A structure subordinate to the principal use on the same lot or premises and serving a purpose customarily incidental to the use of the principal building(s).

An extension or increase in the floor area or height of a building or structure.

The city of Donnelly Unified Development Code administrator.

Establishments based primarily on materials or performances that depict, describe, or relate to specified sexual activities. Adult businesses must be a minimum distance of one-half mile from any church, school, daycare, and/or any other business or use which is primarily intended for individuals under the age of 18 years old. The distance shall be measured in a direct line from the front door of the adult business to the front door of said business or use.

Any person having an interest in real property which may be adversely affected by the issuance or denial of a permit, or other action of the staff, commission, board or council in regard to provisions of this title.

Any building to be used for agricultural purposes, placed on agricultural land of five acres or more, categorized as agricultural by the Valley County assessors' office, which is not intended for human habitation.

The use of land for farming, dairying, pasturage, agriculture, horticulture, floriculture, viticulture, animal and poultry husbandry and the necessary accessory uses for parking, treating or storing the produce; provided, however, that:

Any area of land or water which has been set aside, designated, classified and duly established by jurisdictional authorities which may be used for aircraft terminals for people, mail, and freight, airport traffic control and weather stations, aircraft repair, storage and tie down areas, gasoline, jet fuel, oil and other aircraft supplies and parts storage areas, aircraft landing strips, taxiways, clear areas, hangars, offices and such other facilities, buildings or structures necessary therefor.

A minor way which is used primarily for vehicular service access to the back or side of properties otherwise abutting a street.

Any change in size, shape, character, occupancy, or use of a building or structure.

Provision of nonemergency medical care transportation, including incidental storage, maintenance and parking of medical transport vehicles.

Exhibitions of domestic or large animals for a maximum of seven days. This classification includes sales of animals and related merchandise.

Any structure or device used for the purpose of collecting or transmitting electromagnetic waves, including, but not limited to, directional antennas, such as panels, microwave dishes, and satellite dishes, and omnidirectional antennas, such as whip antennas.

A multifamily residential complex; all units are owned by a single person, group of people, or corporation, and rented or leased to individuals.

Any owner of land or an authorized representative who files an application in accordance with the requirements of this title.

A designated AO, or AH, zone on a community's flood insurance rate map (FIRM) with a 1% or greater annual chance of flooding to an average depth of one to three feet where a clearly defined channel does not exist, where the path of flooding is unpredictable, and where velocity flow may be evident. Such flooding is characterized by ponding or sheet flow.

See "Special Flood Hazard Area (SFHA)."

That which has form or beauty and which is not intended to display a commercial message, including paintings, photography, sculptures or drawings.

Workspace for artists and artisans, including individuals practicing one of the fine arts or performing arts, or skilled in an applied art or craft.

Display and sale of painting, sculpture, handicrafts and similar objects.

Facilities operated primarily for the sale of new and/or used merchandise by auctioning.

Automobile collision service, repair and painting.

A retail fuel sales facility typically including a small kiosk building covered by a canopy.

The sale or rental of new and used motor vehicles, mobile homes, travel trailers and/or farm implements, but not including repair work except incidental warranty repair of same, to be displayed and sold on the premises.

The repair, rebuilding or reconditioning of motor vehicles or parts thereof, excluding collision service, painting and steam cleaning of vehicles.

Storage of parking towaways, impound yards, and storage lots for automobiles, trucks, buses and recreational vehicles.

Facilities for washing, waxing or steam cleaning of automobiles or similar light vehicles.

The dismantling or wrecking of two or more used motor vehicles, mobile homes, trailers or the storage, sale or dumping of dismantled, partially dismantled, obsolete or wrecked vehicles or their parts. Any premises, excluding fully enclosed buildings, where more than two motor vehicles not in operating condition are standing more than 30 days, or where used motor vehicles or parts thereof are dismantled or stored.

Financial institutions that provide retail banking services to individuals and businesses. This classification includes those institutions engaged in the onsite circulation of cash money and businesses offering check cashing facilities.

An establishment for which a license is required by the code where the principal business is the sale and consumption of alcoholic beverages on the premises, but not including bars within restaurants.

An establishment for which a license is required by this code where the principal business is devoted to the sale of wine, beer, and cider whereby the product is produced by one or multiple facilities licensed and located in the State of Idaho for the consumption on or off premises. Food may be served; provided that: (1) food items are produced off premises; (2) food items provided for consumption on site are limited to cheese, crackers, charcuterie and similar items made available strictly in conjunction with and ancillary to the wine tasting experience; and (3) the establishment is not a restaurant.

The flood having a 1% chance of being equaled or exceeded in any given year, previously referred to as the "100-year flood." Designation on maps always includes the letter A or V.

A determination by the Federal Insurance Administrator of the water surface elevations of the base flood, that is, the flood level that has a 1% or greater chance of occurrence in any given year. When the BFE has not been provided in a special flood hazard area, it may be obtained from engineering studies available from a federal, state, or other source using FEMA-approved engineering methodologies. This elevation, when combined with the freeboard, establishes the flood protection elevation.

Any area of the building having its floor sub-grade (below ground level) all or partly underground.

Any light with one or more beams directed at any point not on the same property as the light source; also, any light with one or more beams that rotate or move.

A building which has no more than eight sleeping rooms available for rent for short-term (less than 15 days) residential occupancy, and serves through a main entrance.

A hard surfaced path which has been created for nonmotorized transportation and is usually physically separate from automobile travel lanes.

A group of lots, tracts or parcels within well-defined boundaries, usually streets.

A building in which the proprietor resides and which has not more than six rooms available for rent or lease for residential occupancy and in which no cooking or dining facilities are provided in the individual rooms.

A contract between the applicant and the city in which the applicant guarantees to perform certain requirements of any permit under this title. The contract shall require the applicant to secure performance of the contract by surety, cash, collateral, or other consideration sufficient to assure either performance or reclamation of any act or acts authorized by the permit. This contract includes, but is not limited to, performance, reclamation, contractors, materialman indemnification or other bond assuring the performance of applicant under any permit and the payment of all labor and material in the performance of any work provided to or for the benefit of the applicant under any permit. Any bond would require an A+ Best's rating. In the discretion of the board, the principals of such bond may be required to include the real parties in interest such as officers, directors, shareholders or partners.

For the purposes of this title, includes, but is not limited to, a landscape strip, solid fence, or solid wall designed to lessen the negative impacts one land use may have on another.

Any structure used or intended for supporting or sheltering any use or occupancy.

The area of the lot or parcel which is within the perimeter created by a vertical extension to the ground of the exterior walls of all enclosed portions of a building, including attached garages, carports, enclosed decks, bay windows, porches, solariums and similar enclosed extensions, attachments and accessory annexes. Not included in the footprint are unenclosed portions or extensions of buildings, including, but not limited to, unenclosed decks, porches, eaves and roof overhangs.

The width of a building facing the street to which the building or business is oriented. In the case of corner lots the frontage shall be one of the streets to which the building is oriented, to be determined by the administrator.

See "Height of Building."

The Valley County building official, or other individual designated by the city council.

An area proposed or provided and improved by grading, filling, excavation or other means for erecting pads for buildings.

A commercial establishment storing and offering for sale building supplies, coal, heavy equipment, feed, grain, and similar goods, for wholesale or retail sale. This use does not include hardware stores.

Retail sales of bulky items including but not limited to farm equipment, manufactured homes, furniture, appliances, and farm and garden supplies.

Any retail, or wholesale store, professional office, or similar kind of commercial establishment.

Preparation and delivery of food and beverages for off site consumption without provision for on site pick up or consumption.

Land used or intended to be used for the burial of human remains and dedicated for cemetery purposes. Cemetery purposes include columbaria, crematoriums, mausoleums, and mortuaries operated in conjunction with the cemetery.

Any plant, lagoon, or system, other than an approved individual modified septic tank, drain field, or pit privy, for receiving, treating and disposing of sewage.

A natural or artificial watercourse with definite bed and banks to confine and conduct continuously or periodically flowing water, and which, in the absence of evidence to the contrary, shall be presumed to consist of the area between the boundaries of vegetation on either side of the watercourse.

