Sammamish Unified Development Code

Zoning Districts | Technical Terms and Land Use Definitions

generally weighing under 500 pounds. (Ord. O2003-132 § 10) 205. Livestock sales. The sale of livestock but not including auctions. 206. Loading space. A space for the temporary parking of a vehicle while loading or unloading cargo or passengers. 207. Lot. A physically separate and distinct parcel of property and on lakefront properties above ordinary high water mark, which has been created pursuant to SDC 21.02.060, Subdivisions, or state law. 208. Lot coverage. The amount of a lot that a building footprint may cover. Lot coverage is expressed as a percent of the total lot area that a building or buildings may cover; for example, a 45 percent lot coverage standard indicates that 45 percent of the area of a lot may be covered by a building or combination of buildings. 209. Lot line, front yard. The property boundary or property line abutting a street right-of-way. For property that does not abut a street right-of-way and abuts an access easement or private street the front yard is that property boundary or property line from which the lot gains primary access. 210. Lot line, rear yard. The property boundary or property line opposite the front yard lot line. Provided, lots with more than one front yard, or triangular shaped lots with three sides, shall have no rear yard lot line. 211. Lot line, side yard. The property boundary or property line that delineates the property boundaries along the side portion of the property.

212. Lot line, interior. Lot lines that delineate property boundaries along those portions of the property that do not abut a street. 213. Low impact development (LID). A storm water and land use management strategy that strives to mimic predisturbance hydrological processes of infiltration, filtration, storage, evaporation and transpiration by emphasizing conservation, use of on-site natural features, site planning, and distributed storm water management practices that are integrated into a project design. 214. Maintenance. Those usual acts to prevent a decline, lapse or cessation from a lawfully established condition or use. Maintenance may include, but is not limited to, pruning, plant material replaced with alternate plant material, hardscape replaced with alternate hardscape, hardscape replaced with plant material. 215. Managing agency. An organization that is responsible for organizing and managing a homeless encampment. (Note: The managing agency may be the same entity as the sponsor. 216. Marijuana or “marihuana”. All parts of the plant cannabis, whether growing or not, with a THC concentration greater than 0.3 percent on a dry weight basis; the seeds thereof; the resin extracted from any part of the plant; and every compound, manufacture, salt, derivative, mixture, or preparation of the plant, its seeds or resin. The term does not include the mature stalks of the plant, fiber produced from the stalks, oil or cake made from the seeds of the plant, any other compound, manufacture, salt, derivative, mixture, or preparation of the mature stalks (except the

238 | Title 21: Sammamish Development Code

Effective | January 1, 2022

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