For the purpose of this title, the following rules shall apply:
A. Words used in the present tense include the future.
B. Words in the singular number include the plural and words in the plural number include singular.
C. The word "shall" or the word "must" is mandatory and not discretionary.
D. The words "used for" include the meaning "arranged for", "designed for", "occupied or intended to be occupied for".
E. The particular controls the general.
F. In case of a difference of meaning or implication between the text of this title and the captions for each section, the text shall control.
G. All references to the city manager shall include the city manager or appropriate designee.
H. The city manager hereby designates the planning services manager as the city planner as referenced in this title.
I. The city manager hereby designates the building services manager as the building official as referenced in this title.
J. Unless otherwise specifically provided, the time within which an act is to be completed shall be computed by excluding the first day and including the last day, unless it is Sunday, which shall be included in the computation of time. All acts must be completed within the time frame specified subject to extension periods provided herein. (Ord. 52-09, 10-19-2009)
For the purpose of this title, the following abbreviations and acronyms shall apply:
AASHTO | American Association Of State Highway And Transportation Officials |
AASHTO | American Association Of State Highway And Transportation Officials |
ADA | Americans with disabilities act |
COE | U.S. army corps of engineers |
EPA | Environmental protection agency |
FAA | Federal aviation administration |
FCC | Federal communications commission |
FEMA | Federal emergency management agency |
HPC | Historic preservation commission |
HUD | U.S. department of housing and urban development |
IDNR | Iowa department of natural resources |
IDOT | Iowa department of transportation |
NPDES | National pollutant discharge elimination system |
NRCS | Natural resources conservation service |
USDA | United States department of agriculture |
ZAC | Zoning advisory commission |
ZBA | Zoning board of adjustment |
(Ord. 52-09, 10-19-2009)
Words contained in this chapter are those having a special meaning relative to the purposes of this title. Words not listed in this chapter shall be defined by reference to: a) the current building code adopted by the city of Dubuque or, if not defined therein; in b) the Webster's dictionary, unabridged, which documents are hereby incorporated by reference as if herein set forth in their entirety. Words and terms not defined in this chapter but defined elsewhere in this code shall be given the meanings set forth therein.
ABANDONMENT: | To cease or discontinue a use or activity not to be construed as short term interruptions such as during periods of remodeling, maintenance, or normal periods of vacation or seasonal closure. |
ABUT, ABUTTING: | To border on, being contiguous with or have property or district lines in common, including property separated by a right of way or railroad. |
ACCESS OR ACCESSWAY: | The place, means, or way by which pedestrians and vehicles shall have safe, adequate and usable ingress and egress to a property or use as required by this title. |
ACCESSORY BUILDING OR STRUCTURE: | A detached subordinate building or structure, located on the same lot as the principal structure, the use of which is incidental and accessory to that of the principal structure. |
ACCESSORY DWELLING UNIT: | A dwelling unit, but not a mobile home, allowed as a conditional use as defined in this section. |
ACCESSORY LIVING QUARTERS: | Living quarters within an accessory building located on the same premises with the main building, for use by temporary guests of the occupant of the premises, such quarters having no kitchen facilities and not rented or otherwise used as a separate dwelling unit. |
ACCESSORY USE: | See definition of Use, Accessory. |
ACREAGE: | Any tract or parcel of land which does not qualify as a farm or development. |
ADJACENT: | Near or close; for example, an industrial district across the street or highway from a residential district shall be considered as adjacent. |
ADULT DAY SERVICES, LICENSED: | A facility providing care for the elderly and/or functionally impaired adults in a protective setting for a portion of a twenty four (24) hour day. |
ADULT ENTERTAINMENT ESTABLISHMENT: | |
AGRICULTURAL AND FARM BUILDINGS OR STRUCTURES: | Any building or structure which is necessary or incidental to the normal conduct of a farm including, but not limited to, residence of the operator, residence of hired help, barns, buildings and sheds for housing livestock, poultry and farm machinery, buildings for the storage or shelter of grain, hay and other crops, silos, windmills and water storage tanks. |
AGRICULTURAL OPERATIONS: | See definition of Farming. |
AGRICULTURE: | Land suitable for use in farming and which is or will be operated as a farm, including the raising, harvesting, and selling crops or by the feeding, breeding, management, and sale of, or the produce of, livestock, poultry, furbearing animals, or honeybees, or for dairying and the sale of dairy products, or any other agricultural or horticultural use. |
ALLEY: | A public right of way with a width of twenty feet (20') or less which affords a secondary means of access to abutting properties, not to be considered a street. |
ALTERATION: | Any change, addition or modification in construction or occupancy of an existing structure. |
ALTERATION, STRUCTURAL: | See definition of Structural Alteration. |
AMENDMENT: | A change in the wording, context, or substance of this title, an addition or deletion or a change in the district boundaries or classifications upon the official zoning map. |
AMPHITHEATER: | An outdoor area or structure characterized by tiers of seating, specifically designed and used as a place of assembly during spectacles and contests. |
AMUSEMENT ARCADE: | A building or a part of a building where the primary uses are pinball machines, video games, or other similar player orientated amusement devices which are available and are maintained for use. |
AMUSEMENT PARK: | A facility, primarily outdoors, that may include structures and buildings, where there are various devices for entertainment, including rides, booths for the conduct of games or sale of items, buildings for shows and entertainment, and restaurants and souvenir sales. |
ANIMAL FEEDING OPERATION: | A lot, yard, corral, building, or other area in which animals are confined and fed and maintained for forty five (45) days or more in any twelve (12) month period, and all structures used for the storage of manure from animals in the operation. An animal feeding operation does not include a livestock market. Open feedlots and confinement feeding operations are considered to be separate animal feeding operations. |
ANIMAL GROOMING SERVICE: | Any place or establishment, public or private, where animals are bathed, clipped, or combed for the purpose of enhancing their aesthetic value or health and for which a fee is charged. |
ANIMAL HOSPITAL: | See definition of Hospital, Animal. |
ANIMALS, DOMESTIC: | See definition of Household Pet. |
ANTENNA: | Any attached or external system of wires, poles, rods, reflecting disks or similar devices used for the transmission or reception of electromagnetic waves. See also definitions of Satellite Dish Antenna and Tower. |
ANTIQUE SHOP: | A place offering primarily antiques for sale. An antique for the purpose of this title shall be a work of art, piece of furniture, decorative object, or the like, of belonging to the past, at least thirty (30) years old. |
APARTMENT: | A room or a suite of rooms within an apartment house or multiple-family dwelling arranged, intended or designed for a place of residence of a single family or group of individuals living together as a single housekeeping unit. See also definition of Dwelling Unit. |
APARTMENT HOUSE: | See definition of Dwelling, Multiple-Family. |
APPEARANCE: | The outward aspect visible to the public. |
APPROPRIATE: | Sympathetic, or fitting, to the context of the site and the whole community. |
APPURTENANCE: | The visible, functional objects accessory to and part of buildings. |
ARCHITECTURAL CHARACTER OR CONCEPT: | The basic aesthetic idea of a building, or group of buildings or structures, including the site and landscape development that produces the architectural character. |
ARCHITECTURAL FEATURE: | A prominent or significant part or element of a building, structure, or site. Architectural features may include special lines, massing, and/or texture. |
Lines: Visual elements of the building, either within the facade or on the building edge, which are in a linear form either horizontally or vertically and may be composed of masonry, glass, or other related materials. | |
Mass: The volume, bulk of a building or structure. | |
Texture: The quality of a surface, ranging from mirror finish, smooth, to coarse and unfinished. | |
ARCHITECTURAL STYLE: | The characteristic form and detail, as of buildings of a particular historic period. |
ARTISAN PRODUCTION SHOP: | A building or portion thereof used for the creation of original handmade works of art or craft items by artists or artisans, as either a principal or accessory use. |
ARTIST STUDIO: | A place designed to be used, or used as, a place of work or a combination of both a dwelling place and a place of work, by an artist, artisan, or craftsperson, including persons engaged in the application, teaching, or performance of fine arts such as, but not limited to, drawing, vocal or instrumental music, painting, sculpture, and writing. |
ASSESSOR: | The Dubuque city assessor or appointed designee. |
ASSISTED LIVING FACILITY: | A provision of housing with services which may include, but not be limited to, health related care, personal care, and assistance with instrumental activities of daily living in a physical structure which provides a homelike environment. |
ATTACHED, PERMANENTLY: | Attached to real estate in such a way as to require dismantling, cutting away, unbolting from permanent foundation or structural change in such structure in order to relocate it to another site. |
AUDITORIUM: | A building or structure designed or intended for use for the gathering of people as an audience to hear music, lectures, plays, and other presentations. |
AUTO SALVAGE DEALER: | Any person who engages in the business of buying motor vehicles, motorcycles, motorized bicycles or parts thereof or tires for resale in whole or in part as junk or as used parts. |
AUTOMATIC TELLER MACHINE (ATM): | An automated device that performs banking or financial functions on site or at a location remote from the controlling financial institution. |
AVERAGE GROUND LEVEL: | A measurement that is determined by calculating the vertical distance between the ground and the first floor level at the front of a structure at several locations and then averaging the distance. |
BALLROOM: | A place or hall used for dancing, other than those listed under the definition of "Adult Cabaret" (see section 4-8-2
of this code). Ballrooms shall also be used for reunions, weddings and receptions. |
BAR: | Any establishment whose principal business is serving alcoholic beverages at retail for consumption on the premises. See also definition of Nightclub. |
BASEMENT: | Any floor level below the first story in a building, except that a floor level in the building having only one floor level shall be classified as a basement unless such floor level qualifies as a first story. (See diagram for story.) |
