When used in this Ordinance, the following words and phrases shall have the meaning given in this Article. Terms not herein defined shall have their customary dictionary definitions where not inconsistent with the context. The term "shall" is mandatory. When not inconsistent with the context, words used in the singular number include the plural and those used in the plural number include the singular. Words used in the present tense include the future.

Accessory Building or Use: A building or use (which includes a structure not otherwise identified as a building) which is subordinate to and serves a principal building or principal use; is subordinate in area, extent, or purpose to the principal building or use served; contributes to the comfort, convenience or necessity of occupants of the principal building or principal use; and is located on the same lot as the principal building or principal use.

Apartment Building: A multifamily dwelling located on a parcel of land under a single ownership, designed for use by three or more housekeeping units, living independently of each other, and doing their own cooking on the premises.

Building: Any structure, either temporary or permanent, above or below ground, having a roof or other covering, and designed, built, or used as a shelter or enclosure for persons, animals, or property of any kind, including tents, awnings, or vehicles used for purposes of a building.

Building Official: The Chief Building Inspector of the City of Sky Valley, or his authorized representative.

Building Setback Line: A line establishing the minimum allowable distance between the main or front wall of a building or any covered porches, and the street right-of-way or property line when measured perpendicularly thereto. In the case of corner lots or double frontage lots, front yard requirements shall be observed for those areas adjacent to street rights-of-way.

Certificate of Occupancy: A legal statement or document issued by the Building Official indicating that the building and use or re-use of a particular building or land is in conformity with all applicable codes and regulations, and that such building or land may be occupied for the purpose stated therein.

Conditional Zoning: The granting or adoption of zoning for property subject to compliance with restrictions as to use, size, density or actions stipulated by the City of Sky Valley to mitigate adverse impacts that are anticipated without imposition of such conditions.

Condominium (Residential Building): A building or complex of multiple-unit dwellings in which a tenant holds full title to his unit and joint ownership in the common grounds.

District, Zoning: A geographical area or areas, designated with use of symbols on the Official Zoning Map, wherein uses of land are restricted in type, size, height and other limitations as established in these regulations.

Dwelling: A building, other than a mobile home or house trailer, designed, arranged or used for permanent living, and/or sleeping quarters.

Dwelling Unit: A building, or portion thereof, designed, arranged and used for living quarters for one (1) or more persons living as a single housekeeping unit with cooking facilities, but not including mobile homes and units in hotels or other structures designed for transient residence.

Dwelling, Multifamily: A building designed for or occupied exclusively by three (3) or more single housekeeping units with separate kitchen or housekeeping facilities for each family or housekeeping unit, including apartment houses, row houses, town houses, and similar housing types but not including motels, hotels, lodging houses, hospitals, nursing homes, or public institutions such as prisons and mental institutions.

Dwelling, Single-Family: A building designed or arranged to be occupied by one (1) single housekeeping unit only.

Dwelling, Two-Family (Duplex): A building designed or arranged to be occupied by two (2) single housekeeping units living independently of each other.

Employee Housing: A Dwelling Unit for persons employed within the City boundaries of Sky Valley located exclusively within the resort commercial, (RC), or maintenance (M) districts. One individual within a family needs to be employed within Sky Valley in order to reside in Employee Housing. No more than 10 employee designated Dwelling Units may be located in the Resort Commercial zoning district. Notwithstanding any provision to the contrary no more than a total of 20 people will be allowed in employee housing in the Resort Commercial District. Only hospitality employees may be housed in the Resort Commercial zoning district. No more than 20 employees designated Dwelling Units may be located in the Maintenance Zoning district. Only maintenance employees may be housed in the Maintenance zoning district. Minimum size standards are 350 square feet per person within a structure. Staff accommodations shall mean the same thing as Employee Housing.

Fence: An enclosure or barrier, composed of wood, masonry, stone, wire, iron, or other materials or combination of materials used as a boundary, means of protection, privacy screening, or confinement, including brick or concrete walls but not including hedges, shrubs, trees, or other natural growth.

