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-3— • defines "structure" to include "anything constructed or erected," and provides as examples "a road" and a "retaining wall." (§ 6-2003.) • Walnut Creek. Again like Measure PP, Walnut Creek Municipal Code §10- 2.3.407(D) prohibits "buildings or structures" near ridgelines or on slopes. And,like the Pleasanton Municipal Code, Walnut Creek further defines "structure" to mean anything"constructed ... on the ground." (§ 10-2.1.303.) Public Sources re: "Structure" It is also relevant to look at how public sources define "structure." For example,Wikipedia: • Begin at "structure" on Wikipedia.2 The choices from there are: physical structure; biological structure; chemical structure; musical composition; social structure; data structure; and software structure. The most appropriate choice appears to be physical structure. • The physical structure section states: "Built structures are a subset of physical structures resulting from construction. These are divided into buildings and nonbuilding structures, and make up the infrastructure of a human society."' This division is helpful, as it is similar to how Measure PP divides the world — i.e., into "housing units" and "structures," the implication being that housing and structures are different and separate categories. ® • So what does Wikipedia tell us "nonbuilding structures" are? "A nonbuilding structure, also referred to simply as a structure, refers to any body or system of connected pans used to support a load that was not designed for continuous human occupancy. The term is used by architects, structural engineers, and mechanical engineers to distinctly identify built structures that are not buildings.s' The page goes on then to list a variety of examples of structures,including: "roads." • Wikipedia likewise begins its discussion of"retaining walls" with "A retaining wall is a structure ... .s5 When trying to determine what a voter might have been thinking in casting his or her ballot for Measure PP, "common man" sources like Wikipedia provide valuable insight. Wikipedia strongly supports that roads and retaining walls are structures. Wbat it actually required to build a road to Sunset Creek? Measure PP voters expected to look up at hillsides and ridgelines and see hillsides and ridgelines, rather than development. Which is to say, the voters did not expect to see grading and roads and sidewalks and streetlights and vehicle traffic on hillsides or ridgelines after Measure PP passed. As Chair Allen said at the last meeting, "Measure PP is a hillside 2 htrp://en.w,kipedia.org/wiki/Structure. 3 hrrp:/ en.wtkipedia.orq/wiki/Structure#Physical strucrure (emphasis added). 4 http://en.wikipedia.or¢/wiki/Nnnbuildine structure (emphasis added). 1110 5 https://en.wikipedia.org/wild/Re tainintr wall