CARETAKER’S RESIDENCE: | A dwelling unit accessory to a professional, commercial or industrial use for occupancy by the owner caretaker. |
CEMETERY: | Land used or intended to be used for the burial of the dead and dedicated for said purposes. |
CLEARING: | The destruction and/or removal of vegetation by manual, mechanical or chemical means, except that for the purposes of this title, the term shall not include agricultural and silvicultural practices, gardening, landscaping, snow removal and other incidental practices not associated with vegetative removal as a precursor to actual construction to which this title is applicable. |
CLINIC: | A building or portion of a building containing offices for providing medical, dental or psychiatric services for outpatients only. |
CLUSTER LOT: | A lot in a conservation subdivision (typically smaller than the minimum lot size for the applicable zoning district) in which residential development can occur. |
CLUSTER OR CLUSTERING: | Refers to a site planning technique that concentrates buildings and structures in specific areas on a lot, site or parcel to allow the remaining land to be used for recreation, open space and/or preservation of features and/or structures with environmental, historical, cultural or other significance. The techniques used to concentrate buildings may include, but shall not be limited to, reduction in lot areas, setback requirements and/or bulk requirements, with the resultant open space being devoted by deed restrictions for one or more uses. |
COMMERCIAL ACTIVITY: | A business use involving retail or wholesale marketing of goods and services. Examples of commercial activity include offices, retail shops, services offered for money, manufacturing and value added processing, and wholesale sales. |
COMMON OPEN SPACE: | A part of a conservation subdivision or planned unit development that is set aside in perpetuity as open space. This area may include freshwater wetlands, floodplains or flood hazard areas, stream corridors, recreational areas, prime agricultural lands, wildlife habitat, scenic views, historical or cultural features, archaeological sites, or other land to be protected from development, as well as easements for public utilities. |
COMMUNICATION TOWER: | A structure specifically designed, constructed and/or erected for the purpose of attaching, mounting or otherwise affixing antennas at a height or elevation which is located above the base of the structure. Antenna support may include guyed wire support towers, lattice towers or monopole towers. A “lattice tower” consists of a vertical support structure consisting of a network of crossed metal braces, forming a tower that may be three (3) or more sided. A “monopole tower” consists of a vertical support structure consisting of a single vertical metal, concrete or wooden pole, typically round or square, and driven into the ground or attached to a foundation. “Communication towers” do not include dish antennas used for residential purposes; amateur and public safety communication radio towers, CB radio and radio transmitters with a tower height less than seventy five feet (75'); and VHF and UHF receive only residential television antennas. |
COMMUNITY DOCK AND MARINA: | A structure or structures that provide moorage facilities, together with accessory facilities, operated as a business and open to the public or operated as a private club for members. |
COMPREHENSIVE PLAN: | An official statement of growth policies, adopted by the board, including such things as the general location and extent of present and proposed land uses, including residential densities, commercial and industrial uses, major transportation, parks, schools and other community facilities. |
CONDITIONAL USE: | A use or occupancy of a structure, or a use of land, permitted only upon issuance of a conditional use permit and subject to the limitations and conditions specified in this title. |
CONDITIONAL USE PERMIT: | A permit issued by Bonner County Zoning Commission stating that the conditional use complies with the conditions and standards set forth in this title and authorized by the Zoning Commission. |
CONDOMINIUM PROJECT: | A residential development consisting of condominiums. A condominium consists of an undivided interest in common in a portion of real property, together with a separate interest in space, the boundaries of which are described on a recorded final plat or recorded survey in sufficient detail to locate all boundaries thereof. |
CONFINED ANIMAL FEEDING OPERATION (CAFO): | A. The use of a lot, parcel or facility where the following conditions are met: 1. Animals have been, are or will be stabled or confined and fed or maintained for a total of forty five (45) days or more in any twelve (12) month period; 2. Crops, vegetation, forage growth or postharvest residues are not sustained in the normal growing season over any portion of the lot, parcel or facility; and 3. The lot, parcel or facility is designed to confine or actually does confine an equivalent of one thousand (1,000) animal units or more; or 4. The operation results in direct or indirect discharge of manure or wastewater to surface water or the animals come into contact with surface water that passes through the area where they are confined. B. Two (2) or more confined animal feeding operations under common ownership are considered, for the purposes of this title, to be a single confined animal feeding operation if they adjoin each other, even if separated by a public or private road or easement, or if they use a common area or system for the disposal of wastes. |
CONSERVATION LOT: | That part of a conservation subdivision that remains dedicated to agriculture, open space and/or natural resource protection and is devoid of any structures other than those for the benefit of agricultural uses (including, but not limited to, barns, well houses, irrigation structures, hay sheds) or conservation purposes, but may include a primary residential dwelling unit (and any accessory employee housing as allowed). |
CONSERVATION SUBDIVISION: | A subdivision where lots are clustered in specific areas to allow the remaining land to be used for recreation, open space, agriculture and/or preservation of features and/or structures with environmental, historical, cultural or other significance. |
CONVALESCENT CENTER: | A facility, other than a hospital, that provides nursing services and custodial care on a twenty four (24) hour basis for compensation for individuals who, for reasons of illness, physical infirmity or advanced age, require such services. |
CONVEYANCE: | A mechanism for transporting stormwater from one point to another, including pipes, ditches and channels, but not including agricultural ditches for irrigation. |
CORNER LOT: | See definition of Lot Types. |
COTTAGE HOUSING: | A housing type designed and built in a manner consistent with section 12-480 of this title, or as hereafter amended. (Ord. 558, 12-14-2016; amd. Ord. 661, 3-18-2022) |