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For the purpose of this title, certain words and terms used herein are defined as follows: All words used in the present tense include the future tense; all words in the plural number include the singular number; all words in the singular number include the plural number, unless the natural construction of the wording indicates otherwise. The word “shall” is mandatory and not discretionary. Other words and phrases used in this title shall have the following meaning:

Abutting: The conditions of two (2) adjoining properties having a common property line or boundary, including cases where two (2) or more lots adjoin only a corner or corners.

Access or accessway: The place, means, or way by which pedestrians and vehicles shall have safe, adequate and usable ingress and egress to a property or use as required by this title.

Acre: An area of land containing forty-three thousand five hundred sixty (43,560) square feet.

Adjacent: Nearby, not distant, having a common border. Not necessarily touching.

Agriculture: The tilling of the soil, raising of crops, horticulture, silviculture, fish hatchery and farming, livestock raising and grazing, including all uses customarily incidental thereto but not including slaughterhouses, fertilizer yards, rendering plants, or plants for the reduction of animal matter, or any other industrial use which is similarly objectionable because of noise, odor, smoke, dust or fumes.

Airport: Any area which is used or is intended to be used primarily for the taking off and landing of aircraft, and any appurtenant areas which are used or intended to be used for airport buildings or facilities including open spaces, taxiways and tiedown areas, hangars, transition and clear zones, and other accessory buildings.

Alley: A right-of-way, dedicated to public use, affording a secondary means of access to abutting property and not intended for general traffic circulation.

Ambulatory person: Any individual including one who uses a cane or other ambulatory support, who is physically and mentally capable, under emergency conditions, of finding a way to safety without assistance.

Amendment: In reference to this title, a change in the wording or substance of this title, or an addition or deletion or a change in the zone district boundaries or classifications of the zoning map.

Animal hospital: Facilities for the care, treatment, and boarding of animals including facilities within the term “veterinary clinic.”

Animation or animated: As defined in Chapter 19.100.

Antique: A product that is sold or exchanged because of value derived because of oldness as respects the present age, and not simply because the same is not a new product.

Appeal: An action which permits anyone to arrange for a hearing before an individual or a group other than the individual or group from whose decision the appellant seeks redress, or a first request for action, depending on context; Section 19.135.010 provides for appeal without prior decision.

Automobile repair: All aspects of the repair of motor vehicles including, but not limited to, lubrication, tune-up and preventive maintenance for commercial purposes.

Automobile sales, new: A franchised agency selling new motor vehicles and providing services commonly associated with motor vehicle sales. A new automobile dealership may include the sale of used motor vehicles.

Automobile sales, used: An agency selling used motor vehicles not in conjunction with and on the same site as a new motor vehicle franchise and providing services commonly associated with motor vehicle sales.

Automotive, body and fender: The painting, repairing, replacing, reconstructing, frame straightening, sandblasting and/or welding of body parts on automobiles, recreational vehicles, trucks, trailers, motorcycles, boats, snowmobiles or other such vehicles for commercial purposes.

Automotive detailing: The practice of washing, waxing, or cleaning of automobiles, trucks, motor homes, or recreational vehicles for commercial purposes. Does not include sandblasting, painting, welding, body work, auto body part replacement, automotive repair, glass repair or replacement.

Awning: As defined in Chapter 19.100.

Banner: As defined in Chapter 19.100.

Bar or cocktail lounge: An establishment whose primary business is the serving of alcoholic beverages to the public for consumption on the premises.

Bed and breakfast: An owner-occupied dwelling unit that contains no more than four (4) guest rooms where lodging, with or without meals, is provided for compensation.

Board of adjustment: See Section 19.10.050.

Building: A structure, above or below the ground, having one (1) or more stories and a roof, designed primarily for the shelter, support, or enclosure of persons, animals, or property of any kind. This shall not include dog houses, playhouses, similar structures; includes manufactured homes.

Building, accessory: A building or structure which is subordinate to, and the use of which is customarily incidental to, the main building, structure, or use on the same lot or parcel.

