The following words, terms and phrases, when used in this Code, shall have the meanings ascribed to them in this chapter, except where the context clearly indicates a different meaning. The term "building" shall include the term "structure." The term "lot" shall indicate an area that has been platted or mapped, and may include the term "plot" or "parcel." The term "zone" shall mean "district." In addition, the following general rules of construction shall apply:

A.

Meanings and Intent. All provisions, terms, phrases, and expressions contained in this Code shall be construed according to this Code's stated purpose and intent. All provisions, terms, phrases, and expressions contained in this Code shall be construed according to the general purposes set forth in Section 17.04.010 and the specific purpose statements set forth throughout this Code. When, in a specific section of this Code, a different meaning is given for a term defined for general purposes in this chapter, the specific section's meaning and application of the term shall control.

B.

Headings, Illustrations, and Text. In the event of a conflict or inconsistency between the text of this Code and any heading, caption, figure, illustration, table, or map, the text shall control.

C.

Lists and Examples. Unless otherwise specifically indicated, lists of items or examples that use terms such as "for example," "including," and "such as," or similar language are intended to provide examples and shall not be interpreted as exhaustive lists of all possibilities.

D.

Computation of Time. The time in which an act is to be done shall be computed by excluding the first day and including the last day. If a deadline or required date of action falls on a Saturday, Sunday, or holiday observed by the City, the deadline or required date of action shall be the next day that is not a Saturday, Sunday, or holiday observed by the City. References to days are calendar days unless otherwise stated.

E.

References to Other Regulations/Publications. Whenever reference is made to a resolution, ordinance, statute, regulation, or document, it shall be construed as a reference to the most recent edition of such regulation, resolution, ordinance, statute, regulation, or document, unless otherwise specifically stated.

F.

Delegation of Authority. Any act authorized by this Code to be carried out by a specific official of the City may be carried out by a designee of such official.

G.

Technical and Nontechnical Terms. Words and phrases not otherwise defined in this Code shall be construed according to the common and approved usage of the language, but technical words and phrases not otherwise defined in this Code that may have acquired a particular and appropriate meaning in law shall be construed and understood according to such meaning.

H.

Public Officials and Agencies. All public officials, bodies, and agencies to which references are made are those of the City of North Las Vegas unless otherwise indicated.

(Ord. No. 2591, § 1, 6-15-2011, eff. 10-1-2011)

A.

Mandatory and Discretionary Terms. The words "shall," "must," or "will" are always mandatory, and the words "may" or "should" are always discretionary.

B.

Conjunctions. Unless the context clearly suggests the contrary, conjunctions shall be interpreted as follows:

1.

"And" indicates that all connected items, conditions, provisions, or events shall apply; and

2.

"Or" indicates that one or more of the connected items, conditions, provisions, or events shall apply.

C.

Tenses and Plurals. Words used in one tense (past, present, or future) include all other tenses, unless the context clearly indicates the contrary. The singular shall include the plural, and the plural shall include the singular.

D.

Interpretation. The Director has authority to determine the interpretation or usage of terms used in this Code. Appeal of an interpretation made by the Director shall be to the Planning Commission.

E.

Undefined Terms. The Director has the authority to provide the definition for a term where it is not defined in this Code. Appeal of a definition provided by the Director shall be to the Planning Commission.

(Ord. No. 2591, § 1, 6-15-2011, eff. 10-1-2011)

Abut
Two adjoining parcels of property with a common property line are considered as one parcel abutting the other, except where two or more lots adjoin only at a corner or corners.

Access or Access Way
A way by which pedestrians and vehicles have adequate and useable ingress and egress to and from a property or use as required by this title.

Accessory Building or Use
A subordinate building, or portion of the principal building, located on the same lot as the principal building, or a subordinate use of land, either of which is customarily incidental to the principal building or to the principal use of land. Where part of an accessory building is connected to part of the principal building in a substantial manner as by a roof, such accessory building shall be counted as part of the principal building.

Adjacent
Near, close, or abutting; for example, an industrial district across the street or highway from a residential district shall be considered as adjacent.

Adjoin
See "abut."

Adult Uses (Use Category)
The adult use category is comprised of uses that are of a sexual nature, intended for adults only.

Aggrieved Person
The applicant, or any person who attended a public hearing and offered written or verbal comments on the application, or any person who submitted written comments on the application on or before the date of the public hearing, or any person defined as an aggrieved person by NRS 278.3195 or under applicable Nevada court decisions.

Agricultural Activity
The cultivation of the soil or the raising of livestock and all activities incidental thereto. The terms "farming" and "ranching" shall be interchangeable for the purposes of this title.

Agriculture and Agricultural Support Services (Use Category)
The agriculture and agricultural support services use category is comprised of uses characterized by general active and on-going agricultural uses, activities, and related uses. An agricultural use, in general, means the use of land for the growing and/or production of field crops, livestock, aquatic, and animal products for the production of income.

Air Cooling System
Air conditioners, heating, ventilation, and other systems related to the heating and cooling of a structure.

Airport
Runways and related facilities for aircraft, including rotary-winged and ultralight aircraft, take-off and landing.

Alley
A permanent public thoroughfare providing a secondary means of access to abutting lands.

Alter
Alter shall mean any change in the structural members or other features of the building; or any change to allow the building to be used for purposes other than those for which it was originally intended.

Amendment
A change in the wording, context, or substance of this title; an addition, deletion, or change in the district boundaries or district classification upon the zoning map.

Amusement Park or Water Park
A commercially operated park with a predominance of outdoors games and activities, including motorized rides and/or water slides.

Animal Care (Use Category)
The animal care use category is comprised of uses characterized by the caring, grooming, and treatment of animals, including vet services.

Animal Hospital or Clinic
A place where small animals (such as dogs, cats, birds, hamsters, ferrets, fish, and domestic pets) are given medical or surgical treatment, and are cared for during and following the time of such treatment. Such facility shall be operated by a Nevada-licensed veterinarian and shall have the primary use dedicated to the out-patient treatment of small animals. Outside pens, kennels, or runs are not permitted as part of an animal hospital. The short-term boarding of no more than ten (10) days is permitted. A maximum twenty-five (25) percent of the total floor area of the facility may be devoted to boarding.

Apartment Building
A building other than a hotel, motel, rooming house, boarding house, or group home, containing three or more dwelling units.

Appliance Repair Facility
Establishments providing appliance repair, that may include major or minor appliances, and office machine repair.

Architectural Embellishment
Ornamental or decorative features attached to or protruding from an exterior wall of a structure.

Athletic Club
A facility privately owned or operated by a corporation, associates, or person for recreational purposes associated with sports and athletics that may include, but are not limited to: fields and related areas for tennis, soccer, swimming, gymnastics, basketball, or any combination of these or other sports.

Auto Title Loan Establishment
Any establishment that loans money on a personal vehicle by taking a security interest on the title of the vehicle. This shall not include "Automobile Pawnbroker."

Automobile Impound Yard
See Vehicle Impound Yard.

Automobile Parking Lot or Parking Garage
Surface parking lot or structure offering short or long term vehicle parking services to the public. A fee may or may not be associated with this use.

Automobile Pawnbroker
Any business that loans money on the security of pledges, deposits, or other secured transactions in personal vehicles. This shall not include "Auto Title Loan."

Automobile Washing Establishment
A building or portion thereof containing facilities for washing automobiles, light trucks, and vans, but not commercial fleets.

Automobile Wrecking Yard
The dismantling or wrecking of used motor vehicles or trailers, or the storage, sale, or dumping of dismantled or wrecked vehicles or their parts.

Auto Salvage Yard
A facility or area for storing, keeping, selling, dismantling, shredding, compressing, or salvaging vehicles or parts thereof.

Aviary
An enclosure specially constructed to hold live birds in confinement.

Awning
A roof-like cover, often made of fabric, metal, or glass, designed and intended for protection from the weather or as a decorative embellishment, and which projects from a wall or roof of a structure over a window, sidewalk, door, or similar feature. Awnings are supported entirely from the exterior wall of a building and do not have support systems, such as posts, that extend to the ground. See also "canopy."

Bakery for On-Site Sales
An establishment for preparing, cooking, and baking of products that are sold on-site.

Balcony
A horizontal flat surface that projects from the wall of a building, is enclosed by a parapet or railing, and is entirely supported by the building. Balconies may be covered or uncovered by a canopy or awning.

Bank or Financial Institution
Establishments engaged in deposit banking. Banks and financial institutions may include, but are not limited to, commercial banks, loan or mortgage companies, stockbrokers, savings institutions, credit unions, and other similar uses. For the purposes of this Code, a bank and financial institution shall not include short-term or deferred deposit loan establishments or auto title loan establishments.

Base Flood, One Hundred Year
The flood having a one percent chance of being equaled or exceeded in any given year.

Basement
A portion of a building located partly underground but having at least half its floor-to-ceiling height below the average grade of the adjoining ground.

Batch Plant (Concrete or Asphalt)
A plant for the manufacture or mixing of asphalt, concrete, cement, and concrete and cement products, including any apparatus and uses incidental to such manufacturing.

Bicycle Facilities
Bicycle facilities shall serve as a general term that includes, but is not limited to: bicycle racks, parking spots designated for the parking of bicycles, and storage facilities designed for bicycles.

Bicycle Racks
An apparatus that is attached to the ground or a structure to which a person can attach a lock to in order to secure a bicycle.

Block Frontage
All of the property of a given lot or any portion thereof lying adjacent to a public street or highway.

Bowling Alley
An establishment that devotes more than fifty (50) percent of its gross floor area to bowling lanes, equipment, and playing area. Accessory uses may include snack bar, video games, billiards tables, and other incidental recreational uses.

Breezeway
A roofed passageway, open on at least one side, that provides a connection between any combination of two buildings and/or structures.

BRT
Bus Rapid Transit

Buffer Wall
A freestanding exterior wall constructed of smooth block with integrated color and pilasters at least every fifty (50) feet.

Building
Any structure having enclosed space and a roof for the housing and/or enclosure of persons, animals, or chattels, except mobile homes, recreational vehicles, and mobile offices.

Building Area
The maximum horizontal projected area of the principal and accessory building, excluding open steps, terraces, unenclosed porches of one story, and architectural appurtenances projecting not more than two feet. Building area, as that portion of a lot upon which construction is permitted, is as follows: that area of a lot that lies within the boundaries of the front, side, and rear yard setback requirements measured from the actual lot line.

Building Envelope
That area of a lot lying between the front, rear, and side yard setback lines and between ground level and the maximum allowable building height, amounting to the three-dimensional area available for potential building construction.

Building Line
The building line is the inner edge of any required yard or required setback to the corresponding outer edge of the buildable area.

