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"Rail transit facility." See "Transportation facility." "Railroad switchyard." See "Vehicle storage and maintenance" under "Transportation facility." "Railroad switchyard with mechanized hump." See "Vehicle storage and maintenance" under "Transportation facility." "Rain garden" see "bioretention facilities" "Receive-only communication device." See "Communication devices and utilities." "Reception window obstruction." See "Communication devices and utilities." "Recreation area, common" means a space of appropriate size, shape, location, and topographic siting to provide landscaping, pedestrian access, or opportunity for recreation activity, either in or out of doors, for all the residents of a structure containing dwelling units. Parking areas and driveways are not common recreation areas. "Recreational marina." See "Boat moorage" under "Parking and moorage" under "Transportation facility." "Recreational vehicle" means a wheeled vehicle designed for temporary occupancy with self-contained utility systems and not requiring a separate highway movement permit for highway travel. A recreational vehicle is not a dwelling unit. "Recycling." See "Utility." "Regional center" means an area designated as a regional center in the Seattle Comprehensive Plan. "Regional development credit" means an entitlement to development potential on property in unincorporated King, Snohomish, or Pierce County as defined and certified by King, Snohomish, or Pierce County. "Regional development credit, agricultural" means a regional development credit that King, Snohomish, or Pierce County has designated as having originated from a parcel zoned for agricultural uses. "Regional development credit, forest" means a regional development credit that King, Snohomish, or Pierce County has designated as having originated from a parcel zoned for forestry uses. "Regional development credit, rural" means a regional development credit that King, Snohomish, or Pierce County has designated as having originated from a parcel that was not specifically zoned for agricultural or forestry uses. "Religious facility." See "Institution." "Research and development laboratory." See "Laboratory, research and development." "Residential district identification sign" means an off-premises sign that gives the name of the group of residential structures, such as a subdivision. "Residential hillside terrace" means an amenity feature consisting of an extension of the public sidewalk on lots with slopes of ten percent or more, which through design features provides public street space, better integrates development with the street environment on sloping lots, and makes pedestrian movement up and down steep slopes in downtown residential areas easier and more pleasant. "Residential structure" means a structure containing only residential uses and permitted uses accessory to the residential uses. "Residential use" means a use in one or more structures, including interior and exterior accessory spaces, in which people primarily live including the following uses: 1. "Artist's studio/dwelling" means a combination working studio and dwelling unit for artists, consisting of a room or suite of rooms occupied by not more than one household. 2. "Assisted living facility" means a boarding home licensed by the State of Washington that contains at least two assisted living units for people who have either a need for assistance with activities of daily living (which are defined as eating, toileting, ambulation, transfer (e.g., moving from bed to chair or chair to bath), and bathing) or some form of cognitive impairment but who do not need the skilled critical care provided by nursing homes. See "Assisted living unit." 3. "Caretaker's quarters" means a dwelling unit not exceeding 800 square feet of living area that is occupied by a caretaker or watchperson and accessory to a nonresidential use. 4. "Congregate residence" means a use in which sleeping rooms are independently rented and lockable and provide living and sleeping space, and residents share kitchen facilities and other common elements with other residents in a building. 5. "Housing" means one or more dwelling units with permanent foundations or moorage at a marina that are not defined as another type of residential use in this definition. 6. "Mobile home" means a structure that is designed and constructed to be transportable in one or more sections and built on a permanent chassis, designed to be used as a dwelling unit without a permanent foundation, and connected to utilities that include plumbing, heating, and electrical systems. A structure that was transportable at the time of manufacture is still considered to meet this definition notwithstanding that it is no longer transportable. 7. "Permanent supportive housing" means low-income housing that is paired with on- or off-site voluntary human services to support people living with complex and disabling behavioral health or physical health conditions and experiencing homelessness or at imminent risk of homelessness prior to moving into such housing. "Restaurant." See "Eating and drinking establishment." "Restricted unit." See "Unit, restricted." "Retail sales and services, automotive." See "Sales and services, automotive." "Retail sales and services, general." See "Sales and services, general." "Retail sales and services, non-household." See "Sales and services, heavy" "Retail sales, major durables." See "Sales and services, heavy" "Retail sales, multi-purpose." See "Sales and services, general" "Retail shopping" means an amenity feature consisting of uses provided at street level that contribute to pedestrian activity and interest. "Rezone" means an amendment to the Official Land Use Map to change the zone classification of an area. "Rezone, contract" means an amendment to the Official Land Use Map to change the zone classification of an area, subject to the execution, delivery, and recording of a property use and development agreement executed by the legal or beneficial owner of the property to be rezoned. "Right-of-way" means a strip of land platted, dedicated, condemned, established by prescription or otherwise legally established for the use of pedestrians, vehicles or utilities. "Right-of-Way Improvements Manual", also referred to informally as "Streets Illustrated", is a set of detailed standards and design guidance for street, alley, and easement construction, adopted by Administrative Rule of the Seattle Department of Transportation. "Roadway" means that portion of a street improved, designed, or ordinarily used for vehicular travel and parking, exclusive of the sidewalk or shoulder. Where there is a curb, the roadway is the curb-to-curb width of the street. "Roof, butterfly." See "Butterfly roof." "Roof, shed." See "Shed roof." "Roof plane" means a section of the roof system divided from another section by a physical separation, exterior wall, roof apex, or change in the direction of pitch. Change in the degree of roof pitch such as occur on a gambrel roof and projections such as dormers or skylights shall not serve to divide a section into multiple planes. "Rooftop feature" means any part of or attachment to the structure that projects above a roof line. "Rowhouse development." See "Residential use." "Rowhouse unit" means a dwelling unit in a rowhouse development. "Rules" means administrative regulations promulgated and adopted pursuant to this Land Use Code and the Administrative Code. "Rural development credit" means the allowance of floor area on a receiving lot that results from the transfer of development potential from rural unincorporated King County to the Downtown Regional Center pursuant to King County Code chapter 21A.55 or successor provisions and pursuant to the provisions of Section 23.49.011 . (Ord. 127376 , § 85, 2025; Ord. 127375 , § 106, 2025; Ord. 127211 , § 17, 2025; Ord. 127099 , § 63, 2024; Ord. 127098 , § 6, 2024; Ord. 126855 , § 74, 2023; Ord. 126685 , § 62, 2022; Ord. 126519 , § 3, 2021; Ord. 126287 , § 11, 2021; Ord. 126157 , § 53, 2020; Ord. 125854 , § 8, 2019; Ord. 125603 , § 77, 2018; Ord. 125272 , § 65, 2017; Ord. 124919 , § 165, 2015; Ord. 124843 , § 63, 2015; Ord. 124378 , § 92, 2013; Ord. 124172, § 65, 2013; Ord. 123939, § 19, 2012; Ord. 123913, § 48, 2012; Ord. 123589, § 101, 2011; Ord. 123564, § 11, 2011; Ord. 123495, § 88, 2011; Ord. 123209, § 66, 2009; Ord. 123141, § 6, 2009; Ord. 122935, § 20, 2009; Ord. 122823, § 11, 2008; Ord. 122311 , § 100, 2006.)