Building area: The total areas, taken on a horizontal plane at the mean grade level, of the principal buildings and all accessory buildings, exclusive of uncovered porches, terraces and steps.

Building, attached: A building which has at least part of a wall in common with another building, or which is connected to another building by a roof.

Building, detached: A building which is separated from another building or buildings on the same lot.

Building, height of: The vertical distance measured from the average grade level of the highest level of the roof. In the event that terrain problems prevent an accurate determination of height, the zoning director shall rule as to height and appeal from that decision shall be to the board of adjustment.

Building, main: A building, or buildings, in which is conducted the principal use of the lot on which it is situated. In any residential district, any dwelling shall be deemed to be the main building of the lot on which the same is situated.

Building permit: A permit required for erection, construction, modification, addition to or moving of any building, structure or use in the incorporated area of the City of Show Low as more fully defined in Section 417 of the International Building Code.

Building setback: The minimum distance as prescribed by this title between any property line and the closest point of the foundation or any supporting post or pillar of any building or structure related thereto. (See “Yard, front,” “Yard, rear,” and “Yard, side.”)

Bulk fuel storage: A place where liquefied petroleum gas, crude petroleum, gasoline, naphtha, benzine, benzol, kerosene or any other liquid except such as will stand a test of one hundred fifty (150) degrees Fahrenheit, closed cup testers, are stored in wholesale quantities, where the aggregate capacity of all storage tanks is more than ten thousand (10,000) gallons.

Campground: Any lot, parcel, or tract of land used, designed, maintained, and intended for rent of plots or sites to accommodate temporary camping by the traveling public with or without sanitary facilities and water whether or not a charge is made for the use of the park and its facilities. (See Section 19.25.200.)

Caretaker residential use: Single-family dwelling or manufactured home in an industrial zone provided such residence is incidental to such use and is occupied only by a caretaker or security personnel and his/her family.

Cemetery: Land used or intended to be used for the burial of the dead, and dedicated for such purposes, including columbariums, crematoriums, mausoleums and mortuaries when operated in conjunction with and within the boundaries of such premises.

Changeable copy: As defined in Chapter 19.100.

Church: A building commonly used for religious worship.

City: The City of Show Low, Navajo County, Arizona.

Civic uses: Civic uses provide for meetings, conventions and trade fairs, exhibitions, and other community, social and multipurpose uses. Typical uses include convention centers, neighborhood centers, and community centers.

Clearing: Consisting of the removal and disposal of all obstructions such as fences, walls, foundations, buildings, accumulations of rubbish of whatever nature and existing structures. Included in this definition are trees, logs, shrubs, brush, grass, weeds, other vegetation and stumps of a diameter greater than six (6) inches.

Clinic: A building designed and used for the diagnosis and treatment of human patients that does not include overnight care facilities.

Commercial flag: As defined in Chapter 19.100.

Commercial rodeo grounds: A roping arena or rodeo ground which is used for any commercial or business purpose, including, but not limited to, charging participants and/or spectators for any roping or rodeo-related activity or event.

Commission: The City of Show Low planning and zoning commission. (See Section 19.10.040.)

Community development director: Staff person designated by the city manager to hold such position. In the absence of such a person, the community development director is the city manager.

Contiguous: In actual contact.

Convalescent home: Same as “Nursing home.”

Copy: As defined in Chapter 19.100.

Council: Show Low city council.

County: Navajo County, Arizona.

Day care center: A facility where six (6) or more people, not immediately related to the head of household, are supervised and cared for. Such a place does not provide medical, psychological, or rehabilitative care, or overnight care.

Drive-in restaurant: Any establishment where food or beverages are dispensed and may be consumed on the premises, but outside a closed building.

Drive-in theater: An open air theater where the performance is viewed by all, or part, of the audience from motor vehicles.

Dwelling: A building or portion thereof designed exclusively for residential purposes, including single-family and multiple dwellings; but not including hotels, motels, boarding and lodging houses, fraternity and sorority houses, rest homes and nursing homes, or child care nurseries.