Building Material Sales, Wholesale
An establishment engaged in the wholesaling of building supplies or equipment, and that typically includes lumber yards and tool and equipment sales or rental establishments, but excludes establishments exclusively devoted to retail sales of paint and hardware, and activities classified under Vehicle/Equipment Sales and Services, including vehicle towing services.

Building Permit
A written document issued by the building department permitting the construction, alteration, or expansion of a development.

Building, Front Line of
The line of the face of a building nearest the front lot line.

Building, Nonconforming
A legally existing building that fails to comply with the regulations set forth in this title applicable to the zone in which the building is located.

Building, Principal
A building in which is conducted the main, or principal, use of the lot on which the building is situated.

Building, Public
A building, supported by government funds, to be used in an official capacity on behalf of the entire community.

Building, Setback
See "setback."

Building, Temporary
Any building that is established for temporary occupancy and meets the requirements of this title for a temporary building. Such a building is not ICBO approved and may or may not be placed on a permanent foundation.

Building, Value of
The latest value as appraised by the Clark County Assessor.

Bus Terminal
A lot and related building that is a designated location where bus or coach services start or end. A bus terminal shall not include a location where the bus stops to drop off or take on passengers where there are no operational facilities related to the bus or coach operation.

Business
The engaging in the purchase, sale, barter, or exchange of goods, wares, merchandise, or service; the maintenance or operation of offices, recreational, or amusement enterprises.

Caliper
The diameter of a tree trunk measured six inches above ground level for trees up to four inches caliper and twelve (12) inches above the ground for larger sizes. If a tree is of a multi-trunk variety, the caliper of the tree is the average caliper of all of its trunks.

Canopy
A roofed structure constructed of fabric or other materials, supported by the building and including a support system that extends to the ground directly under the canopy. See also "awning."

Carport
A structure, open on at least two sides, consisting of a roof and either walls or columns for the purpose of housing automotive vehicles and other chattels. The structure shall be considered as an accessory building when detached from the principal building, and as a part of the principal building when attached to the principal building along one or more sides of the carport or principal building.

Casino
Any place where gambling is operated or maintained as defined by Section 5.20.020, definition of "non-restricted license."

Cemetery
Land used for the burial of the dead and dedicated for cemetery purposes, including crematories, mausoleums, and mortuaries when operated in conjunction with and within the boundary of such cemetery.

Child Care Facility
Pursuant to NRS 432A.024, a child care facility is: "(a) an establishment operated and maintained for the purpose of furnishing care on a temporary or permanent basis, during the day or overnight, to five or more children under eighteen (18) years of age, if compensation is received for the care of any of those children; (b) an on-site child care facility; (c) a child care institution; or (d) an outdoor youth program.

"Child care facility" does not include: (a) The home of a natural parent or guardian, foster home as defined in N.R.S. 424.014 or maternity home; (b) a home in which the only children received, cared for and maintained are related within the third degree of consanguinity or affinity by blood, adoption or marriage to the person operating the facility; or (c) a home in which a person provides care for the children of a friend or neighbor for not more than four weeks if the person who provides the care does not regularly engage in that activity."

For the purposes of this title, a "child care facility" is subdivided into four categories:

1.

Family day care home: capacity of one to four children.

2.

Family home: capacity of five to six children.

3.

Group home: capacity of seven to twelve (12) children.

4.

Child care center: capacity of more than twelve (12) children.

Child Care Institution
Pursuant to NRS 432A.0245, a child care institution is: "a facility which provides care and shelter during the day and night and provides developmental guidance to sixteen (16) or more children who do not routinely return to the homes of their parents or guardians. Such an institution may also provide, without limitation: 1. education to the children according to a curriculum approved by the department of education; 2. services to children who have been diagnosed as severely emotionally disturbed as defined in NRS 433B.045, including, without limitation, services relating to mental health and education; or 3. emergency shelter to children who have been placed in protective custody pursuant to 432B.594 of NRS."

Chimney
A vertical shaft of reinforced concrete, masonry, or other approved material, enclosing one or more flues, for the purpose of removing products of combustion from solid, liquid, or gaseous fuels.

City
The City of North Las Vegas, Nevada

City Attorney
The Attorney of the City of North Las Vegas or any assistant or special council of the City.

City Communication Sign
An off-premise sign located on property owned or controlled by the City or a City related entity which advertises special events, traffic warnings, emergency messages, sponsorships, public safety notifications and other messaging permitted pursuant to a license agreement with sign owner.

College or University
An educational institution, other than a trade school, that provides full-time or part-time education beyond high school.

Commercial and Office Uses (Use Category)
The commercial and office uses use classification comprises use categories and use types that involve commerce such as the purchase, sale, or other transactions involving the handling or disposition of any article, substance, or commodity for profit or livelihood.

Commercial Center
A grouping of proposed or existing retail stores, office, hotel, dining, and/or entertainment uses consisting of not less than one hundred thousand (100,000) square feet that share common parking lot driveways and/or spaces within a single unified development.

Commission
The City of North Las Vegas Planning Commission.

Common Area
Any area or space designed for joint use of the tenants or residents in a development, whether it be residential, commercial, or industrial.

Community Center or Meeting Hall
A building to be used as a place of meeting, recreation, or social activity that is designed to accommodate and serve significant segments of the community.

Community Center or Recreational Facility, Private or Jointly Owned
A building used for the meeting, recreation, or social activity designed to accommodate and serve the residents of a subdivision or development to which the use is associated with and that may be privately owned or jointly owned by property owners.

Community Facility
Shall have the meaning ascribed to it in NRS Chapters 453A and NRS 453D.

Community Garden
A single piece of land that is gardened collectively by a group of people that may include individual garden plots designated for individual gardens. Community gardens may be a principal or accessory use and may include related accessory uses as allowed for in this Code.

Comprehensive Plan
The most recently adopted Comprehensive Master Plan, including any amendments thereof.

Condominium
A building or group of buildings, in which units are owned individually and the structure, common areas, and facilities are owned by all the owners on a proportional, undivided basis. By definition, a condominium has common areas and facilities and there is an association of owners organized for the purpose of maintaining, administering, and operating the common areas and facilities. It is a legal form of ownership of real estate and not a specific building style. The purchaser has title to his or her interior space in the building and an undivided interest in parts of the interior, the exterior, and other common elements. The property is identified in a master deed and recorded on a plat with the local jurisdiction. The common elements usually include the land underneath and surrounding the building, certain improvements on the land, and such items as plumbing, wiring, and major utility systems, the interior areas between walls, the public interior spaces, exterior walls, streets, and recreational facilities.

Construction Dumpster
A container used for the temporary storage of rubbish or materials related to a construction site or project.

Construction Sign
A temporary sign erected on the parcel on which construction is taking place, limited to the duration of the construction, indicating the names of the architects, engineers, contractors, or similar artisans, the owner, financial supporters, leasing agents, sponsors, and similar individuals or firms having a major role or interest with respect to the structure or project or any future uses or activities to be conducted on the site.

Construction Trailer
A mobile home, trailer, or similar temporary structure that is used as an office or for storage in conjunction with a construction project.

Container Farm
Shipping container, or other similar style structure used for growing fruits, vegetables, and other ornamental plants through the use of high-tech, indoor and vertical hydroponic farming technologies.

Contiguous
See "abut."

Contractors Office and Storage
A facility including an outdoor area for the repair, maintenance, or storage of a contractors vehicles, equipment, or materials and/or a room or group of rooms used for conducting business affairs that does not use any existing storage area.

Convenience Food Store
A small retail self-service store selling a limited line of fast-moving food and nonfood items, usually with extended hours of operation and usually with a high volume of customer traffic comprised of quick transactions of a small number of items.

Convenience Food Store with Gas Pumps
A "convenience food store" that also includes facilities for retail "fuel sales" utilized for the operation of vehicles.

Council
The City Council of the City of North Las Vegas, Nevada; also referred to as the governing body.

County
Clark County, Nevada

Court or Courtyard
An open, unoccupied space, other than a yard, on the same lot as building or buildings and bounded on two or more sides by such buildings.

Covered Deck
A covered but non-enclosed deck.

Crematorium
A building or structure designed for the purpose of cremating the remains of the dead.

Dancing or Theatrical Studio
A building or portion thereof that has as its purpose the promotion, instruction, study, and production of dance and theater as an art form.

Day Care (Use Category)
Uses where the primary activity is the provision of care, protection, and supervision for children on a regular basis away from their primary residence.

Deck
A projecting non-enclosed portion of a house located at a height of less than eight feet above the ground. Decks may be covered or uncovered by a canopy or awning.

Deferred Deposit Loan
Any establishment that provides to the customer an amount of money that is equal to the face value of the check or the amount specified in the written authorization for an electronic transfer of money, less any fee charged for the transaction, and where there is an agreement not to cash the check or execute an electronic transfer of money for a specified period of time. This term does not include a retail seller engaged primarily in the business of selling consumer goods, including consumables, to retail buyers that cash checks, issue money orders or money transfers for a minimum flat fee as a service that is incidental to its main purpose or business.

Delicatessen or Catering Establishment
A use that involves the preparation and service or delivery of food and beverages for off-site consumption without provision for on-site consumption; excludes grocers and supermarkets.

Density, Gross
The number of residential dwelling units per gross unit of land.

Development
Any man-made change to improve or alter real estate, including but not limited to, buildings or other structures, mining, dredging, filling, grading, paving, excavation, or drilling operations.

Development Entry Statement Sign
Any permanent on-premises architectural design statement or feature sign at the entrance of a development that provides location information to a subdivision, condominium, or apartment complex that serves to announce the identity of the development where the sign is located. In order to qualify as this type of sign, a sign may not contain the name of the developer or contractor of the project or subdivision.

Director
The Director of the Community Development Department of the City of North Las Vegas, Nevada or his or her designee.

Distribution Center
A warehouse or a complex of warehouses primarily engaged in the sale or distribution of goods and materials in large quantity to retailers or other businesses for resale to individual or business customers. This use shall not include heavy manufacturing, resource extraction, bulk storage of hazardous materials, or scrap, or salvage operations.

Domestic Animal
A dog, cat, or similar small animal, customarily housed in or adjacent to the family living quarters.

Dormitory
A building or a group of rooms in a building used for institutional or group living and sleeping purposes by one or more purposes that are typically associated with a public or institutional use.

Drainage-Way
Any waterway, ditch, or course, either natural or artificial, that collects and drains surface water.

Drive Access
That area between the curb of a street, or edge of the traveled portion of a street when no curb exists, and the right-of-way/property line over which the City will permit vehicular travel from the traveled portion of a street to an individual property, or off-street parking space(s).

Drive-Through Establishment
A building opening, including windows, doors, or mechanical devices, through which occupants of a motor vehicle receive or obtain a service or product.

Driveway
A vehicular accessway or series of accessways providing ingress or egress to a use or development from a public street, private street, or vehicular use area associated with another use.

Driveway, Shared
A "driveway" that provides a single point of access to two or more buildings or lots.

