A.   This Chapter is adopted to:

      1.   Achieve adequate light, air, and safety from fire and other dangers.

      2.   Conserve and protect land and building values in the Town.

      3.   Preserve the esthetic beauty of the community.

      4.   Reduce and avoid congestion in public rights-of-way.

      5.   Promote the public health, safety, comfort, morals, and welfare of the Town.

      6.   Provide the economic and social advantages derived from orderly and planned land use.

   B.   This Chapter is intended to:

      1.   Fulfill the goals of the Town’s General Plan.

      2.   Advance the position of Prescott Valley as a regional center of commerce, industry, recreation, and culture.

      3.   Provide desirable, appropriately located living areas in a variety of dwelling types and at a suitable range of population densities, with adequate provision for sunlight, fresh air, and usable open space.

      4.   Protect residential, commercial industrial and civic areas from the intrusion of incompatible uses.

      5.   Provide opportunities to concentrate certain types of establishments to allow efficient operation, mutually beneficial relationships, and shared services.

      6.   Ensure preservation of adequate space for commercial, industrial, and other activities necessary for a healthy economy.

      7.   Promote safe, fast, and efficient movement of people and goods without sacrificing the quality of Prescott Valley’s environment.

      8.   Provide adequate off-street parking.

      9.   Achieve excellence and originality of design in future developments.

      10.   Preserve the natural beauty of Prescott Valley’s setting.

      11.   Stabilize expectations by providing a basis for wise decisions regarding future development of Prescott Valley.

      12.   Establish standard decision-making procedures that will enable the Town, the applicant, and the public to reasonably review applications and participate in the local decision-making process in a timely and effective way.

   C.   No property shall be used, and no building shall be constructed, altered, placed, or used except in conformity with this Chapter, and this shall include any addition to any nonconforming use.

(Enacted by Ordinance No. 9, 06/28/1979; reenacted and amended by Ordinance No. 37, 09/04/80; repealed and reenacted by Ordinance No. 178, 05/26/88; paragraph C previously codified at section 13-03-010; amended by Ordinance No 2024-947, 12/11/2024)

This Chapter is the Zoning Code for the Town of Prescott Valley, Yavapai County, State of Arizona.

(Enacted by Ordinance No. 9, 06/28/79; reenacted and amended by Ordinance No. 37, 09/04/80; repealed and reenacted by Ordinance No. 178, 05/26/88; amended by Ordinance No. 375, 12/28/95; amended by Ordinance No 2024-947, 12/11/2024)

   A.   Word forms and abbreviations. Unless a contrary intention clearly appears, the following words have, for the purpose of this Chapter, meanings interpreted as follows:

      1.   Singular includes the plural; the plural includes the singular.

      2.   The word "may" is permissive; the words shall and will are mandatory.

      3.    "And" indicates that all connected words or provisions shall apply.

      4.    "Or" indicates that the connected words or provisions may apply singly or in any combination.

      5.   Words not defined in this Chapter shall be defined according to their customary meaning.

      6.    "Person" includes an individual, firm, partnership, joint venture, association, social club, fraternal organization, corporation, estate, trust, receiver, syndicate, and federal or state government, town, county, special taxing district, or any other group or combination acting as an entity.

      7.    "Used or occupied" as applied to any land or building shall be construed to include the words intended, arranged, or designed to be used or occupied.

      8.    "Dwelling includes "residence."

      9.   "A.R.S." refers to the Arizona Revised Statutes, and "A.R.S. §" refers to a specific section of the Arizona Revised Statutes.

   B.   The following definitions apply:

      1.   Abutting: The condition of two adjoining properties having a common property line or boundary, including cases where two or more lots adjoin only on a corner or corners.

      2.   Accessory building: A subordinate building containing an accessory use.

      3.   Accessory use: A use that is customarily incidental to a primary use located on the same lot.

      4.   Acre: An area of land containing 43,560 square feet.

      5.   Adjacent: The condition of being near to or close to but not necessarily having a common dividing line.

      6.   Adjoining: Having a touching or common dividing line.

      7.   Alley: A dedicated public passageway which affords only a secondary means of vehicular access to abutting property and not intended for general traffic circulation.

      8.   Alternative telecommunications tower structure: Vertical components not generally designed for use as antenna support structures including but not limited to church steeples, ball park light poles and water towers.

      9.   Amendment: A change in the wording, context or substance of this Chapter, or an addition, deletion, or change in the zoning district boundaries or classifications of the zoning map.

      10.   Antenna: Any exterior device for transmitting and receiving wireless telecommunications and mounted on a tower, alternative tower structure, building or structure and used for transmitting and receiving wireless telecommunications for a fee to more than one customer at a time.

      11.   Antique: A product that is sold or exchanged because of value derived or because of oldness as respects the present age, and not simply because the same is not a new product.

      12.   Approved plant list: The Prescott AMA plant list and the Prescott Valley supplemental plant list (see section 13-11-060).

      13.   Arterial: A street used, or intended to be used, for heavy traffic flow, usually a section line or mid-section line road, or one connecting neighborhoods or communities.

