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“TDC” means Transfer of Development Credits.

“TDC amenities” means improvements or programs that are implemented to facilitate increased densities on or near receiving sites inside cities or in the urban unincorporated area.

“TDC bank fund” means the fund established under Chapter 18.95 CMC.

“TDC conversion ratio” means the ratio by which development credits purchased from a sending site are converted into additional development capacity for use on a receiving site.

“TDC executive board” means the board established under Chapter 18.95 CMC.

“Temporary use permit” means permit to allow a use of limited duration and/or frequency, or to allow multiple related events over a specified period.

“Theater” means an establishment primarily engaged in the indoor exhibition of motion pictures or of live theatrical presentations.

“Theatrical production services” means an establishment engaged in uses located in SIC Industry No. 792 – Theatrical producers (except motion picture), bands, orchestras, and entertainers, except establishments primarily engaged in providing live theatrical presentations, such as road companies and summer theaters.

“Tightline sewer” means a sewer trunk line designed and intended specifically to serve only a particular facility or place, and whose pipe diameter should be sized appropriately to ensure service only to that facility or place. It may occur outside the local service area for sewers, but does not amend the local service area.

“Tower, guy” means a tower that is supported with cable and ground anchors to secure and steady the tower.

“Tower, lattice” means a tapered style of tower that consists of vertical and horizontal supports with multiple legs and cross-bracing and metal crossed strips or bars to support antennas or similar antenna devices.

“Tower, monopole” means a freestanding tower that is composed of a single shaft, usually composed of two or more hollow sections that are in turn attached to a foundation. This type of tower is designed to support itself without the use of guy wires or other stabilization devices. These facilities are mounted to a foundation that rests on or in the ground.

“Tower-mounted facilities” means a wireless communication facility that is mounted to a tower.

“Tower, wireless communication facility” means any structure that is designed and constructed primarily for the purpose of supporting one or more antennas, including self-supporting lattice towers, guy towers or monopoles. The term includes, without limitation, radio and television transmission towers, microwave towers, common carrier towers, cellular telephone towers, and alternative tower structures. The term does not include utility poles originally constructed for the use of small wireless facilities.

“Trails” means manmade pathways designed and intended for use by pedestrians, bicyclists, equestrians, and/or recreational users.

“Transfer station” means a staffed collection and transportation facility used by private individuals and route collection vehicles to deposit solid waste collected off site into larger transfer vehicles for transport to permanent disposal sites, and may also include recycling facilities involving collection or processing for shipment.

“Transit base” means an establishment for the storage, dispatch, repair and maintenance of coaches, light rail trains, and other vehicles of a public transit system.

“Transit station” means any structure or transit facility that is primarily used, as part of a transit system, for the purpose of loading, unloading, or transferring passengers from one mode of transportation to another.

Transitional Housing. Defined by RCW 84.36.043.

“Transitional housing facilities” means housing units within City of Covington owned by public housing authorities, nonprofit organizations or other public interest groups that provide housing to persons on a temporary basis for a duration not to exceed 24 months in conjunction with job training, self-sufficiency training, and human services counseling; the purpose of which is to help persons make the transition from homelessness to placement in permanent housing.

“Transmission line booster station” means an establishment containing equipment designed to increase voltage of electrical power transported through transmission and/or distribution lines to compensate for power loss due to resistance.

“Transportation system management (TSM)” means low-cost projects that can be implemented in a short time frame designed to increase the efficiency of existing transportation facilities. This also includes transit and/or ride sharing measures to decrease single occupancy vehicle trips.

“Tree, hazard” means any tree, as determined by a certified arborist, with a structural defect, combination of defects or disease resulting in structural defect that, under the normal range of environmental conditions at the site, will result in the loss of a major structural component of that tree in a manner that will:

(a) Damage a residential structure or accessory structure, place of employment or public assembly or approved parking for a residential structure or accessory structure or place of employment or public assembly;

(b) Damage an approved road or utility facility; or

(c) Prevent emergency access in the case of medical hardship. (Ord. 08-21 § 4 (Exh. C); Ord. 02-20 § 2 (Att. A); Ord. 03-19 § 4; Ord. 06-17; Ord. 06-17 § 5 (Exh. C); Ord. 09-12 § 2 (Exh. B); Ord. 10-10 § 3 (Exh. C); Ord. 14-05 § 3. Formerly 18.20.1269 – 18.20.1332)