"Urban growth area" (UGA) means the city of Selah urban growth area designated by the board of Yakima County commissioners for urban growth. The Selah UGA is depicted within the comprehensive plan.

"Use" means the activity or purpose for which land or structures or combination of land and structures are designed, arranged, occupied, or maintained together with any associated site improvements. This definition includes the construction, erection, placement, movement or demolition of any structure or site improvement and any physical alteration to land itself including any grading, leveling, paving or excavation. Use also means any existing or proposed configuration of land, structures, and site improvements, and the use thereof.

Use, Class 1, 2, 3. See "Class 1, 2, 3 use."

"Utility services" means electric substations, gas metering stations, sewer lift stations, telephone and communications relay or switching stations, municipal/public water works (including pumping stations and reservoirs), power booster or conversion plants, and similar utility facilities, all with their necessary buildings, apparatus or appurtenances thereto. For purposes of this title, "utility services" does not include local transmission and collection lines, pipes, conductors, or utilities located underground. Utility services are not subject to the minimum lot size requirements of the zoning district in which they are located (except as required for domestic water, sewage disposal and soil percolation rates); provided, that they meet all other requirements of the zoning district in which they are located. (Ord. 2046, § 2 (Exh. A), 2018; Ord. 1634, § 211, 2004.)