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1. Residential Uses: A residential structure is a building used as a dwelling for one or more persons.The term includes, but is not limited to houses, mobile homes, apartment buildings, lodging homes and dormitories. The term also includes accessory use areas used in conjunction with and forming an integral part of a residential structure.
A. Single- and Two-family Living: This use category is characterized by residential occupancy of a dwelling unit by up to two households. Tenancy is arranged on a month-to- month or longer basis (lodging where tenancy may be arranged for a period of less than 30 days is classified under the "Visitor Accommodation" category). Common accessory uses include recreational activities, raising of pets, gardens, personal storage buildings, hobbies, and parking of the occupants' vehicles. Home occupations and accessory dwelling units are accessory uses that are subject to additional regulations. Specific use types include, but are not limited to:
(1) Accessory Dwelling Unit: Except as may be further restricted, an accessory dwelling unit is a dwelling unit that is incidental and subordinate to the principal use of the premises, and does not alter the essential characteristic of the use.
(2) Caretaker Residence: A dwelling on a nonresidential property occupied by a person, and the immediate family of the person, who oversees or guards the operation.
(3) Dwelling, Single Family: A building designed for use and occupancy by no more than one family.
(4) Dwelling, Duplex: A detached building containing two dwelling units, each of which includes a separate bathroom and kitchen. The two units must be able to function as dwelling units independently of each other.
(5) Manufactured Home: A factory-built structure that is manufactured or constructed according to the National Manufactured Housing Construction and Safety Standards Act of 1974, and as may be amended, that became effective June 15, 1976, and, is to be used as a place for human habitation, but that is not constructed or equipped with a permanent hitch or other device allowing it to be moved other than for the purpose of moving to a permanent site, and that does not have permanently attached to its body or frame any wheels or axles.
(6) Manufactured Home, Stock: A stock manufactured home does not have all the architectural placement standards of an Enhanced Manufactured Home.
(7) Manufactured Home, Enhanced: An enhanced manufactured home meets all the architectural and placement standards of the use standards in Section 11-06-03.1.C, Manufactured Home, Enhanced.
(8) Manufactured Home Community: Any site, lot, tract, plot, or parcel of land, designed for the placement of ten or more manufactured homes, located and maintained for dwelling purposes on a permanent basis on individual lots, pads, or spaces; whether those lots, pads, or spaces be individually owned, leased, or rented.
(9) Mobile Home Park: Any area, tract, plot, or parcel of land, developed and designed for placement of mobile homes located and maintained for dwelling purposes on a permanent or semi-permanent basis.
B. Multi-family Living: This use category is characterized by residential occupancy of a dwelling unit by more than two households. Tenancy is arranged on a month-to-month or longer basis (lodging where tenancy may be arranged for a period of less than 30 days is classified under the "Visitor Accommodation" category). Common accessory uses include recreational activities, raising of pets, gardens, personal storage buildings, hobbies, and parking of the occupants' vehicles. Specific use types include, but are not limited to:
(1) Multi-family Building: A building, or portion thereof, containing three or more dwelling units excluding attached single family townhouse units located on individual lots.
(2) High Rise: A multifamily building having floors used for human occupancy located more than 75 feet above the lower level of fire department vehicle access.
C. Other: This category is characterized by residential occupancy of a structure that does not meet the definition of "Single and Two-Family Living" or "Multi-family Living". Generally, these structures have a common eating area for residents.The residents may receive care, training, or treatment, and caregivers may or may not also reside at the site. Accessory uses commonly include recreational facilities and vehicle parking for occupants and staff. Specific use types include, but are not limited to:
(1) Boarding or Rooming House: A building other than a hotel or restaurant where lodging or lodging and meals are provided for compensation to six to 12 persons who are not members of the householder's family.
(2) Bed and Breakfast: A type of hotel providing overnight accommodations and breakfast food service. If designed to accommodate 12 or fewer guests, it shall be considered a type of boarding or rooming house rather than a hotel.
(3) Convalescent Home, Nursing Home: A building housing any facility, however named, whether operated for profit or not, the purpose of which is to provide skilled nursing care and related medical services for two or more individuals suffering from illness, disease, injury, deformity, or requiring care because of old age.
(4) Fraternity or Sorority House: A facility for housing a club of men (fraternity) or women (sorority) college students.
(5) Halfway House: A type of housing for persons convicted of non-violent crimes who are in the later stages of serving a sentence and are being transitioned back into free society.
(6) Group Home: A single family dwelling or dwelling unit that is occupied exclusively by elderly persons or persons with a disability and no more than two resident staff, where all state and local licensing and standards of operation requirements have been met. Public/Institutional Uses
D. Child or Adult Care: A child or adult care facility is a building where children or adults regularly receive care, maintenance, and supervision usually unaccompanied by a parent, guardian, or custodian, and regardless of whether the facility does or does not provide any educational instruction. This use excludes:
(1) The care of the operator's children or legal wards,
(2) Children or adults related by blood or marriage,
(3) Occasional personal guests,
(4) Any home, place or facility providing overnight custodial services for lodging and/or boarding for the occupants therein, and
(5) Children aged 12 years and over.
