For the purposes of this Chapter, the words and phrases set forth below shall have the meanings ascribed to them as follows:

Accessory building. A subordinate building, or portion of a main building, the use of which is incidental to that of the main building on the same lot.

Accessory Dwelling Unit (ADU). A second dwelling unit either in an existing single-family detached dwelling, or in a separate accessory structure on the same lot as the main dwelling, for use as a complete, independent living facility with provisions within the accessory apartment for cooking, eating, sanitation, and sleeping. Such a dwelling is an accessory use to the main dwelling with a gross floor area not exceeding seven hundred fifty (750) square feet or fifty percent (50%), whichever is more, of the principal building. One (1) ADU is allowed per main dwelling.

Accessory use. An accessory use is one (1) which:

(1)

Is subordinate to and serves the principal building or principal use;

(2)

Is subordinate in area, extent or purpose to the principal building or principal use served;

(3)

Contributes to the comfort, convenience or necessity of occupants of the principal building or principal use served; and

(4)

Is located on the same lot as the principal building or principal use served.

Adult businesses. See sexually oriented businesses.

Alley. A public way providing only secondary access to the rear of abutting property.

Alter. Any structural change in the supporting or load-bearing members of a building, such as bearing walls, columns, beams, girders and floor joists.

Apartment. A room or suite of rooms offered to the public for compensation, and arranged or designed for permanent occupancy, with facilities for sleeping, cooking, eating and sanitary purposes; a dwelling unit.

Area of lot. The computed area contained with the lot lines, including any easements.

Assembly. A joining together of completely fabricated parts to create a finished product.

Automotive service station. A building or premises operated for commercial purposes and used for retail sales of fuels, lubricants and mechanical repair of a motor vehicle.

Balcony, exterior. An elevated floor space projecting beyond the outside faces of the exterior walls of a building. For the purposes of this definition, at least twenty-five percent (25%) of the perimeter of such balcony shall remain open, except for railing as needed for safety purposes.

Bed and breakfast. An establishment operated in a private residence or portion thereof, which provides temporary accommodations, services and amenities to overnight guests for a fee and which is occupied and attended by the operator of such establishment. Meals are typically included.

Boarding and rooming house. A building other than a hotel where lodging for five (5) or more persons are served for compensation. Meals may or may not be provided, but there is a common kitchen facility. No meals are provided to outside guests. Boarding or Rooming Houses have at least one (1) onsite owner or employee.

Body art establishment. A commercial establishment where the practice of physical body adornment is performed by artists utilizing techniques, including but not limited to body piercing and tattooing; for the purposes of this Chapter, ear piercing does not constitute body piercing.

Boundary line of a lot. Any line separating a lot from a street, alley, another lot or any other land not part of the lot.

Building. Any permanent structure built for the shelter or enclosure of persons, animals, chattels or property of any kind, which:

(1)

Is permanently affixed to the land;

(2)

Has one (1) or more floors and a roof; and

(3)

Is bounded by either open space or the lot lines of a lot.

Building height. Building height is measured from the average of finished grade at the center of all walls of the building to the top of the parapet or highest roof beam (whichever is higher) on a flat or shed roof, to the top of the parapet or deck level (whichever is higher) of a mansard roof, or the average distance between the highest ridge and its eave of a gable, hip or gambrel roof.

Campground. An area to be used for transient occupancy by camping in tents, camp trailers, travel trailers, motor homes, cabins or similar movable or temporary sleeping quarters of any kind.

Church. A building, together with its accessory buildings and uses, where persons regularly assemble for religious worship, and which building, together with its accessory buildings and uses, is maintained and controlled by a religious body organized to sustain public worship.

City Administrator. The City Administrator or their designee.

Clinic, dental or medical. A building in which a group of physicians, dentists or physicians and dentists and allied professional assistants are associated for the purpose of carrying on their profession exclusively on an out-patient basis. The clinic may include a dental or medical laboratory. It shall not include operating rooms for major surgery.

