“Accessory dwelling unit (ADU)” means a subordinate dwelling unit added to, created within, or detached from a single-family structure, that provides basic requirements for living, sleeping, eating, cooking and sanitation. It may be attached to, or detached from, the principal dwelling unit. (Ord. 21-002 § 3, 2021; Ord. 07-026 § 3, 2007. Formerly 17.08.006)

“Accessory use” means a use of land found on the same parcel as the principal use but that is subordinate and incidental. Accessory uses may be less subordinate and incidental by floor space devoted to use, economic importance of the use to operation, the number of customers/visitors and whether the accessory use serves the purpose of the principal use. (Ord. 21-002 § 4, 2021)

“Adult” means a person 18 years of age or older. (Ord. 489 § 3, 1995)

“Agriculture” means the production, keeping or maintenance for sale, lease or personal use, of plants and animals useful to man, including, but not limited to, forages and seed crops; grains and seed crops; dairy animals and dairy products, poultry and poultry products; livestock, including beef cattle, sheep, swine, horses, ponies, mules, or goats, exotic animals or any mutations thereof, including the breeding and grazing of any or all of such animals; bees and apiary products; fruits of all kinds, including grapes, nuts and berries; vegetables, nursery, floral, ornamental and greenhouse products; or lands devoted to a soil conservation or forestry management program. (Ord. 457 § 3, 1993)

“Agricultural building” means a building used to shelter farm implements, hay, grain, poultry, livestock or other farm produce in which there is no human habitation and which is not used by the public. (Ord. 454 § 4, 1992)

“Agricultural products” includes, but is not limited to, crops; fruit; vegetables; floriculture; herbs; forestry; livestock and livestock products; horticultural specialties; maple sap, etc. (Ord. 12-005 § 5, 2012)

“Agriculturally related products” means items sold at a farm market or stand to attract customers and promote the sale of agricultural products. Such items include, but are not limited to, all agricultural and horticultural products, animal feed, baked goods, ice cream and ice cream based desserts and beverages, jams, honey, gift items, food stuffs, clothing and other items promoting farming in Alaska. (Ord. 12-005 § 5, 2012)

“Alley” means a permanent service right-of-way providing a secondary means of access to abutting properties. (Ord. 454 § 4, 1992)

“Alteration” means any change, addition or modification in the construction, location or use classification. (Ord. 454 § 4, 1992)

“Apartment” means any building or portion thereof which is designed, built, rented, leased, let or hired out to be occupied, or which contains dwelling units for three or more families living independently of each other. (Ord. 454 § 4, 1992)

“Building area” means the total of areas taken on a horizontal plane at the main grade level of the principal building and all accessory buildings, exclusive of steps. (Ord. 454 § 4, 1992)

“Assisted living home” means a residential facility, currently and duly licensed by the state of Alaska as an assisted living home, which combines housing, food service, general protective oversight and personalized assistance with the activities of daily living tasks such as eating, bathing, dispensing of medicines, housekeeping and other tasks and is compatible with the residential district. (Ord. 24-001 § 3, 2024; Ord. 05-042 § 3, 2006)

“Automobile wrecking” means the dismantling of used motor vehicles or trailers, or the storage or sale of parts from dismantled or partially dismantled, obsolete or wrecked vehicles. (Ord. 454 § 4, 1992)

“Babysitting” means providing care and supervision of children in a dwelling for compensation on an occasional basis. Babysitting is a home occupation. (Ord. 489 § 3, 1995)

“Borough” means the Matanuska Susitna Borough. (Ord. 454 § 4, 1992)

A “brewery” is duly licensed by the state of Alaska, where beer is manufactured and bottled or barreled for sale. (Ord. 21-002 § 5, 2021)

“Brewpub” means a brewery, duly licensed by the State of Alaska, and restaurant that serves food and brews a maximum of 50,000 gallons of beer on the premises in one calendar year. (Ord. 21-002 § 6, 2021; Ord. 09-001 § 3, 2009. Formerly 17.08.041)

“Building” means any structure built for the support, shelter or enclosure of persons, animals, chattels or property of any kind. (Ord. 454 § 4, 1992)

