"Abut" means to physically touch or border upon or to share a common property line.

"Access" means a legally available and physically practical area for the perpetual use of motor vehicle ingress and egress to a lot. In determining practicality, the topography, drainage, potential for erosion, underlying ownership and other factors may be considered.

"Access driveway" means an entrance roadway from an access easement, alley, dedicated right-of-way, or street to a lot or to a parking facility.

"Access easement" means any private easement for the purpose of ingress and egress that is not dedicated to the public and that is owned by the underlying owners of the land over which it crosses.

"Accessory apartment" means a second dwelling unit not to exceed eight hundred square feet, created within an owner-occupied, site-built single-family dwelling or its accessory garage, for use as an independent or semi-independent unit with provisions for cooking, eating, sanitation and sleeping.

"Accessory dwelling unit" means a dwelling unit that has been added onto, created within, or separated from a single-family detached dwelling for use as a complete independent living unit with provisions for cooking, sanitation and sleeping. These units are not presently permitted in the city of Selah.

"Accessory structure, use or building" means a building, part of a building or structure, or a use which is ancillary to the operation or enjoyment of a lawful use, and the use of which is incidental to that of the primary building, structure or use on the same lot.

"Adequate capital facilities" means facilities which have the capacity to serve development without decreasing levels of service below locally established minimums.

"Administrative adjustment" means a change, either an increase or decrease or modification of one or more standards established in this title by the administrative official.

"Administrative office building" means a building housing one or more tenants and is the location where affairs of a business, commercial or industrial organization, professional person or firm are conducted. The building may be limited to one tenant, either the owner or lessee, or contain a mixture of tenants including professional services, insurance companies, investment brokers, and company headquarters. Services such as a bank or savings and loan, a restaurant or cafeteria, miscellaneous retail facilities, and fitness facilities for building tenants may also be included.

"Administrative official" means the duly elected mayor of the city of Selah or the mayor's designee. Synonymous with "administrator."

"Adult business" means any of the following:

Adult Daycare Center/Adult Family Home. See "family home services."

"Agricultural building" means a structure designed and constructed to house farm implements, hay, grain, poultry, livestock or other agricultural products. This structure shall not be a place of human habitation or a place of employment where agricultural products are processed, treated or packaged, nor shall it be a place used by the public.

"Agricultural land" means land primarily or historically devoted to the commercial production of horticultural, agronomic, or specialty crops, as well as apiary and animal production.

"Agricultural market" means a use primarily engaged in the retail sale of fresh agricultural products, grown either on or off site, but may include as incidental and accessory to the principal use the sale of factory sealed or prepackaged food products and some limited nonfood items. This definition does not include the sale of livestock.

"Agricultural product support" means a business that provides a product or service intended for use in the processing, storage, preservation or distribution of agricultural commodities. This definition does not include agricultural processing, storage, preservation, distribution, and related uses.

"Agricultural service establishment" means those uses specifically engaged in performing agricultural or horticultural services on a fee or contract basis, including but not limited to the following:

"Agricultural stand" means a structure, or portion thereof, up to one thousand square feet in area used for the retail sale of agricultural and related incidental products, excluding livestock.

"Agriculturally related industry" means those industrial uses directly related to the packaging, processing, storage, or physical or chemical alteration of the agricultural product. Such industries include, but are not limited to: cold storage plants, controlled atmosphere, produce packing and processing facilities, wineries and their accessory uses such as tasting and sales rooms.

"Agriculture" means the tilling of the soil, the raising of crops, horticulture, viticulture, floriculture, apiary, livestock farming, dairying, animal feeding operations, animal husbandry, composting associated with the primary agricultural use, land application of soil amendments or agricultural waste at agronomic rates, and farm oriented storage for commercial value. Synonymous with farming or ranching.