BEACON: | Any light with one or more beams directed into the atmosphere or directed at one or more points not on the same zone lot as the light source; also, any light with one or more beams that rotate or move. |
BED AND BREAKFAST HOME: | A structure containing a single dwelling unit, which provides lodging and meals for overnight guests only, in which no more than five (5) sleeping rooms are available for guests and is the principal residence (as defined in the internal revenue code) of a person owning not less than thirty percent (30%) of the fee title to the property. Each sleeping room in a bed and breakfast home shall be at least one hundred forty (140) square feet in area. |
BED AND BREAKFAST INN: | A structure containing a single dwelling unit with a full time resident owner or resident manager which provides lodging and meals for overnight guests only and has no more than nine (9) sleeping rooms available. Each sleeping room shall be at least one hundred forty (140) square feet in area. |
BEDROOM: | A room within a dwelling unit planned and intended for sleeping, separable from other rooms by a door or doorway. |
BERM: | A raised form of earth to provide screening or to improve the aesthetic character. |
BIG BOX RETAIL STORE: | See definition of Retail Commercial. |
BIOFILTRATION: | A pollution control technique that employs living material to capture, sequester and/or biologically degrade pollutants. |
BIOFUELS PLANT: | A facility where the conversion of corn or other biomass material into an alcohol fuel product is undertaken. The facility also includes the processing of certain byproducts resulting from the fermentation and distillation process. |
BIOMASS: | Plant material, used for the production of such things as fuel alcohol and nonchemical fertilizers. Biomass sources may be plants grown especially for that purpose or waste products from livestock, harvesting, milling, or from agricultural production or processing. |
BLOCK: | A parcel of land platted into lots and bounded by public streets or by waterways, rights of way, unplatted land, city-county boundaries, or adjoining property lines. |
BLOCK FRONTAGE: | See definition of Frontage, Block. |
BOARD: | The zoning board of adjustment of the city of Dubuque, Iowa. |
BOARDING OR ROOMING HOUSE: | A building containing a single dwelling unit and provisions where lodging is provided, with or without meals, for compensation. |
BOAT DOCK: | A structure built over or floating upon water and used as a landing place for boats and other marine transport, fishing, swimming, and other recreational uses. |
BREEZEWAY: | A roofed open passage connecting two (2) otherwise detached buildings. Breezeway connections shall not be construed to alter the detached status of the buildings so connected. |
BREW ON PREMISES STORE: | A facility that provides the ingredients and equipment for a customer to use to brew malt liquor at the store. Brew on premises stores do not include the sale of intoxicating liquor, unless the owner of the brew on premises store holds the appropriate liquor license. |
BREWERY: | An industrial use that brews ales, beers, meads and/or similar beverages on site. Breweries are classified as a use that manufactures more than ten thousand (10,000) barrels of beverage (all beverages combined) annually. |
BREWERY, MICRO: | A facility for the production and packaging of malt beverages of low alcoholic content for distribution, retail or wholesale, on or off premises, with a capacity of not more than ten thousand (10,000) barrels per year. The development may include other uses such as standard restaurant, bar, or live entertainment as otherwise permitted in the zoning district. |
BREWPUB: | A restaurant or hotel which includes the brewing of beer as an accessory use. The brewing operation processes water, malt, hops, and yeast into beer or ale by mashing, cooking, and fermenting. By definition, these establishments produce no more than ten thousand (10,000) barrels of beer or ale annually. The area, by definition, used for brewing, including bottling and kegging, shall not exceed twenty five percent (25%) of the total floor area of the commercial space. |
BROADCASTING TOWER: | A structure for the transmission or broadcast of radio, television, radar, or microwaves which exceeds the maximum height permitted in the district in which it is located; provided, however, that noncommercial radio towers not exceeding one hundred feet (100') in height shall not be considered broadcast towers. |
BUFFER: | A strip of land established to protect one type of land use from another incompatible land use or between a land use and a private or public road. See also definition of Screening. |
BUFFER ZONE: | An area of land that separates two (2) zoning districts and/or land uses that acts to soften or mitigate the effects of one use on the other. |
BUILDABLE AREA: | The sum in square feet of the ground areas occupied by all buildings and structures on a lot. |
BUILDING: | Any structure built and maintained for the support, shelter or enclosure of persons, animals, or property of any kind, but shall not include temporary buildings as defined in "structure, temporary". Operable and licensed trailers, with wheels, shall not be considered as buildings. |
BUILDING CODE: | The various codes of the city that regulate construction and requires building permits, electrical permits, mechanical permits, plumbing permits, and other permits to do work regulated by the adopted building code of the city, and other codes adopted by the city that pertain to building construction. |
BUILDING FOOTPRINT: | The area of a lot or site included within the surrounding exterior walls of a building or portion of a building, exclusive of courtyards, measured on a horizontal plane at finished grade. For residential structures, it includes residences, attached garages, covered carports, and accessory structures, but not trellises, patios, and areas of porches, decks and balconies less than thirty inches (30") from finished grade. In the absence of surrounding exterior walls, the building footprint shall be the area under the horizontal projection of the roof. |
BUILDING HEIGHT: | The vertical distance from the average ground level at the front wall of the building to the highest point of the underside of the ceiling beams for a flat roof or to the deck line of a mansard roof, or to the mean height level between eaves and ridge for gable, hip or gambrel roofs. |
BUILDING PERMIT: | A document issued under the authority of the building services department, which authorizes the construction or modification of a structure on a property. |
BUILDING, PRINCIPAL: | A building within which the main or principal use of the lot or premises is located. See also definition of Use, Principal. |
BULK REGULATIONS: | An indication of size and setback of buildings and their location with respect to one another including lot area, lot frontage, lot coverage, required front yard, required side yard, required rear yard and building height. |
BUSINESS SERVICES: | Uses providing services to people, groups, businesses, dwellings and other buildings. Business services shall include janitorial services, carpet and upholstery cleaning, painting and decorating, building maintenance, swimming pool maintenance, security service, graphics/advertising agency, photocopying/duplication, quick print shops, printing, blueprinting, sign painting, nonvehicle equipment rental, photographic studios and similar uses. |
CAMPGROUND: | A parcel of land intended for the temporary occupancy of tents, campers, and major recreational vehicles and which primary purpose is recreational, having open areas that are natural in character. |
CAR WASH, FULL SERVICE: | A building or section thereof containing facilities for washing motor vehicles, using production line methods or mechanical devices and does not include customer self-service. |
CAR WASH, INDUSTRIAL: | A mechanical facility for the washing, waxing and vacuuming of heavy trucks and buses. |
CAR WASH, SELF-SERVICE: | A building or section thereof containing facilities for washing motor vehicles by providing spaces, water and handheld equipment for washing of motor vehicles by the customer. |
CARPORT: | A roofed structure with not more than two (2) enclosed sides used or intended to be used for vehicle shelter and storage. |
CELLAR: | See definition of Basement. |
CEMETERY: | Land used or intended to be used for the burial of the dead and dedicated for such purposes, including columbariums and mausoleums. |
CHANNEL: | The geographical area within either the natural or artificial banks of a watercourse or drainageway. |
CHILDCARE: | The care or supervision of a child by a person other than the child's parent/guardian or custodian for periods of less than twenty four (24) hours per day per child on a regular basis. Childcare does not include a licensed childcare center. |
CHILDCARE CENTER, LICENSED: | A facility providing childcare or preschool services for children that requires state of Iowa licensure. |
CITY: | The city of Dubuque, Iowa. |
CITY MANAGER: | The Dubuque city manager or any other city staff designated by the city manager to carry out the implementation and enforcement of this title, including, but not limited to, the building services department, city attorney's office, engineering department, and planning services department. |
CITY STANDARDS: | The design and improvement standards and specifications established annually by the city manager. |
CLUB: | An association of persons (whether or not incorporated), religious or otherwise, for a common purpose, but not including groups which are organized primarily to render a service carried on as a business for profit. |
CLUB, PRIVATE: | A nonprofit voluntary association of persons for the promotion of same purposes or philosophy. The permitted uses of a building owned or leased by such an association shall include all customary club activities such as lectures, discussions, meetings, social or recreational events, and similar activities, and shall also include as an accessory use the sale of food or beverages, but only where limited to club members and guests and only in conformance with all state and federal regulations. |
CLUSTERED DEVELOPMENT: | A development designed to concentrate buildings in specific areas on a site to allow the remaining land to be used for recreation, common open space, and the preservation of environmentally sensitive areas. |
COLLEGE, SEMINARY, OR UNIVERSITY: | A postsecondary institution for higher learning that grants associate or bachelor degrees and may also have research facilities and/or professional schools that grant master and doctoral degrees. This may also include community colleges that grant associate or bachelor degrees or certificates of completion in business or technical fields. |
COMMERCIAL FEEDING OPERATION: | See definition of Animal Feeding Operation. |
COMMISSION: | The zoning advisory commission of the city of Dubuque, Iowa. |
COMMON AREA OR PROPERTY: | A parcel or parcels of land, together with the improvements thereon, the use and enjoyment of which are shared by the owners of the individual building sites in a clustered/mixed use development or condominium development. |
COMMUNITY CENTER: | A place, structure, or other facility used for and providing religious, fraternal, social, and/or recreational programs generally open to the public and designed to accommodate and serve various segments of the community. |
COMMUNITY GARDEN: | A publicly or privately owned parcel where people gather to grow produce and flowers. |
COMPATIBLE LAND USES: | A land use which is congruous with, tolerant of, and has limited adverse effects on existing neighboring uses. |
