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Halfway House. See "family home services."
"Hazardous waste" means and includes all dangerous and extremely hazardous waste, including petroleum-contaminated soils. Hazardous waste management, treatment or storage facilities, whether on or off site, are subject to the requirements of Chapter 70.105 RCW and the state siting criteria adopted pursuant to statute.
(1) Generator. "Hazardous waste generator" means any person or site whose act or process produces dangerous waste or whose act or process first causes a dangerous waste to become subject to the dangerous waste regulations, Chapter 173-303 WAC.
(2) "Off-site" means hazardous waste treatment and storage facilities that treat and store waste from generators on properties other than those on which the off-site facilities are located.
(3) "On-site" means hazardous waste treatment and storage facilities that treat and store waste generated on the same site.
(4) "Storage" means the holding of dangerous waste for a temporary period. Accumulation of dangerous waste by the generator on the site of generation is not storage as long as the generator complies with the applicable requirements of WAC 173-303-200 and 173-303-201.
(5) "Treatment" means the physical, chemical, or biological processing of dangerous wastes to make such waste nondangerous or less dangerous, safer for transport, amenable for energy or material resource recovery, amenable for storage, or reduced in volume.
"Health care facilities" means and includes the terms alcoholism/substance abuse treatment facility, hospice, hospital, psychiatric hospital, convalescent or nursing home, ambulatory surgical facility, and sanitarium. Several are further defined as follows:
(1) "Alcoholism/substance abuse treatment facility" means a private place or establishment, other than a hospital, licensed by the state and operated primarily for the inpatient treatment of alcoholism and other substance abuse problems. May include outpatient treatment.
(2) "Convalescent or nursing home" means any home, place or institution which operates or maintains facilities providing convalescent or chronic care, or both, for a period in excess of twenty-four consecutive hours, to persons who by reason of illness or infirmity are unable to properly care for themselves.
(3) "Hospice care" means palliative care provided to a terminally ill person in a place of temporary or permanent residence that alleviates physical symptoms, including pain, as well as alleviates the emotional and spiritual discomfort associated with dying.
(4) "Hospital" means an institution specializing in giving clinical, temporary, and emergency services of a medical or surgical nature to human patients and injured persons and licensed by state law to provide facilities and services in surgery and obstetrics and general medical practice.
(5) Sanitarium. "Sanitarium or sanatorium" means a health station or retreat or other place where resident patients are kept, and which specializes in giving clinical, temporary and emergency services of a medical or surgical nature to patients and injured persons and is licensed by state agencies under provision of law to provide facilities and services in surgery, obstetrics and general medical practice as distinguished from treatment of mental and nervous disorders.
"Health/fitness club" means a privately owned facility that primarily focuses on individual fitness or training. Typically they provide exercise classes; weightlifting, fitness and gymnastics equipment; spas; locker rooms; and small restaurants or snack bars. This land use may also include ancillary and limited retail. These facilities are membership clubs that may allow access to the public for a fee.
"Hearing examiner" means the duly appointed city of Selah hearing examiner, or hearing examiner pro tem.
"Heavy equipment" means self-powered, self-propelled or towed mechanical devices, equipment and vehicles of the nature customarily used for commercial purposes such as a tandem axle truck, grader, backhoe, tractor trailer, crane and lift but excluding automobiles, recreational vehicles and boats and their trailers.
"Heavy equipment storage area" means a place where two or more operable heavy equipment are stored.
"Home occupation" means the accessory use of a dwelling or an on-site accessory building for a business. Home occupations are further categorized as:
(1) "Minor home occupation" means any occupation which is clearly secondary to the main use of the premises as a dwelling place, and does not change the character thereof or have any exterior evidence of such secondary use (e.g., outward physical appearance, storage of materials, supplies or vehicles, noise, electrical interference) other than signing as permitted in the zoning district in which it is situated. Minor home occupations are conducted within the dwelling and/or an on-site accessory building; the only employees are members of the family residing in the dwelling; there is no customer traffic to the dwelling; and the home occupation excludes all manufacturing, assembly and/or repair operations.
(2) "Major home occupation" means any occupation which is clearly secondary to the main use of the premises as a dwelling place, and does not change the character thereof or have any exterior evidence of such secondary use (e.g., outward physical appearance, outdoor storage of materials, supplies or vehicles, noise, electrical interference, lighting, vibrations) other than signing as permitted in the zoning district in which it is situated. Major home occupations may be conducted within the dwelling and/or an on-site accessory building by members of a family residing in the dwelling; may include nonresident employees; may attract customer traffic; and may include on-site services, sales, manufacturing, assembly and/or repair operations.
"Homeowners association" means a community association, other than a condominium association, in which individual owners share ownership or maintenance responsibilities for open space or other facilities.
Hotel. See "overnight lodging facility." (Ord. 2065, § 2 (Exh. A), 2019; Ord. 2046, § 2 (Exh. A), 2018; Ord. 1634, § 200, 2004.)