      14.   Attached building: A building with at least part of a wall in common with another building or connected to another building by a roof.

      15.   Automobile sales: A business selling new or used motor vehicles and providing services commonly associated with motor vehicle sales.

      16.   Automobile service station: A place of business with pumps or storage tanks from which liquid fuel or lubricants are dispensed at retail directly into motor vehicles.

      17.   Automobile storage garage: A building, other than a private garage, designed or used for storing motor vehicles for compensation. Includes storage of automobiles incident to a lawful towing business.

      18.   Average adjoining finished grade: The average elevation of the post-development surface of the ground adjoining all exterior walls of a building, calculated by dividing the sum of the elevations at 10-foot intervals around the perimeter of the building by the number of 10-foot intervals.

      19.   Average adjoining natural grade: The average elevation of the undisturbed, pre-development, natural surface of the ground adjoining all exterior walls of a building, calculated by dividing the sum of the elevations at 10-foot intervals around the perimeter of the building by the number of 10-foot intervals.

      20.   Bar: An establishment whose primary business is the serving of alcoholic beverages to the public for consumption on the premises.

      21.   Basement: One or more stories wholly or partly underground and having less than half its height, and in any event not more than six feet, measured from its floor to its finished ceiling, above the average adjoining finished grade.

      22.   Billboard: A sign structure on which is portrayed information which directs attention to a business, commodity, service, entertainment, or product not necessarily related to the other uses existing on the premises where the sign structure is located. A sign shall be classified as a billboard unless at least 50% of the advertising area is devoted to identifying a business operating on the premises, or to a product that is manufactured on the premises. That a product is merely sold on the premises is not sufficient cause for the sign not to be classified as a billboard.

      23.   Board of Adjustment: The Board of Adjustment of the Town of Prescott Valley.

      24.   Boarding house: A building with no more than one common kitchen and no more than five guest rooms rented or leased on a transient basis, to a maximum of ten people who are not members of the family residing in the building.

      25.   Brewery: A facility that produces more than 6,200,000 gallons of beer in a calendar year for retail or wholesale.

      26.   Building: A structure with a roof supported by columns or walls.

      27.   Building area: The sum of all floor areas of a building.

      28.   Building height: The vertical distance measured from the average adjoining natural grade to the highest level of the roof surface of a flat roof, to the deck line of a mansard roof, or to the mean height between eaves and ridge of a gable, gambrel, or hip roof.

      29.   Building permit: A permit required for the erection, construction, modification, addition to, or moving of any building, structure, or use in the Town of Prescott Valley.

      30.   Building setback: A line that marks the minimum distance a structure must be located from the property line to the closest point of the foundation or any supporting post or pillar of any building or structure.

      31.   Carport: An accessory building or portion of a main building with two or more open sides and designated or used primarily for the parking of motor vehicles.

      32.   Catering establishment: A place, site, or business for the preparation and assembly of food or non-alcoholic beverages exclusively for off-site sale and service.

      33.   Cemetery: Land used or intended to be used for the burial of the dead, and dedicated for such purposes, including columbaria, crematoriums, mausoleums, and mortuaries when operated in conjunction with and within the boundaries of the cemetery.

      34.   Certification: An applicant’s written and notarized statement.

      35.   Charitable organization: An organization that is tax-exempt under section 501(c) of the Internal Revenue Code.

      36.   Church: A permanently located enclosed building commonly used for religious worship.

      37.   Clinic: A place for the provision of ambulatory health services where patients are not housed for more than 24 hours. Ambulatory health services permissible in a clinic include but are not limited to:

         a.   Primary care: Checkups, immunizations, and management of chronic conditions.

         b.   Specialty care: Visits to doctors, nurses, and other healthcare professionals specializing in specific areas, such as cardiology, oncology, or mental health.

         c.   Diagnostic procedures: Blood tests, imaging studies, and biopsies.

         d.   Minor surgeries and procedures: Outpatient surgeries, such as cataract removal or hernia repair.

         e.   Urgent care: Treatment for sudden illnesses or injuries that do not require hospitalization.

         f.   Rehabilitation: Physical therapy, occupational therapy, and speech therapy.

      38.   Code Official: The Town official appointed to assist the Zoning Administrator in enforcing this Chapter (see section 13-13-040). The Code Official is the Town s Neighborhood Services Director.

      39.   Collocation: Use of a tower or alternative tower structure by two or more wireless telecommunications providers.

      40.   Commercial coverage: A single FCC licensee’s network of wireless telecommunications facilities.

      41.   Commercial stable: A stable where horses, mules, or ponies are let, hired, used, or boarded on a commercial basis and for compensation.

      42.   Commission: The Planning and Zoning Commission of the Town of Prescott Valley.

      43.   Community building: A public or quasi-public building used for community activities of an educational, recreational, or public service nature.