COMPREHENSIVE PLAN: | The adopted comprehensive plan for the city of Dubuque, Iowa. |
CONDITIONAL USE: | See definition of Use, Conditional. |
CONDITIONAL USE PERMIT: | A permit issued by the board of adjustment that authorizes the recipient to make conditional use of property in accordance with the provisions of chapter 8 of this title and any additional conditions placed upon, or required by said permit. |
CONDOMINIUM: | A multiple dwelling as defined herein whereby the title to each dwelling unit is held in separate ownership, and the real estate on which the units are located is held in common ownership solely by the owners of the units with each having an undivided interest in the common real estate. |
CONFINEMENT FEEDING OPERATION: | An animal feeding operation in which animals are confined to areas which are totally roofed. |
CONFLICTING LAND USE: | A land use which transfers negative economic or environmental effects over neighboring property lines. |
CONGREGATE HOUSING: | A residential facility for four (4) or more persons age fifty five (55) years or over, their spouses, or surviving spouses, providing living and sleeping facilities including meal preparation, dining areas, laundry services, room cleaning and common recreational, social, and service facilities for the exclusive use of all residents including resident staff personnel who occupy a room or unit in the residential facility. |
CONSERVATION: | The protection and care that prevent destruction or deterioration of historical or otherwise significant structures, buildings or natural resources. |
CONSERVATION AREA: | Environmentally sensitive and valuable lands protected from any activity that would significantly alter their ecological integrity, balance or character, except in overriding public interest, including, but not limited to: wetlands, floodways, floodplains, drainageways, river or stream banks, and areas of significant biological productivity or uniqueness. |
CONSERVATION EASEMENT: | An easement granting a right or interest in real property that is appropriate to retaining land or water areas predominantly in their natural, scenic, open, or wooded condition and retaining such areas as suitable habitat for fish, plants, or wildlife, or maintaining existing land uses or preserving the ability of said land to be used for specific purposes such as on site wastewater treatment systems. |
CONTIGUOUS: | See definition of Abut, Abutting. |
CONVENIENCE STORE: | A retail store containing less than two thousand five hundred (2,500) square feet of gross floor area engaged in selling primarily food, beverages, and other household supplies to customers, and designed to attract a large volume of stop and go traffic. |
CONVENTION CENTER: | A facility used for service organization, business, and professional gatherings, such as conventions, conferences and seminars, and limited to accommodations for attendees. Accessory uses may include accommodations for sleeping, eating, and recreation. Such facility is not designed to be only utilized by the general public for overnight purposes. |
COUNCIL: | The city council of the city of Dubuque, Iowa. |
CREMATORIUM: | A location containing properly installed, certified apparatus intended for use in the act of cremation. |
CUL-DE-SAC: | See definition of Street, Cul-De- Sac. |
DECK: | A flat, floored, roofless structure. |
DENSITY: | The number of dwelling units per acre of land allowable on a given tract or parcel of land. |
DENTAL/MEDICAL LAB: | A facility for the fabrication or manufacture of items such as dentures or prostheses for use by the dental and medical profession. A dental or medical lab shall not include clinics or offices where patients are treated. |
DENTAL OR MEDICAL LAB: | A facility providing diagnostic or pathological testing and analysis for the healthcare industry. |
DEPARTMENT STORE: | A business which is conducted under a single owner's name wherein a variety of unrelated merchandise and services are housed, enclosed and exhibited and sold directly to the customer for whom the goods and services are furnished. |
DETENTION BASIN: | A normally dry bottom facility for the temporary storage of stormwater runoff. |
DEVELOPMENT: | Any change to improved or unimproved real estate, including, but not limited to, buildings or other structures, mining, dredging, filling, grading, paving, excavation, or drilling operations for which necessary permits may be required. |
DISCOUNT STORE: | A single or group of stores, offering merchandise for sale at less than usual retail prices. Merchandise may be discounted due to either quantity price breaks or merchandise has been discontinued and discounted to another retailer. |
DISTRICT: | Any zoning district created for the purpose of regulating specific uses within a defined area. |
DISTRICT ENERGY SYSTEM: | A small scale heating, cooling and/or power facility connected to a building or cluster of buildings. |
DOG KENNEL: | See definition of Kennel. |
DORMITORY: | A building intended or used principally for sleeping accommodations and congregant living where such building is related to a public, educational, or religious institution. |
DOWNZONING: | A change in zoning classification of land to a less intensive or more restrictive district such as from commercial district to residential district or from a higher density to a lower density residential district. |
DRAINAGEWAY: | A depression below the surrounding land serving to give direction to a current of water having a bed and well defined banks; provided, that in the event of doubt as to whether a depression is a watercourse or drainageway, it shall be presumed to be a watercourse. |
DRIVE-IN FACILITY: | An establishment where customers can be served without leaving the confinement of their vehicle. |
DRIVE, PRIVATE: | An unplatted, private passageway providing access to a street. |
DRIVEWAY: | A vehicular access to an off street parking space or loading facility. |
DUPLEX: | See definition of Dwelling, Two-Family. |
DWELLING: | A building or portion thereof, designed or used exclusively for residential occupancy, including a manufactured home as defined in state law, but not including trailers, mobile homes, hotels, motels, motor lodges, boarding and lodging houses, tourist courts, or tourist homes. |
DWELLING, MULTIPLE- FAMILY: | A building or buildings designed and used for occupancy by three (3) or more families, all living independently of each other and having separate kitchen and toilet facilities for each family. |
DWELLING, SINGLE- FAMILY: | A building having accommodations for or occupied exclusively by one family which meet all the following standards: |
A. The home shall have no less than seven hundred (700) square feet of floor area, above grade, for single story construction; | |
B. The home shall have no less than a twenty foot (20') exterior width; | |
C. The home shall have a roof material that is or simulates asphalt or wood shingles, tile, or is a standing seam residential grade metal material, or rock, or is a green roof; the home shall be placed on a continuous permanent foundation and have wheels, axles, transporting lights, and removable towing apparatus removed; | |
D. The home shall meet and maintain the same standards that are uniformly applied to all single-family dwellings in the zoning district; and | |
E. The home shall have a permanent foundation, defined as a continuous perimeter base on which the building rests, to be constructed from either poured concrete or laid masonry block or brick on a footing to be placed a minimum of forty two inches (42") below the final ground level. | |
DWELLING, SINGLE- FAMILY ATTACHED: | See definition of Townhouse. |
DWELLING, TWO-FAMILY: | A building designed or used exclusively for the occupancy of two (2) families living independently of each other and having separate kitchen and toilet facilities for each family. |
DWELLING UNIT: | One room, or rooms connected together, constituting a separate, independent housekeeping establishment for owner occupancy or lease on a weekly, monthly, or longer basis, and physically separate from any other rooms or dwelling units which may be in the same structure, and containing independent cooking, toilet and sleeping facilities. |
EASEMENT: | An authorization by a property owner for the use by another, and for a specified purpose, of a designated part of his or her property. |
ELDER GROUP HOME: | A single- family residence that is operated by a person who is providing room, board, and personal care and may provide health related services to three (3) through five (5) elders who are not related to the person providing the service within the third degree of consanguinity or affinity, and which is staffed by an on site manager twenty four (24) hours per day, seven (7) days per week, and which is certified by the state as an elder group home in accordance with state law. |
ENCROACHMENT: | An advancement or intrusion beyond the lines or limits as designated and established by this code. |
ERECTED: | Constructed upon or moved onto a site. |
EXISTING AND LAWFUL: | The use of a building, structure, or land was in actual existence, operation, and use, as compared to the use being proposed, contemplated, applied for, or in the process of being constructed or remodeled. In addition, the use must have been permitted, authorized, or allowed by law or any other applicable regulation prior to the enactment of a zoning regulation when first adopted or permitted, authorized or allowed by the previous zoning regulation prior to the adoption of an amendment to that zoning regulation. |
EXPANSION: | The enlargement of a building, structure, or use in volume, size, area, height, length, width, depth, capacity, ground coverage, or in number. |
EXPRESSWAY: | A street or road that provides fast and efficient movement of large volumes of vehicular traffic between areas and does not provide direct access to property. |
EXTERIOR BUILDING COMPONENT: | An essential and visible part of the exterior of a building. |
EXTERNAL DESIGN FEATURE: | The general arrangement of any portion of a building, sign, landscaping, or structure and including the kind, color, and texture of the materials of such portion, and the types of roof, windows, doors, lights, attached or ground signs, or other fixtures appurtenant to such portions as will be open to public view from any street, place, or way. |
EXTRATERRITORIAL JURISDICTION (ETJ): | The area beyond the corporate limits, in which the City has been granted the powers by the State to exercise subdivision review and is exercising such powers. |
EXURBAN: | The area that lies beyond the corporate limits and its suburbs. |
FACADE: | The exterior wall of a building exposed to public view. |
FACTORY: | A structure or plant within which something is made or manufactured from raw or partly wrought materials into forms suitable for use. |
FAMILY HOME: | A community based residential home which is licensed as a residential care facility or as a child foster care facility under State law, to provide room and board, personal care, rehabilitation services, and supervision in a family environment exclusively for not more than eight (8) developmentally disabled persons and any necessary support personnel. However, family home does not mean an individual foster family home licensed by the State. |
FARMING: | The raising of field crops and livestock, horticulture, forestry, animal husbandry and similar agricultural activities. |
FEDERAL: | The Federal government of the United States of America. |
FENCE: | A structure serving as an enclosure, barrier or boundary. |
