“Parcel” means a continuous quantity of land in the possession of or owned by, or recorded as the property of, the same person or persons.

“Park and ride facility” means a parking area designated for commuters using public transportation.

“Park, community” means a regional facility including athletic fields and/or ball fields and/or other improvements for organized activities, open space for passive recreation, playgrounds and similar facilities. A community park serves an area of over 10,000 in population and is 20 to 100 acres.

“Park, neighborhood” means a combination playground and park of five to 20 acres designed primarily for nonsupervised, non-organized recreation activities serving an area of 2,000 to 10,000 population within a quarter to one-half mile service area.

“Park, private/HOA” means privately owned outdoor premises, available for community use, containing recreational areas, common space, or playground equipment. A private park is owned and maintained by an individual, company or homeowners association. The park grounds and recreational facilities shall be for the sole use of residents living in the area or subdivision where such facilities are located and shall not be used for commercial purposes.

“Park, urban” means an area that may be improved for the purpose of providing public access and use in a manner consistent with its recreational, educational, cultural, historical, or aesthetic qualities. This type of facility may include passive recreation, playground, garden, picnic area, path or trail, seating area, restroom, or similar activities.

“Parking garage” means a building, or portion of building, or area beneath a building or structure, except those described as a private garage, used for the parking only of automotive vehicles.

“Parking lot and/or garage” means an off-street facility used for the storage or parking of motor vehicles to provide an accessory service to a commercial, industrial, public or residential use. See also “Private garage.”

“Parking space” means an area of not less than 8.5 feet wide by 18 feet long, for each automobile or motor vehicle, such space being exclusive of necessary driving aisles, entrances, or exits, and being fully accessible for the storage or parking of permitted vehicles.

“Parking structure” means a stand-alone structure used for the storage or parking of motor vehicles. The footprint of a parking structure will be included in the calculation of lot coverage. See also SMC 17.20.080, “garage.”

“Party of record” means a person, group, or organization that is an applicant or has provided written comment or verbal testimony during a public hearing, or has requested in writing to be a party of record in a particular case.

“Pawnshop” means an establishment that offers secured loans to people, with items of personal property used as collateral.

“Performance bond or guarantee” means a financial device to insure that all improvements, facilities, or work required by this code will be completed in compliance with the approved plans and specifications of a development.

“Perimeter landscape” means a continuous area of land, required to be set aside along the perimeter of a lot, in which landscaping is used to provide a transition between uses and/or to reduce the environmental, aesthetic, and other impacts of one type of land use or activity upon another.

“Permit” means any license, certificate, approval, or other entitlement for use granted by any public agency.

Permit, Site Development. See “Site development permit.”

“Permittee” means a person receiving any permit pursuant to the provisions of this code.

“Person” means any individual, organization, partnership, association, corporation, or other entity, including any utility, the city of Stanwood, the governments of Snohomish County or the state of Washington, the government of the United States, any department, agency, board, authority, or commission of such governments, and any officer or governing or managing body of any of the foregoing.

“Personal service” means a land use devoted primarily to non-office services, including beauty parlors, shops or salons; barbershops; reducing or slenderizing studios; electrolysis services; manicurists; and the like.

“Pet, domestic” means three or fewer cats or dogs or similar domesticated animals.

“Pharmacy” means a business where prescription drugs are dispensed by a licensed pharmacist. Pharmacies are typically located in drug stores where prescription drugs and other miscellaneous merchandise are sold, and/or included as an accessory use in supermarkets.

“Photo processing service” means an establishment providing photo processing services and photographic equipment and goods.

“Photocopy/private mail center” means an establishment providing photocopy services including digital and offset printing and private mail boxes and mail or package delivery services.

“Photographic equipment/camera shop” means an establishment selling photographic equipment and camera supplies and goods.

“Physical or natural sciences” means one of the sciences dealing with inanimate matter or natural resources. For the purposes of this code, this term shall include, but not be limited to, forestry, geography, ecology, biology, wildlife biology, fisheries biology, geology, engineering, architecture, landscape architecture, soil science, horticulture and agronomy.

