6-1300 Definitions and explanations applicable to use regulations: The following definitions and explanatory notes supplement, restrict, and define the meaning and intent of the use regulations as noted in section 22-6.

Accessory building (residential): A subordinate building detached from the main building and used for purposes customarily incidental and subordinate to the residential occupancy of the main building and not involving the conduct of a business or the sale of a service.

Accessory use: A use of land or of a building or portion thereof customarily incidental and subordinate to the principal use of the land or building and located on the same lot with the principal use.

Addiction rehabilitation facility: A facility that provides medical and/or therapeutic services related to the rehabilitation of individuals recovering from addiction.

Agricultural sales and service: Use of a site for the on-site sale of feed, grain, fertilizers, pesticides and similar goods, or the provision of agricultural services with incidental storage of goods off-site. This use includes hay, feed, and grain stores and tree service firms.

Airport or landing field: A landing facility for fixed wing aircraft containing a minimum of sixty (60) acres and approved by the city as an aircraft landing facility, subject to the Federal Aviation Administration's requirement of safety and applicant's securing air space utilization from the Federal Aviation Administration.

Amusement, commercial (indoor): An amusement enterprise wholly enclosed in a building that is treated acoustically so that no noise of the enterprise is perceptible at the bounding property line and including, but not limited to, a bowling alley or billiard parlor.

Amusement, commercial (outdoor): Any amusement enterprise offering entertainment or games of skill to the general public for a fee or charge wherein any portion of the activity takes place in the open, including, but not limited to, a golf driving range, archery range and miniature golf course.

Apartment: See dwelling, multiple-family.

Art gallery: The use of a site for the display or sale of art.

Automotive rentals: Use of a site for the rental of automobiles, noncommercial trucks, trailers, or recreational vehicles, including incidental parking and servicing of vehicles. This use includes auto rental agencies, trailer rental agencies, and taxicab parking and dispatching.

Automotive repairs: Any building, premises, and land in which or upon which a business, service, or industry involving the maintenance, servicing, repair, or painting of vehicles is conducted or rendered.

Automotive sales: The use of any building, land area, or other premise for the display and sale of new or used automobiles generally but may include light trucks or vans, trailers, or recreation vehicles and including any vehicle preparation or repair work conducted as an accessory use. "Automotive sales" does not include storage for a period of greater than sixty (60) days within a six-month period of a vehicle that is wrecked, dismantled, partially dismantled, discarded, or inoperable.

Automotive service station: Any building, land area, or other premises, or portion thereof, used for the retail dispensing or sales of vehicular fuels; servicing and repair of automobiles; and including as an accessory use the sale and installation of lubricants, tires, batteries, and similar vehicle accessories.

Bar, lounge or tavern: An establishment, the primary activity of which is the sale and consumption on the premises of beer, wine and where food service, if any, is secondary to the sale of beer, wine or other beverages.

Basic industry: The use of a site for:

(1)

The basic processing and manufacturing of materials or products predominately from extracted or raw materials;

(2)

Storage or manufacturing processes that involve flammable or explosive materials; or

(3)

Storage or manufacturing processes that involve hazardous or commonly recognized offensive conditions, including poultry processing.

Bed and breakfast: An owner-occupied dwelling or grouping of dwellings at which breakfast is served and sleeping accommodations are provided/offered in not more than fifteen (15) rooms or unattached units (e.g., cabins) for transient guests for compensation.

Boarding or rooming house: A dwelling unit or part thereof in which, for compensation, lodging and meals are provided; personal and financial services may be offered as well.

Business services: Establishments primarily engaged in rendering services to business establishments on a fee or contract basis, such as advertising and mailing; building maintenance; employment services; management and consulting services; protective services; equipment rental and leasing; commercial research; development and testing; photo finishing; and personal supply services.

Car wash: A facility for the washing and steam cleaning of passenger automobiles (including a self-service operation) and which does not generate obnoxious conditions perceptible at the bounding property lines of the tract on which the facility is located.

