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Parcel. Means the entire legal description of the property.

Parcel of Land. Means a contiguous quantity of land in the possession of, or owned by, or recorded as the property of, the same owner.

Parking Lot. Means an open area, other than a street, used for the temporary parking of more than four (4) automobiles and available for public use, whether free, for compensation, or as an accommodation for clients or customers.

Parking, Off-Street. See “Off-Street Parking”.

Parking Space. Means a space not less than fifteen (15) feet in length nor less than seven and one-half (7.5) feet in width for compact auto spaces and not less than eighteen (18) feet in length, nor less than eight and one-half (8.5) feet in width for full size auto spaces. Compact auto spaces may comprise no more than thirty five percent (35%) of the total parking provided.

Parking Strip. Means the strip of land located within the public right of way between the edge of a lot or parcel and the curb and gutter, or the edge of the sidewalk and the curb and gutter, whichever measurement is farther from the curb.

Pasture. Means an enclosure for animals in which no feed is provided except that which the animals obtain by grazing.

Parks, Playgrounds or Community Recreation. Means any of the following recreational land uses, which are easily accessible to residents depending on the local needs:

   1.   Areas of natural quality set aside for outdoor recreation such as viewing, sitting, and picnicking

   2.   Arenas

   3.   Athletic fields

   4.   Community centers

   5.   Golf courses

   6.   Parks

   7.   Playgrounds

   8.   Recreation center buildings

   9.   Sports facilities

   10.   Swimming pools

   11.   Tennis courts

   12.   Walking and jogging tracks and

   13.   Any similar public use areas or buildings that provide recreational opportunities.

Pawn Shop. Means an establishment primarily engaged in the loaning of money on the security of property pledged in the keeping of the pawnbroker, and the sale of such property.

Pending Ordinance. Means a Town Code, Zoning Map, or General Plan amendment that has been reviewed by the Planning Commission in an open and public meeting and a recommendation has been forwarded to the Town Council; or been first reviewed by the Town Council and has been included or attached to a resolution indicating the Council’s intent to initiate proceedings to amend. A pending ordinance or change to the code is binding on any land use application or building permit application filed with the Town prior to final approval of the pending ordinance by the Town Council. If the town's actions meet this definition, the town’s actions shall satisfy the requirements of Utah Code § 0-9a-509 as initiating a formal proceeding to amend this Title.

Performance Bond. Means a document meeting the requirements of the code and guaranteeing completion of any improvements required by the town and accompanied by a Bond Agreement; in an amount as specified in the code; on forms approved by the Town; and having the form of an escrow bond with funds on deposit in a reputable, federally-insured financial institution, a cash bond deposited with the Town, or a letter of credit from a reputable, federally-insured financial institution.

Person. Means an individual, public or private corporation, government, partnership, organization,trust, unincorporated association, or any other legal entity.. See Ut. St.. Code. 76-1-601(11, 10-9a-103(48).

Personal Service Establishment. Means an establishment which offers specialized goods and services to consumers including barbershops, beauty shops, massage facilities, garment repair, pressing, tailoring, shoe repair, and other similar establishments.

Personal Services. Means establishments primarily involved in providing personal grooming and related services; and includes, but is not limited to, barbershops, beauty parlors, and tailors, but does not include laundries or dry cleaners.

Personal Wireless Services Facilities. Means the same as definition as provided Section 704 of the Act, which includes what is commonly known as cellular and PCS services that do not install any system or portion of a system in the rights-of-way.

Phantom Roads as referred to by Fairfield Town. Means all roads that were on the original Fairfield plat map and were held in trust by the United States government until Fairfield became a town. Fairfield maintains rights of ownership of such roads.

Place of Business. Means a location maintained or operated by a person within the Town limits from which a business activity is conducted or transacted.

Planned Performance Development. Means a development that is encouraged to use imaginative, efficient utilization of land as well as consolidation of open spaces and clustering of the dwelling units. Density in the Planned Performance Development is determined by additional amenities and open space.

Planning Commission. Means the Town of Fairfield Planning Commission.

Planning Director. Means the employee, contractor, individual, or firm responsible for all municipal planning activities including long-range land use planning, ordinance preparation, administration and enforcement of the land development code, land use interpretation, development review, coordination with the Town Planning Commission, and any other responsibilities required by the Town relating to planning and development. Currently being taken care of by the Planning and Zoning Commissioner.

Plant and Tree Nursery. Means a facility used for the growing and the wholesale or retail sale of plants, trees, shrubs, flowers, ground covers, etc. and may also include sales of related products, including fertilizers, mulch, landscape decoration, etc.

Plat. Means a map or other geographical representation of lands being laid out and prepared in accordance with LUDMA.

Plat, Final. Means a drawing prepared in accordance with the Land Use Ordinances showing the final design of a land division and complying with all standards and requirements of best surveying practice and in a form required by the Utah County Recorder’s Office for recordation.

Postal Center. Means a facility that contains service windows for mailing packages and letters, post office boxes, offices, vehicle storage areas, and sorting and distribution facilities for mail.

Preliminary Plat. Means the initial formal plat of a proposed land division or subdivision containing the information required by this Code.

Premises. Means a lot, together with any buildings and structures located thereon.

Premises Occupation. Means a domestic manufacturing, artistry, or service business (but not the sale of goods produced off-site) which is carried on in an accessory building on the same lot as a residence by persons residing on the premises.