The occupant load of a building, as determined by the Building Department and Fire Department requirements, will include all persons using the facility.
E. Adult Day Care: A facility where adults regularly receive care, maintenance, and supervision unaccompanied by a guardian or custodian, regardless of whether the facility does or does not provide any educational instruction. This use excludes
(1) Care of operator's legal wards or relatives;
(2) Occasional personal guests; and
(3) Any facility providing overnight custodial services for lodging and/or boarding.
F. Child Care Home: A child care facility for six or fewer children that is an accessory use to a primary residential use.
G. Group Child Care Home: A child care facility for 7 to 12 children within the operator's residence.
H. Group Child Care Center: A child care facility for 7 to 12 children that is outside the operator's home.
I. Intermediate Child Care Center: A child care facility providing for 13 to 20 children.
J. Large Child Care Center: A child care facility providing for 21 or more children.
K. Communication Uses: Communication uses transmit analog or digital voice or communications information between or among points using electromagnetic signals via antennas, microwave dishes, and similar structures. Supporting equipment includes buildings, shelters, cabinets, towers, electrical equipment, parking areas, and other accessory development. Specific use types include, but are not limited to:
(1) Antenna: An apparatus designed for the purpose of emitting radiofrequency (RF) signals, to be operated or operating from a fixed location for the provision of personal wireless service and any commingled information services. For purposes of this definition, the term antenna does not include an unintentional radiator, mobile station, or device authorized under 47 C.F.R. Part 15.
(2) Antenna Equipment: The equipment, switches, wiring, cabling, power sources, shelters, or cabinets associated with an antenna, located at the same fixed location as the antenna, and, when co-located on a structure, is added to a structure at the same time as such antenna.
(3) Broadcasting Or Recording Studio: A building or portion of a building used as a place for radio or television broadcasting or recording but without a transmission tower.
(4) Eligible Facilities Request: An application for modification of an existing tower or base station that does not substantially change the physical dimensions of such tower or base station pursuant to Section 6409(a) of the Middle Class Tax Relief and Job Creation Act of 2012, as interpreted by the Federal Communications Commission.
(5) Lattice Tower: A self-supporting, multiple sided, open steel frame structure used to support telecommunications equipment.
(6) Monopole: A support structure that consists of a single pole sunk into the ground and/or attached to a foundation.
(7) Strand-Mounted Facility: An attached wireless communication facility installed upon a cable strand in coordination with a utility provider.
(8) Structure: A pole, tower, base station, or structure, whether or not it has an existing antenna facility, that is used or to be used for the provision of personal wireless services (whether on its own or comingled with other types of service).
(9) Transmission Tower: A structure in a fixed location used as an antenna or to support antennas for the primary purpose of transmitting and/or receiving electronic signals. This definition includes nonresidential broadcast, communication, transmission, and similar towers, either freestanding or attached to an adjacent broadcasting or transmitting facility.
(10) Wireless Communications Facility (WCF): An unstaffed facility for the transmission and reception of radio or microwave signals used for commercial communications or providing personal wireless services as defined in the Federal Telecommunications Act of 1996 that includes Federal Communications Commission licensed commercial wireless telecommunications services including cellular, personal communications services (PCS), specialized mobile radio (SMR), enhanced specialized mobile radio (ESMR), paging, and similar services that currently exist or that may in the future be developed. A WCF is composed of two or more of the following components:
(a) Antenna;
(b) Support structure;
(c) Equipment enclosure;
(d) Security barrier.
(11) Wireless Communication Facility, Attached (Attached WCF): An antenna array attached to an existing or replaced structure without exceeding the base height of the zone. Such structures shall include but are not limited to utility poles, signs, steeples, cupolas, water towers, and antennas attached to the exterior facade of a building.
(12) Wireless Communication Facility, Freestanding (Freestanding WCF): A WCF that includes a new support structure or otherwise is not an attached WCF as defined in this section.
L. Community Facility: Community facility uses include buildings, structures, or facilities owned, operated, or occupied by a governmental or philanthropic agency to provide a service to the public. Specific use types include, but are not limited to:
(1) Cemetery: Land used or dedicated to the interment of human or animal remains, including columbaria, mausoleums, mortuaries, and associated maintenance facilities when operated in conjunction with, and within the boundaries of, such cemetery.
(2) Club, Lodge, Social Hall: The assembly use of a building or of any premises by a nonprofit association, where such use is restricted to enrolled members and their guests.
(3) Government Buildings: A building owned or used by the federal, state, county, or city government, or any political subdivision, agency or instrumentality thereof.
