23.84A.025

"Mailed notice" means notice mailed by the Director to such property owners, commercial lessees, building managers, and residents of properties including and within 300 feet of the boundaries of a specific site as can be determined from the records of the King County Department of Assessments, the City Master Address File, and such additional references as may be identified by the Director. "Major communication utility." See "Communication devices and utilities." "Major durables retail sales." See "Sales and services, heavy." "Major Institution" means an institution providing medical or educational services to the community. A Major Institution, by nature of its function and size, dominates and has the potential to change the character of the surrounding area and/or create significant negative impacts on the area. To qualify as a Major Institution, an institution must have a minimum site size of sixty thousand (60,000) square feet of which fifty thousand (50,000) square feet must be contiguous, and have a minimum gross floor area of three hundred thousand (300,000) square feet. The institution may be located in a single building or a group of buildings that includes facilities to conduct classes or related activities needed for the operation of the institution. A Major Institution shall be determined to be either an educational Major Institution or a medical Major Institution, according to the following: 1. "Educational Major Institution" means an accredited post-secondary level educational institution, operated by a public agency or nonprofit organization, granting associate, baccalaureate and/or graduate degrees. The institution may also carry out research and other activities related to its educational programs. 2. "Medical Major Institution" means a licensed hospital. "Major performing arts facility" means a facility specifically designed for the presentation of live performances of theater, dance or music, that at a minimum has one (1) auditorium with at least two thousand (2,000) seats. "Major Phased Development" means a multiple building project that, by the nature of its size or function, is complex enough to require construction phasing over an extended period of time, excluding Major Institutions. "Major retail store" means a structure or portion of a structure that provides adequate space of at least 80,000 square feet to accommodate the merchandising needs of a major new retailer with an established reputation, and providing a range of merchandise and services, including both personal and household items, to anchor downtown shopping activity around the retail core, thereby supporting other retail uses and the area's vitality and regional draw for customers. "Major transit service." See "Transit service, major." "Major transit stop." See "Transit stop, major." "Manufacturing" means a use in which articles are produced by hand or by machinery, from raw or prepared materials, by giving to those materials new forms, qualities, properties, or combinations, in a process characterized by the repetitive production of items made to the same or similar specifications. Items produced are generally sold directly to other businesses, or are sold at wholesale. The retail sale of items to the general public is incidental to the production of goods. For the purpose of this definition, uses listed as food processing and craft work or high-impact uses are not considered manufacturing uses. Manufacturing uses include the following: 1. "Manufacturing, light" means a manufacturing use, typically having little or no potential of creating noise, smoke, dust, vibration or other environmental impacts or pollution, and including but not limited to the following: a. Production, assembly, finishing, and/or packaging of articles from parts made at another location, such as assembly of clocks, electrical appliances, or medical equipment. b. Production of finished household and office goods, such as jewelry, clothing or cloth, toys, furniture, or tents, from materials that are already refined, or from raw materials that do not need refining, such as paper, fabric, leather, premilled wood; or wool, clay, cork, semiprecious or precious metals or stones, fiber, or other similar materials; c. Canning or bottling of food or beverages for human consumption using a mechanized assembly line or food processing for animal consumption; d. Printing plants with more than five thousand (5,000) square feet of gross floor area. 2. "Manufacturing, general" means a manufacturing use, typically having the potential of creating moderate noise, smoke, dust, vibration or other environmental impacts or pollution, and including but not limited to the following: a. Production of items made from stone or concrete; b. Production of items from ferrous or nonferrous metals through use of a machine shop, welding or fabrication; or from nonferrous metals through use of a foundry; or from ferrous metals through use of a foundry heated by electricity (induction melting); c. Production of recreational or commercial vessels of less than one hundred twenty (120) feet in length to individual customer specifications; d. Production of finished goods, that typically are not for household or office use, such as barrels, ceramic molds, or cardboard cartons, from materials that are already refined, or from raw materials that do not need refining, such as paper, fabric, leather, premilled wood; or wool, clay, cork, semiprecious or precious metals or stones, fiber, or other similar materials; e. Production of finished goods, for household or non-household use, such as toys, film, pens, or linoleum from plastic, rubber, or celluloid; f. Production of parts to be assembled into a finished product; g. Development of film on a wholesale basis; h. Production of items through biological processes, such as pharmaceuticals and industrial purifiers, manufactured by bioengineering techniques; i. Production of items such as paint and coatings, dyestuffs, fertilizer, glue, cosmetics, clay, or pharmaceuticals that require the mixing or packaging of chemicals. 