RACETRACK: | A commercial facility, whether private or public, indoor or outdoor, configured and used to conduct events involving animals or machines competing against one another or against time. A racetrack may include seating, concession areas to serve patrons of the facility only, restrooms, parking facilities and storage facilities. The definition of racetrack shall include motocross, mud bog tracks, horse and dog racetracks, demolition derby courses, upland accommodations for water based racecourses, auto racetracks and other similar courses. Commercial, for the purposes of this definition, includes the charging of any fee or other compensation. |
REAR YARD: | See definition of Yard, Rear. |
RECONNAISSANCE: | An inspection or exploration of an area. |
RECREATION VEHICLE: | A vehicular or portable unit designed to be mounted on a chassis and wheels, designed and constructed to be installed with or without a permanent foundation for human occupancy as a residence not more than nine hundred (900) square feet in total floor area. The term “recreation vehicle” shall include, but is not limited to, travel trailers, park models, camping trailers, truck campers, and motor homes and tiny houses. |
RECREATIONAL FACILITY: | A place designed and equipped for the conduct of small scale and low intensity sports, leisure time activities and other customary and usual recreational activities. Activities may include, but are not limited to, recreational uses such as rafting, canoeing, tent camping, swimming, cross country skiing, hiking, hunting and fishing, horseback riding and snowmobiling, together with accessory facilities, operated as a business and open to the public or operated as a private club for members. |
RECREATIONAL VEHICLE (RV) PARK: | Any premises designed for the rental of three (3) or more recreational vehicle parking stalls or spaces. |
RESIDENTIAL: | Describes the use of a structure by a family (or families) as a dwelling unit (or units) and may also include home occupation, accessory uses, or structures. Residential is also used to describe a geographic area where permitted uses are typically residential in character. |
RESIDENTIAL CARE OR ASSISTED LIVING FACILITY: | Refer to Idaho Code 39-3302. |
RESORT, COMMERCIAL: | An area privately owned, devoted primarily to outdoor recreational uses conducted for profit, which may include, but are not limited to, swimming, boating, fishing, hunting, camping, picnicking, winter sports and similar uses. A “commercial resort” may also include facilities for seasonal or overnight living quarters for guests. Such seasonal or overnight living quarters shall be clearly subordinate to the on site outdoor recreational uses. |
RETAIL SERVICES: | Establishments engaged in the sale of goods or services directly to the consumer. |
RETENTION: | The holding of stormwater runoff within a contained area in such manner that the stormwaters so contained can leave by means of evaporation, infiltration or emergency overflow or bypass structures. |
RETREAT: | A facility used for professional, educational, health or religious meetings, training, conferences or seminars which by its design is low intensity and small scale. A “retreat” provides an opportunity for groups to congregate temporarily on a site for such purposes as education, enlightenment, contemplation, renewal or solitude. “Retreats” may include, but are not limited to, corporate retreats, ashrams, meditation centers, weight reduction camps, or other similar facilities. Retreat facilities are permitted only for those who are engaged in retreat activities, and shall not be used by the general public for meals or overnight accommodations. |
REVERSED FRONTAGE LOT: | See definition of Lot Types. |
RIGHT OF WAY: | A strip of land used for access, or dedicated for use as a public right of way. |
ROAD: | See subsection B, “Local Roads”, of the definition of Street. |
ROAD CONSTRUCTION: | The building up of the natural land surface within a right of way or easement for the purpose of creating a travelway open for vehicular passage. “Road construction” shall include such activities as initial clearing, alteration of topography, and installation of culverts, filling of low areas, deposition of subbase or base materials, topping, grading and surfacing. |
ROAD RECONSTRUCTION: | Any modification of the cross section, subgrade or alignment of a road or travelway within a right of way or easement. Routine grading, resurfacing or repaving shall not be considered reconstruction. |
ROOMING HOUSE: | See definition of Group Housing. (Ord. 558, 12-14-2016; amd. Ord. 606, 7-14-2020; Ord. 696, 7-12-2023) |