A. “Building frontage” means the facade of a building that fronts a public or private right-of-way or equivalent easement.

B. “City center” means the land area designated on the official zoning map comprised of the city center zones.

C. “Floor area ratio” or “FAR” means the gross floor area of all buildings or structures on a lot divided by the total lot area. For example, a 5,000-square-foot building on a 5,000-square-foot lot has a floor area ratio of 1.0 or 100 percent while the same building on a 10,000-square-foot lot would have a FAR of 0.50 or 50 percent. The FAR is used in calculating the building intensity of a development project.

D. “New development” means construction of a new building or the expansion of an existing building footprint (in which case that portion of the building being expanded shall constitute new development). Exterior reconstruction of existing buildings (involving wall and/or roof removal) within existing footprints, and construction of new facades, parapets, entrances, vestibules, and similar shall not constitute new development.

E. “Occupiable space” means spaces for uses such as retail, office, residential, personal service shops, customer serving offices, restaurant, entertainment, and the like. Structured parking and self-service storage facilities (mini-storage and similar spaces designed to contain objects, not persons, as the primary use) are not considered occupiable space.

F. “Parking, below grade” means any portion of a structure containing parking that is located below the average finished grade around a building.

G. “Parking, structured” means parking contained within a multi-story structure above grade.

H. “Promenade Street” means the public pedestrian and vehicular way along 198th Street SW identified in the city center subarea plan bounded on the east by 40th Avenue West and 44th Avenue West unless 198th Street SW is extended west of 44th Avenue, in which case the west boundary shall be the westerly terminus of 198th Street SW within the city center.

I. “Promenade walkway” means the pedestrian connection conceptually illustrated in the city center subarea plan that connects the Promenade Street to the Transit Center on the South and the Convention Center and towards Alderwood Mall on the North.

J. “Public plaza” means an open space that is accessible to the public at all times, predominantly open to the sky, and for use principally by people, as opposed to merely a setting for the building.

K. “Story” means the portion of a building included between the upper surface of the floor and the upper surface of the floor or roof next above, measured as the vertical distance from top to top of two successive tiers of beams or finished floor surfaces and for the topmost story, from the top of the floor finish to the top of the ceiling joists or, where there is not a ceiling, to the top of the roof rafters.

L. “Street level” means the portion of the building adjacent to, visible from, and accessible from a sidewalk.

M. “Street level retail” means any pedestrian-oriented use providing goods and services adjacent to, visible from, and accessible from the sidewalk such as retail stores, groceries, shoe repair shops, dry cleaners, floral shops, beauty and barber shops, art galleries, travel agencies, restaurants, theaters, public offices, libraries and other businesses that are intended to be pedestrian-attracting or pedestrian-generating in nature. (Ord. 3336 § 2, 2019; Ord. 3192 § 7, 2016; Ord. 2937 § 5, 2012; Ord. 2554 § 3, 2005)