Dwelling
A building, or portion thereof, used primarily for residential occupancy, including single-family, two-family, multiple-family dwellings, and group living facility, but not including hotels, motels, or tourist homes.

Dwelling Unit
A single unit of one or more rooms providing complete, independent living facilities for one or more persons including permanent provisions for living, sleeping, eating, cooking, and sanitation but not including a tent, cabin, hotel, motel, recreational vehicle, or other temporary or transient structure or facility.

Dwelling Unit, Accessory
A separate, complete dwelling unit that is accessory and clearly incidental to the principal dwelling unit. This definition also includes a tiny house as an accessory dwelling unit.

Dwelling, Attached
Any dwelling unit that has a wall, roof, and/or floor in common with any other dwelling unit.

Dwelling, Detached
Any dwelling unit that does not have a wall, roof and/or floor in common with any other dwelling unit.

Dwelling, Multiple-Family (3+)
A building, or portion thereof, used for occupancy by three or more families living independently of each other, with the units completely separated by a common wall, floor and/or ceiling, not including hotels, motels, or group care facility.

Dwelling, Single-Family
A building or manufactured home as defined in NRS 489.113 used for residential occupancy by one family.

Dwelling, Three- and Four-Family
A building designed as a single structure containing three or four separate living and housekeeping units, each of which is designed to be occupied as a separate permanent residence for one family.

Dwelling, Two-Family
A building, or portion thereof, used for occupancy by two families living independently of each other with the units completely separated by a common wall, floor and/or ceiling.

Easement
A right to use a portion of the land of another for a special purpose or public use such as, by way of example only, vehicular or transportation access, drainage, or public utilities.

Eating and Drinking Establishments (Use Category)
The eating and drinking establishments use category is comprised of uses characterized by the preparation and selling of food and beverages for immediate or direct on- or off-premise consumption.

Eave
The underside of a roof that extends beyond the external walls or façade of a building.

Electrical Power Transmission Poles and Lines
Support structures and electrical lines used for the distribution of electricity.

Electronic Graphic Display
A sign or portion thereof that displays electronic, static images, static graphics, or static pictures, with or without text information, defined by a small number of matrix elements using light emitting diodes (LED's), fiber optics, light bulbs, or other illumination devices, or a combination thereof. Electronic graphic display signs include computer programmable, microprocessor controlled electronic or digital displays.

Electronic Message Center
A sign or component of a sign that uses changing lights to form a message or series of messages that are electronically programmed or modified by electronic processes.

Encroachment
The portion of a structure that intrudes into a required setback.

Enhanced Pavement
Any permeable or non-permeable decorative pavement material intended for pedestrian or vehicular use. Examples of enhanced pavement include brick or stone pavers, grass pavers, exposed aggregate concrete, and stamped and colored concrete.

Essential Public Service or Utility Installation
The provision, installation, and service of overhead or underground electrical, gas, steam or water distribution systems and structures or collection, communication, supply, or disposal systems and structures used by public utilities or governmental departments or Commissions or as are required for the protection of the public health, safety, or general welfare, including towers, poles, wires, mains, drains, sewers, pipes, conduits, cables, fire alarm boxes, police callboxes, and accessories.

Establishment
A place of business, industry, or professional office with its furnishings and staff.

Establishment Requiring an "Off-Sale" Liquor License
Any establishment holding liquor licenses for the retail sale or distribution of alcoholic beverages in original sealed or corked containers for consumption off the premises where the same are sold or given away as outlined in Section 5.26 of the City Code.

Establishment Requiring an "On-Sale" Liquor License
Any establishment holding the following liquor licenses as outlined in Section 5.26 of the City Code including beer-wine, spirit-based products on-sale, full liquor on-sale, nonprofit club liquor, or restricted gaming liquor.

Excavation or Cut
The removal, stripping, or disturbance of soil, earth, sand, rock, gravel or other similar substances from the ground.

Exterior Storage of Goods and Materials
An outdoor arrangement or stockpiling of objects, items, products, or other materials, typically not in a fixed position and capable of rearrangement, designed and used for the purpose of a business. Exterior storage shall not include car lots, equipment rental establishments, or other uses where the use is specifically identified as a separate use type in Table 17.20-1.

Facility for Transitional Living for Released Offenders
Pursuant to NRS 449.055, a facility for transitional living for released offenders is: "a residence that provides housing and a living environment for persons who have been released from prison and who require assistance with reintegration into the community, other than such a residence that is operated or maintained by a state or local government or an agency thereof. The term does not include a halfway house for recovering alcohol and drug abusers or a facility for the treatment of abuse of alcohol or drugs."

Family
Includes the following if living together as a single housekeeping unit within a dwelling unit: (1) an individual living alone; (2) two or more persons related by blood or marriage, adoption or legal guardianship; (3) one or more handicapped persons together with caretakers or house parents; or (4) a group of not more than six unrelated individuals.

Farm Shed
A structure used for urban agricultural activities such as the storage or care of farming equipment, tools, and materials.

Farm Stand
A table, stall or tent and operated by a sole vendor for the sale of agricultural or horticultural products shall be accessory to a community garden or urban farm sales shall be limited to between 7:00 am and 7:00 pm.

Feed Store (Including Yard)
A retail store selling primarily agriculture products, including the bulk storage of animal feeds, fertilizers, and related agriculture products.

Fence
A barrier constructed of materials erected for the purpose of protection, confinement, enclosure or privacy.

Filling
The depositing or dumping of any matter on or into the ground, except the deposits resulting from common household gardening or deposits on farms for agricultural use.

Floodplain
That area encompassing the floodway area and the floodway fringe.

Floodway, One Hundred Year
The channel of a river or other watercourse and the adjacent land areas which must be kept free of encroachment in order to carry and discharge a flood of 100-year magnitude without substantial increases in flood height.

Floor Area Ratio
The gross floor area of all buildings on a lot divided by the lot area.

Floor Area, Gross
The sum of the gross horizontal areas of the several floors of a building measured from the exterior face of exterior walls, or from the centerline of a wall separating two buildings, but not including interior parking spaces, loading space for motor vehicles, or any space where the floor-to-ceiling height is less than six feet.

Floor Area, Net
The total of all floor areas of a building, excluding stairwells and elevator shafts, equipment rooms, interior vehicular parking or loading, and all floors below the first or ground floor, except when used or intended to be used for human habitation or service to the public.

Fraternity or Sorority House
A building used for a meeting place for a women's or men's organization that has been officially recognized by a college, university, or seminary, in which sleeping accommodations are provided for members.

Freight Terminal
A facility for either light or heavy rail, or any premises used by a motor freight company as a carrier of goods, that is the origin or destination point of goods being transported, for the purpose of storing, transferring, loading, and unloading goods.

Fuel Sales
An establishment with the primary business function of the retail sale of fuel for passenger vehicle use with or without minor service and repair work incidental to the operation of passenger automobiles.

Funeral Home and Mortuary
Establishments primarily engaged in the provision of services involving the care, preparation, or disposition of human dead other than in cemeteries or religious assembly uses. This use includes mortuaries, which are facilities in which dead bodies are prepared for burial or cremation; crematoriums; and columbariums.

Game Room or Pool Hall
A place or facility with one or more pool or billiard tables or other games for the use of patrons to be played for amusement only.

Gaming Enterprise Overlay District
An area that is suitable for operating an establishment that has been or may be issued a non-restricted license as defined by Section 5.20.020.

Garage Conversion
The conversion of a garage to living space as part of an established dwelling unit.

Garage, Offset
A form of a split garage where the front of one or more of the garage doors or openings is offset from another garage door or opening.

Garage, Private
A detached accessory building or portion of a main building used for the storage of vehicles for the family housed in the building to which such garage is accessory; not more than one-third of the total number of vehicles stored in such garage shall be commercial vehicles.

Garage, Public
Any building or premises, except those defined herein as a private garage, used for the storage or care of motor vehicles; or where such vehicles are equipped for operation, repaired, or kept for rental, hire, or sale.

Garage, Side-Loading
A garage that faces the side of the lot for the purpose of parking vehicles.

Garage, Split
A garage that accommodates two or more vehicles but is split so that there are two or more garage doors or openings.

Garbage
Putrescible animal and vegetable wastes resulting from the handling, storage, sale, preparation, cooking, and serving of food.

Garden Supply Store
A place of business where retail and wholesale products are sold to the consumer that may include a nursery and/or greenhouses, and may include plants, nursery products and stock, potting soil, hardware, power equipment and machinery, hoes, rakes, shovels, and other garden and farm variety tools and utensils.

Golf Course
A tract of land, either public or private, laid out for at least nine holes for playing the game of golf and improved with tee boxes, greens, fairways, and hazards, and may include related facilities such as clubhouses, golf schools, driving ranges, and accessory uses such as restaurants/bars, pro shops, and related facilities.

Golf Driving Range
A limited area on which golf players drive golf balls from a central driving tee, such area to include the driving tee, and other incidental activities pertaining to this activity.

Grade Elevations
The average elevation of the ground at the corners of the perimeter walls of the building or structure for the purpose of determining the height requirements of this title.

Grading
Any excavation or filling or combination thereof.

Greenhouse
An enclosed building, permanent or portable, that is largely constructed of glass, glasslike or translucent material, cloth, or lath, that is devoted to the protection or cultivation of flowers and other small plants.

Groundcover
Turf, vines, or any other species of plant generally considered groundcover by the nursery trade, or decorative rock or other decorative landscaping material.

Group Foster Home
Pursuant to NRS 424.015, "a natural person, partnership, firm, corporation or association who provides full-time care for seven to fifteen (15) children who are: (1) Under eighteen (18) years of age or who remain under the jurisdiction of a court pursuant to NRS 432B.594; (2) Not related within the first degree of consanguinity or affinity to any natural person maintaining or operating the home; and (3) Received, cared for and maintained for compensation or otherwise, including the provision of permanent free care."

Group Living (Use Category)
Residential uses characterized by a group of unrelated persons living in a group setting where there are shared bedroom, kitchen, and/or bathroom facilities and where the group is not living as a single family.

Guest House / Casita
Living quarters within a portion of a main building or in an accessory building that does not have kitchen facilities, located on the same lot with the main building, used for guests or servants employed on the premises. The term does not include a structure that is available on a rental basis.

Halfway House for Recovering Alcohol and Drug Abusers
Pursuant to NRS 449.008, "a residence that provides housing and a living environment for recovering alcohol and drug abusers and is operated to facilitate their reintegration into the community, but does not provide any treatment for alcohol or drug abuse. The term does not include a facility for transitional living for released offenders."

Hardscape
Solid, non-permeable surface or treatment that includes, but is not limited to, brick pavers, colored concrete, enhanced pavement, seat walls, and retaining walls.

Hazard to Air Navigation
An obstruction determined to have a substantial adverse effect on the safe and efficient utilization of navigable airspace.