“Existing building” means a building erected prior to January 17, 1978, or one for which a legal building permit has been issued. (Ord. 454 § 4, 1992)

“Building height” means the vertical distance from the average elevation of the finished grade to the highest point of the coping of a flat roof or to the deck line of a mansard roof or to the average height of the highest gable of a pitch or hip roof. (Ord. 454 § 4, 1992)

“Building line” means a line set by ordinance establishing minimum distance from the street. (Ord. 454 § 4, 1992)

“Building official” means the officer charged with the administration and enforcement of the building code. (Ord. 454 § 4, 1992)

“Principal or main building” means a building in which is conducted the principal or main use of the lot of which said building is situated. (Ord. 454 § 4, 1992)

“Storage building” means a building or structure that is not on a permanent foundation, is capable of being moved and is used as an accessory use to a primary use and is not occupied. (Ord. 21-002 § 7, 2021)

“Temporary building” means a building or structure that is not on a permanent foundation, is capable of being immediately moved and is an occupied structure. (Ord. 21-002 § 8, 2021)

“Campground” means an area for the use of a temporary shelter, tent, cabins, camping and camping trailers. (Ord. 454 § 4, 1992)

“Caretaker dwelling unit” means a permanent residence, secondary and accessory to an existing allowed use for persons employed on site for purposes of care and protection of property, plants, animals, equipment, or other circumstances on site or on contiguous lots under the same ownership. (Ord. 21-002 § 9, 2021)

“Central business district (CBD)” means an overlay district created to assist Palmer to promote and protect the public health, safety, comfort, character, convenience and general welfare, as well as encourage economic growth in the downtown core both commercially and residentially. The boundaries are those described in PMC 17.30.050(A)(5). (Ord. 21-001 § 3, 2021)

“Child” means a person under 18 years of age. (Ord. 489 § 3, 1995)

“Child care facility” means a facility wherein care, supervision, education and/or special needs care is provided for more than six children. (Ord. 489 § 3, 1995)

“Church” means a building or structure, or groups of buildings or structures, which by use or design and construction are primarily intended for the conducting of organized religious services and accessory uses associated therewith. (Ord. 454 § 4, 1992)

“City” means the city of Palmer. (Ord. 454 § 4, 1992)

“Commercial parking” means a parking lot or parking garage that is designed, used or intended to be used for the parking of motor vehicles outside the street right-of-way. Commercial parking areas are used, rented or leased to the general public, customers or residents of a development, or are provided as public parking for persons commuting to another location, such as a park-and-ride lot. This use does not include parking lots or garages which are constructed as required for another permitted use. (Ord. 21-002 § 10, 2021)

“Commission” means the city planning and zoning commission. (Ord. 454 § 4, 1992)

“Common area” means an area or space designed for joint use of tenants occupying mobile home developments, apartment complexes, condominiums or the like. (Ord. 454 § 4, 1992)

“Community system (water or sewage)” means a central system which services all living units and is not publicly owned. (Ord. 454 § 4, 1992)

“Conditional use permit” means a provision which allows for flexibility within the zoning ordinance by permitting certain specified uses in zoning districts after additional controls and safeguards are applied by the commission to ensure their compatibility with permitted principal uses. (Ord. 454 § 4, 1992)

“Conex” means a large, steel-reinforced reusable container principally used for intermodal shipping of cargo and equipment. (Ord. 21-002 § 11, 2021)

“Density” means the number of dwelling units per gross acre in any residential development. (Ord. 454 § 4, 1992)

“District” means a portion of the city within which:

“Driveway” means a minor private way used by vehicles and pedestrians on a lot or for common access to a small group of lots or common facilities. (Ord. 454 § 4, 1992)

“Dwelling” means a building designed or used exclusively as the living quarters for one or more families. (Ord. 454 § 4, 1992)

“Factory-built dwelling” means a detached single-family dwelling designed for long-term human habitation and having complete living facilities, and being at least 900 square feet in size, constructed and fabricated into one or more sections at a factory and designed to be jointed at location of use on a permanent foundation. (Ord. 454 § 4, 1992)

“Multiple-family dwelling” means a residential building designed for or occupied by three or more families, with the number of families in residence not exceeding the number of dwelling units provided. (Ord. 454 § 4, 1992)

