Height, Building

Building height shall be defined according to the measurements and exceptions in Section 2.24.E, Building Height.

Height, Fence

Fence height is measured as the vertical distance from the average elevation of the finish grade within six feet of the base of the fence to the top of the fence exclusive of any filling, berming, mounding or landscaping.

Impervious Coverage

Any hard surface, manmade area that does not absorb water, including principal and accessory building roofs, sidewalks, paved parking, driveways, and other paved surfaces.

Lot

A parcel of real property with a separate and distinct number or other designation shown on a plat recorded with the County Recorder’s Office, or on an approved record of survey, parcel map, or subdivision map filed with the County Recorder or the Director. A lot abuts at least one public street, right-of-way, or easement determined by the City to provide adequate access.

Flag Lot

An interior lot not having full frontage to a public or private street but including a portion or strip providing access. For purposes of determining setbacks, the front setback area shall be the property line where the access via the “flagpole” is located, the rear setback area shall be opposite to the “flagpole” portion of the lot providing access, and all other setback areas shall be determined to be interior side setback areas. Lots shall meet minimum width requirements set forth in Section 7.3.C(5), Flag Lots.

Setback

The required distance between the established lot line and any building on the lot or, where the lot line is within a street or access easement, the edge of the street or easement and any building on the lot. All setbacks shall be measured from the edge of all ingress/egress/access easements.

Setback Area

A required space of uniform width adjacent to the perimeter of a lot, the interior boundary of which is measured as a minimum horizontal distance from a lot boundary, or future width line as the required setback of a principal structure and which is unoccupied and unobstructed by improvements from the ground to the sky except for projections permitted by this Code.

Adaptive Reuse

See “Rehabilitation.”

Alteration

For purposes of the historic preservation regulations of this Code, any aesthetic, architectural, structural or mechanical change to the exterior surface of any significant part of a designated historic resource, as defined herein.

Archaeological Site

A site containing any structure, evidence of occupation, articles or remains resulting from historic human life, habitation or activity, including but not limited to camp sites, petroglyphs, pictographs, paintings, pottery, tools, ornamentation, jewelry, textiles, ceremonial objects, games, weapons, armaments, vessels, vehicles or, most importantly, human remains.

Building

For purposes of Section 8.7, Historic Preservation Procedures, a structure created to shelter any form of activity, such as a house, cabin, barn, church, hotel, shed or similar structure. “Building” may also refer to a historically related complex, such as a courthouse and jail, or a farmhouse and barn.

Cemetery

Any site which contains at least one human burial, marked or previously marked, and/or considered a dedicated cemetery under Arizona state statutes, even though it may be currently suffering neglect and abuse.

Certificate of Appropriateness

A document issued by the Commission, following prescribed public review procedures, certifying that proposed work on a designated historic resource is compatible with the historic character style and building materials of the historic resource, and therefore may be completed as specified in the Certificate of Appropriateness, and any building permits needed to do the work specified in the Certificate may be issued.

Certificate of Economic Hardship

A document issued by the Commission when a property owner demonstrates that a reasonable rate of return cannot be obtained for an income producing commercial property or that no beneficial use exists for a nonincome producing residential property, or that the cost to participate in the City of Sedona’s Historic Preservation Program is financially outside the property owner’s means.

Certificate of No Effect

A document issued by the Director, following prescribed review procedures, stating that the proposed work on a designated historic resource will have no detrimental effect on the historic character of the resource, and therefore may be completed as specified in the Certificate of No Effect, and any building permits needed to do the work specified in the Certificate of No Effect may be issued.

Chairperson

For purposes of the historic preservation regulations of this Code, the Chair of the Historic Preservation Commission or his/her designee.

Commission

For purposes of Section 8.7, Historic Preservation Procedures, the Historic Preservation Commission of the City of Sedona, Arizona.

Construction

For purposes of Section 8.7, Historic Preservation Procedures, any site preparation, assembly, erection, repair, addition, alteration or similar action (excluding demolition) for or of historic resources or of public or private rights-of-way, utilities or other improvements.

Contributing

A classification applied to any historic resource signifying that it contributes to the defining characteristics and integrity of the landmark or designated historic district.

Demolition

For purposes of the historic preservation regulations of this Code, any intentional act or process that totally or partially destroys a designated property.

Designated Historic Resource

Any property, site, building, structure, area, landscaping, or object that has received City designation as a landmark, or as a contributing property within a historic district.

Historic District

A geographical area whose boundaries are defined by a Historic District zoning designation that contains historic resources considered to have historic, architectural, or cultural value.

Historic Property Register

The listing and defining of designated properties of Sedona as provided in this Code.

Historic Resource

Any property, site, building, structure, area, landscaping, or object identified as representing distinctive elements of Sedona’s historic, archaeological, architectural, and cultural heritage.

Historic Resource Survey

The official Historic Resource Survey book of the City listing and describing historic resources (whether designated or not) which are considered by the Commission to have historic, architectural or cultural value.

Integrity

A measure of the authenticity of a historic resource’s identity, evidenced by the survival of physical characteristics that existed during its historic or prehistoric period in comparison with its unaltered state. For example, a historic building of high integrity has few alterations or ones that can be easily reversed, and an archaeological site with high integrity is one that is relatively undisturbed. Evaluation criteria in determining integrity include a historic resource’s association, design, feeling, location, and materials.

Landmark

A designation, as a result of processes provided in Section 8.7, Historic Preservation Procedures, applied by the Commission to a historic resource, which has historic value or expresses a distinctive character or style worthy of preservation.

Maintenance

Regular, customary or usual care for the purpose of preserving a historic resource and keeping it in a safe, sanitary and usable condition, without causing any alteration to the historic resource’s distinctive exterior appearance and character.

Move

Any relocation of a building or structure on its site or to another site.

National Register of Historic Places

The official list of historic resources established by the federal government through the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966, and as amended.

Noncontributing

A classification applied to any historic resource on a historic landmark site or within a historic district signifying that it does not contribute to the defining characteristics of the landmark or historic district.

Preservation

The act or process of applying practices and measures to sustain the existing form, integrity and material of a historic resource. It may include stabilization work where necessary, as well as ongoing maintenance of the historic materials.

Preservation Covenant

A deed restriction filed with the appropriate county, which identifies the property as a landmark or a contributing property within a Historic District.

Protected Interior

An interior listed on the City of Sedona Register of Historic Resources that is routinely and customarily open for inspection and is identified as significant at the time of the property’s landmark designation.

Reconstruction

The act of reproducing by new construction the exact form and detail of a vanished or severely deteriorated structure or object, or part thereof, as it appeared at a specific period of time.

Rehabilitation

The act or process of returning a property to a state of utility through repair or alteration that make an efficient contemporary use possible, while preserving those portions or features of the property that are significant to its historical, architectural and cultural value.

Removal

Any relocation, in part or whole, of a structure on its site or to another site.

Renovation

See “Rehabilitation.”

Repair

For purposes of Section 8.7, Historic Preservation Procedures, any physical change that is not alteration, construction, removal, or demolition.

Restoration

The act or process of accurately recovering the form and details of a property and its setting as it appeared at a particular period of time, by removing later work or by replacing earlier work that is missing or was destroyed.

Review Criteria

For purposes of Section 8.7, Historic Preservation Procedures, the preservation standards, tests, norms or guidelines applied by the City staff and the Commission during any review process, including but not limited to surveys, designations, Certificates of Appropriateness, or other decision making process.

