Abutting: In the context of a screening or enclosure requirement, abutting shall mean contiguous or separated therefrom only by a collector street, alley, or easement. In other instances, abutting shall mean contiguous.

Accessory uses or structure: A use or structure on the same lot with, and of a nature customarily incidental and subordinate to, the principal use or structure.

All-weather material: A hard surface, dust-free material capable, during ordinary use, of withstanding without substantial deterioration, normal weather conditions. Gravel, rock or screenings alone, without use of a petroleum or cement binder, does not meet the definition of an all-weather, dust free material.

Alley: A permanent public way providing a secondary means of access for service and emergency vehicles, and not intended for general traffic circulation.

Antennas: A transmitting and/or receiving device used in telecommunications that radiates or captures a signal. As used in this Code, references to antennas shall also include antenna support structures.

Antenna support structure: A telecommunications facility that consists of a standalone support structure which has as its principal use the support of antennas and associated equipment and improvements.

Bar, see also "Tavern": A commercial enterprise whose primary activity is the sale of alcoholic beverages to be consumed on the premises. The service of food is only incidental to the consumption of such beverages.

Building: A structure which is permanently affixed to the land, and has one (1) or more floors and a roof, and is bounded by either another building with a common party wall, open air, or the lot lines of a lot.

Building height: The vertical distance measured from the average ground elevation at the building wall to the highest horizontal point of the structure, provided that Height Exceptions listed under Section 220 shall apply.

Building setback: The horizontal distance, from the point of measurement, such as the centerline of an abutting street or the boundary line of an abutting zoning district to the nearest building wall.

Caliper: Shall mean the diameter of the tree trunk measured at six (6) inches above ground level for a tree trunk having a diameter of four (4) inches or less and the diameter of the tree trunk measured at twelve (12) inches above ground level for a tree trunk exceeding four (4) inches.

Cemetery: Land used or intended to be used for the interment of human remains and dedicated for cemetery purposes, including crematories, mausoleums and mortuaries when operated in conjunction with and within the boundary of such cemetery.

Certificate of occupancy: An official certificate issued by the City through the enforcing official which indicated conformance with the zoning regulations and authorizes legal use of the premises for which it is issued.

Child care center: Any place, home, or institution which cares for six (6) or more children under the age of sixteen (16) years, apart from their parents, guardians, or custodians for regular periods of time for compensation; provided, however, that the term "child center" shall not include or apply to bona fide schools, custody fixed by a court, children related by blood or marriage within the third degree of the custodial person, or churches and other religious or public institutions caring for children within an institutional building.

City Commission: The governing and legislative body of the City of Sapulpa, Oklahoma.

City Manager: The chief administrative officer of the City of Sapulpa, Oklahoma or his designee.

Cluster housing development: A residential development containing attached or detached units on a limited portion of land with the remaining land areas consolidated into common open space areas.

Community group home: A community-based residential facility for independent living that provides room and board, personal care, and habilitation services in a family environment as a single-housekeeping unit for six (6) to twelve (12) resident mentally retarded and/or physically limited persons with at least one (1) but not more than three (3) resident staff persons. Personal care and habilitation services excludes on-site institutional type educational training, medical or nursing care.

Copy area: The net geometric area enclosed by the smallest rectangles encompassing the outer extremities of all letters, figures, characters, and delineations contained in the sign.

Curb Level: The mean level of the established curb at the frontage of a lot. Where no curb has been established, the City Engineer shall establish such curb level or its equivalent for the purposes of this code.

Day care: See childcare.

Detention/correctional facility: A facility for the detention, confinement, treatment and/or rehabilitation of persons arrested or convicted for violation of civil or criminal law. Such facilities include an adult detention center, juvenile delinquency center, pre-release center, correctional community treatment center, jail and prison.

Developed area: Shall mean the area of a lot which, on the adoption date, is covered by a structure, off-street parking or loading areas or other areas paved with all-weather material.

Drip line: Shall mean the periphery of the area underneath a tree which would be encompassed by perpendicular lines extending from the exterior edges of the crown of the tree.

