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“Cafeteria” or “limited service restaurant” means an establishment that provides food services, where patrons order or select items and pay before eating, and where food and drink may be consumed on premises, taken out, or delivered to customers’ location. This definition includes establishments where specialty snacks, such as ice cream, frozen yogurt, cookies, or popcorn, or nonalcoholic beverages, such as coffee, juices, or sodas, are served.

“Carport” means a covered shelter for an automobile open on two or more sides.

“Charitable or welfare institution” means a use that provides essential goods or services, such as food, housing, clothing, counseling, aid, or assistance to those in need, for no fee or compensation or at a fee recognized as being significantly less than that charged by profit-making organizations.

“City” means the city of Algona, Washington.

“City clerk” means the city clerk/treasurer of Algona.

“Clearing” means an activity which removes or seriously damages ground cover and/or trees including, but not limited to, root mat removal and/or topsoil removal by mechanical and/or chemical means.

Combustible. As defined by the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), “combustible” means any liquid having a flash point at or above one hundred degrees Fahrenheit (37.8 degrees Celsius), but below two hundred degrees Fahrenheit (93.3 degrees Celsius), except any mixture having components with flash points of two hundred degrees Fahrenheit (93.3 degrees Celsius), or higher, the total volume of which makes up ninety-nine percent or more of the total volume of the mixture.

“Commercial unit” means a commercial or business operation within an enclosed structure or area for which a single business license can be issued.

“Commission” means the city of Algona planning commission.

“Community residential facility” or “CRF” means publicly or privately operated residential facilities, limited to: group homes for children, for those with disabilities, or for seniors; homes for recovering, nonusing alcoholics and addicts; or shelters for domestic violence victims. Community residential facilities do not include halfway houses.

“Comprehensive sign design plan” means building, design, landscaping and signs integrated into one architectural plan, the comprehensive plan being complete in all other building, structural and electrical requirements.

“Conditional use” means a use permitted where such uses require additional findings, controls and safeguards not required of otherwise permitted uses in such district.

“Conforming use” means an activity the nature and type of which is permitted in the zone where the property is located.

“Courtyard apartment” means a dwelling within a structure or small detached structures on one parcel designed and used for occupancy by four or more individual persons or families living independently of each other. The units are oriented around a shared open space courtyard from which all ground floor units have primary entrances facing.

“Curb line” means the line at the face of the curb nearest to the nearest street or roadway. In the absence of a curb, the curb line shall be established by the public works superintendent.