“Maintenance” means the usual acts to prevent a decline, lapse or cessation from a lawfully established condition without any expansion of or significant change from that originally established condition. Activities within landscaped areas within areas subject to native vegetation retention requirements may be considered maintenance only if they maintain or enhance the canopy and understory cover. “Maintenance” includes repair work but does not include replacement work. When maintenance is conducted specifically in accordance with the Regional Road Maintenance Endangered Species Act Program Guidelines, the definition of “maintenance” in the glossary of those guidelines supersedes the definition of “maintenance” in this section.

“Maintenance yard” means a facility used as a base of operations for maintaining infrastructure, and usually includes fleet parking, equipment and vehicle shops, indoor and outdoor storage, and offices.

“Manufactured home” means a structure, transportable in one or more sections, that in the traveling mode is eight body feet or more in width or 32 body feet or more in length; or when erected on site, is 300 square feet or more in area; which is built on a permanent chassis and is designated for use with or without a permanent foundation when attached to the required utilities; which contains plumbing, heating, air-conditioning and electrical systems; and shall include any structure that meets all the requirements of this section, or of Chapter 296-150M WAC, except the size requirements for which the manufacturer voluntarily complies with the standards and files the certification required by the Federal Department of Housing and Urban Development. The term “manufactured home” does not include a recreational vehicle.

“Manufactured home park” means a development with two or more improved pads or spaces designed to accommodate mobile homes.

“Manufacturing, heavy” means land uses characterized by larger size facilities engaged in the processing of raw materials or parts into finished products. Such facilities may have a higher degree of negative environmental impacts due to the processes employed and operations.

“Manufacturing, light” means land uses characterized by small size facilities where no heavy manufacturing or specialized industrial processes takes place. Typical light manufacturing activities include printing, material testing, and assembly components. Such facilities usually employ less than 100 persons.

“Mapping partner” means any organization or individual that is involved in the development and maintenance of a draft flood boundary work map, preliminary flood insurance rate map or flood insurance rate map.

“Marijuana” shall have the meaning established pursuant to RCW 69.50.101(v), as currently adopted and hereafter amended.

“Marijuana-infused products” shall have the meaning established pursuant to RCW 69.50.101(cc), as currently adopted and hereafter amended.

“Marijuana processor” shall have the meaning established pursuant to RCW 69.50.101(x), as currently adopted and hereafter amended.

“Marijuana producer” shall have the meaning established pursuant to RCW 69.50.101(y), as currently adopted and hereafter amended.

“Marijuana retail outlet” shall have the meaning established pursuant to RCW 69.50.101(oo), as currently adopted and hereafter amended.

“Marijuana retailer” shall have the meaning established pursuant to RCW 69.50.101(bb), as currently adopted and hereafter amended.

“Marijuana, useable” or “useable marijuana” shall have the meaning established pursuant to RCW 69.50.101(tt), as currently adopted and hereafter amended.

“Marina” means an establishment providing docking, moorage space and related activities limited to the provisioning or minor repair of pleasure boats and yachts, and accessory facilities including, but not limited to:

“Market manager” means one who oversees the general operations of a farmers’ or public market, which may include: acting as the applicant for a required temporary use permit; acting as the main contact with the City; ensuring compliance with State and municipal law and health regulations; overseeing the setup, operation, and closing of the market each day; recruiting vendors; collecting payment; and promoting the market.

“Mass” means the physical volume or bulk of a solid body. The mass of a building is its three-dimensional form, bulkiness and relationship to exterior spaces. During the design process, massing is one of many aspects of form considered by an architect or designer and can be the result of both exterior and interior design considerations. Architectural massing can be used to identify a building entry, denote a stairway or simply create visual depth to soften the visual mass of the overall structure.

“Material error” means substantive information upon which a permit decision is based that is submitted in error or is omitted at the time of permit application.

“Maximum extent practical” means the highest level of effectiveness that can be achieved through the use of best available science or technology. In determining what the “maximum extent practical” is the City shall consider, at a minimum, the effectiveness, engineering feasibility, commercial availability, safety and cost of the measures.

“Medical office” means a facility that provides diagnosis and outpatient care on a routine basis but is unable to provide prolonged in-house medical or major surgical care. Medical clinics are included in this definition.

“Microwave” means electromagnetic waves with a frequency range of 300 megahertz (MHz) to 300 gigahertz (GHz).

“Mitigation” means sequentially avoiding impacts, minimizing impacts and action taken to compensate for unavoidable adverse impacts to the environment resulting from a development activity or alteration. Mitigation, in the following sequential order of preference, is:

Mitigation for individual actions may include a combination of the above measures.

“Mitigation bank” means a property that has been protected in perpetuity and approved by appropriate County, State and Federal agencies expressly for the purpose of providing compensatory mitigation in advance of authorized impacts through any combination of restoration, creation or enhancement of wetlands and, in exceptional circumstances, preservation of adjacent wetlands and wetland buffers or protection of other aquatic or wildlife resources.

“Mitigation banking” means a system for providing compensatory mitigation in advance of authorized wetland impacts of development in City of Covington in which credits are generated through restoration, creation, and/or enhancement of wetlands, and in exceptional circumstances, preservation of adjacent wetlands, wetland buffers, and/or other aquatic resources.

“Mixed-use” means a combination of residential and nonresidential uses within the same building or site as part of an integrated development project with functional interrelationships and coherent physical design.

“Modulation” means stepping forward or backward a portion of the facade as a means to articulate or add visual interest to the facade.

“Monitoring” means evaluating the impacts of development proposals on biologic, hydrologic and geologic systems and assessing the performance of required mitigation through the collection and analysis of data for the purpose of understanding and documenting changes in natural ecosystems, functions and features including, but not limited to, gathering baseline data.

“Monuments, tombstones, and gravestones sales” means the retail sale of custom stonework products including only uses located in SIC Industry No. 5599 – Monuments, finished to custom order, tombstones and gravestones finished.

“Motor vehicle and bicycle manufacturing” means fabricating or assembling complete passenger automobiles, trucks, commercial cars and buses, motorcycles, and bicycles, including only uses located in SIC Industry Group Nos.:

“Motor vehicle, boat and mobile home dealer” means an establishment engaged in the retail sale of new and/or used automobiles, motor homes, motorcycles, trailers, boats or mobile homes, including only uses located in SIC Major Group and Industry Group Nos.:

“Mulch” means any material such as leaves, bark, or straw left loose and applied to the soil surface to reduce evaporation.

“Museum” means any establishment open to the public where works of art, scientific specimens, or other objects of permanent value are kept and displayed. (Ord. 08-21 § 4 (Exh. C); Ord. 06-17; Ord. 06-17 § 5 (Exh. C); Ord. 12-16 § 5; Ord. 10-10 § 3 (Exh. C); Ord. 09-09 § 3; Ord. 14-05 §§ 2, 3. Formerly 18.20.733 – 18.20.785)