(4) Mortuary: A facility in which deceased human bodies are kept and prepared for burial or cremation.
(5) Recreation Center: A commercial or non-profit bowling alley, roller rink, or similar use designed for amusement or recreation.
(6) Religious Institution: A building that is used primarily for religious worship and related religious activities.
(7) Uses Related to and Operated by a Religious Institution: A use, such as a thrift store, homeless shelter, rectory, or similar, that is operated by a religious institution and located on the same parcel or an adjacent parcel to the religious institution.
M. Educational Use: Education uses are public, private, and parochial institutions at the primary, elementary, middle, high school, or post-secondary level, or trade or business schools that provide educational instruction to students. Accessory uses include play areas, cafeterias, recreational and sport facilities, parking, transit-related facilities, auditoriums, and before or after school day care. Specific use types include, but are not limited to:
(1) Auditorium, Stadium, or Lecture Hall seating more than 500 people: A building or portion of a building in which facilities are provided for more than 500 people, for educational or assembly purposes.
(2) Library: A permanent facility for storing and loaning books, periodicals, reference materials, audio and videotapes, and other similar media to city residents.
(3) Private Commercial School: A school, regardless whether it is operated for profit, primarily devoted to instruction, in dance, music, drama, art, languages, martial arts training, and business.
(4) School: An institution of learning, whether public or private, that offers instruction to a group of children in those courses of study required by the State Board of Education. This definition includes nursery school, kindergarten, elementary school, junior high school, senior high school, or any special institution of learning under the jurisdiction of the Idaho Department of Education, but it does not include a vocational or professional school or any institution of higher education, including a college or university.
(5) Trade or Vocational School: An institution or facility conducting instruction in the technical or trade skills such as business, secretarial training, medical- dental technician training, beauticians, barbers, electronics and automotive technician training.
(6) University: Boise State University
N. Health Care Uses: Health care uses are characterized by activities focusing on medical services, particularly licensed public or private institutions that provide primary health services and medical or surgical care to persons suffering from illness, disease, injury, deformity, or other physical or mental conditions. Accessory uses may include laboratories, outpatient, or training facilities, and parking, or other amenities primarily for the use of employees in the firm or building. Specific use types include, but are not limited:
(1) Hospital: An institution devoted primarily to the maintenance and operation of facilities for the medical or surgical care of patients 24 hours a day, including specialized and surgical hospitals. The term "hospital" does not include clinics, convalescent or boarding homes, or any institution operating solely for the treatment of mentally ill persons, drug addicts, alcohol addicts, or other types of cases necessitating forcible confinement of patients.
(2) Laboratory, Medical/Dental: A facility that provides medical services, such as pathological testing or manufacturing of prosthetics and orthopedic appliances, or that provides dental services including the manufacturing of orthodontic appliances, crowns, and dentures.
(3) Medical Research Facility: A facility designed for the purpose of conducting medical research.
(4) Office, Medical: A facility for a group of one or more physicians for the examination and treatment of human patients, primarily engaged in furnishing, on an outpatient basis, chiropractic, dental, medical, surgical, medical imaging, or other services to individuals. Patients are not kept overnight except under emergency conditions. Ancillary laboratory facilities may be included.
O. Parks, Recreation and Open Space: Park and open space uses focus on natural areas, large areas consisting mostly of vegetative landscaping, or outdoor recreation, community gardens, or public squares. Lands tend to have few structures. Accessory uses may include clubhouses, playgrounds, maintenance facilities, concessions, caretaker's quarters, and parking. Specific use types include, but are not limited to:
(1) Forest Reserve, Recreation Area.
(2) Golf Course.
(3) Park or Playground.
(4) Public Plaza.
P. Social Care: Social Care uses provide services to people with limited financial resources, including people who are homeless.
(1) Food Kitchen: A facility providing food at meal times to people with limited financial resources, including people who are homeless.
(2) Shelter Home: A facility providing basic services that may include food; personal hygiene support; information and referrals; employment, mail and telephone services; including overnight sleeping accommodations, to people with limited financial resources, including people who are homeless.
(3) Single Resident Occupancy Hotel: Means a building that provides living units with separate sleeping areas and some combination of shared bath or toilet facilities. The building may or may not have separate shared cooking facilities for residents.
Q. Transportation Uses: This category includes facilities that receive and discharge passengers and freight. Accessory uses include freight handling areas, concessions, offices, parking, and maintenance and fueling facilities. Specific use types include, but are not limited to:
(1) Aircraft Landing Field: Any area of land or water that is used or intended for use by aircraft and including the necessary appurtenant structures or facilities located thereon.
(2) Bus Station: Any premises for the transient housing or parking of buses and the loading and unloading of passengers.
(3) Transit Terminal: A passenger terminal or loading facility for a privately or publicly owned transit system, including a private shuttle service.
