7.88.040 Definitions.
For purposes of this chapter, the following terms shall be defined as set forth below:
"Building" means any structure having a roof supported by columns or by walls and designed for the shelter or housing of any person, chattel or property of any kind. The word "building" includes the word "structure."
"Emergency services" means emergency attendant care, transportation services and adaptive/assistive medical equipment repair, as well as coordination with governmental agencies to provide such services where and when appropriate. "Emergency services" does not mean services which the City is not independently required to provide by nondiscrimination or other laws.
"Improvements" means all buildings or structures erected or affixed to the land.
"Incidental case management" means individualized case management for severely physically disabled individuals who use the services funded by this chapter and which is designed to minimize such individuals’ use of and dependence on such services.
"Parcel" means a unit of real estate in one ownership as shown on the most current official assessment role of the Alameda County Assessor.
"Severely physically disabled" means subject to a physical impairment that substantially limits one or more of the major life activities of an individual such that the individual must rely on personal assistance services or equipment to perform a major life activity or to avoid being institutionalized. "Severely physically disabled" may include environmental illness/multiple chemical sensitivities if it substantially limits one or more of the major life activities of an individual such that the individual must rely on personal assistance services or equipment to perform a major life activity or to avoid being institutionalized.
"Square footage" means the total gross horizontal areas of all floors, including usable basement and cellars, below the roof and within the outer surface of the main walls of buildings (or the center lines of party walls separating such buildings or portions thereof) or within lines drawn parallel to and two feet within the roof line of any building or portion thereof without walls (which includes, notwithstanding subsection 3 of this definition, the square footage of all porches), and including pedestrian access walkways or corridors, but excluding the following:
1. Areas used for off-street parking spaces or loading berths and driveways and maneuvering aisles relating thereto.
2. Areas which are outdoor or semi-outdoor areas included as part of the building to provide a pleasant and healthful environment for the occupants thereof and the neighborhood in which the building is located. This exempted area is limited to stoops, balconies and to natural ground areas, terraces, pools and patios which are landscaped and developed for active or passive recreational use, and which are accessible for use by occupants of the building.
3. Arcades, porticoes, and similar open areas which are located at or near street level, which are accessible to the general public, and which are not designed or used as sales, display, storage, service or production areas.
"Structure" means anything constructed or erected, the use of which requires location on the ground or attachment to something having location on the ground. (Ord. 6468-NS § 4, 1998)