Routine Maintenance and Repair

Any alteration to a designated historic resource or protected interior that does not conflict with its ongoing eligibility for listing on the City of Sedona Register of Historic Resources including restoration and repair of damage resulting from fire, flood, earthquake, or act of God. Alterations shall be same-for-same with regard to all details, including, but not limited to, material type, dimension(s), texture, and architectural appearance, in order to be deemed routine maintenance and repair. Alterations to the exterior requiring a building permit shall be in conformance with this definition in order to be considered routine maintenance and repair. Any alteration to a noted contributing factor shall not be considered routine maintenance or repair. Routine maintenance and repair may involve, but is not limited to:

Secretary of the Interior Standards

Preservation standards developed and published by the office of the United States Secretary of the Interior, as part of the Department of the Interior regulations. They pertain to historic resources of all materials, construction types, sizes and occupancy, and encompass the interior and exterior.

Stabilization

The act or process of applying measures designed to reestablish a weather-resistant enclosure and the structural stability of an unsafe or deteriorated property, while maintaining the essential form as it exists at present.

Class 1 Lighting

Lighting used for outdoor sales or eating areas, assembly or repair areas, signage, recreational facilities, and other similar applications where color rendition is important to preserve the effectiveness of the activity.

Class 2 Lighting

Lighting used for illumination of walkways, roadways, equipment yards, parking lots, and outdoor security where general illumination for safety or security of the grounds is the primary purpose.

Class 3 Lighting

Lighting used for decorative effects such as architectural illumination, flag and monument lighting, and illumination of landscaping elements.

Direct Illumination

Illumination resulting from light emitted directly from a lamp, luminaire, or reflector and is not light diffused through translucent signs or reflected from other surfaces such as the ground or building faces.

Fully Shielded Light Fixture

A light fixture that is shielded in such a manner that light rays emitted by the fixture, either directly from the lamp or indirectly from the fixture, are projected below a horizontal plane running through the lowest point on the fixture where light is emitted.

Installed Light Fixture

A light fixture attached or fixed in place, whether or not connected to a power source, of any outdoor light fixture.

Light Pollution

Any adverse effect of manmade light.

Light Trespass

Light spill falling over property lines that illuminates adjacent grounds or buildings in an objectionable manner.

Lumen

A unit used to measure the actual amount of visible light which is produced by a lamp (in bulb-based lighting fixtures) or light fixture (in LED-based lighting fixtures) as specified by the manufacturer. Initial lumens refers to the total amount of visible light produced by a particular lighting device just after it has stabilized but before depreciation (loss of operational efficiency) has started.

Luminaire

The complete lighting assembly, less the support assembly.

Motion-Sensing Security Lighting

Any fixture designed, and properly adjusted, to illuminate an area around a residence or other building by means of switching on a lamp when motion is detected inside the area or perimeter, and switching the lamp off when the detected motion ceases.

Multi-Class Lighting

Lighting used for more than one purpose such that the use falls within more than one class as defined for Class 1, 2, or 3 lighting. Multi-class lighting must conform to the standards that apply to the most restrictive included class.

Narrow-Spectrum Amber LED (NSA LED)

A light-emitting diode with a spectrum similar to that shown in the graph below; to meet requirements of Section 5.8, a Narrow-Spectrum Amber LED must have a peak wavelength between 590 and 595 nm and a full width at 50 percent spectral intensity no greater than 15 nm. Also called “narrow-band amber,” “limited-wavelength amber,” “590 nm amber,” “turtle-friendly.” Note that the appearance of any of these terms in product literature is insufficient to confirm the spectrum characteristics described above; a graph of the spectrum is required to allow determination of the peak wavelength and full width standards above.

Outdoor Light Fixture

An outdoor illuminating device, outdoor lighting or reflective surface, lamp or similar device, permanently installed or portable, used for illumination, decoration, or advertisement. Such devices shall include, but are not limited to, lights used for:

Partially Shielded Light Fixture

A fixture shielded in such a manner that no more than 10 percent of the light emitted directly from the lamp or indirectly from the fixture is projected at an angle above the horizontal, as determined by photometric test or certified by the manufacturer. Luminaires mounted under canopies or other structures such that the surrounding structure effectively shields the light in the same manner are also considered partially shielded for the purposes of this Code.

Phosphor-Converted Amber LED (PCA LED)

A light-emitting diode with a spectrum similar to that shown in the graph below. PC Amber LED products are highly variable; to meet requirements of Section 5.8, a PC Amber LED must have a scotopic to photopic ratio of 0.45 or less. Also called “PC Amber” LED.

Searchlight

A powerful exterior light with a concentrated and far-reaching beam that can be aimed, turned, or otherwise moved to direct light to a particular area.

Security Lighting

See “Class 2 lighting.”

Unshielded Fixture

Any fixture that allows light to be emitted above the horizontal directly from the lamp or indirectly from the fixture or a reflector.

Uplighting

Lighting placed or designed to throw illumination upward.

Sign

Any medium, including its structure and component parts, including any illumination device, that is used or intended to be used to attract attention and/or advertise or promote a business or that is visible by the general public from any public right-of-way or any public area.

Abandoned Sign

Any sign that is located on property that becomes vacant and is unoccupied for a period of three months or more, or any sign that pertains to a time, event or purpose which no longer applies.

Attention-Getting Device

Any flag, streamer, spinner, pennant, costumed character, light, balloon, continuous string of pennants, flags or fringe or similar device or ornamentation used primarily for the purpose of attracting attention for promotion or advertising a business or commercial activity which is visible by the general public from any public right-of-way or public area.

Awning (canopy)

A shelter or cover projecting from and supported by an exterior wall of a building.

Back-Lit Sign

An indirect source of light that illuminates a sign by shining through a translucent surface or a sign, including plastic signs, lit from an internal light source.

Banner

Any advertisement device affixed to poles, wires, or ropes, which is located outdoors and which is primarily intended to announce, promote or decorate for an activity or event.

Building Identification Sign

A wall sign or freestanding sign that states the name of the building, but that does not advertise any business or product.

Copy

Any graphic, word, numeral, symbol, insignia, text, sample, model, device, or combination thereof which is primarily intended to advertise, identify or notify.

Directional Sign

A sign that includes copy offering pertinent directional information for the purpose of assisting in the flow of vehicular or pedestrian traffic.

Directory Sign

A sign that serves as a common or collective identification of two or more uses on the same property and which may contain a directory to the uses as an integral part thereof or may serve as a general identification for such developments as shopping centers, office complexes and similar uses.

Flashing Sign

A sign having lights or illumination that flashes, moves, rotates, scintillates, blinks, flickers, varies in intensity of color, or uses intermittent electrical pulsations; provided, however, that seasonal lighting as permitted by Section 6.8.N, Seasonal Decorations, shall not be considered a flashing sign.

Freestanding Sign

A sign that is permanently erected in a fixed location and supported by one or more columns, upright poles or braces extended from the ground or from an object on the ground, or that is erected on the ground, where no part of the sign is attached to any part of a building, structure, or other sign.

Going-Out-of-Business Sign

A temporary sign indicating that the business displaying the sign will cease and be discontinued at a specific location.

Grand Opening Sign

A temporary sign indicating that a new business is opening at a specific location.

Identification Sign

Any sign that identifies, by name, a permitted use.

Ideological Sign

A sign that does not propose a commercial transaction but, instead, involves only the expression of ideas or beliefs.

Illuminated Sign

A sign with an artificial light source incorporated internally or externally for the purpose of illuminating the sign.