Hazardous Materials
Any chemical, biological, or radiological compound, gas, oil, gasoline lubricant, or other petroleum products, substance, solution, or mixture that because of its quality, quantity, concentration, physical, or infectious characteristics, or any combination thereof, when released into the environment, presents or may present harmful or potentially harmful effects to human health or welfare of the environment. Hazardous materials shall include those hazardous substances identified by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency as listed in the latest published edition of 40 C.F.R. and by 29 C.F.R. and solutions in concentration greater than one percent by volume of any regulated material, unless another concentration is specifically noted. Hazardous materials shall also include anything identified as hazardous in N.R.S. Chapter 459. Additionally, oil and oil-based derivatives as listed in 40 C.F.R. shall be classified as hazardous materials.

Hazardous Waste, Household
Leftover household products that contain corrosive, toxic, ignitable, or reactive ingredients that is generated by a typical household, including a single-family or multiple family residences. These may include products such as paints, cleaners, oils, batteries, and pesticides that contain potentially hazardous ingredients and require special care when disposed of.

Health and Fitness Center
A facility where members or non-members use equipment or space within a building for the purpose of physical fitness, improved circulation or flexibility, and/or weight control.

Heavy Equipment Rental Facility
An establishment providing for the rental of large-scale tools, construction equipment, farm implements, or similar equipment typically used for business, construction, and farming businesses and not generally used by individual residents.

Heavy-Weight Ordnance
Ordnance that is similar in design, weight, and aerodynamic characteristics to live ordnance, except an inert filling is used (non-explosive filling of the same weight as the explosive filling).

Helipad
Pads and facilities enabling takeoffs and landings by helicopters and air ambulances.

Heliport
Heliports contain helipads, fueling facilities, and supporting apparatus.

High Canopy
Crown foliage is no lower than seven feet above ground.

High Tunnel/Hoop House
A high tunnel, also called a hoop house, is a non-permanent, walk-in, usually hoop-shaped, pipe frame structure that is enclosed with flexible plastic or fabric and usually having sides that can be rolled up or dropped down to create ventilation. These structures are used to cover and protect cultivated land and crops from excessive sun, wind, and cold, reduce pests, etc. to extend the growing season.

Highway Improvement Project
Any bridge or overpass, including any off and off ramps or embarkments associated with the bridge or overpass.

Home for Individual Residential Care
Pursuant to NRS 449.0105, "a home in which a natural person furnishes food, shelter, assistance and limited supervision, for compensation, to not more than two persons with mental retardation or with disabilities or who are aged or infirm, unless the persons receiving those services are related within the third degree of consanguinity or affinity to the person providing those services. The term does not include: a halfway house for recovering alcohol and drug abusers; or a home in which supported living arrangement services are provided by a provider of supported living arrangement services during any period in which the provider of supported living arrangement services is engaged in providing supported living arrangement services."

Home Occupation
A business, profession, occupation, or trade that is conducted within a residential dwelling unit for the economic gain or support of a resident of the dwelling and is incidental and secondary to the residential use of the lot and does not adversely or perceptively affect the character of the lot or surrounding area.

Home Occupation, Offices as a
A home occupation that is restricted to an office use that does not include any retail sales or the provision of personal services.

Horizontal Mixed Use
The development of a building or structure with two or more different uses, such as residential and commercial or residential and office.

Horse Stable, Private
A building constructed for the keeping of equine animals that is accessory to a residential use.

Hospital/Medical Center
An institution for the diagnosis, treatment, or other cure of human ailments on an in-patient and/or out-patient basis, including sanitariums, provided such institution is operated by, or treatment is given under direct supervision of a physician licensed by the State of Nevada.

Hotel or Motel
A building or portion thereof, or a group of buildings, having six or more guest rooms, in which lodging is provided and offered to transient guests for compensation; shall not include a lodging house.

Household Living (Use Category)
Residential uses characterized by the occupancy of a dwelling unit by a family.

Hydroponics and Hydroponic Technologies
Hydroponics is the technique of growing plants using a water-based nutrient solution rather than soil and can include an aggregate substrate or growing media. Hydroponic technologies can range from simple systems featuring pumps and reservoirs to high-tech systems featuring automation and energy efficient LED lighting.

Indoor Agriculture
Growing fruits, vegetables, and ornamental plants inside a building or structure using either natural or artificial light and often using advanced growing techniques such as hydroponic technologies, energy-efficient LED lighting, and other high-tech methods.

Indoor Food Sales
The sale of prepared food products as an accessory use within a structure that contains a different principal use. This may include accessory restaurants, cafeterias, or kiosks for sale of food and beverages.

Indoor Recreation and Entertainment (Use Category)
The indoor recreation and entertainment use category is comprised of uses characterized by public or commercial indoor activities and recreation including, but not limited to, pool halls, athletic clubs, theaters, video arcades, and bowling alleys.

Industrial and Business Support Service Establishment
An establishment providing services to business or industrial establishments on a fee or contract basis that may include, but are not limited to, business equipment repair and service, employment agency, copying services, business equipment rental, security services, and related services. This term does not include maintenance, repair, and office uses such as accounting, advertising, insurance, design, investment, legal, and other primarily office related services.

Industrial Services (Use Category)
The industrial uses use category is comprised of use characterized by the manufacturing, processing, fabrication, packaging, or assembly of goods. Use types also may include those uses that involve the repair or servicing of industrial, business, or consumer machinery equipment, products, or by-products.

Institutions (Use Category)
The institutions use category is comprised of uses characterized by the provision of a variety of facilities, including buildings that provide meeting areas for religious activities, civic or fraternal club activities, convention centers or auditoriums, or institutions for preserving a community's culture and heritage.

Junk
Any motor vehicle, machinery, appliance, product, or merchandise with parts missing, scrap metal, or other scrap materials that are damaged, deteriorated, or are in a condition that prevents their use for the purpose for which the product was manufactured.

Junkyard
Any place at which personal property is or may be salvaged for reuse, resale, reduction, or similar disposition and is owned, possessed, collected, accumulated, dismantled, or sorted including, but not limited to: use of salvaged base metal or metals, their compounds or combinations; used or salvaged rope, bags, rags, glass, rubber, lumber, millwork, brick, automobiles, and similar property that are used, owned, or possessed for the purpose of wrecking or salvaging parts therefrom. An establishment with the primary function of collecting, sorting, and distribution of ferrous and nonferrous metals or other related materials and may include screened, outdoor storage of materials.

Keeping of Domesticated Farm Animals
The non-commercial raising and caring of livestock such as horses, cows, sheep, goats, rabbits, ducks, geese, or chickens that are typically considered farm animals and that does not include "domestic animals."

Kitchen or Kitchenette
Any room or area intended or designed to be used or maintained for cooking and preparation of food, normally within a dwelling unit.

Landscape Architect
A person licensed to practice landscape architecture in the State of Nevada.

Landscape Area
An area set aside from structures and parking that is developed with natural materials (e.g., lawns, trees, shrubs, hedges, bedding plants, or rocks) and decorative features such as fences or walls.

Landscape Buffer Strip
A landscape area that serves a buffer function on the perimeter of the building site.

Landscaping
The provision of planting and related improvements for the purpose of beautifying and enhancing a property and for the control of erosion and the reduction of glare, dust and noise. Rocks or gravel, by itself, or artificial trees, plants, and turf shall not constitute landscaping.

Laundromat, Self-Service
Facilities where patrons wash, dry, or dry clean clothing or other fabric items in machines operated by the patron.

Laundry and Dry Cleaning Establishment
A business that launders and dry-cleans clothing and other fabric articles in bulk.

Laundry or Dry Cleaning, Commercial Plant
A building, portion of a building, or premises used or intended to be for cleaning fabrics, textiles, wearing apparel, or articles of any sort by immersion and agitation, or by immersions only, in volatile solvents including, but not imitated to solvents of the petroleum distillate type, and/or hydrocarbon type, and the process incidental thereto.

Less Visible Site
A lot or parcel, or portion of a lot or parcel that is not located within 500 feet of I-15, US 93, or SR 604.

Library
An establishment for the loan or display of books or other types of media that is sponsored by a public or quasi-public agency in which the institution is open and available to the general public.

License
A written document issued by a licensing department allowing a person to operate and maintain a business in accordance with the provisions of this title.

Light Equipment Rental with Exterior Storage and Display
An establishment providing for the rental of small-scale tools, lawn and garden equipment, repair equipment, party supplies, and similar goods and equipment. Such establishment may have exterior storage and display of the equipment.

Light Equipment Rental with No Exterior Storage and Display
An establishment providing for the rental of small-scale tools, lawn and garden equipment, repair equipment, party supplies, and similar goods and equipment. Such establishment shall not have exterior storage and display of the equipment or other materials.

Liquor License, Beer-Wine "Off-Sale
See Chapter 5.26.

Liquor License, Beer-Wine-Spirit Based Products "On-Sale"
See Chapter 5.26.

Liquor License, Full "Off-Sale"
See Chapter 5.26.

Liquor License, Full "On-Sale"
See Chapter 5.26.

Liquor License, Non-Profit Club
See Chapter 5.26.

Liquor License, Restricted Gambling
See Chapter 5.26.

Live Ordnance
Ordnance that is in a de-armed (safety) status which must be armed by the pilot in order to be employed.

Live/Work Units
A use:

• That combines a commercial activity allowed in the zone with a residential living space for the owner of the commercial business or the owner's employee and that person's household;

• Where the resident owner or their employee is responsible for the commercial activity performed; and

• Where the commercial activity conducted takes place subject to a valid business license associated with the premises.

Loading Berth or Bay
The off-street area required for the receipt of or distribution of material or merchandise by vehicles

Lot
A piece, parcel, plot, tract, or area of land occupied or capable of being occupied by one or more principal buildings and the accessory buildings or uses customarily incidental to them, including the open spaces required by this Code, and having its principal lot frontage on a street.

Lot Area
The total area, as measured in square feet or acreage, within the boundary lines of a lot or parcel. See Section 17.24.010.E.

Lot Coverage
The percentage of the lot area covered by buildings.

Lot Depth
The horizontal distance of a line measured at a right angle to the front lot line and running between the front lot line and rear lot line of a lot.

Lot Line, Front
In the case of an interior lot (lots with a single road frontage), a line separating the lot from the street; in the case of a corner lot, a line separating the narrowest street frontage of the lot from the street; and in the case of a through lot, a line separating the lot from the street from which a drive access may be permitted by the City.

Lot Line, Rear
A lot line that is opposite and most distant from the front lot line and, in the case of an irregular or triangular shaped lot, a line ten (10) feet in length within the lot, parallel to and at the maximum distance from the front lot line.

Lot Line, Side
Any lot boundary line that is not a front lot line or a rear lot line.

