4-11-180 DEFINITIONS R:
RAILROAD YARDS: An area for the switching, storing, assembling, distributing, consolidating, moving, repairing, weighing or transferring of cars, trains, engines, locomotives, and rolling stock.
REAR YARD: See YARD REQUIREMENT.
REASONABLE USE: A legal concept that has been articulated by Federal and State courts in regulatory takings issues.
RECEIVING BODIES OF WATER: Creeks, streams, rivers, lakes, storm sewers, wetlands and other bodies of water into which surface waters are directed, either naturally or in manmade ditches or open and closed systems.
RECOGNIZED HIGHER RISK: The handling, processing or storage of flammable, explosive, blasting or toxic agents and their related processes and/or activities which are generally considered as high hazard occupancy by agencies and/or publications, which include but are not limited to the Washington Surveying and Rating Bureau, the American Insurance Association as per its Fire Prevention Code and National Building Code, as the same may be amended from time to time as posing a higher risk on its neighbors and/or adjacent or nearby properties natural or manmade waterways, or which may tend to endanger environmental qualities before special actions are taken to mitigate adverse characteristics.
RECREATION: (This definition for RMC 4-3-090, Shoreline Master Program Regulations, use only.) The refreshment of body and mind through forms of play, amusement or relaxation. The recreational experience may be active, such as boating, fishing, and swimming, or may be passive such as enjoying the natural beauty of the shoreline or its wildlife. This definition includes both public and private facilities.
RECREATION, ACTIVE: Leisure-time activities sometimes requiring equipment and taking place at prescribed places, sites, or fields. Active recreation includes such activities as swimming, boating, tennis, fishing, soccer, etc.
RECREATION, PASSIVE: Activities that involve relatively inactive or less energetic activities, such as walking, sitting, reading, picnicking, and card, board, or table games.
RECREATIONAL FACILITIES, INDOOR: A place designed and equipped for the conduct of sports and leisure-time activities within an enclosed space. Examples include gymnasiums, amusement arcades, health and fitness clubs, indoor tennis and racquetball courts, bowling alleys, and indoor swimming pools. This definition excludes indoor sports arenas, auditoriums, and exhibition halls.
RECREATIONAL FACILITIES, OUTDOOR: A place designed and equipped for the conduct of sports and leisure-time activities with little or no enclosed space. Examples include: private (commercial or private club) outdoor tennis courts, private outdoor swimming pools, batting cages, amusement parks, miniature golf courses, golf driving ranges, and playgrounds. This definition excludes marinas, parks, golf courses and outdoor sports arenas.
RECREATIONAL VEHICLE: A vehicle that is:
1. Built on a single chassis; and
2. Four hundred (400) square feet or less when measured at the largest horizontal projection; and
3. Designed to be self-propelled or permanently towable by a light duty truck; and
4. Designed primarily not for use as a permanent dwelling but as temporary quarters for recreational, camping, travel, or seasonal use.
This definition includes, but is not limited to, motor homes and travel trailers.
RECREATIONAL VEHICLE: (This definition is for flood hazard regulations in RMC 4-3-050 use only.) A vehicle that is:
1. Built on a single chassis;
2. Four hundred (400) square feet or less when measured at the largest horizontal projection;
3. Designed to be self-propelled or permanently towable by a light duty truck; and
4. Designed primarily not for use as a permanent dwelling but as temporary living quarters for recreational, camping, travel, or seasonal use.
RECYCLABLES: Newspaper, uncoated mixed paper, aluminum, glass and metal food and beverage containers, polyethylene terepthalate (PET #1) plastic bottles, high density polyethylene (HDPE #2) plastic bottles, and such other materials that the City and contractor determine to be recyclable.
RECYCLABLES DEPOSIT AREA: In multi-family residences, commercial, industrial and other nonresidential development, the area(s) where recyclables will be stored.
RECYCLING COLLECTION AND PROCESSING CENTER: A facility where collected recyclable items are brought for sorting, compaction, transfer, and/or processing including changing the form of materials.
RECYCLING COLLECTION STATION: A container or containers for the collection of secondhand goods and recyclable materials.
REFUSE: A term synonymous with municipal solid waste (MSW) including all accumulations of waste matters discarded as of no further value to the owner, such as kitchen and table waste, wrappings and small discarded containers, and small dead animals weighing not over fifteen (15) pounds, but shall exclude all manure, sewage, large dead animals, petroleum products, cleanings from public and private catch basins, washracks or sumps, bulk waste, recyclables, yard waste and special or hazardous wastes.
REGULATED ACTIVITY: (For chapter 4-3 RMC, critical area regulation use only.) All existing and proposed activities located within a regulated critical area or critical area buffer.
REGULATED SUBSTANCES: See RMC 4-5-120G.
RELIGIOUS INSTITUTIONS: Churches, synagogues, temples and other places where gathering for worship is the principal purpose of the use. Typical accessory uses associated with this use include licensed day care facilities, playground, community meeting facilities, and private schools, rectory or convent, and offices for administration of the institution.
REMOVAL OF VEGETATION: The actual removal or causing the effective removal through damaging, poisoning, root destruction or other direct or indirect actions resulting in the death of a tree or other vegetation.
