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Reception Center. Means an establishment with facilities that are rented for either private or public gatherings which may also provide catering or entertainment services.
Recreation Center. Means an establishment providing a variety of commercial recreation activities that are enclosed within a structure along with outdoor activities including one or more of the following: bowling, roller or ice skating, arcade games, billiards, miniature golf, amusement rides, slides and swimming pools, and related amusements; and may include ancillary uses, such as the preparation and serving of food or the sale of equipment related to the enclosed uses.
Recreation Rentals. Means an establishment that specializes in the rental of outdoor recreation equipment or similar items and accessories.
Recreational Camps and Resorts. Means cabin sites and commercial outdoor recreation establishments.
Recreational Resort. Means a type of large scale development providing accommodations for owners and guests, which include some of the following activities (but not limited to): skiing, hunting, fishing, golfing, horseback riding, swimming, sight-seeing, dining, and lodging.
Recreational Vehicle" or "RV". Means a vehicular-type unit primarily designed as temporary living quarters for recreational, camping, travel or seasonal use that either has its own motive power or is mounted on, or towed by, another vehicle. The basic types of RV entities are: camping trailer, fifth wheel trailer, motor home, park trailer, travel trailer, truck camper, and tiny house trailer which are individually defined as follows:
Recreational Vehicle Court/Park. Means an area or tract of land used to accommodate two or more recreational vehicles or camper units for a short period of time (less than 45 days).
Recreational Vehicle Sales. Means an establishment that sells motor homes, all-terrain vehicles, snowmobiles, watercraft, and other similar vehicles and accessories.
Recycling Facility. Means a location whose primary use is where waste or scrap materials are stored, bought, sold, accumulated, exchanged, packaged, disassembled, or handled, including scrap metals, paper, rags, tires, bottles, and other such materials.
Request for Proposals. Means all documents, whether attached or incorporated by reference, used for soliciting proposals.
Research and Development. Means an establishment which conducts research, development, or controlled production of high technology electronic, industrial, or scientific products or commodities for sale; or laboratories conducting educational or medical research or testing. Research and development uses, including medical or electronic assembly and manufacturing; any use engaged in research and development, testing, assembly, repair, and manufacturing in the following industries: biotechnology, pharmaceuticals, medical instrumentation or supplies, communications and information technology, electronics and instrumentation, and computer hardware and software; and includes as part of this use any offices, warehousing, wholesaling, and distribution of the finished products produced at the site
Reseller. Means any person that provides local exchange service over a system for which a separate charge is made, where that person does not own or lease the underlying system used for the transmission.
Resident. Means any member of a household whose primary place of residence within the Town of Fairfield meets the Utah State standard defining a resident. Excepting therefrom any health impaired individuals who resided in the Town of Fairfield immediately prior to moving into a care facility due to varying factors and must live in a care facility, including family members homes, outside the Town of Fairfield.
Residential Day Care Center. Means a building containing a dwelling unit and associated facilities wherein ordinary board, care and supervision are provided during customary daytime periods by the resident family to not more than six (6) people who are not related to such family. To qualify, the center must be approved for such use by the State Department of Social Services.
Residential Density. Means the average number of dwellings on one acre of land in a given area. Net residential density is determined by dividing the total number of dwellings in a defined area by the total acreage of all parcels of land within the area that are used exclusively for residential and accessory purposes. Gross residential density is obtained by dividing all land in a defined area used for residences, streets, sidewalks, park strips, landscaped islands, local schools, local parks, and local shopping facilities, into the total number of dwellings in said area.
Residential Facility for Elderly Persons. Means housing that provides a program of independent or assisted services to deal with the activities and instrumental activities of daily living for the elderly.
Residential Facility for Persons with a Disability. Means a residence that meets the definition of Utah Code Section 10-9a-103; b. treats persons with a “disability” as defined in Utah Code Section 10-9a-103;
Restaurant, Casual. Means an establishment where foods or beverages are prepared for consumption that occurs in the building, on the premises, within a motor vehicle parked on the premises, or off-premises; and whose operation includes one or more of the following characteristics:
food or beverages are served to the occupants of a motor vehicle (e.g., drive-through window or drive-in); and food and beverages are usually served over a general service counter whether or not there is a seating area within the restaurant.