Any facility where children regularly receive care and supervision, usually unaccompanied by the children's parents, guardians or custodians, and regardless of whether the facility does or does not provide any instruction. This use excludes the case of: (a) the operator's children or legal wards or children related by blood or marriage, (b) occasional personal guests, and (c) children aged 12 years and over. Any home, place, or facility providing overnight custodial services for lodging or boarding for the occupants therein shall not be considered a childcare facility. There are three types of childcare facilities:

Retail sales of Christmas trees.

Any structure or property which is directly used for exempt purposes and is owned by any church which is qualified as an organization exempt from income tax or operated by a body of religious believers for the purpose of practicing their faith.

Provision of games, eating and drinking facilities, live entertainment, animal exhibitions, or similar activities, which may be conducted outdoors, or in a tent or other temporary structure, for a maximum of seven days. This classification excludes events conducted in a permanent entertainment facility.

The city of Donnelly, Idaho.

The federal Water Pollution Control Act (33 USC Section 1251 et seq.), and any subsequent amendments thereto.

A building used for the care, diagnosis and treatment of sick, ailing, infirm or injured persons or those who are in need of medical and surgical attention; but which building does not provide board, room or regular hospital care and services.

A building or portion thereof or premises owned or operated by an organized association of persons for a social, literary, political, educational or recreational purpose primarily for the exclusive use of members and their guests; but still not including any organization, group or association, the principal activity of which is to render a service usually and ordinarily carried on as a business.

A subdivision or other development planned and constructed so as to group structures or lots into relatively concentrated and contiguous areas while providing a unified network of open space, wooded area, recreational or agricultural land.

A facility in which unprocessed, green coffee may be sorted, roasted and processed, or packaged for use and consumption.

Any profitmaking activity which is generally related to the entertainment field such as motion picture theaters, performing arts theaters, sports stadiums and arenas, amusement parks, bowling alleys, billiard parlors, poolrooms, dance halls, ice/roller skating rinks, health/fitness clubs, recreation clubs, arcades, nightclubs, cocktail lounges and similar entertainment activities.

Occupancy of a building, structure, or other property which involves any retail sale, wholesale distribution, professional office, entertainment service, recreational area, restaurant, room for rent, hybrid production facility, or any combination of any of these uses with any other use. This definition shall not include churches, public schools, hospitals, public civic centers, or public recreational facilities, or other facilities owned by, or operated strictly for the benefit of, the public.

The planning and zoning commission of the city of Donnelly, Idaho.

A driveway serving more than one property as regulated by this title but not a private street.

Broadcasting, recording, and other communication services accomplished through electronic or telephonic mechanisms, but excluding public service facilities and personal wireless service facilities. This classification includes radio, television, or recording studios; telephone switching centers; and telegraph offices.

Community sponsored events such as school sporting events, city events, chamber of commerce events and events for church/religious institutions which have a city approved site within Donnelly.

Residential units that are occupied by local employees, local retirees, and other long-term community residents as their primary home, that are affordable for low to moderate income households and have restrictions that will preserve their affordability into the future through deed restrictions.

A public event which is of interest to the community as a whole rather than the promotion of any product, political candidate, religious leader, or commercial goods or services.

Compilation of goals, objectives, maps, and other data guiding the physical, social, and economic development, both public and private, of the country and its environs as defined in the Local Planning Act of 1975, and adopted by resolution of the Donnelly city council.

A use or occupancy of land permitted only upon the issuance of a conditional use permit, and subject to the limitations and restrictions specified in such permit in addition to all other applicable regulations and provisions of this title.

A multifamily dwelling containing two or more dwelling units, or a building other than residential containing two or more units, in which each unit is under single ownership, excluding the ground beneath the unit.

The erection, fabrication, reconstruction, demolition, conversion, repair of a building, or the installation of equipment therein normally a part of the structure.

Activities occurring in furtherance of a construction project, including, but not limited to, land disturbing activities; temporary crushing and screening operations lasting less than 180 calendar days; hauling soil and rock; explosive and abrasive blasting; implosion; handling of building materials; concrete, stone and tile cutting; operation of motorized and nonmotorized machinery; and the operation of motor vehicles on a construction site, a staging area, a parking area, a storage area, or any access routes to the construction site.

Retail sales of food, beverages and small convenience items typically found in establishments with long or late hours of operation.

Any graphic, letter, numeral, symbol, insignia, text, sample, model, device, or combination thereof which is intended to advertise, identify, or notify.

The city council of the city of Donnelly, Idaho.

Valley County, Idaho, and/or its representative's staff or assigns.

The county recorder of Valley County, Idaho.

A written promise or pledge.

Facilities that are vital to flood response activities or critical to the health and safety of the public before, during, and after a flood, such as a hospital, emergency operations center, electric substation, police station, fire station, nursing home, school, vehicle and equipment storage facility, or shelter; and facilities that, if flooded, would make the flood problem and its impacts much worse, such as a hazardous materials facility, power generation facility, water utility, or wastewater treatment plant.

A drain that channels water under a bridge, street, road or driveway.

A farm whose principal function is the production of milk and milk products and which may include the processing of milk so produced. A dairy farm further refers to a dairy barn, processing facility or feeding area where animals are kept, raised or fed in a restricted area, and where the milking area is subject to the approval of the Idaho state department of health and welfare.

The vertical datum is a base measurement point (or set of points) from which all elevations are determined. Historically, that common set of points was the National Geodetic Vertical Datum of 1929 (NGVD29). The vertical datum currently adopted by the federal government as a basis for measuring heights is the North American Vertical Datum of 1988 (NAVD88).

An exterior floor system connected to an adjoining residential dwelling where the top of the floor system is less than 30 inches above adjacent grade (e.g., a porch or a patio). A "deck" is not a building or structure subject to the setback requirements of this title.

The setting apart of land or interests in land for use by the public by ordinance, resolution or entry in the official minutes as by the recording of a plat. Dedicated land becomes public upon the acceptance by the city.

The number of residential lots or dwelling units per acre of land.

Publicly owned and operated facilities providing housing, care, and supervision for persons confined by law.

Any manmade change to improved or unimproved real estate, including but not limited to buildings or other structures, mining, dredging, filling, grading, paving, excavation or drilling operations, or storage of equipment or materials.

Any activity defined as development which will necessitate a floodplain development permit, such as the construction of buildings, structures, or accessory structures; additions or substantial improvements to existing structures; bulkheads, retaining walls, piers, and pools; the placement of mobile homes; or the deposition or extraction of materials; the construction or elevation of dikes, berms, and levees.

A contract between the applicant and the city to assure performance of the applicant on any permit and for the payment of any fees, or other duties and obligations of the applicant related to the permit.

The combination of controls which establish regulations for development.

The digital official map of a community, issued by the Federal Insurance Administrator, on which both the special flood hazard areas and the risk premium zones applicable to the community are delineated.

See "Double Frontage or Through Lot" under "Lot."

Water that runs off the surfaces of a site or development. Synonymous with "runoff" as used herein.

A natural channel, ditch, pipe or other conduit for liquid, naturally or artificially situated to receive storm drainage at an inlet point or multiple inlet points and then convey such storm drainage to an outlet point.

An artificially constructed or naturally occurring drainage channel, or a retention facility, or partial retention facility.

A government entity, canal company or special taxing district which maintains a drainage facility adjacent to the development and agrees, as evidenced by a signed and dated public document, to accept a defined quantity of storm drainage from the development. This definition also applies to Ada County highway district, with regard to any runoff from any development to any street. Notice is particularly given that the presence of a natural drainage channel does not relieve the developer from the requirement that any drainage must be retained unless it is formally accepted by a drainage receiver.

A drainage channel or drainage ditch.

A nondedicated vehicular access constructed on private property, which is not designated as a private road.

A two-family dwelling under single ownership containing two dwelling units.

A dwelling consisting of three or more dwelling units with varying arrangements of entrances and party walls, commonly referred to as apartments. Multifamily housing may include public housing.

A dwelling consisting of a single dwelling unit only, separated from other dwelling units by open space. This classification includes manufactured homes and any home in which eight or fewer supervised unrelated mentally and/or physically handicapped or elderly persons reside.

A dwelling consisting of two or more dwelling units attached to one another by common walls with each dwelling unit being on a separate lot, commonly referred to as townhouses and/or townhomes.