“One-family dwelling” or “single-family dwelling” means a detached building constructed on a permanent foundation, designed for long-term human habitation exclusively by one family, having complete living facilities and constituting one dwelling unit. (Ord. 454 § 4, 1992)

“Prefabricated dwelling” means a detached single-family dwelling designed for long-term habitation and having complete living facilities fabricated at a factory into component parts which are assembled at location of use on a permanent foundation. (Ord. 454 § 4, 1992)

“Two-family dwelling” means a detached building designed for or occupied exclusively by two families and constituting two dwelling units. (Ord. 454 § 4, 1992)

“Dwelling unit” means a structure or portion thereof providing independent and complete cooking, living, sleeping and toilet facilities for one family. (Ord. 454 § 4, 1992)

“Easement” means a right given by the owner of land to another party for specific limited use of that land. (Ord. 454 § 4, 1992)

“Enforcing agency” means the city or its designee. (Ord. 454 § 4, 1992)

“Family” means one or more persons occupying a premises and living as a single housekeeping unit, as distinguished from a group occupying a roominghouse, club, fraternity house or hotel. (Ord. 454 § 4, 1992)

“Fence” means a barrier, which is constructed of one or more of the following materials, or combinations thereof:

“Gross floor area” means the total area of all floors of a building as measured to the outside surfaces of exterior walls and including halls, stairways, elevator shafts, attached garages, porches and balconies. (Ord. 454 § 4, 1992)

“Garage” means a building or portion thereof in which motor vehicles containing gasoline, distillate or other volatile, flammable liquids are stored. (Ord. 454 § 4, 1992)

“Repair garage” means any building or premises which may be designed and used for the purposes of performing major automotive mechanical repairs and body work and other customary and incidentally related activities. (Ord. 454 § 4, 1992)

“Garage or yard sale” means the sale of new, used or secondhand items or personal property at premises that are zoned residential, to include without limitation, R-1, R-1E, R-2, R-3, and R-4. This definition includes the terms “garage sale,” “yard sale,” “flea sale,” “porch sale,” “lawn sale,” “attic sale,” “basement sale,” “rummage sale,” “flea market sale,” etc. The definition does not include the sale of four or fewer specific items where the specific items have been individually advertised for sale. (Ord. 05-034 § 3, 2005)

“Grade (ground level)” means the average level of the finished ground at the center of all walls to a building. In case walls are parallel to and within five feet of a public sidewalk, the ground level shall be measured at the sidewalk. (Ord. 454 § 4, 1992)

“Guest room” means any room in a hotel, dormitory, boarding or lodging house used and maintained to provide sleeping accommodations. Each 100 square feet or fraction thereof of floor area used for sleeping purposes shall be considered to be a separate guest room. (Ord. 454 § 4, 1992)

“Handicap” means, with respect to a person:

“Handicapped accessible ramps” means a walking surface that is part of a route providing access to a building for persons with limited mobility and providing a reasonable accommodation under the Fair Housing Act and the Americans with Disabilities Act. (Ord. 16-001 § 3, 2016)

“Health authority” means the Alaska Department of Health and Social Services. (Ord. 454 § 4, 1992)

“Homeless shelter” means a building used primarily to provide on-site meals, shelter and secondary personal services such as showers and haircuts to the homeless and the needy on a nonpermanent basis. (Ord. 24-001 § 5, 2024)

“Homeless shelter, emergency” means a building offering temporary housing for residents on a nonpermanent basis solely as an accessory use to places of religious worship. (Ord. 24-001 § 6, 2024)

“Home-based commercial business” means an activity conducted for profit by the residents of a property in a rural residential district which has received a conditional use permit for operation of the business, unless such activity is a permitted use. The business shall be secondary to the use of the dwelling for living purposes and shall be conducted in a manner that does not reasonably interfere with the primary residential character of the area. (Ord. 24-001 § 7, 2024; Ord. 12-004 § 3, 2012)

“Home child care” means providing care and supervision for compensation for not more than six children total. Home child care is a home occupation. (Ord. 489 § 3, 1995)

