Bankfull, Channel: The water surface elevation attained by a stream flowing at capacity, i.e., at a stage above which banks are overflowed. When the water fills the channel to the bankfull stage, its surface is level with the flood plain. (Former Section CZ#A312-4)

Barn: A building used for the shelter of livestock raised on the premises, the storage of agricultural products produced or consumed on the premises, or the storage and maintenance of farm equipment and agricultural supplies used for the agricultural operations on the premises. (Former Section CZ#A312-4)

Beach: A shore consisting at least partly of unconsolidated material deposited by the motion of waters. Most often that material is sand, but may be cobbles or shingle, such as a boulder or rocky beach. (Former Section CZ#A312-4)

Bed and Breakfast Establishments: (See, Commercial Use Types in Section D: Use Types.)

Bedload, Average Annual: The average amount of gravel that is carried downstream in a normal year and deposited during the high water season. (Former Section CZ#A312-4)

Berm, Earthen: A mound or embankment of earth, together with necessary retaining structures. (Former Section CZ#A312-4)

Block: All property fronting upon one side of a street between intersecting and intercepting streets, or between a street and a right-of-way, waterway, terminus of dead end street, or city boundary. An intercepting street shall determine only the boundary of the block on the side of the street which it intercepts. (Former Section CZ#A312-4)

Bluff or Cliff Areas: A bluff or cliff is a scarp or steep face of rock, decomposed rock, sediment, or soil resulting from erosion, faulting, folding or excavation of the land mass. The cliff or bluff may be simple planar or curved surface, or it may be step-like in section. For the purposes of this ordinance, “cliff” or “bluff” is limited to those features having vertical relief of ten feet (10') or more, and “sea cliff” is a cliff whose toe is or may be subject to marine erosion. (Former Section CZ#A312-4)

Bluff Edge or Cliff Edge: The upper termination of a bluff, cliff or sea cliff. When the top edge of the cliff is rounded away from the face of the cliff as a result of erosion processes related to the presence of a steep cliff face, the edge shall be defined as that point nearest the cliff beyond which the downward gradient of the land surface increases more or less continuously until it reaches the general gradient of the cliff. In a case where there is a step-like feature at the top of the cliff face, the landward edge of the topmost riser shall be taken to be the cliff edge. (Former Section CZ#A312-4)

Bluff, Coastal: Those bluffs, the toe of which is now or was historically (generally within the last 200 years) subject to marine erosion; and those bluffs, the toe of which is not now or was not historically subject to marine erosion, but the toe of which lies within an area otherwise identified as a State Coastal Commission appeals area. (Former Section CZ#A312-4)

Board of Supervisors: The Board of Supervisors of Humboldt County, California. (Former Section CZ#A312-2)

Boarding House: A dwelling or part thereof where meals and/or lodging are provided for compensation, by agreement for definite periods of time, for three or more persons who do not constitute a family. (Former Section CZ#A312-10)

Boating Facilities: (See, Natural Resource Use Types, Boating Facilities, in Section D: Use Types.)

Borrow Pit: An excavation created for the surface mining of rock, unconsolidated geologic deposits or soil which is used off-site. (Former Section CZ#A312-4)

Boundary of Transitional Agricultural Land: (See, Transitional Agriculture Land Regulations at Section 313-35.1, Transitional Agricultural Lands.)

Boundary of a Wetland: (See, Wetland, Boundary of)

Building: Any roofed structure intended for use as human shelter, or shelter or enclosure of animals or property. When such a structure is divided into separate parts by one (1) or more unpierced walls extending from the ground or foundation up, each part is deemed a separate building (does not count towards minimum size yard requirements). (See also, “Structure”) (Former Section CZ#A312-4; INL#312-15; Ord. 519, Sec. 215, 5/11/65)

Building Type: The structural types and arrangements of buildings, and the arrangement of uses within them. (Former Section CZ#A312-4)

Building Type, Mixed Residential-Nonresidential: A group of building types that comprise the following:

Building Type, Nonresidential: A group of building types that comprise the following:

Building Type, Residential: A group of building types that comprise the following:

Bus Depots: (See, Civic Use Types, Extensive Impact, in Section D: Use Types.) (Ord. 2717, § 5, 6/27/2023)