Restaurant, Deli. Means a shop, store, or business no larger than 2,000 square feet selling primarily meats, cheeses, and sandwiches with limited onsite seating and more than 50% of business typically consisting of take-out.
Restaurant, Sit Down. Means an establishment that provides, as a principal use, foods and beverages prepared for consumption within or without the establishment with no drive-up or drive-through window or drive-in and whose operation includes the following characteristics: customers are customarily served their food or beverage by a restaurant employee at the same table or counter at which said items are consumed; and a restaurant employee customarily clears the table of trash and food; and take-out service may be provided so long as it is not the principal business of the establishment and no drive-up or drive-through window, or drive-in, is utilized.
Restrictive Covenant. Means a limitation on the use of land usually set forth in the deed. (Restrictive covenant usually runs with the land and is binding upon subsequent owners of the property).
Retail. Means the sale of commodities or goods in small quantities to ultimate consumers; A place of business devoted in whole or in part to the sale, rental or servicing of goods or commodities which are normally delivered or provided on the premises to a consumer.
Retail, Big Box. Means a singular retail or wholesale use, which occupies no less than 50,000 square feet of gross floor area, that may require high parking to building area ratios; have a regional sales market; and include regional retail or wholesale sales; and membership warehouse clubs that emphasize bulk sales, discount stores, and department stores
Retail, Specialty. Means retail operations that specialize in one type or line of merchandise; and may include apparel stores, jewelry stores, bookstores, shoe stores, stationary stores, antique stores, and similar establishments.
Retail, Tobacco Specialty Store. Means a commercial establishment in which the sale of tobacco products accounts for more than 35% of the total annual gross receipts for the establishment; food and beverage products, excluding gasoline sales, is less than 45% of the total annual gross receipts for the establishment; and the establishment is not licensed as a pharmacy under Utah Code Title 58, Chapter 17b, Pharmacy Practice Act.
Retail, Variety Store. Means a store retailing a diversified offering of several categories of goods.
Riding Arena, Commercial. Means commercial roping and riding arenas (unlighted), as well as commercial roping and riding arenas (lighted) which may or may not be totally enclosed within a structure.
Riding Arena, Private. Means an animal enclosure included within a barn or in an open corral, for the purpose of carrying out activities related to the training of horses, riding schools, and other equestrian skills, but not including any use for commercial entertainment.
Rights-of-way. Means the surface of and the space above and below any public street, sidewalk, alley, or other public way of any type whatsoever, now or hereafter existing as such within the Town.
Road, Private. Means a thoroughfare, held in private ownership and controlled by one or more persons, firms or corporations, and used or held for use primarily as a means of access to adjoining properties.Roadside Stand. Means a temporary stand or structure for retail sales.
Salvage Yard. “See “Junk Yard”.
Sanitary Landfill. See “Solid Waste Disposal Site”.
School, Charter. Means a school licensed in accordance with Utah Code Title 53A, Chapter 1a, Part 5, The Utah Charter Schools Act. A charter school is considered to be a public school in this Title for the sole purpose of determining whether it is a permitted or conditional use. A charter school shall meet all applicable federal, state, and local laws, including this Title and all Town land use ordinances. This definition shall not be interpreted to limit, restrict, or alter in any way the requirements of charter schools under Utah Code § 10-9a-305 to follow this Title and all Town land use ordinances.
School, Private or Quasi - Public. Means a school that is operated by a private or quasi-public organization or individual, excluding charter schools and public schools, which includes an academic curriculum recognized as satisfying the requirements of elementary, secondary, or higher education in the State of Utah and is accredited by an accrediting agency recognized by the State of Utah.
School, Public. Means an educational facility operated by a public school district as defined in the Utah State Code.
School, Trade or Vocational. Means a post high school educational or vocational training facility.
Sealed Container. Means a covered, closable container which is rodent-proof, fly-proof and watertight such as garbage cans with properly fitting tops or plastic garbage bags which have been closed or twisted shut.