      44.   Community residence: Except as required by state law, a community residence is a residential living arrangement for five to 12 unrelated individuals with disabilities in need of the mutual support furnished by other residents of the community residence as well as the support services, if any, provided by the staff of the community residence. Residents may be self-governing or supervised by a sponsoring entity or its staff which provides habilitative or rehabilitative services related to the disabilities of the residents. A community residence seeks to emulate a biological family to normalize its residents and integrate them into the surrounding community. As a function of emulating a biological family, a community residence must have an established protocol to assure that the residents have access to meals at the home whether the residents dine individually or as a group. Public, charitable, or social services provided meals shall not be a substitute for these protocols. Its primary purpose is to provide shelter in a family–like environment; treatment is incidental as in any home. Inter– relationships between residents are an essential component. A community residence shall be considered a residential use of property for purposes of all zoning and building codes. The term does not include any other group living arrangement for unrelated individuals who are not disabled nor residential facilities for prison pre-parolees or sex offenders. A “community residence” can be a “family community residence” or a “transitional community residence.”

         a.   A family community residence is a relatively permanent living arrangement for five to 12 unrelated individuals with disabilities with no limit on how long a resident may live in the home. The length of tenancy is measured in years.

         b.   A transitional community residence is a temporary living arrangement for five to 12 unrelated individuals with disabilities with a limit on length of tenancy that is measured in months, not years.

      45.   Conditional use: A use allowed in a zoning district by reason of being listed among the conditional uses in the zoning district, subject to obtaining a conditional use permit (see section 13-13-090) and complying with the specific requirements of this Chapter.

      46.   Condominium: An estate in real property consisting of an undivided interest in common in a portion of a lot, together with a separate interest in air space in a residential or commercial complex located on the same lot.

      47.   Contiguous: In contact with.

      48.   Council: The Town Council of the Town of Prescott Valley.

      49.   Courtyard: An area of ground, other than a required yard, partially or fully enclosed by buildings and open to the sky above.

      50.   Craft distiller: A distiller who produces 20,000 gallons or less of distilled spirits in a calendar year and holds a license pursuant to A.R.S. § 4-205.10.

      51.   Density: The number of dwelling units permitted for a specified square footage of land.

      52.   Density designation: The number after the zoning district designation for the RU, RL, RM, MH, MF, RL, and RS zones. See section 13-04-020 (residential zoning district development standards).

      53.   Detached: Separated but on the same lot; for example, a detached building is separated from other buildings on the same lot.

      54.   Development Services Department: The administrative department of the Town of Prescott Valley charged by the Town Manager with maintaining and administering this Chapter, notwithstanding any administrative departmental name change.

      55.   Distiller: A producer of distilled spirits for retail or wholesale in compliance with A.R.S. Title 4.

      56.   Dripline: A line on the ground in the same vertical plane as the outside edge of a roof or overhang.

      57.   Drive-in: Any establishment that encourages or permits customers to receive services and goods from their motor vehicles.

      58.   Drive-in theater: An open-air theater where the performance is viewed by all or part of the audience from motor vehicles.

      59.   Drive-through: A facility consisting of a drive lane and service window where customers receive services or goods from their motor vehicles.

      60.   Duplex: A building or portion of a building with two dwelling units on a single lot, with each having both kitchen or cooking facilities and a private, indoor toilet.

      61.   Dwelling: A building or portion of a building designed for primarily residential purposes.

         a.   Attached dwelling: A dwelling that shares at least part of a wall in common with another dwelling or that is connected to another dwelling by a roof.

         b.   Detached dwelling: A separate building designed for and containing only one dwelling unit, not attached to any other structure, with open space on all sides and no dwellings either above or below it.

         c.   Dwelling unit: A dwelling for one or more persons living and cooking together as a family and containing one accommodation for preparation of meals.

      62.   Easement: The portions of a lot a person other than the owner of the lot has a right to use for a specified purpose; for example, portions used for public utilities, drainage, or access.

      63.   Efficiency: A one bedroom apartment with a combined bedroom and living room.

      64.   Electric vehicle charging: An automobile parking space with equipment that supplies electrical power for charging plug-in electric vehicles.

      65.   Enclosed building: A building enclosed by a roof, walls, and doors on all sides.

      66.   Enclosed storage: An enclosed portion of a building used primarily for storage.

      67.   FAA: Federal Aviation Administration.

      68.   Factory-built dwelling: A dwelling or portion of a dwelling wholly or in substantial part manufactured at an off-site location to be assembled or placed on-site, and manufactured to an International Building Code standard. Does not include a manufactured home or recreational vehicle.

      69.   Fairgrounds: An area consisting of open spaces and structures owned by a governmental or quasi-governmental entity, where a fair takes place.

      70.   Family: A family consists of any person living alone or any of the following groups living together as a single housekeeping unit that shares common living, sleeping, cooking, and eating facilities:

         a.   Any number of people related by blood, marriage, adoption, guardianship, or other duly and legally authorized custodial relationship and no more than two unrelated individuals who provide care or assistance or are domestic employees; or

         b.   Two unrelated individuals and their children related to either of them and their foster children; or

         c.   Up to four unrelated individuals; but

         d.   A family does not include any society, nursing home, club, boarding or lodging house, dormitory, fraternity, sorority, or group of individuals whose association is seasonal or similar in nature to a resort, motel, hotel, boarding, or lodging house.

