School (commercial) means a privately owned school which provides instruction and training in the arts, such as drama, dance and music, or which offers instruction and training to students in the use of office machines and equipment, one or more of the trades, real estate operations or financial services.

School (private or charter) means a school offering the equivalent educational curriculum of a public school but that is operated by someone other than the Pinellas County School District.

School (public) means a school operated by the Pinellas County School District.

Secondary front yard. See “Yard – Secondary front yard”.

Services, commercial/business, mean an occupation or service involving the sale, storage, repair, service or rental of machinery, equipment or like merchandise or a facility which serves as the base for construction, plumbing, heating and air conditioning or electrical contractors. Such facilities may include fabrication or manufacture of parts used in the services provided.

Services, personal/business, mean an occupation or service requiring the use of a manual, mechanical or specialized skill which involves neither the on-premise use of heavy machinery or equipment nor primarily the sale of merchandise or conveyance of a product.

Setback means the required minimum horizontal distance between the building line and the related front, secondary front, side, or rear property line, unoccupied and unobstructed from the ground upward, not including permitted encroachments.

Setback line. See “Building line”.

Shopping center means a group of five or more retail/commercial uses, located in a zoning district where retail sales is permitted as a principal use and having any or all of the following characteristics:

(1) The uses are connected by party walls, partitions, canopies, and, similar features; or

(2) Some or all of the uses are located in separate buildings which are designed as a single commercial group sharing common parking areas and vehicular travel ways and are connected by walkways and access ways designed to encourage customer interchange between uses, and otherwise present the appearance of a continuous commercial area without regard to ownership, or

(3) The uses are under the same management or association for the purpose of enforcing reciprocal agreements controlling management, parking, site coverage, advertising and similar, agreements.

Sidewalk café. See “Eating and drinking establishment – Sidewalk café”.

Sidewalk sales and display means the temporary (meaning during normal business hours only) outside display and sale of merchandise normally displayed and sold inside the business premises during special sales events, such as sidewalk sales, inventory reduction or liquidation sales, distressed merchandise sales, and seasonal merchandise sales.

Side yard. See “Yard – Side yard”.

Signs. See Chapter 122, St. Pete Beach. Code of Ordinances.

Single-family dwelling. See “Residential dwelling unit – Detached single family”.

Site plan means a plan on which is shown the existing and proposed conditions of the land and may include, but shall not be limited to the following: topography, vegetation, drainage, landscaping, open space, walkways, ingress and egress, traffic circulation and parking, utility services, structures, buildings, building elevations, signs, lighting, berms, buffers, screening devices, surrounding development, identification of required coastal setback lines, dune systems, and any other information that may be required by the City Manager.

Sight or visibility triangle means the area of the corner zoning lot closest to the intersection that is kept free of visual impairment to allow full view of both pedestrian and vehicular traffic. [See also Section 6.21.]

Social service agency means a non-profit organization whose primary purpose is to enhance the social welfare and improve the living conditions of society.

Storage (self-service) means a facility which offers multiple small-scale, individually secured, units for the storage of goods other than hazardous materials, under a unified development, for monthly rental to the public, each of which is accessible only by the tenant of the individual unit. Under this definition, a self-service storage facility shall not include the provision of any outside storage.

Storage (outdoor). See “Outdoor storage”.

Street means that portion of a right-of-way or easement that is improved to provide for the movement of motor vehicles.

Street-end means a street with a single point of ingress and egress that terminates at the sandy beach along the Gulf of Mexico, Boca Ciega Bay or one of its tributaries, or Blind Pass Channel.

Structure means any assembly of materials constructed or erected on, in or over (or any combination thereof) land or water, which requires location on the ground, or is attached to something having a location on the ground. The word "structure" shall be construed as though followed by the words "or parts thereof" unless the context clearly requires a different meaning. The word "structure" shall include buildings, decks, fences, towers, flag poles, signs, and other similar objects. Structure does not include paved areas or vegetative landscaping materials.

Subdivision means the division of real property into two or more lots, parcels, tracts, tiers, blocks, sites, units or any other division of land, or if the establishment of new streets and alleys is involved, any division of such parcel. The term includes re-subdivisions and, when appropriate to the text, relates to the process of subdividing or to the lands or area subdivided.

Submerged land means the land area situated below the mean high-water line of a standing body of water, including ocean, estuary, lake, pond, river or stream. For the purpose of this definition, drainage facilities to be created as a function of development and wetlands shall not be considered submerged land.

Substantial damage means damage of any origin sustained by a structure where the cost of restoring the structure to its pre-damaged condition would equal or exceed 50 percent of the market value before the damage occurred.

Substantial improvement means any combination of repairs, reconstruction, rehabilitation, alteration, addition or other improvements to a structure, the cost of which equals or exceeds 50 percent of the market value of the structure before the improvement or repair is started.

This term includes structures which have incurred "substantial damage" regardless of the actual repair work performed. The term does not include:

1. Any project for the improvement of s structure to correct existing violations of state or local health, sanitation or safety code inspection which have been identified by the local code enforcement official and which are the minimum necessary to assure safe living conditions, or

2. Any alteration of a Historic Structure, provided that the alteration will not preclude the structure's continued designation as a Historic Structure.

Survey. See “Recent survey”.