Cleaning shop (small custom shop): A cleaning establishment for custom cleaning of individual garments only and not a bulk or commercial type cleaning plant.

Club, private (business): A club room or suite of rooms or a building available to restricted membership for meetings, dining and entertainment. Such facilities may include a private tennis court, swimming pool or similar recreation facilities, none of which are available to the general public.

College: An educational institution authorized by the state to award baccalaureate or higher degrees.

Community center: A building used for recreational, social, educational, and cultural activities, open to the public or a designated part of the public, usually owned and operated by a public or nonprofit group or agency.

Community unit development (conforming housing): A related group of residences and associated uses including a private community center which conforms to the type of residences and uses which are permitted in the district in which the development is located and which are planned as an entity and subject to design, development, and regulation as a single related and unified residential development by a single owner or group of owners acting jointly. The area, density and site requirements on individual dwellings may vary from the standards of the district in which the community unit development is located but the overall density standards for the district shall be observed.

Community unit development (variable housing): A related group of residences and associated uses including a private community center which does not conform in type and height to the residences and uses which are permitted in the district in which the development is located and which are planned as an entity and subject to design, development, and regulation as a single owner or group of owners acting jointly. A specific use permit is necessary to allow the varied density and housing types proposed for a community unit development with variable housing.

Consumer repair services: The use of a site for the provision of repair services to individuals or households rather than firms. This use includes appliance repair shops, watch or jewelry repair shops, and musical instrument repair shops, and excludes automotive repair services, equipment repair services, and service stations.

Contractor shops and yards: An area and/or building used to store equipment, trucks and motor vehicles, construction supplies, building equipment and raw materials customarily required in the construction trades of a contractor engaged in building or other construction businesses, including, but not limited to, plumbing, electrical, structural, finish, demolition, transportation, masonry, excavating or other construction work. A contractor's yard may include an office that shares the site. Normal maintenance of equipment is allowed. The definition of a contractor's yard shall not apply to those instances where materials stored are to be used within one hundred eighty (180) days for the improvement of a residence or business on the property where it is to be constructed.

Country club, private membership: An area of twenty (20) acres or more containing a golf course and a clubhouse and available only to a private membership but such a club need not contain a golf course to qualify as a country club. Such a club may contain as adjunct facilities, a private club and dining room, swimming pool, tennis courts and similar service and recreational facilities.

Custom manufacturing: The use of a site for on-site production of goods by the use of hand tools, domestic mechanical equipment not exceeding five (5) horsepower, or a single kiln not exceeding twelve (12) kilowatts, and the incidental sale of those goods. This use includes candle-making shops and custom jewelry manufacturing.

Day care services (commercial): The use of a site for the provision of daytime care for more than twenty (20) persons. This use includes, nursery schools, preschools, day care centers for children or adults, and similar uses, and excludes public and private primary or secondary educational facilities.

Day care services (general): The use of a site for the provision of daytime care for more than six (6) but not more than twenty (20) persons. This use includes nursery schools, preschools, day care centers for children or adults, and similar uses, and excludes public and private primary or secondary educational facilities.

Day care services (limited): The use of a site for the provision of daytime care for six (6) persons or less. This use includes nursery schools, preschools, day care centers for children and adults, and similar uses, and excludes public and private primary or secondary educational facilities.

Dwelling, multiple-family: A building containing three (3) or more dwelling units, including units that are located one (1) over the other.

Dwelling unit: One (1) or more rooms designed, occupied, or intended for occupancy as a separate living quarter, with cooking, sleeping, and sanitary facilities provided within the dwelling unit for the exclusive use of a single-family maintaining a household.

Extended care facility: A long-term care facility or a distinct part of a facility licensed as a nursing home, infirmary unit of a home for the aged, or a governmental medical institution.

Exterminating services: The use of a site for the eradication or control of rodents, insects, or other pests with incidental storage on sites other than where the service is rendered.