Dwelling, multifamily: A building designed exclusively for occupancy by or occupied by two (2) or more families living independently of each other.

Dwelling, single-family: A detached building designed exclusively for occupancy by or occupied by one (1) family for residential purposes.

Dwelling unit: A room or group of rooms within a dwelling, designed to be occupied exclusively by one (1) or more persons living as a single-family housekeeping unit.

Easement: A space on a lot or parcel of land reserved or used for location and/or access to utilities, drainage or other physical access purposes.

Eave line: As defined in Chapter 19.100.

Electronic message display: As defined in Chapter 19.100.

Embellishment: As defined in Chapter 19.100.

Erect. The word “erect” includes built, built upon, added to, altered, constructed, reconstructed, moved upon, or any physical operations on the land, required for a building.

Excavation: The removal and disposal of all materials taken from the ground for the purposes of installing nonnatural facilities.

Family: One (1) or more persons occupying a dwelling unit and living as a single, nonprofit housekeeping unit.

Farming: Same as “Agriculture.”

Fence: Any device built to enclose a parcel of land, to separate two (2) parcels of land, or to separate a parcel of land into different use areas.

Filling: The process of dumping dirt, sand, rock or other material excavated from the earth. This includes grading of the material and adjacent surfaces so that it is left in a suitable condition for other district uses.

Garage, private: A building or portion thereof, used for the shelter or storage of self-propelled vehicles, or owned or operated by the occupants of a main building where there is no service or storage for compensation.

Grading: The process of changing gradients of existing land by contouring, smoothing or otherwise shaping land areas outside of planting beds and lawns.

Group home for the handicapped: A dwelling shared by four (4) or more handicapped persons, including resident staff, who live together as a single housekeeping unit and in a long-term, family-like environment in which staff persons provide care, education, and participation in community activities for the residents with the primary goal of enabling the resident to live as independently as possible in order to reach their maximum potential.

As used herein, the term “handicapped” shall mean having:

(1) A physical or mental impairment that substantially limits one (1) or more of such person’s major life activities so that such person is incapable of living independently;

(2) A record of having such an impairment; or

(3) Being regarded as having such an impairment.

However, “handicapped” shall not include current illegal use of or addiction to a controlled substance, nor shall it include any person whose residency in the home would constitute a direct threat to the health and safety of other individuals. The term “group home for the handicapped” shall not include alcoholism or drug treatment center, work release facilities for convicts or ex-convicts, or other housing facilities serving as an alternative to incarceration.

Grubbing: The elimination of roots from the ground by digging or pulling.

Guest house (attached): Living quarters which are utilized for income purposes consisting of one (1) or more rooms, designed, occupied or intended for occupancy as separate living quarters, with cooking, sleeping and sanitary facilities located within a primary dwelling unit.

Guest house (detached): Living quarters consisting of one (1) or more rooms, designed, occupied or intended for occupancy as detached living quarters, with cooking, sleeping and sanitary facilities which may or may not be utilized for income purposes.

Guest unit: Living quarters consisting of one (1) or more rooms, designed, occupied or intended for occupancy as separate living quarters, with cooking, sleeping and sanitary facilities which are not utilized for income purposes within a primary dwelling unit.

Hazardous material: A substance that has the capability of posing an unreasonable risk of health and safety to life and property or any material that is subject to the hazardous waste definitions of the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality or the United States Environmental Protection Agency.

Home occupation: Any occupation or profession which is incidental and subordinate to the use of the dwelling unit for dwelling purposes and which does not change the character thereof.

Homeless shelter: A class of residential facility which provides temporary, transitional and/or residential services to homeless individuals and/or families for a period not exceeding a twelve (12) month period. A homeless shelter primarily offers food, shelter and other support services needed to transition the individual to self-sufficiency.

Hospital: A facility for the treatment or care of human ailments, where overnight lodging for patients is provided, other than nursing homes.

Hotel: A building in which lodging is provided and offered to the public for compensation and which is open to transient guests.

International Building Code (IBC): As defined in Chapter 19.100.