Information Sign

A sign used to indicate or provide information or direction with respect to permitted uses on the property, including, but not limited to, signs indicating the hours of operation, and such signs as “No Smoking,” “Open,” “Closed,” “Restrooms,” “No Solicitors,” “Deliveries In Rear,” current credit card signs, trade association emblems, and the like.

Lead-In Sign

A temporary off-premises sign used to direct vehicular traffic for the purpose of announcing a garage sale or an open house announcing the sale of a specific home or residential unit.

Lighting, Indirect

A light source separated from the sign surface that illuminates the sign surface by means of spotlights or similar lighting fixtures.

Master Sign Plan

A sign plan of any multiple-use office, commercial, or multifamily residential building, which includes the number, size, description and location of all signs located, or to be located, in or upon such property.

Marquee Sign

A sign that utilizes changeable letters or copy and is restricted to commercial uses for the purpose of advertising dramatic, musical, entertainment, or motion picture events which occur on the premises.

Menu Display Box

A freestanding or wall sign enclosed in glass for the express purpose of displaying menus. This shall include menus displayed flat against the interior of a window.

Moving Sign

A sign that moves or which simulates motion.

Neon Sign

Any sign that is illuminated by tubes filled with neon and related inert gases, including any display of neon lighting tubes which is in view of the general public from a public right-of-way or from any public area, regardless of the shape, size, design or configuration, including “open” neon signs.

Number of Faces on Signs

(a) One Face

If a sign has copy on one side only or if the interior angle between the two sign faces or sides is 45 degrees or greater, it shall be considered one face; the area will be considered to be the sum of the areas of both sides.

(b) Two Faces

If the angle between the two sign faces is less than 45 degrees, then the sign shall be considered double-faced and the sign area will be the area of one face only. If two sign faces are attached to a structure with a thickness exceeding 36 inches or the two faces are separated by a distance exceeding 36 inches, then the sign area will be the area of both faces.

Off-Premises/Off-Site Sign

A sign that directs attention to a business, product, commodity, service, entertainment, or attraction sold, produced, offered or existing elsewhere than upon the lot or parcel where the sign is located.

Off-Premises Community Information Kiosk

A group sign structure located on arterial streets which provides information about the City, welcomes visitors, advertises future events or activities, and provides general information and direction.

Off-Premises Directional Kiosk

A group sign structure located on arterial streets that provides general direction to community buildings, points of interest, subdivisions, and businesses that do not abut either SR 89A or SR 179.

On-Premises Sign

A sign advertising a business, place, activity, goods or services, or products on the same property on which the sign is located.

Outline Lighting

Any arrangement or display of incandescent bulbs or lighting tubes used to outline or call attention to the features of a building, including the building’s frame, shape, roof line or window dimensions. “Outline lighting” includes both temporary and permanent arrangement of bulbs or lighting tubing, whether located inside or outside of a building, if such bulbs or tubing is visible to the public from a public right-of-way or from an outdoor public area.

Permanent Window Sign

A sign permanently displayed in or painted on a window.

Political Sign

A sign designed to influence the action of voters for the passage or defeat of a measure, or the election or defeat of a candidate for a public office at a national, state, or other local election.

Portable Sign

Any sign not permanently affixed to the ground or structure on the site it occupies.

Projecting Sign

A sign, other than a wall sign, that projects six inches or more from and is supported by a wall of a building or structure.

Real Estate Sign

A temporary on-premises sign used to advertise the availability of real property.

Reflective Surface

Any material or device that has the effect of intensifying reflected light, including, but not limited to, “Scotchlite,” “Dayglo,” glass beads and luminous paint.

Residential Nameplate

A type of sign allowed for the sole purpose of identifying the occupants of a residential structure, the house name, occupant’s profession or identifying the address of the residence. The sign shall not contain advertising copy.

Roof Sign

A sign painted on the roof of a building, or supported by poles, uprights or braces extending from the roof of a building, or projecting above the roof of a building.

Sign Area (or “Surface Area”)

The surface area of a sign, as determined by the Director, including its facing, copy, insignia, background and borders, which is described by a combination of plane geometric figures.

Sign Height

Determined for signs above the average elevation of the finished grade within a six-foot radius of the point of measurement on the sign, exclusive of any filling, berming, mounding, landscaping, or solely for the purpose of locating the sign.

Sign Illumination Device

Any fixture or mechanism used to shine light onto a sign, or to make a sign luminous.

Sign Owner

The permittee with respect to any sign for which a sign permit has been issued; or, with respect to a sign for which no sign permit is required, or for which no sign permit has been obtained, “sign owner” means the person entitled to possession of such sign, the owner, occupant, and agent of the property where the sign is located, and any person deriving a benefit from the sign.

Sign with Relief

A carved sign with a three-dimensional textured surface that is integral to its design, such as extensively carved, routed, and/or sandblasted signs. A sign with a simple raised or routed border shall not constitute a sign with relief.

Sign Structure

Any supports, uprights, braces or framework of a sign.

Site Development Sign

A temporary sign used to identify a real estate development which is under construction, and/or the owners, architects, contractors, real estate agents and lenders involved with the development. Sales and lease information may be included.

Statuary Sign

Any sign that is a modeled or sculptured likeness of a living creature or inanimate object intended to be used as an advertising device.

Subdivision Entrance Sign

A sign used to identify the name and entryway to a subdivision.

Suspended Sign

A sign that is suspended from the underside of a horizontal plane surface and is supported by such surface.

Temporary Sign

A sign that is intended for a definite and limited period of display.

Temporary Window Sign

A window sign that advertises special commercial events or sales. Signs displaying solely product names, product logos, business names or promoting the ongoing nature of a business and the products sold shall not be considered as temporary window signs.

Under-Canopy Sign

A sign suspended beneath a canopy, ceiling, roof, or marquee.

Wall Sign

Any sign attached to or erected against the building or structure, with the exposed face of the sign in a place parallel to the plane of said wall. Awning signs, projecting/suspended signs, and window signs shall be treated as wall signs and shall be included in the overall calculations for wall-mounted signs.

Walking Sign

Any sign, including sandwich board type signs, or lettering on a costume, that is carried or worn by any person and is visible from a public right-of-way, adjacent property, or a public area.

Window Sign

A sign that is painted on, applied or attached to a window, but excludes merchandise included in a window display. Window signs shall include signs located in the interior of a structure placed so that they serve to effectively display advertising for passersby on any public areas or public rights-of-way.

Amateur Radio Tower

A tower used for noncommercial amateur radio transmissions consistent with the “Complete FCC U.S. Amateur Part 97 Rules and Regulations” for amateur radio towers.

Ancillary Structure

For the purposes of this Code, any form of development associated with a PWSF, including foundations, concrete slabs on grade, guy anchors, generators and transmission cable supports, but excluding equipment cabinets.

Antenna

Any apparatus designed for the transmitting and/or receiving of electromagnetic waves, including telephonic, radio or television communications. Types of elements include omni-directional (whip) antennas, sectionalized (panel) antennas, multi or single bay (FM and TV), yagi or parabolic (dish) antennas. An antenna includes at least one antenna element, typically a metal rod which is physical and electrically attached via feed lines to a transmitter/receiver.

Antenna Array

A single or group of antenna elements and associated mounting hardware, transmission lines or other appurtenances which share a common attachment device such as a mounting frame or mounting support structure for the sole purpose of transmitting or receiving electromagnetic waves.

ASR

The Antenna Structure Registration number as required by the FAA and FCC.

