4-11-130 DEFINITIONS M:

MAIN STREET: A style of urban commercial development featuring concentrated retail and service uses along a street designed for use by both pedestrians and vehicles.

MAJOR SERVICE UTILITY: Public or private utilities which provide services beyond the City’s boundaries, i.e., pipelines, natural gas, water, sewer, petroleum; electrical transmission lines fifty five (55) kv or greater; and regional sewer or water treatment plants, etc.

MANUFACTURED HOME: A residential structure, transportable in one or more sections, that is built on a permanent chassis and is designed for use with or without a permanent foundation when connected to the required utilities. This definition also includes mobile homes constructed prior to the enactment of the National Manufactured Home Construction and Safety Standards Act of 1974. If located within a manufactured or mobile home park, recreational vehicles shall be included in this definition if either (i) the vehicle contains at least one internal toilet and at least one internal shower, or (ii) the manufactured or mobile home park provides community showers and toilets.

MANUFACTURED HOME PARK OR SUBDIVISION: A parcel (or contiguous parcels) of land “divided” into two (2) or more manufactured home lots for rent or sale.

MANUFACTURED HOME PARK OR SUBDIVISION, EXISTING: A manufactured home park subdivision for which the construction of facilities for servicing the lots on which the manufactured homes are to be affixed (including, at a minimum, the installation of utilities, the construction of streets, and either final site grading or the pouring of concrete pads) is completed before the effective date of adopted floodplain management regulations.

MANUFACTURED HOME PARK OR SUBDIVISION, NEW: A manufactured home park or subdivision for which the construction of facilities for servicing the lots on which the manufactured homes are to be affixed (including at a minimum, the installation of utilities, the construction of streets, and either final site grading or the pouring of concrete pads) is completed on or after the effective date of adopted floodplain management regulations.

MANUFACTURING, AIRPLANE: Limited to manufacture of airplanes; sale of airplanes manufactured and/or assembled on-site; and research, development and testing of airplanes and related components.

MANUFACTURING, AIRPLANE ACCESSORY FUNCTIONS: Includes, as secondary functions when dependent upon the primary activity of airplane production and sales: office; storage; warehouse and distribution; aircraft painting and other associated aircraft painting/sealing activities; trucking terminal, including loading and unloading; auto repair and fuel dispensing; hazardous materials storage and distribution; aircraft engine testing; metal processing; food service; retail sales of products related to airplane production; on-site medical and emergency services, such as clinic, fire suppression, and security; barging; reclamation; and parking, when designated for employees and visitors.

MANUFACTURING AND FABRICATION, HEAVY: The transformation of materials or substances into new products including construction and assembling of component parts, and the blending of materials such as lubricating oils, plastics, resins or liquors. Heavy manufacturing and fabrication are often characterized by the need for large outdoor areas in which to conduct operations, and typically results in environmental impacts beyond their own sites. This definition includes, but is not limited to: manufacture and fabrication of automotive vehicles and their parts, cement, brick, lime, gypsum, asphalt, and other manufacturing and fabrication uses as determined by the Community and Economic Development Administrator. This definition excludes slaughterhouses, manufacture of shellac, varnish or turpentine, paper, pulp, rubber from crude material, refining and/or manufacturing of petroleum by-products except as an accessory use of less than fifty thousand (50,000) gallons.

MANUFACTURING AND FABRICATION, LIGHT: The transformation of materials or substances into new products including construction and assembling of component parts, and the blending of materials such as lubricating oils, plastics, resins or liquors. Light manufacturing and fabrication is characterized by the use being contained within buildings, and materials or equipment used in production not being stored outside. Light manufacturing and fabrication activities do not generate external emissions such as smoke, odor, noise, vibrations or other nuisances outside the building. This definition includes but is not limited to manufacture and fabrication of electronic components, office products, furniture, glass products, and other manufacturing and fabrication uses as determined by the Community and Economic Development Administrator. This definition excludes slaughterhouses, manufacture of shellac, varnish or turpentine, paper, pulp, rubber from crude material, refining and/or manufacturing of petroleum by-products except as an accessory use of less than fifty thousand (50,000) gallons.