Lot of Record
A lot shown upon a plan of a subdivision or on a plat that is: (1) attached or to which reference is made, (2) in a deed legally described, or (3) in a deed recorded in the office of the Recorder of Deeds of Clark County, Nevada.

Lot Width
The distance between side lot lines measured parallel to the front lot line and behind the required front yard where the principal building is to be located.

Lot, Corner
A lot at a junction of and fronting on two or more intersecting streets.

Lot, Double Frontage (Through)
A lot having frontage on two parallel or approximately parallel streets.

Lot, Interior
A lot other than a corner or through lot.

Low Tunnel
A seasonal structure with an average width of three to six feet and height of two to four feet, usually constructed of wire or pipe and covered with fabric or flexible plastic which is placed over raised garden beds or crop rows to extend the growing season.

LRT
Light rail transit.

Manually Changed Copy Signage
A sign on which temporary messages can be placed and the messages are changed manually.

Manufactured Home
Pursuant to NRS 489.113, a structure that is: (a) built on a permanent chassis; (b) designed to be used with or without a permanent foundation as a dwelling when connected to utilities; (c) transportable in one or more sections; and (d) eight feet or more in body width or forty (40) feet or more in body length when transported, or, when erected on site, contains three hundred twenty (320) square feet or more. The term includes: (a) the plumbing, heating, air-conditioning and electrical systems of the structure; (b) any structure (1) which meets the requirements of paragraphs (a) to (c), inclusive of subsection (1), and with respect to which the manufacturer voluntarily files a certification required by the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development and complies with the standards established under the National Manufactured Housing Construction and Safety Stands Act of 1974 (42 U.S.C. Sections 5401 et seq.); or (2) built in compliance with the requirements of NRS Chapter 461.

Manufacturing and Production
Establishments engaged in the mechanical or chemical transformations of materials or substances into new products including the assembling of components, parts, the manufacturing of products, and the blending of materials such as lubricating oils, plastics, resins or liquors.

Marijuana Establishment, Medical or Retail
Means one or more of the following:

"Cultivation Facility"
Shall have the meaning ascribed to it in NRS Chapters 453A, and NRS 453D.

"Marijuana Dispensary" or "Dispensary"
Shall have the meaning ascribed to a "medical marijuana dispensary" as defined in NRS Chapter 453A.

"Dual Licensee"
Shall have the meaning ascribed to a "dual licensee" as defined in NRS Chapter 453D.

"Independent Testing Laboratory"
Shall have the meaning ascribed to it in NRS Chapters 453A, and NRS 453D.

"Production Facility"
Shall have the meaning ascribed to a "facility for the production of edible marijuana products and marijuana-infused products" as defined in NRS Chapters 453A, and NRS 453D.

"Retail Marijuana Store"
Shall have the meaning ascribed to it in NRS Chapter 453D.

Massage Establishment
Any establishment having its main source of income or compensation derived from the practice of massage or where two or more independent massage therapists practice, and which has a fixed place of business. The standards in this subsection shall not apply to massage therapists operating as a home occupation.

Material Structural Value
The cost of labor and materials necessary to erect an outdoor advertising structure. The term does not include any revenue or expenses related to the lease of real property upon which the outdoor advertising structure is located.

Materials Recovery Facility
A solid waste management facility that provides for the extraction from solid waste of recyclable materials, materials suitable for use as a fuel or soil amendment, or any combination of those materials. The term does not include: (1) a facility that receives only recyclable materials that have been separated at the source of waste generation; (2) a salvage yard for the recovery of used motor vehicle parts; (3) a facility that receives, processes, or stores only concrete, masonry waste, asphalt pavement, brick, uncontaminated soil or stone for the recovery of recyclable materials; or (4) a facility that receives, processes, or stores hazardous waste unless it may be classified as household hazardous waste.

Media Niche
An ornamental recess in an interior wall for audio/visual and media equipment that forces a projection of the exterior wall into a yard on the exterior of the building.

Medical, Dental, or Health Clinic
An establishment where patient care is administered on an out-patient basis by one or more licensed physicians and/or dentists and their professional associates.

Miniature Golf Course
A theme-oriented recreational facility that is typically comprised of nine to eighteen (18) holes where patrons pay a fee to move in consecutive order from the first hole to the last.

Mini-Warehousing Establishment
A building or group of buildings in a controlled access and fenced or screened compound that contains relatively small storage spaces of varying sizes and/or spaces for recreational vehicles or boats having individual, compartmentalized, and controlled access for the dead storage of excess personal property of an individual or family that is generally stored in residential accessory structures, when such building or group of buildings are not located on the lot of the residence.

Mobile Home or Mobile Home Subdivision
A factory-assembled structure or structures, a minimum of eight feet in width, originally equipped with the necessary service connections and originally made so as to be readily movable as a unit or units on its (their) own running gear and designed to be used as a dwelling unit(s) without a permanent foundation, whether or not said running gear has been removed.

More Visible Site
A lot or parcel, or portion of a lot or parcel, that is located within five hundred (500) feet of I-15, US 93, or SR 604.

New Construction
Structures for which the "start of construction" commenced on or after the effective date of the ordinance codified in this title.

Noise Abatement Project
Any man-made object that serves as a barrier which interrupts the path of sound, producing a reduction in sound levels (degree of sound intensity). A barrier could be a wall, an earth berm, or a combination of both.

Nonconforming Building or Structure
A building or structure whose height and yards complied with zoning regulations at the time of the building's or structure's establishment but does not now comply with the zoning ordinance by reason of the ordinance's adoption or subsequent amendments thereto or due to the acquisition of a portion of a yard by a government entity.

Nonconforming Lot
Any lot that conformed to the minimum lot area, lot width, and/or lot depth requirement at the time it was platted or mapped but no longer meets the minimum lot area, lot width, and/or lot depth requirements of the applicable zoning district.

Nonconforming Use
A use of land or building that was permitted by zoning regulations at the time the use was established but is not now allowed by the zoning ordinance by reason of the ordinance's adoption or subsequent amendments thereto.

Non-Permeable Coverage
Coverage with non-permeable pavement. "Non-permeable pavement" means any pavement that is not "permeable pavement" as defined in this section.

Non-Putrescible
Waste not capable of being decomposed by microorganisms, bacteria, or fungi as to cause nuisances from odors or gases.

Noxious Matter or Material
Material capable of causing injury to living organisms by chemical reaction or capable of causing detrimental effects on the physical or economic well-being of individuals.

Nursery Sales
Establishments selling plants and garden supplies in which all merchandise other than plants is kept within an enclosed building or a fully screened enclosure, and fertilizer of any type is stored and sold in package form only.

Offices (Use Category)
The offices use category is comprised of uses characterized by activities that are conducted in an office setting and generally focus on business, professional, or financial services.

One Hundred-Year Flood
The highest level of flooding that, on the average, is likely to occur once every one hundred (100) years (i.e., that has a one percent chance of occurring in any given year).

On-Site Child Care Facility
Pursuant to N.R.S. 432A.0275, an on-site child care facility is: 1. licensed pursuant to the Nevada Revised Statutes; 2. provides care to the children of employees of a business at the place of employment; 3. provides care on a temporary or permanent basis, during the day or overnight, to five or more children who are under the age of 18 years and who are not related within the third degree of consanguinity or affinity to an owner or manager of the business; and 4. is owned, operated, subsidized, managed, contracted for or staffed by the business.

Operator
Includes the words manager, agent, and/or employee and shall mean the person who is in continuous, responsible charge of the facility.

Ordnance
All munitions containing explosives, propellants, pyrotechnics, and similar stores, e.g., bombs, ammunition, flares, smoke, for use in military operations.

Other Uses (Use Category)
The other uses use category is comprised of unique use types that cannot otherwise be categorized under one of the standardized uses found in Table 17.20-1.

Outdoor Recreation and Entertainment (Use Category)
The outdoor recreation and entertainment use category is comprised of uses characterized by public or commercial outdoor activities and recreation including, but not limited to, golf courses, athletic clubs, and drive-in theaters.

Overlay Zone
A zone superimposed upon an underlying zone that establishes special requirements in addition to, or in lieu of, those of the underlying zone. Development or use of land or structures must conform to the requirements of both zones or the more restrictive of the two, if in conflict.

Owner
When applied to a building or land, owner includes any part owner, joint owner, tenant in common, tenant in partnership, joint tenant, or tenant by entirety, of the whole or part of such building or land.

Package Liquor Store
Any establishment where the primary business is the sale of alcoholic beverages for off-premises consumption.

Parking Area, Public
An open area other than a street or alley designated for or used as temporary parking for vehicles when available for public use, whether free or for compensation, or as an accommodation for clients or customers.

Parking Demand Study
An analysis of the total number of parking spaces required in order to accommodate the maximum number of vehicles for parking purposes by a particular use or site at any given time, including the parking requirements for all employees, occupants, clients, and visitors.

Parking Lot
The portion of a site or development dedicated to vehicular ingress and egress, off-street parking, parking aisles, internal travel ways, fire lanes, and other areas dedicated to vehicular use, but not including vehicular storage or display areas.

Parking Space or Surface
An area covered by an impervious dust-free surface of asphalt or concrete designated for the temporary parking of a motor vehicle.

Parking Space, Bicycle
An off-street parking space designed specifically for bicycles.

Parking Space, Compact
An off-street parking space with reduced dimensions that is specifically designed for use by small or compact cars.

Parking Space, Handicapped
An off-street parking space that is designed to accommodate handicapped accessible vehicles and related loading and unloading areas that are in compliance with the guidelines of the Americans with Disabilities Act.

Parking Space, Off-Street
A space that is designated for the parking or temporary storage of one motor vehicle located outside of a dedicated street right-of-way, vehicular travel way, or parking aisle.

Parking Structure
A structure designed to accommodate vehicular parking spaces that are fully or partially enclosed or located on the deck surface of a building. This definition includes parking garages and deck parking.

Parking, On-Street
Designated parking spaces that are provided on a public street.

Parking, Preferential
The provisions of parking spaces in close proximity to a building's entrance or to the subject use that are designated for cars used in carpools or vanpools and/or parking for hybrid/alternative fuel vehicles.

Parking, Shared
Off-street parking facilities shared by two or more uses that are in close proximity to one another and the parking area, and that have different operational characteristics such that utilization of the parking facilities by one use will not generally overlap with the utilization of the parking area by the other use(s).

Party Wall
Any wall of a building or structure that is common to two or more buildings.

Patio, Uncovered
An uncovered, non-enclosed outdoor hard surfaced area no higher than eighteen (18) inches above the ground.

Patio, Covered
A covered but non-enclosed patio.

Pawnshop
Any business that loans money on the security of pledges, deposits, or other secured transactions in personal property. This shall also include "Automobile Pawnbroker" but shall not include "Auto Title Loan."

