11-2-2: DEFINITIONS:

For the purpose of administering this Title, certain terms and words are to be used and interpreted as defined below:

ABUTTING:	In the context of a screening or enclosure requirement, means contiguous or separated therefrom by only a non-arterial street. In all other instances, the term shall mean contiguous.
ACCESSORY DWELLING UNIT (ADU):	A dwelling unit that may be incorporated within the living area of a home or detached from the primary residence on the same lot. An ADU will include permanent provisions for living, sleeping, eating, cooking and sanitation.
ACCESSORY STRUCTURE:	A structure on the same lot with a principal structure, of a nature that is customarily incidental and subordinate to the principal structure.
ACCESSORY USE:	A use on the same lot with a principal use, of a nature customarily incidental and subordinate to the principal use.
AGRICULTURAL USE:	Agrarian use of property that includes farming, ranching, animal and poultry production, dairy farming, aquaculture, fishery, timber production, and riding stables.
ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGE SALES, OFF-SITE CONSUMPTION:	A business with floor space devoted to the retail sale of beer, wine, or other alcoholic beverages for off-premises consumption and which requires a license under Oklahoma law. Such sales may constitute a primary or accessory use of an establishment.
ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGE SALES, ON-SITE CONSUMPTION:	A business whose floor space is not primarily devoted to the sale of beer, wine, or other alcoholic beverages, but where on-premises consumption is permitted, subject to a license under Oklahoma regulations.
ALL-WEATHER MATERIAL:	A material capable, during ordinary use, of withstanding, without substantial deterioration, normal weather conditions.
ALLEY:	A permanent public way providing a secondary means of access for service and emergency vehicles, and not intended for general traffic circulation.
ANCILLARY OUTDOOR RETAIL AND SEASONAL SALES:	Retail merchandise display and sales that occur externally, relative to the principal retail activities conducted within an enclosed structure on the site, which may include outdoor sales conducted in a garden center that is attached to the principal building or limited seasonal sales conducted in a detached structure, on a sidewalk, or in a parking area where permitted.
ANTENNA:	A transmitting or receiving device used in telecommunication that radiates, or captures, a signal. References to antennas in this Title shall also include antenna supporting structures.
ANTENNA SUPPORTING STRUCTURE:	A telecommunications facility that consists of a stand-alone support structure which has as its principal use the support of an antenna(s) and associated equipment and improvements.
ARTERIAL STREET:	A designation on the Glenpool Major Street and Highway Plan as a primary or secondary arterial street.
AUTOMOBILE, MAJOR SERVICE:	A building or place arranged, designed, and used for providing intensive repair and servicing of all types of motor vehicles. Such repairs or services may include engine overhauls, transmission overhaul, wrecker service, collision services, including body, frame or fender straightening or repair; painting, undercoating and dust proofing, upholstery, and similar services.
AUTOMOBILE, MINOR SERVICE:	Any automobile repair work that does not require the removal of the engine head or pan, transmission, differential, body work, the rebuilding or reconditioning of engines, framework, welding, and major painting service, or uses of a similar nature, constitute Minor Services. Minor Services include the changing of fluids, tires, batteries, shock absorbers, mufflers, brakes, lights, wipers, tinting, and other uses of a similar nature.
BALE AND PALLET STORAGE:	A collection area for storing bundles of goods typically closely pressed and packaged into bales for disposal and portable platforms, or pallets, used for the handling, storing, or moving of materials and packages.
BED AND BREAKFAST HOME:	A lodging service that provides overnight or short-term accommodations for not more than five guests, usually including provision of a meal, located in a large single-family residence owned and operated by the residential owner or a manager of the structure.
BED AND BREAKFAST INN:	A residential structure that provides 12 or fewer guestrooms and meals for overnight guests who pay a fee for such services. Said structure may also be rented for special events.
BOARD OF ADJUSTMENT:	The Board of Adjustment of the City of Glenpool.
BUILDING:	A structure permanently affixed to the land, with one or more floors and a roof, and is bounded by either another building with a common party wall, open air, or lot or lease lines.
BUILDING ENVELOPE:	That area on a lot that encompasses all development, including but not limited to, excavation, fill, grading, structures, building height, decks, roof overhangs, porches, driveways, access ways and parking.
BUILDING HEIGHT:	The vertical distance measured from the average ground elevation at the building wall to the highest horizontal point of the structure.
BUILDING OFFICIAL:	The official charged with the responsibility of issuing permits and enforcing, on behalf of the City, all adopted city construction codes or building requirements adopted by the City.
BUILDING PERMIT:	A permit issued by the Building Official, after issuance of a Zoning Clearance Permit, to allow an applicant to erect, construct, reconstruct, alter or change the use of a building or other structure or improvements of land.
BUILDING SETBACK:	The horizontal distance from the point of measurement, such as the centerline of an abutting street or the boundary line of an abutting zoning district to the nearest building wall.