Base Station

Equipment and nontower supporting structure at a fixed location that enable wireless telecommunications between user equipment and a communications network. Examples include transmission equipment mounted on a rooftop, water tank, silo, or other above-ground structure other than a tower. The term does not encompass a tower as defined herein or any equipment associated with a tower. “Base station” includes, but is not limited to:

Breakpoint Technology

The engineering design of a monopole, or any applicable support structure, wherein a specified point on the monopole is designed to have stresses concentrated so that the point is at least five percent more susceptible to failure than any other point along the monopole so that in the event of a structural failure of the monopole, the failure will occur at the breakpoint rather than at the base plate, anchor bolts or any other point on the monopole.

Broadband Facility

Any infrastructure used to deliver broadband services or for the provision of broadband service.

Broadband Service

Any technology identified by the US Secretary of Agriculture as having the capacity to transmit data to enable a subscriber to the service to originate and receive high-quality voice, data, graphics and video. Broadband service includes:

Broadcasting Facility

A communications facility licensed by the Federal Communications Commission Media Bureau to transmit information on the AM, FM, TV, or DTV spectrum to the public.

Collocation

The mounting or installation of transmission equipment on an eligible support structure for the purposes of transmitting and/or receiving radio frequency signals for communications purposes so that installation of a new support structure will not be required.

Concealed

A tower, base station, ancillary structure or equipment compound that is not readily identifiable as a wireless communication facility and that is designed to be aesthetically compatible with existing and proposed building(s) and uses on a site or in the neighborhood or area. There are two types of concealed facilities:

DAS – Distributed Antenna System

A system consisting of:

DAS Hub

Ancillary equipment usually contained in a shelter or other enclosure which does not have any wireless transmission or receive equipment contained therein but is utilized in the deployment and operation of wireless DAS receive/transmit infrastructure that is located elsewhere.

Development Area

The area occupied by a wireless communications facility including areas inside or under an antenna support structure’s framework, equipment cabinets, ancillary structures and/or access ways.

Dual Purpose Facility

A banner pole, light stanchion, support tower for overhead electric lines or other similar utility structure onto which one or more antenna(s) are or can be mounted or attached.

Eligible Facilities Request

Any request for modification of an existing tower or base station involving collocation of new transmission equipment; removal of transmission equipment; or replacement of transmission equipment that is not a substantial change to the physical dimensions of such tower or base station.

Eligible Facility

Existing tower or base station that has been approved through a local government land use review process prescribed for the tower or base station.

Eligible Support Structure

Any tower or base station existing at the time the application is filed with the City.

Existing

A constructed tower or base station is “existing” for purposes of this article if it has been reviewed and approved under an applicable City land use review process. “Existing” also includes a tower that was lawfully constructed but not reviewed because it was not in a zoned area when it was built.

Equipment Compound

The fenced-in area surrounding, inside or under a ground-based wireless communication facility containing ancillary structures and equipment (such as cabinets, shelters and pedestals) necessary to operate an antenna that is above the base flood elevation.

Equipment Cabinet

Any structure used exclusively to contain equipment necessary for the transmission or reception of communication signals.

Equipment Shelter

A self-contained building housing ancillary electronic equipment typically including a generator.

FAA

The Federal Aviation Administration.

FCC

The Federal Communications Commission.

Feed Lines

Cables or fiber optic lines used as the interconnecting media between the base station and the antenna.

Geographic Search Ring

An area designated by a wireless provider or operator for a new base station and/or tower produced in accordance with generally accepted principles of wireless engineering.

Handoff Candidate

A wireless communication facility that receives call transference from another wireless facility, usually located in an adjacent first “tier” surrounding the initial wireless facility.

Includes/Including

Not limited to and is not a term of exclusion.

Macro

Any wireless communication facility larger than the dimensions and specifications defined for a small cell facility (macrocell).

Node

A single location as part of a larger antenna array which can consist of one or multiple antennas, such as part of a DAS network antenna array.

Nonconcealed

A wireless communications facility that is not concealed (whether freestanding or attached).

OTARD (Over-the-Air Reception Devices)

Limited to either a “dish” antenna one meter (39.37 inches) or less in diameter designed to receive direct broadcast satellite service, including direct-to-home satellite service, or to receive or transmit fixed wireless signals via satellite, or an antenna that is one meter or less in diameter and is designed to receive video programming services via broadband radio service (wireless cable), or to receive or transmit fixed wireless signals other than via satellite or an antenna that is designed to receive local television broadcast signals.

PWSF (Personal Wireless Service Facility)

Any staffed or unstaffed location for the transmission and/or reception of radio frequency signals or other personal wireless communications, including commercial mobile services, unlicensed wireless services, wireless broadband services, and common carrier wireless exchange access services as defined in the Telecommunications Act of 1996, and usually consisting of an antenna or group of antennas, transmission cables, feed lines, equipment cabinets or shelters, and may include a tower. Facilities may include new, replacement, or existing towers; replacement towers; collocation on existing towers; base station attached concealed and nonconcealed antenna; dual purpose facilities; concealed towers; and nonconcealed towers (monopoles, lattice and guyed), so long as those facilities are used in the provision of personal wireless services as that term is defined in the Telecommunications Act.

PWSF Site or Site

The land area that contains, or will contain, a tower or base station, equipment compound, support structures and other related buildings and improvements.

Public Property

Property owned by either the City or other local, state or federal governmental agency.

Qualified Collocation Request

Collocation of PWSF on a tower or base station that creates a substantial change in the facility but is entitled to processing within 90 days under 47 U.S.C. §332(c)(7).

Radio Frequency Emissions

Any electromagnetic radiation or other communications signal emitted from an antenna or antenna-related equipment.

Replacement

A modification of an existing tower to increase the height, or to improve its integrity, by replacing or removing one or several tower(s) located in proximity to a proposed new tower in order to encourage compliance with this article or improve aesthetics or functionality of the overall wireless network.

RFI (Radio Frequency Interference)

Any electromagnetic radiation or other communications signal that causes reception or transmission interference with another electromagnetic radiation or communications signal.

ROW (Right-of-Way)

The area on, below or above a public roadway, highway, street, sidewalk, alley or utility easement. ROW does not include a federal interstate highway, a state highway or state route under the jurisdiction of the Arizona Department of Transportation, a private easement, property that is owned by a special taxing district or a utility easement that does not specifically authorize deployment of wireless infrastructure.

Satellite Earth Station

A single or group of parabolic or dish antennas mounted to a support device that may be a pole or truss assembly attached to a foundation in the ground, or in some other configuration, including the associated separate equipment cabinets necessary for the transmission or reception of wireless communication signals with satellites.

SLDC

Sedona Land Development Code.

Small Cell Facility

A wireless communication facility outside of a ROW that meets all of the following qualifications:

Small Cell Network

A collection of interrelated small cell facilities designed to deliver wireless service.

Stanchion

A vertical support structure generally utilized to support exterior lighting elements.

Streamlined Processing

Expedited review process for collocations required by the federal government (Congress and/or the FCC) for PWSF.

Substantial Change

A modification or collocation constitutes a “substantial change” of an eligible support structure if it meets any of the following criteria:

Support Structure

Anything constructed or erected, the use of which requires permanent location on the ground, or attachment to something having a permanent location on the ground.

Temporary PWSF

A temporary tower or other structure that provides interim short-term telecommunications needed to meet an immediate demand for service in the event of an emergency or a public event where a permanent wireless network is unavailable or insufficient to satisfy the temporary increase in demand or when permanent PWSF equipment is temporarily unavailable or offline.

Transmission Equipment

Equipment that facilitates transmission of communication service (whether commercial, private, broadcast, microwave, public, public safety, licensed or unlicensed, fixed or wireless), such as radio transceivers, antennas, coaxial or fiber-optic cable, and regular and backup power supply.