Permeable Pavement
Paving material that permits water penetration to a soil depth of eighteen (18) inches or more. Permeable pavement may consist of nonporous surface materials poured or laid in sections not exceeding one square foot in an area and collectively comprising less than two-thirds of the total surface area.

Personal Services
The provision of services generally involving the care of a person or a person's possessions. Personal services may include, but are not limited to, laundromats, barber shops, beauty salons, music schools, informational and instructional services, tanning salons, and portrait studios.

Persons
Includes any individual or group of individuals, corporations, partnerships, associations, or any other organized group of persons, including state and local governments and agencies thereof.

Pet Care and Boarding Facility
A place where small animals (such as dogs, cats, birds, hamsters, ferrets, and domestic pets) are given regular care and boarding for the time of stay. The total floor area of the facility may be devoted to care and boarding.

Pilaster
An upright architectural member that is rectangular in plan and is structurally a pier, but architecturally treated as a column and that usually projects a third of its width or less from the wall.

Planned Development
A single parcel or contiguous parcels of land intended to be developed in accordance with an overall design plan which may or may not have a mixture of land uses.

Porch
A covered but non-enclosed portion of a house, excluding carport.

Private Club or Lodge
Meeting, recreational, or social facilities of a private or non-profit organization primarily for use by members or guests. This use type includes union halls, social clubs, youth centers, fraternal, and veteran's organizations.

Professional Office
Structure, or portions of structures, in which commercial activities take place but where goods are not produced or stored, sold, displayed, or repaired. These include: general offices, governmental offices, insurance offices, real estate offices, travel agency or transportation ticket offices, telephone exchange, utility offices, radio broadcasting, and similar uses.

Projects of Regional Significance
A site specific building or development that because of size, scope, or use may have regional significance because of the potential impact on the historic, archaeological, paleontological, cultural, scenic and natural resources, or public facilities, including without limitation schools and public services within the region. Projects of Regional Significance shall include any of the following:

1.

Site specific building or development projects of either a private, public, or quasi-public nature (Site Specific Project) that satisfy one of the following criteria and occur within a half mile of the boundary of an adjacent municipal corporation or unincorporated area:

a.

Tentative maps or planned unit developments of five hundred (500) units or more;

b.

Tourist accommodations of three hundred (300) units or more;

c.

A commercial or industrial facility generating more than six thousand two hundred fifty (6,250) average daily vehicle trips, as defined by the Institute of Transportation Engineers or its successor; or

d.

A non-residential development encompassing more than one hundred sixty (160) acres.

2.

Zoning map amendments or local land use plan amendments that could result in development that exceeds the threshold criteria identified above and that occurs within a half mile of the boundary of an adjacent municipal corporation or unincorporated area, or

3.

Any Special Use Permit request that involves property within five hundred (500) feet of the boundary of an adjacent municipal corporation or unincorporated area.

Property, Personal
Property, other than real property, consisting of things temporal and movable.

Property, Real
Property consisting of buildings and/or land.

Public
Belonging and open to and enjoyed, controlled, used, and maintained by and for the public generally.

Public and Civic Uses (Use Category)
The public and civic uses use category is comprised of uses characterized by the provision of non-commercial or governmental services to the public including, but not limited to, schools, libraries, museums, government offices, and utilities. The services may be privately or publically funded.

Public Park or Open Space
Any publicly owned land that is predominately open space, primarily used for the active or passive recreational uses. The park may include other cultural, educational, or aesthetic uses. For the purposes of this chapter a public park does not include any City trails or Clark County School District property.

Public Utility Building, Structure, or Equipment
A person or local government that: (1) provides electric energy, gas, or water, whether or not the person or local government is subject to regulation by the Public Utilities Commission of Nevada; (2) is a telecommunication carrier as that term is defined in 47 U.S.C. section 153 on July 16, 1997, if the person or local government holds a certificate of public convenience and necessity issued by the Public Utilities Commission of Nevada and derives intrastate revenue from the provision of telecommunication service to retail customers; (3) sells or resells personal wireless services; or (4) is a community antenna television company as that term is defined in NRS 711.030.

Public Utility Service Yard
Any land or buildings used primarily for the storage of equipment, vehicles, machinery, or materials used by a public utility.

Public, Semi-Public Use or Building
Any governmental or nongovernment organizations or uses that are devoted to public service or welfare. Semi-public shall include fraternal or civic organizations such as Boy Scouts of America, YMCA, veterans' organizations, etc.

Putrescible
Solid waste capable of being decomposed by microorganisms, bacteria, or fungi with sufficient rapidity as to cause nuisances because of odors, gases, or other offensive conditions, and includes materials such as food wastes, offal, and dead animals.

Racetracks (Dog, Horse, or Vehicle)
A measured course where animals or machines are entered in competition against one another or against time, including tracks used only in the training of animals.

Radio and Television Studio without Transmission Towers
An establishment containing one or more broadcasting studios for over-the-air, cable, or satellite delivery of radio or television programs. This use does not include any transmission tower.

Radio and Transmission Towers
Towers, satellite dishes, and other transmission devises used to broadcast radio, cable, satellite, television programs, and services.

Recreation Center
An establishment with the primary function of providing a climate-controlled fully-enclosed environment for such indoor activities as, but not limited to: batting cages, golf driving ranges, swimming natatorium, bicycling velodrome, gymnastics training facility, shooting range, skateboard facility, or roller rink. All activities including spectator seating and participant waiting areas shall take place within the building.

Recreational Use
Outdoor public or private recreational facilities including, but not limited to: jogging, cycling, tot lots, play-fields, playgrounds, outdoor swimming pools, and tennis courts.

Recreational Vehicle Park/Overnight Campground
A plot of ground upon which two or more sites are located, established, or maintained for the placement of recreational vehicles by the general public as temporary living quarters for recreation, education, or vacation purposes.

Recyclable Material
Solid waste that can be processed and returned to the economic mainstream in the form of raw materials or products. Recyclable material includes, but is not limited to newspaper, corrugated cardboard, aluminum, office paper, glass, tin and steel cans, metal, plastic, and wood.

Recycling Center (Indoor)
An establishment with the primary function of collecting, sorting, and distribution of nonferrous metal products or other recyclable materials for recycling such as aluminum, glass, paper, plastic, and other related items. All operations such as collection, sorting, distributing, and storage shall be conducted totally within an enclosed building and there shall be no outside storage or processing.

Recycling Center (Outdoor)
A facility for household and consumer use for the drop-off and temporary holding of materials such as paper, cardboard, glass, metal, plastic, batteries, and motor oil. This facility is not a junkyard or salvage yard/center.

Redevelopment Agency
The City of North Las Vegas Redevelopment Agency established by the City Council on September 19, 1990. Also referred to as the "agency."

Religious Institution
Facilities for religious worship and incidental religious education, but not including private schools as defined by this Code.

Required Front Yard
The area of a lot located between the front property line and the minimum front yard (or corner side) yard setback line.

Research Laboratory
An establishment or facility for carrying on investigation in the natural, physical, or social sciences, engineering, and/or development as an extension of investigation with the objective of creating end products.

Residential Facility for Groups
Pursuant to NRS 449.017, "an establishment that furnishes food, shelter, assistance and limited supervision to a person with mental retardation or with a disability or a person who is aged or infirm. The term includes, without limitation, an assisted living facility, as described in NRS 449.0302. The term does not include: an establishment which provides care only during the day; a natural person who provides care for no more than two persons in his or her own home; a natural person who provides care for one or more persons related to him or her within the third degree of consanguinity or affinity; a halfway house for recovering alcohol and drug abusers; or a facility funded by a division or program of the department of health and human services."

Residential Health Care Facility
A residential facility, for more than ten (10) people, that provides medical and personal services to individuals in need of assistance to deal with essential daily activities.

Residential Storage for Excess Personal Property of Residents
Structures designed for the storage of personal property that cannot be stored within the principal dwelling.

Residential Uses (Use Category)
The residential uses use classification is comprised of use categories and use types that relate to human habitation.

Restaurant
Any restaurant (except a drive-in restaurant or a fast food restaurant as defined in this section), coffee shop, cafeteria, short-order café, luncheonette, sandwich stand, drugstore, and soda fountain that serves food; all other eating or drinking establishments provided that at least one-half of the total sales are derived from the sale of food.

Restaurant, Fast Food
An establishment whose principal business is the retail sale of food or beverages in a ready-to-eat state for consumption whether within the premises or for carry-out, with vehicular drive-through facilities, that includes both of the following characteristics: (1) foods, frozen desserts, or beverages are usually served in paper, plastic, or other disposable containers; and (2) the customer is not served food at his/her table by an employee but receives it at a counter, window, or similar facility.

Retail Sales and Service (Use Category)
The retail sales and service use category is comprised of uses characterized by the sale, lease, or rental of new or used products to the general public. They may also provide personal services or entertainment, or provide product repair or services for consumer and business goods.

Retail Sales Establishment
Establishments primarily engaged in the sale of goods and materials to the general public. Retail commercial uses may include, but are not limited to, bookstores, antique stores, grocery stores, and other similar uses.

Right-of-Way (ROW)
A public way established or dedicated for public purposes by duly recorded plat, map, deed, grant, governmental authority, or by operation of the law.

Rooming/Boarding House
A single-family dwelling which contains more than two but less than ten (10) rooms of sleeping accommodations for compensation on a periodic basis, for more than six unrelated individuals.

Runway
A defined area on an airport prepared for landing and takeoff of aircraft along its length.

Runway Protection Zone (Runway Clear Zone)
A trapezoidal area at ground level for the purpose of protecting the safety of approaches and keeping the area clear of the congregation of people.

Salvage Yard/Center
An establishment with the primary function of collecting, sorting, and distribution of ferrous and nonferrous metals or other related materials and may include screened, outside storage of materials.

School: Business, Technical, Trade, and Vocations
Schools offering instruction in special business, technical, trade, and vocational skills such as real estate schools, business colleges, electronic schools, automotive and aircraft technician schools, and similar commercial establishments operated by non-governmental organizations.

School: Technical and Trade (I-A Apex Overlay District)
Schools offering instruction in special technical, emergency or industrial skills in which heavy and specialized equipment is employed as a means of instruction. Industrial trades include but are not limited to the operation of machinery, power tools, construction, welding, and truck driving.

School: Elementary or Secondary
Any pre-primary, primary or grammar, public, parochial or private school, high school, preparatory school or academy, public or founded, or owned or conducted by or under the sponsorship of a religious or charitable organization; private preparatory school or academy furnishing courses of instruction substantially equivalent to the courses offered by public high schools for preparation of admission to college or universities which award B.A. or B.S. degrees; junior college or university, public or founded or conducted by or under the sponsorship of a religious or charitable organization; or private school area.

Screening
A solid or nearly solid barrier (i.e., wall, plantings) constructed or installed for the purpose of visual separation.

