15.70.020 Definitions.
As used in this chapter:
A. Approval of a residential development means any or all of the following:
1. Adoption of an ordinance rezoning a property to residential use.
2. Granting a building permit or any discretionary permit for residential use.
3. Approval of a tentative subdivision map for residential purposes.
B. Attendance area means the area established by a governing board within which pupils must reside to attend a particular school.
C. Conditions of overcrowding means that the total enrollment of a school or schools serving a particular attendance area, including enrollment from proposed development, exceeds the capacity of such school or schools as determined by the governing board.
D. Dwelling unit means a building, or portion thereof, or a mobile home, designed for residential occupancy by one person or a group of two or more persons living together as a domestic unit.
E. Governing board means the governing board of any school district which operates a high school or elementary school and whose territory lies in whole or in part within the city limits.
F. Reasonable methods for mitigating conditions of overcrowding shall include, but are not limited to, agreements between a subdivider and the governing board whereby temporary-use buildings will be leased to the school district or temporary-use buildings owned by the school district will be used.
G. Residential development means a project containing residential dwellings, including mobile homes, of one or more units or a subdivision of land for the purpose of constructing one or more residential dwelling units.
Residential development does not include the following:
1. Any modification or remodel of an existing dwelling unit where no additional dwelling unit is created.
2. The conversion of an existing apartment building into a condominium or stock cooperative where no new dwelling unit is created.
3. Rebuilding of a dwelling unit destroyed or damaged by fire, flood, explosion, act of God or other accident or catastrophe.
4. Any residential complex which is maintained as exclusively senior citizens housing. (Ord. 2780 § 1, 1982)