“Pier” (SMP) means docks and similar structures consisting of a fixed or floating platform extending from the shore over the water. This definition does not include over-water trails.

“Place of public assembly” means any area, building or structure where large numbers of individuals meet or collect to participate or to observe programs of participation. Places of public assembly shall include theaters, auditoriums, gymnasiums, stadiums, houses of worship, or comparable facilities.

“Planned residential development” means land under unified control to be planned and developed as a whole in a single development operation or a programmed series of development operations or phases. A planned residential development generally has uses including residential and recreational that are designed to be in a harmonious relationship with each other. Such a development is built according to specific plans that include not only streets, utilities, lots, and building locations, but also site plans for all buildings that are intended to be located, constructed, used and related to each other and plans for other uses and improvements on the land as related to the buildings.

“Planning commission” means that agency established by the council as provided in Chapters 35.63 or 35A.63 RCW, and as hereafter amended.

“Plant communities” means a natural association of plants that are dominated by one or more prominent species.

“Plant nursery” means an enterprise, establishment, or portion thereof that conducts the retailing or wholesaling of plants grown on the site, as well as accessory items (but not farm implements) directly related to their care and maintenance. The accessory items normally sold include items such as clay pots, potting soil, fertilizers, insecticides, hanging baskets, rakes, and shovels.

“Plat” means a map, plan, or layout of a subdivision of land, indicating the location and boundaries of individual properties.

Plat, Final. See “Final plat.”

“Playground” means a piece of land used for and usually equipped with facilities for recreation especially by children. This definition includes small parcels developed as “tot lots” and may include playground equipment such as swings, slides and climbing structures.

“Plot” means a parcel of ground containing more than one lot upon which a building and its accessory buildings have been or may be erected.

“Post office” means a facility authorized by a postal system for the posting, receipt, sorting, handling, transmission and delivery of mail. Post offices offer mail-related services such as post office boxes, postage and packaging supplies.

“Post-secondary school” means an institution providing a post-secondary level of education that is provided at academies, universities, colleges, seminaries, institutes of technology, and certain other collegiate-level institutions, such as vocational schools, trade schools, and career colleges, that award academic degrees or professional certifications.

“Potable water” means water that is intended for drinking, cooking, or domestic purposes, subject to compliance with state or federal drinking water standards.

“Preliminary approval” means the official action taken on a preliminary plat, subdivision, project or dedication by the city. The applicant shall be entitled to final approval when all conditions attached to the preliminary approval are met or improvements have been provided.

“Preliminary plat” means an approximate drawing showing the layout of a proposed subdivision, including streets, alleys, lots and open space, and containing all elements required by this code. The preliminary plat shall be the basis for the approval or disapproval of the final plat.

“Premises” means land and all buildings and structures thereon.

“Preschool facility” means an educational center or establishment, including a kindergarten, that provides primarily instruction, supplemented by daytime care, for four or more children between the ages of two and five years, and which operates on a regular basis.

“Preserve areas” means areas restricted for the protection and preservation of natural or cultural resources.

“Primary association” means a habitat area by critical species for rearing young, roosting, feeding, or foraging on a regular basis during the appropriate season.

“Principal or main building” means a building in which is conducted the primary use of the lot on which it is situated.

“Principal use” means the main use of land or buildings as distinguished from a subordinate or accessory use.

“Printing and publishing” means an establishment providing printing and publishing services.

“Printing, publishing or allied industry” means an industry for the process of printing or the reproduction of text and image, typically with ink on paper using a printing press. It is often carried out as a large-scale industrial process, and is an essential part of publishing and transaction printing.

“Priority habitat” means habitat type or elements with unique or significant value to one or more species as classified by the Department of Fish and Wildlife. A priority habitat may consist of a unique vegetation type or dominant plant species, a described successional stage, or a specific structural element (WAC 173-26-020(34)).

