18.20.032 L definitions.
“Landfill” means a disposal site or part of a site at which refuse is deposited.
“Landscape water features” means a pond, pool or fountain used as a decorative component of a development.
“Landscaping” means live vegetative materials required for a development. Said materials provided along the boundaries of a development site is referred to as perimeter landscaping.
“Landslide” means episodic downslope movement of a mass including, but not limited to, soil, rock or snow.
“Landslide hazard area” means an area subject to severe risk of landslide, based on a combination of geologic, topographic, and hydrologic factors. They include any areas susceptible to landslide because of any combination of bedrock, soil, slope (gradient), slope aspect, structure hydrology, or other factors, and include, at a minimum, the following:
(a) An area with a combination of:
(i) Slopes steeper than 15 percent of inclination;
(ii) Impermeable soils, such as silt and clay, interbedded with granular soils, such as sand and gravel; and
(iii) Springs or seasonal ground water seepage;
(b) Areas of historic failures such as:
(i) An area that has shown movement during the Holocene epoch, which is from 10,000 years ago to the present, or that is underlain by mass wastage debris from that epoch;
(ii) Those areas delineated by the United States Department of Agriculture Natural Resources Conservation Service as having a significant limitation for building site development;
(iii) Areas designated as quaternary slumps, earthflows, mudflows, lahars, or landslides on maps published by the United States Geological Survey or Washington Department of Natural Resources;
(c) An area potentially unstable as a result of rapid stream incision, stream bank erosion or undercutting by wave action including stream channel migration zones;
(d) An area that shows evidence of or is at risk from snow avalanches;
(e) An area located in a canyon or on an active alluvial fan, presently or potentially subject to inundation by debris flows, or catastrophic flooding, or deposition of stream-transported sediments;
(f) Any area with a slope of 40 percent or steeper and with a vertical relief of 10 or more feet except areas composed of bedrock. See also definition of “steep slope hazard areas”;
(g) Slopes having gradients steeper than 80 percent subject to rockfall during seismic shaking. See also definition of “steep slope hazard areas”;
(h) Slopes that are parallel or subparallel to planes of weakness (such as bedding planes, joint systems, and fault planes) in subsurface materials.
Large Format Retail Trade and Services. “Large format retail” means a retail establishment greater than 100,000 square feet for all structures that offers the sale of goods to the general public, including limited sales to wholesale customers. These uses typically require high parking to building floor area ratios and serve a regional market.
“Letter of map amendment” means an official determination by FEMA that a property has been inadvertently included in an area subject to inundation by the base flood as shown on a flood hazard boundary map or flood insurance rate map.
“Letter of map revision” means a letter issued by FEMA to revise the flood hazard boundary map or flood insurance rate map and flood insurance study for a community to change base flood elevations, and floodplain and floodway boundary delineation.
“Level of service (LOS), fire” means the standards adopted by the regional fire authority for the delivery of fire and emergency medical response services, as set forth in the RFA’s adopted standard of cover and reflected in the capital facilities and equipment plan.
“Level of service (LOS), traffic” means a quantitative measure of traffic congestion identified by a declining letter scale (A–F) as calculated by the methodology contained in the 1985 Highway Capacity Manual Special Report 209, or current edition, or as calculated by another method approved by the Department of Community Development. LOS “A” indicates free flow of traffic with no delays while LOS “F” indicates jammed conditions or extensive delay.
“Light equipment” means hand-held tools and construction equipment, such as chain saws, wheelbarrows and post-hole diggers.
“Liner building” means a building designed to obscure structured parking with permitted uses, generally shallow in depth.
“Livestock” means any domestic equines, sheep, goats, bovines, llamas, alpacas, emus, ostriches, and swine, or similar animals.
“Livestock facility” means an accessory building used to house livestock.
“Livestock, large” means livestock with a weight of 200 pounds or more.
“Livestock sales” means the sale of livestock, but not including auctions.
“Livestock, small” means livestock weighing less than 200 pounds.
“Live-work” means a dwelling unit within a multifamily dwelling or townhouse dwelling designed to accommodate a small commercial enterprise on the ground floor and a separated but interconnected residential unit above and/or behind.
“Loading space” means a space for the temporary parking of a vehicle while loading or unloading cargo or passengers.
“Log storage” means a facility for the open or enclosed storage of logs, which may include repair facilities for equipment used on-site or operations offices.
“Lot” means a physically separate and distinct parcel of property, which has been created pursuant to CMC Title 17, Subdivisions.
“Lot frontage” means the shortest distance between the sides of the lot along the boundary abutting the street or private road.
“Lot line, interior” means lot lines that delineate property boundaries along those portions of the property which do not abut a street.
“Low impact development (LID)” is a stormwater management, site design, and engineering approach that strives to mimic predisturbance hydrologic processes of infiltration, filtration, storage, evaporation, and transpiration by emphasizing conservation, use of on-site natural features, site planning, and distributed stormwater management practices that are integrated into a project design. Specific LID practices and standards are identified and referenced in Chapter 13.25 CMC and CMC Titles 12 and 18. (Ord. 08-21 § 4 (Exh. C); Ord. 08-17 § 3 (Exh. B); Ord. 06-17 § 5 (Exh. C); Ord. 26-16 § 17; Ord. 05-15 § 1 (Exh. A); Ord. 10-10 § 3 (Exh. C); Amended at request of department 2/08; Ord. 14-05 §§ 2, 3; Ord. 42-02 §§ 2 (21A.06.665, 21A.06.667, 21A.06.670, 21A.06.675, 21A.06.680, 21A.06.682, 21A.06.685, 21A.06.690, 21A.06.695, 21A.06.700, 21A.06.710, 21A.06.705, 21A.06.715, 21A.06.720, 21A.06.725, 21A.06.730). Formerly 18.20.665 – 18.20.732)