"Airport or landing field" means any landing area, runway or other facility designed, used or intended to be used for the landing and taking off of aircraft, including aircraft storage, hangars and other appurtenant buildings and open spaces. "Airport or landing field" is further defined as follows:

"Alley" means a public thoroughfare or way having a width of not more than twenty feet which affords only a secondary means of access to abutting property.

"Amendment" means a change in the wording, context or substance of this title, or change in the zoning district boundaries on the official zoning map, which map is a part of this title.

"Amusement park" means a permanent outdoor facility, which may include structures and buildings, where there are various devices for entertainment, including rides, booths for the conduct of games or the sale of items, and buildings for shows and entertainment.

"Animal clinic/hospital" means a structure used for veterinary care of sick or injured animals. The boarding of animals is limited to short-term care and is accessory to the principal use. This definition does not include kennels.

"Animal feeding operation (AFO)" means a lot or facility where animals have been, are, or will be stabled or confined and fed or maintained for a total of forty-five days or more in any twelve-month period; and where crops, vegetation forage growth, or post-harvest residues are not sustained over any portion of the lot or facility in the normal growing season, and as further defined in the Code of Federal Regulations (CFR, currently 40 CFR 122).

"Antenna" means any system of poles, panels, rods, reflecting discs or similar devices used for the transmission or reception of communication signals including:

"Antique store" means an establishment offering for sale articles such as glass, china, furniture, or similar furnishings and decorations which have intrinsic value and significance as a result of age (generally fifty years or older), design or sentiment.

"Apartment" means a room or suite of two or more rooms in a multifamily dwelling, occupied or suitable for occupancy as a residence for one family. This definition does not include "accessory apartments."

"Appeal" means a request for review of an administrative official's decision, determination, order or interpretation of any provisions of this title.

"Applicant" means a person, party, firm, corporation, or other legal entity that submits an application for any permit or approval required by this title and who is the owner of the subject property or the authorized agent of the owner.

"Aquaculture" means keeping or raising aquatic plants or animals including, but not limited to, fish hatcheries and fish farms. This definition excludes commercial aquaculture processing, packing and storage plants. When aquaculture is clearly accessory to other land uses such as raising fish on the same site in conjunction with recreational uses, or for personal, noncommercial purposes, it shall be subject to zoning ordinance requirements for the principal use. Commercial aquaculture processing, packing and storage may be considered, where appropriate, under other commercial or industrial categories.

"Athletic club" means a privately owned facility that offers comprehensive athletic facilities. These facilities typically have one or more of the following: tennis, racquetball, squash, handball, basketball and volleyball courts; swimming pools; whirlpools; saunas; spas; exercise and weight rooms. They often offer diverse, competitive team sport activities and social facilities. These facilities are membership clubs that may allow access to the public for a fee.

"Attached" means structurally dependent, sharing a common or party wall for not less than fifty percent of the length of the common wall. A breezeway is not a common wall.

"Attached single-family" means a "single-family dwelling" designed exclusively for occupancy by one family and containing no more than one dwelling unit which is structurally dependent, sharing a common or party wall for not less than fifty percent of the length of the common wall. Manufactured or modular homes are not permitted as an attached single-family dwelling.

"Automobile, truck, mobile/manufactured home and recreational vehicle sales area" means a covered or uncovered place used for display, sale or rental of new or used automobiles, trucks, mobile/manufactured homes and recreational vehicles.

"Automobile wrecking, dismantling, salvage or junk yard" means a place used for the storage and/or sale of used automobile parts or other salvage materials and for the storage, dismantling, sorting, cleaning, or baling of wrecked automobiles, trucks, trailers, machinery and other discarded or salvage materials.

"Automotive impound yard" means an area within which is stored new and used or damaged cars, trucks, motor homes, trailers (other than manufactured/mobile homes) and other motor vehicles for up to sixty days for any one vehicle until reclaimed by the owner or sold at public auction.

Automotive Service Station. See "service station." (Ord. 2065, § 2 (Exh. A), 2019; Ord. 2046, § 2 (Exh. A), 2018; Ord. 1634, § 193, 2004.)