“Home occupation” means an accessory use customarily conducted within a dwelling by the residents thereof, which is clearly secondary to the use of the dwelling for living purposes and does not change the character thereof or have any exterior evidence of such secondary use other than a nameplate or sign not to exceed four square feet in area. (Ord. 552 § 3, 1999; Ord. 454 § 4, 1992)

“Home special needs care” means providing special needs care for not more than five people for compensation in a dwelling. Home special needs care is a home occupation. (Ord. 489 § 3, 1995)

“Hospice facility” means a facility where terminally ill individuals and their families receive support services from a team of health care providers and others to meet their physical, psychological, social, emotional, and spiritual needs. (Ord. 05-042 § 3, 2006)

“Hospital” means an institution providing health services and medical or surgical care to persons, primarily inpatients, suffering from physical and mental illnesses, disease, injury, deformity and other abnormal physical conditions, and including, as an integral part of the institution, related facilities such as laboratories, outpatient facilities, or training facilities. (Ord. 05-042 § 4, 2006; Ord. 454 § 4, 1992)

“Hotel” means any building, containing six or more rooms, intended or designed to be used, rented or hired out, or to be occupied for sleeping purposes only by transients. (Ord. 454 § 4, 1992)

“Housing” means living units, dwellings and/or other structures that shelter or cover. (Ord. 454 § 4, 1992)

“Junk” means any worn out, wrecked, scrapped, partially or fully dismantled discarded tangible material, combination of such materials or items, including motor vehicles that are inoperable or not currently registered for operation upon the public roads of Alaska; also machinery, metal, rags, rubber, paper, plastics, chemicals and building materials which cannot, without further alternation and reconditioning, be used for their original purpose. (Ord. 454 § 4, 1992)

“Large retail establishment” means one or more buildings located on a single parcel that are used or intended for use principally for the retail sale of merchandise, and whose total building(s) footprint exceeds 20,000 square feet. “Large retail establishment” includes without limitation general merchandise retailers, warehouse and club retailers, superstores, discount stores, outlet stores, second-hand stores, and thrift stores. (Ord. 606 § 3, 2004)

“Loading space” means a space located on premises for pickup and delivery at the premises. Required off-street loading space shall not be included as off-street parking space in computation of required off-street parking space. (Ord. 454 § 4, 1992)

“Lot” means a parcel of land shown as an individual unit on the most recent plat of record. (Ord. 454 § 4, 1992)

“Corner lot” means a lot located at the intersection of two or more streets. A lot abutting on a curved street shall be considered a corner lot if straight lines drawn from the foremost points of the side lot lines to the foremost point of the lot meet at an interior angle of less than 135 degrees. A corner lot has one primary front yard which will be the address frontage and shall be subject to a full front yard setback as provided by PMC. The secondary front yard is on the secondary frontage side of the property and shall be subject to a secondary front yard setback. (Ord. 22-006 § 4, 2022; Ord. 454 § 4, 1992)

“Lot depth” means a mean horizontal distance between the front and rear property lines of a lot, measured in the general direction of its side property lines. (Ord. 454 § 4, 1992)

“Double frontage lot” means a lot which abuts on two separate parallel public streets. (Ord. 22-006 § 5, 2022)

“Flag lot” means a lot with a long narrow strip that resembles a pole providing a minimum of 40 feet access to the lot. Flag lots must meet the required lot minimum width of 60 feet with a minimum lot area of 8,400 square feet and does not include the strip (pole). Flag lots containing two and one-half acres or less, the minimum pole width is 30 feet where two or more poles are adjoining, and 40 feet in width for a single pole. Flag lots containing greater than two and one-half acres, the minimum pole width is 40 feet where two or more poles are adjoining, and 60 feet in width for a single pole. (Ord. 22-006 § 6, 2022)

“Front lot line” means a line separating the lot from the street. (Ord. 454 § 4, 1992)

“Rear lot line” means the line that is opposite and most distant from the front lot line, and in the case of an irregular, triangular or gore-shaped lot, a line not less than 10 feet in length, within a lot, parallel to and at the maximum distance from the front lot line. (Ord. 454 § 4, 1992)

“Side lot line” means any lot boundary line not a front lot line or rear lot line. (Ord. 454 § 4, 1992)