Seasonal Home Development. Means a type of development which is approved for the purpose of providing sites for vacation dwellings for temporary use by families which have permanent residences elsewhere and which occupy the dwelling intermittently, primarily during weekends or vacation periods; the development was not intended to get the normal governmental services (school bus service, mail service, snow removal, etc.) that are customary for permanent residences.
Secondary Water System. Means a system which is designed and intended to provide, transport, or store water used for watering of crops, lawns, shrubbery, flowers, and other non-culinary uses.
Sensitive Lands. Means land and natural features including canyons and slopes in excess of 30%, ridge lines, natural drainage channels, streams or other natural water features, wetlands, flood plains, landslide prone areas, detention or retention areas, debris basins, and geologically sensitive areas.
Septic Tank. Means a watertight underground cistern and the attached underground drain pipes used to dispose of sewage into the soil.
Septic Tank Drain Field. Means the plot of land in which drain lines of a septic tank are located.
Setback. Means the shortest horizontal distance permitted in each zone, as set forth in the Town’s zones, between the identified boundary lines of a lot and a building, structure, or part thereof.
Sexually Oriented Business. Means a business which depicts, portrays, or describes “specified sexual activities” or “specified anatomical areas,” or instruments, devices, or paraphernalia which are designated or used in connection with specified sexual activities, including but not limited to adult arcade, adult bookstore, adult novelty store, adult video store, adult cabaret, adult motel, adult motion picture theater, adult theater, or nude or seminude model studio.
Shooting Range, Indoor or Outdoor. Means an area or structure specially designed for the safe discharge and use of rifles, shotguns, pistols, silhouettes, skeet, trap, black powder, or any similar firearm for the purpose of sport-shooting or military/law enforcement training. May also include archery, and may or may not be open to the general public.
Sidewalk. Means a passageway for pedestrians, excluding motor vehicles.
Sign. Means any medium, including its structure, symbols, and other component parts, which is used or intended to be used to attract attention to the subject thereon.
Sign, Accessory. Means a sign which is located on the premises and which directs attention to a business or profession which is conducted on the premises.
Signal. Means any transmission or reception of electronic, electrical, light or laser or radio frequency energy or optical information in either analog or digital format.
Single Source Provider. Means purchases from one selected supplier, even though there are other suppliers that provide similar products. If your company decides to buy only Dell computers then that is a single source provider.
Site Plan. Means a schematic, scaled drawing of a lot, parcel, or tract which indicates, as may be required by this Ordinance, including but not limited to the placement and location of buildings, setbacks, yards, property lines, adjacent parcels, utilities, topography, waterways, irrigation, drainage, landscaping, parking areas, driveways, trash containers, streets, sidewalks, curbs, gutters, signs, lighting, fences and other features of existing or proposed use, activity, building or structure.
Slaughter House. Means an animal processing plant where cattle or other livestock are killed preparatory to butchering and consumption.
Sleeping Apartment. Means a room or specific space for sleeping and living quarters which may not contain cooking facilities. In a suite of interconnected bedrooms (motel rooms) which have no cooking facilities, each three bedrooms (motel rooms) shall be considered a "sleeping apartment". A dormitory, lodge, barrack, or other quarters that provide bedrooms (each bedroom may not exceed five hundred (500) square feet in total floor area that connect by hallway or central court shall be considered one "sleeping apartment" for each ten (10) bedrooms or for each twenty (20) persons, whichever is less.
Slope. Means the average grade of the surface of land expressed in either percentage or in degrees.
Soil Breakthrough. Means soil migrating through the fabric and cap in a manner that exposes the public and shall be deemed in violation of this Ordinance.
Soil Ordinance Boundary. Means all land that lies within the boundaries of Fairfield Town.
Solar Panel. Means a panel designed to absorb the sun’s rays as a source of energy for generating electricity or heat.
Solid Waste Disposal Site (MSW Landfill). Means a garbage dump, recycling center, or landfill operation utilizing solid wastes which meets all Health Department standards for approval.