Dwelling, accessory unit (ADU): A separate, complete, housekeeping unit with separate entrance, kitchen, sleeping quarters, and full bathroom facilities that may be used by a property owner who is living in the primary structure on the property. Only one (1) accessory dwelling unit (ADU) will be allowed per parcel. The ADU may not be connected by a separate driveway.

Dwelling, duplex: A building containing two (2) dwelling units designed for occupancy by not more than two (2) families. Included are all forms of manufactured duplex dwellings but excluding mobile homes.

Dwelling, manufactured: A structure designed and intended for human occupancy on a year-round or temporary or seasonal basis which has undergone at least partial pre-fabrication or pre-assembly under indoor factory conditions, excluding dwellings utilizing only pre-fabricated or pre-assembled sub-elements such as roof trusses, floor trusses, plumbing trees, or wiring harness. Included are the following sub-classes.

Pre-fabricated: A manufactured dwelling involving no pre-assembly but all components have been cut and fabricated and then assembled on-site;

Panelized: A manufactured dwelling partially pre-assembled into roof, wall, floor, and ceiling components (which may range from exposed wood to having all finishing completed) which are assembled on-site and constructed to national building code standards.

Sectionalized or modular: A manufactured dwelling partially pre-assembled into two (2) or more sections, none of which are habitable individually, permanently joined together and, utilize customary residential siding and roofing materials, built to national building code standards and are either:

Wood frame units designed to be transported by flat-bed truck and installed on conventional permanent foundations, or

Chassis/under-carriage units designed to be towed or structurally capable of being towed on wheels and installed on permanent foundations after all hitches, running gear and chassis have been removed.

Mobile home or trailer home: A manufactured dwelling other than a recreational vehicle either:

Fully pre-assembled into one (1) unit or one (1) expandable/telescoping unit of more than thirty-five (35) feet in length and is fully habitable upon arrival at a site except for minor and incidental installation activities and utility connections and is installed on either temporary or permanent foundations, or

A dwelling manufactured in two (2) or more units but either fails to utilize customary, residential roofing and siding materials or retains chassis or other equipment related to being towed or is not placed on a conventional permanent foundation.

Dwelling, multi-family: A building containing three (3) or more dwelling units. Included are all forms of manufactured multi-family dwelling but excluding mobile homes.

Dwelling, single-family: A building, other than a manufactured home containing one (1) dwelling unit designed for occupancy by not more than one (1) family, and certified as complying with the building code of this jurisdiction whether constructed on or offsite.

Elderly retirement housing: A residential complex containing multi-family dwellings designed for and principally occupied by senior citizens. Such facilities may include a congregate meals program in a common dining area but exclude institutional care such as medical or nursing care and distinguished from life care retirement centers as elsewhere defined.

Emergency and protective shelter: A residential facility which provides room and board for a temporary (thirty (30) days or less) period, protection, counseling, and pre-placement screening for abused, displaced, or transient children or adults.

Existing buildings: Shall mean building completed and existing at the time of application for the building permit.

Family: One (1) or more persons occupying a single dwelling unit, provided that unless all members are related by blood, marriage, or other domestic bonds, no such family shall contain over three (3) persons, but further provided that domestic servants may be housed on the premises without being designated as a family. Individuals not related by blood, marriage, or adoption occupying a single dwelling unit for on-site institutional education, training, supervision, medical or nursing care shall not be defined herein, does not include a foster home or a neighborhood group home as elsewhere defined.

Family day care home: Any home which cares for five (5) or less children under the age of 16 years, for regular periods of time for compensation. This shall include the family day care parents' own preschool children under the age of two years of age living at home.

Floodplain: The land area adjoining a watercourse or drainage way which would be inundated by the floodwater of the 100-year frequency flood, based on full urbanization of the watershed, as predicted by the City Engineer, or as predicted by the U.S. Corps of Engineers and confirmed by the City Engineer.

Floodway: The channel of a watercourse or drainage way and those portions of the adjoining floodplain which are reasonably required to carry and discharge the floodwater of the 100-year frequency flood as predicted by the City Engineer, or as predicted by the U.S. Corps of Engineers and confirmed by the City Engineer.

