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"Office" means a commercial use that provides administrative or professional services to individuals, businesses, institutions and/or government agencies primarily by phone or mail, by going to the customer's home or place of business, or on the premises by appointment; or in which customers are limited to holders of business licenses, but not including facilities where medical services are provided or customer service offices. Examples of services provided include general contracting, janitorial and housecleaning services; legal, architectural, and data processing; broadcasting companies, administrative offices of businesses, unions or charitable organizations; and wholesalers and manufacturer's representatives' offices. Offices may include accessory storage, but not the storage of building materials, contractor's equipment or items, other than samples, for wholesale sale. "Office, Customer service." See "Retail sales and services, General" under "Sales and services, general." "Open railing" means any railing treatment that maintains a minimum of 80 percent transparency between the floor line and top of railing by using clear glass or similar transparent materials of a maximum 20 percent opacity, or cross bars, that leave 80 percent of the vertical surface open. "Open space" means land and/or water area with its surface predominately open to the sky or predominantly undeveloped, that is set aside to serve the purposes of providing park and recreation opportunities, conserving valuable natural resources, or structuring urban development and form. "Open space, common" means usable open space that is available for use by all occupants of a residential structure. "Open space, landscaped" means exterior space, at ground level, predominantly open to public view and used for the planting of trees, shrubs, ground cover, and other natural vegetation, and the installation of bioretention facilities. "Open space, neighborhood" means an amenity feature that provides usable open space to mitigate the impacts of new development on open space resources in high density areas and that promotes good urban form by including open space as an element of large scale development in such areas. "Open space, usable" means an open space that is of appropriate size, shape, location and topographic siting so that it provides landscaping, pedestrian access or opportunity for outdoor recreational activity. Parking areas and driveways are not usable open spaces. "Open space, private usable" means usable open space that is intended to be used only by the occupants of one ground-related dwelling unit. "Ornamental feature" means a decorative object such as a lintel, cornice or sunshades extending from a structure. "Outdoor display of rental equipment" means an outdoor area where merchandise available for rent is displayed, and that is freely accessible to the public. Outdoor display of rental equipment may be the principal use of a lot or may be accessory to a commercial use where the rental transactions occur within a structure. "Outdoor sales" means an outdoor area where merchandise is sold or is displayed for sale, and which is freely accessible to the public, except that automotive retail sales areas shall be considered outdoor sales whether freely accessible or not. Outdoor sales may be the principal use of a lot or may be accessory to a commercial use where the sales transactions occur within a structure. "Outdoor storage." See "Storage." "Overhead weather protection" means a nonstructural feature, such as a canopy, awning or marquee, or a structural feature, such as a building overhang or arcade, that extends from a building and provides pedestrians with protection from inclement weather and adds visual interest at street level. "Owner" means any person having a legal or equitable interest in, title to, responsibility for, or possession of a building or property, including, but not limited to, the interest of a lessee, guardian, receiver or trustee, and any duly authorized agent of the owner. "Owner occupancy" means occupancy of a dwelling by the legal owner as reflected in title records, or by the contract purchaser. The owner occupant of a residence containing an accessory dwelling unit must have an interest equal to or greater than any other partial owner of the property, and the owner occupant's interest must be fifty (50) percent or greater. (Ord. 125267 , § 39, 2017; Ord. 124952 , § 25, 2015; Ord. 124378 , § 90, 2013; Ord. 122311 , § 100, 2006.)