Junk Vehicle. “Abandoned or junk vehicle” means a vehicle or any portion thereof which is incapable of movement under its own power and will remain so without repair or reconstruction. All abandoned or junk vehicles will be stored in an enclosed area by the owner or occupant of the property as long as said vehicle is located in such a manner as not to be visible from any point laying without the property upon which the abandoned or junk vehicle is stored or parked.

Junk yard: See “Salvage yard.”

Kennel: Any premises where a combination of six (6) or more dogs or cats are bred, boarded, and/or trained.

Kitchen: Any room in a building or dwelling unit which is used or intended to be used for cooking or the preparation of food.

Landscaping: An area which has been improved through the harmonious combination and introduction of trees, shrubs, and ground cover, and which may contain natural topping material such as boulders, rock, stone, granite, or other approved material. The area shall be void of any asphaltic or concrete pavement except for pedestrian walkways.

Livestock: Animals such as cattle, horses, sheep, goats or llamas.

Lot: A legally created parcel of land.

Lot area: The total horizontal area within the lot lines of a lot.

Lot coverage: That portion of a lot or building site which is occupied by any building or structure, excepting paved areas, walks and swimming pools.

Lot depth: The horizontal length of a straight line connecting the midpoints of the front and rear lot lines.

Lot frontage: The horizontal length of the front lot line.

Lot line: The line bounding a lot.

Lot line, front: In the case of an interior lot, a line separating the lot from the street, and in the case of a corner lot, the line separating the narrowest street frontage of the lot from the street.

Lot line, rear: A lot line which is opposite and most distant from the front lot line.

Lot line, side: Those lot lines connecting the front and rear lot lines.

Lot width, average: The distance between side lot lines measured thirty (30) feet behind the required minimum front yard line parallel to the street or street chord.

Maintenance: As defined in Chapter 19.100.

Manufactured home park: Any parcel or tract of land, designed, maintained, used, and approved by the City of Show Low (or in existence prior to being annexed into the City of Show Low), which is intended for rent or lease of individual lots or sites to accommodate one (1) manufactured home per lot or site, including all vehicles, accessory buildings, and appurtenances to be used or intended as equipment, whether or not a charge is made for the use of the site or the use of its facilities.

Manufactured housing: A structure transportable in one (1) or more sections which, in the traveling mode, is eight (8) feet or more in width or forty (40) body feet or more in length, or, when erected on site, is three hundred twenty (320) or more square feet, and which is built on a permanent chassis and designed to be used as a dwelling with or without a permanent foundation when connected to the required utilities and includes the plumbing, heating, air conditioning and electrical systems contained therein. Such a structure must conform to the standards contained in the National Manufactured Housing Construction and Safety Standards Act established and administered by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.

For purposes of these regulations, manufactured homes, as a special form of one (1) family detached dwellings, are subject to such special regulations as are set forth herein and shall not be considered a modular or factory-built building as defined in this section.

Manufacturing: The fabricating or assembling of materials into finished or partially finished products by hand or by the use of machinery.

Mobile home: A residential dwelling that was fabricated in an off-site manufacturing facility, transportable in one (1) or more sections, which is built on a permanent chassis and designed to be used as a dwelling with or without a permanent foundation when connected to the required utilities and includes the plumbing, heating, air conditioning and electrical systems contained therein. A “mobile home” was constructed prior to the enactment of the National Manufactured Housing Construction and Safety Standards Act, established and administered by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. (See “Manufactured housing.”)

Modular or factory built buildings: A structure fabricated, either wholly or partially, off-site that meets the standards of the Uniform Building Code, Uniform Mechanical Code, Uniform Plumbing Code, and National Electrical Code as adopted by the City of Show Low.

Motel: A building or group of buildings containing guest rooms or apartments used primarily for the accommodation of motorists, and providing adequate automobile parking on the premises.

Natural: The condition of the land, vegetation, rocks, and other surface features which have not been physically disturbed, changed or added to by any action of man or machine.

