“Tailor” means an establishment providing repair of clothing and/or custom designed garments made to the client’s measure, especially suits (coat and trousers, jacket and skirt, et cetera).

“Tattoo parlor” means a business designing and creating permanent graphic images on the human body. A tattoo parlor may also include piercing.

“Tavern” means a business conducted entirely within a building where beer and/or wine is served to the public, which holds a class “A” or “B” license from the Washington State Liquor Control Board. Limited food service and live entertainment may be provided as an accessory use. The term “tavern” excludes bars/cocktail lounges, night clubs and restaurants.

“Technical review” means that review meeting conducted by the planning director, public works director, or their designee(s) with the applicant and other personnel, when reports, studies and other information are completed to inform the applicant of mitigative measures or other project issues that need to be addressed prior to approval.

“Temporary building or structure” means a building or structure not having or requiring permanent attachment to the ground or to other structures which have no required permanent attachment to the ground.

“Temporary use” means common land uses that may require a permit such as: carnivals, construction offices and yards, model homes that serve as sales centers in a subdivision, outdoor revival meetings, food trucks, pop-up restaurants or crafts shops, produce stands, Christmas tree stands, fireworks stands, and disaster relief kiosks or offices. City sponsored events or approved special event permits are not considered temporary uses.

“Theater” means a building or part of a building, devoted to showing motion pictures, or for dramatic, musical, or live performances.

“Thrift store” means an establishment that sells secondhand articles and clothes and is often run for charitable purposes.

“Through lot” means an interior lot having frontages on two parallel streets as distinguished from a corner lot, which has frontages on two perpendicular streets (also referred to as a “double-frontage lot”).

“Tobacco shop” means an establishment selling manufactured products of tobacco such as cigars or cigarettes.

“Toe of slope” means the point on a slope above which is not a landslide area and below which is a landslide hazard area.

“Top of slope” means the point on a slope above which is a landslide hazard area and below which is not a landslide hazard area.

“Topography” means, on a map, accurately drawn lines that represent particular and consistent elevation levels on the land area depicted on said drawing; also, the actual physical surface’s relief characteristics.

“Tour bus lot” means a paved parking area provided at hotels, various shopping areas, and tourist attractions for the accommodation of tour buses. Each parking space for a tour bus shall be 12 feet wide and 50 feet long, with appropriate additional space to accommodate all turning and maneuvering needs in a safe and efficient manner. A tour bus lot shall not be construed to include the overnight parking and/or storage for these vehicles, nor shall this definition include the cleaning or maintenance area for tour buses.

“Tower” means any structure whose principal function is to support an antenna, or has been built to store water or to provide air traffic control services, or is used in the recreational activity known as “bungee jumping.”

“Towing” means a service that provides the towing of a disabled vehicle or trailer, and involving its removal from the point where the vehicle or trailer became disabled to another location using whatever standard towing equipment or special towing equipment is available.

“Townhouse or rowhouse” means a dwelling unit designed exclusively for occupancy by one family, no portion of which lies vertically under or over any portion of an adjacent unit, and which is attached to one or more other dwelling units by common walls which may be located on side lot lines.

“Tract” means an area of land. This term is used interchangeably with the term “lot” or “block,” particularly in the context of subdivisions, where one “tract” may be subdivided into several lots or blocks.

“Traditional neighborhood” means a development that incorporates a range of uses, housing options, and transportation options that historically might have developed in a neighborhood before the advent of typical single-use, auto-oriented subdivisions.

“Trail” means a path paved or unpaved used for walking, hiking, running, bicycling and/or horseback riding.

“Trailer” means a separate vehicle, not driven or propelled by its own power, but drawn by some independent power, to include any portable or movable structure or vehicle including trailers designed for living quarters, offices, storage, or for moving or hauling freight, equipment, animals, or merchandise of any kind, including boats, boat trailers, jet skis, half tracks, snowmobiles, and the like.

“Travel agency” means a business that sells travel-related products and services to customers, on behalf of suppliers such as airlines, car rentals, cruise lines, hotels, railways, and sightseeing tours, and package holidays that combine several products.

“Travel trailer” means a vehicle with or without motor power primarily designed as temporary living quarters for recreational, camping, or travel use, and in which the plumbing, heating, and electrical systems contained therein may be operated without connection to outside utilities, being of such size or weight as not to require a special highway movement permit. The term shall include truck campers.

“Treasurer” means the treasurer of Snohomish County, Washington.

“Trip” means a single or one-way vehicle movement.

“Trip end” means the origin or destination of a trip. Each trip has two ends that constitute a two-direction vehicle movement at the origin or destination of the trip.

“Trip generation” means the total number of trip ends produced by a specific land use or activity.

“Truck service and repair” means a service establishment that performs repairs to vehicles with a rated base curb weight in excess of 5,000 pounds. Repairs may include activities such as engine/transmission overhauls, and/or body work, which require more than one working day. This definition excludes outdoor truck sales and outdoor truck repair and/or service work. No body-damaged vehicles or vehicle components shall be exposed to view from a public roadway.

“Twenty-year flood” means the highest level of flooding that, on average, is likely to occur once every 20 years. (Ord. 1499 § 1 (Exh. A), 2021; Ord. 1294 § 5, 2011; Ord. 1267 § 5, 2010; Ord. 1251 § 4, 2009; Ord. 1164 § 4, 2004; Ord. 1110 § 3, 2002; Ord. 929 Ch. 5, 1995).