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“Campground” means an area of land developed for recreational use in temporary occupancy, such as: tents or recreational vehicles without hook-up facilities.

“Canopy” means an architectural projection that provides weather protection, identity or decoration and is supported by the building to which it is attached. A canopy is comprised of a rigid structure over which a rigid covering is attached.

“Car-sharing provider” means a membership-based, licensed, and insured business that offers use of motor vehicles 24 hours a day and seven days a week to members who reserve vehicles in advance, and that charges members for their use by time and/or miles.

“Car wash” means an automotive service facility with self-propelled car washing equipment or where self-service washing is done by the customer.

“Capacity, school” means the number of students a school district’s facilities can accommodate district-wide, based on the district’s standard of service, as determined by the school district.

“Capital facilities, parks and recreation” means the facilities or improvements included in the most recent capital facilities plan element of a comprehensive plan adopted pursuant to Chapter 36.70A RCW, and such plan as subsequently amended and adopted by the City Council. Park and recreation facilities include those identified in the following documents, as amended:

(a) The capital facilities element of the City of Covington comprehensive plan;

(b) The parks and recreation element of the City of Covington comprehensive plan; and

(c) The rate study for park land impact fees.

“Capital facilities plan, school” means a district’s facilities plan adopted by the Kent School District school board.

“Capital facilities plan, transportation” means the transportation capital facilities plan adopted by the City of Covington’s comprehensive plan.

“Catastrophic collapse” means the collapse of the ground surface by overburden caving into underground voids created by mining. “Catastrophic collapse” does not include the effects from trough subsidence.

“Cattery” means a place where adult cats are temporarily boarded for compensation, whether or not for training. An adult cat is of either sex, altered or unaltered, that has reached the age of six months.

“Cemetery, columbarium or mausoleum” means land or structures used for interment of the dead or their remains. For purposes of the code, pet cemeteries are considered a subclassification of this use.

“Channel” means a feature that contains and was formed by periodically or continuously flowing water confined by banks.

“Channel edge” means the outer edge of the water’s bankfull width or, where applicable, the outer edge of the associated channel migration zone.

“Channel relocation and stream meander areas” means those areas subject to risk due to stream bank destabilization, rapid stream incision, stream bank erosion, and shifts in the location of stream channels.

“Channel migration zone” means those areas within the lateral extent of likely stream channel movement that are subject to risk due to stream bank destabilization, rapid stream incision, stream bank erosion and shifts in the location of stream channels, as shown on Covington’s channel migration zone maps. “Channel migration zone” means the corridor that includes the present channel, the severe channel migration hazard area and the moderate channel migration hazard area. “Channel migration zone” does not include areas that lie behind an arterial road, a public road serving as a sole access route, a State or Federal highway or a railroad. “Channel migration zone” may exclude areas that lie behind a lawfully established flood protection facility that is likely to be maintained by existing programs for public maintenance consistent with designation and classification criteria specified by public rule. When a natural geologic feature affects channel migration, the channel migration zone width will consider such natural constraints.

“Charging levels” means the standardized indicators of electrical force, or voltage, at which an electric vehicle’s battery is recharged. The terms 1, 2, and 3 are the most common EV charging levels, and include the following specifications:

(a) Level 1 is considered slow charging.

(b) Level 2 is considered medium charging.

(c) Level 3 is considered fast or rapid charging.

“Classrooms, school” means educational facilities of the district required to house students for its basic educational program. The classrooms are those facilities the district determines are necessary to best serve its student population. Specialized facilities as identified by the district, including but not limited to gymnasiums, cafeterias, libraries, administrative offices, and childcare centers, shall not be counted as classrooms.

“Clearing” means the limbing, pruning, trimming, tipping, cutting, or removal of vegetation or other organic plant matter by physical, mechanical, chemical or other means. This includes, but is not limited to, root removal and/or topsoil removal.

“CMC” means Covington Municipal Code.

“Cogeneration” means the sequential generation of energy and useful heat from the same primary source or fuel for industrial, commercial, or residential heating or cooling purposes.

“Commercial recreation” means any recreational activity whose main purpose is to provide indoor or outdoor amusement or entertainment activities. This includes, but is not limited to, skating rinks, pool halls, water slides, miniature golf courses, arcades, bowling alleys, go-carts, batting cages, laser tag, skate park, basketball, ice/hockey rinks, etc.

Communication Facility, Major. “Major communication facility” means a communication facility for transmission and reception of:

(a) UHF and VHF television signals; or

(b) FM or AM radio signals.

Communication Facility, Minor. “Minor communication facility” means a communication facility for transmission and reception of:

(a) Two-way and/or citizen band (CB) radio signals;

(b) Point-to-point microwave signals;

(c) Cellular radio signals;

(d) Signals through FM radio translators; or

(e) Signals through FM radio boosters under 10 watts effective radiated power (ERP).

“Community identification sign” means a sign identifying the location of a community or geographic area such as unincorporated activity centers or rural towns designated by the comprehensive plan or communities recognized and delineated by a recognized unincorporated area council.

