“Adequate transportation facilities” means transportation facilities that have the capacity to serve development without decreasing levels of service below the city’s adopted minimum standards. Faults are commonly considered to be active if the fault has moved one or more times in the last ten thousand years, but faults may also be considered active in some cases if movement has occurred in the last five hundred thousand years. “Active fault” means a fault that is considered likely to undergo renewed movement within a period of concern to humans. “Accidental causes” means natural events such as earthquakes, landslides, mudslides, floods, and storms and other events, such as fires, which are beyond the control of the owner. “Accessory use” means a use incidental and subordinate to the principal use and located on the same lot or in the same building as the principal use. Accessory dwelling units shall be considered multifamily units for purposes of calculating impact fees. Accessory dwelling units shall not have more than one bedroom. “Accessory dwelling unit” means a second dwelling unit on a single-family residential lot with a floor area less than sixty percent of the floor area of the principal dwelling unit on the lot and not more than seven hundred square feet. “Accessory building” means a subordinate building, the use of which is incidental to the use of the main building on the same lot but is not physically attached by walls or roof to the main building. “Access permit” means a permit obtainable from the State Department of Transportation allowing traffic ingress and egress to and from a state highway. A sign shall be considered to be abandoned if displayed more than one year beyond the purpose of the original permit. “Abandoned sign” means a sign that no longer correctly identifies, exhorts or advertises any person, business, lessor, owner, product or activity conducted in or on the premises where the sign is located. For a complete legal description of the area, see Mukilteo Ordinances 690 and 691. “1991 annexation area” means that portion of the city which was annexed in 1991 and is commonly known as the Harbour Pointe Annexation, the boundaries of which generally run between Big Gulch Ravine and South Gulch Ravine. Definitions associated with the use of shoreline or shoreline permits are contained in Title 17B, Shoreline Management Regulations.
Words in the present tense include the plural, and vice versa.
All other words used in this title carry their customary meaning. 17.08.010 General.įor the purposes of this title and to clarify the intent and meaning of certain words or terms, the following list of definitions is provided. Ordinance 987, Section 1, repealed and recodified Section 17.52.090 to move the definitions to Section 17.08.020, and added and amended other definitions to Section 17.08.020.
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