Tower

Any support structure built for the primary purpose of supporting any antennas and associated facilities for commercial, private, broadcast, microwave, public, public safety, licensed or unlicensed, and/or fixed or wireless services. A tower may be concealed or nonconcealed. Nonconcealed towers include:

Tower Base

The foundation, usually concrete, on which the tower and other support equipment are situated. For measurement calculations, the tower base is that point on the foundation reached by dropping a perpendicular from the geometric center of the tower.

Tower Height

The vertical distance measured from the grade line to the highest point of the tower, including any antenna, lighting, or other equipment affixed thereto.

Wireless Communication Facility

At a specific physical location, one or more antenna, tower, base station, mechanical and/or electronic equipment, conduit, cable, and associated structures, enclosures, assemblages, devices and supporting elements that generate or transmit nonionizing electromagnetic radiation or light operating to produce a signal used for communication, including but not limited to all types of transmission equipment defined further herein. Wireless communication facilities include amateur radio tower, base stations, DAS, OTARD, PWSF, satellite earth station, small cell facility, and temporary PWSF.

Abutting

Having a common border with or being separated from such a common border by a right-of-way, alley, or easement.

Access or Access Way

The place, means, or way by which pedestrians and vehicles shall have safe, adequate and usable ingress/egress to a property or use as required by this Code.

Accessory Use

A use conducted on the same lot as the principal use of the structure to which it is related and that is clearly incidental to and customarily found in connection with such principal use. Specific types of accessory uses are defined in Section 9.4.F, Accessory Uses.

Adjacent

The condition where two or more parcels share common property lines or where two parcels are separated only by an alley, easement, or street.

Affordable

The affordable housing unit is affordable to the specified target population when the monthly cost of homeownership or rent, including mortgage, property taxes, utilities and HOA fees or rent and utilities, does not exceed 35 percent of household gross monthly income.

Affordable Housing Development

A development that provides a sufficient number of affordable housing units to a target population that will remain affordable for a specified period of time.

Affordable Housing Unit (AHU)

The apartment, condominium, cooperative, townhouse, single-family, multifamily or manufactured housing unit that is made available to the target population for the period of affordability.

Applicant

A person who submits a development application requesting a development permit or approval authorized by this Code.

Architectural Feature

Any prominent or characteristic part of a building, including steps, eaves, cornices, awnings, chimneys, wing walls, windows, columns, marquee, façade or fascia.

Area Median Incomes (AMI)

The area median incomes for the portion of the two counties comprising the City of Sedona are determined by the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development and are updated yearly. AMIs are established for a range of household sizes, from one-person households to eight-person households. The current AMIs are available from the City of Sedona Department of Community Development.

Bedroom, Residential

Any habitable space in a dwelling unit or residential accessory structure where people may sleep.

Bee Colony

The hive and its equipment and appurtenances, including honey bees, comb, honey, pollen, and brood.

Beehive

A structure for housing honey bees.

Block

A piece or parcel of land or a group of lots entirely surrounded by public rights-of-way, streams, public lands, parks, and jurisdictional boundaries or any combination thereof.

Building

A structure having a roof supported by columns or walls.

Building, Accessory

A subordinate building, attached or detached from the principal building.

Building, Attached

A building that has at least part of a wall in common with another building or that is connected to another building by a solid roof that exceeds six feet wide with opposite open ends.

Building, Detached

A building that is separated from another building or buildings on the same lot, or that is connected only with a roof not more than six feet wide with opposite open ends.

Building Frontage

The side of a building that contains the main entrance for pedestrian ingress/egress. If more than one main entrance exists, the one that more nearly faces or is oriented to the street of highest classification, as determined by the City Engineer, shall be considered the building frontage. If all streets are of the same classification, the side of the building with the smallest linear dimension containing a main entrance shall be considered the building frontage.

Building Official

The municipal officer or agency charged with the responsibility of issuing construction and demolition permits and generally enforcing the provisions of the Building Code.

Building Pad

One or more specified areas of a lot or parcel prepared and graded for the erection of structures, or on which structures already exist.

Building, Principal

The building or buildings in which the principal use on a lot is conducted. In a residential district, any dwelling shall be considered the principal building of the lot on which the dwelling is situated.

Building Site

A legally created parcel or contiguous parcels of land in single or joint ownership which provide the area and the open space required by this Code, exclusive of all vehicular and pedestrian rights-of-way and all other easements that prohibit the surface use of the property by the owner. Private easements providing access to four or fewer parcels shall not be deducted from the building site area.

Cabana

A tent-like shelter, usually with an open side facing a swimming pool.

Certificate of Occupancy

A document issued by the Building Official pursuant to the Building Code that allows the occupancy and use of buildings and structures, certifying that such buildings, structures, and uses have been constructed and will be used in compliance with the Sedona City Code and this Code.

Code

The Sedona Land Development Code.

Conditional Use Permit

A type of approval issued pursuant to Section 8.4.B, Conditional Use Permit, for uses designated in the allowable use table (Table 3.1) as requiring conditional use permit approval.

Chroma

The strength, intensity, or brightness of a color. Strong chroma red is like the red in the United States flag, while a weak chroma red is like the darkest of the red rocks in Sedona. Weak chroma of any color is grayish or neutral, sometimes referred to as earth tones. The following degrees of chroma strength apply: very strong (Munsell 12), strong (Munsell 10), medium strong (Munsell 8), medium (Munsell 6), medium weak (Munsell 4), weak (Munsell 2), and very weak (Munsell 1).

City Engineer

The City Engineer and Director of Public Works.

Civic Event

Any type of race, parade, art show, competition, entertainment, or community activity to which the general public is invited, either expressly or by implication.

Cluster Subdivision

A subdivision technique and design that concentrates buildings in specific areas on a site to allow the remaining land to be used for recreation, common open space, and preservation of environmentally sensitive areas.

CMU

Concrete masonry unit.

Compaction

The densification to acceptable standards of a fill by mechanical means.

Construction

Any site preparation, assembly, erection, repair, alteration or similar action (excluding demolition) for or of public or private rights-of-way, sites, structures, utilities or other improvements.

Construction Envelope

One or more specified areas on a lot or parcel within which all structures, driveways, all grading, parking, nonnative landscaping, water surfaces, decks, walks and improved recreation facilities are located. Underground utilities may be located outside the construction envelope, but the area disturbed must be revegetated.

Contiguous

Having a property line, zoning boundary, or wall in common.

Culvert

A drain, ditch, or conduit, not incorporated in a closed system, that carries drainage water under a driveway, roadway, railroad, pedestrian walk, or public way, or other type of overhead structure.

Cut

The removal of earth material by excavation. “Cut” may also mean the grade resulting from the removal of earth material.

Dedication

An offer of real property by its owner(s) and its acceptance by the City for any general or public use.

Developer

Any person, firm, partnership, joint venture, limited liability company, association, or corporation who participates as owner, promoter, developer, or sales agent in the planning, platting, development, promotion, sale, or lease of a subdivision or development.

Development

The making of any material change in the use or appearance of any structure or land, the creation of a subdivision or the creation of two or three parcels pursuant to a minor land division over which the City has regulatory authority. “Development” includes such activities as the construction, reconstruction or alteration of the size or material change in the external appearance of a structure or land; trenching or grading; demolition of a structure or removal of vegetation; deposit of fill; or the alteration of a floodplain, bank or watercourse.

Development Plan Review

Review of development plans according to the procedures in Section 8.4.A, Development Review.