Seasonal Agricultural Sales
The temporary sale of agricultural products such as fruits, vegetables, and juices where such facilities may sell agricultural products not grown on site. Seasonal sales, including the sale of such items as Christmas trees, pumpkins, seasonal produce, and similar agricultural products.

Setback
The area of a lot located between a lot line and setback line.

Setback Line
That line that is the required minimum distance from the street right-of-way line or any other lot line that establishes the area within which the principal structure must be placed.

Setback, Corner Side/Other R-O-W
The minimum distance required between a building, structure, or improvement and a lot line along a street or right-of-way that is not considered the front lot line.

Setback, Front
The minimum distance required between a building, structure, or improvement and the front lot line.

Setback, Interior Side
The minimum distance required between a building, structure, or improvement and a lot line that is shared with another lot.

Setback, Rear Yard
The minimum distance required between a building, structure, or improvement and the rear lot line.

Sewer, Public
Any sanitary sewer line owned and maintained by the City of North Las Vegas, whether or not installed by the City.

Sexually Oriented Business
"Sexually oriented businesses" are limited to the following: adult arcades, adult bookstores, adult cabarets, adult motels, nude modeling studios, adult motion picture theaters, adult novelty businesses, dating and escort services, outcall promoter and outcall entertainer businesses and sexual encounter businesses.

Short-Term Loan Establishment
An establishment providing loans to individuals that charges an annual percentage rate of more than forty (40) percent and requires the loan to be paid in full in less than one year. This term does not include a loan offered or made to a person based on the person's anticipated federal income tax refund.

Short-Term Rental
A short-term rental is any residential dwelling unit or part thereof that is rented out for a period of less than thirty (30) days at a time.

Shrub, Large
A shrub which normally reaches a height of six feet or more upon maturity.

Shrub, Small
A shrub which normally reaches a height of less than six feet upon maturity.

Sign
Any device providing identification, advertising, or directional information for a specific business, service, product, person, organization, place, or building. Included in this definition are graphic devices such as logos, attention attracting media such as banners or logo, sculpture, and obtrusive colored fascia or architectural elements.

Sign Area
That area as determined by circumscribing the exterior limits of the mass of each display erected on one sign structure with a circle, triangle, or quadrangle connecting all extreme points. The structure supporting a sign is not included in determining the area unless the structure is designed in a way to form an integral background for the display. Only one face of a double-faced sign is used to measure the area.

Sign, Banner
A sign constructed of cloth, flexible plastic, or fabric of any kind without rigid backing or permanent attachment to a building.

Sign, Community Interior Directional
An incidental sign designed to guide or direct pedestrian or vehicular traffic, to specify procedures or to warn of hazards. Directional/informational signs contain no commercial message, but may contain a company name or logo if such name or logo enhances the directional or informational message of the sign. For example, a small logo combined with a directional arrow may reduce confusion for drivers looking for a certain driveway entrance.

Sign, Construction
A temporary sign erected on the parcel on which construction is taking place, limited to the duration of the construction, indicating the names of the architects, engineers, contractors, or similar artisans, the owner, financial supporters, leasing agents, sponsors, and similar individuals or firms having a major role or interest with respect to the structure or project or any future uses or activities to be conducted on the site.

Sign, Development Entry Statement
Any permanent on-premises architectural design statement or feature sign at the entrance of the development that provides location information to a subdivision, condominium, or apartment complex that serves to announce the identity of the development where the sign is located. In order to qualify as this type of sign, a sign may not contain the name of the developer or contractor of the project or subdivision.

Sign, Directory
A sign structure that contains the names of businesses and services that are located within a shopping center, office, or business complex.

Sign, Freestanding
Any non-movable sign not affixed to a building.

Sign, Illegal
Any of the following: a sign erected without first complying with all ordinances and regulations in effect at the time of its construction, erection, or use; a sign that was legally erected, but whose advertised use has ceased; a structure that has been abandoned by its owner or not maintained; a sign that advertises completed developments rather than products currently for sale; a sign that has not been properly approved by the City; a sign that is a danger to the public or is unsafe; a sign that is a traffic hazard; or any sign or advertisement attached to a utility pole or similar structure located in public right-of-way.

Sign, Master Planned Community
For the purposes of subdivision signage, a contiguous development of forty (40) or greater acres containing a combination of planned land uses such as single-family residential, multifamily residential, commercial, and open space recreation area.

Sign, Mobile
A sign attached to or suspended from any type of vehicle.

Sign, Monument
A freestanding sign where the base of the sign structure is on the ground. The base of such sign shall be at least as wide as ninety (90) percent of the width of the sign.

Sign, Nonconforming
Any sign that conformed to existing sign regulations at the time it was erected but that would no longer be permitted by virtue of the adoption of this Code or an amendment thereto.

Sign, Off-Premises
Any sign that advertises products or services that are not sold on the premises upon which the sign is constructed. This definition does not include temporary election signs, temporary directional, or master development signs.

Sign, Off-Premise Digital Display
An off-premise sign, display, or device which changes the "static" message or copy on the sign by electronic means.

Sign, Pole
Any freestanding sign supported by a single pole or column that does not comply with the freestanding sign design guidelines set forth herein.

Sign, Political
Any sign advertising the candidacy for office of any person or any sign advertising support or non-support of a candidate for office or of an action on a ballot in a primary, general, or special election.

Sign, Portable
Any sign not permanently attached to the ground or other permanent structure, or other commercial sign designed to be transported including, but not limited to, signs designed to be transported by means of wheels; signs on "A" or "T" frames; moveable menu and sandwich board signs, tethered balloons used as signs; or vehicles used with the express intent of advertising a product, goods or services.

Sign, Real Estate
Any on-premises sign placed upon or adjacent to a building, lot, subdivision or parcel of land advertising the lease, rent, or sale of the building, lot, or parcel of land on which the sign is located.

Sign, Subdivision Development Sales
Any temporary on-premises subdivision sign that advertises or informs the public of the existence, location, or sale of lots, model units, or new dwelling units within a residential subdivision.

Sign, Subdivision Directional
Any temporary sign that advertises or informs the public of the existence, direction to, or sale of lots or dwelling units in a residential subdivision and/or a master planned community.

Sign, Wall
A sign fastened to or painted on the wall of a building or structure in such a manner that the wall becomes the supporting structure for or forms the background surface of the sign. A wall sign may not project more than twelve (12) inches from such building or structure.

Site Plan
A drawing to a scale not less than one inch equals one hundred (100) feet showing the accurate location of all structures, streets, alleys, and parking areas existing and proposed on subject property, or any other information as may be required by this title.

Skating Rink (Ice or Roller)
An establishment that provides facilities for participant skating.

Soil
A medium in which plants will grow.

Solar Panel
A panel that produces either electricity or heat when light shines on it as well as the frame on which it is mounted as well as connections to electricity or water systems.

Solar Equipment
Any solar collector, skylight, or other solar energy device whose primary purpose is to provide for the collection, storage, and distribution of solar energy for space heating, cooling, water heating, or for power generation.

Solid Waste
All putrescible and non-putrescible refuse in solid or semisolid form including, but not limited to: garbage, rubbish, junk vehicles, ashes or incinerator residue, street refuse, dead animals, demolition waste, construction waste, and solid or semisolid commercial and industrial waste. The term does not include hazardous waste managed pursuant to NRS 459.400 to NRS 459.600.

Solid Waste, Industrial
Solid waste derived from industrial or manufacturing sources.

Stable, Commercial
A building or lot where horses or ponies are sheltered, fed, or kept for hire. See also "horse stable, private."

Staff
Staff of the Community Development Department of the City of North Las Vegas unless otherwise defined in this Code.

Steps, Open
A set of stairs providing access to a building that are on the exterior of a building and open to the elements.

Story
That portion of a building included between the upper surface of any floor and the upper surface of the floor next above it, or if there be no floor above it, then the space between the floor and the ceiling next above.

Street
A right-of-way, other than an alley, dedicated or otherwise legally established for public use, usually affording the principal means of access to abutting property.

Street Frontage
Any property line separating a lot from a street; the front lot line.

Street Furniture
A variety of materials designed to be placed within public and pedestrian areas, including rights-of-way, that are intended to enhance the visual character of an area and to promote or support pedestrian activity. Street furniture may include but is not limited to benches, tree grates, bicycle racks, telephone booths, bus waiting shelters, directory/information kiosks, trash receptacles, drinking fountains, bollards with or without integral pedestrian level lighting, and street lighting, both at pedestrian level (twelve (12) feet to eighteen (18) feet in height) and roadway level (twenty-five (25) feet to thirty (30) feet in height).

Street, Arterial
A street with access control, signals at important intersections and stop signs on the side streets and restricted parking designed to primarily carry "through" traffic having a one hundred-foot right-of-way or more.

Street, Collector
A street that carries (collects) traffic from local streets and connects with minor or major arterial streets having an eighty-foot to ninety-foot right-of-way.

Street, Local
A street designed to provide vehicular access to abutting properties and to discourage through traffic having a sixty-foot right-of-way or less.

Street, Public
Any street that has been dedicated or is otherwise publicly owned by the City.

Streetscape Area
The area between the roadway curb and the nearest front property line, lying within the public right-of-way, also referred to as boulevard.

Structure
Anything constructed or erected that requires location on the ground, but not including a tent or motor vehicle.

Swap Meet or Flea Market
Any indoor or outdoor place, location, or activity where new or used goods or secondhand personal property is offered for sale or exchange to the general public by a multitude of individual licensed vendors, usually in compartmentalized spaces; and where a fee may be charged to prospective buyers for admission, or a fee may be charged for the privilege of offering or displaying such merchandise.

Swimming Pool
Either a portable or permanent water container used for recreational purposes that at its deepest point is over eighteen (18) inches and has a volume in excess of one hundred fifty (150) cubic feet of water.

Telecommunication Towers and Facilities
Any telecommunication tower or facility and its accessory uses and structures utilized for the broadcast or reception of electro-magnetically transmitted information.

Telecommunication Towers and Facilities - Multiple Tower Facility
A single parcel that contains more than one, but no greater than five telecommunication towers with supporting structures designed to enhance compatibility with adjacent land uses constructed using stealth methods.

Temporary Real Estate Sales Offices and Model Homes
A dwelling unit temporarily converted into a sales and display office or a temporary sales trailer/office established in a development or subdivision for the purpose of providing an example of the units in the development.

Temporary Storage in a Portable Container
The temporary storage of materials in a large metal or wooden container, typically intended for transport by large truck, train, or ship.

Theater, Drive-In
An open lot devoted primarily to the showing of motion pictures or theatrical productions on a paid-admission basis to patrons seated in automobiles.

Theater, Movie
An indoor theatre for the showing of motion pictures, including a lobby and refreshment stand.

