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GRADE STANDARDS <br />(The diagram is illustrative) <br /> <br />Grade, Street. The top of the curb, or the top of the edge of the pavement or traveled way <br />where no curb exists. <br /> <br />Group Housing. Shared living quarters, with a congregate arrangement, where meals are <br />provided in a common dining area, and either no or limited cooking facilities are provided <br />within the individual rooms or units. This classification includes rooming or boarding <br />houses, private residential clubs, congregate and/or assisted care facilities for the elderly or <br />persons with disabilities handicapped, shelters for the homeless, and housing for <br />individuals requiring court ordered supervision, but excludes “residential hotels,” “motels,” <br />“convalescent facilities,” and “residential congregate care facilities” use classifications. <br /> <br />Gun or Weapon Shop. A business establishment principally engaged in the business of <br />selling firearms, ammunition or other “deadly weapon” as defined in Part 4, Title 2 of <br />California Penal Code (commencing with Section 12000). <br /> <br />Habitable Accessory Structure. A detached, subordinate structure, the use of which is <br />appropriate, subordinate and customarily incidental to that of the main structure or the main <br />use of the land and which is located on the same site with the main structure or use and <br />contains some or all of the required amenities and some or all of the allowed amenities. <br /> <br />Health and Fitness Centers. Establishments with equipment for exercise and physical <br />conditioning. This classification includes spas, gyms, tennis clubs, racquet ball clubs, pools, <br />sports courts and fields, climbing walls, skating rinks, batting cages, diet centers, reducing <br />salons, fitness studios, health studios, and massage therapy as an accessory use to <br />another health and fitness center use. Any such facilities that offer alcoholic beverage <br />service shall be defined as commercial recreation. <br /> <br />Hedge. Any arrangement of plants or trees forming a barrier or erected to enclose or <br />screen areas of land and obstructing the clear view. <br /> <br />Height. A vertical dimension measured from finished ground level of the coping of a flat <br />roof or to the deck line of a mansard roof or to the average height of the highest gable of a <br />pitched or hipped roof. The height of a stepped or terraced building is the maximum <br />Proposed Amended Article 3 <br /> <br />Note: underlined and bolded text represents new text; strike through represents text to be eliminated Page 8