      71.   FCC: Federal Communications Commission.

      72.   Fence: A barrier constructed of block, wood slats, wire, pipe, chain link, or other similar materials and designed to separate two lots or to separate a single lot into different use areas. Excludes materials described in Section 13-07-075.

      73.   Final development plan: Engineering and technical documents submitted by or on behalf of a property owner as part of the pre-construction process to prove that proposed development meets all requirements of the Town Code, any conditions of rezoning, the approved preliminary development plan, and all other applicable laws and regulations.

      74.   Finished grade: The elevation of the post-development surface of the ground at the location of a use or proposed use.

      75.   Fraternity: A residence hall or building used as living quarters for members of an approved college or university group while enrolled at an institution of higher learning.

      76.   Frontage: The width in linear feet facing the front lot line; for example, building frontage is the linear footage of the building facing the front lot line, and lot frontage is the linear footage of the front lot line.

      77.   General plan: A plan developed and adopted by the Commission and Council pursuant to A.R.S. § 9-461.05 and -.06 as a guide for future growth and development within the Town.

      78.   Golf course: Includes accessory club houses, pro shops, and other ancillary buildings located on the premises of the golf course, and a driving range as part of and accessory to a golf course, but does not include miniature golf courses or practice driving tees operated independently of and not accessory to a golf course.

      79.   Gross floor area: The total enclosed area of all floors of a building measured to the outside face of the structural members in exterior walls and including halls, stairways, elevator shafts at each floor level, service and mechanical equipment rooms, and basement or attic areas with a height of more than seven feet, but excluding areas used exclusively for vehicle parking or loading.

      80.   Guest room: One or more rooms intended for overnight occupancy in a hotel, motel, boarding house, fraternity, or similar use.

      81.   Home occupation: A vocation, trade, or profession customarily conducted wholly within the confines of a dwelling unit or an attached building, carried on only by a member or members of the family residing in the dwelling unit, clearly incidental and secondary to the use of the dwelling for residential purpose, that does not change the character of the dwelling unit, and that conforms to the requirements set forth in section 13-04-040 of this Chapter.

      82.   Gymnasium: A large room used for various indoor sports including without limitation basketball, boxing, wrestling, swimming, or gymnastics; and including incidental spectator accommodations, lockers, and showers.

      83.   Hospital: A building or group of buildings where sick or injured persons are given medical or surgical treatment, examination, or care, including overnight residence, together with related facilities including laboratories, training facilities, staff residences, outpatient services, and similar facilities incidental to the principal use.

      84.   Hotel: An establishment with five or more guest rooms, providing temporary sleeping accommodations for a fee, but not including boarding house, trailer court, hospital, or jail.

      85.   In-home child care: A home occupation providing day care and education to children in conformance with state law and this Chapter.

      86.   Kennel: An establishment where dogs and cats are bred or raised for sale, boarded, trained or cared for on a commercial or nonprofit basis.

      87.   Kitchen: Any room or portion of a room used, intended, or designed to be used for cooking or the preparation of food, except cooking facilities of a recreational or incidental nature such as barbecues, hot plates, or similar.

      88.   Landscaping: An area improved to create an attractive appearance through the harmonious combination and introduction of

         a.   Living plants, trees, shrubs, vines, and organic ground covers;

         b.   Inorganic ground covers, such as river rock and decorative stone;

         c.   Plazas, patios, decorative courtyards, and other areas reserved for pedestrian use; and

         d.   Water features and public art; but

         e.   Excluding stormwater detention facilities, parking lots, driveways, and other paved surfaces not expressly included in this definition.

      89.   Legal nonconforming: See section 13-02-010 (effective date and legal nonconforming uses).

      90.   Library: A building or room containing collections of books and periodicals (and sometimes films and recorded music) for members of the public to read, refer to, or borrow.

      91.   Light manufacturing: Processing materials into a finished product within an enclosed building, with minimal noise, dust, glare, smoke, vibration, odor, or debris.

      92.   Livable: The heated floor area, measured from the outside dimensions of the exterior walls, of a building used for dwelling purposes, excluding all non-dwelling areas such as attics, storage, carport, and garage.

      93.   Livestock: Horses, ponies, mules, cows, goats, sheep, llamas, any other large animals, poultry, chinchillas, turkeys, pheasants, geese, ducks, pigeons, or any other fowl except chickens under section 6-02-030(B), birds, or rodents that are customarily raised for food, profit, or pleasure.

      94.   Lot: A lot, parcel, or tract of land.

         a.   Corner lot: A lot adjoining two or more streets at their intersection.

         b.   Interior lot: A lot having no sides abutting on a street.

         c.   Key lot: An interior lot contiguous to the rear lot line of a corner lot and fronting on the side street of the corner lot.

         d.   Through lot: A lot having a part of opposite lot lines abutting two streets, and which is not a corner lot.