Nonchartered financial institution: Any business, including accessory uses, other than a state or federally chartered bank, credit union, mortgage lender or savings and loan association, that offers check cashing services, vehicle title loans, and loans for payment of a percentage or graduated fee. Specifically included are check cashing and pawn shop businesses that charge a percentage or graduated fee for cashing a check or negotiable instrument and “payday loan” businesses which make loans upon assignment of wages received, or businesses that function as deferred presentment services. Automobile dealers shall not be considered nonchartered financial institutions.

Nonconforming structure: A structure which was lawfully erected prior to the adoption of the ordinance codified in this chapter but which, under this title, does not conform with the standards of development and construction, lot coverage, yard spaces, height of structures, distance between structures or other standards prescribed in the regulations for the district in which the structure is located. (See Chapter 19.95.)

Nonconforming use: The use of a structure or land which was lawfully established and maintained prior to the adoption of this title but which, under this title, does not conform to the use regulations for the district in which it is located.

Nuisance: See Section 7.20.010.

Nursery: A commercial operation for the growth and sale of plants, storage of equipment for landscaping and the wholesale or retail sale of commercial gardening supplies.

Nursing home: A health care facility for extended care and convalescent care, regulated by the state health department and licensed by the state of Arizona.

Office: A room or rooms and accessory facilities for the managing or conducting of a business.

Off-street parking and loading facilities: A site or a portion of a site devoted to the off-street parking of motor vehicles including parking spaces, aisles and access driveways. (See Chapter 19.105.)

Open space: Usable open space. (See “Usable open space.”)

Outdoor storage: The location of any goods, services, wares, merchandise, commodities, junk, debris, vehicles or any other item outside of a completely enclosed building for a continual period longer than twenty-four (24) hours.

Out-parcel pad: As defined in Chapter 19.100.

Parcel: A legally created plot of land.

Park: A public or private parcel of land developed and used for passive or active recreation.

Parking area: An area designed and constructed and used exclusively for the parking, storage and maneuvering of vehicles. (See Chapter 19.105.)

Planning and zoning commission: The planning and zoning commission of the City of Show Low. (See Section 19.10.040.)

Principal use: The main use of land or structures as distinguished from a secondary or accessory use.

Professional office: Any building, structure, or portion thereof, used or intended to be used as an office for a lawyer, architect, engineer, surveyor, planner, optometrist, accountant, doctor, dentist, or other similar professions.

Public building: Facilities for conducting public business constructed for various public agencies, including all federal, state, county, and city offices and buildings.

Public hearing: Hearings to receive public testimony.

Public utility: Private or public facilities for distribution of various services, such as water, power, gas, communication, etc., to the public.

Recreation facilities: Includes buildings, structures or areas built or developed for purposes of entertaining, exercising or observing various activities participated in either actively or passively by individuals or organized groups.

Recreational vehicle: A vehicular type unit primarily designed as living quarters for recreational, camping or travel use, which either has its own motive power or is mounted on or drawn by another vehicle. This includes motor homes, self-contained travel trailers, campers, park models, etc.

Recreational vehicle park: Facilities for the storage, parking and maneuvering of recreational vehicles (motor homes, travel trailers, campers, park models, etc.) with adequate roads and staff sites, including sanitary and water facilities. Does not constitute a manufactured home park.

Restaurant: An establishment which serves food or beverages only to persons seated within the building. This includes cafes, tea rooms, and similar establishments.

Retail store: A commercial business for selling goods, services, wares or merchandise directly to the consumer, but not including a professional office.

Right-of-way: Includes any public or private right-of-way and includes any area required for public use pursuant to any official plan.

Salvage yard: Any land or building used for the abandonment, storage, recycling, keeping, collecting, or baling of paper, rags, scrap metals, other scrap or discard materials, or for the abandonment, demolition, dismantling, recycling, storage, or salvaging of automobiles or other vehicles not in running condition, or machinery, or parts thereof.

School, elementary, junior high, high school, college, or junior college: Public and other institutions conducting regular academic instruction at kindergarten, elementary, secondary, and tertiary levels. Such institutions shall offer general academic instruction equivalent to the standards prescribed by the state board of education or the state board of regents.