Club or lodge. An association of persons for the promotion of some nonprofit common objective, such as literature, science, politics, good fellowship, etc., meeting periodically, limited to members, with not more than one-third (⅓) of the gross floor area used for residential occupancy.

Community center. A building, together with lawful accessory buildings and uses, used for recreational and cultural activities.

Craft brewery or distillery. Commercial businesses which conduct the retail sale of beer (malt beverages) or other fermented beverages with alcohol content as defined by federal law, which is brewed or fermented on the premises in compliance with applicable state and federal laws. Such establishments must include restaurants, tasting rooms and/or taprooms that comprise at least twenty-five percent (25%) of the total gross floor area of the establishment.

Craft shop and custom small industry. Small establishments or artisan businesses where a skilled craft worker creates, repairs and/or sells products such as furniture, cabinetry, decorative arts, clothing, jewelry, glass and metal arts or food items.

Cul-de-sac. A local street with only one (1) outlet and culminated by a turnaround.

Cul-de-sac lot. A parcel of land that abuts the turn circle of a cul-de-sac.

Detached structure. Any structure having no party wall or common wall with another structure. Bridges, tunnels, breezeways and other similar means of connecting one (1) structure to another shall not, for the purpose of this Chapter, be considered to constitute a party wall or a common wall.

Duplex, see Dwelling, Two Family.

Dwelling. A building used exclusively for residential occupancy, including single-family dwellings, two-family dwellings and multi-family dwellings.

Dwelling, Efficiency unit. A dwelling unit containing not more than one (1) room or enclosed floor space arranged for living, cooking, and sleeping purposes not including bathrooms, water closets, laundry rooms, pantries, foyers, hallways, and other accessory floor spaces. An efficiency unit is also known as a studio-type dwelling unit.

Dwelling, manufactured home and related definitions. See manufactured home.

Dwelling, multi-family. A dwelling containing three (3) or more dwelling units, including what is commonly known as an apartment building or condominiums, but not including group, row or town houses, hotels, motels, fraternity and sorority houses and similar group accommodations.

Dwelling, single-family. A building, at least partially constructed on site and designed exclusively for occupancy by one (1) family. "Single family dwelling" includes modular homes.

Dwelling, single-family attached. A residential building containing dwelling units, each of which has primary ground floor access to the outside and which are attached to each other by party walls without openings. The term is intended primarily for such dwelling types as town houses.

Dwelling, single-family detached. A single-family dwelling which is not attached to any other dwelling or building by any means situated on a permanent foundation.

Dwelling, two-family. A building designed as a single structure, containing two separate living units, each of which is designed to be occupied as a separate permanent residence. Also known as a duplex.

Dwelling unit. One (1) or more rooms and a single kitchen and at least one (1) bathroom, designed, occupied or intended for occupancy as separate quarters for the exclusive use for living, cooking and sanitary purposes, located in a single-family, two-family or multi-family dwelling or mixed-use building. "Dwelling unit" does not include extended stay hotels.

Employees. Any person(s) employed by a firm, business, educational institution, nonprofit agency, corporation, government agency, or other entity.

Fabrication. Manufacturing, excluding the refining or other initial processing of basic raw materials such as metal ores, lumber or rubber. Fabrication relates to stamping, cutting or otherwise shaping the processed materials into useful objects.

Family. A group of persons living together as one housekeeping unit in a dwelling unit up to the maximum number that may safely occupy the dwelling unit based on demonstrated health and safety standards, including but not limited to Chapters 12, 18 and 19 of this Code, International building and fire code standards, water and wastewater quality standards, and applicable County and State health and environmental standards.

Fence. An artificially constructed barrier of wood, masonry, stone, wire, metal, or other manufactured material or combination of materials erected to enclose, screen, or separate areas.

Floor area ratio, maximum. The maximum permitted ratio of gross floor area of all structures on the lot to the total area of the lot. The total gross floor area of all buildings or structures on a lot divided by the area of said lot.

Garage, private. An accessory building or an accessory portion of a main building designed for the shelter or storage of motor vehicles owned or operated by the occupants of the main building only.