      95.   Lot area: A lot’s total area measured in square feet.

      96.   Lot coverage: The percentage of a lot’s area occupied by the footprint of all buildings.

      97.   Lot depth: The distance between the mid-points of the front lot line and the rear lot line.

      98.   Lot line: The boundary line of a lot.

         a.   Front lot line: The property line abutting a street. The front lot line of a corner lot is the one chosen by the property owner as the front lot line prior to construction of a main building on the lot. On a through lot, both lot lines abutting a street are front lot lines, except that if the lot has no permitted access to one of the abutting streets, the front lot line shall be the lot line abutting the street to which the through lot has access.

         b.   Rear lot line: The lot line opposite the front lot line. Where the side lot lines meet in a point, the rear lot line shall be considered parallel to the front lot line or a tangent of the mid-point of a curved front lot line and lying ten feet within the lot.

         c.   Side lot line: A lot line connecting the front lot line and the rear lot line.

      99.   Lot width: The horizontal distance between side lot lines, measured at the setback line created by the required front yard.

      100.   Main building: A building where the principal permitted use of a lot is conducted.

      101.   Maintain: The replacing or renovating of a part or parts of a structure worn or made unusable by ordinary wear or tear, or by the weather.

      102.   Manufactured home:

         a.   A structure at least eight feet in width and at least 40 feet in length, built on a permanent chassis, transportable in one or more sections, manufactured after 15 June 1976 to standards established by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, and designed to be used as a single-family dwelling when connected to public utilities.

         b.   A structure at least eight feet in width and at least 40 feet in length, manufactured before 15 June 1976, transportable in one or more sections, and designed and still legally permissible to be used as a single-family dwelling when connected to public utilities.

         c.   Does not include a recreational vehicle or a factory-built dwelling.

      103.   Manufactured home park: A development providing rental spaces for occupancy on a non-permanent basis for manufactured homes, with accessory buildings and uses provided for the benefit and enjoyment of occupants.

      104.   Manufactured home space: A plot of ground within a manufactured home park designed for the accommodation of one manufactured home.

      105.   Microbrewery: A brewery that produces between 5,000 and 6,200,000 gallons of beer in a calendar year and meets the requirements of A.R.S. § 4-205.08.

      106.   Mobile food unit: A food establishment licensed by the State of Arizona that is readily movable and that dispenses food or beverages for immediate service and consumption and other incidental retail items from any vehicle as defined in A.R.S. § 28-101.

      107.   Mobile food vendor: Any person who owns, controls, manages, or leases a mobile food unit or contracts with a person to prepare foods and vend from, drive, or operate a mobile food unit.

      108.   Mobile home: A movable or portable dwelling built on a chassis prior to 15 June 1976 to standards other than the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development Code, acceptable under applicable codes in effect at the time of construction or introduction into the Town, connected to public utilities, designed without a permanent foundation, intended for year-round living, and not originally sold as a recreational vehicle. A mobile home is regulated as a manufactured home for purposes of this Chapter if it was legally occupied when it was first brought into the Town and connected to public utilities and remains safe for human occupancy according to the Town Building Official.

      109.   Model home: A never-occupied dwelling open for inspection by the general public for the purpose of selling it or similar dwellings, and serving as an example of the seller’s products.

      110.   Model home complex: Two or more adjacent model homes.

      111.   Multi-family dwelling: A building or portion of a building with three or more dwelling units on a single lot used, designed, or intended for use or occupancy as living quarters. Includes condominium.

      112.   Natural grade: The elevation of the land, vegetation, rocks, and other surface features which have not been physically disturbed, changed, or added to by any action of man or machine at the location of a use or proposed use.

      113.   Nonconforming: See section 13-02-010 (effective date and legal nonconforming uses).

      114.   Nuisance: Any condition or use of property that endangers life or health, gives offense to the senses, or obstructs the reasonable and comfortable use of other property.

      115.   Nursery school: An institution intended primarily for the daytime care of children of pre-school age. Includes child care centers.

      116.   Nursing home: Any place or institution licensed by the state of Arizona providing bed care or chronic or convalescent care for one or more persons, other than relatives, who are unable to properly care for themselves by reason of illness or physical infirmity, and where nursing, dietary, and other personal services are provided (but not surgery or other primary care customarily provided in hospitals). A nursing home does not include a community residence.

      117.   Open porch: A porch where any portion extending into a required front yard, required interior side yard, or required exterior side yard has no enclosure by walls, screens, lattice, or other material higher than 54 inches above the average adjoining finished grade.

      118.   Outdoor storage: Outdoor storage of materials, equipment, vehicles, or trailers, screened from view by screening walls.

      119.   Overlay zone: A zoning district encompassing one or more underlying zoning districts and imposing additional or alternative requirements to those required by the underlying zoning district.

      120.   Park: A large public green or open area used for recreation or as a playground.

      121.   Parking garage: A public or privately owned structure used for the free or paid parking of automobiles by the general public.

      122.   Parking space: A fully accessible space adequate for the temporary parking of vehicles, located entirely outside the public right-of-way.

