“Halfway house” means a state licensed work/release facility and other housing facilities serving as an alternative to incarceration. Halfway houses do not include community residential facilities.

“Heavy commercial planned unit developments” means developments intended to encourage the maximum retail development of a parcel by supplementing the potential of the site with housing opportunities.

“Heavy retail” includes retail activities that are generally conducted indoors but may have an ancillary use, such as a garden center, where limited outdoor operations, storage, and sales may occur. This use category includes, but is not limited to, agricultural supplies, building materials, manufactured homes, and outdoor display/sales.

“Heavy service” includes service activities that may have regular exterior service or storage areas. This use category includes, but is not limited to, contractors, heating fuels, truck stops, breweries and warehousing.

“Hedge” means a fence or property boundary that is formed by a dense row of shrubs or low trees.

“Home-based day care,” as regulated by Chapter 35A.63 RCW, means a licensed day care that regularly provides day care for not more than twelve children or adults in the provider’s home in the family living quarters, for periods of less than twenty-four hours.

“Home occupation” means a profession or service activity customarily and historically conducted within a dwelling unit or accessory building by its inhabitants only, which activity is clearly incidental to the use of the land or structure for dwelling purposes and does not change the character or appearance thereof.

“Hospital” means an institution specializing in giving clinical, temporary and emergency services of a medical or surgical nature to human patients and which is licensed by state law to provide facilities and services in surgery, obstetrics and general medical practice.

“Hotel” or “motel” means any building containing six or more guest rooms intended or designed to be used, or which are used, rented, or hired out to be occupied, or which are occupied for sleeping purposes by guests. (Ord. 1190-21 § 2, 2021).