Sound. Means an audible temporal and spatial oscillation in pressure, or other physical quantity with interval forces that cause compression or rarefaction of the medium, and that propagates a finite speed to distant points.
Sound Pressure Level. Means the sound level measured with a sound level meter using the A weighting network. The standard notation or abbreviation is “dBA”.
Stable. Means a building in which horses are sheltered, which may be accessory to a residential or other use or a freestanding principal use.
Stationary Noise Source. Means any device, fixed or moveable, that is capable of creating a noise level at the property upon which it is regularly located.loc.
Stockyards. Means an enclosure with pens, sheds, etc. where cattle, hogs, sheep, or horses are kept temporarily before slaughtering or shipment:
Storage, Outdoor. Means a location where a business keeps equipment, supplies, and other business related materials in an outdoor area fully enclosed by a minimum six (6) foot opaque wall or fence. Outdoor storage does not include wrecking yards, dumps, and other debris storage.
Storage, Self-Storage or Mini-Storage Units. Means a building or group of buildings divided into separate compartments used to meet the temporary storage needs of small businesses, apartment dwellers, and other residential uses; and may include refrigerated or climate-controlled facilities.
Storage, Vehicle. Means a location where recreational vehicles, cars, trucks, and other vehicles are stored in an enclosed structure, or in an outdoor area fully enclosed by a minimum six (6) foot opaque wall or fence. Vehicle Storage does not include sales.
Story. Means that portion of a building included between the surface of a floor and the ceiling next above it, but not to include underfloor crawl space or attic space without floor decking or without the required height.
Street. Means all roads, alleys, lanes, highways, courts, places, squares, trails, bridges and sidewalks laid out or erected as such by the public, abandoned or dedicated to the public, or made public by any means whatsoever;
Collector - A street which collects traffic from local streets and connects with a minor and major arterial.
Cul-de-sac - A street with a single common ingress and egress and with a turn-around at the end; not a through street.
Dead End - A street with a single common ingress and egress.
Major Arterial - A street with access control, channeled intersections, restricted parking and which collects and distributes traffic.
Minor Arterial - A street with signals at important intersections and stop signs on the side streets which collects and distributes traffic to and from collector streets.
Highway - A street that is the entire width between the boundary lines of every public way that is maintained when any part thereof is open to the use of the public for purposes of vehicular travel.
Local - A street which provides for direct access to abutting land and for local traffic movement.
Public - A tract of land which is an existing state, county, or municipal roadway, or is shown on a plat duly filed and recorded in the office of the county recorder, or has been accepted by the town council as part of a development project, and is for public use, to provide a thoroughfare for public use that is primarily for vehicular travel, an access to abutting properties, the installation of public utility service lines or pipes; and drainage facilities and other public works and appurtenances for the convenience and welfare of the public.
Structure. Means anything constructed or erected on or added to existing land according to a plan or organization. Rev. ord. 03142023-3, passed 03-14-2023.
Subdivider. Means a person who, having interest in land, causes it, directly or indirectly, to be divided into a subdivision; directly or indirectly sells, leases, develops, or advertises for sale, lease or development, any interest, lot, parcel, site, dwelling, unit, or plat in a subdivision; or engages directly or through an agent in the business of selling, leasing, developing, or offering for sale the lease or development of a subdivision.
Subdivision. A subdivision is any land that is divided, re-subdivided or proposed to be divided into two (2) or more lots or other division of land for the purpose, whether immediate or future, for offer, sale, lease, or development, either on the installment plan or upon any and all other plans, terms, and conditions. Subdivision includes the division or development of land whether by deed, metes and bounds description, devise and testacy, map, plat, or other recorded instrument, regardless of whether the division includes all or a portion of parcel or lot; and except as provided in subsection (65)(c) of Uah State Code, Section 10-9a-103, divisions of land for residential and nonresidential uses, including land used or to be used for commercial, agricultural, and industrial purposes.
Subdivision, Improved. Means subdivided lots that meet all zoning and building permit requirements.
Subdivision, Unimproved. Means an undeveloped lot that has no or little improvements.