Farm accessory building: An accessory structure on a tract qualifying as a farm as herein defined for storage or housing the usual products and animals raised or maintained on a farm such as a barn, poultry house, stable, machinery shed or granary.

Farm, ranch, garden or orchard: An area of three (3) acres or more that is used for growing of usual farm products, vegetables, fruits, trees and grain for the raising thereon of the usual farm poultry and farm animals such as horses, cattle and sheep, including a private stable and also including the necessary accessory uses for raising, treating and storing products raised on the premises, and not including the commercial feeding of offal or garbage to swine or other animals and not including any type of agriculture or husbandry specifically prohibited by city ordinance or law.

Food sales: The use of a site for the retail sale of food or household products for home consumption. This use includes grocery stores, delicatessens, meat markets, retail bakeries, and candy shops.

Food truck: A mobile kitchen, trailer, catering truck, mobile canteen, or other mobile venue that sells food, including ice cream, meals for breakfast, lunch, dinner, or snacks.

Food vendor: A food vendor who operates from a temporary structure that is stationary at one (1) location.

Funeral services: The use of a site for the preparation of human dead for burial or arranging or managing funerals. This use includes funeral homes and mortuaries.

General warehousing and distribution: Open-air storage, distribution, or handling of materials or equipment. This use includes monument or stone yards, grain elevators, and open storage yards.

Golf course, commercial: A golf course, privately owned but open to the general public for a fee and operated as a commercial venture.

Golf course, public: A golf course owned or controlled by a public agency such as the municipal park department and operated for the benefit of the public.

Guest house (detached): A secondary structure on a lot or tract containing dwelling accommodations but excluding kitchen facilities and separate utility services or meters and intended for the temporary occupancy by guests and not for rent or permanent occupancy.

Heliport: A landing facility for rotary wing aircraft not exceeding a gross weight of twelve thousand five hundred (12,500) pounds subject to regularly scheduled use, but not including fueling or servicing facilities for such craft and subject to approval by the city and subject to the Federal Aviation Administration's requirement of safety and applicant's securing air space utilization from the Federal Aviation Administration.

Home occupation: Any activity carried out for gain by a resident and conducted as a customary, incidental, and accessory use in the resident's dwelling unit.

Hospital: An institution providing primary health services and medical or surgical care to persons, primarily inpatients, suffering from illness, disease, injury, deformity, and other abnormal physical or mental conditions and including, as an integral part of the institution, related facilities, such as laboratories, outpatient facilities, training facilities, medical offices, and staff residences.

Hotel or motel: A facility offering transient lodging accommodations to the general public and providing additional services, such as restaurants, meeting rooms, entertainment, and recreational facilities.

Indoor entertainment: A predominantly spectator use conducted within an enclosed building. This use includes meeting halls and dance halls.

Industrialized housing/modular home: A residential structure that is designed for the occupancy of one (1) or more families, constructed in one (1) or more modules or constructed using one (1) or more modular components built at a location other than the permanent site; and designed to be used as a permanent residential structure when the module or the modular component is transported to the permanent site and erected or installed on a permanent foundation system. The term "industrialized housing" includes the structure's plumbing, heating, air conditioning, and electrical systems. The term "industrialized housing" does not include: (1) a residential structure that exceeds three (3) stories or forty-nine (49) feet in height; (2) housing constructed of a sectional or panelized system that does not use a modular component; or (3) a ready-built home constructed in a manner in which the entire living area is contained in a single unit or section at a temporary location for the purpose of selling and moving the home to another location.

Institution for care of alcoholic, narcotic or psychiatric patient: An institution offering resident or outpatient treatment to alcoholic, narcotic or psychiatric patients.

Institution of a religious, charitable or philanthropic nature: Buildings, grounds and activities sponsored or operated by organizations established for religious or philanthropic purposes including orphan's homes, homes for the aged, resident homes for indigent or handicapped, training and educational facilities and similar establishments.