Development Project

Any development resulting from the approval of a building permit, minor land division, preliminary or final plat, rezoning application, or conditional use permit.

Director

The Director of the City of Sedona Community Development Department or his or her designee for the City pursuant to Article 8: Administration and Procedures. The Director is also the Zoning Administrator for the City.

Display Lot or Area

Outdoor areas where active nighttime sales activity occurs and where accurate color perception of merchandise by customers is required. To qualify as a display lot, one of the following specific uses shall occur: vehicle sales and leasing, equipment sales and rental, building materials and supply store, nursery or garden supply store, or assembly uses. Uses not on this list may be approved as display lot uses by the Director.

Drainage Way

See “watercourse.”

Driveway

A private access road, the use of which is limited to persons residing, employed or otherwise using or visiting the parcel in which it is located.

Dwelling Unit

One or more rooms with kitchen, living, and sanitary facilities for occupancy by a single family.

Easement

The portion of a lot or lots reserved for present or future use by a person or agency other than the legal fee owner(s) of the property. The easement may be for use under, on or above said lot or lots.

Erosion

The wearing away of the ground surface as a result of the movement of wind, water or ice.

Exception

A deviation from a required standard of this Code that does not require the obtainment of a minor modification or variance, and that is specifically authorized by the terms of this Code.

Exception (subdivisions)

Any parcel of land within the boundaries of the subdivision to be designated on the final plat as “not a part of this subdivision.”

Existing Lot

Lots or parcels zoned or legally used and legally created and existing on the effective date of the ordinance codified in this Code, including developed and undeveloped lots or parcels.

Façade

The exterior wall on the front, side, or rear elevation of the building regardless of whether the building side faces a street.

Family

Any one of the following:

Farm Animals

Animals other than household pets that may, where permitted, be kept and maintained for family food production, education, or recreation. Farm animals are limited to: Horses, mules, donkeys, cattle, alpacas, llamas, sheep, and goats.

Fill

A deposit of earth material placed by artificial means.

Floodplain

The total area required to pass the base flood through a natural watercourse, wash, canyon, ravine, arroyo or other potential flood hazard area.

Floodway

The channel of a river or other watercourse and the adjacent land areas that must be reserved in order to discharge the base flood without cumulatively increasing the water surface elevation more than one foot in height (as defined by FEMA).

Flyway Barrier

A solid wall, fence, dense vegetation, or combination of such materials, that is six feet in height and extends at least 10 feet beyond the beehive on each end of a bee colony.

Frontage

The width of a lot or parcel abutting a public right-of-way measured at the front property line.

Glare

The sensation produced by a bright source within the visual field that is sufficiently brighter than the level to which the eyes are adapted to cause annoyance, discomfort, or loss in visual performance and visibility; blinding light. The magnitude of glare depends on such factors as the size, position, brightness of the source, and on the brightness level to which the eyes are adapted.

Good-Faith Effort

What a reasonable person would determine is a diligent and honest effort to produce desired or required results under the same set of facts or circumstances.

Grade

The vertical location of the ground surface.

Grade, Existing

The current grade of a site.

Grade, Natural

The grade prior to manmade disturbance of a site.

Grade, Finished

The final grade of the site conforming to an approved plan.

Grading

Excavating, filling or combination of such operations.

Grading, Regular

Grading less than 1,000 cubic yards for single family residentially zoned parcels, or grading less than 250 cubic yards for multifamily and commercial zoned parcels.

Ground Cover, Nonvegetative

Rocks and small stones, cinders, granite, bark and natural red earth, not including pavement and concrete.

Ground Floor

The first floor of a building that is level to or slightly elevated above the sidewalk at the main entry, excluding basements and cellars.

Guestroom, Lodging

Any habitable room designed for overnight occupancy with a door to the exterior or common space.

Habitable Space

A space in a building or structure for living, sleeping, eating, or cooking.

Hillside Development Area

Any subdivision, portion of a subdivision, or any metes and bounds property within the City, located in terrain having an average slope exceeding 15 percent.

Horizontal Articulation

Breaking down a building façade into horizontal modules, sub-parts, or major elements that are distinguished by changes in materials, texture, plane, or other architectural elements.

Hue

The basic name or family of a color, such as red, orange, yellow, green, blue, or purple.

Inoperable Vehicle

A vehicle which exhibits one or more of the following conditions: physically incapable of operation, wrecked or partially dismantled or with broken windows, on jacks, blocks or similar equipment, abandoned, unable to be legally and safely operated, deflated tires, or from which the chassis, engine, wheels or tires have been removed.

Kitchen

A space where food is cooked or prepared and that contains facilities and equipment used in preparing and serving food, including, at minimum, a gas or electric range or oven, a kitchen sink, a refrigerator/freezer, kitchen cabinets, and an electric outlet for 220 voltage (and/or plumbing or standpipes capable of supporting such required equipment and facilities).

Kitchenette

A space where food is cooked or prepared that contains only a sink and a refrigerator, and does not include a gas connection, built-in stove, oven, any other built-in appliances, or an electric outlet for 220 voltage.

Land Division

The division of improved or unimproved land into two or three tracts or parcels for sale or lease with no new streets. “Land division” includes “land splits” as defined by Arizona Revised Statutes (as the division of improved or unimproved land of 2-1/2 acres or less for the purpose of sale or lease), and any division of a parcel of improved or unimproved land which is greater than 2-1/2 acres in size.

Land Surveyor

A person registered in the state of Arizona in the field of land surveying.

Landscape Architect

A professional individual registered in the state of Arizona to practice in the field of landscape architecture.

Light Reflectance Value

An expression (by percentage) of the lightness or darkness of a color equivalent to varying scale of grays. On a grayscale, an LRV value of 100 percent is equivalent to pure white (Munsell 10), and an LRV value of zero percent is equivalent to pure black (Munsell 0).

Lodging Density Rezoning

The procedure for any request to increase the number of lodging units in excess of the number allowed by right in a Lodging district or by an approved development agreement, pursuant to Section 8.6.A(2)d, Lodging Density Rezoning.

Maximum Extent Feasible

As determined by the Director, no feasible and prudent alternative exists, and all possible efforts to comply with the regulation or minimize potential harm or adverse impacts have been undertaken. Economic considerations may be taken into account but shall not be the overriding factor in determining “maximum extent feasible.”

Maximum Extent Practicable

As determined by the Director, under the circumstances, reasonable efforts have been undertaken to comply with the regulation, the costs of compliance clearly outweigh the potential benefits to the public or would unreasonably burden the proposed project, and reasonable steps have been undertaken to minimize any potential harm or adverse impacts resulting from noncompliance with the regulation.

Minor Modification

A development approval authorizing limited deviations from certain provisions of this Code’s dimensional or numerical development standards that is reviewed under Section 8.8.B, Minor Modification.

Motor Vehicle

Any and all self-propelled vehicles as defined in the Motor Vehicle Ordinance of the state of Arizona, including all on-highway motor vehicles subject to registration under that Code (excluding motorcycles), all off-highway type motor vehicles subject to identification under that Code, all enclosed motor vehicles with 3 wheels or more exempted under that Code and all other types of self-propelled vehicles with 3 wheels or more when used in any other manner.

Motorcycles

Any and all self-propelled two- and three-wheeled unenclosed vehicles as defined in the Motor Vehicle Ordinance of the state of Arizona and any self-propelled two- and three-wheeled vehicles with ground contact and equipped with a saddle for the use of the operator. This definition includes, but is not limited to, motor scooters, mini-bikes and off-road vehicles.