BUSINESS PARK:	Any tract of land that has been planned, developed, and operated as an integrated facility for a number of separate buildings or for a mixture of land uses, with special attention paid to integrated circulation, parking, truck access, utilities, drainage, site and building character, aesthetics, and use compatibility.
CALIPER:	The diameter of the tree trunk measured at six inches above ground level for a tree trunk having a diameter of four inches or less, and the diameter of the tree trunk measured at 12 inches above ground level for a tree trunk exceeding four inches.
CARE HOME:	Premises used for the housing and caring for the aged or infirmed, and includes convalescent homes, homes for the aged, and nursing homes, as regulated by the State of Oklahoma.
CEMETERY:	Land used or intended to be used for the interment of human remains and dedicated for cemetery purposes, including crematories, mausoleums and mortuaries when operated in conjunction with and within the boundary of a cemetery.
CERTIFICATE OF OCCUPANCY:	An official certificate issued by the City through the enforcing official which indicates conformance with this Title and authorizes legal use of the premises for which it is issued.
CHILDCARE CENTER:	Any place, home, or institution which cares for six or more children under the age of 16 years, apart from their parents, guardians, or custodians, for regular periods of time for compensation, as regulated by the State of Oklahoma. The term “childcare center” shall not include or apply to bona fide schools, custody fixed by a court, children related by blood or marriage within the third degree of the custodial person, or places of worship and other institutions caring for children within an institutional building.
CITY COUNCIL:	The governing and legislative body of the City of Glenpool.
CITY MANAGER:	The Chief Administrative officer of the City of Glenpool.
CITY PLANNER:	The administrative officer designated by the City Manager and charged with the primary responsibility of administering this Title.
CLUSTER HOUSING:	A residential development containing attached or detached units on a limited portion of land with the remaining land areas consolidated into common open space areas.
COLLECTOR STREET:	A street classification on the Glenpool Major Street and Highway Plan.
COLLEGE, TECHNICAL, OR VOCATIONAL SCHOOL:	A place of higher learning, including technical and trade schools, colleges, universities, business schools, training centers, beauty schools, culinary schools, and comparable advanced or continuing education facilities.
COMPATIBLE:	Consistent with, harmonious with, similar to and/or complimentary to the design and character of the surrounding uses, buildings and structures.
COMPREHENSIVE PLAN:	The Comprehensive Plan of the City adopted by the City Council, including all revisions and amendments.
COMMUNITY GROUP HOME:	A community based residential facility for independent living that provides room and board, personal care, and habilitation services in a family environment as a single housekeeping unit for six to 12 resident developmentally challenged and/or physically limited persons with at least one but not more than three resident staff persons, as regulated by the State of Oklahoma. Personal care and habilitation services exclude on-site institutional type educational training, medical services, and nursing care.
CURB LEVEL:	The mean level of the established curb at the frontage of a lot. Where no curb has been established, the City Engineer shall establish the curb level or its equivalent for the purposes of this title.
DAYCARE CENTER:	See “Childcare Center” definition.
DENSITY:	The maximum number of dwelling units per gross acre of land permitted in a zoning district.
DETENTION/ CORRECTIONAL FACILITY:	A facility for the detention, containment, treatment or rehabilitation of persons arrested or convicted for the violation of civil or criminal law. Such facilities include adult detention centers, juvenile delinquency centers, prerelease centers, correctional community treatment centers, jails, and prisons.
DEVELOPED AREA:	The area of a lot which, on the effective date hereof, is covered by a structure, off-street parking or loading areas or other areas paved with all-weather material.
DRIP LINE:	The periphery of the area underneath a tree which would be encompassed by perpendicular lines extending from the exterior edges of the crown of the tree.
DUMPSTER:	A large trash receptacle designed to be hoisted and emptied into a truck.
DWELLING, APARTMENT:	A building or suite of rooms which provides space for more than six dwelling units that are rented or leased for occupancy.
DWELLING, DUPLEX:	A building containing two dwelling units designed for occupancy by not more than two families, separated by a shared wall with no penetrations from the ground to the roof, and each unit has a separate outside door. Included are all forms of industrial duplex dwellings, excluding manufactured and mobile homes.
DWELLING, LOT LINE HOME:	A detached, single-family unit situated on one side lot line that orients outdoor activity within rear or side yard patio areas for better use of the site for outdoor living space. There are two types of lot-line homes: A.   Standard lot-line homes have a street-facing garage. B.   Patio lot-line homes have an alley-facing garage and a fenced or walled rear yard.
