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This section defines uses set forth in Table 5-4 in EMC 19.05.110.

Aboveground utility and communications facility, major” means a structure or improvement built or installed aboveground for the purpose of providing utility services or communications services to more than one lot. Included in this definition for purposes of this title are electrical substations; water storage reservoirs or tanks or pumping stations; telephone exchanges; manmade regional drainage detention or retention facilities; natural gas regulating facilities greater than four feet in height; sewer lift stations; wireless communications facilities including personal wireless service facilities; television or radio transmission or reception towers, antennas; and other ancillary or similar facilities or structures housing utility or communications equipment or improvements as determined by the planning director. This term shall not apply to equipment and vehicle storage yards, offices and buildings used to support the operations of utility or communication service providers.

Aboveground utility and communications facility, minor” means fire hydrants; amateur radio antennas or towers and television reception dishes or antennas for private residential use regulated by EMC 19.22.090; utility poles carrying electrical transmission lines with fifty-five thousand volts or less of electrical power; pad-mounted switches and transformers; telephone or television cables; utility structures less than four feet in height above grade, minor aboveground equipment associated with underground utility facilities, or other such similar facilities as determined by the planning director. This term shall not apply to equipment and vehicle storage yards, offices and buildings used to support the operations of utility or communication service providers.

Bicycle facilities” means improvements and provisions made to accommodate or encourage bicycling, including parking facilities (bike racks) and bikeways.

Cemetery” means land or structures dedicated for the interment of human or animal remains.

Community garden” means a site where food, ornamental crops, or trees are grown for small-scale cultivation, generally to residents of apartments and other dwelling types without private gardens.

Correctional facilities” means public or private facilities providing for the confinement of juvenile offenders, for the incarceration, confinement or detention of individuals arrested for or convicted of a crime, or for the punishment, correction and/or rehabilitation of individuals convicted of crimes whose freedom is restricted. The term “jails and correctional facilities” includes those group-care homes, Class II (as defined in this section, including subclassifications II-A, II-B, and II-C) which are exempt from the provisions of the Federal Fair Housing Act Amendments of 1988 and the Washington Housing Policy Act (RCW 35.63.220).

Food bank” is a place where stocks of food, typically basic provisions, are supplied free of charge to people in need, by a nonprofit or charitable organization.

Government administrative offices” means offices for federal, state, county, city or other governmental, public utility, school district, or quasi-public agencies where staff of such agencies are employed in the administration of government or public services. This term does not include correctional facilities, utility facilities, equipment storage or parking, schools, fire stations, community centers, parks, or other public or quasi-public service uses specifically listed in this title.

Government use” means offices or facilities for federal, state, county, city or other governmental, public utility, school district, or quasi-public agencies where staff of such agencies are employed in the administration of government or public services. This term does not include correctional facilities, utility facilities, schools, parks, or other public or quasi-public service uses specifically listed in this title.

Hazardous waste” means all dangerous and extremely hazardous waste as defined in RCW 70.105.010(15), except for moderate risk waste as set forth in RCW 70.105.010(17).

Hazardous waste storage” means the holding of hazardous waste for a temporary period, as regulated by the state dangerous waste regulations, Chapter 173-303 WAC.

Hazardous waste treatment” means the physical, chemical or biological processing of hazardous waste for the purpose of rendering these wastes for material resource recovery, amenable for storage, or reduced in volume, as regulated by the state dangerous waste regulations, Chapter 173-303 WAC.

Hazardous waste treatment and storage facility, off-site” means treatment and storage facilities which treat and store hazardous wastes generated on properties other than those on which the off-site facilities are located.

Hazardous waste treatment and storage facility, on-site” means treatment and storage facilities which treat and store hazardous wastes generated on the same property.

Hospital” means an institution that provides twenty-four-hour-per-day care for the diagnosis, treatment, care and curing of individuals suffering from illness, injury or any condition requiring medical, obstetric, surgical, or psychiatric care; and other related uses customarily incidental thereto.

Light rail station” means a dedicated public facility providing access to light rail trains and consisting of an elevated platform with waiting areas, ticket vending machines and pedestrian facilities providing connections to bus transit and the local community.

Park” means any property designated, dedicated, or developed by or on behalf of a government entity for park or open space use, including passive and active forms of recreation.

Place of worship” or “religious facility” means a place for people to gather for religious practice. Examples include churches, synagogues and mosques and accessory uses including bible study schools and day care.

Schools (public and private)—elementary, middle and high schools” means a public or private facility that provides teaching or learning. Typical uses include elementary, junior and senior high schools and related uses, except as otherwise specifically defined in this code.

Schools (public and private)—institutions of higher education” means public or private vocational and trade schools, academies, colleges, and universities, includisng classrooms, administrative offices, cafeteria, athletic facilities, dormitories, and off-street parking areas.

Solid waste transfer station” means a solid waste handling facility where nonhazardous solid waste is delivered by public agencies, businesses or individuals and transferred and/or sorted into other containers to be transported to another location for ultimate disposal. A solid waste transfer station may include provisions for extraction of recyclable or reusable materials, as well as collection facilities for recyclable materials.

Transit facilities” means public or private improvements at selected points along existing or future transit routes for passenger pick-up, drop-off and waiting. Improvements may include pullouts, shelters, waiting areas, benches, information and directional signs or structures, and lighting.

Transit station” means a dedicated transit facility where several transit routes converge, designed to accommodate several buses at once to permit transfer between transit routes. A transit center may provide transit passenger shelters and waiting areas but does not include off-street parking for transit passenger vehicles.

Transportation facilities of statewide significance” means the interstate highway system; interregional state principal arterials including ferry connections that serve statewide travel; regional transit systems as defined in RCW 81.104.015; high capacity transportation systems serving regions as defined in RCW 81.104.015; intercity passenger rail services; intercity high-speed ground transportation; rail fixed guideway system, as defined in RCW 81.104.015, excluding yards and service and maintenance facilities; the freight and passenger railroad system as regulated by the Federal Railroad Administration, excluding yards and service and maintenance facilities; and in shoreline zones, and in adjacent zones where all or any portion of a development is within a shoreline designated area or zone, marine port and barge facilities and services that are related to marine activities affecting international and interstate trade, excluding centralized, high density concentrations of port, deep water port, and marine shipping facilities and services. (Ord. 3976-23 §§ 1, 2, 2023; Ord. 3774-20 § 5(D) (Exh. 3), 2020.)