3. "Manufacturing, heavy" means a manufacturing use, typically having the potential of creating substantial noise, smoke, dust, vibration and other environmental impacts or pollution, and including but not limited to: a. The extraction or mining of raw materials, such as quarrying of sand or gravel; b. Processing or refining of raw materials, such as but not limited to minerals, petroleum, rubber, wood or wood pulp, into other products; c. The milling of grain or refining of sugar, except when accessory to a use defined as food processing for human consumption or as a retail sales and service use; d. Poultry slaughterhouses, including packing and freezing of poultry; e. Refining, extruding, rolling, or drawing of ferrous or nonferrous metals, or the use of a non-induction foundry for ferrous metal; f. Mass production of commercial or recreational vessels of any size and the production of vessels one hundred twenty (120) feet in length constructed to individual specifications; g. Production of large durable goods such as motorcycles, cars, manufactured homes, airplanes, or heavy farm, industrial, or construction machinery; h. Manufacturing of electrical components, such as semiconductors and circuit boards, using chemical processes such as etching or metal coating; i. Production of industrial organic and inorganic chemicals, and soaps and detergents; and j. Conversion of solid waste into useful products or preparation of solid waste for disposal at another location by processing to change its physical form or chemical composition. This includes the off-site treatment or storage of hazardous waste as regulated by the State Department of Ecology. The on-site treatment and storage of hazardous waste is considered an incidental or accessory use. "Marina, recreational." See "Boat moorage" under "Parking and moorage" under "Transportation facility." "Marine retail sales and service." See "Sales and services, marine." "Marine sales and service." See "Sales and services, marine." "Master Use Permit" means the document issued to an applicant that records all land use decisions that are made by the Department on a master use application. Construction permits and land use approvals that must be granted by the City Council, citizen boards or the state are excluded. "Mausoleum" means a structure or building for the entombment of human remains in crypts. "Median income" means the annual median family income imputed for the Seattle area based on income limits published from time to time by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), with adjustments according to household size based upon a method used by HUD to adjust income limits for subsidized housing, and which adjustments for purposes of calculating rent and sales price limits shall be based on an average size of household of one person for zero-bedroom units and 1.5 persons per bedroom for other units, all as determined by the Director of Housing. "Medical services" means a commercial use in which health care for humans or animals ("animal health services") is provided on an outpatient basis, including but not limited to offices for doctors, dentists, veterinarians, chiropractors, and other health care practitioners, or in which mortuary or funeral services are provided. Permitted accessory uses include associated office, research and laboratory uses. "Meeting, in-person" means a public meeting that includes a venue for in-person attendance. "Meeting, public." See RCW 36.70B.020. "Meeting, virtual" means a public meeting that includes the use of electronic attendance methods allowing the public to view and participate in real time. "Mid-block corridor" means an amenity feature that provides open space and publicly accessible connections across extremely long blocks to mitigate transportation impacts of new development by improving pedestrian circulation in high density areas, including but not limited to the South Lake Union Regional Center, the University District Regional Center west of 15th Avenue NE, the Uptown Regional Center, the Northgate Regional Center, and the Downtown Regional Center east of Interstate 5. "Mini-warehouse." See "Storage." "Minor communication utility." See "Communication devices and utilities" "Minor institution" means an institution that does not meet the criteria for a major institution. "Mobile home park." See "Residential use." "Moderate-income unit." See "Unit, moderate-income." "Modulation" means a stepping back or projecting forward of sections of the facade of a structure within specified intervals of structure width and depth, as a means of breaking up the apparent bulk of the continuous exterior walls (Exhibit A for 23.84A.025 ). "Mortuary service." See "Medical services". "Motel." See "Lodging use." "Motion picture studio" means a facility for the production of motion pictures, intended for movie or television viewing, using video or film media. Motion picture studio use may be intermittent. "Motion picture theater, adult." See "Entertainment." "Multiple business center" means a grouping of two (2) or more business establishments that either share common parking on the lot where they are located, or occupy a single structure or separate structures that are physically attached or both. Shopping centers are considered to be multiple business centers. "Museum." See "Institution." (Ord. 127376 , § 83, 2025; Ord. 127375 , § 104, 2025; Ord. 127219 , § 30, 2025; Ord. 127099 , § 61, 2024; Ord. 126862 , § 21, 2023; Ord. 126855 , § 72, 2023; Ord. 126684 , § 11, 2022; Ord. 125792 , § 13, 2019; Ord. 125432 , § 17, 2017; Ord. 125267 , § 38, 2017; Ord. 124969 , § 24, 2016; Ord. 124326, § 5, 2013; Ord. 123913, § 46, 2012; Ord. 123649, § 60, 2011; Ord. 123589, § 100, 2011; Ord. 123495, § 87, 2011; Ord. No. 123209, § 65, 2009; Ord. 122829, § 6, 2008; Ord. 122311 , § 100, 2006.)