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Safe Outdoor Space
A lot, or a portion of a lot, developed to provide designated spaces for occupancy by tents, recreational vehicles, and/or light vehicles. Designated spaces are provided to occupants at no charge. A safe outdoor space offers social services and support facilities. See also Campground and Recreational Vehicle and Vehicle Definitions for Recreational Vehicle and Light Vehicle.
Salvage Yard
Any use involving storage and/or sale of inoperable, disused, dismantled or wrecked vehicles, equipment, machinery, or goods, or the storage or processing of scrap metal, wastepaper, rags, wastes, construction wastes, industrial wastes or other scrap, salvage, waste, or junk materials.
School
An accredited public or private institution offering a course of education recognized by the State as leading to a high school diploma or equivalent. Accessory uses may include student sports fields or facilities, playgrounds, gardens, and an accessory dwelling unit for a caretaker. This use is divided into:
1. Elementary or middle school: An educational facility for grades kindergarten through 8.
2. High school: An educational facility for grades 9 through 12.
See also University or College, Vocational School, and Measurement Definitions for Separation of Uses.
Outdoor or site lighting that is portable, temporary, and decorative. This includes but is not limited to string lighting, icicle lighting, outline lighting, and lighted holiday inflatables that are not intended for general illumination. See also Festoon Lighting.
Seasonal Outdoor Sales
The temporary outdoor display and sale of goods or products associated with the season or a cultural event, such as the sale of fireworks, Christmas trees, pumpkins, or seasonal produce, and typically occurring at a location not devoted to such sales for the remainder of the year. See also Agricultural Sales Stand, Farmers' Market, and Open Air Market.
Distinct from outdoor lighting installed for safe passage during hours of darkness, security lighting is installed to provide bright illumination for security to protect people, property, and infrastructure from physical or criminal threats.
Self-storage
A use consisting of 3 or more individual, small, self-contained, fully enclosed units in building that are leased or owned for the storage of business and household goods or contractors' supplies. Storage areas provided for renters of residential dwellings on the same premises are not considered self-storage. See also Other Use Accessory to a Residential Primary Use.
Sensitive Lands Definitions
Arroyo
A watercourse that conducts an intermittent or ephemeral flow, providing primary drainage for an area of land, or a watercourse that would be expected to flow in excess of 1,000 cubic feet per second as the result of a 100-year storm event, as determined by the City Hydrologist.
Escarpment
Land with 9 percent slope or more, where development is discouraged. The Northwest Mesa Escarpment is part of the Petroglyph National Monument, which is also designated as Major Public Open Space. See also Open Space Definitions for Major Public Open Space.
Floodplains and Special Flood Hazard Areas
See Flood Definitions.
Irrigation Facility
The system of water facilities within the MRGCD, including acequias, ditches, laterals, canals, interior drains, riverside drains, and wasteways, which convey water to irrigators or return unused irrigation water to the Rio Grande. Some facilities may also convey stormwater. The irrigation facility includes the canal that conveys the water, the maintenance road(s) along the bank top, and the sloped banks that tie back to the surrounding land. These facilities may or may not have a formal easement. See also Acequia.
At least 3 trees with trunks at least 8 inches in diameter at breast height (DBH), as measured by the City Forester, on a subject property.
Bedrock or other stratum a minimum of 4 feet high on its steepest side as measured from the adjacent 10 percent slope line and in excess of 300 square feet in surface area.
Riparian Area
Aquatic ecosystems and the transitional ecosystems surrounding them, as shown on the map created and maintained by the City Parks and Recreation Department and published by AGIS. The transitional riparian ecosystem is characterized by distinctive vegetative communities and soils that are affected by the presence of surface and groundwater and provides critical habitat for endangered species and migratory birds, as well as other animals.
Significant Archaeological Site
See Archaeological Definitions.
Steep Slope
Land with 9 percent slope or more, where development is discouraged.