Munsell

Reference to the Munsell Book of Color, which is used to compare, evaluate, and classify paint and material colors. Munsell is a system that describes color in terms of three standardized attributes: hue (its basic color), value (its lightness or darkness), and chroma (intensity). Numerical values used in this Code define each attribute and the colors are arranged in the book in visual steps for each attribute.

Mural

An artistic design or representation painted or drawn on the exterior surface of a structure that is otherwise not defined as a sign.

MUTCD

Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices (MUTCD).

Nonconforming Lot

A lawfully established lot created prior to adoption of this Code that does not comply with the minimum lot size requirements of this Code.

Nonconforming Sign

A lawfully established sign constructed or installed prior to adoption of this Code that does not comply with the sign regulations of this Code.

Nonconforming Site Feature

Any driveway, off-street parking and loading, landscaping, buffer, screening, or exterior lighting that lawfully existed prior to adoption of this Code but does not comply with the driveway, off-street parking and loading, landscaping, buffer, screening, or exterior lighting standards of this Code.

Nonconforming Structure

A lawfully established building or structure constructed or installed prior to adoption of this Code that does not comply with the area, height, or placement regulations of this Code.

Nonconforming Use

A use of land, or of a building or structure, that lawfully existed prior to the effective date of this Code that fails to comply with the requirements set forth in this Code applicable to the district in which the use is located.

Nonhabitable Space

A space in a building or structure that is not permitted to be used as habitable space. It shall not include bathrooms, bedrooms, sleeping rooms, kitchens, or kitchenettes.

Official Zoning Map

The City of Sedona Zoning Map, together with all data shown on the map.

On-Site Artworks

Public art provided on a subject development parcel.

Operable

For purposes of describing vehicles under this Code, an operable vehicle is one that holds all required licenses and insurance and is maintained in a roadworthy condition.

Parapet Wall

That part of any wall entirely above the roof line.

Parking Area

An area designed and constructed for the parking, storage and maneuvering of vehicles.

Parking Area, Covered

An area that is designed and constructed for the parking, storage and maneuvering of vehicles and that is covered by a roof; this definition includes garages and carports.

Parking Bay

A widened area designated for vehicular parking, including an area allowing for safe ingress and egress, and located parallel to a roadway off the designated travel way, but within the road right-of-way. A parking bay shall not extend for more than half a block or 50 feet, whichever is less. The ends of the parking bay are to be clearly delineated.

Parking Space

A space within a public or private parking area, exclusive of driveways, ramps, columns, offices and work areas, which is for the temporary parking or storage of one motor vehicle.

Pedestrian Way

A dedicated public walk or path.

Period of Affordability

The length of time an AHU must remain affordable to the target population.

Permeable Surface

An area of ground that, by reason of its physical characteristics and the characteristics of materials covering it, is able to absorb rain or surface water at a rate equal or greater than that of lawn turf. Examples include natural vegetation, landscape beds, gardens, mulch, decorative gravel, and some types of porous pavements.

Planned Development District

A development designed to accommodate varied types of development in patterns or layouts not otherwise permissible in other zoning districts established by this Code. Planned Development districts are designed to provide additional amenities or benefits to the City in return for flexibility in the design, layout, and dimensions of the development. Approval of a PD shall require a rezoning pursuant to Section 8.6.B, Rezoning to Planned Development District.

Planning and Zoning Commission

The Planning and Zoning Commission of the City of Sedona.

Plat

A map of a subdivision and associated required information which provides for changes in land use or ownership or which describes existing uses.

Plat, Conceptual

A design prepared for review and comment at a pre-application meeting and by the Commission. It is not a preliminary plat submittal.

Plat, Preliminary

A tentative plat, including supporting data, indicating a proposed subdivision design, prepared by a civil engineer, land surveyor, landscape architect, architect or land planner in accordance with these regulations and the statutes of the state of Arizona. A preliminary site plan for a condominium development shall be considered a preliminary plat.

Plat, Preliminary Revised

A plat reflecting revisions to the preliminary plat and the associated conditions of approval for review and comment by the Director before formal submittal of a final plat.

Plat, Final

A plat of all or part of a subdivision in substantial conformance with the revised preliminary plat, prepared by a civil engineer or a land surveyor in accordance with this Code and the statutes of the state of Arizona.

Plat, Recorded

A final plat, including all of the certificates of approval required by this Code, the statutes of the state of Arizona and recorded in the Yavapai or Coconino County Recorder’s Office.

Plat, Amended Final

A plat of all or part of a recorded subdivision proposing a change of design, lot lines, size of lots, number of lots, or street alignments.

Porch, Open

A deck, landing or balcony in which any portion extending into a front or side setback area shall have no enclosure by walls, screens, lattice or other material higher than 54 inches above the natural grade line adjacent to it. The porch is to be used solely for ingress and egress and not for occupancy.

Porous Pavement

Pavement, concrete, or pavers with a high permeability that allow rainwater to pass through it into the ground below.

Primary Residence

The dwelling unit an individual: (1) occupies for six months plus one day of each year, (2) lists on their voter registration if they are registered to vote, (3) lists on their driver’s license if they have a driver’s license, and (4) lists on their motor vehicle registration if they have a motor vehicle.

Principal Use

The principal purpose for which land or a building is arranged, designed, intended, occupied, and maintained.

Private Access Way

A common driveway providing immediate access from a public right-of-way or private street to a residence or small group of residences or divided interests in air rights exempt from management, maintenance and liability responsibilities of the City.

Professional Artist

An individual professionally trained in the arts and/or that receives compensation for works of art.

Public Area

Any outdoor place to which the public or a substantial number of the public has access, including, but not limited to, rights-of-way, highways, transportation facilities, schools, places of amusement, parks, playgrounds and the outdoor common areas of public and private buildings and facilities.

Quasi-Judicial Hearing

A board of adjustment hearing that is judicial-like in only applying the existing adopted regulations or policies to a specific development application, as opposed to the legislative-like creation of new laws or policies.

Regulatory Flood Elevation

One foot above the base flood elevation for a watercourse.

Religious Institution

A structure or place in which worship, ceremonies, rituals, and education pertaining to a particular system of beliefs are held, together with its accessory buildings and uses (including buildings used for educational and recreational activities), operated, maintained, and controlled under the direction of a religious group. Examples include churches, mosques, synagogues, and temples.

Residential Rezoning

A rezoning application in which the requested change is from any zoning district classification to a single-family designation, a multifamily designation, or planned development designation in which a minimum of 50 percent of the square footage is proposed to be used for residential uses, as defined by Section 9.4.A.

Revegetation

The reestablishment of native vegetation on previously disturbed land for the purpose of stabilization and the reestablishment of pre-disturbance conditions.

Revegetation Area

An area that has been disturbed by prior construction or development activity and that has had native plants and native rock material reintroduced.

Rezoning

A change in the zoning district classification applied to land by the Official Zoning Map, reviewed, and decided by the City Council under Section 8.6.A, Rezoning (Zoning Map Amendment).

Right-of-Way

Denotes an area of land property or interests usually located in a strip dedicated and accepted by the City or other entities, or otherwise required or devoted to uses such as highways, roads, streets, utilities, drainages, or pedestrian, bicycle, or equestrian ways.

Roof

The cover of any building intended to provide weather protection and design loads, including assembly components and the eaves and similar projections.

Roof Line

The highest point of a structure, including parapets, but not including spires, chimneys or heating or cooling mechanical devices.

Semi-Public Use

A use or building located on private land to serve public benefits.

