APPENDIX 1
GLOSSARY OF TERMS

•    Alterations: Interior or exterior changes to a building that do not result in additional floor area.

•    Appurtenances: An incidental right attached to a principal property right and passing in possession with it, or an accessory object.

•    Automobile Repair Facility: An establishment used primarily for the repair and maintenance of automobiles, motorcycles, or light trucks, including but not limited to body, fender, muffler or upholstery work, oil change and lubrication, tire service and sales, or the installation of radios, car alarms, or stereo equipment.

•    Automotive Parts and Accessory Store: Establishments primarily engaged in retailing new, used, and/or rebuilt automotive parts and accessories or establishments primarily engaged in retailing and installing automotive accessories.

•    Awnings: Coverings of sidewalks projecting from above first floor doors and windows of buildings. Foldable fabric awnings are preferred. Colors should lie in the range of hues described in the Design Criteria. Individual awnings over upper floor windows are also encouraged.

•    Bay Width: The linear street front width of a window or series of windows forming a storefront bay.

•    Bulkhead: The space located between the pavement/sidewalk and the bottom of a traditional storefront.

•    Cabinet or Can Sign: A cabinet or can sign has a plastic (or other type of translucent) face(s) that are internally illuminated by fluorescent lamps. The faces are retained to a metal frame, usually extruded aluminum. These are shaped like a box to enclose the illumination so that it shines through the translucent portions of the signs copy panel(s). Logo boxes are not considered cabinet signs.

•    Channel Letter Signs: Individual sign letters that are three-dimensional, hollow, typically internally illuminated and used as wall signs on the corresponding business. The back of a standard channel letter is aluminum. The letter face is a colored plexiglass to diffuse the glow of the neon tubes beneath. A Reverse Channel letter sign has an aluminum face with a back made of clear lexan. The letter is typically mounted 1-1/2" to 2" off the mounting surface, which allows the neon within to cast a soft outline glow on the wall behind it. This is ideal for situations where a softer, more subdued lighting effect is desired.

•    Coffeehouse: A retail food establishment whose primary business is the sale of coffee, or other beverages (non-alcoholic). Food service, such as the sale of baked or deli goods, is secondary.

•    Continuity: Continuity of the general street facade implies that the context of Coronado’s streetscape (see below) should be preserved without the addition of inappropriate configurations. Continuity of the community’s qualities of historical buildings and natural environment implies that these qualities should be respected and used as design inspiration sources, not for slavish imitation.

•    Convenience Store: An establishment primarily engaged in retailing a limited line of goods that generally include milk, bread, soda, and snacks.

•    Corner “Cut-offs”: A 45 degree angle bisecting a right angle of a building.

•    Cornice: Projecting molding along the top, or roofline, of a building.

•    Downtown Commercial Area: Generally the Orange Avenue Corridor from Adella Avenue to Eighth Avenue.

•    Edge Condition: A distinct transition between the end of one area and the beginning of another.

•    Entertainment Uses: Cinemas, live (non-adult) theatres, video rentals, etc.

•    Facade: The major viewable side of the building facing the street; its principal elevation, the one seen and experienced by most people.

•    Fenestration: Specifically, the placing and pattern of the windows in a building. Generally, the placing and pattern of all openings in a building. Discussed under “Windows, Doors and Entrances.”

•    Formed or Injection Molded Signs: These signs are typically made of a cotton-based plastic and are non-illuminated, three-dimensional letters used as a wall sign.

•    Formula Fast Food Restaurant: Any “Fast food restaurant” having both of the following characteristics: (a) uses trademark, logo, service mark or other mutually identifying name or symbol that is shared by fifteen or more restaurants; and (b) serves a prescribed (“formula”) menu that is substantially the same as fifteen or more restaurants that shares its trademark, logo, service mark or other mutually identifying name or symbol.

•    Formula Business: Any type of commercial business establishment that uses a trademark, logo, service mark or other mutually identifying name or symbol that is shared by fifteen or more commercial businesses (other than a “formula fast food restaurant”) and which maintains any standardized (“formula”) array of services and/or merchandise, decor, business method, architecture, layout, uniform, or similar, standardized feature.

•    Hardscape: Pertains to street furnishings and pedestrian amenities as well as other paving treatment that make up the street scene.

•    Hardware Store: An establishment primarily engaged in retailing a general line of new hardware items, such as tools and builders’ hardware.

•    Health Care Facility: Medical facilities including medical practitioner offices, freestanding surgery, optometry, dental/orthodontic, chiropractic, and other medical clinics.

•    Home Improvement Center: An establishment primarily engaged in retailing a general line of new home repair and improvement materials and supplies, such as lumber, plumbing goods, electrical goods, tools, housewares, hardware, and lawn and garden supplies, with no one merchandise line predominating.

•    Injected Molded Signs: Any sign constructed of plastic or fiberglass produced by a mold process.

•    Internet Café: A business with a series of computer terminals with Internet or game access that sells use time in increments to the public.

•    Light Assembly: A facility whose primary use is assembling items which do not create any danger to health and safety in surrounding areas, which do not create offensive noise, vibration, smoke, dust, odor, heat or glare, and which by reason of high value in relation to size and weight of product or merchandise handled, does not create large volumes of truck traffic.