Wetlands
Areas that are inundated or saturated by surface or groundwater at a frequency and duration sufficient to support, and that under normal circumstances do support, a prevalence of vegetation typically adapted for life in saturated soil conditions, as determined by the City Hydrologist. Wetlands generally include swamps, marshes, bogs, and similar areas.
Separation of Uses
See Measurement Definitions.
Setback
1. A required distance between a structure and a lot line.
2. On an interior lot not abutting a street, side setbacks shall be followed for all lot lines.
See also Lot Definitions for Front Lot Line, Rear Lot Line, and Side Lot Line (Interior or Street Side) and Measurement Definitions for Setback.
A floodlight with an accessory intended to block obtrusive light through either an optical intervention and/or a physical shield or louver.
Side Façade
See Façade Definitions.
Side Lot Line
See Lot Definitions.
Sidewalk
A hard-surfaced walk or raised path and any curb ramps or blended transitions along and generally paralleling the side of the streets for pedestrians. Sidewalks do not include the curb or gutter structures.
Sight Lines
See Subsection 14-16-3-6(D)(3) (Coors Boulevard - VPO-1 Definitions).
Sign Definitions
Building-mounted Sign
A sign entirely supported by or through a building, including canopy sign, marquee sign, projecting sign, rooftop sign, or wall sign. See also Sign Definitions for Canopy Sign, Marquee Sign, Projecting Sign, Rooftop Sign, Wall Sign, and Window Sign.
Canopy Sign
A type of building-mounted sign mounted on or under a permanent canopy, arcade, or portal. See Sign Definitions for Wall Sign for signs on a freestanding roofed structure, such as a canopy for a vehicle fueling station.
Electronic Sign
A sign that is internally lit to display messages and images that are changed electronically. The lit sign area may be of various types, including but not limited to flat screen, active display matrix, or a board with a single or multiple lines of text or graphics. The light source may vary but is typically Light Emitting Diodes (LED). Any sign that meets the definition of a neon sign is not considered to be an electronic sign. See also Sign Definitions for Neon Sign.
Freestanding Sign
A sign attached to or supported from the ground and not attached to a building. Signs on walls or fences that are not an integral part of a building are considered freestanding signs. Freestanding signs do not include portable signs. See Sign Definitions for Monument Sign and Pole Sign for sign types that are considered freestanding.
Historic Sign
A sign that is 50 years old or greater or listed or determined to be eligible for listing in the New Mexico Register of Cultural Properties either individually or as a contributing part of a property or a sign that contributes to the historic character of a designated City landmark.
Illuminated Sign
Any sign that is directly lighted by any on-premises electrical light source, internal or external, except light sources specifically and clearly operated for the purposes of lighting the general area in which the sign is located rather than upon the sign itself, including but not limited to luminous tubing signs such as neon signs. All electronic signs are illuminated signs.
Joint Sign Premises
Two (2) or more abutting premises, each with less than 100 feet of street frontage that are treated as 1 premises through an agreement between their respective owners and the City in order to qualify for a freestanding sign that would not be allowed on the individual premises.
Marquee Sign
A type of projecting sign mounted on a continuous structural band that forms the more or less vertical edge of the marquee structure.
Monument Sign
A type of freestanding sign with a maximum of 2 sign faces that is integrated into a solid structure beginning at the ground and including a base and/or up to 2 masonry or concealed supports. The total width of the support(s) at the bottom of the sign shall be no less than 25 percent of the width at the top of the sign. See also Freestanding Sign.
Neon Sign
A sign that uses neon, argon, or a similar gas to fill tubing, made of glass or similar material, that is charged with electricity and used to create an illuminated tubular sign or illuminated elements of a sign that includes, at a minimum lettering and/or images. The tubing may contain an alternative illumination technology, including but not limited to light-emitting diodes (LEDs). Any non-gaseous illumination technology, such as LEDs, must produce illumination that appears to be a continuous, uninterrupted line, similar to illumination produced by gaseous illumination technology.
