For the purpose of this chapter, certain words and terms used herein are defined as provided in this section. All words used in the present tense include the future tense; all words in the plural number include the singular number; and all words in the singular number include the plural number, unless the natural construction of the wording indicates otherwise. The word "lot" includes the word "plot"; the word "building" includes the word "structure"; and the word "shall" is mandatory and not discretionary. The word "used" shall be deemed also to include "designed, intended or arranged to be used". Unless otherwise specified, all distances shall be measured horizontally. The word "city" means the city of Council, in Adams County, state of Idaho; the term "city council" means the city council of the city; and the term "building inspector" means the building inspector for the city.
ACCESS: The place, means or way by which pedestrians or vehicles shall have safe, adequate and usable ingress and egress to a property, use or parking space.
ACCESSWAY: An unobstructed way of specified width containing a drive or roadway which provides vehicular access within a mobile home park and connects to a public street.
AWNING: Any stationary structure used in conjunction with a mobile home, other than a window awning, for the purpose of providing shelter from the sun and rain and having a roof with supports and not more than one wall or storage cabinet substituting for a wall.
BUILDING: Any structure having a roof, but excluding all forms of vehicles even though immobilized. When a use is required to be within a building, or where special authority granted pursuant to this chapter requires that a use shall be within an entirely enclosed building, then the term "building" means one so designed and constructed that all exterior walls of the structure shall be solid from the ground to the roofline, and shall contain no openings except for windows and doors which are so designed so that they may be closed.
BUILDING HEIGHT: The height of a building is the vertical distance from the established grade to the highest point on the roof or parapet wall.
DEPENDENT MOBILE HOME OR TRAILER: A mobile home which does not have a toilet and/or a bathtub or shower.
DWELLING UNIT: One or more habitable rooms which are occupied or which are intended or designed to be occupied by one family with housekeeping facilities for living, sleeping, cooking and eating.
ESTABLISHED GRADE: The high point of the sidewalk at the front or side lot line as established by the city.
FAMILY: One or more persons related by blood, marriage or adoption or a group of not more than six (6) persons (excluding servants) not related by blood or marriage, living together as a single housekeeping unit in a dwelling unit.
GRADE (GROUND LEVEL): The average of the finished ground level at the center of all walls of a building. In case walls are parallel to and within five feet (5') of a sidewalk, alley, or other public way, the above ground level shall be measured at the elevation of the sidewalk, alley or public way.
MOBILE HOME: A vehicle or structure constructed with wheels for use on the public highways, which has sleeping, cooking and plumbing facilities, is intended for human occupancy and is being used for residential purposes. The term mobile home does not apply to any prefabricated section of a factory built house to which wheels may be attached for the purpose of moving it to a permanent location where it becomes affixed to the real property.
MOBILE HOME PARK: Any privately owned place where two (2) or more mobile homes used for human occupancy are parked within five hundred feet (500') of one another on a lot, tract or parcel of land under the same ownership.
MOBILE HOME SPACE: A plot of land within a mobile home park designated for the accommodation of one mobile home.
OPEN SPACE: Any part of a lot unobstructed from the ground upward.
PARK: A mobile home park.
RAMADA: A stationary structure having a roof extending over a mobile home or trailer which may also extend over a patio or parking space for motor vehicles, and is used principally for protection from sun and rain.
RECREATION FACILITIES: Facilities, such as boat or yacht clubs, swimming pools, athletic clubs, and golf and country clubs, for the use of the general public and operated by the city.
SERVICE BUILDING: A building housing communal toilet, laundry, and other sanitary facilities necessary for the health and convenience of mobile home park occupants.
SETBACK, YARD REQUIREMENTS: The distances that buildings or uses must be removed from their lot lines. Setbacks shall be measured, where applicable, from proposed or actual public or private street right of way lines.
TRAILER: See definition of Mobile Home.
VACATION TRAILER: A vehicle or structure equipped with wheels for highway use that is intended for human occupancy, is not being used for residential purposes and is being used for vacation and recreational purposes.
YARD: Required space on the same lot with a building, unoccupied and unobstructed from a point thirty inches (30") above grade upward, except as otherwise provided herein. In any required yard through which automobile access is taken between a public or private parking area and a street, no fence, wall, hedge or other vegetation shall be permitted which materially impedes vision from a public sidewalk to automobiles backing from said parking area(s) across said public sidewalk.
ZONING PERMIT OR LICENSE: A document issued by the building inspector certifying that proposed buildings, structures or uses are consistent with the terms of this chapter, so long as they comply with other requirements hereof. (Ord. 236, 5-10-1983; amd. 2015 Code)