A dwelling, consisting of two dwelling units which may be either attached side by side or one above the other, commonly referred to as duplexes. This definition does not include accessory dwelling units.

Space within a dwelling comprising living, dining, sleeping room or rooms and storage closets, as well as space and equipment for cooking, bathing and toilet facilities, all used by only one family.

A grant by a property owner to specific person(s) or to the public to use land for specific purposes. Also, a right acquired by prescription.

For insurance purposes, a non-basement building which has its lowest elevated floor raised above ground level by foundation walls, shear walls, posts, piers, pilings, or columns.

The elevation certificate is an important administrative tool of the NFIP. It is used to determine the proper flood insurance premium rate; it is used to document elevation information; and it may be used to support a request for a letter of map amendment (LOMA), or letter of map revision based on fill (LOMR-F).

Facilities providing emergency medical service with no provision for continuing care on an inpatient basis.

Provision of emergency medical care transportation, fire protection and police protection, including incidental storage and maintenance and parking of emergency and emergency related vehicles.

An area enclosed by solid walls below the BFE/FPE, or an area formed when any space below the BFE/FPE is enclosed on all sides by walls or partitions. Insect screening or open wood lattice used to surround space below the BFE/FPE is not considered an enclosure.

The advance or infringement of uses, fill, excavation, buildings, structures, or development into the special flood hazard area (SFHA), which may impede or alter the flow capacity of the SFHA.

A professional engineer licensed in the state of Idaho.

Private land mobile radio with telephone services.

Includes built, constructed, reconstructed, moved upon, or any other physical operations on the premises required for building. Excavation, fill, drainage, and the like shall be considered a part of erection.

Progressive detachment and removal of particles, including soil and rock fragments, from the earth's surface by means of water, wind, ice, gravity or mechanical processes, including vehicular traffic.

For the purposes of determining rates, structures for which the "start of construction" commenced before the effective date of the FIRM or before April 15, 1977, for FIRMs effective before that date. "Existing construction" may also be referred to as "existing structures."

A manufactured home park or subdivision where the construction of facilities for servicing the lots on which the manufactured homes are to be affixed (including, at a minimum, the installation of utilities, the construction of streets, and final site grading or the pouring of concrete pads) is completed before the effective date of the original floodplain management regulations adopted by the community, December 17, 2018.

See "Existing Construction."

The preparation of additional sites by the construction of facilities for servicing the lots on which the manufacturing homes are to be affixed (including the installation of utilities, the construction of streets, and either final site grading or the pouring of concrete pads).

Temporary or permanent lighting that is installed, located or used in such a manner to cause light rays to shine outdoors. Emergency or warning lights outside are considered exterior lighting for the purpose of this title. "Exterior lighting" does not include vehicles.

The front or chief face of a building.

One or more persons occupying a single dwelling unit; provided, that all members are related by blood, adoption or marriage.

Buildings and premises used for the raising and processing of farm products in an agricultural setting by an individual or an association which operates and manages the farm either as owner or tenant, at a site used for a farm residence and associated farm accessory buildings.

The agency with the overall responsibility of administering the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP).

Primarily where large numbers of livestock are fed concentrated feeds particularly for the purpose of fattening for market.

The fees authorized by the state of Idaho statutes for those services provided by the county or other local taxing agencies which would otherwise be funded by tax revenues. The fee shall be reasonably related to, but shall not exceed, the actual cost of the service rendered. The fees shall be in cash or other consideration that may be negotiated with an applicant.

Any applicant for any permit involving a planned unit development which is residential or multiuse, subdivision, cluster development, condominium, or any other proposed change in use which significantly alters the characteristics of the existing use shall be required to pay a reimbursement fee to the city for all reasonable administrative and other costs heretofore or hereafter incurred directly or indirectly by the city in processing the application and monitoring the construction, maintenance, and completion of all or part of the permit. These fees may be adopted by resolution.

A map for recording of real estate interests with the county recorder prepared by a registered professional land surveyor and conforming to the requirements of the subdivision, planned unit development or other development. The final map, drawing, and related documents are presented to the city for approval, and which, if approved, will be submitted to the county recorder for recording.

The finished floor is the first habitable walking surface referenced in the elevation certificate (FEMA Form 81-31 Sections C2a and C2b) as the top of the next highest floor or the top of a slab on grade floor.

Any fabric banner or bunting containing distinctive colors, patterns or symbols used as a symbol of a government or political subdivision.

Allows for uses that generally require substantial amounts of storage and working area as well as office and/or showroom space. This use is not intended to permit warehousing or manufacturing that has high levels of truck activity. Loading docks shall be at the rear of the structure, shall be screened from view from street and neighboring uses, and loading ramps shall be a maximum of two feet high to discourage tractor trailer use. Examples of uses include, but are not limited to, custom bookbinding, ceramic studios, candle making shops, custom jewelry manufacture, lighting/plumbing fixture showrooms, small merchandise assembly, and low intensity sales and distribution facilities. Gross floor area of each building used as "flex space" shall be a maximum of 30,000 square feet. Buildings may be comprised of several lease spaces. Hours of operation shall be limited to between 6:00 a.m. to 10:00 p.m.

See "Base Flood Elevation (BFE)."

See "Flood Insurance Study (FIS)."

The portion of the floodplain outside of the floodway covered by floodwater during the regulatory flood.

An official map of a community, on which the Federal Insurance Administrator has delineated both the special flood hazard areas and the risk premium zones applicable to the community. A FIRM that has been made available digitally is called a digital flood insurance rate map (DFIRM).

An examination, evaluation, and determination of flood hazards and, if appropriate, corresponding water surface elevations; or an examination, evaluation, and determination of mudslide (i.e., mudflow) and/or flood-related erosion hazards.

A general and temporary condition of partial or complete inundation of normally dry lands from:

The base flood elevation plus the freeboard.

Those physical structural works for which funds have been authorized, appropriated, and expended and which have been constructed specifically to modify flooding in order to reduce the extent of the area within a community subject to a special flood hazard and the extent of the depths of associated flooding. Such a system typically includes dams, reservoirs, levees, or dikes. These specialized flood modifying works are those constructed in conformance with sound engineering standards.

A geographical area shown on a flood hazard boundary map (FHBM) or flood insurance rate map (FIRM) that reflects the severity or type of flooding in the area.

The individual appointed to administer and enforce the floodplain damage prevention regulations.

Any type of permit that is required in conformance with the provisions of this chapter, prior to the commencement of any development activity.

The operation of an overall program of corrective and preventive measures for reducing flood damage, including but not limited to emergency preparedness plans, flood control works, and floodplain management regulations.

Zoning ordinances, subdivision regulations, building codes, health regulations, special purpose ordinances (such as a floodplain ordinance, grading ordinance, and erosion control ordinance), and other applications of police power. The term describes such state or local regulations, in any combination thereof, which provide standards for the purpose of flood damage prevention and reduction.

Any land area susceptible to being inundated by water from any source (see definition of "Flood or Flooding").

Any combination of structural and nonstructural additions, changes, or adjustments to structures which reduce or eliminate flood damage to real estate or improved real property, water and sanitary facilities, structures, and their contents.

The channel of a river or other watercourse and the adjacent land areas that must be reserved in order to discharge the base flood without cumulatively increasing the water surface elevation more than a designated height.

The gross area included within the surrounding exterior walls of a building or portion thereof, including all floor levels, exclusive of vent shafts, courts, attics, or garages or other enclosed automobile parking areas, subject to the following restrictions:

Retail sales of food and beverages for off site preparation and consumption. Typical uses include groceries, liquor stores, delicatessens, or bakeries, and exclude convenience stores and catering services.

A factor of safety usually expressed in feet above a flood level for the purposes of floodplain management. Freeboard tends to compensate for the many unknown factors that could contribute to flood heights greater than the height calculated for a selected size flood and floodway conditions, such as wave action, obstructed bridge openings, debris and ice jams, and the hydrologic effects of urbanization in a watershed. The base flood elevation (BFE) plus the freeboard establishes the flood protection elevation (FPE). Freeboard shall be two feet.

A tower standing without any external support.

The distance along the front lot line.