“Lot width” means the distance between straight lines connecting front and rear lot lines at each side of the lot, measured between the midpoints of such lines. (Ord. 454 § 4, 1992)

“Marijuana cultivation facility” means an entity registered to cultivate, prepare, and package marijuana and to sell marijuana to retail marijuana stores, to marijuana product manufacturing facilities, and to other marijuana cultivation facilities, but not to consumers. (Ord. 21-004 § 3, 2021)

“Marijuana manufacturing facility” means an entity registered to purchase marijuana; manufacture, prepare, and package marijuana products; and sell marijuana and marijuana products to other marijuana product manufacturing facilities and to retail marijuana stores, but not to consumers. (Ord. 21-004 § 4, 2021)

“Marijuana retail store” means an entity registered to purchase marijuana from marijuana cultivation facilities, to purchase marijuana and marijuana products from marijuana product manufacturing facilities, and to sell marijuana and marijuana products to consumers. (Ord. 21-004 § 5, 2021)

“Marijuana testing facility” means an entity registered to analyze and certify the safety and potency of marijuana. (Ord. 21-004 § 6, 2021)

“Mental health facility” means a facility or institution for diagnosing, treating, caring for or counseling people requiring mental health services in confinement. (Ord. 489 § 4, 1995; Ord. 454 § 4, 1992)

“Microbrewery” means a brewery, duly licensed by the state of Alaska, that brews a maximum of 15,000 gallons of beer on the premises in one calendar year. (Ord. 19-015 § 3, 2019)

“Mixed use” means a type of development that combines residential, commercial and/or office uses within a commercial district into one development or building. (Ord. 05-026 § 3, 2005)

“Mobile home” means a detached single-family dwelling designed for long-term human habitation and having complete living facilities, constructed and fabricated into a complete unit at a factory and capable of being transported to location of use on its own chassis and wheels, identified by a model number and serial number by its manufacturer, and designed primarily for placement on an impermanent foundation. (Ord. 454 § 4, 1992)

“Mobile home park” means any parcel or adjacent parcels of land in the same ownership which is utilized for occupancy by two or more mobile homes. (Ord. 454 § 4, 1992)

“Motel” means a group of attached or detached buildings containing individual sleeping or living units with at least one parking space for each unit located on the same premises and convenient to each unit, all for the temporary use by automobile tourists and transients. “Motel” includes auto courts and motor lodges. (Ord. 454 § 4, 1992)

“Nonconforming use” means a use of land or structure, which was lawfully existing immediately before the provisions of this title or its amendments became applicable to such land or structure, but which use did not conform to the provisions of this title or its amendments when these provisions became applicable to such use or structure and which use has continued to be used without cessation, discontinuance or abandonment for the periods set out in Chapter 17.68 PMC. (Ord. 609 § 4, 2004)

“Nursing home” means a facility managed, supervised, or in the general care of a nursing home administrator currently and duly licensed as such by the state of Alaska, which facility is operated in connection with a hospital or in which nursing care, intermediate care, and medical services are prescribed by or performed under the general direction of persons licensed to practice medicine or surgery with the state for the accommodation of convalescents or other persons who are not acutely ill but who do require skilled or intermediate nursing care and related medical services; the term “nursing home” is restricted to those facilities the purpose of which is to provide skilled or intermediate nursing care and related medical services for a period of not less than 24 hours a day to individuals admitted because of illness, disease or physical or mental infirmity. (Ord. 05-042 § 3, 2006)

“Park” means a publicly owned area for recreational use by persons of all ages. (Ord. 454 § 4, 1992)

“Public parking” means a structure or an open area, other than a street, alley or other right-of-way, used for the temporary parking of automobiles and available for public use whether free, for compensation or as an accommodation for clients or customers. (Ord. 454 § 4, 1992)

“Off-street parking space” means a space located off any street, alley or other right-of-way which is adequate for parking an automobile with room for opening both doors of it and adequate maneuvering room on a parking lot with access to a public street or alley. (Ord. 454 § 4, 1992)

“Person” means a natural person, his or her heirs, executors, administrators or assigns, and also includes a firm, partnership or corporation, its or their successors or assigns, or the agent of any of the aforesaid, and the trustee, grantor and trustor of a trust. (Ord. 454 § 4, 1992)