School, nursery: A building or buildings or the use of a site or a portion of a site for an organized program devoted to the education or day care of six (6) or more children of elementary school age or younger other than those residents on the site. Includes day care center.

School, private or parochial: An institution conducting regular academic instruction at kindergarten, elementary, secondary, and tertiary levels operated by a nongovernmental organization.

School, trade: Schools offering instruction in the technical, commercial or trade skills, such as real estate schools, business colleges, electronic schools, automotive and aircraft technician schools and similar commercial establishments operated by a nongovernmental organization.

Service station: An occupancy engaged in the retail sales of gasoline, oil, tires, batteries, and new accessories and which provides for the servicing of motor vehicles and operations incidental thereto, including: automobile washing, waxing and polishing, tire changing and repairing, but not including recapping. May also include battery service, radiator cleaning, flushing and repair, installation of minor accessories, lubrication of motor vehicles, rental of utility trailers, testing, adjustment and replacement of motor parts and accessories.

Shopping center: A group of retail stores or professional offices planned and designed for the site on which it is built, functioning as a unit, with off-street parking, landscaped areas and pedestrian malls or plazas provided on the property as an integral part of the unit.

Sign: Any identification, description, illustration, or device which is affixed directly or indirectly upon a building, structure or land which directs attention to a product, place, activity, person, institution, or business and which is visible from any public street, waterway, alley or public place, and shall include banners and similar services. A vehicle-mounted sign on a vehicle that is habitually parked or stationed at the site of a business and serves to advertise or identify the business shall be construed as a sign for the purpose of this title. National flags and flags of government shall not be construed as signs.

Sign area: As defined in Chapter 19.100.

Sign, canopy: As defined in Chapter 19.100.

Sign, costume: As defined in Chapter 19.100.

Sign, development: As defined in Chapter 19.100.

Sign, directional: As defined in Chapter 19.100.

Sign, entrance and exit: As defined in Chapter 19.100.

Sign, freestanding: As defined in Chapter 19.100.

Sign height: As defined in Chapter 19.100.

Sign, monument: As defined in Chapter 19.100.

Sign, off-site: As defined in Chapter 19.100.

Sign, over-the-highway banner: As defined in Chapter 19.100.

Sign, political: As defined in Chapter 19.100.

Sign, portable: As defined in Chapter 19.100.

Sign, projecting: As defined in Chapter 19.100.

Sign, property sale, rental, or lease: As defined in Chapter 19.100.

Sign, special event: As defined in Chapter 19.100.

Sign, structure: As defined in Chapter 19.100.

Sign, temporary: As defined in Chapter 19.100.

Sign, transient merchant: As defined in Chapter 19.100.

Sign, vehicle: As defined in Chapter 19.100.

Sign, walker: As defined in Chapter 19.100.

Sign, wall: As defined in Chapter 19.100.

Sign, window: As defined in Chapter 19.100.

Special event: Any event or multiple events that do not occur on a frequent basis, that occur upon public or private property, which the general public is invited to watch, participate in, purchase goods or services from; these events include but are not limited to fairs, festivals, carnivals, fundraisers, car shows, gun shows, trade shows, rodeos, athletic events, markets, parades, exhibitions, auctions, and concerts.

Stable: A detached accessory structure including, but not limited to, a corral or paddock for the keeping of one (1) or more horses owned by the occupants of the premises and which are not kept for remuneration, hire or sale.

Stable, commercial: A structure including, but not limited to, a corral or paddock for the keeping of horses for remuneration, hire or sale.

Store: A building where manufactured or ready-made items can be purchased.

Street: A right-of-way, dedicated and accepted by the City of Show Low, for public uses, which provides the principal vehicular and pedestrian access to adjacent properties.

Street frontage: As defined in Chapter 19.100.

Street line: The boundary line between street right-of-way and abutting property.

Structure: Anything constructed or erected which requires a fixed location on or below the ground, including a building or manufactured home, but not including a fence or wall used as a fence.