Institutional use: A nonprofit, religious, or public use, such as a church, library, public or private school, hospital, or government owned or operated building, structure, or land used for public purpose.

Intermediate care facility: A facility that provides, on a regular basis, personal care, including dressing and eating and health-related care and services, to individuals who require such assistance but who do not require the degree of care and treatment that a hospital or skilled nursing facility provides.

Intermodal shipping container (residential): A portable storage container designed and constructed as a standardized, reusable vessel intended to be loaded on a truck, rail car or ship and modified to be used for residential purposes.

Junkyard: Any area, lot, land, parcel, building, or structure, or part thereof, used for the storage, collection, processing, purchase, sale, salvage, or disposal of junk.

Kennel: The use of a site for the boarding and care of dogs, cats, or similar small animals. This use includes boarding kennels, pet motels, and dog training centers.

Laundry or dry cleaning, self-service: An establishment providing facilities for washing or dry cleaning garments and similar items and where the customer may personally supervise and handle cleaning operation.

Library, art gallery or museum (public): Any institution for the loan or display of books, objects of art or science which is sponsored by a public or responsible quasi-public agency and which institution is open and available to the general public.

Light manufacturing: The use of a site for manufacture, predominantly from previously prepared materials, of finished products or parts, including processing, fabrication, assembly, treatment, and packaging of the products, and incidental storage, sales, and distribution of the products. This use excludes basic industrial processing.

Limited warehousing and distribution: The use of a site for provision of wholesaling, storage, or warehousing services within an enclosed structure. This use includes wholesale distributors, storage warehouses, and moving or storage firms.

Local transit station or turnaround: A shelter or building for accommodation of local transit patrons or an off-street turnaround or standing area for passenger loading.

Local utility services: The use of a site for the provision of services that are necessary to support the development in the area and involve only minor structures including lines and poles.

Long-term care facility: An institution or a distinct part of an institution that is licensed or approved to provide health care under medical supervision for twenty-four (24) or more consecutive hours to tow or more patients who are not related to the governing authority or its members by marriage, blood or adoption.

Maintenance and home repair shop (no outside storage): A building housing the facilities and equipment of a home repair or maintenance service but not including the storage of building material, junk or similar commodities in the open, unenclosed.

Manufactured home: A HUD-code manufactured home or a mobile home.

Medical offices: The use of a site for the consultation, diagnosis, therapeutic, preventative, or corrective personal treatment by doctors, dentists, medical or dental laboratories, or similar practitioners of medical and healing arts for humans, licensed for practice by the state.

Mobile home: A structure constructed before June 15, 1976, that is built on a permanent chassis, designed for use as a dwelling with or without a permanent foundation when the structure is connected to the required utilities, transportable in one (1) or more sections, and in the traveling mode, at least eight (8) body feet in width or at least forty (40) body feet in length or, when erected on site, at least three hundred twenty (320) square feet. The term "mobile home" includes the plumbing, heating, air conditioning, and electrical systems of the home.

Mobile home subdivision: The division of a parcel of land into congruous lots or parcels, designated by reference to the number or symbol of the lot or parcel contained in the plat of such subdivisions, for the purpose of transfer of ownership and the subsequent placement of a mobile home on said lot or parcel for the establishment of a permanent residence.

Modular home: See industrialized housing.

Municipal facility or use: Any area, land, facility, building or structure that is owned, used, leased or operated by the City of Breckenridge.

Office: A room or group of rooms used for conducting the affairs of a business, profession, service, industry, or government and generally furnished with desks, tables, files, and communication equipment.

Off-street parking incidental to main use: Off-street parking spaces provided for an accessory to a main use located on the same lot or tract as the main use or within three hundred (300) feet as specified in section 22-7 and located within the same district as the main use.

Open storage (no enclosure): Storage in the open of vehicles, machinery or any equipment or commodity, where permitted as a primary use of land and accessory storage in the open of commercial and industrial products where such storage is not enclosed by a fence, wall or building.

