“Easement” means a grant by a property owner to specific persons or to the public to use land for a specific purpose or purposes.

“Eating and drinking establishment” means a retail sales and service use in which food and/or beverages are prepared and sold at retail for immediate consumption.

“Education services” means the provision by public or private institutions of formal general academic, professional or vocational instruction.

“EIS” means an environmental impact statement required by the State Environmental Policy Act, Chapter 43.21C RCW. The terms refers to a draft, final or supplemental EIS.

“Electric vehicle” means any vehicle that operates, either partially or exclusively, on electrical energy from the grid, or an off-board source, that is stored on board for motive purpose.

“Electric vehicle charging station” means a public or private parking space located together with a battery charging station that has as its primary purpose the transfer of electric energy to a battery or other storage device in an electric vehicle.

“Electric vehicle infrastructure” means structures, machinery, and equipment necessary and integral to support an electric vehicle, including battery charging stations and battery changing stations.

“Electric vehicle parking space” means any marked parking space that identifies the use to be exclusively for the parking of an electric vehicle.

“Electrical distribution substation” means an assembly of equipment designed to receive energy from a high-voltage distribution supply system to convert it to a form suitable for local distribution and distribute the energy to feeders through switching equipment designed to protect the service from the effect of faults.

“Equipment, heavy” means vehicles or machines capable of lifting or altering heavy objects, moving large quantities of earth or stone, extracting natural resources, harvesting, planting or maintaining agricultural products, and other vehicles or machines performing large-scale work tasks. Heavy equipment includes, but is not limited to, backhoes, bulldozers, earth scrapers, log haulers, farm implements and tractors, and equipment of a similar nature.

“Essential public facilities” means those facilities that are typically difficult to site, such as airports, state education facilities and state or regional transportation facilities, state and local correctional facilities, solid waste handling facilities and inpatient facilities including substance abuse facilities, mental health facilities, and group homes.

“Expressive dance” means any dance which, when considered in the context of the entire performance, constitutes an expression of art, theme, story or ideas, excluding any dance such as, but not limited to, common barroom type topless dancing which, when considered in the context of the entire performance, is presented primarily as a means of displaying nudity as a sales device or for other commercial exploitation without substantial expression of theme, story or ideas, and the conduct appeals to the prurient interest, depicts sexual conduct in an obscene or patently offensive way and lacks serious literary, artistic, political, or scientific value. (Ord. 2107 § 2 (Exh. B), 2012; Ord. 1946 § 1, 2005; Ord. 1853 § 1, 2001; Ord. 1697 § 3, 1997; Ord. 1691 § 1, 1997; Ord. 1628 § 1, 1996).