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City of San Mateo Municipal Code.

27.79.020 DEFINITIONS.

(a) "Person with disabilities" has the meaning set forth in the Federal Fair Housing Act and the California Fair Employment and Housing Act and is an individual who has a physical or mental impairment that limits one or more of the major life activities of such individual, is regarded as having such an impairment, or has a record of such impairment.

(b) "Reasonable accommodation" means the act of making a dwelling unit or housing facility(ies) readily accessible to and usable by a person with disabilities, through the removal of constraints in the City's land use, zoning, permit and processing procedures.