Open storage (visual screen): The permitted storage of any equipment or commodity in an open area which is enclosed by a fence or wall meeting the specifications herein contained or as established by the city, or surrounded by a building so as to create an effective visual screening of the storage from the adjacent property.

Outdoor entertainment: A predominantly spectator use conducted in open, partially enclosed, or screened facilities. This use includes sports arenas, racing facilities, and amusement parks.

Park or playground (public): An open recreation facility or park owned or operated by a public agency such as the municipal park department or school board, and available to the general public. This term shall include such uses as stadiums, field houses, and customary accessory uses.

Personal services: The use of a site for the provision of periodically needed services of a personal nature. This use includes beauty or barber shops, seamstress or tailor services, shoe repair shops, and dry cleaning pick-up station services.

Pet shop, small animals and birds: Facilities for the display and sale of small animals and birds as pets, such as dogs, cats, parakeets or canaries, but not involving the boarding or treating of dogs or similar pets.

Private club: The use of a site for provision of meeting, recreational, or social facilities by a private or nonprofit association, primarily for use by members and guests. This use includes private social clubs and fraternal organizations.

Private school: Any building or group of buildings the use of which meets state requirements for elementary, secondary, or higher education and that does not secure the major part of its funding from any governmental agency.

Radio, television or microwave towers: Structures supporting antennae for transmitting or receiving any portion of the radio spectrum but excluding noncommercial antennae installations for home use of radio or television.

Railroad team track: A siding for the spotting and unloading or loading of boxcars or other railroad cars and which area is connected to a public street by a drive for access.

Recreation club or area, private: A building, park or recreation area, the use of which is restricted to a private membership such as by a church, neighborhood association, fraternal or social organization and which may contain the normal active and passive facilities as provided in a public park or playground.

Recreational vehicle: Includes boats, boat trailers, travel trailers, pickup campers and coaches (designed to be mounted upon automotive vehicles), motorized dwellings, tent trailers, utility trailers, livestock trailers, personal watercraft and the like, as well as cases or boxes used for storage or transporting such vehicles, whether occupied by such vehicles or not.

Recreational vehicle park: Any lot or parcel of land upon which two (2) or more recreational vehicle sites are located, established, or maintained for occupancy by recreational vehicles of the general public as temporary living quarters for recreation or vacation purposes.

Religious assembly: A building or structure, or groups of buildings or structures, that by design and construction are primarily intended for conducting organized religious services and associated accessory uses.

Resource extraction: The use of a site for on-site extraction of surface or sub-surface mineral products or natural resources. This use includes quarries, borrow pits, sand or gravel operations, oil or gas extraction, and mining operations.

Restaurant: An establishment where food and drink are prepared, served, and consumed primarily within the principal building.

Restaurant, take-out: An establishment where food and/or beverages are sold in a form ready for consumption, where all or a significant portion of the consumption takes place or is designed to take place outside the confines of the restaurant, and where ordering and pickup of food may take place from an automobile.

Restaurant with beer or wine: An establishment other than a bar, tavern or lounge where the primary activity is the sale and service of food to the customers and where beer and wine are served incidental to the serving of food.

Retail sales: Establishments engaged in selling goods or merchandise to the general public for personal or household consumption and rendering services incidental to the sale of such goods.

Retail sales, outdoor: The display and sale of products and services primarily outside of a building or structure, including vehicles, garden supplies, gas, tires and motor oil, food and beverages, boats and aircraft, farm equipment, motor homes, burial monuments, building and landscape materials, and lumber yards.

Retail services: Establishments providing services or entertainment, as opposed to products, to the general public for personal or household use, including restaurants, hotels and motels, finance, real estate and insurance, personal service, motion pictures, amusement and recreation services, health, educational, and social services, museums, and galleries.

Salvage yard: See junkyard.