      123.   Permanent dust-free pavement: Surface materials such as asphaltic concrete or portland cement, but not including such materials as chip seal, gravel or granite.

      124.   Permitted use: A use allowed in a zoning district by reason of being listed among the permitted uses in the zoning district, subject to compliance with the specific requirements of this Chapter.

      125.   Personal services: Includes beauty and barber shops, photography studios, tailoring, and small appliance repair.

      126.   Preliminary development plan: The plan of development presented by or on behalf of a property owner in support of an application for rezoning, typically consisting of one or more maps, depictions, drawings, and associated text.

      127.   Prescott AMA plant list: The Arizona Department of Water Resources Prescott Active Management Area Low Water Use/Drought Tolerant Plant List.

      128.   Primary use: The main or principal use on a given lot.

      129.   Principal building: A building, or group of buildings, where the principal use of the lot is conducted.

      130.   Private garage: An accessory building or portion of a main building used for the shelter or storage of self-propelled vehicles owned or operated by the occupants of a main building for no compensation.

      131.   Private use: A use restricted to the occupants of a lot or building and their guests for no compensation.

      132.   Professional office: An office where service of a professional nature is carried out by one or more:

         a.   Architects, engineers, or surveyors licensed by the Arizona State Board of Technical Registration.

         b.   Doctors, osteopaths, dentists, optometrists, or others licensed by the State of Arizona to treat patients.

         c.   Lawyers admitted to practice law by the State Bar of Arizona.

         d.   Accountants who are members of the Arizona Society of Certified Public Accountants or the Arizona Association of Accountants, Incorporated.

         e.   Paraprofessionals, consultants, and practitioners associated with the above professionals.

      133.   Public building: A facility where public business is conducted by one or more public agencies, including all Federal, State, County, and Town offices and buildings.

      134.   Public use: A use located on public land to serve the public, but not necessarily open to the public.

      135.   Public utilities: Private or public facilities for distribution of water, power, natural gas, telephone, and cable to the public.

      136.   Recreational vehicle: A vehicle-type unit which is not a dwelling or occupied as such and not a manufactured home, but is one of the following:

         a.   A portable camping trailer mounted on wheels and constructed with collapsible partial side walls which fold for towing by another vehicle and unfold for camping

         b.   A motor home designed to provide temporary living quarters for recreational, camping or travel use and built on or permanently attached to a self-propelled motor vehicle chassis or on a chassis cab or van that is an integral part of the completed vehicle

         c.   A park trailer built on a single chassis, mounted on wheels and designed to be connected to public utilities necessary for operation of installed fixtures and appliances and has a gross trailer area of not less than 320 square feet and not more than 400 square feet when it is set up, except that it does not include fifth wheel trailers

         d.   A travel trailer mounted on wheels, including fifth wheel trailers, designed to provide temporary living quarters for recreational, camping or travel use, of a size or weight that may or may not require special highway movement permits when towed by a motorized vehicle, and has a trailer area of less than 320 square feet

         e.   A portable truck camper constructed to provide temporary living quarters for recreational, travel or camping use and consisting of a roof, floor and sides designed to be loaded onto and unloaded from the bed of a pickup truck

      137.   Recreational vehicle park: Facilities for the temporary storage, parking, and maneuvering of recreational vehicles with adequate roads and stall sites, including sanitary and water facilities where site locations are provided on a day-to-day basis. Does not constitute a manufactured home park.

      138.   Recreational vehicle space: A plot of ground within a recreational vehicle park designed for the accommodation of one recreational vehicle.

      139.   Required yard: The minimum required open, unoccupied lot area between a lot line and the minimum building setback.

         a.   Required exterior side yard: The required yard associated with any side lot line adjacent to a street (but not an alley), extending from the required front yard to the required rear yard.

         b.   Required front yard: The required yard associated with the front lot line, projected to the side lot lines.

         c.   Required interior side yard: The required yard associated with any side lot line not adjacent to a street, extending from the required front yard to the required rear yard.

         d.   Required rear yard: The required yard associated with the rear lot line, projected to the side lot lines.

      140.   Residential use: Includes single- and multi-family dwelling units, condominiums, guest rooms, hotels, motels, manufactured homes, rooming and boarding houses, fraternity and sorority houses, convents, homes for the aged, and similar uses.

      141.   Restaurant: An establishment where food and beverages may be purchased and consumed by the public.

      142.   Retail: An establishment where products are sold to the public in relatively small quantities for use or consumption rather than for resale. Includes:

      143.   Salvage yard: Any land or building used for any of the following, and associated storage:

         a.   The abandonment, storage, keeping, collecting, salvaging, or bailing of paper, rags, scrap metals, other scrap, or discarded materials; or

         b.   The crushing and demolishing motor vehicles, trailers, machinery, equipment, and their parts; or

         c.   Automobile salvage and recycling facilities; or

         d.   The collection and processing of recyclable materials. Processing includes the preparation of recyclable material (but not including refuse or hazardous waste) for shipment to an end-user through baling, briquetting, compacting, flattening, grinding, crushing, mechanical sorting, shredding, or cleaning

      144.   School: A place of general instruction licensed through the Arizona Department of Education for the education of children through grade 12 with a curriculum the same as customarily given in public schools. Does not include child care centers, nursery schools, dancing schools, riding academies, or trade or specialized vocational schools such as business colleges, art, or music schools.