A facility that cannot be used for its intended purpose unless it is located or carried out in close proximity to water, such as a docking or port facility necessary for the loading and unloading of cargo or passengers, shipbuilding, or ship repair facilities. The term does not include long-term storage, manufacture, sales, or service facilities.

A building or portion thereof in which a motor vehicle containing flammable or combustible liquid or gas in its tank is or is intended to be stored, repaired, or kept.

A residential community served by private streets with restricted access by means of a gate or any other means of access control.

Stray, unshielded light striking the eye that may result in:

Administrative, clerical, or public contact offices of a government agency, including postal facilities, together with incidental storage and maintenance of vehicles.

The promotional activity used by a new business or enterprise or for a grand opening for a business or enterprise under new management, to inform the public of their location and contribution to the business community. "Grand opening" does not mean the annual or occasional promotion of services or retail sales by a business.

Sales of home and commercial building supplies. This use does not include building supply outlets.

The local district health department or state department of health and welfare that has jurisdictional authority.

Intermediate care facilities, community health centers, health maintenance organizations, independent laboratories, public health clinics, and freestanding emergency care centers.

Establishments with equipment for exercise and physical conditioning.

The vertical distance measured from the average elevation of the proposed finished grade at the front of the building to the highest point of the roof for flat roofs, to the deck line of mansard roofs, and the top of the peak for gable, hip and gambrel roofs.

The vertical distance measured from the grade at the base of the fence to the top of the fence.

The height shall be determined by measuring the vertical distance from the point of contact with the ground to the highest point of the structure, including any vertical projection thereof. When mounted upon other structures, the combined height of the personal wireless facility, spire, pole, antenna, steeple, tower, and/or similar structure, including the height of the structure mounted upon, shall be used to determine height.

Pads and facilities enabling takeoffs and landings by helicopters.

The highest natural elevation of the ground surface prior to construction, adjacent to the proposed walls of a structure. Refer to the FEMA Elevation Certificate for HAG related to building elevation information.

A street designated as a highway by an appropriate state or federal agency.

The research, documentation, protection, restoration and rehabilitation of buildings, structures, objects, districts, areas, and sites significant in the history, architecture, archaeology or culture of this community, the state, or the nation.

Any building, structure, area or site that is significant in the history, architecture, archaeology or culture of this community, the state, or the nation.

A structure that is:

A day designated as having special significance for which a government or religious group have deemed that observation is warranted. A holiday is generally an official observance of religious, national, or cultural significance, often accompanied by celebrations or festivities.

Provisions of recurrently needed services for business and residential uses. Uses include upholsterers, photocopying and small printshops.

A business-related activity conducted entirely within a dwelling and carried on by the inhabitants thereof, which use is clearly incidental and secondary to the use of the structure for dwelling purposes and which use does not change the character thereof or does not adversely affect the uses permitted in the zone of which it is a part.

An institution devoted primarily to the maintenance and operation of facilities for the medical or surgical care of patients for 24 hours or more. This classification includes incidental facilities for outpatient treatment, as well as training, research, and administrative services for patients and employees. The term "hospital" does not include convalescent, nursing or boarding homes and does not include institutions devoted to the care of the mentally ill or drug or alcohol addicted.

A building which is used for short-term occupancy, offering sleeping accommodations to the public on a nightly basis and access to all sleeping rooms through a main entrance, and which may provide food, entertainment, or various personal services.

A use in a building wherein finished consumer goods are manufactured or produced and those same goods are offered for sale to the general public. Hybrid production facilities must be similar in size, scale and scope of operation to adjacent or nearby uses.

Street pavements, paths, bikeways, grading, sedimentation control facilities, revegetation, curbs, gutters, sidewalks, water systems, sanitary and storm systems, gas lines, electric and telephone lines and appurtenances, street signs, lights, irrigation canals, landscaping, lot corner monuments, and other such items as may be required for compliance with the regulations of this title.

A source of light separate from the sign itself.

Any manufacturing, processing, or testing of goods and materials, including the production of power, where the byproducts of such use include noise, smoke, odor, glare, gas, vibration, dust, light, or traffic which may have a detrimental effect on neighboring property.

Warehousing, wholesaling, manufacturing, and/or processing of goods and materials which do not emit offensive odor, dust, smoke, glare, gas, light, noise, or vibration which cannot be confined to the site itself.

Establishments primarily engaged in the research, development, and production of high technology electronic, industrial or scientific products or commodities for sale, but prohibits uses that may be objectionable by reason of production of offensive odor, dust, noise, vibration, or storage of hazardous materials. Examples of uses include, but are not limited to, biotechnology firms, and computer component manufacturers.

The facilities, properties, supports, and utilities which provide services.

Building and/or land designed to aid individuals in need of mental, therapeutic, rehabilitative counseling or other correctional services.

An outdoor space where waste and discarded or salvaged materials are bought, sold, exchanged, baled, packed, disassembled, stored or handled, including house wrecking yards, used lumber yards and places where such uses are conducted entirely within a completely enclosed building, such as pawnshops and establishments for the sale, purchase or storage of used furniture and household equipment or for used cars in operable condition, or salvaged materials incidental to manufacturing operations.

Any lot or premises or portion on which three or more dogs, cats and other household domestic animals are maintained, harbored, possessed, boarded, bred or cared for in return for compensation or kept for sale including privately or publicly owned, operated or managed dog pounds.

A room or area for storage, preparation, and cooking of food.

Establishments providing medical or dental laboratory services; or establishments with less than 2,000 square feet providing photographic, analytical, or testing services. Other laboratories are classified as industry limited.

Business providing self-service cleaning facilities for clothing and other fabric articles.

A general term used to refer to the several types of revisions and amendments to FIRMs that can be accomplished by letter. They include letter of map amendment (LOMA), letter of map revision (LOMR), letter of map revision based on fill (LOMR-F), and conditional letter of map revision (CLOMR).

A manmade structure, usually an earthen embankment, designed and constructed according to sound engineering practices, to contain, control, or divert the flow of water so as to provide protection from temporary flooding.

A flood protection system that consists of a levee, or levees, and associated structures, such as closure and drainage devices, which are constructed and operated in accordance with sound engineering practices.

The warehousing, manufacturing, and/or processing of goods and materials which do not emit odor, dust, smoke, glare, gas, light, noise, or vibration which cannot be confined to the site itself. Wholesaling is permitted as a light industrial use only if the items are manufactured on site and are not for sale as retail merchandise to the general public.

Any adverse effect of manmade light including, but not limited to, discomfort to the eye or diminished vision due to glare, light trespass, up-lighting, the uncomfortable distraction to the eye, or any manmade light that diminishes the ability to view the night sky.

Light falling on the property of another or the public right-of-way when it is not required to do so.

Temporary concerts and other cultural events lasting less than 14 days or ongoing occasional events such as barn dances, square dances, weddings and receptions; temporary events such as corn mazes, hayrides, retail pumpkin patches and petting zoos lasting less than 60 days per calendar year.

Space logically and conveniently located for bulk pick ups and deliveries, scaled to delivery vehicles expected to be used, and accessible to such vehicles when required off-street parking spaces are filled. Required off-street loading space is not to be included as off-street parking space in computation of required off-street parking space. All off-street loading spaces shall be located totally outside of any street or alley right-of-way.

A parcel, plot, tract, or other land area of sufficient size to meet minimum zoning requirements for use, coverage and area, and created by subdivision for sale, transfer, or lease, and to provide such yards and other open spaces as are herein required. Such lot shall have frontage, as may be required within this code, on an improved public street, or on an approved private street, and may consist of:

The area of any lot shall be determined exclusive of street, highway, alley, road or rights-of-way of record.

The ratio of enclosed ground floor area of all buildings on a lot to the horizontally projected area of the lot, expressed as a percentage.

The front of a lot shall be construed to be the portion nearest the street on a typical interior lot. The Administrator shall determine the frontage for corner lots, through lots, and other lots where frontage is not clearly that of an interior lot.

A change or modification of lot or parcel lines or boundary lines between existing lots, parcels of land, or properties which does not reduce the area, frontage, width, depth, or building setback lines of each lot, parcel of land, or property below the minimum zoning requirements and which does not create additional lots or new streets.