Floodway fringe: Those portions of the floodplain which are not reasonably required to carry and discharge the floodwater of the 100-year frequency flood as predicted by the City Engineer, or as predicted by the U.S. Corps of Engineers and confirmed by the City Engineer.

Floor area, gross: The total floor space within the outside dimensions of a building including each floor level.

Floor area, net: Is the area occupied not including accessory unoccupied areas such as corridors, stairs, closets, thickness of walls, columns, toilet room, mechanical are or other features.

Floor area ratio: The floor area of a building or buildings on a lot divided by the lot area.

Foster home: A dwelling used in whole or in part as living quarters for a household including one (1) or more minor children placed by a licensed child placement agency who are not members of the family occupying said dwelling but are under their supervision.

Further, provided that a maximum of five (5) children are allowed to reside in the home including any natural children living in the home, if any children in the home are age two or younger. If no children are under two years, the maximum number of children residing in the home is six (6).

Frontage: The lineal measurement of a lot boundary which abuts a public street or the lineal measurement of the building setback line when the boundary of the lot abuts a curbed non major street or cul-de-sac.

Habitable floor: Any floor usable for living purposes, which includes working, sleeping, heating, cooking or recreation or a combination thereof.

Halfway house: A building used in whole or in part as a treatment center and dwelling quarters for persons unrelated by blood or marriage, who are undergoing care or rehabilitation for alcoholism or other forms of drug abuse.

Height building: See building height.

Height sign: The vertical distance measured from the curb level to the highest point of the sign.

Home occupation: Any occupation or activity conducted within a dwelling unit which is clearly incidental and subordinate to the use of the premises for dwelling purposes.

100-year-frequency flood: A flood having an average frequency of occurrence one (1) in one hundred (100) years, although the flood may occur in any year, based on statistical analyses of stream flow records available for the watershed and analyses of rainfall and runoff characteristics in the general region of the watershed, as predicted by the City Engineer, or as predicted by the U.S. Corps of Engineers and confirmed by the City Engineer.

Kennel: The use of land or building for the purpose of selling, breeding, boarding or training cats or dogs or both. The use of land or buildings for the purpose of selling, breeding, board or training of cats, dogs or both, excluding uses such as pet shops in which all activities are carried on within an entirely enclosed building. Enclosed shall mean with exterior walls built from floor to ceiling with a solid material, such as rock, brick, wood, metal or glass. No fencing or other wire like material shall be used as a part of the exterior walls of the building.

Land area: The area of a lot plus one-half (½) or thirty (30) feet, whichever is less, of the right-of-way of any abutting street of which the lot has access.

Landscaped area: Shall mean, within a lot, the unpaved area containing grass, shrubs, flowers, ground cover, trees or native plant materials and which may include decorative fixtures such as rock, pools or planters.

Life Care Retirement Center: A residential facility containing dwellings designed for a principally occupied by senior citizens in a planned retirement community which includes a residential complex, an activity or community center, and a medical or nursing facility which is licensed by the State of Oklahoma as an intermediate care facility or a skilled nursing center.

Livability space: The open space of a lot which is not allocated to or used for off-street parking or loading areas or for paved access to the off-street parking or loading area.

Loading berth, off-street: A space of at least ten (10) feet in width and thirty (30) feet in length and having a vertical clearance of at least fourteen (14) feet, designed and located on a lot for the temporary parking of commercial vehicles while loading or unloading merchandise or materials.

Lot: A lot of record, said lot which is part of an addition, the plat of which has been recorded in the office of the County Clerk or a parcel of land the deed of which is recorded in the office of the County Clerk.

Lot area: The total horizontal area within the lot lines of a lot.

Lot of record: A lot, which is a part of a subdivision, the plat of which has been recorded in the office of the County Clerk of the county in which the lot is located or a parcel of land, the deed of which is recorded in the office of the County Clerk of the county in which the parcel is located.

Lot line: Any boundary of a lot.

Lot line, front: The boundary of a lot which abuts a public street. Where the lot abuts more than one (1) street, the owner may select the front lot line.

Lot line, rear: The boundary of a lot which is not distant from and most nearly parallel to the front lot line.

Lot line, side: Any boundary of a lot which is not a front lot line or a rear lot line.

Lot width: The average horizontal distance between the side lot lines.