School, business: A business operating for profit and offering instruction and training in a service or art, such as a secretarial school, barber college, commercial art school, but not including a vocational school.

School, parochial: A school supported and controlled by a church or religious organization.

School, vocational: A secondary or higher education facility primarily teaching usable skills that prepare students for jobs in a trade and meeting the state requirements as a vocational facility.

School: Any building or part thereof that is designed, constructed, or used for education or instruction in any branch of knowledge.

Servant or caretaker's quarters: Living quarters for persons employed on the premises only and not for rent or use as a separate domicile for other than persons employed on the premises and with no separate utility meters. Such facilities may be located in the main structure or in an accessory building located on the lot with a main residential structure.

Single-family dwelling: A detached building having a single dwelling unit and that is not attached to any other dwelling by any means and is surrounded by open space or yards.

Software development: The use of a site for development or testing of computer software packages including magnetic disks, tapes, and associated operating manuals. This use excludes printing, distribution, and software manufacturing.

Stable: A structure that is used for the shelter or care of horses and cattle.

Studio, display of art or decorator's objects: Display rooms and accessory office for the display of art objects, fabrics and similar items which may be supplied to the clientele of the operator, but not involving a direct retail shop.

Studio, drama, speech or dance: A building or rooms in a building used for the instructing, coaching or counseling in drama, speech, dance or similar personal skills or arts.

Support housing: The use of a site for living accommodations by agricultural employees or their families.

Swimming pool: A water-filled enclosure, permanently constructed or portable, having a depth of more than eighteen (18) inches below the level of the surrounding land, or an above-surface pool, having a depth of more than thirty (30) inches, designed, used, and maintained for swimming and bathing.

Telephone exchange, switching and transmitting equipment only: A switching or transmitting station owned by a public utility but not including business office facilities, storage or repair shops or yards.

Telecommunication tower: The use of a site for provision of a structure built exclusively to support one (1) or more antennae for receiving or transmitting electronic data or telephone communications.

Temporary field or construction office: Temporary office or building material storage area to be used solely for construction purposes in connection with the property on which structures are being erected.

Theater: The use of a site for the presentation of plays, motion pictures, or other dramatic performances within a building.

Tiny house means a single-family detached home that is less than five hundred (500) square feet in size. A tiny house on wheels is considered a recreational vehicle.

Townhouse: A structure which is one of a series of dwelling units designed for single-family occupancy, which are connected or immediately adjacent to each other.

Transportation terminal: The use of a site for the provision of a facility for the loading, unloading, or interchange of passengers, baggage, or incidental freight or package express between modes of transportation, and includes bus terminals, railroad stations, airport terminals, and public transit facilities.

Two-family dwelling: A detached building having two (2) dwelling units and occupied by not more than two (2) families.

Utility installation, public or private, not listed: Any public or private utility franchised or approved by the City of Breckenridge, such as closed circuit television or stream distribution or other similar utility not specifically covered by the uses listed.

Utility facilities: The use of a site for the provision of generating plants, electrical switching facilities or primary substations, refuse collection or disposal facilities, water or wastewater treatment plants, or similar facilities.

Veterinary services: The use of a site for provision of veterinary services and hospitals for animals. This use includes pet clinics, dog and cat hospitals, and veterinary hospitals for livestock and large animals.

Warehouse or covered storage: A building used primarily for the storage of goods and materials.

Water standpipe or elevated storage: Any public or private structure for the storage aboveground of water for distribution or protection purposes.

Welfare or health center: A community service facility where assistance in welfare and health problems is provided by a public or municipal agency for the benefit of residents of the area.

(Ord. No. 13-12, § I(Exh. A), 8-5-13; Ord. No. 14-03, § II.A, 1-6-14; Ord. No. 14-25, § II.C(2), 11-20-14; Ord. No. 16-01, § IIA, 1-5-16; Ord. No. 18-21, § I, 11-6-18; Ord. No. 2025-07, § III, 5-6-25)