Preschool. Means a preschool, also known as nursery school, pre-primary school, or play school, is an educational establishment or learning space offering early childhood education to children for a fee before they begin compulsory education at primary school.

Primary Building. Means the principal building located on a lot, parcel, or tract of land and designed or used to accommodate the primary use.

Primary Lot. Means the lot on which the residence will be built.

Primary Use. Means the principal purpose for which a lot, parcel, tract, or building is designed, arranged or intended, or for which it is occupied or maintained.

Printing, Lithography and Publishing Establishment. Means any commercial printing operation involving a process that is considered printing, imprinting, reproducing, or duplicating images and using printing methods including offset printing, lithography, web offset, flexography, and screen process printing.

Private Improvements. Means any open space, park space, club house, pool, tot lot, gazebo, picnic area, trails, or any other privately owned and maintained improvement provided in connection with subdivision, Conditional Uses, or site plan approval.

Private Road. See “Road, Private.”

Procurement. Means buying, purchasing, renting, leasing with an option to purchase, or otherwise acquiring any supplies, services or construction.

Produce Stand. Means a temporary roadside building or structure used for the seasonal retail sales of unprocessed fresh fruits, vegetables, flowers, herbs, plants, and other unprocessed agricultural food products. May also include cottage products produced from these agricultural food products such as honey, jam, and applesauce.

Prohibition of Unlawful Noise. Means it is unlawful for any person to produce, continue, or cause to be produced or continued, any noise disturbance (as defined in this chapter) within the limits of the Town.

Project Plan. Means a map prepared by a licensed Engineer, Surveyor, Landscape Architect, or Architect that illustrates the basic components of a proposed development; and submitted with Conditional Use applications in cases where the submittal of a Site Plan is not required.

Property. Means any lot, parcel, or tract of land, including improvements thereon, and recorded as real property in the Office of the Utah County Recorder.

Property Boundary. Means an imaginary line extending perpendicular to the ground surface, and its above-ground vertical extension, that identifies the line between the real property owned by one person or entity and that adjoining property owned by another.

Property Line. Means the boundary line of a lot, parcel, or tract.

Property Owner. Means the owner in fee simple of real property as shown in the records of the Utah County Recorder’s Office and includes the plural as well as the singular, and may mean either a natural person, firm, association, partnership, trust, private corporation, limited liability company, public or quasi-public corporation, other entities authorized by the State of Utah, or any combination of the foregoing.

Protected Open Space. Means open space that is either placed in a conservation easement or listed as unbuildable on the recorded plat.

Provider. Means an operator, infrastructure provider, resaler, or system lessee.

PSC. Means the Public Service Commission, or any successor thereto.

Public. Means that which is under the ownership or control of the United States Government, Utah State or any subdivision thereof, Utah County, or the Town of Fairfield (or any departments or agencies thereof).

Public Body. Means the Town Council, Planning Commission, Cemetery Board or any other public board, commission or committee that the Town Council may create.

Public Building or Facilities (Town owned). Means uses which may be housed in separate buildings or which may occupy a space within a building that are operated by the Town of Fairfield to serve public needs; and public uses such as police, jail, fire service, ambulance, judicial court, government offices, library, cultural facility, recreation center, senior center, public utility stations, and maintenance facilities.

Public Hearing. Means a hearing at which citizens, land owners and other interested parties are provided a reasonable opportunity to express their position on specific issues, both pro and con, as mandated by either statute or by order of proper authority after due notice.

Public Improvement. Means any street dedications, installations of curb, gutter, sidewalk, road base and asphalt, water, sewer, and storm drainage facilities, or other utility or service required to provide services to a lot, parcel, building, or structure.

Public Meeting. Means a meeting that is required to be open to the public under State Code Title 52, Chapter 4, Open and Public Meetings Act.

Public Park. Means a landscape park which is owned or leased by a federal or state agency, a town or town government, or county government and which is operated under the aegis of such agency or government for public use.

Public/Private Utility Building or Facility. Means a building or structure used or intended to be used by any public or private utility, including any:

   1.   Gas treatment plant reservoir, tank, or other storage facility;

   2.   Water treatment plant, well, reservoir, tank, or other storage facility;

   3.   Electric generating plant, distribution, or transmission substation;

   4.   Telephone switching or other communications plant, earth station, or other receiving or transmission facility;

   5.   Storage yard for public or private utility equipment or vehicles; and any parking lot for parking vehicles or automobiles to serve a public or private utility.

Public Record. Means any record retained by a government body as further defined by statute and open to inspection.

Public Right-of-Way. Means a road, street, alley, lane, court, place, viaduct, tunnel, culvert, or bridge laid out or erected as such by the public, or dedicated or abandoned to the public, or made such in any action by the subdivision of real property, and includes the entire area within the right-of-way.

Public Street. See Street, Public.

Public Thoroughfare. Means any Town street; county, state or interstate road; or other road upon which the public has a right to travel.

Public Use. Means a use operated exclusively by a public body or quasi-public body, such use having the purpose of serving the public health, safety, or general welfare, and including streets, parks, recreational facilities, administrative and service facilities.

Public Works Representative. Means the individual over the Roads Department.

Purchase Description. Means the words used in a solicitation to describe the supplies, services or construction to be purchased, and includes specifications attached to or made a part of the solicitation.

Purchasing Agent. Means the person duly authorized by the Town Council to enter into and administer contracts and make written determinations with respect thereto.