Tiny House
A single-family dwelling unit built on a permanent foundation with a square footage between two hundred (200) square feet and four hundred (400) square feet in floor area excluding lofts, in which specific attention is paid to features such as compact stairs, including stair handrails and headroom, ladders, reduced ceiling heights in lofts and guard and emergency escape and rescue opening requirements at lofts per the International Residential Code.

Tiny House Park
A planned unit development of five acres or larger, containing two or more tiny houses and community amenities. The only residential component in a tiny house park are tiny houses.

Tire Sales, Repair, and Mounting
A place where the principal business is the sale or installation of new, used, or retread tires and tubes.

Tourism (Use Category)
The tourism use category is comprised of uses characterized by the attraction of large numbers of persons (e.g., racetracks and casinos) or the provision of lodging units or space for short-term stays of less than 30 days for rent, lease, or interval occupancy.

Townhouse Cluster
A building consisting of three or more attached single-family dwelling units placed side by side and/or back to back having a common wall between each two adjacent dwelling units.

Trail
The linear areas not adjacent to a street that may follow natural features such as washes, ridge lines, flood control facilities, and utility rights-of-way designed for and used by cyclists, pedestrians, and equestrians. A trail may contain but is not limited to, trailheads, walkways, landscaping, lighting, benches, recreational nodes, dog stations, and trash receptacles.

Trailer
A structure standing on wheels that is towed toward or hauled by another vehicle and used for short-term human occupancy, carrying materials, goods, objects, or as a temporary office.

Transit Stops
Stations or designated stopping points for a public transport system such as a bus stop or light rail transit stop.

Transportation (Use Category)
The transportation use category is comprised of uses characterized by the provision of long-distance transport services (e.g., airports, heliports, and freight terminals) or local and regional transit services such as bus or light rail terminals.

Tree or Shrub, Evergreen
A tree or shrub of a species that normally retains its leaves/needles throughout the year.

Truck Stop/Truck Wash
An establishment that provides for the servicing of trucks with incidental operations similar to those permitted for automobile service stations and/or washing semi-tractor trailers. A truck wash facility shall be considered incidental to truck service stations if not more than one semi-tractor trailer may be washed at one time and if the service station is clearly the principal use.

Urban Agricultural Activity
Urban agricultural activity includes the cultivation, processing, and distribution of agricultural products in urban and suburban areas. Community gardens, container farms, hydroponic technologies, indoor agriculture, and urban farms are all examples of urban agriculture.

Urban Farm
An agricultural site where fruits, vegetables, and ornamental crops are grown to be sold or donated.

Use
The employment or occupation of a building, structure, or land for a person's service, benefit, or enjoyment.

Use Category
Use categories are major sub-groups of use classifications based on common characteristics of uses. See Section 17.20.010

Use Type
Specific land uses that are listed in the permitted use table of Section 17.20.010 which are defined in this chapter.

Use, Accessory
A use incidental to and customarily associated with a specific principal use that is located on the same lot or parcel.

Use, Accessory Convenience
Commercial uses that are established specifically for the convenience of and exclusive access by residents living within an approved recreational vehicle park, multi-family development, or multi-family portion of an overall larger development. Accessory convenience uses may include but are not limited to: food and miscellaneous household product sales, sundries, barber shop, beauty parlor, snack bars, video rental, and daycare centers, but do not include the sale of beer, wine, liquor, or tobacco, nor any type of gaming or massage establishment (even when incidental to a beauty parlor). In those instances where a requested use is not listed above, the planning and zoning director shall determine whether the requested use meets the purpose and intent of an accessory convenience use and is similar to other uses mentioned above.

Use, Conditional
A use that because of special requirements or characteristics may be allowed in a particular zoning district only after review of the impact the use presents on neighboring properties and demonstrated compliance with certain conditions.

Use, Permitted
A use that is lawfully established in a particular district or districts and which conforms with all requirements, regulations and performance standards of such district. A permitted use may be a principal use or an accessory use.

Use, Principal
A use or structure that determines the predominant or major use of the lot on which it is located. A principal use may be either a permitted or a special use.

Use, Special
Either a public or private use as listed herein that, because of its unique characteristics, cannot be properly classified as an otherwise principal use in a particular district. After consideration of the impact of such use upon neighboring land and of the public need for the particular use at the particular location, a special use may or may not be granted, subject to all conditions for special uses as listed in this title and any other reasonable conditions established by the Planning Commission, including time limits, pursuant to the requirements of this title.

Use, Temporary
A use established for a fixed period of time with the intent to discontinue such use upon the expiration of the time period.

Variance
A modification or variation of the provisions of this title as applied to a specific piece of property regarding building or parking setbacks or fence/wall heights.

Vehicle Impound Yard/Automobile Impound Yard
Any improved lot, structure, or the use of any portion of such lot or structure for the temporary outdoor storage of towed vehicles that are to be claimed by the titleholders or their agents. Any vehicle stored shall remain mechanically operable and licensed at all times.

Vehicle Sales and Services (Use Category)
The vehicle sales and services use category is comprised of uses characterized by the direct sale and/or service of passenger vehicles, trucks, motorcycles, farm machinery, and other consumer motor vehicles intended for transport of goods or persons over land, water, or in the air; whether for recreation, commerce, or personal transport.

Vehicle Stacking Space
A portion of the vehicular use area on a site that is dedicated to the temporary storage or "standing" of vehicles engaged in drive-through use of the site or development. Parking or storage of vehicles is not permitted within the vehicle stacking area.

Vehicle Washing Establishment
A building that has its primary purpose as washing automobiles. Such facilities shall be considered incidental to automobile service stations if not more than one auto may be washed at one time and if the service station is clearly the principal use.

Vehicle, Boat, or Recreational Vehicles Sales, Service, and Rental Lot
Rental of automobiles, motorcycles, trucks, tractors, construction or agricultural equipment, mobile homes, boats, and similar equipment, including incidental storage and incidental maintenance.

Vehicle, Boat, or RV Repair Facility
An establishment with the primary business function of providing major service and repair work on vehicles such as automobiles, boats, trucks, vans, or recreational vehicles. Major service and repair includes body work, engine and transmission rebuilding, and major painting services.

Vehicle, Boat, or RV Service Facility
An establishment where the primary business function is minor service and repair work incidental to the operation of the vehicle with or without retail fuel sales.

Vehicle, Commercial Use
Vehicles whose primary function is other than the transportation of passengers and does not exceed a gross vehicle weight rating of twelve thousand (12,000) pounds or have more than two axles. Commercial use vehicles are not to include forklifts, backhoes, tractors, and similar types of construction and industrial equipment, other than equipment used for noncommercial gardening purposes.

Vehicle, Recreational
A vehicular type portable structure without permanent foundation that can be towed, hauled, or driven primarily designed as temporary living accommodation for recreational, camping, and travel use and including but not limited to travel trailers, truck campers, camping trailers, and motor homes.

Vending Facility
Any trailer, which is located outdoors, from which a vendor displays, sells, offers for sale, gives away, or offers to give away anything of value including food, beverages, or merchandise.

Vending, Portable
An area occupied by a vending facility that is used exclusively for the sale or display of merchandise, when the merchandise is displayed or sold in the open area and there are no permanent physical structures or facilities used as integral parts of the sales operation.

Vertical Mixed Use
A building designed to encourage a diversity of compatible land uses that may include a mixture of two or more of the following land uses within the building: residential, office, retail, recreational, light industrial, and other miscellaneous uses.

Video Arcade
A place or facility where video games or other electric or electronic games are provided for amusement purposes only.

Visual Obstruction
Any fence, hedge, tree, shrub, wall, or structure exceeding three feet in height measured from the curb of the intersecting streets, alleys, or driveways, that limit the visibility of persons in motor vehicles on streets, alleys, or driveways. This does not include trees kept trimmed of branches below the minimum height as specified in this Code.

Waiver, Development Regulation
An authorization for deviation from the requirements of this Code that is necessary to fulfill and implement the adopted goals and objectives of the redevelopment plan when strict adherence to the requirements of this Code would otherwise be detrimental to the development and use of the redevelopment plan.

Wall, Decorative
A wall that incorporates decorative elements in the design and construction. The wall shall be designed to include elements such as, but not limited to, the following: decorative caps, textured plaster or concrete, stucco, split-faced block, slump stone, brick, fluted blocks, decorative block, stone veneer, pre-cast concrete tilt-up panels with reveals and/or patterns, or wrought iron. Standard smooth-faced concrete block shall be limited to accents or part of the overall design theme, but shall not exceed twenty (20) percent of the wall face.

Wall, Retaining
A structure designed and constructed to contain and/or support the content of the soil and to withstand the lateral earth and hydrostatic pressures and surcharge loads where the grade on one side is higher than the grade on the opposite side. For the purposes of this title, a "retaining wall" shall not be considered when incorporated as an integral part of any required drainage structure.

Wall, Screen
A structure designed and constructed with the purpose of limiting, obscuring, or prohibiting the visibility of the contents and/or activities from an adjacent, nearby, or abutting property or right-of-way.

Warehouse
An enclosed building designed and used primarily for the storage of goods and materials.

Wholesale Sales Establishment
An establishment for the sale of merchandise to retail and service commercial uses, office uses, or institutional uses, or to other wholesalers. Wholesale commercial uses may also mean acting as an agent or broker in the buying or selling of merchandise; but not selling to the general public.

Yard
A space on the same lot with a principal building that is open and unoccupied other than by steps, walks, terraces, driveways, lampposts, and similar structures, and unobstructed by structures, except as otherwise provided in this Code.

Yard, Corner Side/Other ROW
A yard on a corner lot the area of that is bounded by a line extending from the front of the principal building (the front building line) to a point intersecting the side street right-of-way line (side lot line), then along said side lot line to a point intersecting the rear lot line, then along said rear lot line to a point intersecting the line formed by extending the wall of the nearest principal building paralleling the side lot line.

Yard, Required Front
A yard extending across the full width of the lot between the required front setback and the front lot line.

Yard, Required Rear
A yard extending across the full width of the lot between the required rear setback and the rear building line.

Yard, Required Side
A yard extending between the front building line and the rear building line, the width of which is the least distance between the side lot line and the required side setback nearest part of the principal building.

Zoning District Map
A map or maps with all notations, dimensions, references, and symbols shown thereon depicting individual zoned districts in accordance with this Code.

(Ord. No. 2591, § 1, 6-15-2011, eff. 10-1-2011; Ord. No. 2611, §§ 2, 3, 5-16-2012; Ord. No. 2655, § 1, 5-21-2014; Ord. No. 2669, § 4, 6-18-2014; Ord. No. 2685, § 4, 8-6-2014; Ord. No. 2849, § 4, 12-20-2017; Ord. No. 2939, § 4, 12-5-2018; Ord. No. 3040, § 3, 10-21-2020; Ord. No. 3048, § 22, 1-20-2021; Ord. No. 3176, § 3, 6-21-2023; Ord. No. 3196, § 9, 12-20-2023)