“Occupancy” means the physical utilization of a structure or land on a temporary or permanent basis. This includes existing structures built prior to the enactment of this code that do not have authorization by virtue of a valid permit issued.

“Office” means a building or portion of a building wherein services are performed involving predominantly administrative, professional, or clerical operations.

“Office furnishings and equipment store” means an establishment that sells office furnishings and office equipment.

“Office park” means a tract of land that has been planned, developed, and operates as an integrated facility for at least three separate office buildings and supporting ancillary uses, with special attention given to circulation, parking, aesthetics, and compatibility.

“Office supplies” means supplies regularly used in offices by businesses and other organizations, from private citizens to governments.

“Official plans” means those official maps or map or portions thereof, adopted by ordinance by the council as provided in Chapter 35.63 RCW, and as hereafter amended.

“Off-street parking” means the minimum off-street, on-site parking of vehicles that shall be provided under the terms of this code.

“On-site” means located on the lot in question, except in the context of on-site detention, when the term means within the boundaries of the development site as a whole.

One-Hundred-Year Flood or 100-Year Flood. See “Base flood.”

“Open space” means an area that is intended to provide light and air, and is designed or preserved for environmental, habitat, scenic or recreational purposes.

“Open space” (SMP) means an area that is intended to provide light and air, view, use or passage of persons or animals which is almost entirely unobstructed by buildings, paved areas, or other manmade structures and is designed or preserved for environmental, habitat, scenic or recreational purposes.

Open Space, Usable. See “Usable open space.”

“Optician” means a maker of or dealer in optical items and instruments or a person who reads prescriptions for visual correction, orders lenses, and dispenses eyeglasses and contact lenses.

“Ordinary high water mark” means the mark on all lakes and streams that will be found by examining the beds and banks and ascertaining where the presence and action of waters are so common and usual, and so long continued in all ordinary years, as to mark upon the soil a character distinct from that of the abutting upland and vegetation, as that condition exists on the effective date of this code, or as it may naturally change thereafter. In any area where the ordinary high water mark cannot be found, it shall be the line of the mean high tide in areas adjoining salt water, and the line of mean high water in areas adjoining freshwater.

“Ordinary high water mark” (SMP) means the mark on all lakes, streams, and tidal water that will be found by examining the bed and banks and ascertaining where the presence and action of waters are so common and usual, and so long continued in all ordinary years, as to mark upon the soil a character distinct from that of the abutting upland, in respect to vegetation as that condition existed on June 1, 1971, as it may naturally change thereafter, or as it may change thereafter in accordance with permits issued by a local government or the department; provided, that in any area where the ordinary high water mark cannot be found, the ordinary high water mark adjoining salt water shall be the line of mean higher high tide and the ordinary high water mark adjoining freshwater shall be the line of mean high water.

“Ordinary residential improvements” means those structures and facilities which are commonly found with, and are incidental to the development and use of a single-family residence and are located landward of the ordinary high water mark including, but not limited to, garages, decks, driveways and serving utility systems.

“Other advertising structure” means any marquee, canopy, awning, or street clock as further defined in this code.

“Other schools” means places for systematic instruction, to include trade, vocational/technical, art, music, dance, and business schools or similar type institutions.

“Outdoor sale” means the selling of any goods, material, merchandise, or vehicles for more than 24 consecutive hours, in an area open to the sky and/or visible from adjacent properties or rights-of-way. The display of said goods, material, merchandise, or vehicles shall, for the purpose of this code, constitute a sale.

“Outside storage” or “outdoor storage” means the safekeeping of any goods or products in an unoccupied space, open to the sky, for eventual removal not expected within 72 hours or for continuous replacement by same or similar goods or products.

“Overlay zone” means a zoning district that encompasses one or more underlying zones and that imposes additional requirements beyond that required by the underlying zone. (Ord. 1486 § 1 (Exh. A), 2020; Ord. 1373 § 14, 2014; Ord. 1294 § 5, 2011; Ord. 1110 § 3, 2002; Ord. 1098 § 1, 2001; Ord. 929 Ch. 5, 1995).