(4) Trucking Terminal: An area or building where cargo is stored and where trucks, including tractors and trailer units, load and unload cargo on a regular basis. The use may include facilities for the temporary storage of loads prior to shipment. The use shall also include truck stops or fueling stations where primarily diesel fuel is sold.
R. Utility: Utility uses include buildings, structures, or other facilities used or intended to be used by any private or public utility. This category includes buildings or structures that house or contain facilities for the operation of water, wastewater, waste disposal, or electricity services. Accessory uses may include control, monitoring, data, or transmission equipment. Specific use types include, but are not limited to:
(1) Gas Fired Power Plant: An electrical utility plant fueled by natural gas.
(2) Utility Facility, Minor: A small facility required for the operation of a utility controlled by the Idaho Public Utilities Commission including minor wells, pump houses, etc.
(3) Utility Facility, Major: A large facility required for the operation of a utility controlled by the Idaho Public Utilities Commission including electrical substations, major water storage reservoirs, etc.
2. Commercial Uses:
A. Agriculture Uses: The use of land for purposes including farming and crop production, dairying, pasturage, horticulture, animal and poultry husbandry, and the necessary accessory uses for treating or storing of farm products and parking of equipment. Specific use types include, but are not limited to:
(1) Agriculture and Stables: Tilling of soil, aquaculture, raising crops, livestock, farming, dairying, and animal husbandry including all customarily accessory and incidental uses, but excluding hogs, slaughterhouses, fertilizer works, bone yards, and commercial feed lots; or a building or structure used or designed for the boarding or care of riding horses.
(2) Hog Raising, Feedlot, Stockyard: A lot or parcel on which hogs are raised, bred and slaughtered, or where livestock are fed intensively in order to fatten for market, or where livestock are held on a short-term basis prior to slaughter. It does not include short-term holding pens for auction facilities.
(3) Slaughterhouse, Rendering Plant: A facility for the slaughtering and processing of animals and refining of animal byproducts.
B. Animal Related Business: Animal related business uses involve the selling, boarding, or care of animals on a commercial basis. Accessory uses may include confinement or exercise facilities for animals, parking, and storage areas. Specific use types include, but are not limited to:
(1) Animal Daycare: A lot or building where five or more dogs, cats, and other household domestic animals are maintained, harbored, or cared for on a daily basis, not to include overnight stays.
(2) Animal Hospital, Large: Any building or portion thereof designed or used for the care of the following animals: cattle, sheep, goats, horses, hogs, large exotic cats, or similar animals.
(3) Animal Hospital, Small: Any building or portion thereof designed or used for the care of the following animals: dogs, cats, primates, birds, water fowl, reptiles, rodents, and similar animals.
(4) Boarding Kennel, Commercial: Any lot or premises or portion thereof, on which five or more dogs, cats, and other household domestic animals are maintained, harbored, possessed, boarded, bred, or cared for in return for compensation or are offered for sale.
(5) Boarding Kennel, Non-Commercial: Any lot or premises or portion thereof on which more than four dogs or cats or a combination of such animals are maintained, harbored, possessed, bred, or cared for, without compensation and are not for sale. A noncommercial kennel license for such activity is required from the City Clerk.
(6) Small Animal Grooming: Grooming for small animals on an appointment basis, with drop off and pick up on the same day.
(7) Veterinary Clinic: The office or clinic of a veterinarian, where small animals or household pets are given medical, surgical, or health maintenance treatment. The boarding of animals is limited to short-term care incidental to the treatment clinic and must be a secondary use of the property.
C. Financial Service: Establishments that provide retail banking services, mortgage lending, and similar financial services to individuals and businesses. This classification includes those institutions engaged in the on-site circulation of cash money and check-cashing facilities, but does not include bail bond brokers. Accessory uses may include automatic teller machines, offices, and parking. Specific use types include, but are not limited to:
(1) Bank, Financial Institution: An establishment that provides banking services, lending, or similar financial services to individuals and businesses. This definition includes those institutions engaged in the on-site circulation of cash money and check-cashing facilities, but shall not include bail bond brokers. The establishment may or may not have a drive-thru facility.
D. Food and Beverage Service: Food and beverage service businesses serve prepared food or beverages for consumption on or off the premises. Accessory uses may include food preparation areas, offices, and parking. Specific use types include:
(1) Coffee/Espresso Stand: A beverage service establishment where drive-up window service is the primary customer access.
(2) Tavern/Lounge: A building where alcoholic beverages are sold for consumption on the premises, not including restaurants where the principal business is serving food.
(3) Restaurant: Any land, building or part thereof, other than a boarding house, where meals are provided for compensation, including uses such as brewpub, cafe, cafeteria, coffee shop, lunch room, tea room and dining room, but not taverns or lounges. Brewpubs brew alcoholic beverages that are made and sold for consumption on the premises.