FLOOR AREA: | Whenever the term "floor area" is used in this title as a basis for requiring off street parking for any structure, it shall be assumed that, unless otherwise stated, said floor area applies not only to the ground floor area but also to any additional stories of said structure. All horizontal dimensions shall be taken from the exterior faces of walls. |
FOUNDATION: | A base constructed from either poured concrete or laid masonry rock or brick and placed on a footing located below ground level to a point below the frost line upon which a building or structure is permanently attached. |
FREESTANDING CANOPY: | A permanent, freestanding, unenclosed roof structure designed to provide patrons shelter from the elements. |
FREIGHT TERMINAL: | A building or area in which freight brought by motor truck, barge, air, or rail is received, assembled or stored and dispatched for routing and may include storage. |
FRONTAGE, BLOCK: | That section of a block fronting on a street between two (2) intersecting streets or other block boundary. |
FRONTAGE, LOT: | See definition of Lot Frontage. |
FRONTAGE ROAD: | A street parallel and adjacent to a major arterial or collector, primarily for service to the abutting properties, and being separated from the major street by a dividing strip. |
FRONTAGE, STREET: | See definition of Lot Frontage. |
FUNERAL HOME OR MORTUARY: | A building used for the storage, preparation, and display of the deceased and for the performance of rituals and ceremonies connected therewith before burial or cremation. Crematoriums are permitted as an accessory use to a funeral home or mortuary. |
GARAGE: | A structure or building or portion thereof in which one or more vehicles may be parked or stored. For purposes of this title, garages include carports. |
GARAGE SALE: | A residential accessory use whereby items accumulated during the everyday residential use of a dwelling are sold on premises. |
GARDEN, NONCOMMERCIAL: | A plot of ground where fruit, herbs, flowers, vegetables or other plants are grown and for which the owner or operator derives no compensation on the site. |
GAS STATION: | A building and/or premises where gasoline, oil and minor auto accessories may be supplied and dispensed at retail and may include an automated customer activated fuel dispensing system. A gas station is not a service station. For other services in addition to the sales of gasoline, see definition of Service Station. |
GENERAL | MERCHANDISE RETAILER: A business that stocks and sells products and services to the general public for a cost. |
GENERAL MERCHANDISE WHOLESALER: | A business that sells general merchandise or specific types of goods typically at a wholesale or reduced price. |
GRADE: | The average of the finished ground level along a building wall. |
GREEN ROOF: | A roof covering of vegetation material, typically consisting of the following components: an insulation layer, a waterproof membrane to protect the building from leaks, a root barrier to prevent roots from penetrating the waterproof membrane; a drainage layer, usually made of lightweight gravel, clay, or plastic; a geotextile or filter mat that allows water to soak through but prevents erosion of fine soil particles; a growing medium; plants; and, sometimes, a wind blanket. |
GREEN ROOF, EXTENSIVE: | A green roof system that ranges from as little as one to five inches (5") in soil depth. Extensive green roof systems generally add less load and require less maintenance than intensive green roof systems. |
GREEN ROOF, INTENSIVE: | A green roof system that requires a minimum of one foot (1') of soil depth to create a more traditional rooftop garden, with large trees, shrubs and other manicured landscapes. They are multilayer constructions, often including elaborate irrigation and drainage systems, adding considerable load to a structure, and requiring intensive maintenance. |
GREENHOUSE, COMMERCIAL: | A building or premises used for growing plants, preparation of floral arrangements, cold storage of flowers or dry storage of materials used for agricultural or horticultural purposes, including for sale on or off the premises. |
GREENHOUSE, NONCOMMERCIAL: | A building constructed for the cultivation of plants but not for sale on the premises. |
GREENWAY: | A parcel or parcels of land, together with the improvements thereon, dedicated as an easement for access and/or recreation; usually a strip of land set aside for a walkway, bicycle trail, bridle path, or other similar accessway. |
GROCERY STORE: | A retail establishment primarily selling prepackaged and perishable food as well as convenience and household goods and having a gross floor area of less than sixty thousand (60,000) square feet. |
GROUND COVER: | Plant material used in landscaping which remain less than twelve inches (12") in height at maturity. See also definition of Landscaping. |
GROUNDWATER: | Water occurring beneath the surface of the ground that fills available openings in the rock or soil materials such that they may be considered saturated. |
GROUP HOME: | Any group of persons not meeting the definition of "family" and occupying a single dwelling unit living together as a single housekeeping unit, but not including a boarding or rooming house. |
GUESTROOM: | A room which is designed to be occupied by one or more guests for sleeping purposes, having no kitchen facilities, not including dormitories. |
HARD SURFACED: | Any surface used for movement of vehicular and/or pedestrian traffic that is designed and paved with either asphalt, concrete, permeable pavement, or pavers to city standards, but shall not include surfacing materials such as crushed rock, gravel, cinder, or surface sealants. |
HAZARDOUS WASTE: | Waste products of industrial or chemical process including finished surplus, used, contaminated or unwanted fertilizer, herbicide, petroleum products, or other such processed waste material. |
HEALTH CLUB: | Privately owned for profit facilities such as gymnasiums, athletic clubs, recreational clubs, reducing salons, and weight control establishments. |
HEDGE: | A plant or series of plants, shrubs or other landscape material, so arranged as to form a physical barrier or enclosure. |
HISTORIC DISTRICT: | An area designated as a "historic district" by ordinance and which contains within definable geographic boundaries, properties, or buildings, that may or may not be landmarks but which contribute to the overall historic character of the designated area. |
HOME BASED BUSINESS: | Any occupation or activity conducted within a dwelling unit which is clearly incidental and subordinate to the use of the premises for dwelling purposes. |
HOME IMPROVEMENT CENTER: | A facility, of at least sixty thousand (60,000) gross square feet, engaged in the retail sale of various basic hardware lines, such as tools, builders' hardware, paint and glass, housewares and household appliances, garden supplies, and cutlery. |
HOMELESS SHELTER: | See definition of Temporary Shelter. |
HOMEOWNERS' ASSOCIATION: | A private, nonprofit corporation or association of homeowners of properties in a fixed area, established for the purpose of owning, operating, and maintaining various common properties and facilities. |
HORSE: | A large solid hoofed herbivorous mammal (Equus caballus, family Equidae, the horse family) domesticated since a prehistoric period and used as a beast of burden, a draft animal, or for riding. |
HOSPICE: | A medical and residential facility for terminally ill people, providing inpatient services and support services for families of the residents and patients. |
HOSPITAL: | An institution that provides medical, surgical or psychiatric care and treatment for the sick and injured. |
HOSPITAL, ANIMAL: | Any establishment or business maintained and operated by a veterinarian or veterinarians for examination, prophylaxis, surgery, diagnosis and treatment of diseases or injuries of animals including indoor boarding of animals under treatment or benefit of the client; provided, said veterinarian or veterinarians are duly licensed under state law. |
HOTEL: | A building or portion thereof offering transient lodging accommodations on a daily rate to the general public and may provide associated services such as restaurants, meeting rooms, and recreational facilities. For purposes of this title, "hotel" includes motels and inns. |
HOUSEHOLD PET: | An animal that is customarily kept for personal use or enjoyment within the home. A household pet does not include livestock. |
HOUSING FOR THE ELDERLY AND PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES: | A multi-family structure designed, maintained and operated for exclusive occupancy by the elderly and/or persons with disabilities as defined by the regulations of HUD and providing that one dwelling unit may be used for a resident manager who shall be exempt from occupancy age limitations or disabilities. |
IMPERMEABLE SURFACE: | A surface that has been compacted or covered with a layer of material making the surface highly resistant to infiltration by water, such as rock, gravel, clay, conventionally surfaced streets, roots, sidewalks, parking lots, and driveways. |
IMPROVEMENT: | Any change to land necessary to prepare it for building sites, including, but not limited to, grading, filling, street paving, curb paving, sidewalks, walkways, water mains, sewers, drainageways and other public works and appurtenances. |
INDUSTRIAL PARK: | A large tract of land that has been planned, developed, and operated as an integrated facility for a number of individual industrial uses, with special attention to circulation, parking, utility needs, aesthetics, and compatibility. |
INDUSTRIAL USE: | The manufacture, fabrication, processing, reduction, destruction or storage of any article, substance or commodity, or any other treatment thereof. |
INFILL DEVELOPMENT: | The construction of a building or structure on a vacant parcel located in a predominately built up area. |
INOPERABLE MOTOR VEHICLE: | Any motor vehicle which: |
A. Does not have a current state license plate, or | |
B. Which may or may not have a current state license plate, but is disassembled or wrecked in part or in whole, or is unable to move under its own power, or is not equipped as required by state law for operation upon streets or highways. | |
C. A vehicle which is wholly or partially dismantled shall not be considered inoperable when said vehicle is inside a completely enclosed building. | |
INSTITUTION: | A facility that provides a public service and is operated by a federal, state, or local government, public or private utility, public or private school or college, church, hospital, public agency, or tax exempt organization. |
INTENSIFICATION OF USE: | Any change, alteration, extension, expansion or enlargement of a use or use and structure in combination where the off street parking requirements of this title would be calculated at a higher ratio and/or would require that additional off street parking spaces be provided. |
INTENSITY: | The degree to which land is used referring to the levels of concentration or activity in uses ranging from uses of low intensity being agricultural and residential to uses of highest intensity being heavy industrial uses. High intensity uses are normally uses that generate concentrations of vehicular traffic and daytime population and are less compatible with lower intensive uses. |
IRREGULAR TRACT: | A parcel of land that has not been subdivided through adopted plat procedures, but nonetheless has been assigned a number for identification purposes. |
JUNK: | Old or scrap copper, brass, wire, rope, rags, batteries, paper, trash, rubber debris, waste, or junked, dismantled, wrecked, or parts of, motor vehicles, motorcycles, or motorized bicycles, or iron, steel, or other old or scrap ferrous or nonferrous material. |