Substantial Damage. Means damage of any origin sustained by a structure whereby the cost of restoring the structure to its before-damage condition would equal or exceed fifty percent (50%) of the market value of the structure before the damage occurred.
Substantial Improvement. Means any reconstruction, rehabilitation, addition or other improvement of a structure, the cost of which equals or exceeds fifty percent (50%) of the market value of the structure before the "start of construction" of the improvement. This term includes structures which have incurred "substantial damage", regardless of the actual repair work performed. The term does not, however, include either any project for improvement of a structure to correct existing violations of state or local health, sanitary, or safety code specifications which have been identified by the local code enforcement official and which are the minimum necessary to assure safe living conditions or,
any alterations of a "historic structure", provided that the structure continues to be designated as a "historic structure" following the improvement.
Swimming Pool. Means constructed pool, any part of which is above or below grade; and prefabricated pool, any part of which is below grade, or a prefabricated pool that is completely above grade and has a capacity of five thousand (5,000) gallons) or more, used for swimming or bathing.
Swimming Pool, Community. Means a pool that is open to a limited public through membership, such as an HOA or club.
Swimming Pool, Private. Means a pool on an individual residential lot intended for primary use by the occupants of that lot.
Swimming Pool, Public. Means a pool that is open to the general public, with or without a fee.
System Lessee. Means any person that leases a system or a specific portion of a system to provide services.
Tattoo Parlor. Means a business establishment that operates tattoo equipment to inject ink or otherwise modify human skin for the purposes of decoration, which may include body piercing; however, establishments that engage in ear piercing and no other activities in this definition shall not be considered tattoo parlors.
Telecommunications. Means the transmission, between or among points specified by the user, of information of the user’s choosing (e.g., data, video, and voice), without change in the form or content of the information sent and received.
Telecommunications Service or Services. Means any telecommunications or communications services provided by a provider within the Town that the provider is authorized to provide under federal, state and local law, and any equipment and/or facilities required for and integrated with the services provided within the Town, except that these terms do not include “cable service” as defined in the Cable Communications Policy Act of 1984, as amended by the Cable Television Consumer Protection and Competition Act of 1992 (47 USC 521, et seq.), and the Telecommunications Act of 1996. “Telecommunications services” or “services” also includes an open video service.
Telecommunications System or Systems. Means all conduits, manholes, poles, antennas, transceivers, amplifiers and all other electronic devices, equipment, wire and appurtenances owned, leased, or used by a provider, located in the rights-of-way and utilized in the provision of services, including fully digital or analog voice, data and video imaging and other enhanced telecommunications services. “Telecommunications system” or “system” also includes an open video system.
Temporary Sales Trailers. Means trailers for use by home builders or developers for the purpose of sales within subdivision projects, which are subject to the regulations in Title 10 of this Code.
Temporary Use. Means a use that is associated with a holiday or special event for a limited duration of time, including but not limited to outdoor seasonal sales.
Theater. Means a building used primarily for the presentation of movies projected upon a screen or the presentation of live stage productions or performances, which may include ancillary uses such as arcade games and concession areas.
Tobacco Product. Means any cigar, cigarette, or electronic cigarette as defined under Utah Code Section 76-10-101; a tobacco product as defined under Utah Code Section 59-14-102, including chewing tobacco; any substitute for a tobacco product, including flavoring or additives to tobacco; and tobacco paraphernalia as defined under Utah Code Section 76-10-104.1.
Town. Means Fairfield Town, Utah.
Town Street. Means a street or road which has been dedicated to and accepted by theTown or municipality, including utility easements, as a public street.
Trail. Means a dedicated path, improved or unimproved, for the passage of pedestrians, non-motorized vehicles, or equestrian related uses.
Transit-Oriented Development (TOD). Means a form of development that maximizes transit infrastructure by concentrating the most intense types of development around transit stations and along transit lines. Development in such areas is designed to make transit use as convenient as possible.
Travel Trailer. Means a non-motorized, vehicular portable structure built on a chassis for temporary use as living quarters during travel or vacation periods; it is fabricated for towing on medium-duty roads and has a body size not to exceed eight (8) feet in width and forty (40) feet in length.
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