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144, ORDINANCE NO. 1074 AN ORDINANCE ESTABLISHING DISTRICTS WIEIIN THE CITY OF SANTA ANA AND E~TABLISHING CLASSIFICATIONS OF LAND USES AND REGULATING SUCH LAND USES IN SUCH DISTRICTS; REGULATING THE HEIGHT OF BUILDINGS AND OPEN SPACES FOR LIGHT AND VENTILATION; ADOPTING A MAP OF SAID DISTRICTS; DEFINING THE TERMS USED IN SAID ORDINANCE; PROVIDING FOR THE ADJUSTMENT, AMENDMENT AND ENFORCE~&~NT THEREOF; PRESCRIBING PENALTIES FOR ITS VIOLATION AND REPEALING 0RDIN- ANCE NO. 809 AND ALL ORDINANCES AMENDATOR¥ THEREOF OR SUPPLEMENTARY THERETO, AND ALL ORDINANCES OR PARTS OF ORDINANCES IN CONFLICT HER~t~ITH. THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SANTA ANA DO ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS; SECTION 1: An official land-use districting plan for the City of Santa Ana is hereby adopted and established to serve the public health, safety and general welfare end to provide the economic and social advantages resulting from an orderly, planned use of land resources. SECTION 2: DEFINITIONS This ordinance which defines and makes effective the Land-use District- ing Plan of the City of Santa Aha, shall be known as the "Use Districting OrdinanCe", and for purpose of this ordinance certain words and terms are defined. Words used in the present tense include the future; words in the singular number include the plural, and words in the plural number include the singular; the word "shall" is mandatory. The term "City Council" means the City Council of the City of Santa Aua, and the term "Planning Commission" means the Planning Commission of the City of Santa aa. The word "City" when used means the City of Santa Ana, a municipal corporation. "~lley": any public thoroughfare for the use of pedestrians or vehicles, not less than ten (10) feet nor more than thirty (30) feet in width, which has been deeded or dedicated to the City and shown as such on the official city maps of the City Engineer. "Accessory"; a building, a part of building or structure or use which is subordinate to, and the use of which is incidental to th~ of the main building, structure or use on the same lot. i "Apartment": a room or a suite of two or more rooms in a tenement or apartment house, occupied or suitable for occupancy as a residence for one faEily. "Apartment House": any building, or portion thereof, which is designed,! intended, built, rented, ~ ased, let or hired out to be occupied, or which is ~ occupied as the home or residence of three or more families living independently ~ of each other in such building. ~ "Basement": one or more stories wholly or partly underground and having one-half (1/2) or more of its height measured from its floor to its finished ceiling below the average adjoining grade. A basement shall be considered a story if the vertical distance from the average adjoining grade to its ceiling is over five (5) feet. "Building": a permanently located structure having a roof (all forms of vehicles excluded). "Building height": the vertical distance measured from the average level of the highest and lowest point of that portion of the site covered by the building to the ceiling of the uppermost story. "Building-site": the ground area of a building or group of buildings together with all open spaces as required by this ordinance. "Bungalow Court": a group of three or more detached one-story, one or two-family dwellings located upon a single lot together with all open spaces as required by this ordinance. Two-family dwellings shall mean two units as defined under "Dwelling". "Business or commerce": the purchase, sale or other transaction involving the handling or disposition of any article, substance or commodity for profit or livelihood, or the ownership or management of office buildings, offices,i recreational or amusement enterprises or the maintenance and use of offices by professions and trades rendering services. "Club": an association of persons for some common non-profit purpose but not including groups organize~ primarily to render a service which is customarily carried on as a business. "Dwelling, (one-family)": a building containing only one kitchen, designed for or used to house not more than one family, including all necessary employees of such family. "Dwelling Group": two or more dwellings, of any t~pe permitted in R-1 and R-2 districts, when located on one building-site.