The property line dividing a lot from a street. On a corner lot, only one street line shall be considered the front lot line, as to be determined by the Administrator, and the main or front entrance to the primary building on the lot should face such lot line. For buildings located on a corner with more than one business within the building, the lot front is the side where the business's street address is listed or as may be determined by the Administrator.

The lot line opposite the front lot line.

Any lot line other than the front or rear lot lines.

A lot which is part of a subdivision recorded in the office of the County Recorder or a lot described by metes and bounds, the description of which has been so recorded.

A one-time division of an original parcel, as defined herein, into not more than two lots. Such a split shall not reduce the area, frontage, width, depth, or building setback lines of each lot below the minimum zoning requirements and shall not create any new streets. If an original parcel has already been divided, subsequent divisions must be processed by the subdivision regulations.

The distance, parallel to the front lot line, measured between side lot lines half-way between the front and rear property lines, unless otherwise determined by the Administrator.

The lowest point of the ground level next to the structure. Refer to the FEMA elevation certificate for LAG related to building elevation information.

The lowest floor of the lowest enclosed area (including basement). An unfinished or flood-resistant enclosure, used solely for parking of vehicles, building access or storage, in an area other than a basement area, is not considered a building's lowest floor; provided, that such enclosure is not built so as to render the structure in violation of the applicable non-elevation design requirements of 44 CFR 60.3 and Chapter 18.35 DCC, Flood Damage Prevention.

The site, equipment, and buildings necessary to saw, plane, or mill tree logs into poles, building logs, lumber, dimensional lumber, or similar products.

Any extension, having a floor area of 200 square feet or greater, to an existing building. Extensions to dwellings which do not increase the total number of dwelling units shall not be considered as major additions.

A structure, constructed after June 15, 1976, in accordance with the HUD and FHA manufactured home construction and safety standards, and as defined by Idaho Code Section 39-4105, and is 12 body feet or more in width, is 40 body feet or more in length, and is 690 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.

Any site or tract of land which has been approved in accordance with the city ordinances for two or more manufactured homes (including mobile homes upgraded per Donnelly City Ord. No. 159 to the HUD safety standard), installed for dwelling units, including any roadway, building, structure, vehicle, recreational facility or enclosure used or intended for use as a part of the facilities of such park.

A comprehensive plan, prepared by the city, which indicates the general locations recommended for the various functional classes of public works, places and structures and for the general physical development of the city and any amendment to such plan or part of such plan separately adopted and any amendment to such plan or part thereof. In the absence of any formally adopted plan, the general policy of the city on the matter in question will govern.

A plan designed to show the relationship of signs for any cluster of buildings intended for business occupancy, or any single building containing more than one business or any arrangement of business buildings or shops which constitute a visual entity as a whole.

The mark on all watercourses where the presence and action of water is common and continued in all ordinary years as to mark upon the soil a character distinct from that of the abutting upland, in respect to vegetation, and destroy its value for agricultural purposes. In areas where riprap bank stabilization has occurred, the measurement shall begin on the landward side of such stabilization work.

For purposes of the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP), the National Geodetic Vertical Datum (NGVD) of 1929 or other datum (such as North America Vertical Datum of 1988 – NAVD88) to which base flood elevations (BFEs) shown on a community's FIRM are referenced.

Electrical, heating, ventilation, plumbing, and air conditioning equipment and other service facilities.

A small brewery, generally producing fewer than 10,000 barrels of lager and ale a year and frequently selling its products on the premises. Also called boutique brewery, brewpub. Sale and consumption of alcoholic beverages is limited to lager, ale, wine, and cider. A microbrewery may include, but is not limited to, the following: tasting rooms, barrel rooms, bottling rooms, tank rooms, laboratories, processing structure, and offices.

A single structure that combines commercial and residential uses. Such structure shall be multiple story with the main floor consisting of a minimum of 60% commercial use area.

The development of land which includes two or more land uses such as residential, commercial, office and/or light industrial, encouraging flexibility and creativity in the development of property in order to improve the combination of land uses and assure that they are properly integrated, and as may otherwise be defined within this title.

A housing unit of one or more sections constructed in a factory prior to June 15, 1976. To be eligible for installation in the city, mobile homes must have been upgraded per the "HUD Safety Standards"/Chapter 25 of Title 44 of the Idaho Code, Mobile Home Rehabilitation.

A detached mobile unit not intended for occupancy as a dwelling unit designed to be transported after fabrication on its own wheels or on flatbed or other trailers or detached wheels. Use of mobile office at other than a construction site requires a conditional use permit.

Constructed with standardized units or dimensions for flexibility and variety in use.

Any permanent marker either of concrete, galvanized iron pipe or iron or steel rods, used to identify any tract, parcel, lot or street lines, as specified in Idaho Code Section 50-1303.

A building or group of buildings which are used for short-term occupancy, offering sleeping accommodations to the public on a nightly basis, which may provide food and entertainment totally within the primary building of the motel.

Describes a condition where there is a river, flow, or inundation of liquid mud down a hillside usually as a result of a dual condition of loss of brush cover and the subsequent accumulation of water on the ground preceded by a period of unusually heavy or sustained rain. A mudslide (i.e., mudflow) may occur as a distinct phenomenon while a landslide is in progress, and will be recognized as such by the administrator only if the mudflow, and not the landslide, is the proximate cause of damage that occurs.

The operation of an overall program of corrective and preventive measures for reducing mudslide (i.e., mudflow) damage, including but not limited to emergency preparedness plans, mudslide control works, and floodplain management regulations.

An area with land surfaces and slopes of unconsolidated material where the history, geology, and climate indicate a potential for mudflow.

Use for a public purpose by a governing agency.

A painting, other than a business advertising sign, on the outside wall of a building.

Institution displaying or preserving objects of interest in one or more of the arts or sciences. This classification includes museums and art galleries.

The NFIP is a federal program created by Congress to mitigate future flood losses nationwide through sound, community-enforced building, and zoning ordinances and to provide access to affordable, federally backed flood insurance protection for property owners.

For the purposes of determining insurance rates, structures for which the "start of construction" commenced on or after the effective date of an initial FIRM or after December 17, 2018, whichever is later, and includes any subsequent improvements to such structures. For floodplain management purposes, new construction means structures for which the start of construction commenced on or after the effective date of a floodplain management regulation adopted by a community and includes any subsequent improvements to such structures.

Floodplain management where the action of one property owner does not adversely impact public property or other private property, as measured by increased flood peaks, flood stage, flood velocity, and erosion and sedimentation. No adverse impact floodplain management is a policy which provides a means to promote the use of retention/detention or other techniques to mitigate increased runoff from urban areas.

A building, structure or use of land existing at the time of enactment of this title, and which does not conform to the regulations of the district in which it is situated.

Land, building or combination thereof for the storage, cultivation, transplanting of live trees, shrubs or plants offered for retail sale on the premises including products used for gardening or landscaping.

Establishments providing care on a 24-hour basis for persons requiring regular medical attention, but excluding facilities providing surgical or emergency medical services. This classification also includes senior assisted living facilities with provisions for shared kitchen facilities and rooms with private bathrooms.

The purpose for which a parcel of land, building, structure, or part thereof is used or intended to be used.

Offices of individuals, firms or organizations providing medical/dental services.

Offices of individuals, firms or organizations providing professional, accountant, financial, architect, attorney, chiropractor, optometrist, engineer, surveyor, drafting service, designer and other similar uses. This classification excludes medical/dental offices.

A common area substantially open to the sky, exclusive of streets, commercial and residential buildings, designated and intended as a usable and convenient amenity for the occupants of any proposed development. The open space area shall be platted as a separate lot unless an easement is approved by the council. Any landscape strip located adjacent to and within a public right-of-way may be included within the open space requirements. Open space is intended to:

Common area which includes, but is not limited to, athletic fields, buildings or structures for recreational activities including picnic areas, community garden, courses or courts, children's play area, dog play area, and pathways, excluding passive open space areas. Landscape buffer areas may be considered, in part, as active open space provided a pathway or other active amenity is located within and incorporated into the buffer area. Up to 15% of the total area of water bodies (i.e., ponds) within a development may be considered active open space provided there is a finding that the ponds employ active recreation capabilities such as fishing, rafting, canoeing, and the like.