Off-premises Sign
A sign, the content of which does not refer to an establishment operating on the premises where the sign is displayed.
On-premises Sign
A sign, the content of which relates to the premises on which it is located, referring exclusively to the name, location, products, persons, accommodations, services, or activities of or on those premises, or the sale, lease, or construction of those premises.
Pole Sign
A type of freestanding sign attached to or supported from the ground by a single pole or post and not attached to a building. See also Freestanding Sign.
Portable Sign
An A-frame or sandwich board sign. A portable sign shall rest on the ground and shall not be supported by a person or animal.
Projecting Sign
A type of building-mounted sign, other than a wall sign or canopy sign, that projects from and is supported by a wall of a building.
Rooftop Sign
A building-mounted sign that is mounted on the roof of a building.
Sign
Any display to public view of letters, words, numerals, emblems, pictures, or any parts or combinations thereof designed to inform or advertise or promote merchandise, services, or activities except for the following:
1. Non-illuminated names of buildings, dates of erection, monument citations, commemorative tablets and the like when carved into stone, concrete, metal, or any other permanent type construction and made an integral part of a permitted structure or made flush to the ground.
2. Signs required by law or signs of a duly-constituted governmental body.
3. Signs placed by a public utility for the safety, welfare, or convenience of the public, such as signs identifying high voltage, public telephone, or underground cables.
4. Signs on a vehicle, provided that any such vehicle with a sign face of over 2 square feet is not conspicuously parked so as to constitute a sign; nothing herein prevents such a vehicle from being used for delivery or other vehicular purposes.
5. Temporary holiday decorations.
A back-to-back sign or V-shaped sign constitutes 1 sign if it employs a common set of supports. A composite group of signs integrated into 1 framed unit or compact structure constitutes 1 sign.
Sign Area
See Measurement Definitions.
Sign Height
See Measurement Definitions.
Streamers
A strand of pennants, triangular flags, or fringe made of any material other than paper.
Temporary Sign
A public display of letters, words, numerals, figures, statues, devices, emblems, pictures, etc. for a specified period of time that is installed in a way that is easy to remove.
Transit Shelter Sign
A sign located on a City of Albuquerque Transit Department shelter.
Wall Sign
A sign flush to the exterior surface of a building, applied directly on the building or a signboard attached flush to the building, projecting no more than 18 inches from the building surface and not projecting above the roof. However, light sources aimed at the wall sign may extend farther. A sign on a freestanding roofed structure, such as a canopy for a vehicle fueling station, outdoor storage or display, or drive-up facility, is also considered a wall sign.
Window Sign
A sign on a window or door, with its message or image discernible from the exterior of the building. Window wraps and windows with messages or images are considered window signs.
Yard Sign
A type of free-standing sign that is relatively small and short, typically supported by 1 or 2 wires or posts, and located in the front or street side yard of a lot.
Single Room Occupancy
A type of residential development that provides dwelling units with separate sleeping areas and some combination of shared bath or toilet facilities. The building may or may not have separate or shared cooking facilities for the residents. Each household unit generally occupies only a single room in the facility for sleeping purposes (in addition to having the non-exclusive use of shared spaces in the facility).
Site Development Plan
A term used prior to the effective date of the IDO for a scaled plan for development on one or more lots that specifies at minimum the site, proposed use(s), pedestrian and vehicular access, any internal circulation, maximum building height, building setbacks, maximum total dwelling units, and/or nonresidential floor area. A more detailed site development plan would also specify the exact locations of structures, their elevations and dimensions, the parking and loading areas, landscaping, and schedule of development. The equivalent approval in the IDO will be determined based on the level of detail provided in the prior approval.
Site Plan
An accurate plan that includes all information required for that type of application, structure, or development.
Sketch Plat
See Plat Definitions.