•    Lighting, Night-time: Evening illumination of downtown buildings and areas, both public and private. Private evening lighting should follow the tone and precepts of the Criteria for an environment that is cordial, welcoming, and even quietly exciting, but not chaotic or raucous.

•    Mansard Roof: A mansard roof in contemporary commercial architecture is actually not a roof at all. A mansard is typically a single sloped structure “tacked on” to the edge of a flat roof to give the appearance of a traditional roof or to hide the flat roof and provide additional space for signs.

•    Masonry: Brickwork.

•    Massing: (See Configurations.) The bulk and three-dimensional space occupied by buildings and their neighbors.

•    Microbrewery: Any use where the square footage for brewing operations is equal to or greater than forty percent of the total business square footage.

•    Minor Repairs (Light Assembly): Bicycle assembly, simple auto repair and services, cabinet making, etc.

•    Mixed Use Development: The development of a site in an integrated, compatible and comprehensively planned manner with two or more different land uses, only one of which would normally not be permitted in the underlying zone. (Ord. 1981)

•    Monolithic: Refers to a building’s scale being bulky, boxy, and/or too large for its context.

•    Open Space: The spaces between, behind, and on upper levels of buildings that can be used to enhance people’s use and introduce elements of the natural landscape into the built environment.

•    Optical Goods Stores: Establishments primarily engaged in one or more of the following: (1) retailing and fitting prescription eyeglasses and contact lenses; (2) retailing prescription eyeglasses in combination with the grinding of lenses to order on the premises; and (3) selling nonprescription eyeglasses.

•    Paseos: A walkway that serves as a connector between parking facilities, commercial street frontage, and other popular destinations. Paseos are intended for use by the general public and may be either publicly or privately owned and maintained.

•    Pavers: Decorative material (such as brickwork, stone, stamped concrete or other elements) that forms a firm level surface for travel, in accessory to traditional street paving material.

•    Permitted Use: A use permitted by right within the designated land use classification. These uses must obtain a business license and a certificate of occupancy prior to commencement of the use.

•    Plant Materials: The range of natural vegetation that can be used to enhance open spaces and the streetscape. Plant materials native to, or long since introduced to this region should be used. The official flower of Coronado is the Crown of Bohemia Hibiscus.

•    Prohibited: A use that is not permitted within the designated land use classification.

•    Proprietary Design: Used herein to cite those facades, parts of buildings, complete buildings, and signs and symbols that are fabricated elsewhere, generally as part of the corporate image of products and businesses, and erected in many communities usually with scant regard for their environmental, historic, cultural or social appropriateness.

•    Recessed Entry: An entryway that is inset from the rest of the building’s façade, increasing the distance between the right-of-way and the structure’s entry.

•    Renovation: Restoring, repair, remodeling and/or recycling of an existing building and its facade. The Design Criteria apply with special force to the facades and open spaces of these buildings.

•    Rhythm: Combination of a number of elements that produce the overall impact of the streetscape. They include relationships of building openings, rooflines, colors, awnings & trellises, open spaces, and the public precincts of the streets and sidewalks. When designed in context with existing neighbors, buildings can evoke interesting rhythms, modulated or syncopated in turn. When a design is out of context, it can produce discordant and unsettling rhythms.

•    Sight Triangle Requirements: In the case of corner lots in the Specific Plan area, the sight triangle refers to an area created by a line connecting points along the street curb lines which are established 50 feet in distance from the intersection of such curb lines at the corner of a block.

•    Special Effects: The “extras” in the public and private environment that can make a community livelier and more pleasurable. They include fountains and other uses of water; murals, sculpture and other public and private art works; kiosks, flower stalls, and temporary displays of interest to the community. Plazas, courts and other places to move in and congregate can be powerful special effects that make a downtown memorable.

•    Special Qualities, Coronado’s: Coronado is a community enriched by its setting of beach and water and lush greenery; notable in its colorful history; resplendent in a rich variety of architectural styles; and fortunate in a continually concerned and involved citizenry. The designer who appreciates and utilizes all these qualities will enhance his or her creativity; the one who ignores or degrades them will encounter opposition and disdain.

•    Street Wall: The edges created by buildings and landscaping that enclose the street and create space.

•    Streetscape: The confluence in visual and sensory experience of the observer of all the manmade and natural aspects of the environment in the urban scene. Includes street furniture, public signing, surfaces and textures and colors of public and private elements, landscaping; indeed, all the design elements treated in these Criteria.

•    Symbols: Three dimensional, bas relief or intaglio objects that can adorn buildings to proclaim products, services, or simply act as decoration.

•    Transom: The horizontal division or crossbar in a window. A window opening above a door.

•    Trellises: Coverings for pedestrian passageways and courtyard areas and arcades. Can be of wood or metal. Appropriate for supporting signs, symbols, banners, flags, and vines.

•    Uptown Commercial Area: The approximate area encompassed by the 100 block of Orange Avenue and the two blocks located immediately east, between Orange Avenue and B Street.