Major: A street designated on the major street plan as a primary major or secondary major.

Major street plan: "The City of Sapulpa, Oklahoma Major Street Plan," as adopted by the Town Board of Trustees Oklahoma by Ordinance Number 49 on October 15,1973 and revised by resolution on the 6th day of July, 1981 or as it may hereafter be amended by ordinance or resolution.

Mini-storage: A building containing small, partitioned storage spaces, which are separately and individually rented or leased, for the storage of personal goods or merchandise, but excluding commercial warehousing as described in Use Unit 22.

Mobile home: See dwelling, manufactured.

NA: Not applicable.

Nameplate: A sign, attached flush against a building, identifying, the name of the building or the name of an occupant thereof.

Nightclub: A place of entertainment open at night usually serving food and liquor, having a floorshow, and providing music and space for dancing.

NEC: Not elsewhere classified,

Neighborhood group home: A home for independent living with support personnel that provides room and board, personal care and habilitation services in a family environment as a single-housekeeping unit for not more than five (5) resident mentally retarded and/or physically limited persons with at least one (1) but not more than two (2) resident staff persons. Personal care and habilitation services excludes on-site institutional type education training, medical or nursing care.

Nursing home: A residential health care facility licensed and regulated by the State of Oklahoma which provides lodging, personal care and supervision for aged, chronically ill, physically infirm, or convalescent patients.

Overspeed control: A mechanism used to limit the speed of blade rotation to below the design limits of the WECS.

Parking duration: The length of time an individual vehicle remains in a given parking space. Duration is a function of the driver's trip, purpose and increases with increasing city size.

Parking space, off-street: A space on a lot intended and reserved for the parking of an automobile. Such space to be of at least nine and one-half (9.5) feet in width by nineteen (19) feet in length, together with a driveway connecting the space with street or alley and permitting safe ingress or egress of an automobile.

Planning commission: The Sapulpa Metropolitan Area Planning Commission.

Planned unit development: A discretionary type of development for a tract of land under single ownership or control, based upon approved development plan permitting flexibility of principal land uses, lot sizes, and accessory uses not otherwise available under conventional development standards.

Private club: An establishment having the chief activity of service and is not operated as a business or for profit, and which holds and maintains an income tax exempt status. Includes charitable, eleemosynary, educational and recreational establishment.

Recreational vehicle: A vehicular structure portable or self-propelled designed as a temporary dwelling for travel use or recreational use not exceeding thirty-five (35) feet in length.

Residential treatment center: A community based residential facility providing diagnostic or therapeutic services and long-term room and board in a highly structured environment for its residents for alcoholism and drug abuse, mental illness or behavioral disorders.

Restaurant, carry out or drive thru: A restaurant when the principle intent is that food will be picked up by the customer or delivered by the restaurant for consumption off the premises.

Restaurant, drive in: A restaurant when the principle intent is that customers remain in their cars on the premises for consumption of their food.

Rooming and boarding house: A facility wherein congregate meals and lodging and provided for its residents exclusive of a supervised living or residential care facility as elsewhere defined, and exclusive of a hotel or motel.

Salvage yard: The outdoor storage of something extracted (as from rubbish) as valuable or useful, including, but not limited to: automobiles, building materials, scrap metal and junk.

Sanitary landfill: Any place subject to and in substantial compliance with standards developed by the Oklahoma State Board of Health at which solid waste is dumped, abandoned or accepted for permanent disposal by shredding, compaction, baling and/or landfill.

Satellite receiving dish: Any parabolic antennae positioned so that it receives signals from a satellite in a geo synchronous orbit.

Setback: A horizontal distance determining the location of a building with respect to a street, use district boundary line, or another use. Where the term "setback" is used in conjunction with a modifying word or words such as "parking area", the setback shall in its application include, but not be limited to, buildings.

Sign: Any fabricated display structure including its support, consisting of any letter, figure, character, mark, poster pointer, marquee advertisement, design, picture, stripe, trademark, reading matter, or illuminating device, constructed, attached, erected, fastened or manufactured in any manner whatsoever, so that the same shall be used for the attraction of the public to any place, subject, person, firm, corporation, public performance, article, machine or merchandise and displayed in any manner for recognized advertising purposes.

