or more parking spaces arranged one behind the
<br />other.
<br />Thoroughfare: A vehicular way incorporating moving lanes and parking lanes
<br />(except alleys/lanes which have no parking lanes) within a right-of-way.
<br />Traffic calming: A set of techniques which serves to reduce the speed of
<br />traffic. Such strategies include lane-narrowing, on-street parking, chicanes,
<br />yield points, sidewalk bulge-outs, speed bumps, surface variations, mid-block
<br />deflections, and visual clues. Traffic calming is a retrofit technique unnecessary
<br />when thoroughfares are correctly designed for the appropriate speed at initial
<br />construction.
<br />Transit-oriented development: Compact, higher intensity development that
<br />includes uses supportive to transit; i.e., residential uses that increase ridership
<br />and transit efficiency or commercial uses that serve transit users. Its structure
<br />creates nodes at an efficient spacing for mass transit. These nodes are mixed-
<br />use areas limited in extent by walking distance to the transit stop.
<br />Transition line: A horizontal line, the full width of a facade expressed by a
<br />material change or by a continuous horizontal articulation such as a cornice
<br />or a balcony.
<br />Tuck-Under Housing: See ‘Building Types’
<br />Zaguan: A covered pedestrian passage between courts of one to two rooms in
<br />depth and one story in height.
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