Site Plan

A plan drawn to scale showing uses and structures proposed for a lot, including all associated submittal materials specified in this Code.

Slope

The vertical rise measured over a horizontal distance expressed as a percentage. A geographic information system (GIS) which uses TIN 3D modeling techniques is available at the Public Works or Information Technology Department and is recommended for use in calculating a slope analysis for any particular lot or parcel. The use of any other method of slope analysis shall be subject to review and approval by the City Engineer.

Soil

Naturally occurring surficial deposits overlaying bedrock.

Solar Equipment or Solar Energy Equipment (Rooftop and Ground-Mounted)

A photovoltaic power system designed to supply usable solar power by means of photovoltaics. Solar equipment is not considered a primary or accessory land use in the LDC and is, instead, considered mechanical equipment with required standard conditions of approval through the building permitting process. In residential zoning districts, solar equipment shall only be allowed on lots with an occupied dwelling unit.

Specified Anatomical Areas

Human genitals, pubic hair, vulva, mons veneris, anus, cleft of the buttocks, female breasts below the top of the areola or human male genitals in a discernibly turgid state, even if completely and opaquely covered.

Specified Sexual Activities

Actual or simulated sexual intercourse, masturbation, fellatio, cunnilingus, sodomy, flagellation, bestiality, fondling or touching of human genitals, pubic region, buttocks or the female breast, or any combination of the foregoing.

Spill

See “light trespass.”

Statutory Dedication

Dedication of land for open space, public rights-of-way, easements, utilities and the like required by Article 7: Subdivision, as a condition to acceptance of a subdivision plat for filing.

Stop-Work Order

An order issued by a City official that directs the person responsible for an activity in violation of this Code to cease and desist such activity.

Street

Any existing or proposed street, road, avenue, boulevard, land, parkway, place, bridge, viaduct or easement for public vehicular access or a street shown on a plat approved pursuant to law or a street on a plat filed and recorded in the County Recorder’s Office. A street includes all land within the street right-of-way, whether improved or unimproved, and includes such improvements as pavement, shoulders, curbs, gutters, sidewalks, drainage appurtenances, parking space, bridges and viaducts.

Street, Arterial

A street, as designated by the City Engineer, that provides through traffic with limited access to abutting properties and includes major streets or highways having regional continuity.

Street, Boundary (half-width street)

A half-width local or collector street, constructed with one edge coincident with a tract boundary which will be the future centerline of the street.

Street, Collector

A street that provides traffic movement between and within neighborhoods and between arterials and local streets and access to abutting property.

Street, Cul-De-Sac

A street having only one outlet for vehicular traffic, with a turnaround at the closed end which is not intended to be extended or continued to serve future subdivisions or provide access to other adjacent lands.

Street, Dead-End

A street open at one end only, without permanent provision for turning around, and that may be further extended into adjoining property.

Street, Local

A street that provides direct access to abutting property or for low volume local traffic movements and which connects to collector streets.

Street, Private

Any collector or local street in a recorded public easement in which the City reserves the right to install and maintain, or permit to be installed and maintained, utilities in the rights-of-way, including surface use for refuse collection, but which has been excluded from management, maintenance and liability by the City.

Structural Alteration

Any alteration to a structure involving a bearing wall, column, beam or girder, floor or ceiling joists, roof rafters, roof diaphragms, foundations, piles, retaining walls or similar components.

Structure

The result of arranging materials and parts together, such as buildings, tanks, and fences (but not including tents or vehicles) and placing them or attaching them to a lot. It shall also mean a mobile or manufactured home, anything constructed or erected, any edifice or building of any kind or any piece of work artificially built up or composed of parts joined together in some definite manner, which is located on or in the ground or is attached to something having a location on or in the ground, including swimming and wading pools and covered patios. Paved areas, walks, tennis courts, and similar outdoor areas and fences or walls three feet or less in height are excepted.

Subdivider

The individual, firm, corporation, partnership, association, syndication, trust or other legal entity that files the application and initiates proceedings for the subdivision of land in accordance with Article 7: Subdivision, and the regulations and statutes of the state. A person serving as agent for such legal entity is not a subdivider, and the subdivider need not be the owner of the property as defined by this regulation. The Council may prepare or have prepared a plat for the subdivision of land under municipal ownership.

Subdivision

Improved or unimproved land or lands divided for the purpose of financing, sale or lease, whether immediate or future, into four or more lots, tracts or parcels of land, or, if a new street is involved, any such property which is divided into two or more lots, tracts or parcels of land, or any such property, the boundaries of which have been fixed by a recorded plat, which is divided into more than two parts. “Subdivision” also includes any condominium, cooperative, community apartment, townhouse or similar project containing four or more parcels, in which an undivided interest in the land is coupled with the right of exclusive occupancy of any unit located on it. Plats of such projects need not show the buildings or the manner in which the buildings or air rights above the property shown on the plat are to be divided. “Subdivision” does not include the following:

Subdivision Design

Street alignment, grades and widths; alignment and widths of easements and rights-of-way for drainage; sanitary sewers, public utilities, streets, roads, pedestrian ways; the arrangement and orientation of lots; locations of buildings; and provision for refuse collection and maintenance easements in condominium developments.

Target Populations

The households, including single-person households, whose incomes are at or below a specified AMI.

Trail

An access way or path, whether paved or unpaved, that is intended to serve multiple modes of nonmotorized travel.

Trailer

Any vehicle without motive power standing on wheels, designed to be towed or hauled by a private passenger motor vehicle or truck or other vehicle, and used for short-term human occupancy; carrying of materials, goods, or objects; or as a temporary office.

Tree

Any self-supporting, woody plant of a species which grows at maturity to an overall height of a minimum of 10 feet, has a single trunk or multiple trunks which are, in combination, four inches in diameter or has a circumference greater than 12 inches at a height of four and one-half feet above natural grade.

Turnarounds

Areas of sufficient alignment and dimensions as to allow fire trucks to turn around with no more than one backing movement required. The alignment and dimensions shall be subject to the approval of the Sedona Fire District and the City of Sedona City Engineer.

Turnout

A widened area designated as a no parking area, including an aisle for ingress and egress, located parallel to and immediately off the designated travel way, but within the road right-of-way. The ends of the turnout are to be clearly delineated. The turnout may be designed for use by emergency vehicles, such as fire trucks.

Unrelieved Building Plane

Any vertical surface, or the projection to a vertical plane of an inclined or curved surface, or wall of a structure that, when viewed in elevation, incorporates no overhangs, offsets, projections, decks, ramadas, loggias, or similar architectural features that would produce shadow patterns or otherwise serve to visually blend the structure into its natural background. Windows and doors do not in themselves provide relief, but if they project or recede a minimum of 12 inches they may be considered as providing visual relief.

Variance

The authorization by the Board of Adjustment for the use of land in a manner that is not allowed by the dimensional or physical requirements of the applicable regulations of this Code.

Vertical Articulation

Breaking down a building façade into vertical modules, sub-parts, or major elements, which are distinguished by changes in materials, texture, plane, or other architectural elements.

Visible

Capable of being seen, whether or not capable of being read, without visual aid by a person of normal acuity.

Watercourse

A creek, stream, brook, wash, arroyo, channel, or other topographic feature through which water flows intermittently or perennially. The term may include specifically designated areas in which substantial flood damage may occur.

Window

Any single window pane, or a series of adjacent window panes separated by a mullion(s) of 12 inches or less. Adjacent window panes set at different angles shall constitute separate windows regardless of the width of their mullion separation.

Zoning District

A classification established by this Code that limits or permits various and specific uses at specified lot and building standards.