Sign, bulletin board: A changeable message board used to announce onsite activities.

Sign, business: A sign which directs attention to a business, commodity, service, or entertainment conducted on the premises.

Sign, canopy: A sign wholly supported by a canopy projecting from a building or an extended roof or pitched roof and which does not extend above the mean height level of the roof of the building.

Sign, construction: A temporary sign erected during the period of construction advertising the construction of improvements on the property.

Sign, ground: A sign which is attached to or is a part of a self-supporting structure, other than a building or portion of a building.

Sign, identification: A sign which states only the name of a residential development, mobile home park, multi-family development or non-residential development.

Sign, outdoor advertising: A sign which directs attention to a business, commodity, service, or entertainment, sold or offered elsewhere than the premises and only incidentally on the premises, if at all.

Sign, portable: A sign which is not permanently affixed to the ground or a building.

Sign, projecting: A sign affixed to a building, and which extends horizontally more than twelve (12) inches from the sign supporting portion of the building.

Sign, real estate: A temporary sign advertising the sale, rental, or lease of the premises.

Sign, roof: Sign that is affixed to a roof, extended roof, pitched roof or canopy and which extends above the mean height of the roof.

Sign, wall: A sign affixed to a building wall which does not project horizontally more than twelve (12) inches from the wall nor extend above the height of the wall.

Special exception: A use or a design element of a use which is not permitted by right in a particular district because of potential adverse effects, but which if controlled in the particular instance as to its relationship to the neighborhood and to the general welfare, may be permitted by the Board of Adjustment, where specifically authorized by the code, and in accordance with the substantive and procedural standards of the code.

Street wall: The wall or part of the building nearest to the street line.

Street yard: Shall mean the minimum required yard (residential) abutting a public street or the area of the lot contained between the minimum required building setback line (non-residential) and an abutting public street.

Structure: Anything constructed or erected with a fixed location on the ground or attached to something having a fixed location on the ground, and includes buildings, walks, fences, and signs.

Tavern: An establishment where alcoholic beverages are sold to be consumed on the premises.

Temporary construction facility: Site built or pre-manufactured structure to be used for supervising on-site construction, not to include residential or "night watchman" use without approval of the Board of Adjustment.

Townhouse development: A row of at least three (3) attached dwelling units each separated by a party wall on individual lots and designated for separate ownership of the individual dwelling units with no separate dwelling unit constructed above another dwelling unit.

Trailer park: See mobile home park or recreational vehicle.

Trash dump: Any place where solid waste and/or trash is dumped, abandoned or accepted for disposal that is not in substantial compliance with standards developed by the Oklahoma State Board of Health.

Transitional living center: A community-based residential facility that provides short-term (one hundred twenty (120) days or less) room and board in a supervised living environment utilizing counseling and rehabilitation services for persons with a history of juvenile delinquency, behavioral disorders, mental illness, alcoholism or drug abuse.

Tree: Shall mean a woody plant and shall be one (1) of the varieties listed and included in Appendix C.

Variance: A relaxation of restriction of the code, granted by the Board of Adjustment, whereby reason of exceptional narrowness, shallowness, shape, topography, or other extraordinary or exceptional situation, condition or circumstance of a particular property, the literal enforcement of the code restriction would result in unnecessary hardship.

Veterinarian clinic: A building used exclusively for the care and treatment of animals, including overnight boarding of animals within the enclosed building, but excluding outside animal runs or boarding services.

Wind energy conversion system (WECS, wind turbine, wind generator, wind mill, and wind machine): A machine that converts the kinetic energy in the wind into a usable form of electrical or mechanical energy. The WECS includes all parts of a system except the tower and the transmission equipment.

Yard: An open unoccupied space on a lot between a building and a lot line.

Yard, front: A yard extending along the full length of the front lot lines between the side lot lines.

Yard required: The minimum permitted distance of open unoccupied space between a building and a lot line.

Yard, rear: A yard extending along the full length of the rear lot line between the side lot lines.

Yard, side: A yard extending along a side lot line between the required front yard and the required rear yard.

(Ord. No. 2939, § 1, 5-6-2024)