KENNEL: | An enclosed building or structure for the commercial keeping, sheltering, training, or selling of dogs, cats, or other small domestic animals with attached outdoor runs or exercise areas permitted for use by animals. Such outdoor runs or exercise areas shall not exceed the square footage of the attached, enclosed building or structure. |
LANDFILL: | A disposal site employing a method of disposing solid wastes in a manner that minimizes environmental hazards in accordance with state and federal requirements. |
LANDSCAPE: | Plant materials, topography, and other natural physical elements combined in relation to one another and to manmade structures. |
LANDSCAPE DESIGN AND INSTALLATION : . | A business engaged in the design, installation, and maintenance of commercial and residential landscapes, which may include an office and indoor or outdoor storage areas for materials and equipment |
LANDSCAPING : | The installation of vegetation, hardscape and/or Xeriscaping, in conformity with the requirements of this title and the continued maintenance thereof. |
LAUNDROMAT : | An establishment providing for the self-service washing, drying, and cleaning of clothes or linens. |
LIFE CARE FACILITY: | A facility for the transitional residency of the elderly and/or disabled persons, progressing from independent living to congregate apartment living where residents share common meals and culminating in full health and continuing care nursing home facility. See also definition of Housing For The Elderly And Persons With Disabilities. |
LIVE/WORK SPACE: | Buildings or spaces within buildings that combine residential living space with an integrated work space for use by one or more residents. |
LIVESTOCK: | Animals associated with agricultural operation, commonly kept or raised as a part of an agricultural operation including, but not limited to, horses, cattle, sheep, swine, goats, ducks, chickens and turkeys. |
LOADING SPACE: | An off street space or berth on the same lot with a main building, or contiguous to a group of buildings, for the temporary parking of commercial vehicles while loading or unloading, and which abuts a street, alley, or other appropriate means of ingress and egress. |
LOT: | A distinct parcel, tract or portion of a subdivision, the location, dimensions, and boundaries of which are determined by a plat. |
LOT AREA: | The total horizontal area included within the boundaries of the lot lines of a lot. |
LOT, CORNER: | A lot located at the intersection of two (2) or more streets. |
LOT COVERAGE: | That portion of a lot covered by principal and accessory uses and/or buildings expressed as a percentage of the lot area. |
LOT DEPTH: | The average distance from the front property line to the rear property line, measured in the general direction of the side property lines of the lot. |
LOT, DOUBLE FRONTAGE: | A lot having a frontage on two (2) streets, as distinguished from a corner lot. |
LOT, FLAG: | A lot with frontage and access provided to the bulk of the lot by means of a narrow corridor. |
LOT FRONTAGE: | All sides of a lot abutting a street and measured along the front property line as it abuts the street right of way or roadway easement line. !DEFEND! |
LOT, INTERIOR: | A lot other than a corner lot with only one frontage on a street. |
LOT LINE: | The property line bounding a lot. |
LOT LINE, FRONT: | The property line abutting a street right of way or roadway easement line. |
LOT LINE, REAR: | A lot line not abutting a street which is opposite and generally most distant from the front lot line. |
LOT LINE, SIDE: | Any lot line not a front lot line or rear lot line. |
LOT, NONCONFORM ING: | A lot having less area or dimension than that required in the district in which it is located and which was lawfully created prior to the zoning thereof whereby the larger area or dimension requirements were established, or any lot, other than one shown on a plat recorded in the office of the county recorder, which does not abut a public road or public road right of way and which was lawfully created prior to the effective date hereof. |
LOT OF RECORD: | A lot which is part of a subdivision recorded in the office of the county recorder, or lot or parcel described by metes and bounds, the description to which has been so recorded. |
LOT, THROUGH: | See definition of Lot, Double Frontage. |
LOT WIDTH: | The horizontal distance between the side property lines measured at the front property line as it abuts the street or along the street right of way line on unplatted streets, except that on cul-de- sacs, the lot width shall be measured at the required front yard setback line. |
LOT, ZONING: | A zoning lot is a parcel of land of at least sufficient size to meet minimum zoning requirements for use, coverage, and area, and to provide such yards and other open spaces as are herein required. Such lot shall have frontage on an improved public street, or on the approved private street, and may consist of: |
A. A single lot of record. | |
B. A portion of a lot of record. | |
C. A combination of complete lots of record and portions of lots of record, or of portions of lots of record. | |
D. A parcel of land described by metes and bounds; provided that in no case of division or combination shall any residual lot or parcel be created which does not meet the requirements of this title. | |
LUMINAIRE, CUTOFF: | A luminaire with elements, reflectors, or refractor angles that direct and cut off the light at a cutoff angle less than seventy two degrees (72°). |
MANUFACTURED HOME: | A factory built structure built under the authority of 42 USC section 5403, that is required by federal law to display a seal required by HUD, and was constructed on or after June 15, 1976. |
MANUFACTURING, PRIMARY: | The initial manufacture, compounding, and processing of raw or unprocessed materials, or the manufacture of component parts that require additional processing, fabrication, or assembly prior to use by the consumer. |
MANUFACTURING, SECONDARY: | The mechanical or chemical transformation of materials or substances into new products, including the assembling of component parts, and the blending of materials, such as lubricating oils, plastics, resins, or liquors, for final use or consumption. |
MATERNITY GROUP HOME: | A community-based residential home providing room and board, supervision, training, education, and personal support in a family environment for up to four (4) women, who are either pregnant or who have given birth within the last twenty-four (24) months, and their child(ren). Such a site may also include both onsite overnight room accommodations and office space for staff who provide and/or administrate such a service. |
MICROBREWERY: | See definition of Brewery, Micro. |
MINISTORAGE OR MINIWAREHOUSE: | A building or group of buildings containing individual, compartmentalized, and controlled access stalls or lockers for storage. |
MIXED USE: | Properties where various uses, such as office, commercial, institutional, and/or residential, are combined in a single building or on a single site in an integrated development project with significant functional interrelationships and a coherent physical design. |
MOBILE HOME: | Any vehicle without motive power used or so manufactured or constructed as to permit its being used as a conveyance upon the public streets and highways and so designed, constructed, or reconstructed as will permit the vehicle to be used as a place for human habitation by one or more persons; but shall also include any such vehicle with motive power not registered as a motor vehicle in Iowa. A mobile home is factory built housing built on a chassis. A mobile home shall not be construed to be a travel trailer or other form of recreational vehicle. A mobile home shall be construed to remain a mobile home, subject to all regulations applying thereto, whether or not wheels, axles, hitch, or other appurtenances of mobility are removed and regardless of the nature of the foundation provided. However, certain mobile homes may be classified as "manufactured homes". Nothing in this title shall be construed as permitting a mobile home in other than an approved mobile home park, unless such mobile home is classified as a manufactured home. |
MOBILE HOME PARK: | A parcel of land under single ownership that has been planned and improved for the placement of mobile housing used or to be used for dwelling purposes and where mobile home spaces are not offered for sale or sold. The term "mobile home park" does not include sales lots on which new or used mobile homes are parked for the purposes of storage, inspection, or sale. |
MOBILE HOME SUBDIVISION: | Any area, piece, parcel, tract or plot of ground subdivided and used or intended to be used for the purpose of selling lots for occupancy by mobile homes. |
MODULAR HOME: | A factory built structure which is to be used as a place of human habitation, is constructed to comply with the Iowa state building code for modular factory built structures, as adopted and displays a seal issued by the Iowa state building code commissioner. |
MORATORIUM: | A temporary halting of specific development activities for a specific time frame. |
MOTEL: | See definition of Hotel. |
MUSEUM: | An institution devoted to the procurement, care, study, and display of objects of lasting interest and value. |
NIGHTCLUB: | A commercial establishment dispensing beverages for consumption on the premises and in which dancing is permitted or entertainment is provided, except when defined as adult entertainment. See also definition of Bar. |
NONCONFORMING BUILDING: | A building or portion thereof which was lawful when established but which does not conform to subsequently established zoning or zoning regulations. |
NONCONFORMING USE: | A use lawful when established but which does not conform to subsequently established zoning or zoning regulations. |
NONFARM BUILDINGS: | All buildings except those buildings utilized for agricultural purposes on a farm. |
NURSERY: | The use of a premises for the propagation, cultivation, and growth of trees, shrubs, plants, vines, and the like from seed or stock, and the sale thereof, and including the sale of trees, shrubs, plants, vines, and the like purchased elsewhere and transplanted into the soil of the premises. In connection with the sale of plants, such fungicides, insecticides, chemicals, peat moss, humus, mulches, and fertilizers as are intended to be used in preserving the life and health of the plants may be sold. |
NURSING OR CONVALESCENT HOME: | An establishment providing full time housing and care for the aged or physically infirm, and not involving surgery, obstetrical services, or other major medical services more commonly provided in hospitals or clinics. Such establishment may involve usual convalescent or chronic care including bedside nursing care, administration of medicines or special diets, application of bandages or dressings, and similar procedures. |
OFFICE, GENERAL: | A business establishment, or portion thereof, where consulting, recordkeeping, bookkeeping and clerical work are performed, but not to include medical offices or clinics. |
OFFICE, MEDICAL: | A business establishment, or portion thereof, furnishing medical, surgical or other service to individuals, including the offices of physicians, dentists, and other health practitioners, accessory medical and dental labs, outpatient care facilities, blood banks, and oxygen and miscellaneous types of medical supplies and services. |