Garage: An accessory building or portion of a principal building only for the private storage of motor vehicles and other personal property as an accessory use.

Height, Building: The distance measured from the grade to the highest point of the coping of a flat roof; to the decklines of a mansard roof; or to the mean height level between the eaves and ridge of a gable, hip or gambrel roof.

Home Occupation: An occupation carried on entirely within a residence by the occupants thereof, which activity is clearly incidental to the use of the residence as a dwelling and which does not change the residential character thereof, and is conducted in a manner as to not give any outward appearance of a business in the ordinary meaning of the term. This occupation does not infringe upon the right of neighboring residents to enjoy a peaceful occupancy of their homes for which purpose the residential use district was created and primarily intended.

Land-Distributing Activity: Any grading, scraping, excavating, or filling of land; clearing of vegetation; any other alteration of land which causes land and stream bank erosion situation or water pollution; and any construction, rebuilding or alteration of a structure.

Lot: A parcel of land occupied or capable of being occupied for or by a building or group of buildings devoted to a common use, together with the customary accessories and open spaces belonging to the same, and having principal frontage on a public street; a developed or undeveloped tract of land in one ownership legally transferable as a single unit of land.

Metes and Bounds: A system of describing and identifying land by distances or measures (metes) and bearings or direction (bounds) from an identifiable point of reference, such as a monument or other marker or the corner of intersecting streets.

Manufactured Home (Mobile Home): A structure to be located only in a manufactured home park, transportable in one or more sections, which, in the traveling mode, is eight body feet or more in width or 40 body feet or more in length, when erected on site, is 320 or more square feet in floor area, and which is built on a permanent chassis and designed to be used as a dwelling with or without a permanent foundation when connected to the required utilities, and includes the plumbing, heating, air-conditioning, and electrical systems contained therein; or a structure that otherwise comes within the definition of a "manufactured home" under the National Manufactured Housing Construction and Safety Standards Act of 1974, as amended (42 USC 5401-5445).

Manufactured Home Park (Mobile Home Park): Property meeting the requirements of Article XIV of this ordinance on which three of more manufactured homes, recreational vehicles, or combination thereof are located or intended to be located for purposes of residential or recreational occupancy of a temporary, seasonal, or permanent nature. A campground designed to serve recreational vehicles is also included in this definition.

Nonconforming Use: Any building or use of land or building lawfully existing at the effective date of these regulations or as a result of subsequent amendments to these regulations, which does not conform with the permitted use provisions established herein for the district in which it is located.

Official Zoning Map: The map, which accompanies the zoning ordinance text, that delineates the geographic location of the boundaries of zoning districts established in this ordinance in relation to natural features, manmade features and/or property uses.

Parking Space: An area having typical dimensions of not less than (9) feet by twenty (20) feet and three hundred (300) square feet including maneuvering space within a parking lot, to be used exclusively as a temporary storage space for a motor vehicle.

Passive Recreation: Recreational opportunities that occur in a natural setting which require minimal development or facilities, and the importance of the environment or setting for the activities is greater than in developed or active recreation settings. Passive recreation activities include bird watching, walking, photography, hiking, horseback riding, cross-country skiing, kite flying, and bicycling.

Permitted Use: A use by right which is specifically authorized in a particular zoning district.

Planned Unit Development: A form of development usually characterized by a unified site design for a number of housing units, clustered buildings, common open space, density increases, and a mix of building types and land uses.

Setback: The minimum horizontal distance between a street, alley, the property boundary lines of a lot and the front, rear, or side lines of a building located on that lot.

Site Plan: A graphic illustration, two-dimensional, prepared to scale, showing accurately and with complete dimensioning, the boundaries of a lot or tract and the location of all buildings, structures, uses and principal site development features proposed for a specific lot or tract of land.

Subdivision: The division of a parcel or tract of land into two or more lots for the purposes of creation of lots for development, the rearrangement of existing lot lines, or for the purpose of transfer of ownership.