“Community residential facility (CRF)” means living quarters meeting applicable Federal and State standards that function as a single housekeeping unit and provide supportive services, including but not limited to counseling, rehabilitation and medical supervision, excluding drug and alcohol detoxification which is classified in CMC 18.25.050 as health services. CRFs are further classified as follows:

(a) CRF-I: up to 10 residents and staff;

(b) CRF-II: 11 or more residents and staff.

If staffed by nonresident staff, each 24 staff hours per day equals one full-time residing staff member for purposes of subclassifying CRFs.

“Commuter parking” means vehicle parking specifically for the purpose of access to a public transit system or for users of carpools or vanpools.

“Compensatory storage” means new, excavated storage volume equivalent to any flood storage which is eliminated by building, filling or grading within the floodplain. For the purpose of this definition, equivalent flood storage capacity is that which is replaced by equal volume between corresponding one-foot contour intervals which are hydraulically connected to the floodway through their entire depth.

“Conditional use permit” means a permit granted by the City to locate a permitted use on a particular property subject to conditions placed on the permitted use to ensure compatibility with nearby land uses.

“Conference center” means an establishment developed primarily as a meeting facility, including only facilities for recreation, overnight lodging, and related activities provided for conference participants.

“Confinement area” is any open land area in which livestock are kept where the forage does not meet the definition of a grazing area.

“Consolidation” means the relocation to a consolidated transmission structure of the main transmit antennas of two or more FCC broadcast licensees which prior to such relocation utilized transmission structures located within a 1,500-foot radius of the center of the consolidated transmission structure to support their main transmit antennas.

“Construction and trades” means establishments that provide services related to construction of buildings and infrastructure, and other improvements to property. Such establishments include, SIC Major Group Nos. 15 through 17, and SIC Industry Group No. 078 – Landscape and horticultural services.

“Construction cost per student, school” means the estimated cost of construction of a permanent school facility in the district for the grade span of school to be provided, as a function of the district’s facilities standard per grade span and taking into account the requirements of students with special needs.

“Conversion factor” means a number that converts the water budget allowance from acre-inches per acre per year to gallons per square foot per year or cubic feet per year.

“Cornice” means the molded and projecting horizontal member that crowns an architectural composition. See CMC 18.31.540 for related design standards.

“Craft sales” means the sale of art and craft items crafted by the artist or crafter with his or her own hands, and sold directly by the artist or crafter. Such items do not include commercial kits, molds, patterns, plans, prefabricated forms, or mass-produced items. Craft sales shall be accessory to farmers’ and public markets; provided, that the items are produced in the State of Washington.

“Critical aquifer recharge area” means an area with a critical recharging effect on aquifers used for potable water where an aquifer that is a source of drinking water is vulnerable or susceptible to contamination that would affect the potability of water. This includes:

(a) Category I critical aquifer recharge areas which are mapped areas that Covington determined are highly susceptible to ground water contamination and that are located within a sole source aquifer or wellhead protection area; or

(b) Category II critical aquifer recharge areas which are areas determined to have medium susceptibility to ground water contamination that is located within a sole source aquifer or within an area approved in accordance with Chapter 246-290 WAC as a wellhead protection area for a municipal or district drinking water system, or an area over a sole source aquifer for a private potable water well in compliance with Department of Ecology and public health standards, or are highly susceptible to ground water contamination and are not located in a sole source aquifer or wellhead protection area; or

(c) Category III critical aquifer recharge areas include those mapped areas that Covington has determined have low susceptibility to ground water contamination.

Susceptibility to ground water contamination occurs where there is a combination of permeable soils, permeable subsurface geology, decreasing hydraulic head with depth.

“Critical area” means any area that is required to be protected under the Growth Management Act, Chapter 36.70A RCW. The City’s “critical areas” include the following areas and their required buffers pursuant to Chapter 18.65 CMC:

(a) Frequently flooded areas;

(b) Critical aquifer recharge areas;

(c) Geologic hazard areas;

(d) Wetlands; and

(e) Wildlife habitat conservation areas, including streams.

“Critical drainage area” means an area which has been formally determined by the City of Covington Surface Water Management Department to require more restrictive regulation than County-wide standards afford in order to mitigate severe flooding, drainage, erosion or sedimentation problems which result from the cumulative impacts of development and urbanization. (Ord. 08-21 § 4 (Exh. C); Ord. 02-20 § 2 (Att. A); Ord. 09-19 §§ 3, 8; Ord. 10-17 § 6 (Exh. D); Ord. 06-17 § 5 (Exh. C); Ord. 16-16 §§ 4, 5; Ord. 08-13 § 3 (Exh. A); Ord. 19-11 § 1 (Exh. 1); Ord. 10-10; Ord. 10-10 § 3 (Exh. C); Ord. 42-02 §§ 2 (21A.06.160, 21A.06.165, 21A.06.170, 21A.06.172, 21A.06.175, 21A.06.180, 21A.06.182, 21A.06.185, 21A.06.190, 21A.06.195, 21A.06.205, 21A.06.207, 21A.06.210, 21A.06.215, 21A.06.217, 21A.06.220, 21A.06.223, 21A.06.225, 21A.06.230, 21A.06.235, 21A.06.240, 21A.06.245, 21A.06.247, 21A.06.250, 21A.06.252, 21A.06.255, 21A.06.260). Formerly 18.20.160 – 18.20.260)