Common area which includes, but is not limited to, landscaped buffer areas, natural areas, wetland areas, ornamental gardens, decorative fountains, and water bodies, excluding active open space areas.

Any lot or parcel, held in single ownership, which was created prior to January 1, 1985.

The individual, firm, association, syndicate, copartnership, corporation, trust, or any other legal entity having sufficient ownership or contractual interest in the land to commence and maintain proceedings under this title, or their agent.

All mechanical and electrical equipment mounted on the ground, including, but not limited to, transformers, compressors, generators, and other equipment to establish a controlled interior environment. All pad mounted mechanicals shall be screened from view.

That portion of a building wall that rises above the roof level.

Any unsubdivided land recorded as the property of one individual, or more than one individual, if considered as one interest, but not otherwise defined as a lot.

Noncommercial parks, playgrounds, recreation facilities and open spaces.

Parking lots or garages offering short-term or long-term parking.

Parking lots or garages offering short-term or long-term parking to the public for a fee.

An off-street parking space shall consist of an area adequate for parking an automobile with room for opening doors on both sides, together with properly related access to a public street or alley and maneuvering room, but shall be located totally outside of any street or alley right-of-way.

A constructed basin or underground storage vessel built to retain a portion of the storm drainage it receives until it is absorbed into the soil strata, and to allow not more than an amount as designated by agreement with an adjacent drainage receiver to pass into an adjacent drainageway or drainage facility.

A dedicated right-of-way providing only a portion of the required street width, usually along the edge of a subdivision or tract of land.

Any lightweight plastic, fabric, or other material whether or not containing a message of any kind, suspended from a rope, wire, or string, usually in a series, designed to move in the wind.

A financial guarantee by a subdivider or developer with the city in the amount of the estimated construction cost guaranteeing the completion of physical improvements, according to plans and specifications within the time prescribed by the agreement.

An official document or certificate authorizing performance of a specified activity.

Any use which is allowed as defined by this title and is not a prohibited use or requires approval of a conditional use permit.

Provision of instructional services or facilities, including photography, fine arts, crafts, dance or music studios, driving schools, riding academies, business and trade schools, and diet centers, reducing salons, and fitness studios.

Any enterprise conducted for gain which primarily offers services to the general public such as shoe repair, watch repair, barbershops, beauty parlors, photographic studios and similar activities.

Facilities necessary for the provision of personal wireless services (i.e., towers, support buildings, etc.).

Commercial wireless telecommunication services including cellular, personal communication services (PCS), specialized mobile radio (SMR), enhanced specialized mobile radio (ESMR), paging, and similar services that are marketed to the general public.

A project controlled by one owner, partnership, or corporation, and characterized by a unified site design which may include multiple uses, involving varying the normal zoning requirements and restrictions so that the maximum long-range benefit can be gained and the unique features of the site preserved and enhanced.

A plan of certain described land prepared in accordance with subdivision or other regulations as an instrument for recording real estate interests with the county recorder.

A detached mobile unit not intended for occupancy as a dwelling unit designed to be transported after fabrication on its own wheels, flatbed trailer or detached wheels. Use is only for classroom space associated with an approved school building. Portable classrooms shall comply with the performance standards for an accessory building as specified in this title.

Construction or other development for which the "start of construction" occurred on or after the effective date of the initial flood insurance rate map (FIRM) or after April 15, 1977.

Construction or other development for which the "start of construction" occurred before April 15, 1977, the effective date of the initial flood insurance rate map (FIRM).

The runoff quantity that would have been produced during the design storm from the site in its original native soil condition, prior to any construction of buildings or of modified surfaces.

The building in which is conducted the primary use on the property.

Any copy of an original, which reproduces exactly the original drawing from which it is made.

A public facility established for the protection and welfare of the city including but not limited to a police station, fire station, ambulance center but excluding sewer treatment facilities.

A use for a public purpose by a city, school district, county, state, or any other public agency or a public utility.

Public parks, schools, administrative and cultural buildings and structures, not including public land or buildings devoted solely to the storage and maintenance of equipment and materials and public service facilities.

A structure or facility including poles or towers used by a public utility. Public utilities include, but are not limited to, gas, electric, or telephone companies. Facilities for wireless communications are not included, and are specifically regulated by this title.

Churches, Sunday schools, parochial schools, colleges, hospitals and other facilities of an educational, religious, charitable, philanthropic or nonprofit nature.

Base floodwaters will not inundate the land or damage structures to be removed from the area of special flood hazard in areas previously included in base flood delineations on the current flood insurance rate map, which shall be certified as reasonably safe from flooding by an applicant's registered professional engineer according to the criteria in FEMA Technical Bulletin 10-01.

The natural grade existing prior to any site preparation, grading, or filling, unless a new record grade is approved at the time of subdivision approval and noted on the filed final plat.

Recreation or athletic activities or facilities open to the general public where fees are charged or duties are required for the use of the facility.

A recreational cabin park is a tract of land that includes cabins, casitas, and/or other temporary living quarters, ranging from 400 square feet to 1,000 square feet, not to exceed 1,000 square feet, designed and operated for leisure, vacation, or temporary recreational purposes. Use as permanent living quarters is prohibited. These parks are to offer facilities for a variety of non-permanent guests, providing cabins, casitas or similar recreational structures as temporary living quarters instead of recreational vehicles. The number of units permitted shall be as determined by the city council as a part of the conditional use permit and the units shall not be considered dwelling units for density calculations.

A vehicle that is:

A parcel of land which has been planned and improved or which is let, rented, or used for the placement of two or more transient recreational vehicles for dwelling purposes. The number of recreational vehicles permitted shall be as determined by the city council as a part of the conditional use permit and the units shall not be considered dwelling units for density calculations. This does not include the recreational use of the parcel by friends and family of the property owner/lessee on a temporary basis.

See "Floodway."

See "Fees, Reimbursement."

To bring the structure or other development into compliance with state or local floodplain management regulations, or, if this is not possible, to reduce the impacts of its noncompliance. Ways that impacts may be reduced include protecting the structure or other affected development from flood damages, implementing the enforcement provisions of the ordinance, or otherwise deterring future similar violations, or reducing federal financial exposure with regard to the structure or other development.

An NFIP-insured structure that has had at least two paid flood losses of more than $1,000 each in any 10-year period since 1977.

Research, development and testing related to such fields as chemical, pharmaceutical, medical, electrical, transportation and engineering.

Specialized nonpolluting activities with emphasis on investigation, experimentation, testing, engineering, inventing, and conceptually designing prototypes and new technologies or associated light manufacturing. These technologies may include electronics, computer and data systems, medical and precision instruments, machine components, communication systems and equipment, and other technological instruments, equipment, and systems.

A strip of land between a partial street and adjacent property which is reserved or held in public ownership for future street extension or widening.

Any land, building or part thereof, other than a boarding house, where meals are provided for compensation, including, among others, such uses as cafe, cafeteria, coffee shop, lunchroom, tearoom, and dining room.

A restaurant which primarily serves patrons in vehicles parked outside the principal building. Patrons are served at the vehicle and these facilities typically have no indoor seating. This use does not include restaurants with drive-up window service.

A restaurant, typically with indoor seating, which includes drive-up window service for ordering food to go.

A private legal restriction on the use of land contained in the deed to the property or otherwise formally recorded.

The retail sale of merchandise not specifically listed under another use classification.

Unless otherwise specifically defined, this term shall be understood to relate to the sale of goods, merchandise, articles, or things in small quantities direct to consumer.

A constructed basin or constructed underground storage vessel built to retain all of the storm drainage it receives until it is absorbed into the soil strata.

Establishments offering facilities for instruction in horseback riding, including rings, stables, and exercise areas, and facilities for the care and exercise of horses and related equestrian activities.

A strip of land dedicated or reserved for use as a public way which normally includes streets, sidewalks and other public utilities or service areas.

The distance measured at right angles from the mean high-water mark of a waterway, between the mean high-water mark and an imaginary line parallel to the mean high-water mark, defining an area between such lines within which no building or other applicable structure may be placed, and whereby any existing vegetation shall remain undisturbed.