Garage, public. An enclosed building, other than a private garage, used for the housing or care of motor vehicles, or where vehicles are equipped for operation, repaired or stored for monetary or other consideration, or kept for sale, hire or rental.

Gross floor area. The sum of the floor area of all floors of a structure, including interior balconies and mezzanines; all horizontal measurements to be made between the exterior walls, including the walls of roofed porches having more than two (2) walls.

Ground level. A horizontal plane passing through the average of the highest and lowest elevation of the ground along that facade of the building or structure which is nearest the street. In the absence of any building or structure, the points shall be located on the front setback line, between the two (2) side setback lines (or between the side lot lines, if no side setback is specified in the district).

Group Home. An institution, place, building, or agency providing for a period exceeding twenty-four (24) consecutive hours accommodation, board, personal assistance, and other essential daily living activities to individuals not related to the administrator or owner thereof, who by reason of illness, disease, or physical or mental infirmity are unable to sufficiently or properly care for themselves but who do not require the services of a registered or licensed practical nurse except on an emergency basis.

Guest room. A room in a hotel, motel, boarding house or tourist home offered to the public for compensation, in which room no provision is made for cooking and which room is used only for transient occupancy.

Habitable Floor. Any floor usable for living purposes, which includes working, sleeping, eating, cooking, or recreation, or a combination thereof, except for a floor used only for storage purposes.

Habitable room. A room in a dwelling unit designed to be used for living, sleeping, eating or cooking, excluding bathrooms, toilet compartments, closets, halls, storage and similar space.

Home occupation. An occupation or business activity which results in a product or service and is conducted in whole or in part in a dwelling unit, is subordinate to the residential use of the dwelling unit, employs no more than three (3) persons not part of the inhabitants, and generates no client or customer traffic.

Hospital. An institution providing health services, primarily for in-patients, and medical or surgical care of the sick or injured, which may include as an integral part of the institution such related facilities as laboratories, out- patient departments, training facilities, central service facilities and staff offices.

Hotel and motel.Any commercial building or buildings intended or designed to be used, rented, or hired out to be occupied for transient purposes, or which are occupied for sleeping purposes for guests, which may contain kitchen facilities for food preparation including but not limited to such facilities as refrigerators, stoves and ovens. Motel and hotels contain lobbies for guest check-in, and onsite maintenance and management.

Junk. All used or scrap metals, rubber, alloys, bones, rags, cloth, rope, bottles, machinery of any type, tools, appliances, fixtures, utensils, lumber, boxes or crates, pipes, conduit, used automobiles in nonoperative condition, used tires and other manufactured goods that are so damaged, worn, deteriorated or obsolete as to make them unusable in their existing condition.

Junkyard. A junkyard is defined as an open area where any junk waste, used or secondhand materials are bought, sold, exchanged, stored, bailed, parked, dissembled or handled with the intention for resale in the normal course of said occupant's business. A junkyard includes an auto wrecking, salvage and storage business of any inoperative motor vehicles, but a junkyard does not include:

(1)

Uses entirely established within an enclosed building.

(2)

Two (2) or less motor vehicles completely covered with a nontransparent covering at all times, except when said vehicle is being worked upon on the premises at any one (1) time and said vehicle is owned by the owner or occupant of the premises or members of the family of the owner or occupant. As used in this Section, being worked upon means in the actual process of repair with the person making the repairs physically present at the location of the motor vehicle.

(3)

When the owner or occupant of a business dealing with the sale or repair of secondhand material entirely within an enclosed building displays or deposits said junk outside of his or her business building on his or her property for a period not to exceed seventy-two (72) consecutive hours.

Kennel. An establishment where dogs or cats are boarded for compensation. Kennel shall include any commercial animal daycare.

