A separate additional living unit, providing separate complete independent living facilities for one or more persons, including permanent provisions for living, sleeping, eating, cooking and sanitation, attached or detached from a primary residential unit, on a legally platted single-family lot.

A business which offers its customers in one (1) or more viewing booths motion or still pictures characterized by exposure of specified anatomical areas.

A business in which a substantial portion of its stock in trade consists of books, videos, tapes, cassettes, photographs, slides, magazines, and other periodicals which are distinguished or characterized by an emphasis on specific sexual activities or specified anatomical areas, or both.

Any business activity, which offers the opportunity to view, specified sexual activity or view, or touch, for entertainment, specified anatomical areas. Such definition further includes but is not limited to adult arcade, adult bookstore/film store, adult cabaret, adult lounge, adult motel or hotel, adult retail store, and an adult theater.

A business, which offers to customers live performances characterized by exposure of specified anatomical areas.

An adult cabaret, which serves alcoholic beverages.

A business, which offers its customers a sleeping room or sitting room for a period of time less than ten (10) hours and provides motion picture or still picture entertainment characterized by exposure of specified anatomical areas.

A business in which a substantial portion of the stock in trade consists of items or products other than printed matter characterized by an emphasis on specified sexual activities or specified anatomical areas, or both.

A business with a capacity or more than five (5) persons which offers customers motion of still picture or live entertainment or performances characterized by exposure of specified anatomical areas.

The Board of Adjustment of the City of Vernon.

A residential facility operated to house individuals who have been in confinement for a criminal conviction or are placed in a regulated living environment as part of the disposition of a criminal allegation on the condition that the individuals must live within such facility for a specified period of time as a requirement of parole or probation from a county, state or federal judicial system.

The overnight occupants, who are eighteen (18) years or older, renting temporary transient lodging for a specified period and the daytime visitors of the overnight occupants.

A residential facility for persons who are receiving therapy and counseling from support staff who are present at all times the residents are present, for one (1) or more of the following purposes:

A medical facility or institution for diagnosing, treating, caring for persons or for medical and surgical treatment to persons, including acute medical care, chronic medical care on a prolonged or permanent basis, mental health center, and resident or outpatient treatment to alcoholic, narcotic or psychiatric patients.

A vehicle which cannot be driven upon the public streets for reason including but not limited to being wrecked, abandoned, in a state of disrepair, or incapable of being moved under its own power, or not having a valid registration and/or inspection attached thereto.

A determination of the meaning of the zoning regulations or their application, or a determination of the correct location of the zoning district boundaries based upon an appeal from the decision of the enforcing officer and expressed as a board of adjustment ruling which becomes a permanent guide in the enforcement of the zoning regulations.

The owner, operator, or person designated by the owner or the operator, who shall be available 24 hours per day for the purpose of responding to concerns or requests for assistance related to the owner's short-term rental.

A unified development of leasable self-storage units built on the site, each unit not to exceed four hundred (400) square feet in floor area. No outside storage, no storage of explosives, flammable materials or materials emitting noxious odors shall be allowed.

Any outdoor storage yard used for the deposit of dismantled or junked motor vehicles or any outdoor storage yard used for the deposit of any discarded material which has been a part of or is intended to be a part of any motor vehicle.

The owner or the owner's authorized representative who is responsible for advertising and/or operating a short-term rental.

Any material, vehicle or equipment that has been used, damaged or partially dismantled and is: (1) stored outside indefinitely, or (2) held outside as inventory for future sale, processing or use. Articles include but are not limited to inoperable motor vehicles or motor vehicle parts, appliances, boxes, crates, pipe or pipe fittings, paper, metal, tires, toys, concrete blocks, bricks, furniture, fixtures, machinery, motors, lumber, buildings or portions of buildings, building materials, barrels, or clothing.

Any parcel or part of land, not within a building, upon which outdoor storage is located.

The person or entity that holds legal or equitable title to a property.

Means a property owner, as reflected in title records, makes his or her legal residence at the site, as evidenced by voter registration, vehicle registration, or similar means.

An athletic field or stadium owned or operated by a public agency for the general public, including a baseball field, gold course, football field or stadium.

A strip of land acquired by reservation, dedication, prescription or condemnation and used or is intended to be used as a public roadway or alley.

Any structure used for transient or guest lodging accommodations, rented for compensation of a dwelling unit which includes but is not limited to a single-family residence, townhouses, duplex, accessory structure or accessory dwelling unit, short-term rental dwelling unit, bed and breakfast, and other residential real estate improvements, in which the public may obtain sleeping accommodations for a period less than thirty (30) consecutive days. The term applies regardless of whether the dwelling was originally constructed or zoned as a residential dwelling. This term is a general definition of STRs and is inclusive of the distinct types of STRs.

A short-term rental dwelling unit is defined as a structure, including an individual room within a larger structure, which is rented separately from other rental units on the property, for the purpose of transient or guest lodging. Each individual short-term rental dwelling unit shall be required to obtain a separate short-term rental permit, unless it is a part of a bed and breakfast.

A permit issued by the city authorizing the use of a privately owned dwelling as a short-term rental.

A privileged use or development of property which would not be appropriate generally or without restriction throughout a specified zoning district but which, if controlled as to number, size, location, or relation to the neighborhood, would promote the public health, safety, order, comfort, convenience, or general welfare of the community.

Less than completely and opaquely covered human genitals, pubic region, buttock; human genitals in a discernibly erect state, even if completely and opaquely covered; or any combination of the aforementioned.

Depiction of male genitals in a state of sexual stimulation or arousal; female genitals; acts of masturbation, sexual intercourse, oral copulation, sodomy, bestiality; touching of human genitals, pubic region, buttock, anus; or any combination of the aforementioned.

Any composition of physical parts for the creation of a whole, which is, affixed either directly or indirectly to the ground.

Every street or highway or portion thereof at the entrances to which vehicular traffic from intersecting streets or highways is required by law to stop before entering or crossing the same and when stop signs are erected as provided by the City of Vernon Code of Ordinances.

A privileged relaxation of these regulations where, owing to conditions peculiar to the property and not the result of the actions of the applicant, a literal enforcement of the regulations would result in unnecessary and undue hardship and would prevent the substantial enjoyment of property rights as shared by nearby properties which do conform to the development control provisions.

An enclosure or partial enclosure which contains any electrical or mechanical device, which displays or projects any film, video tape or photographic reproduction into the viewing area of motion or still pictures characterized by exposure of specified anatomical areas, and which enclosure or partial enclosure is authorized for occupancy by current adopted building code standards by no more than five (5) persons.