Relating to, formed by, or resembling a river (including tributaries), stream, brook, etc.

A temporary structure designed or used for the display or sale of agricultural and related products, the majority of which have been grown on adjacent land.

That portion of a public street improved, designed or ordinarily used for vehicular traffic, exclusive of a sidewalk, berm or shoulder even though such a sidewalk, berm or shoulder is used by persons riding bicycles or other human powered vehicles.

All equipment mounted above the roof plane of a building, including, but not limited to, heating and air conditioning equipment, antennas, satellite dishes, and other equipment necessary to establish a controlled interior environment.

Any existing or planned surface of an airport which is specifically designed and used or planned to be used for the landing and/or taking off of an aircraft.

Educational institutions having a curriculum comparable to that required in the public schools of the state of Idaho.

For purposes of determining the number of off-street parking spaces for certain uses, the number of seats is the number of seating units installed or indicated on each 24 linear inches of benches, pews or space for loose chairs. A row of benches, pews or loose chairs for every five feet of seating area shall be considered for determining total possible number of rows.

An arrangement of individual, secured storage spaces – often compartmentalized units within one or more buildings – available for rent or lease to customers for personal or business goods, which are accessed individually and not used as a residence or for illegal purposes. May include vehicle storage to a maximum of 30% of the site. Where greater than 30% of the site is allocated to vehicle storage, the vehicle storage must be treated as a separate use. Any portion of a self-storage/mini-storage building that faces a street or property line shall be prohibited from utilizing metal siding and shall utilize materials, to be determined by the city council, that do not portray the stark utilitarian look of metal siding. This definition does not apply to a structure subordinate to the principal use on the same lot or premises and serving a purpose customarily incidental to the use of the principal building(s), as defined herein as "Accessory Use or Structure."

Public and/or private colleges, hospitals, safe houses, learning centers, and other facilities of an educational, charitable, philanthropic, or nonprofit nature.

A facility that accepts and pre-treats "septage" – waste material from septic tanks – before it is introduced into a wastewater treatment plant or other regulated disposal method. These stations screen out solids and debris, often dewater them, and can remove grease and grit to reduce the burden on treatment systems, protect equipment, and ensure safe and environmentally sound disposal of the waste. Septage receiving station facilities shall take direct access from Roseberry Road or Highway 55.

A line established by this title, generally parallel with and measured from the lot line, defining the limits of a yard in which no building or structure may be located above ground except as may be provided within this title.

A sewer/wastewater treatment facility that treats domestic and industrial wastewater to remove pollutants and contaminants, making it safe for release into the environment or reuse. These plants use various physical, biological, and chemical processes to break down organic materials, remove solids, and neutralize harmful substances, ultimately protecting public health and the environment from water pollution. Sewer treatment facilities shall take direct access from Roseberry Road or Highway 55.

Means mandatory.

A group of commercial establishments, planned, developed, owned and/or managed as a unit related in location, size and type of shops to the trade area the unit serves. Shopping centers shall provide services for a neighborhood or for the community. Neighborhood centers will typically be comprised of between 30,000 to 100,000 square feet of gross leasable floor area and community centers will typically be comprised of between 100,000 to 450,000 square feet of gross leasable floor area.

A regional shopping facility comprised of many separate shops typically with two or more major anchors (usually full line department stores) with shops/major anchors accessed mostly by indoor halls/walking areas. Outdoor access may be provided for open air shopping malls. A shopping mall shall provide services for a regional area, as well as the community, and will typically be comprised of between 450,000 to 850,000 square feet of gross leasable floor area.

The rental of any unit or structure or portion thereof for a period of not more than 30 days.

A person that provides a platform through which a lodging operator, or the authorized agent of the lodging operator, offers a short-term rental or vacation rental to a prospective lessee.

Any individually or collectively owned single-family house or dwelling unit or any unit or group of units in a condominium, cooperative or timeshare, or owner-occupied residential home that is offered for a fee and for less than 30 days. "Short-term rental" or "vacation rental" does not include a unit that is used for any retail, restaurant, banquet space, event center, hotel/motel type lodging, or another similar use.

A hard surfaced pathway for nonmotorized vehicles, normally designated for pedestrians, which is within the public right-of-way and is usually separate from motorized vehicle travel lanes.

Every advertising message, announcement, declaration, demonstration, display, illustration, insignia, surface, or space erected or maintained in view of the observer thereof for identification, advertisement, or promotion of the interest of any person, entity, product, or service. The definition of "sign" shall also include the sign structure, supports, lighting system, and any attachments, ornaments, or other features used to draw the attention of others.

The vertical distance measured from the "grade" to the highest point of a sign or any vertical projection thereof. Architectural elements used above any sign area may be excluded from the maximum height measurement if the city determines that said architectural elements add to the character of the sign and do not create an overbearing appearance in relation to the sign, building and area. The "grade" shall be the elevation or level of the street closest to the sign to which reference is made, as measured at the street's centerline, or top of curb if one exists, adjacent to where the sign is to be placed, or the relative ground level in the immediate vicinity of the sign if determined by the zoning administrator to be an accurate determination for grade with regard to the intent of this title.

Any sign determined by the council to be of historic significance related to its connection to historical events, persons, and periods, as well as its artistic and architectural value. Unlike a modern sign, a sign of historic significance provides a tangible link to Donnelly's past and offers a unique glimpse into the culture, commerce, and design of its era.

An engineering or architectural drawing of existing and planned conditions to facilitate review and approval of an application before the commission and to guide construction of improvements.

The overhead glow from light emitted sideways and upwards. Sky-glow is caused by the reflection and scattering of light by dust, water vapor, and other particles suspended in the atmosphere. Sky-glow reduces one's ability to view the night sky.

An incline from the horizontal plane which may be expressed as "percent slope," "slope ratio" or "gradient." A 15% slope is equal to a 15-foot rise within a 100-foot horizontal distance.

An exposure to sunlight and solar radiation upon land or a building.

Any device, structure, or mechanism which uses solar radiation as an energy source for heating, cooling, or electrical energy.

The land in the floodplain within a community subject to a 1% or greater chance of flooding in any given year. For purposes of these regulations, the term "special flood hazard area" is synonymous in meaning with the phrase "area of special flood hazard."

A form of dispatch or two-way communication used by companies that rent space or time from an SMR carrier. Used primarily for data, delivery vans, truckers, or taxis within a small, definable geographic area.

Personnel employed or contracted by the city of Donnelly to administer this title.

The specifications as specified in this title or as officially adopted by the city.

Includes substantial improvement, and means the date the building permit was issued, provided the actual start of construction, repair, reconstruction, rehabilitation, addition placement, or other improvement was within 180 days of the permit date. The actual start means either the first placement of permanent construction of a structure on a site, such as the pouring of slab or footings, the installation of piles, the construction of columns, or any work beyond the stage of excavation; or the placement of a manufactured home on a foundation. Permanent construction does not include land preparation, such as clearing, grading, and filling; nor does it include the installation of streets and/or walkways; nor does it include excavation for a basement, footings, piers, or foundations or the erection of temporary forms; nor does it include the installation on the property of accessory buildings, such as garages or sheds not occupied as dwelling units or not part of the main structure. For a substantial improvement, the actual start of construction means the first alteration of any wall, ceiling, floor, or other structural part of a building, whether or not that alteration affects the external dimensions of the building.

The state of Idaho.

Any highway that is owned and maintained by the state of Idaho.

An establishment maintained for the use of slaughtering or maintaining stock or preparing or processing of products for human consumption in order to prepare for sale to outlets.

The safekeeping of personal property in any structure or in a secured outdoor area.

An earthen basin or tank or vault structure employed to store liquid. Earthen basins used to store storm drainage may be filled with porous media (usually gravel) to attain structural stability, in which case the volume of available storage is taken as the volume of the interstitial voids of the porous media.

The water running off the surfaces of a site as a result of precipitation on the site (including rain, hail meltwater and snow meltwater).

That part of a building between the surface of a floor and the ceiling immediately above it.

To obstruct, diminish, destroy, alter, modify, relocate, or change the existing shape of the natural channel within or below the mean high-water mark. It includes removal of material or structures in the stream channel.

A street designated for the purpose of moving traffic from one part of the community and area to another. Arterial streets are designed for the purpose of carrying fast and/or heavy traffic.