Subdivision: Improved or unimproved land or lands divided for the purpose of financing, sale or lease, whether immediate or future, into four (4) or more lots, tracts or parcels of land; or, if a new street is involved, any such property which is divided into two (2) or more lots, tracts or parcels of land; or any such property, the boundaries of which have been fixed by a recorded plat, which is divided into more than two (2) parts. “Subdivision” also includes any condominium, cooperative, community apartment, townhouse or similar project containing four (4) or more parcels, in which an undivided interest in the land is coupled with the right of exclusive occupancy of any unit located thereon, but plats of such projects need not show the buildings or the manner in which the buildings or airspace above the property shown on the plat are to be divided. “Subdivision” does not include the following:

(1) The sale or exchange of parcels of land to or between adjoining property owners if such sale or exchange does not create additional lots.

(2) The partitioning of land in accordance with other common ownership.

(3) The leasing of apartments, offices, stores or similar space within a building or trailer park, nor to mineral, oil or gas leases.

Swimming pool: Any structure intended for swimming or recreational bathing that contains water over twenty-four (24) inches deep. This includes in-ground, above-ground, and on-ground swimming pools, hot tubs and spas.

Temporary use: A use which occurs for a specific time period from either a temporary structure or location.

Time and temperature unit: As defined in Chapter 19.100.

Transient merchant or vendor: As defined in Section 16.05.010.

Travel trailer: A portable structure without motive power, with wheels built on a chassis, designed as a temporary dwelling for travel, recreation, and vacation purposes, having a body width not exceeding eight (8) feet and a body length not exceeding forty (40) feet.

Usable open space: Space which can be enjoyed by people. This could include landscaping plazas, grass and trees, fountains, sitting areas, etc., and is meant to provide an open garden atmosphere. Usable open space does not include parking areas, vacant or undeveloped lots or any other space which does not contribute to the quality of the environment.

Use: The purpose for which a site or structure is arranged, designed, intended, constructed, moved, erected, altered or enlarged or for which either a site or structure is or may be occupied and maintained.

Use, accessory: A use which is incidental, related, appropriate, and clearly subordinate to the principal use of the lot or building, and which does not alter the principal use of the lot or building.

Use, conditional: A use is listed as a “conditional use” in any given zone district or other part of this title. Such use shall require a “conditional use permit” in order to be established within that zone district, and shall be subject to all conditions and requirements imposed by the planning and zoning commission in connection with the conditional use permit in addition to conditions and requirements imposed by all other regulatory agencies.

Use, permitted: A use which is listed as a “permitted use” in any given zone district. Such use shall be allowed to be established within that zone district, subject to the specific requirements of this title.

Variance: See Chapter 19.135.

Vehicle, delivery: As defined in Chapter 19.100.

Wall: Any device forming a physical barrier which is so constructed that fifty (50) percent or more of the vertical surface is closed preventing the passage of light, air and vision through said surface.

Warehouse: A building or buildings used for the storage of goods.

Wholesale: The sale of goods or materials for the purposes of resale.

Yard: Open and unoccupied space on a lot or parcel.

Yard, front: A yard, the depth of which is the minimum required horizontal distance between the front line and a line parallel thereto on the lot, which yard extends across the full width of the lot.

Yard, rear: A yard, the depth of which is the minimum required horizontal distance between the rear lot line and a line parallel thereto on the lot, which yard extends across the full width of the lot.

Yard, side: A yard, the width of which is the minimum required horizontal distance between the side lot line and a line parallel thereto on the lot, not including any portion of a required front yard or required rear yard.

Zone: A district classification established by this title which limits or permits various and specific uses.

Zone district: A zone area in which the same zoning regulations apply throughout the district.

Zoning director: The official responsible for enforcement of the zoning ordinance and/or his/her designee. (See Section 19.10.060.) (Ord. No. 387, § 3, 6-6-95; Ord. No. 498, § 1, 8-7-01; Ord. No. 2008-04, § 1, 4-1-08; Ord. No. 2009-08, §§ 1, 2, 6-2-09; Ord. No. 2010-08, §§ 1, 2, 5-4-10. 1976 Code § 15-1-21)