RENTAL UNIT: Any dwelling unit which is occupied pursuant to a lawful rental agreement, oral or written, express or implied, which was not owned as a condominium unit or cooperative unit on the effective date of RMC 4-9-040, Condominium Conversions. A dwelling unit in a converted building for which there has been no acceptance of an offer of sale as of October 15, 1979, shall be considered a rental unit.
REPAIR or MAINTENANCE: An activity that restores the character, scope, size, or design of a serviceable area, structure, or land use to its previously existing, authorized and undamaged condition. Activities that change the character, size, or scope of a project beyond the original design are not included in this definition.
RESEARCH – SCIENTIFIC (SMALL SCALE): The gathering of data, information, and facts for the advancement of knowledge. Small scale research is generally sponsored by an organization or government agency. Facilities may consist of temporary offices, sheds, or structures that have a small footprint. The uses have only limited impact on the underlying use of the site or environment as determined by the Community and Economic Development Administrator. Such scientific research may be conducted in a building or in the field, may include investigation, testing or experimentation for study, research education, mitigation, and demonstration of scientific principles and may be temporary in nature.
RESTRICTIVE COVENANT: A restriction on the use of land set forth in a formal binding agreement running with the land and binding upon subsequent owners of the property.
RETAIL SALES: Establishments within a permanent structure engaged in selling goods or merchandise available for immediate purchase and removal from the premises by the general public for personal or household consumption and rendering services incidental to the sale of such goods. This definition includes department stores, retail shops, grocery stores and large format retailers developing using a multi-story format. This definition excludes adult retail uses, vehicle sales, wholesale retail, outdoor retail sales, eating and drinking establishments, and taverns.
RETAIL SALES, OUTDOOR: The display and sale of products and services primarily outside of a building or structure, including but not limited to garden supplies, tires and motor oil, farmers markets, manufactured homes, burial monuments, building and landscape materials, lumber yards, vending machines, and retail product lockers. This definition excludes adult retail uses, or vehicle sales.
RETAIL, WHOLESALE: A retail establishment accessible by the public engaged in selling goods or merchandise to the general public as well as other retailers, contractors, or businesses, and rendering services incidental to the sale of such goods, involving a high volume of sales of products in a warehouse setting, and may include, but is not limited to, membership warehouse clubs that emphasize bulk sales, “big-box retail,” discount stores, and outlet stores. This definition excludes warehousing, warehousing and distribution, vehicle sales, outdoor retail sales, and adult retail uses. Wholesale retail is differentiated from general retail by any of the following characteristics:
1. Items for sale include large, categorized products, e.g., lumber, appliances, household furnishings, electrical and heating fixtures and supplies, wholesale and retail nursery stock, etc.; and may also include a variety of carry-out goods (e.g., groceries, household, and personal care products);
2. A large inventory of goods and merchandise is stored on the subject site in high-ceiling warehouse areas, high-rack displays, and/or outdoor storage areas; and
3. High-volume truck traffic, regular pick-up and delivery of large items, and a designated contractor pick-up area.
RETAINING WALL: A wall designed to resist lateral earth and/or fluid pressures, including any surcharge, in accordance with accepted engineering practice. For the purposes of this Title, a “rockery” or “rock wall” is a type of retaining wall. Structural components of stormwater facilities shall not be interpreted to be a retaining wall.
RETAINING WALL HEIGHT: The vertical distance measured from the bottom of the footing to the finish grade at the top of the wall (i.e., upper soil grade).
RETAINING WALL HEIGHT, EXPOSED: The vertical distance measured from the finish grade at the bottom of the wall (i.e., lower soil grade) to the finish grade at the top of the wall (i.e., upper soil grade). This height does not include the depth of footing below grade.
RIPARIAN AREA: The upland area immediately adjacent to and paralleling a body of water and is usually composed of trees, shrubs and other plants. Riparian functions include bank and channel stability, sustained water supply, flood storage, recruitment of woody debris, leaf litter, nutrients, sediment and pollutant filtering, shade, shelter, and other functions that are important to both fish and wildlife.
ROADWAY: That portion of a street intended for the accommodation of vehicular traffic, generally within curb lines.
ROCKERY: One or more courses of rocks stacked against an exposed soil face to protect the soil face from erosion and sloughing. The bottom course of rocks bears on the foundation soils and the upper rocks bear partially or entirely on the rocks below. A rockery is also known as a “rock wall.”
ROOFS, PITCHED: A shed, gabled or hipped roof having a slope or pitch of at least one foot (1') rise for each four feet (4') of horizontal distance in the direction of the slope or pitch of the roof.
ROUTINE VEGETATION MANAGEMENT: Tree and other vegetation management undertaken as part of a regularly scheduled program of maintenance and repair of property.
(Ord. 3366, 10-15-1979; Ord. 4346, 3-9-1992; Ord. 4351, 5-4-1992; Ord. 4367, 9-14-1992; Ord. 4426, 11-8-1993; Ord. 4521, 6-5-1995; Ord. 4522, 6-5-1995; 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. 5137, 4-25-2005; Ord. 5355, 2-25-2008; Ord. 5387, 6-9-2008; Ord. 5432, 12-8-2008; Ord. 5589, 2-28-2011; Ord. 5633, 10-24-2011; Ord. 5676, 12-3-2012; Ord. 5747, 1-12-2015; Ord. 5841, 6-12-2017; Ord. 5917, 12-10-2018; Ord. 5977, 8-10-2020; Ord. 6100, 12-5-2022)