A street designated for the purpose of moving traffic from minor streets to other collector streets and/or arterial streets.

A street connected to another street at one end only and provided with a turnaround space at its terminus.

A street connecting to another street at one end only and not having provision for vehicular turnaround at its terminus.

Provision of games, eating and drinking facilities, live entertainment, or similar activities not requiring the use of roofed structures for a maximum period of seven days. This classification includes block parties.

A street, parallel to or adjacent to an arterial street, to provide access to abutting properties and limited access to the arterial.

A street which has the primary purpose of providing access to abutting properties.

A minor street in which both terminal points are on the same street of origin.

A right-of-way which provides vehicular and pedestrian access to adjacent properties under separate ownership, and which is not dedicated to or officially accepted by a public entity, but not including a common driveway as defined by this title.

A right-of-way which provides vehicular and pedestrian access to adjacent properties, the dedication of which has been officially accepted. The term "street" also includes the terms "highway," "thoroughfare," "parkway," "road," "avenue," "boulevard," "lane," "place" or other such terms.

Anything constructed or erected, the use of which requires location on the ground or attachment to something having a fixed location on the ground. For the purposes of the Flood Damage Prevention chapter of this title, the definition shall include gas or liquid storage tanks that are located principally above ground.

The main building containing the permitted use on the property. For example, within any residential district, the principal structure is that which contains the dwelling unit. All other structures are considered to be accessory.

The individual, firm, corporation, partnership, association, syndicate, trust or other legal entity that executes the application and initiates proceedings for the subdivision of land in accordance with the provisions of this title.

Any division of land or real property into two or more parts and as further defined by this title.

Damage of any origin sustained by a building whereby the cost of restoring the structure to its before damaged condition would equal or exceed 40% of the market value of the structure before the damage occurred. Substantial damage also means flood-related damage sustained by a structure on two separate occasions during a 10-year period for which the cost of repairs at the time of each such flood event, on the average, equals or exceeds 20% of the market value of the structure before the damage occurred. See definition of "Substantial Improvement."

Any reconstruction, rehabilitation, addition, or other improvement of a structure, the cost of which equals or exceeds 40% of the market value of the structure before the start of construction of the improvement. This term includes structures which have incurred "substantial damage," regardless of the actual repair work performed. The term does not, however, include either:

A professional land surveyor licensed in the state of Idaho.

A commercial land use where the marking or coloring of the skin is performed by pricking in coloring matter or by producing scars, and/or piercing of the body which is conducted in exchange for financial or other valuable consideration. It does not include tattooing when applied by a licensed dermatologist on premises licensed as a dermatological office.

All wires, cables, equipment, apparatus or other installations necessary to furnish service, by which there is accomplished, or may be accomplished, the sending or receiving of information, data, message writing signs, signals, pictures, and sounds of all kinds, by aid of such wires, cables, equipment, apparatus or other installations, but shall not include the habitable structure in which such telecommunications facilities are housed.

Any building, modular unit, or other structure that is intended for any use for a period of not more than one year, excluding construction trailers or other structures erected solely in conjunction with a construction project.

Any use not more than 30 days in duration and related to a specific project or occasion.

Any ground or roof mounted pole, spire, similar structure, or combination thereof, with a "height," as defined in this section, in excess of 15 feet, including supporting lines, cables, wires, braces, and masts, intended primarily for the purpose of mounting an antenna, meteorological device, or similar apparatus above grade.

A dwelling unit in an attached single-family dwelling building which is owned together with the ground under the unit.

Any unsubdivided land recorded as the property of one individual, or more than one individual, if considered as one interest, but not otherwise defined as a lot.

Display and sale of goods or equipment related to a specific trade or industry for a maximum period of 14 days.

Establishments providing travel information and travel reservations to individuals and businesses. This classification excludes car rental agencies, and reservation services that do not make travel arrangements as a primary function of their operation.

A light construction of lattice work no more than eight feet in height. Said lattice work shall be of open design.

A facility designed to accommodate semi-trucks that provides fuel and related convenience retail and food services to the traveling public.

An area shown on the Flood Insurance Rate Map (FIRM) as an "A zone" in which base flood depths and a clearly defined channel are not shown.

The specific purposes for which land or a building is designated, arranged, intended or for which it is or may be occupied or maintained.

Installations for conducting water, sewage, gas, electricity, television, storm water and similar facilities providing service to and used by the public.

A modification of the requirements of this title as to lot size, lot coverage, width, depth, front yard, side yard, rear yard, setbacks, parking space, height of buildings or other provisions of this title affecting the size or shape of a structure or the placement of the structure upon lots, or the size of lots. A variance shall not be considered a right or special privilege, but may be granted to an applicant only upon a showing of undue hardship because of the characteristics of the site and that the variance is not in conflict with the public interest.

Any motorized device designed for the purpose of carrying or conveying persons or materials. For the purpose of this title those devices directly powered by human action, such as a bicycle, shall not be considered vehicles.

A place used for the care, grooming, diagnosis and treatment of sick, ailing, infirm or injured animals, and those who are in need of medical or surgical attention and may include overnight accommodations on the premises for the treatment, observation and/or recuperation. It may also include boarding that is incidental to the primary activity.

A drawing which sets forth by dimensions or other means the relationship of the proposed developments to other nearby developments or landmarks and community facilities and services within the general area in order to better locate and orient the area in question.

The failure of a structure or other development to be fully compliant with the community's floodplain management regulations. A structure or other development without the Finished Construction Elevation Certificate, other certifications, or other evidence of compliance required in 44 CFR 60.3(b)(5), (c)(4), (c)(10), (d)(3), (e)(2), (e)(4), or (e)(5) is presumed to be in violation until such time as that documentation is provided.

Facilities for wholesaling, distribution and storage. Excluding mini-storage, self-storage and vehicle storage.

The height, in relation to the National Geodetic Vertical Datum (NGVD) of 1929 or the North American Vertical Datum (NAVD) of 1988 (or other specified datum), of floods of various magnitudes and frequencies in the floodplains of coastal or riverine areas.

A lake, river, creek, stream, wash, channel, or other topographic feature on or over which waters flow at least periodically. "Watercourse" includes specifically designated areas in which substantial flood damage may occur.

Those areas that are within the definition of "wetlands" as defined by the Environmental Protection Agency and within the jurisdiction of the Corps of Engineers.

Unless otherwise specifically defined, such terms shall be understood to relate to a facility for the sale of goods, merchandise, articles or things in quantity to persons who purchase for the purpose of resale.

A wind energy conversion system which converts wind energy into electricity through the use of a wind driven turbine generator when the total height exceeds 150 feet or the nameplate capacity exceeds 100 kilowatts. Such wind turbine includes the turbine, blade, tower, base, and pad transformer, if any.

A wind energy conversion system which converts wind energy into electricity through the use of a wind driven turbine generator when the total height is less than 50 feet and a prop diameter of 12 feet or less.

A wind energy conversion system which converts wind energy into electricity through the use of a wind driven turbine generator when the total height is between 50 feet and 150 feet and the nameplate is less than 100 kilowatts.

An establishment for the manufacture or bottling of wine. A winery may include, but is not limited to, the following: a tasting room, barrel rooms, bottling rooms, tank rooms, laboratories, sale of wine, processing structure, and offices.

A structure or building wherein the tasting, sampling, display and/or sales of wine and/or beer takes place.

Those facilities that are nonpersonal wireless service facilities (PWSFs), by definition of the Telecommunications Act of 1996, but that are also subject to this title due to their height above ground level. Any antenna, including mount and/or equipment support structure over 35 feet above ground level, that is not a PWSF shall be considered a WCF and regulated by this chapter.

The site, equipment, and buildings necessary to convert wood into chips, or fibers into byproducts such as paper, plywood, and particleboard, or to extract byproducts from wood fibers.

A required open space, other than a court, unoccupied and unobstructed by any structure or portion of a structure from three feet above the general ground level of the graded lot upward; provided, accessories, ornaments and furniture may be permitted in any yard, subject to height limitations and requirements limiting obstruction of visibility.

A document issued by the administrator authorizing the uses of land and structures, and the characteristics of the uses.