MANUFACTURING AND FABRICATION, MEDIUM: The transformation of materials or substances into new products including construction and assembling of component parts, and the blending of materials such as lubricating oils, plastics, resins or liquors. Medium manufacturing and fabrication is characterized by need for only very limited areas of outdoor storage and may create minor external environmental impacts during the conduct of operations but most impacts are contained on-site. This definition includes but is not limited to manufacture and fabrication of alcoholic products, paints, printing ink, leather goods, and other manufacturing and fabrication uses as determined by the Community and Economic Development Administrator. This definition excludes slaughterhouses, manufacture of shellac, varnish or turpentine, paper, pulp, rubber from crude material, refining and/or manufacturing of petroleum by-products except as an accessory use of less than fifty thousand (50,000) gallons.

MARIJUANA COOPERATIVE: Persons that as qualified patients or designated providers, as defined by chapter 69.51A RCW, share responsibility for acquiring and supplying the resources needed to produce and process marijuana in the residence of one of the members.

MARIJUANA PROCESSOR: A person or business entity that is licensed by the Washington State Liquor and Cannabis Board, under RCW 69.50.325 (Marijuana producer’s license) and/or RCW 69.50.328 (Marijuana producers, processors – No direct or indirect financial interest in licensed marijuana retailers), and related sections of the RCW, as they exist or may be amended, to process, package, and label useable marijuana and marijuana-infused products for sale at wholesale to marijuana retailers.

MARIJUANA PRODUCER: A person or business entity that is licensed by the Washington State Liquor and Cannabis Board, under RCW 69.50.325 (Marijuana producer’s license), and related sections of the RCW, as they exist or may be amended, to produce and sell marijuana at wholesale to marijuana processors and other marijuana producers.

MARIJUANA RETAIL: A person or business entity that is licensed by the Washington State Liquor and Cannabis Board, under RCW 69.50.354 (Retail outlets licenses), RCW 69.50.357 (Retail outlets – Rules), and related sections of the RCW, as they exist or may be amended, to sell useable marijuana and/or marijuana infused products and restrict entry to the premises to persons twenty one (21) years of age and older.

MARIJUANA TRANSPORTER: A person or business entity that is licensed by the Washington State Liquor and Cannabis Board, under RCW 69.50.385 (Common carriers – Licensing – State liquor and cannabis board to adopt rules), and related sections of the RCW, as they exist or may be amended, to transport marijuana plants, useable marijuana, and/or marijuana infused products to other marijuana licensees.

MARINA: A facility for storing, servicing, fueling, berthing, and securing and launching of private pleasure craft that may include the sale of fuel and incidental supplies for the boat owners, crews, and guests. This definition includes tie-up for float planes as well as pleasure boats, and other private pleasure craft.

MARINA: (This definition for RMC 4-3-090, Shoreline Master Program Regulations, use only.) A use providing moorage for pleasure craft, which also may include boat launching facilities, storage, sales, and other related services.

MARQUEE: A permanent roof structure, usually incorporating a sign, attached to and supported by the building and projecting over public property.

MASTER PLAN: A master plan is intended to show how proposed development will comply with the development standards in the applicable zoning. It also is intended to show compatibility of development within the master plan area, and compatibility of anticipated uses in areas adjacent to and abutting the master plan area. It provides long-term guidance for a smaller area than a conceptual redevelopment plan, but a larger area than a detailed site plan.

MASTER PROGRAM: The comprehensive shoreline use plan for the City of Renton and the use regulations, together with maps, diagrams, charts or other descriptive material and text, and a statement of desired goals and standards developed in accordance with the policies enunciated in Section 2 of the Act.

MATERIAL SAFETY DATA SHEET: Written or printed information concerning a hazardous material which is prepared in accordance with the provisions of 29 CFR 1910.1200.

MEAN SEA LEVEL: For purposes of the National Flood Insurance Program, the vertical datum to which Base Flood Elevations shown on a community’s Flood Insurance Rate Map are referenced.

MECHANICAL EQUIPMENT: Includes all motorized equipment used for earth moving, trenching, excavation, gardening, landscaping, and general property maintenance exceeding twenty seven (27) horsepower in size.