OFFICE PARK: | A large tract of land that has been planned, developed, and operated as an integrated facility for a number of separate office buildings and supporting ancillary uses with special attention to circulation, parking, utility needs, aesthetics, and compatibility. |
OFFICIAL MAP: | See definition of Zoning Map, Official. |
OPEN FEEDLOT OPERATION: | An unroofed or partially roofed animal feeding operation if crop, vegetation, or forage growth or residue is not maintained as part of the animal feeding operation during the period that animals are confined in the animal feeding operation. |
OPEN SPACE: | That part of a lot or parcel not devoted to buildings, structures, parking or loading areas, driveways or any principal or accessory use. |
OPEN SPACE, COMMON: | A separate and distinct area set aside as open space within or related to a development, and not on individually owned lots or dedicated for public use, but which is designed and intended for the common use or enjoyment of the residents of the development. Rights of way, private streets, driveways, parking lots or other surfaces designed or intended for vehicular use or required yards shall not be included as common open space. |
OPEN SPACE, USABLE: | An area of land or water or combination of land and water which may include complementary structures and improvements within the site, excluding space devoted to parking, designed and intended for common use and enjoyment. |
OUTLET STORE: | A commercial development that consists mostly of manufacturers' outlet stores selling their own brands at a discounted price. This definition includes all forms of centers, such as strip style, enclosed mall style, and village clustered style centers. |
OVERLAY DISTRICT: | A district in which additional requirements act in conjunction with the underlying zoning district. |
OWNER: | One or more persons, including corporations, who have title to the property, building or structure in question. |
PARCEL: | A lot or a contiguous group of lots in single ownership or under single control, which may be considered as a unit for purposes of development. |
PARK: | Any public or private land available for recreational, educational, cultural, or aesthetic use. |
PARKING LOT, OFF- PREMISE: | A hard-surfaced area not located in the public rights- of-way, is designated for the parking of vehicles, and which meets all of the following standards: A. The off-premise parking lot shall be incidental and subordinate to a permitted use and located on a lot within three hundred feet (300') of the principal use it serves; B. The off-premise parking lot shall be owned and maintained by the property owner of the principal use it serves; C. No vehicle or outside storage of any kind shall be permitted in, or on, the off-premise parking lot; and D. A site plan shall be reviewed and approved prior to the installation of an off-premise parking lot. |
PARKING, OFF STREET: | All hard surfaced areas other than public rights of way for the purpose of parking vehicles. |
PARKING, ON STREET: | The space designated for parking a vehicle within the paved portion of the street right of way. |
PARKING SPACE: | A paved area, other than a street or alley, designed for the parking of a vehicle. |
PARKING STRUCTURE: | A structure or portion thereof composed of one or more levels or floors used exclusively for the parking of vehicles. |
PARKWAY: | The area, excluding the sidewalk, if any, between the property line and the curb, or in the absence of a curb, between the property line and the nearest edge of the street paving. |
PERFORMANCE GUARANTEE: | A financial guarantee to ensure that all improvements, facilities, or work required by this title will be completed in compliance with these regulations as well as with approved plans and specifications of a development. |
PERMEABLE PAVEMENT: | A hard surfaced pavement system with traditional strength characteristics, but which allows rainfall to percolate through it rather than running off. For purposes of this title this does not include gravel, cinders, crushed rock or seal coat. |
PERMITTED USE: | See definition of Use, Permitted. |
PERSON: | An individual, corporation, limited liability company, government or governmental subdivision or agency, business trust, estate, trust, partnership or association, or any other legal entity. |
PET DAYCARE: | An establishment where a household pet can be left for a period of time less than twenty four (24) hours, where kenneling does not occur. |
PLANNED UNIT DEVELOPMENT (PUD): | A planning process and district for the purpose of providing for a unique and flexible arrangement of residential, business, or industrial uses in accordance with an approved conceptual plan. |
PLAT: | A map showing the location, boundaries, and legal description of individual properties prepared by a licensed land surveyor. |
PLAT OF SURVEY: | A graphical representation of a survey of one or more parcels of land, including a complete and accurate description of each parcel within the plat, prepared by a licensed land surveyor. |
POLICY: | A statement or document of the city, such as the comprehensive plan, that forms the basis for enacting legislation or making decisions. |
PONY: | A small horse, especially one of any of several breeds of very small stocky animals. |
PREMISES: | A tract of land, consisting of one lot or irregular tract, or more than one lot or irregular tract, provided such lots or tracts are under common ownership, contiguous, and used as a single tract. A building or land within a prescribed area. |
PRESCHOOL: | See definition of Childcare Center, Licensed. |
PRINCIPAL USE: | See definition of Use, Principal. See also definition of Building, Principal. |
PROCESSING OR ASSEMBLY: | The preparation of material for efficient shipment, or to an end user's specifications, by such means as baling, briquetting, compacting, flattening, grinding, crushing, mechanical sorting, shredding, cleaning, and remanufacturing. |
PROHIBITED USE: | See definition of Use, Prohibited. |
PROPERTY LINE: | The legal, platted boundary of a lot or parcel of land. |
PUBLIC FACILITY: | Any building, location, or structure, owned by a public entity such as a library, fire station, school, park, and other similar facilities and uses. |
PUBLIC USE: | A specified activity or area that either through actual public ownership or through dedication of easements allows the general public access and use. |
PUBLIC UTILITY: | All or part of a waterworks, gasworks, sanitary sewage system, stormwater drainage system, electric light and power plant and system, heating plant, cable communication or television system, telephone or telecommunications systems or services offered separately or combined with any system or service specified herein or authorized by other state law, any of which may be owned by a city, including all land, easements, rights of way, fixtures, equipment, accessories, improvements, appurtenances, and other property necessary or useful for the operation of the utility. |
PUBLIC UTILITY EASEMENT: | A portion of a lot or block in which the city and all public utilities enfranchised by the city have a rite of passage and/or a right to install and maintain pipes, wires, poles, conduits, and other equipment necessary to carry out public or quasi-public services. |
QUARRY: | An excavation activity designed to mine, extract, or remove specific natural resources for commercial purposes. This does not include underground mining and extraction. |
RACETRACK: | A measured course where animals or machines are entered in competitions against one another or against time. |
RAILROAD: | The land use including the right of way abutting railroad properties occupied by uses pertinent to the railroad operation and maintenance, but not including properties owned by the railroad and leased for use by others. |
RECORDER: | The Dubuque County recorder. |
RECREATIONAL FACILITY: | Indoor and outdoor facilities for the use by the public for passive and active recreation including tennis, handball, racquetball, basketball, track and field, jogging, baseball, soccer, skating, swimming, or golf. This shall include country clubs and athletic clubs, but not facilities accessory to a private residence used only by the owner and guests, nor arenas or stadiums used primarily for spectators to watch athletic events. |
RECREATIONAL VEHICLE (RV): | A vehicular unit designed for recreational camping or travel use under its own power or designed to be mounted on or drawn by a motor vehicle. Recreational vehicle includes motor home, truck camper, travel trailer, camping trailer, and fifth wheel. |
RECREATIONAL VEHICLE PARK: | A tract of land upon which two (2) or more recreational vehicle sites are located, established, or maintained for occupancy by recreational vehicles of the general public as temporary living quarters for recreation or vacation purposes by campers, vacationers, or travelers. |
REDEVELOPMENT: | The act of rehabilitation or demolition of existing buildings and/or land area irrespective of whether a change occurs in land use. |
REGISTERED CHILD DEVELOPMENT HOME: | A facility providing childcare or preschool services for children that requires State of Iowa registration. Registered child development home does not include a licensed childcare center. |
RESIDENCE: | A building used, designed, or intended to be used as a home or dwelling place for one or more families. |
RESOURCE RECOVERY/ RECYCLING CENTER: | Indoor facilities for obtaining useful materials or energy from solid waste or recycled materials. Materials can be reused for their original purpose, packaged and shipped elsewhere, reprocessed for a different purpose or converted into energy, not to include a biofuels plant or a salvage yard. |
RESTAURANT, DRIVE- IN/CARRYOUT: | Any business establishment or portion thereof where food is prepared for sale for consumption off the premises and/or served in disposable containers or wrappers, including all fast food restaurants equipped with a drive-through service and/or having a carryout service, and not serving beer, wine or alcoholic beverages. |
RESTAURANT, INDOOR: | Any business establishment or portion thereof where food is prepared for sale for consumption on the premises, including all sit down restaurants, where food and beverage are served in nondisposable containers and which may involve carryout service and the serving of beer, wine and alcoholic beverages on the premises of a limited nature as an accessory use to the restaurant, as defined in this section. |
RETAIL COMMERCIAL: | A stand alone building with a large parking lot or a part of a larger commercial center, with a gross floor area of sixty thousand (60,000) square feet or more, including, but not limited to, department store, supermarket, wholesale club operation, discount store, general merchandise retailer, specialized product store (i.e., electronics, building materials or pet supplies), outlet store, general merchandise wholesaler open to the public, warehouse club, and similar uses. |
RETAIL SALES OR SERVICE: | Establishments less than sixty thousand (60,000) square feet engaged in selling or renting goods or merchandise to the general public for personal or household consumption and/or services in conjunction or separate to the sale of such goods. Retail sales/service establishments shall not include eating and drinking places, uses defined as adult entertainment, vehicle sales or service, or wholesale, processing or manufacturing operations with an accessory retail outlet on the premises. |
RETENTION BASIN: | A facility for the temporary storage of stormwater with a permanent water surface. |
REZONING: | An amendment to or change in the official zoning map. |