Lot. The combined areas of one (1) or more platted City lots, contiguous to each other and in common ownership, which shall be deemed a single parcel for building and development purposes. A lot may be all or parts of two (2) or more platted City lots. The area of a lot as defined herein shall be sufficient to meet minimum requirements for use, street frontage, coverage and area, allow required yards and other open spaces in the zoning district in which the parcel is located, and have direct access onto a public or private street. A lot as so defined and designated on an application for a site plan or building permit which is approved by the City shall thereupon be deemed a single ownership parcel. For purposes of this definition, common ownership means the right to possess and use two (2) or more parcels for the purposes proposed in the site plan or building permit application, whether by long-term leasehold, fee title ownership or other legally cognizable interest or combination thereof.

Lot, corner. A lot of which at least two (2) adjacent sides abut for their full length upon a street.

Lot, interior. A lot other than a corner lot.

Lot line, front. The common boundary line between an interior lot line (other than a through lot) and a street, the common boundary line between a corner lot (other than a through lot) and that street toward which the principal or usual entrance to the main building situated on such lot more nearly faces, or the common boundary line between a through lot and the adjacent street which is in the surrounding lots most commonly referred to as the front or principal end of a through lot.

Lot line, rear. That boundary line of a lot which is most nearly opposite the front lot line of such lot.

Lot line, side. Any boundary line of a lot, other than a front lot line or rear lot line.

Lot, through. An interior lot abutting on more than one (1) street or a corner lot abutting on more than two (2) streets.

Manufacture. All operations required to produce the material named.

Manufactured home. A structure which is designed primarily for long-term occupancy as a residence, is partially or wholly manufactured in a factory or at a location other than the site of the completed home, contains sleeping areas, a flush toilet, a tub or shower bath and kitchen facilities, has plumbing and electrical connections provided for attachment to outside systems, is transportable in one (1) or more Sections, can be installed on a permanent foundation, and meets all established snow loads. Manufactured home does not include park trailers, camper trailers, travel trailers or other similar vehicles.

(1)

Type I is a manufactured home which is typically wholly constructed in a factory, transportable in two (2) or more Sections, has brick, wood or cosmetically equivalent exterior siding and a pitched roof, but which is not constructed with a permanent hitch or other device allowing transport of the unit other than for the purpose of delivery to a permanent site, and which does not have wheels or axles. A Type I manufactured home must be certified pursuant to the National Manufactured Housing Construction and Safety Standards Act of 1974, 42 U.S.C. § 5401 et seq., as amended, and all regulations enacted pursuant thereto, or is certified by the State as being in compliance with the requirements of the International Building Code as adopted by the State and enforced and administered by the Colorado Division of Housing.

(2)

Type II is a single-section manufactured home which is designed to be transported on its own or detachable wheels or on a trailer, is constructed with a permanent hitch or other device allowing transport of the unit and bears a label certifying that it is built in compliance with the Federal Manufactured Home Construction and Safety Standards Act of 1974, which became effective June 15, 1976. Except where the context requires a different interpretation, Type II manufactured home is typically synonymous with mobile home.

Manufacturing, heavy. The basic processing and manufacturing of materials or products predominately from extracted or raw materials.

Manufacturing, light. The finishing and assembly, from previously prepared materials, of finished products or parts, including processing, fabrication, assembly, treatment, packaging, incidental storage, sales or distribution of such products. Further, light manufacturing shall mean uses such as the manufacture of electronic instruments, pharmaceutical manufacturing, research and scientific laboratories or the like. Light manufacturing shall not include uses such as mining and extracting industries, petrochemical industries, rubber refining, primary metal or related industries.

Modular Home. A modular home is manufactured in a production facility and is built in two (2) or more Sections in a controlled factory setting that are then transported and assembled on location. The assemble process typically uses a traditional concrete foundation (permanent). A modular home cannot be moved once built.

Mini-storage warehouse. A building or a group of buildings containing separate, individual self-storage units, with an independent entrance from the exterior of the building, designed to be rented or leased to the general public for public storage of personal goods, materials and equipment.

Mixed Use Building(s). A building or buildings containing residential in addition to non-residential uses permitted in the zone. Ground floor residential units shall be limited to accessory to the commercial uses. Above ground-floor residential not limited.

Mobile home and related definitions. See manufactured home.