Small Area
A mapped area established pursuant to IDO procedures where IDO regulations specific to that area apply. Small areas adopted after May 18, 2018 shall be no less than 5 acres, shall include no fewer than 25 lots, and shall include properties owned by no fewer than 15 property owners. Overlay zones are considered small areas but have a different minimum size threshold. See also Measurement Definitions for Small Area and Zone Definitions for Overlay Zone.
Small Loan Business
Any business requiring licensure under the New Mexico Small Loan Business Act, Article 58-15 NMSA 1978, including but not limited to businesses offering Payday Loans, Title Loans, Installment Loans, or Refund Tax Anticipation Loans. For the purposes of this IDO, small loan businesses are treated as a bank use. See also Bank.
Small-cell Wireless Telecommunications Facility (WTF)
See Wireless Telecommunications Facility Definitions.
Solar Energy Generation
The use of land or buildings as locations for mounting of solar collectors or other devices that rely on sunshine as an energy source and are capable of collecting, distributing, or storing the sun's radiant energy. Back-up generators and battery storage are incidental to this use. See also Electric Utility, Geothermal Energy Generation, Major Utility, and Wind Energy Generation.
Solid Waste Convenience Center
City-owned and operated locations for the drop-off of solid waste by residents and small commercial haulers only.
Special Manufacturing
See Manufacturing Definitions.
Specified Anatomical Areas
Any of the following:
1. Less than completely and opaquely covered human genitals, pubic region, buttocks, anus, or female breasts below a point immediately above the top of the areolae.
2. Human male genitals in a discernibly turgid state, even if completely and opaquely covered.
See also Adult Entertainment, Adult, Retail, and Specified Sexual Activities.
Specified Sexual Activities
Any of the following:
1. Human genitals in a state of sexual stimulation or arousal.
2. Acts of human masturbation, sexual intercourse or sodomy.
3. Fondling or other erotic touching of human genitals, pubic regions, buttocks or female breasts.
4. Flagellation or torture in the context of a sexual relationship.
5. Masochism, erotic or sexually oriented torture, beating or the infliction of pain.
6. Erotic touching, fondling or other such contact with an animal by a human being.
7. Human excretion, urination, menstruation, vaginal, or anal irrigation as a part of or in connection with any of the activities set forth in 1 through 6 above.
See also Adult Entertainment, Adult Retail, and Specified Anatomical Areas.
Sports Court
A recreational facility for sports played on courts at least 20 feet by 30 feet, including but not limited to basketball, volleyball, tennis, handball, and racquetball, except facilities that meet the definition of stadium or sports field. See also Sports Field and Stadium.
Sports Field
A facility designed for amateur or professional sporting events, exhibitions, or shows. See also Sports Court and Stadium.
Stacking Space
See Parking Definitions.
Stadium
An outdoor, open-air area or structure suitable for sporting events or performances with tiers of seats or benches and with seating capacity for 1,000 or more people. See also Sports Field and Stadium.
Steep Slopes
See Sensitive Lands Definitions.
Stoop
See Building Frontage Types.
Storefront
See Building Frontage Types.
Street Definitions
Arterial
A street designated on the Mid-region Council of Governments (MRCOG) Long Range Roadway System Map in the Long Range Transportation System Guide of the Metropolitan Transportation Plan or a logical geographic extension of that street as determined by the City Engineer. An arterial street may be designated as minor or principal arterial and serves large volumes of comparatively high-speed traffic. Access to arterial streets is controlled. See the DPM.
Collector
A street designated on the Mid-region Council of Governments (MRCOG) Long Range Roadway System Map in the Long Range Transportation System Guide of the Metropolitan Transportation Plan or a logical geographic extension of that street as determined by the City Engineer. A collector street may be designated as a major or minor collector and carries substantial traffic from local streets to arterial streets. See the DPM.
Interstate Highway
An access-controlled street that is part of the National Highway System. For the purposes of this IDO, this term includes all public right-of-way owned or controlled by NMDOT along Interstate Highway 25 and Interstate Highway 40 associated with the interstate highway, including but not limited to through lanes, frontage roads, on- and off-ramps, and interchanges. See also Through Lane.