“Private” means noncommercial use by the occupant and guests of the occupant.

“Private automobile parking area” means an open area, located on the same lot with a dwelling or hotel, for parking automobiles of the occupants of such buildings.

“Private clubs” means organizations that are privately owned and operated by their members and not operated for profit, and which maintain recreational, dining, and/or athletic facilities for the exclusive use of the members and their guests and uses accessory or incidental thereto.

“Private garage” means an accessory building primarily for the storage of self-propelled vehicles for the use of occupants of a lot on which such building is located. The foregoing definition shall be construed to permit the storage on any one lot for the occupants thereof within such garage, of commercial vehicles that otherwise may be used as private vehicles. However, this shall not be construed to include construction equipment or vehicles with a rated base curb weight in excess of 5,000 pounds.

“Private parking” means parking facilities for the noncommercial use of the occupant and guests of the occupant, which includes garages and carports as long as dimensional requirements of off-street parking are met.

“Private road” means an easement or parcel created to provide access from a right-of-way to a lot, the maintenance of which shall be the responsibility of the lot owners having access thereto.

“Private road” means that easement or parcel created to provide the access from a city road to short platted lots, the maintenance of which is to be the responsibility of the lot owners.

“Professional consultant” means the conduct of business by providing expertise to clients for a fee for service in any of the following related categories: architecture, landscape architecture, engineering, planning, law, medicine, music, art, interior design, writing, education, or any similar type of business.

“Professional office” means the office of a person engaged in any occupation, vocation, or calling, not purely commercial, mechanical, or agricultural, in which a professed knowledge or skill in some department of science or learning is used by its practical application to the affairs of others, either advising or guiding them in serving their interest or welfare through the practice of an art founded thereon.

“Public access” (SMP) means physical and/or visual approach to and along the shoreline available to the general public.

“Public agency” means the government of the United States, the governments of the state of Washington, Snohomish County, the city of Stanwood, or any department, agency, board, authority, or commission of these governments, and any officer or governing or managing body of any of the foregoing.

“Public automobile parking area” means an open area, other than a street or private automobile parking area, designed to be used for the parking of two or more automobiles.

“Public building” means any building held, used, or controlled exclusively for public purposes by any department or branch of government without reference to the ownership of the building or of the realty upon which it is situated.

“Public highways” means every way, lane, road, street, and boulevard, and every way or place in the state open as a matter of right to public vehicular travel both inside and outside the limits of cities and towns, and includes community arterials, neighborhood streets and residential streets, some of which may or may not be portions of the primary or secondary highway system of the state.

“Public improvement” means any improvement, facility, or service, together with customary improvements and appurtenances thereto, necessary to provide for public needs such as vehicular and pedestrian circulation systems, storm sewers, flood control improvements, water supply and distribution facilities, sanitary sewage disposal and treatment, public utility, and energy services.

“Public notice” means the legal advertisement given of an action or proposed action of the city of Stanwood or its designee.

“Public safety station” means a facility used for police and fire services.

“Public street” means a street affording the principal means of access to abutting property, and dedicated to or maintained by the city of Stanwood, Snohomish County, or the state of Washington.

“Public transit storage and maintenance facility” means a facility used for public transit storage and maintenance.

“Public transit terminal” means a terminal used for public transit.

“Public use” means the use of any land, water, or building by a public agency for the general public, or by the public itself.

“Public utility” means any person, firm, corporation, governmental department, or board duly authorized under government regulations to furnish electricity, gas, communications, transportation, or water to the public.

“Publishing” means the commercial production and issuance of literature, information, musical scores or sometimes recordings or art. (Ord. 1499 § 1 (Exh. A), 2021; Ord. 1373 § 15, 2014; Ord. 1294 §§ 5, 6, 2011; Ord. 1164 § 4, 2004; Ord. 1110 § 3, 2002; Ord. 929 Ch. 5, 1995).