Off-street loading space. An off-street loading space or area, either within a structure or without a structure on the same lot, provided and maintained solely for loading and unloading of materials and merchandise and having direct and unobstructed access to a street or alley.

Off-street parking space. A reasonably level off-street area or space to permit the use thereof under all weather conditions, designated for the temporary storage or parking of motor vehicles and having direct and unobstructed access to a street or alley.

Open space. A parcel of land, an area of water or a combination of land and water within a development site designed and intended primarily for the use or enjoyment of residents, occupants and owners of the development site or the general public for uses including, but not limited to: open landscaped areas, recreation areas and facilities, plazas, gardens, parks, walkways, paths, sidewalks and trails, and areas of native vegetation left substantially in their natural state or supplemented by additional plant material. The term shall not include space devoted to buildings, drive aisles, parking, storage and loading areas, private open space or sidewalks, paths, etc., with less than three (3) feet of planted landscaping on each side of the sidewalk or path.

Parking lot. An area or structure used for the short-term parking of motor vehicles. It does not include vehicle or boat storage areas or, except as permitted by this Code, areas for occupancy of travel trailers.

Parks. Areas of land designated for recreation and leisure purposes that are open to the general public, residents and tourists and reserved for recreational, educational or scenic purposes.

Pawn shop. A commercial establishment which either purchases goods for resale or extends credit upon the pledge of goods which may be resold to the public if the credit is not repaid.

Peep booth. A viewing room, other than a private room, of less than one hundred fifty (150) square feet of floor space upon the premises of a sexually oriented business where there are exhibited photographs, films, motion pictures, video cassettes or other video reproductions, slides or other visual representations which depict or describe specified sexual activities or specified anatomical areas.

Permitted structure. A structure meeting all the requirements established by this Chapter for the district in which the structure is located.

Permitted use. Any use listed as a use by right, a use by temporary permit, a home occupation or an accessory use when permitted in any given district.

Planned development. An area of land, controlled by one (1) or more landowners, to be developed under unified control or unified plan of development for any use or combination of uses or development standards, the plan for which does not correspond to the existing land use regulations.

Planning Commission. A Commission appointed by the City Council, as described in Chapter 5, Article I of this Code.

Porch, enclosed. A porch which is open to the atmosphere on at least two (2) sides.

Private room. A room in a sexually oriented motel that is not a peep booth, has a bed in the room, has a bath in the room or adjacent to the room and may be rented for less than twenty-four (24) hours.

Professional office. An office for professions such as physicians, dentists, lawyers, architects, engineers, artists, musicians, designers, teachers, accountants and others who, through training, are qualified to perform services of a professional nature, and where no storage or sale of merchandise exists.

Residential occupancy. Any building or part of a building in which a person or group of persons are provided with sleeping accommodations. Other housekeeping accommodations may also be provided.

Residential structure. Any building or part of a building constructed with sleeping accommodations for a person or group of persons. Other housekeeping accommodations may also be provided.

Retail. Sale or service of a product to a consumer for direct use or consumption.

Room. Any division of a building containing over seventy (70) square feet of floor space and commonly used for living purposes, not including lobbies, halls, closets, storage space, bathrooms, utility rooms and unfinished attics, cellars or basements.

RV Park, see Travel Trailer Park.

Setback. The minimum distance by which any building or structure must be separated from a street right-of-way or property line.

Setback, front. A setback line parallel with a front lot line of a lot.

Setback line, front cul-de-sac. The setback line concentrically parallel with a front lot line of a cul-de-sac lot.

Setback line, rear. The setback line parallel with a rear lot line of a lot.

Setback line, side. The setback line parallel with a side lot line of a lot.

Sexual encounter establishment. A business or commercial establishment which, as one (1) of its primary business purposes, offers for any form of consideration a place where two (2) or more persons may congregate, associate or consort for the purpose of specified sexual activities or the exposure of specified anatomical areas, when one (1) or more of the persons exposes any specified anatomical area.