E. Office: Office uses are primarily for conducting the affairs of a business, profession, service, or industry, or like activity, that may include ancillary uses such as restaurants, coffee shop, and limited retail sales. Specific use types include, but are not limited to:
(1) Office, Business or Professional: Offers business or professional services, such as accountants, architects, attorneys, insurance brokers, realtors, investment counselors, but not including medical or personal services.
F. Service Retail: Establishments that provide individual services related to personal needs directly to customers at the site of the business, or that receives goods from or returns goods to the customer, that have been treated or processed at that location or another location. Specific use types include, but are not limited to:
(1) Person Service: A facility that provides individualized services generally related to personal needs. These include, but are not limited to, beauty and healthcare services such as hair and nail salons, and barber shops. The term does not include tattoo parlors, body piercing or massage establishments.
(2) Laundry and Dry Cleaning Service: An establishment where laundry or dry cleaning is dropped off by customers or picked up by customers and that also includes on-site laundry and/or cleaning activities, including related operation of equipment and machinery. Establishments that do not include on-site cleaning activities are classified as "general personal services."
(3) Massage Establishment: A fixed place of business wherein any individual, partnership, firm, association, corporation, or combination of individuals, engages in, conducts, carries on or permits to be conducted or carried on, for money or other consideration, administration of a massage.
(4) Photography Studio: A business where photography is practiced on a professional level for portraiture and for various commercial and industrial applications, including the preparation of photographs for advertising, illustration, display, and record-keeping.
(5) Printing, Lithography, Publishing & Reproductions, Exclusive of Paper Manufacturing: The business of making copies of printed materials.
(6) Self-Service Laundry: An establishment with pay-per- use clothes washing and drying machines where customers launder their own clothes. May include accessory retail sales of laundry soap and similar items, primarily for use on the premises.
(7) Tattoo Parlors and Body Piercing Establishments: A business creating permanent picture or design on skin by pricking it and staining it with an indelible dye and piercing of the body.
(8) Retail Tobacco Business: A business which (1) during the normal course of business primarily distributes any tobacco product or provides any equipment or material used for the consumption of tobacco, (2) lawfully may permit smoking indoors, and (3) does operate a smoking area on premises owned, operated, or used by the business, whether indoors or outdoors, during any portion of its hours of operation.
G. Recreation and Entertainment:
(1) Concert Hall/Dance Hall: A business operating in an area, whether indoors or out, where amplified sound or music is provided for entertainment.
(2) Firing Range: A controlled area of activity, indoors or outdoors, specifically designed for the discharging of firearms at targets.
(3) Health Club: A club for leisure and fitness activities.
(4) Recreation, Commercial - Indoor: An indoor facility for bowling alley, skating rink, arcade, arena, archery, and similar uses.
(5) Recreation, Commercial - Outdoor: Amusement parks, ball park (baseball, football, soccer), water park, batting cages, go-cart track, and similar uses partially conducted outside of a building.
(6) Recreation Center: A commercial or non-profit bowling alley, roller rink, or similar use.
(7) Social Event Center: An establishment for weddings, birthdays, dances, celebrations, and other similar special events.
(8) Swimming Pool, Commercial: Any facility intended for swimming or recreational bathing that contains water over 24 inches (610 millimeters) deep. This includes in-ground, above-ground and on-ground swimming pools, hot tubs and spas.
(9) Theater: A building used primarily for the presentation of live stage productions, performances, or motion pictures.
(10) Theater, Drive-In: A form of cinema consisting of a large screen, a projection booth, a concession stand, and a large outdoor parking area for automobiles.
H. Retail (Sales): Retail (Sales) uses are private enterprises that provide goods directly to the general public for purchase. This use does not include food service, personal service, construction equipment rental, or recreation uses. No outdoor display or outdoor storage is permitted unless specifically authorized by this Code. Accessory uses may include offices, parking, storage of goods, assembly, repackaging, or repair of goods for on-site sale. Specific use types include, but are not limited to:
(1) Building Materials, Hay, Grain, Bulk Garden Supply, Heavy Materials: A retail business that sells large, bulky, or heavy goods including building materials and agricultural goods, such as hay, grain, bulk garden supplies, tools, and equipment.
(2) Convenience Store with Gasoline Service: An establishment generally less than 5,000 square feet engaged in the sale of convenience goods, such as pre-packaged food items, tobacco, over-the-counter drugs, periodicals, and other household goods, and that also provides the retail sale of petroleum products dispensed through gasoline pumps and other supplies for motor vehicles.
(3) Drive-Up Establishment: An establishment, whether it be the primary or an accessory use, other than automobile service station or parking lot, that is designed to allow the occupants of a motor vehicles to make purchases or receive services at a window or service area while remaining in the vehicle.
(4) Grocery: A market where food and related items are sold.
(5) Optician: A business that fits and sells lenses, eyeglasses, and other optical instruments.
(6) Pharmacy: A location where prescription drugs are sold. May also include the sale of non-prescription drugs and personal care items.