Local Street
A street designated in the DPM that is primarily used to access abutting properties. A local street may be designated as an access local, normal local, or major local street and carries low traffic volumes. See the DPM.
Main Street
See Center and Corridor Definitions and Measurement Definitions for Corridor Area.
Side Street
On a corner lot, the street abutting the side lot line of the lot. See also Lot Definitions for Side Lot Line.
Street
The portion of a public right-of-way or private way, from curb to curb (or from edge of paving to edge of paving if there is no curb, or from edge of visible travel way to edge of visible travel way, if there is no paving), that is primarily devoted to vehicular use.
Street Frontage
The boundary between a premises and a public right-of-way or private way, whether or not direct access is allowed from the public right-of-way or private way to the premises.
Stub Street
A non-permanent dead-end street intended to be extended in conjunction with development on adjacent lots or sites. See also Adjacent.
Through Lane
A continuous travel lane, excluding any turn lanes or ramps that provide access to or exit from travel lanes. See also Measurement Definitions for Distance to a Through Lane.
Street Tree
A tree that meets the provisions of Part 6-6-2 of ROA 1994 (Street Trees).
Street Wall
A masonry wall that defines outdoor spaces and separates the sidewalk and the street from the private realm (e.g. parking lots, trash cans, gardens, and equipment).
Street-facing Façade
See Façade Definitions.
Structure
Anything constructed or erected above ground level that requires location on the ground or attached to something having a location on the ground but not including a tent, vehicle, vegetation, trash can, bench, picnic table, or public utility pole or line. Swimming pools are considered structures, whether above-ground or in-ground. See also Building, Wall Definitions, Wireless Telecommunications Facility Definitions, and Sign Definitions.
Structure Height
See Measurement Definitions.
Structured Parking
See Building Height Bonus Definitions and Parking Definitions for Parking Structure with Ground Floor Uses.
Stub Street
See Street Definitions.
Subdivision Definitions
Bulk Land Subdivision
Any subdivision of property that is primarily intended to facilitate transfer to intermediate land holders, not to create lots available for development without further subdivision or Site Plan approvals.
Infrastructure Improvements Agreement (IIA)
An agreement entered into between the City and a subdivider by which the subdivider agrees to assure construction of required infrastructure improvements.
Minor Subdivision
Any subdivision that meets the eligibility requirements for a Subdivision of Land - Minor pursuant to Subsection 14-16-6-6(K).
Major Subdivision
Any subdivision not classified as minor.
Subdivide
To divide or re-divide (sometimes referred to as "replat") land into 2 or more parts or to consolidate 2 or more lots by whatever means to facilitate the present or future conveyance or other transfer of incidents of ownership or use.
Subdivider
Any person who, by reason of his/her power, authority, and/or interest with respect to a specific lot, effects, brings about, causes, or proposes the subdivision of that lot.
Subdivision
1. The process of subdividing land into 2 or more lots for the purpose of sale or development.
2. The process of consolidating 2 or more lots for the purpose of sale or development.
3. The subdivided lot.
Subject Property
A lot or collection of lots included in an application submitted pursuant to this IDO. See also Premises, Project Site, and Lot Definitions.
Substantial Change
Where used associated with a WTF Approval, see Wireless Telecommunications Facility Definitions.
Swimming Pool
See Structure.
Notes
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| 265 | 265 IDO Annual Update 2023 - Citywide Text Amendments - EPC REVIEW. EPC Recommended Conditions #1 and #21. [Spreadsheet Item #52] |
| 266 | 266 IDO Annual Update 2023 - Citywide Text Amendments - EPC REVIEW. EPC Recommended Condition #1. [Spreadsheet Item #53] |
| 267 | 267 IDO Annual Update 2023 - Citywide Text Amendments - EPC REVIEW. EPC Recommended Condition #1.[Spreadsheet Item #56 and Exhibit - Lighting] |