RIGHT OF WAY (ROW): | An area or strip of land, either public or private, on which an irrevocable rite of passage has been dedicated, recorded, or otherwise legally established for the use of vehicles, utilities and/or pedestrians. |
ROAD: | See definition of Street. |
ROOMING HOUSE: | See definition of Boarding Or Rooming House. |
SALVAGE YARD: | Any lot, land parcel, building, or structure or part thereof for storage, collection, purchase, sale, salvage, or disposal including, but not limited to: machinery, appliances, farm equipment, and including motor vehicles, parts and equipment that are a result of the dismantling or wrecking, or keeping of junk, including scrap metals or other scrap materials. |
SATELLITE DISH ANTENNA: | A parabolic antenna incorporating a reflective surface that is solid, open mesh, or bar configured and is in the shape of a shallow dish, or cone and used to transmit and/or receive radio or electromagnetic waves. |
SCALE: | Proportional relationship of the size of parts to one another and to the human figure. |
SCENIC EASEMENT: | An easement for the purpose of limiting land development in order to preserve a view or scenic area. |
SCHOOL, ELEMENTARY, JUNIOR HIGH, OR SENIOR HIGH: | Public and other nonprofit institutions conducting regular academic instruction at kindergarten, elementary, and secondary levels. Such institutions shall offer general academic instruction equivalent to the standards prescribed by state law. |
SCHOOL OR NURSERY: | See definition of Childcare Center, Licensed. |
SCREENING: | A structure of planting that conceals from view from public ways the area behind such structure or planting. |
SELECTIVE CLEARING: | The careful and planned removal of trees, shrubs, and plants using specific standards and protection measures. |
SELF-SERVICE STATION: | Establishment where motor fuels are stored and dispensed into the fuel tanks of motor vehicles by persons other than the service station attendant and may include facilities available for the sale of other retail products. |
SEPARATE OWNERSHIP: | Ownership of a parcel of land by a person who does not own any of the land abutting such parcel. |
SERVICE STATION: | A building and premises where the primary use is the supply and dispensing at retail of motor fuels, lubricants, batteries, tires, and motor vehicle accessories and where light maintenance activities such as engine tune ups, lubrications, and washing may be conducted, but not including heavy maintenance and repair such as engine overhauls, painting, and body repair. |
SETBACK: | The distance required between a property line or roadway easement line and the buildable area on a lot. !DEFEND! |
SETBACK, FRONT: | A line which defines the required minimum distance between a building or structure and the right of way or roadway easement line. The front setback line shall be parallel with the right of way line or roadway easement line. Corner lots and double frontage lots shall have a front setback along both street frontages. |
SETBACK LINE, BUILDING: | The minimum distance as prescribed by this title between any property line or roadway easement line and the closest point of the building line or face of any building or structure related thereto. |
SETBACK, REAR: | A line which defines the required minimum distance between a building or structure and the property line opposite the right of way line or roadway easement line. The rear setback line shall be parallel with the rear property line except for corner lots and double frontage lots. |
SETBACK, SIDE: | A line which defines the required minimum distance between a building or structure and an interior property line, extending between the front and rear setback lines. The side setback line shall be parallel with the nearest interior property line. For purposes of accessory buildings and structures, the side setback shall be extended to the rear property line. |
SHOPPING CENTER: | A group of commercial establishments planned, constructed, and managed as a total entity with customer and employee parking provided on site, provisions for goods delivery that is separated from customer access, aesthetic considerations, and protection from the elements. |
SHOPPING CENTER, NEIGHBORHOOD: | A group of commercial establishments with off street parking on the property that are generally planned and developed as an architectural unit, with a primary trade area of the neighborhood(s) in which it is located. |
SHOPPING CENTER, REGIONAL: | A group of commercial establishments with off street parking on the property that are planned and developed as an architectural unit, a centrally managed facility requiring a highway or arterial location for their most beneficial operation, the market area of which includes the metropolitan area. |
SHRUB: | A multistemmed woody plant other than a tree. |
SIDEWALK CAFÉ: | An area adjacent to a street level eating or drinking establishment located within the public pedestrian walkway and used exclusively for dining, drinking, and pedestrian circulation. The area may be separated from the public sidewalk by railings, fencing, or landscaping or a combination thereof to maintain the required public sidewalk access. |
SIGHT TRIANGLE: | See definition of Visibility Triangle. |
SIMILAR USE: | The use of land, buildings, or structures of like kind or general nature with other uses within a zoning district as related to bulk, intensity of use, traffic generation and congestion, function, public services requirements, aesthetics or other similarities. |
SIMPLE DIVISION: | Any division of land in which no new streets, public or private, are proposed, which does not require the construction of any public improvements, and which creates fewer than three (3) lots. |
SITE PLAN: | A plan, prepared to scale, showing accurately and with complete dimensioning, the boundaries of a site and the location of all buildings, structures, uses, drives, parking, drainage, utilities, landscape features, and other principal site development improvements for a specific parcel of land. |
SKATEBOARD PIPE: | A structure which is shaped into a half circle or oval that is designed and principally intended to permit persons on skateboards to move continuously from one side to the other. |
SKATEBOARD RAMP: | A structure with an upward inclined surface, essentially one of the sides of a pipe, which are designed and principally intended to permit persons on skateboards to move from horizontal to vertical and back to horizontal. |
SKATEPARK: | A recreational facility containing ramps and other obstacle courses and devices for use with skateboards and skates. |
SPECIALIZED PRODUCT STORE: | A retail commercial use that typically merchandises products of a similar nature such as, but not limited to, electronics, jewelry, greeting cards. |
SPOT ZONING: | The zoning of a small land area for a use which differs measurably from the zoned land use surrounding this area. Land may not merely be so zoned in the interest of an individual or small group, but must be in the general public interest. |
STADIUM: | A large, usually open structure for sports events with tiered seating for spectators. |
STATE: | The state of Iowa. |
STORAGE: | The keeping, in a roofed or unroofed area, of any goods, material, merchandise, or vehicles. |
STORM DRAIN: | Conduit that carries natural storm and surface water drainage but not sewage and industrial wastes, other than unpolluted cooling water. |
STORMWATER DETENTION: | Any storm drainage technique that retards or detains runoff, such as a detention or retention basin, parking lot storage, rooftop storage, porous pavement, or any combination thereof. Said detention shall be designed by a licensed professional engineer and approved by the city. |
STORMWATER MANAGEMENT: | The collecting, conveyance, channeling, holding, retaining, detaining, infiltrating, diverting, treating, or filtering of surface water, or groundwater, and/or runoff, together with applicable managerial (nonstructural) measures. |
STORMWATER RUNOFF: | Surplus surface water generated by rainfall that does not seep into the earth but flows over land. |
STORY: | That portion of a building included between the upper surface of any floor and the upper surface of the floor next above, except that the topmost story shall be that portion of a building included between the upper surface of the topmost floor and the ceiling or roof above. If the finished floor level directly above a usable or unused under floor space is more than six feet (6') above "grade" as defined herein for more than fifty percent (50%) of the total perimeter or is more than twelve feet (12') above "grade" as defined herein at any point, such usable or unused under floor space shall be considered as a story. |
STORY, FIRST: | The lowest story in a building which qualifies as a "story", as defined herein, except that a floor level in a building having only one floor level shall be classified as a first story, provided such floor level is not more than four feet (4') below "grade", as defined herein, for more than fifty percent (50%) of the total perimeter, or more than eight feet (8') below "grade", as defined herein, at any point. |
STREET: | A public thoroughfare, right of way or roadway easement dedicated, deeded, or recorded for use as such, other than an alley, which affords the principal means of access to abutting property including avenue, place, way, drive, lane, boulevard, highway, road and any other thoroughfare except as excluded in this title. |
STREET, ARTERIAL: | A street primarily intended to carry traffic from one part of the city to another and secondarily intended to provide access to abutting properties. |
STREET CENTERLINE: | The centerline of a street right of way as established by official surveys. |
STREET, COLLECTOR: | A street primarily intended to gather traffic from a subdivision and carry it to an arterial street, but also intended to provide direct access to abutting properties. |
STREET, CUL-DE-SAC: | A local street terminating in a turnaround and having only one outlet. |
STREET FRONTAGE: | See definition of Frontage, Street. |
STREET HARDWARE: | Manmade objects other than buildings that are part of the streetscape; examples include: lampposts, utility poles, traffic signs, benches, litter containers, planting containers, letter boxes, and fire hydrants. |
STREET, LOCAL: | A street intended to provide direct access to abutting properties. |
STREET, PRIVATE: | A platted and recorded lot of common ownership, usually by a property owner association, not dedicated to the city, giving access to the other lots of the subdivision and to the adjoining street pattern. |
STREET, PUBLIC: | A dedicated, platted, recorded and accepted passageway for public travel. |
STREETSCAPE: | The scene as may be observed along a public street or way composed of natural and manmade components, including buildings, paving, plantings, street hardware, and miscellaneous structures. |
STRUCTURAL ALTERATION: | Any change in the supporting members of a building, such as bearing walls, columns, beams, or girders, or any complete rebuilding of the roof or the exterior walls. |
STRUCTURE: | Anything constructed or built aboveground, any edifice or building of any kind, or any piece of work artificially built up or composed of parts joined together in some definite manner, which requires location on the ground or is attached to something having a location on the ground, including, but not limited to, buildings, mobile homes, walls, fences, billboards, poster panels, aboveground storage tanks, and similar uses. |