(7) Retail Store: A single retail use in one stand-alone building or tenant space.
(8) Shopping Center, Convenience Commercial: A small shopping center that typically features an approximately 2,500 square foot groceries/sundries store as an anchor tenant and may also provide other services such as gasoline sales, dry cleaners, coffee shop, dentist office, beauty shop, day care, etc. A convenience shopping center may have an average building area ranging from 15,000 to 35,000 square feet and occupy one to three acres.
(9) Shopping Center, Neighborhood Commercial: A moderate sized shopping center, planned and developed as a unit, typically composed of a grocery up to 60,000 square feet in size, and usually containing additional smaller tenants serving a local market area. A neighborhood shopping center may have a gross floor area ranging from 35,000 to 100,000 square feet and may occupy up to 10 acres.
(10) Shopping Center, Community Commercial: A group of commercial establishments, planned and developed as a unit, typically featuring an approximately 50,000 square foot or greater grocery store and/or department store or volume discount retail outlet as an anchor tenant/s and may include freestanding buildings containing restaurants or other commercial uses. A community shopping center has a gross floor area of over 100,000 square feet but no more than 300,000 square feet and typically occupies from 10 to 25 acres.
(11) Shopping center, Regional Commercial: A group of commercial establishments, planned, developed, owned, and managed as a unit related in location, size and types of shops to the trade area that the unit serves; it provides on-site parking in definite relationship to the type and size of stores. The major tenant is one or more full line department stores. Size of the center can range between 300,000 square feet to over one million square feet of gross leasable area.
I. Vehicles and Equipment: Vehicles and equipment uses include a broad range of uses for the maintenance, sale, or rental of motor vehicles and related equipment. Accessory uses may include incidental repair and storage, offices, and sales of parts. Specific use types include, but are not limited to:
(1) Auto Emission Van Test Site: A lot, structure, or vehicle where emissions are tested or evaluated to determine compliance with law.
(2) Automotive Sales Lot: An establishment engaged in the display, sale, leasing, or rental of new or used motor vehicles.
(3) Battery Rebuilding Shop: A motor vehicle repair shop that rebuilds vehicle batteries.
(4) Car Wash: A facility for the cleaning of automobiles, providing either self-serve facilities or employees to perform washing operations.
(5) Motor Vehicle Repair, Minor: Incidental repairs, replacement of parts, and minor service to motor vehicles, but not including any operation specified as "Motor Vehicle Repair, Major."
(6) Motor Vehicle Repair, Major: General repairs to vehicle engine, transmission or drive-train; rebuilding or major reconditioning of worn or damaged motor vehicles or trailers; collision service, including body, frame or fender straightening or repair; and overall painting of motor vehicles or trailers.
(7) Parking Lot: An open, graded, and surfaced area, other than a street or public right-of-way, to be used for the storage, for limited periods of time, of operable passenger automobiles and commercial vehicles, and available to the public, whether for compensation, free, or as an accommodation to clients or customers.
(8) Parking Lot, Off-Site: Any required parking space that is separated from the site of the principal use by either an intervening lot, a public roadway, or a public alley.
(9) Parking Garage: A building or portion thereof consisting of one or more levels at, below, or above grade, designed to be used for the parking of automobiles and commercial vehicles that is available to the public, whether for compensation, free, or as an accommodation to clients or customers.
(10) Service Station: Premises where gasoline, motor oils, lubricants, and grease for the operation of motor vehicles are retailed directly to the public on the premises and including tires, accessories, services, and minor motor vehicle repairs.
J. Visitor Accommodations: For-profit facilities where lodging, meals, and the like are provided to transient visitors and guests for a defined period. Specific use types include, but are not limited to:
(1) Hotel: A building containing six or more bedrooms where overnight lodging without individual cooking facilities is offered to the public for compensation, primarily for the accommodation of transient guests.
(2) Motel: A building or group of buildings on the same premises, whether detached or attached, containing sleeping or dwelling units independently accessible from the outside, with garage space or parking space located on the premises and designed for, or occupied by, travelers. The term includes, but is not limited to, any buildings or building groups designated as auto courts, motor lodges, tourist courts, or by any other title or sign intended to identify them as providing lodging to motorists.
(3) Recreation Vehicle Park: Any area, tract, plot, or site of land whereupon two or more recreational vehicles or travel trailers are placed, located, and maintained for temporary living quarters on a temporary basis.
K. Other Commercial:
(1) Auction Establishment: A building or portion of a building used for the public sale of goods, merchandise, or equipment to the highest bidder.
(2) Bikini Bar: A business, as defined in Title 23 of Idaho Code, licensed to serve beer, wine, alcohol, or spirituous liquor for consumption on the premises that features live performers or servers wearing bikinis or swimsuits covering specified anatomical areas.
(3) Construction Business: A business related to the construction industry, such as a roofing shop, sign painting shop, or sheet metal shop.
