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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. 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.