“Planned unit development” means a group or combination of certain specified residential, commercial or industrial uses to be developed as a functional unit, the plan for which may not conform to the regulations established in any one or more zoning districts with respect to lot size, bulk, type of use, density, lot coverage, height or required open space. (Ord. 454 § 4, 1992)

“Plat” means any map, plan or chart of a city, town, section or subdivision indicating the location and boundaries of individual properties. (Ord. 454 § 4, 1992)

“Playground” means a publicly owned area for recreational use primarily by children. (Ord. 454 § 4, 1992)

“Plot” means a parcel of land consisting of one or more lots or portions thereof which is described by reference to a recorded plat or metes and bounds. (Ord. 454 § 4, 1992)

“Power plant” means a facility used for generating electricity; an industrial complex where power, especially electricity, is generated from another source of energy such as gas, coal, nuclear reactions, flowing water, wind, solar, or other natural resource. (Ord. 10-015 § 3, 2010)

“Private street” means a private way which affords principal means of access to abutting individual lots and auxiliary buildings. (Ord. 454 § 4, 1992)

“Preschool” means providing day care with or without educational services for children not yet attending elementary school; includes nursery school and kindergarten. (Ord. 489 § 3, 1995)

“Property line” means a demarcation limit of a lot dividing it from other lots or parcels of land. (Ord. 454 § 4, 1992)

“Public street” means a public way which affords principal means of access to abutting properties and is dedicated to the public. (Ord. 454 § 4, 1992)

“Residential care facility” means a facility, currently and duly licensed by the state of Alaska, which provides 24-hour care for one or more people who are not related by blood, marriage or legal adoption to the owner or operator and includes facilities called group homes and institutions. (Ord. 24-001 § 8, 2024; Ord. 489 § 4, 1995; Ord. 454 § 4, 1992)

“Right-of-way” means the area which is dedicated to the public over which the right of passage exists. (Ord. 454 § 4, 1992)

“Roominghouse” means any dwelling in which, for compensation, three or more persons whether individually or as families are housed or lodged, with or without meals. A boardinghouse, lodginghouse, tourist home or a furnished-room house shall be deemed a roominghouse. (Ord. 454 § 4, 1992)

“Salvage yard” means any lot, or portion of a lot, which is used for the purpose of the outdoor storage, handling, dismantling, wrecking, keeping or sale of used, discarded, wrecked or abandoned airplanes, appliances, vehicles, boats, building and building materials, machinery, equipment, or parts thereof, including, but not limited to, scrap metals, wood, lumber, plastic, fiber or other tangible materials as defined in this title under “junk.” (Ord. 454 § 4, 1992)

“School” means an educational institution providing primary and secondary structured teaching where students attend regularly, including all structures and land involved in the accomplishment of educational purposes. (Ord. 21-004 § 7, 2021; Ord. 489 § 3, 1995)

“Service station” means a retail place of business engaged primarily in the sale of motor fuels, lubricants and other petroleum products, but also in supplying accessories and services generally required in the normal operation and maintenance of motor vehicles. The servicing of motor vehicles shall be generally limited to lubrication, nonmechanical washing, installation or replacement of accessory items, and the performance of minor automotive maintenance and repair. Body and fender work are prohibited except where specifically permitted by the regulations or by the terms of a special exception. (Ord. 454 § 4, 1992)

“Setback” means the minimum horizontal distance between the front, rear and side lines of the lot, and the front, rear or side lines of the buildings. (Ord. 454 § 4, 1992)

“Site” means a parcel of land consisting of one or more lots or portions thereof which is described by reference to a recorded plat or by metes and bounds. (Ord. 21-002 § 12, 2021; Ord. 454 § 4, 1992. Formerly 17.08.420)

“Special event” means any kind of public celebration or event designated by the city manager and officially authorized as a special event. (Ord. 21-002 § 13, 2021)

“Special limitation” means a provision adopted by ordinance which restricts the permitted principal uses and/or structures otherwise allowed in a zoning district or which requires compliance with site design standards not otherwise required by zoning district regulations. (Ord. 614 § 3, 2004)

“Special needs care” means providing care, supervision and/or education for people requiring more than ordinary attention because of a physical and/or a mental handicap. (Ord. 489 § 3, 1995)