(4) Newspaper & Printing Establishment: An enclosed facility for the printing and distribution of newspapers, newsletters, and other similar media that is printed on newsprint-type paper for sale and general circulation.
(5) Sexually Oriented Business: An adult arcade, adult bookstore, adult cabaret, adult motion picture theater, adult theater, or sexual encounter premise; or any premises where employees engage in specified sexual activities or display specified anatomical areas.
3. Industrial Uses:
A. Industrial Service: Industrial service firms are engaged in the repair or servicing of agricultural, industrial, business, or consumer machinery, equipment, products, or by- products. Firms that service consumer goods do so by mainly providing centralized services for separate retail outlets. Contractors and similar uses perform services off-site. Few customers come to the site. Accessory activities may include sales, offices, parking, and storage. Specific use types include, but are not limited to:
(1) Contractor Shop: A building or part of a building or land area for the construction or storage of materials, equipment, tools, products, and vehicles. Parts and equipment are generally not displayed or sold on-site for retail consumption, but if so, they are a subordinate part of commercial or wholesale sales. Typical examples include air conditioning service, plumbing companies, electrical companies, rental stores, or any area upon which materials are stored for use as part of the business or from which service crews are normally dispatched in service vehicles.
(2) Laundry, Industrial: An industrial facility where fabrics are cleaned on a commercial or wholesale basis.
B. Manufacturing and Production: This use category includes firms involved in the manufacturing, processing, fabrication, packaging, or assembly of goods. Natural, constructed, raw, secondary, or partially completed materials may be used. Products may be finished or semi- finished and are generally made for the wholesale market, for transfer to other plants, or to order for firms or consumers. Custom industry is included (i.e., establishments primarily engaged in the on-site production of goods by hand manufacturing involving the use of hand tools and small- scale equipment). Goods are generally not displayed or sold on site, but if so, such activity is a subordinate part of sales. Relatively few customers come to the manufacturing site. Accessory activities may include retail sales, offices, cafeterias, parking, employee recreational facilities, warehouses, storage yards, repair facilities, truck fleets, and caretaker's quarters. Specific use types include, but are not limited to:
(1) Atmospheric Gas Production Plant: A facility for the production of gases derived from the atmosphere (i.e., N202 Argon).
(2) Brewery, Distillery, Winery: An establishment for production of alcoholic liquors, but does not include food service establishments that produce such products only for on-site sale.
(3) Food Products, Dairy Products & Wholesale Bakeries: A facility for the manufacture and wholesale of dairy and other food products, including baked goods such as bread and cakes.
(4) Lumbermill, Sawmill, Pulpmill: A mill that cuts or processes logs into lumber or pulp.
(5) Tannery: A business that tans or processes raw animal hides into leather. Not to include manufacture of leather goods.
C. Mining and Extractive Uses: Mining and extractive uses include the extraction of minerals, sand, gravel, and ores, and distribution of extracted materials, including the excavation, processing and distribution of clay, gravel, stone and soils.
(1) Mining, Dredging, Loading & Hauling of Sand, Dirt, Gravel or Other Aggregate: Extraction and movement of aggregate materials, not to include hard rock mining.
(2) Rock Crushing & Extractive Uses: A business engaged in the reduction of rocks and concrete demolition debris to smaller sizes useable as gravel; fill for construction, or similar commercial use, or in the extraction of materials from hard rock or ore.
D. Storage: This category is characterized by uses where goods, products, materials are kept or stored.No sales or service is included. Specific use types include, but are not limited to:
(1) Bulk Storage: Storage as a primary use, non- accessory storage.
Storage of Corrosive, Acid, Alkali, Flammable, or Explosive Materials.
Storage, whether indoor or outdoor, of the named materials types.
(2) Self-Service Storage: An outdoor area or a building(s) that are designed or used exclusively for storage of excess property of an individual, family or business. Buildings are divided into individually accessed units. This shall not be deemed to include the day-to-day operations of businesses of any kind.
(3) Storage Building: A facility for the storage of products, supplies, and equipment.
(4) Wholesale Business: A business primarily engaged in the selling of merchandise to retailers; to industrial, commercial, institutional, or professional business users, or to other wholesalers; or acting as agents or brokers and buying merchandise for, or selling merchandise to such individuals or companies.
E. Warehouse and Freight Movement: Firms involved in warehouse and freight movement are engaged in the storage or movement of goods for themselves or other firms. Goods are generally delivered to other firms or the final consumer, except for some will call pickups. There is little on site sales activity with the customer present. Accessory uses may include offices, truck fleet parking, and maintenance areas. Specific use types include, but are not limited to:
(1) Grain Elevator: A facility or area for the temporary storage of grain for transferal to trucks, train cars, or other forms of transportation.