Sexually oriented business. Use of property where the principal use, or a significant or substantial adjunct to another use of the property, is the sale, rental, display or other offering of live entertainment, dancing, services or goods (including printed or electronically recorded materials) which is distinguished or characterized by its emphasis on depicting, exhibiting, describing or relating to specified sexual activities or specified anatomical areas as the primary attraction to the premises, including but not limited to:

(1)

Sexually oriented arcade means any place to which the public is permitted or invited wherein coin-operated, slug-operated or electronically, electrically or mechanically controlled still or motion picture machines, projectors or image-producing devices are maintained to show images to five (5) or fewer persons per machine at any one (1) time, and where the images so displayed are distinguished or characterized by the depicting or describing of specified sexual activities or specified anatomical areas.

(2)

Sexually oriented bookstore or sexually oriented video store means a place where books, magazines, motion pictures, prints, photographs, periodicals, video or audio recordings, novelties and devices, or any of these things, which have as their primary or dominant theme matter depicting, illustrating, describing or relating to specified sexual activities or specified anatomical areas, are sold or offered for sale to adults, and includes a place with only a portion or Section of its area set aside for the display or sale of such material to adults, except that any place, otherwise included within this definition, that derives not more than ten (10) percent of its gross income from the sale of such material, shall be exempt from the provisions of this definition so long as such material is kept in a location where it is not visible to the outdoor public and shall not be a self-service item for the customers of such place.

a.

Sexually oriented businesses are only allowed in the Industrial One I-1 Zone District by Conditional Use.

Sexually oriented business also includes:

(1)

The opening or commencement of any sexually oriented business as a new business;

(2)

The conversion of an existing business, whether or not a sexually oriented business, to a sexually oriented business;

(3)

The addition of any sexually oriented business to any other existing sexually oriented business;

(4)

The relocation of any sexually oriented business; or

(5)

The continuation of a sexually oriented business in existence on the effective date of the initial ordinance codified herein.

(6)

Sexually oriented cabaret. A nightclub, bar, restaurant or similar business which regularly features:

a.

Persons who appear in a state of nudity;

b.

Live performances which are characterized by the exposure of specified anatomical areas or by specified sexual activities; or

c.

Films, motion pictures, video cassettes, slides or other photographic reproductions which are characterized by the depiction or description of specified sexual activities or specified anatomical areas.

Sexually oriented motel. A hotel, motel or similar business which offers private rooms to the public and provides patrons live performances or closed-circuit television transmissions, films, motion pictures, video cassettes, slides or other photographic reproductions which are characterized by the depiction or description of specified sexual activities or specified anatomical areas.

Sexually oriented motion picture theater. A business where films, motion pictures, video cassettes, slides or similar photographic reproductions are regularly shown which are characterized by the depiction or description of specified sexual activities or specified anatomical areas.

Sexually oriented photo studio. Any establishment which, upon payment of a fee, provides photographic equipment and/or models for the purpose of photographing specified anatomical areas.

Sexually oriented theater. A theater, concert hall, auditorium or similar business which regularly features persons who appear in a state of nudity, or live performances which are characterized by the exposure of specified anatomical areas or by specified sexual activities.

Shop. A use devoted primarily to the sale of a service or a product where the service is performed or the product to be sold is prepared in its finished form on the premises.

Sign. See Chapter 20: Signs.

Specified anatomical areas. Any of the following:

(1)

Less than completely and opaquely covered human genitals, pubic region, buttocks and female breast below a point above the top of the areola.

(2)

Human male genitals in a discernibly turgid state even if completely and opaquely covered.

Specified sexual activities. Acts, simulated acts, exhibitions, representations, depictions or descriptions of any of the following:

(1)

Human genitals in a state of sexual stimulation or arousal.

(2)

Fondling or other erotic touching of human genitals, pubic region, buttocks or female breast.

(3)

Intrusion, however slight, of any object, any part of an animal's body or any part of a person's body into the genital or anal openings of any person's body or into the body of an animal.

(4)

Cunnilingus, fellatio, anilingus, masturbation, bestiality, lewd exhibition of genitals or excretory function.