      145.   Seat: Where parking spaces are based on numbers of seats in a facility, each 18 inches of width for bench seating shall be deemed one seat. In the case of fixed seating, each chair shall constitute one seat.

      146.   Self-service: A store, restaurant, or service station where customers select goods for themselves or service their car for themselves and pay a cashier.

      147.   Setback: A line that marks the minimum distance from the property line.

      148.   Sight visibility triangle: See section 13-07-100 (sight visibility triangle at street intersections).

      149.   Sign: Any object, device, display, structure, fixture, painting, emblem, or visual that uses words, letters, figures, graphics, symbols, numbers, colors, and illumination for the purpose of communicating a message. Signs include the sign faces as well as any sign-supporting structure. See section 13-09-020.

      150.   Single-family dwelling: A detached dwelling designed primarily for occupancy by or occupied by one family for residential purposes.

      151.   Site-built dwelling: A dwelling built directly from lumber and other components brought to and assembled piece by piece on a slab or foundation set on the property where the dwelling will remain. Also commonly referred to as a stick-built home.

      152.   Site plan: A detailed and fully dimensioned scale drawing accurately depicting the locations and sizes of buildings, walls, lighting devices, and other structures; areas, types, and sizes of landscaping; areas for refuse collection, storage, parking, loading, vehicular access, and walkways; property lines and ultimate street rights-of-way; and that portion of rights-of-way to be landscaped or otherwise improved. See section 13-11-030 (site plan requirements).

      153.   Special use permit: Permission granted pursuant to section 13-13-110 (special use permits) for a tower, antenna, or other wireless telecommunications facility under section 13-08-070 (towers, antennas, and wireless telecommunications facilities) or for solar as a primary use and wind turbines under subsection 13-08-080 D.

      154.   Storage area: One or more completely walled areas, under roof, other than living, not accessible directly from the living area, and used primarily for storage.

      155.   Story: Any portion of a building between the floor at any point and the ceiling next above it or the finished undersurface of the roof over that floor. The ground story of any building is the lowest story whose ceiling is more than six feet above the average adjoining finished grade. A mezzanine is a story if it covers more than one-third of the area of the ground story.

      156.   Street: Any existing or proposed street, avenue, road, lane, parkway, place, bridge, viaduct, or easement for public or private vehicular access, or a street in a plat duly filed and recorded in the County Recorder’s office. A street includes all land within the public right-of way, whether improved or unimproved, and includes such improvements as pavement, shoulders, curbs, gutters, sidewalks, parking spaces, bridges, and viaducts.

      157.   Structure: Anything constructed or erected in a fixed location on or in the ground or attached to something in a fixed location on or in the ground, but excluding ditches, poles, lines, cables, transmission or distribution facilities of public utilities, freestanding mailboxes, on-grade slabs, sidewalks, driveways, landscaping materials, tents, or vehicles.

      158.   Subdivision: See Chapter 14.

      159.   Swimming pool: A contained body of water intended for swimming that contains water eighteen inches or more in depth at any point and that is wider than eight feet at any point.

      160.   Telecom: Includes towers, antennas, and wireless telecommunications facilities that comply with the requirements of this Chapter.

      161.   Telecommunications tower: A mast, pole, monopole, guyed tower, lattice tower, freestanding tower, or other structure designed and primarily used to support antennas.

      162.   Temporary housing: The use of a recreational vehicle during the construction of a permanent dwelling in conformance with section 13-04-060.

      163.   Trade school: A school primarily offering instruction in technical, commercial, or trade skills, such as a real estate school, business college, electronic school, automotive or aircraft technicians school, or similar establishment.

      164.   Transportation terminal: A facility for loading and unloading freight for current distribution but not warehousing.

      165.   Under roof: The total square footage of building area, including porches, covered decks, and breezeways, but excluding eaves.

      166.   Usable floor area: The combined area of the following:

         a.   The gross floor area; plus

         b.   The open land area needed for service to the public as customers, patrons, clients or patients, including areas occupied by fixtures and equipment used for display or sale of merchandise; minus

         c.   Areas used principally for storage; incidental repair, processing, or packaging of merchandise; show windows; offices incidental to the management or maintenance of stores or buildings; restrooms; and other accessory areas used principally for non-public purposes.

      167.   Use: The purpose for which a building, lot, or structure is arranged, designed, occupied, or maintained.

      168.   Utility facilities: Buildings and facilities used to provide public utility services.

      169.   Vacation rental or short-term rental is defined in section 13-08-090 (vacation rentals and short-term rentals).

      170.   Variance: A procedure that allows certain modifications in zoning requirements such as fence heights and building setbacks if, because of special circumstances applicable to the property, including its size, shape, topography, location, or surrounding, the applicant can prove to the Board of Adjustment that the strict application of existing zoning requirements would deprive the property of privileges enjoyed by other property of the same classification in the same zoning district.