MEDICAL INSTITUTIONS: Facilities providing physical or mental health services, in-patient accommodations, and medical or surgical care of the sick or injured. Medical institutions are allowed one helipad as an accessory use, if functionally and architecturally integrated into the primary use, regardless of the treatment of helipads in the underlying zoning. This definition includes hospitals, clinics, hospices, and holistic health centers. This definition excludes medical and dental offices, convalescent centers, assisted living, and group homes I and II.

MEMBRANE LINER: See RMC 4-5-120G.

MINI-MART: A small retail establishment, usually located within or associated with another use, that offers for sale convenience goods such as food items, tobacco, periodicals and household goods.

MITIGATION BANK: Sites that, when approved by the City, may be used for restoration, creation and/or mitigation of wetlands altered on a different piece of property, but located within the same drainage basin.

MIXED USE: A building or site with two (2) or more different uses such as residential, office, manufacturing, retail, public or entertainment that are physically and functionally integrated and mutually supporting.

MIXED USE, HORIZONTAL: A mixed use development consisting of one or more single-use buildings within a parcel or site.

MIXED USE, VERTICAL: A single building that accommodates multiple uses, generally layered on a floor by floor basis, with active commercial uses (e.g., retail, restaurants, or on-site services) established at ground level with residential, visitor, office or other uses above.

MOBILE FOOD VENDING: A temporary use involving sale of retail food or beverages to the public from any vehicle, cart or wagon that is designed to be readily movable. Mobile food vending includes pushcarts, mobile kitchens, hot dog carts, pretzel wagons, or similar uses. A “mobile food vendor” includes the owners and operators of a mobile food vending use. This definition excludes drive-in/drive-through retail or service.

MOBILE HOME: See MANUFACTURED HOME.

MOBILE VENDOR: Retail sale of goods from a vehicle or mobile cart.

MODULATION: A measured and proportioned inflection or setback in a building’s face that breaks up an otherwise larger flat vertical plane into multiple offset sub-elements so as to reduce the apparent bulk.

MOORAGE: Any device or structure used to secure a vessel for temporary anchorage, but which is not attached to the vessels. Examples of moorage are docks or buoys.

MOTEL: A building or group of detached or connected buildings designed or used primarily for providing sleeping accommodations for automobile travelers and typically having a parking space adjacent to a sleeping accommodation. This definition excludes multi-family dwellings, bed and breakfasts, and hotels.

MOVIE THEATER: An indoor facility for showing movies, including accessory retail sales of food and beverages. This definition excludes adult entertainment businesses; entertainment clubs; and cultural facilities.

MS4: See RMC 4-6-100.

MULTIPLE-USE: (This definition for RMC 4-3-090, Shoreline Master Program Regulations, use only.) The combining of compatible uses within one development, in which water-oriented and non-water-oriented uses are included.

MUNICIPAL SEPARATE STORM SEWER SYSTEM: See RMC 4-6-100.

(Ord. 3719, 4-11-1983; Ord. 4071, 6-1-1987; Ord. 4219, 5-4-1992; Ord. 4346, 3-9-1992; Ord. 4577, 1-22-1996; Ord. 4665, 5-19-1997; Ord. 4715, 4-6-1998; Ord. 4716, 4-13-1998; Ord. 4777, 4-19-1999; Ord. 4821, 12-20-1999; Ord. 4835, 3-27-2000; Ord. 4851, 8-7-2000; Amd. Ord. 4963, 5-13-2002; Ord. 5028, 11-24-2003; Ord. 5124, 2-7-2005; Ord. 5125, 2-28-2005; Ord. 5387, 6-9-2008; Ord. 5404, 7-21-2008; Ord. 5432, 12-8-2008; Ord. 5478, 8-3-2009; Ord. 5522, 12-14-2009; Ord. 5570, 11-15-2010; Ord. 5633, 10-24-2011; Ord. 5676, 12-3-2012; Ord. 5707, 3-24-2014; Ord. 5816, 10-3-2016; Ord. 5899, 11-19-2018; Ord. 5908, 12-10-2018; Ord. 5977, 8-10-2020; Ord. 6077, 8-8-2022)