17.156.026 L definitions.
Laboratory—Medical, Analytical, Research, Testing. A facility for testing, analysis, and/or research. Examples of this use include medical labs, soils and materials testing labs, and forensic labs. This type of facility is distinguished from industrial research and development (see “Research and Development”) in its orientation more toward testing and analysis than product development or prototyping; an industrial research and development facility may typically include this type of lab. The “medical lab” subset of this land use type is oriented more toward specimen analysis and processing than direct blood drawing and specimen collection from patients (see “Hospitals” and “Clinics”), but may also include incidental specimen collection.
Light Fleet-Based Services. Passenger transportation services, local delivery services, medical transport, and other businesses that rely on fleets of three or more vehicles with rated capacities less than ten thousand pounds. This classification includes parking, dispatching, and offices for taxicab and limousine operations, ambulance services, nonemergency medical transport, local messenger and document delivery services, home cleaning services, and similar businesses. This classification does not include towing operations or taxi or delivery services with two or fewer fleet vehicles on site (see “Business Services”). Does not include a dispatch office facility on a site separate from the location where the vehicles used by the business are parked or stored between calls (see “Office—Business and Professional”).
Liquor Stores. See “Food and Beverage Sales—Liquor Stores.”
Live Entertainment. A facility providing entertainment, examples of which include, but are not limited to, amplified live or recorded music and/or dancing, comedy, disc jockeys, etc., or for which a cover fee or ticket may be required, which may also serve alcoholic beverages for on-site consumption. Does not include activities that are defined as ambient (see “Ambient Music”). Does not include facilities that provide entertainment as a primary use (see “Sports and Entertainment Assembly Facility”). Does not include “adult entertainment businesses,” which is separately defined; see Section 17.86.030 (Adult entertainmenmt businesses).
Live Plants. Living cannabis flowers and plants, including seeds, immature plants, and vegetative stage plants.
Livestock Feed Lot. A type of animal feeding operation which is used in intensive animal farming for finishing livestock, notably beef cattle, but also swine, horses, sheep, turkeys, chickens or ducks, prior to slaughter.
Lodging. An establishment providing overnight accommodations to transient patrons for payment for periods of fewer than thirty consecutive calendar days.
Bed and Breakfast Establishment. A building or group of buildings providing fifteen or fewer bedrooms or suites that are rented for overnight lodging, with a common eating area for guests. Does not include room rental, which is separately defined (see “Boarding House”).
Homeless Shelter. A church, public building, or quasi-public facility that provides emergency or temporary shelter for more than thirty-one days in any six-month period to homeless individuals and/or groups. These accommodations may include temporary lodging, meals, laundry facilities, bathing, counseling, and other basic support services.
Hostels. An establishment with guest rooms or suites that may be private or common which are rented to the general public for overnight lodging to transient patrons. Hostels cater primarily, but not exclusively, to travelers who arrive by bicycle, train, or other nonautomotive vehicles, and are generally an inexpensive form of lodging.
Hotels and Motels. An establishment with a group of guest rooms or suites, with or without kitchen facilities, rented to the general public for overnight lodging to transient patrons. These establishments may provide additional services, such as conference and meeting rooms, restaurants, bars, personal services, retail services, or recreational facilities available to guests or to the general public. This use classification does not include boarding or rooming housings (see “Boarding Houses”) or bed and breakfasts (see “Bed and Breakfast Establishment”), or hostels (see “Hostels”) which are separately defined and regulated. Any single hotel room that is not part of a group of hotel rooms is considered a “Vacation Rental.”
Recreational Vehicle (RV) Park. A form of lodging designed to specifically accommodate travelers with and temporary overnight parking for recreational vehicles (RV) and/or trailers as a primary use of the property.
Low Barrier Navigation Centers. Low-barrier, service-enriched shelter focused on moving people into permanent housing that provides temporary living facilities while case managers connect individuals experiencing homelessness to income, public benefits, health services, shelter, and housing (see “Supportive and/or Transitional Housing”). (Ord. 1705 §§ 97, 98, 2021; Ord. 1650 § 3 (Exh. B), 2018: Ord. 1647 § 7 (Exh. D (part)), 2018)