      171.   Vehicle: A device in, on, or by which a person or property is or may be transported or drawn on a public highway. Does not include:

         a.   Electric bicycles, electric miniature scooters, electric standup scooters, and devices moved by human power.

         b.   Devices used exclusively on stationary rails or tracks.

         c.   Personal delivery devices.

         d.   Scrap vehicles.

         e.   Personal mobile cargo carrying devices.

      172.   Veterinary clinic: A facility where animals or pets are given medical or surgical treatment or care by or under the supervision of a licensed veterinarian.

      173.   Wall: A barrier constructed of materials such as block, native stone, rock, or wood stucco: not including barriers constructed with other materials not designed for walls.

      174.   Warehouse: A building or buildings used for the commercial storage of goods where no retail or wholesale operations are conducted on the site.

      175.   Wireless telecommunications: Any services provided to the public that use licensed or unlicensed spectrum, whether at a fixed location or mobile, using wireless facilities.

      176.   Wireless telecommunications facility:

         a.   Equipment at a fixed location that enables wireless communications between user equipment and a communications network, including both of the following:

            (1)   Equipment associated with wireless communications.

            (2)   Radio transceivers, antennas, coaxial or fiber-optic cables, regular and backup power supplies, and comparable equipment, regardless of technological configuration.

         b.   Includes small wireless facilities (see A.R.S. § 9-591 (19)).

         c.   Does not include the structure or improvements on, under, or within which the equipment is collocated, wireline backhaul facilities, coaxial or fiber-optic cable that is between wireless support structures or utility poles or coaxial or fiber-optic cable that is otherwise not immediately adjacent to, or directly associated with, an antenna.

         d.   Does not include Wi-Fi radio equipment (A.R.S. § 9-506 (I)) or microcell equipment A.R.S. § 9-584 (E).

      177.   Wholesale: The selling of goods of any type to retailers or jobbers for resale to the ultimate customer.

      178.   Yard: The open space between a building and the adjoining lot lines, unoccupied and unobstructed by any portion of a structure from the ground upward.

      179.   Zone boundary: The limit and extent of each zoning district as shown on the zoning map.

      180.   Zoning Administrator: The Town official responsible for administering, enforcing, implementing, and interpreting this Chapter (see section 13-13-030). The Zoning Administrator is the Town's Development Services Director.

      181.   Zoning district: The geographic area of the Town governed by a particular zoning designation. See section 13-03-010.

      182.   Zoning map: The official zoning map of the Town.

(Rewritten and re-codified by Ordinance No 2024-947, 12/11/2024. Previously codified at section 13-02-010. Prior history: Enacted by Ordinance No. 8 and Ordinance No. 9, 06/28/1979; amended by Ordinance No. 27, 04/24/1980; reenacted and amended by Ordinance No. 37, 09/04/1980; amended by Ordinance No. 47A, 11/25/1980; amended by Ordinance No. 58, 09/24/1981; amended by Ordinance No. 82, 05/26/1983; amended by Ordinance No. 115, 08/08/1985; amended by Ordinance No. 161, 11/12/1987; amended by Ordinance No. 162, 11/12/1987; repealed and reenacted by Ordinance No. 178, 05/26/1988; amended by Ordinance No. 185, 10/27/1988; amended by Ordinance No. 279, 06/25/1992; amended by Ordinance No. 282, 10/22/1992; amended by Ordinance No. 295, 07/22/1993; amended by Ordinance No. 341, 11/03/1994; amended by Ordinance No. 361, 04/13/1995; amended by Ordinance No. 362, 04/13/1995; renumbered and amended by Ordinance No. 375, 12/28/1995; amended by Ordinance No. 392, 06/27/1996; amended by Ordinance No. 403, 10/24/1996; amended by Ordinance No. 439, 06/25/1998; amended by Ordinance No. 458, 04/08/1999; amended by Ordinance No. 552, 03/13/2003; amended by Ordinance No. 559, 07/10/2003; amended by Ordinance No. 588, 03/25/2004; amended by Ordinance No. 603, 08/26/2004; amended by Ordinance No. 619, 03/24/2005; amended by Ordinance No. 647, 01/26/2006; amended by Ordinance No. 676, 01/11/2007; amended by Ordinance No. 809, 09/24/2015; amended by Ordinance No. 820, 09/22/2016; amended by Ordinance No. 839, 02/22/2018; amended by Ordinance No. 841, 03/08/2018; amended by Ordinance No. 874, 03/26/2020; amended by Ordinance No. 882, 02/25/2021; amended by Ordinance No. 2022-900, 03/24/2022; amended by Ordinance No. 2022-901, 03/24/2022; amended by Ordinance No. 2023-921, 04/27/2023; amended by Ordinance No. 2023-932, 01/11/2024; amended by Ordinance No. 2025-953, 9/11/2025)