“Special needs day care facility” means a facility wherein special needs day care is provided for more than five people. (Ord. 489 § 3, 1995)

“Story” means the portion of a building between any floor and the next floor above, except that the topmost story shall be that portion of a building between the topmost floor and the ceiling or roof above it. If the finished floor level directly above a basement, cellar or unused floor space is more than six feet above grade for more than 50 percent of the total perimeter or is more than 12 feet above grade at any point, such basement, cellar, or unused floor space shall be considered a story. (Ord. 454 § 4, 1992)

“Street” means a way permanently open to general use which affords the principal means of access to abutting property, such as avenue, place, drive, boulevard, highway and any other similar public thoroughfare, except an alley as defined in PMC 17.08.015. (Ord. 454 § 4, 1992)

“Street line” means the line of demarcation between a street and the lot or land abutting thereon. (Ord. 454 § 4, 1992)

“Structure” means anything which is constructed or erected and located on or under the ground, or attached to something fixed to the ground. (Ord. 454 § 4, 1992)

“Tall structure” means a structure which by its nature is tall and is not habitable or occupiable, such as an aerial, antenna, belfry, chimney, church spire, cupola, fire hose tower, flagpole, mast monument, tank, telecommunication tower and other similar structure or facility. (Ord. 630 § 3, 2004)

“Trailer” means any vehicle used or intended to be used as living or sleeping quarters for humans and which may be driven, towed or propelled from one location to another without change in structure or design, whether or not the same is supported by wheels and including trailers, trailer coaches and house cars. (Ord. 454 § 4, 1992)

“Trailer camp,” “park” or “lot” means any area or premises where space for two or more trailers is rented, held out for rent or for which free occupancy or camping for such number is permitted to trailers or users for the purpose of securing their trade, herein referred to as a “trailer camp,” but not including automobile or trailer sales lots on which unoccupied house trailers are parked for inspection and sales. (Ord. 454 § 4, 1992)

“Use” means the purpose for which land or a building is arranged, designed or intended, or for which either land or a building is or may be occupied or maintained. (Ord. 454 § 4, 1992)

“Principal use” means any main activity permitted by this title. (Ord. 454 § 4, 1992)

“Utility substation” means a building or structure located above ground such as pump stations and equipment buildings used to transmit, distribute, or switch power, water, sewerage, natural gas, or communications signals. (Ord. 10-015 § 4, 2010)

“Variance” means the relaxation of the strict application of the terms of this title. This definition shall not be construed to permit a use in any district which use is prohibited therein. (Ord. 454 § 4, 1992)

“Winery” means a facility, duly licensed by the State of Alaska, where a maximum of 50,000 gallons of wine is manufactured and bottled or barreled in one calendar year, and is sold by the bottle or barrel for consumption off site. (Ord. 09-012 § 3, 2009)

“Yard” means a required open space on the same lot with a principal use unoccupied and unobstructed by any structure or portion of a structure from 30 inches above the general ground level of the graded lot upward; provided, however, that fences, walls, poles, posts and other customary yard accessories, ornaments and furniture may be permitted in any yard subject to height limitations and requirements limiting obstruction of visibility. (Ord. 454 § 4, 1992)

“Front yard” means a yard extending the full width of the lot across the front of a lot adjoining a public street, and from the front lot line to the nearest exterior wall of the building, front of the bay window, or front of a covered porch or other projection, whichever is nearest to the front lot line. (Ord. 454 § 4, 1992)

“Rear yard” means a yard extending across the rear of the lot between the inner side yard lines. In the case of double frontage lots, there will be no rear yards but only front and side yards. (Ord. 454 § 4, 1992)

“Side yard” means a yard extending from the rear lot line of the front yard to the rear lot line, or in the absence of any clearly defined rear lot line to the point on the lot line involved with the public street. In the case of double-frontage lots, side yards shall extend from the rear lines of front yards required. If no front yard is required, the front boundary of the side yard shall be the front property line. (Ord. 454 § 4, 1992)

“Zoning administrator” means a city official appointed by the city manager to administer and enforce the zoning ordinance. (Ord. 454 § 4, 1992)