(2) Trucking Terminal: An area or building where cargo is stored and where trucks, including tractors and trailer units, load and unload cargo on a regular basis. The use may include facilities for the temporary storage of loads prior to shipment. The use shall also include truck stops or fueling stations where diesel fuel is primarily sold.
(3) Truck Stop: A facility for the fueling of automobiles and heavy trucks. Accessory uses may include a restaurant, retail sales, maintenance facilities, and sleeping and personal hygiene facilities.
(4) Warehouse: A building or portion thereof used for the storage of merchandise, stock, vehicles, furnishings, supplies, and other trade or business material.
F. Waste and Salvage: Waste and salvage firms receive solid or liquid wastes from others for disposal on the site or for transfer to another location, uses that collect sanitary wastes, or uses that manufacture or produce goods or energy from the composting of organic material or processing of scrap or waste material. Waste and Salvage uses also include uses that receive hazardous wastes from others. Accessory uses may include recycling of materials, offices, and repackaging and shipment of by-products. Specific use types include, but are not limited to:
(1) Composting Facility: A facility where organic matter that is derived primarily from off-site is processed by composting and/or is processed for commercial purposes. Activities of a composting facility may include management, collection, transportation, staging, composting, curing, storage, marketing, or use of compost.
(2) Junkyard: An outdoor space where junk, waste, or discarded or salvaged materials are stored or handled, including automobile wrecking yards, and yards for used or salvaged building and structural steel materials and equipment. Does not include yards or establishments for the sale, purchase or storage of used cars or machinery in operable conditions, and the processing of used, discarded or salvaged materials as a part of a permitted manufacturing operation on the same premises.
(3) Recycle Drop-Off Center: A facility in which recoverable resources such as newspapers, glassware, plastics, and metal cans are recycled, reprocessed, and treated to return such products to a condition in which they can again be used for production.
(4) Sanitary Landfill, Incineration: A planned and approved method or system of waste disposal in which the waste is disposed or buried in layers, compacted by earth or other approved methods, also known as sanitary landfill, or a facility where solid waste is burned prior to disposal.
(5) Vehicle Wrecking Yard: Any use of premises, excluding fully enclosed buildings, on which two or more motor vehicles not in operating condition are standing more than 30 days, or on which used motor vehicles, or parts thereof, are dismantled or stored.
4. Accessory Uses:
A. Accessory Use: A use incidental or subordinate to the principal use of the premises that does not alter the essential characteristic of the use considered as a whole and as related to other uses permitted in the same district.
B. Backyard Composting: The activity of decomposing organic matter generated on any area of land or lot by a homeowner, tenant, occupant, or property owner. Backyard composting shall process materials generated primarily on site. Backyard composting shall be operated in a nuisance free manner. No commercial purpose may be association with backyard composting.
C. Home Occupation: Any gainful occupation engaged in by an occupant of a dwelling unit, such as hair salons, graphic arts, desktop publication, offices and instruction of small classes.
D. Livestock: Livestock are classes of animals that are kept and housed outside the home or in enclosures such as pens, barns, corrals or paddock areas. Livestock includes, but is not limited to horses, cattle (beef and dairy), llamas, mules, swine, sheep, goats, rabbits, poultry, and domestic birds. Livestock includes any other grazing or foraging animal except those specifically included as a pet.
E. Outdoor Storage: The storage of equipment, materials, supplies, etc. in an outdoor area as an accessory to a primary use.
F. Pet: Pets generally are animals that may be kept indoors, though pets may also be kept outdoors. Pets are dogs, cats, up to six chickens (excluding roosters), four ducks, six rabbits, or other small animals or poultry as determined by the Director. The keeping of pets must comply with the performance standards in 11-06-07.4.D(7)(f).
5. Temporary Uses: A temporary use is any activity on a site approved by the Director for a limited time of operation. Such uses include seasonal or holiday sales of products or placement of temporary structures on a lot incidental to construction occurring on the lot, outdoor display of garden and related supplies, and/or any other uses that the Director may deem as able to function without permanent permits for a short time as allowed by this code.
A. Construction Office, Temporary: A moveable or modular structure or trailer used for the storage of construction materials and/or the offices or work spaces for construction managers or workers during the time a principal or accessory building is being constructed.
B. Sales Trailer: A moveable or modular structure or trailer temporarily used for sale of real estate within the same development.
C. Seasonal Uses: Uses such as fireworks stands, Christmas tree lots, and fruit and vegetable stands.
D. Subdivision Office, Temporary: A moveable or modular structure or trailer used for the storage of construction materials and/or the offices or work spaces for construction managers or workers during the time a subdivision is being constructed.
E. Temporary Parking: A temporary parking lot for non- required parking where new building construction is planned.
F. Temporary Display and Sale of Merchandise: Outdoor display and sale of merchandise, such as a sidewalk sale, arts and crafts show, or tent sale for new, used, or seasonal merchandise. (amd. Ord. 9-22, 3-29-2022)