STRUCTURE, TEMPORARY: | A building or structure erected for a onetime temporary use, lacking a permanent foundation, connections to water and sewer, and generally having open walls, distinct from a permanent structure which must meet adopted building codes. |
SUBDIVISION: | A tract of land divided into three (3) or more lots. |
SUBDIVISION PLAT: | A graphical representation of the subdivision of land, prepared by a licensed land surveyor, having a number or letter designation for each lot within the plat and a succinct name or title that is unique. |
SUPERMARKET: | A retail food establishment primarily selling prepackaged and perishable food as well as convenience and household goods and having a gross floor area of sixty thousand (60,000) square feet or more. |
SWALE: | See definition of Drainageway. |
TANNING STUDIO: | Any business that uses artificial lighting systems to produce a tan on an individual's body. These facilities may be either a stand alone business or as an accessory use in spas, gymnasiums, athletic clubs, health clubs, and styling salons. |
TATTOO PARLOR AND BODY PIERCING STUDIO: | An establishment whose principal business activity is the practice of tattooing and/or piercing the body of paying customers. |
TAVERN: | See definition of Bar. |
TEMPORARY SHELTER: | A structure used as a day facility or temporary dwelling for abuse victims, transient or homeless individuals, but not including orphanages or foster homes, operated by a nonprofit religious, educational, or philanthropic institution. |
TEMPORARY USE: | See definition of Use, Temporary. |
TERRACE: | Raised earthen embankment with the top leveled. A terrace may be supported by a retaining wall. |
THEATER: | A building or structure used for dramatic, operatic, motion pictures, or other performance, for admission to which entrance money is received. This use is not included with any type of adult establishment. |
THEME PARK: | See definition of Amusement Park. |
TOUR HOME: | A residence usually of major local or regional historical or architectural interest visited on a regularly scheduled basis by an organization or tour company for a fee. |
TOURIST HOME: | A private home which is rented to tourists or travelers. |
TOWER: | A structure situated on a site that is intended for transmitting or receiving television, radio, or telephone communications. See also definition of Antenna. |
TOWNHOUSE: | A one-family dwelling unit, with a private entrance in a group of three (3) or more units, which part of a structure whose dwelling units are attached horizontally in a linear arrangement, and having a totally exposed front and at least one other building wall exposed to allow for access, light, and ventilation. |
TRANSIT FACILITY: | A small scale covered waiting area for buses, taxis, and mass transit stops, typically with a separate loading lane. |
TREE: | Any self-supporting woody plant growing upon the earth that usually provides one main trunk and produces a more or less distinct and elevated head with many branches. |
TREE COVER: | An area directly beneath the crown and within the drip line of the tree. |
UPZONING: | A change in zoning classification of land to a more intensive or less restrictive district such as from residential district to commercial district or from a single-family residential district to a multiple-family residential district. |
USE: | The purpose or activity for which land or buildings are designed, arranged, or intended or for which land or buildings are occupied or maintained. |
USE, ACCESSORY: | A use incidental, related, appropriate and clearly subordinate to the main use of the lot or building, which accessory use does not alter the principal use of the subject lot or affect other properties in the district. |
USE, CONDITIONAL: | A use where allowed by the district regulations, that would not be appropriate generally throughout the zoning district without restrictions, but which, if controlled as to number, size, area, location, relationship to the neighborhood or other minimal protective characteristics would not be detrimental to the public health, safety, and general welfare. |
USE, PERMITTED: | Any land use allowed without condition within a zoning district. |
USE, PRINCIPAL: | The main use of land or structure, as distinguished from an accessory use. See also definition of Building, Principal. |
USE, PROHIBITED: | Any use of land, other than nonconforming, which is not listed as a permitted use or conditional use within a zoning district. |
USE, TEMPORARY: | Impermanent uses of an occasional nature not exceeding six (6) months' maximum duration. Temporary uses shall not involve the use of permanent structures, permanent signs or portable signs. Uses of a seasonal nature that recur periodically on a regular basis on the same site and reoccupy the same permanent building shall not be considered temporary uses. |
UTILITY EASEMENT: | See definition of Easement. |
UTILITY SERVICE: | Any device, including wire, pipe, and conduit, which carries gas, water, electricity, oil, wastewater and communications into a building or development. |
VARIANCE: | A relief from or variation from the strict application of the bulk regulations, as applied to a specific piece of property, which may be granted by the ZBA according to the provisions of this title. |
VEHICLE: | A vehicle shall be broadly interpreted to mean any implement of conveyance designed or used for the transportation of people or materials on land or water, including, but not limited to, automobiles, trucks, bicycles, motorcycles, snowmobiles, boats, trailers, campers, wagons, etc. |
VEHICLE BODY SHOP: | A facility which provides vehicle collision repair services, including body frame straightening, replacement of damaged parts, and painting, but does not include mechanical engine or power train repair. |
VEHICLE SALES: | The storage and display for the retail or wholesale sale, rental, or lease of more than two (2) new or used vehicles, and which may include facilities for the incidental repair or bodywork of vehicles. |
VEHICLE SERVICE OR REPAIR: | A facility providing major vehicle repair such as tire capping, bodywork, frame straightening, welding, painting, storage of nonoperable vehicles and the sale of motor fuels, tires and lubricants for retail sale directly to the motorist consumer. As an accessory use, the selling of vehicles with salvage titles may occur on a limited basis provided they are stored in a building. Vehicles with salvage titles may be stored in the rear yard of the property provided the vehicles are not stacked on top of other vehicles and materials and are permanently screened from view to a height of at least six feet (6') with at least fifty percent (50%) opacity. The sale of used parts other than as an incidental part of the business is prohibited. |
VISIBILITY TRIANGLE: | A triangular shaped portion of a lot located at a street, alley or driveway intersection in which nothing can be placed, planted or constructed that will materially impede vision from within vehicles between a height of two feet (2') and eight feet (8'). The visibility triangle is formed by lines that join points placed ten feet (10') from the property corner along both frontages. |
WAREHOUSE: | A building used primarily for the storage of goods and materials. |
WAREHOUSE CLUB OPERATION: | An establishment or place of business primarily engaged in selling and/or distributing 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. This is not considered a general commercial use. |
WAREHOUSE, DISTRIBUTION: | Use engaged in storage, wholesale, and distribution of manufactured products, supplies, and equipment. |
WETLAND: | Those areas that are inundated or saturated by surface or ground water 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. Wetlands may include, but are not limited to, swamps, marshes, and bogs. |
WHOLESALE CLUB: | A retail store that sells a limited assortment of merchandise to customers who are "members" of the club. |
WHOLESALE ESTABLISHMENT: | An establishment for the on premises sales of goods primarily to customers engaged in the business of reselling the goods. |
WHOLESALE TRADE: | A use primarily engaged in selling merchandise to retailers; to industrial, commercial, institutional, farm or professional business users; or to other wholesalers; or acting as agents or brokers in buying merchandise for or selling merchandise to such persons or companies. The principal types of establishments included are: merchant wholesalers; sales branches and sales offices (but not retail stores) maintained by manufacturing enterprises apart from their plants for the purpose of marketing their products; agents, merchandise or commodity brokers, and commission merchants; petroleum bulk storage, assemblers, buyers, and associations engaged in cooperative marketing of farm products. The chief functions of uses in wholesale trade are selling goods to trading establishments, or to industrial, commercial, institutional, farm and professional; and bringing buyer and seller together. In addition to selling, functions frequently performed by wholesale establishments include maintaining inventories of goods; extending credit; physically assembling, sorting and grading goods in large lots, breaking bulk and redistribution in smaller lots; delivery; refrigeration; and various types of promotion such as advertising and label designing. |
WILDLIFE CONSERVATION AREA: | An area dedicated to conservation of wildlife and wildlife habitat. |
WINDOW: | An opening in the wall of a building for the transmission of air or light, or both, commonly fitted with a frame in which are set movable or nonmovable sashes containing panes of glass or plastic, whether transparent or translucent, and is viewable from the interior of the building. |
XERISCAPING: | Landscaping characterized by the use of vegetation that is drought tolerant or low water use in character. |
YARD: | A required open space which is unoccupied and unobstructed by any structure or portion thereof from the natural ground level to the sky, except as otherwise provided in this title. |
YARD, FRONT: | The area between a principal building and the right of way line or roadway easement line, and extending between interior property lines. |
YARD, REAR: | The area between a principal building and the property line opposite the right of way line or roadway easement line, and extending between interior property lines. In the case of corner lots and double frontage lots, there will be no rear yards, but only front and side yards. |
YARD, REQUIRED: | See definition of setback. |
YARD, SIDE: | The area between a principal building and an interior property, and extending between the front yard and rear yard. In the case of double frontage lots, side yards shall extend between the front yards. In the case of corner lots, yards remaining after front yards have been established shall be considered side yards. |
YARD, SPECIAL: | A required yard other than the required front yard so oriented that neither the terms "side yard" nor "rear yard" clearly apply. In such cases the City Planner shall determine, based on topography, location, orientation and pattern of adjacent structures and development which yard requirement is more appropriate. |
ZONING DISTRICT: | A section of the City in which zoning regulations and standards are uniform. |
ZONING MAP, OFFICIAL: | Map delineating the boundaries of zoning districts which, along with the zoning text, is officially adopted by the Dubuque City Council and on file in the Office of the Planning Services Department. (Ord. 52-09, 10-19-2009; amd. Ord. 48-10, 8-16-2010; Ord. 63-10, 12-20-2010; Ord. 48-14, 7-21-2014; Ord. 10-18, 3-19-2018; Ord. 19-20, 5-18-2020; Ord. 30-21, 9-20-2021; Ord. 49-23, 11-20-2023; Ord. 44-24, 7-15-2024) |