(5)

Flagellation, mutilation or torture for purposes of sexual arousal, gratification or abuse.

Stage. A raised floor or platform at least three (3) feet above the surrounding floor measured perpendicularly from the edge of the stage to the surrounding floor and at least thirty-six (36) square feet in area.

Storage. The act of depositing goods, wares or merchandise in any structure, part of a structure or warehouse for more than twenty-four (24) hours.

Store. A use devoted exclusively to the retail sale of a commodity or commodities.

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

Street. A public thoroughfare for vehicular traffic.

Structure. Anything which is constructed or erected and the use of which requires permanent location on ground and attachment to something (other than wheels), having permanent location on the ground; an edifice or a building of any kind; or any production or piece of work, artificially built up or composed of parts and joined together in some definite manner.

Structural alterations. Any change in the supporting members of a structure, such as bearing walls, columns, beams or girders, floor joists or roof joists.

Tattoo parlor. See body art establishment.

Theatre. A structure used for dramatic, operatic, motion picture or other performance, for admission to which entrance money is received and in which no audience participation or meal service is allowed.

Tourist court or camp. A building or a group of buildings designed for occupancy by transients.

Tourist facility. An establishment whose primary purpose is to provide information or entertainment to tourists or visitors, including but not limited to a visitors center, information center, or accommodation booking center.

Travel trailer (camper). Any travel trailer, camper, coach, mounted tent, motor home or other habitable vehicle intended for and capable of temporary human occupancy as a dwelling, mounted on wheels and capable of being moved by its own power or pulled by another vehicle, used or intended to be used primarily for travel or recreational purposes; it does not include manufactured home.

Travel trailer park. Land or property utilized for or intended for use as temporary occupancy space for transient users of travel campers or trailers.

Unobstructed open space. An area of land at ground level upon which no structure may be erected or surface area utilized for vehicular movement or parking.

Unstaffed hotel. Any commercial building which contains a minimum of three (3) rooms and a maximum of eight (8) rooms intended or designed to be used, rented, or hired out to be occupied for transient purposes, or which are occupied for sleeping purposes for guests. Unstaffed hotels contain a common check-in area, may or may not be staffed on-site, receive regularly scheduled maintenance and cleaning, and provide guests with a local representative in case of emergency.

Use. The purpose for which land or a structure thereon is designed, arranged or intended to be occupied or used, or for which it is occupied, maintained, rented or leased.

Use by right. A use which is listed as a use by right in any given zone district in this Chapter. Uses by right are not required to show need for their location.

Variance Board. A Board appointed by the City Council to hear and decide upon requests for variances from the requirements of this Chapter, more fully described in Chapter 5, Article II of this Code.

Veterinary animal hospital. A place where animals or pets of all types are given medical or surgical treatment. Use as a kennel shall be limited to short-time boarding and shall only be incidental to such hospital use and need not be enclosed within the main building.

Wall, retaining. A wall used or intended to be used to resist the lateral displacement of earth.

Warehouse. A structure or part of a structure used for storing goods, wares or merchandise, whether for the owner or for others, and whether the same is a public or private warehouse. Warehouse does not include mini-storages.

Wholesale. Sale for resale, not for direct consumption.

Width of lot. The shortest distance between any two (2) lot lines of a lot which are intersected by the same front setback line, measured from either any point on each line or the points of intersection with the front setback line.

Yard. An open space on the same lot with a building, unoccupied and unobstructed from the ground upward except by landscaping or as otherwise provided herein.

Yard, front. That portion of a lot lying between a public street and the nearest parallel front setback line of such lot.

Yard, rear. That portion of a lot lying between the rear lot line and the rear setback line of such lot.

Yard, side. That portion of a lot lying between a side lot line and the nearest parallel side setback line of such lot.

(Ord. No. 19, §2(Exh. A), 2019; Ord. No. 13, §1, 2024; Ord. No. 16, §1, 2024; Ord. No. 9, §1, 2025; Ord. No. 11, §1, 2025)