1. It is the intent of this Ordinance to limit the placement and use of any shipping container, yurt or tepee as a living unit in the City of Escalante. This limitation is to protect the public health and safety and the aesthetic quality of the City.
2. No person shall place or cause to be placed or use or permit a shipping container, yurt or tepee as a living unit on any land in the City of Escalante.
3. Shipping Containers may be used as a shed, shop or storage unit following all setback requirements for the particular zone.
   

SHIPPING CONTAINER: A container with strength suitable to withstand shipment, storage and handling. Shipping containers range from large reusable steel boxes used for intermodal shipments to the ubiquitous corrugated boxes. Shipping containers are commonly standardized re-sealable transportation boxes for unitized freight handling with standardized equipment. The most common sizes are twenty feet long or forty feet long.

TEPEE: A tent, traditionally made of animal skins upon wooden poles. Modern tepees usually have a canvas covering.

YURT: A portable, round tent covered with skins or felt and used as a dwelling by several distinct nomadic groups in the steppes of Central Asia. The structure comprises an angled assembly or latticework of pieces of wood or bamboo for walls, a door frame, ribs (poles, rafters), and a wheel (crown, compression ring) possibly steam-bent. The roof structure is often self-supporting, but large yurts may have interior posts supporting the crown. The top of the wall of self-supporting yurts is prevented from spreading by means of a tension band which opposes the force of the roof ribs. Modern yurts may be permanently built on a wooden platform; they may use modern materials such as steam-bent wooden framing or metal framing, canvas or tarpaulin, Plexiglas dome, wire rope, or radiant insulation.