DWELLING, MANUFACTURED HOME:	A factory-built single-family structure, which is manufactured or constructed under the authority of 42 U.S.C. Section 5403, National Manufactured Home Construction and Safety Standards Act of 1974, and is to be used exclusively as a place for human habitation, but which is not constructed with a permanent hitch or other device to allow it to be moved, other than for the purpose of moving the home to a permanent site. Manufactured homes do not have permanently attached wheels or axles, are transportable in one or more sections, which when erected on site, measure eight body feet or more in width and 40 body feet or more in length, or is 320 or more square feet in area. For the purpose of these regulations, a manufactured home shall be built after June 15, 1976, and shall bear a seal certifying that it is in compliance with the National Manufactured Home Construction and Safety Standards Act of 1974.
DWELLING, MANUFACTURED:	A structure designed and intended for human occupancy on a year round or temporary or seasonal basis which has undergone at least partial prefabrication or preassembly under indoor factory conditions, excluding dwellings utilizing only prefabricated or preassembled sub-elements such as roof trusses, floor trusses, plumbing trees, or wiring harnesses. Included are the following subclasses:
DWELLING, MOBILE HOME:	A portable structure that may be similar in appearance to a Manufactured Home but was constructed prior to June 15, 1976, and does not bear a National Manufactured Home HUD seal.
DWELLING, MULTIPLEX (3-5 DWELLING UNITS):	A multiple-family residential building type that has many attributes of a townhome, except that the building is designed to resemble a large single-family home. Units in a multiplex are not necessarily separated by a wall that extends from the foundation to the roof. Units may have either private or shared access and may be arranged in a variety of configurations, including back-to-back, side-to-side, or over-under units.
DWELLING, SINGLE-FAMILY DETACHED:	A building, excluding manufactured homes and mobile homes, containing one dwelling unit designed for occupancy by not more than one family, and certified as complying with the building code of the City whether constructed on site or off site.
ELDERLY/RETIREMENT HOUSING:	A residential complex containing multi-family dwellings designed for, and principally occupied by, senior citizens. Such facilities may include a congregate meals program in a common dining area, but exclude institutional care such as medical services and nursing care and is distinguished from life care retirement centers, as defined herein.
EMERGENCY AND PROTECTIVE SHELTER:	A residential facility which provides room and board for a temporary period not to exceed 30 days, for protection, shelter, counseling, and preplacement screening for abused, displaced, or transient persons.
ENCROACHMENT:	The unauthorized placement of a building or part of a building within a required regulatory setback, easement, right-of-way, or other regulatory boundary.
ESSENTIAL SERVICES:	The development or maintenance of public services, police and fire stations, government facilities, utilities, and City-approved underground, surface, or overhead gas, electrical, telephone, steam, fuel or water transmission or distribution systems, including poles, wires, mains, drains, sewers, pipes, conduits, cables, fire alarm, police call box, traffic signals, hydrants and lift stations.
EXISTING BUILDINGS:	A term used to determine the applicability of the regulations of this Title, relative to the time when buildings were originally started and completed and in existence prior to the effective date of this Title.
EXTRACTION:	The enterprise of excavation and removal of minerals, stone, sand, gravel, soil, or similar materials from a site, whether the intent is to increase the utility and value of the site or to use the materials for landfilling on another site, and the processing of excavated materials. This includes surface and subsurface mining, borrow pits, storage, and the crushing, sifting, stock piling, sorting, processing, and storage of extracted materials.
FAMILY:	Two or more persons occupying a single dwelling unit, provided that all members are related by blood, marriage, or other domestic bonds. Domestic staff may be housed on the premises without being designated as a family. Individuals not related by blood, marriage, or adoption occupying a single dwelling unit for on-site institutional education, training, supervision, medical service, or nursing care shall not be considered a family. A family does not include a “foster home” or a “neighborhood group home” as each is defined in this Section.
FAMILY DAYCARE HOME:	A home which cares for no more than five children under the age of 16 years for regular periods of time for compensation, as regulated by the State of Oklahoma. The number of children includes preschool children of the family daycare parents under the age of two years living in the home.
FENCE:	Any structure intended for the use of confinement, prevention of intrusion, boundary identification, or screening of an activity.
FLOODPLAIN:	The land area adjoining a watercourse or drainage-way which would be inundated by the floodwater of the 100-year frequency flood, based on full urbanization of the watershed, as designated on a FIRM map and as predicted by the U.S. Corps of Engineers and interpreted by the City Engineer.
FLOODWAY:	The primary channel of a watercourse or drainage-way and those portions of the adjoining floodplain which are reasonably required to carry and discharge the floodwaters of the 100-year frequency flood, as designated by FIRM maps, and predicted by the U.S. Corps of Engineers and interpreted by the City Engineer.
FLOODWAY FRINGE:	Those portions of the floodplain outside of the floodway but that are subject to inundation the 100-year frequency flood, as designated by FIRM maps, or as predicted by the U.S. Corps of Engineers and interpreted by the City Engineer.
FLOOR AREA, GROSS:	The total floor space within the outside dimensions of a building including each floor level.
FLOOR AREA, NET:	The area actually occupied, excluding accessory unoccupied areas such as corridors, stairs, closets, wall thickness, columns, toilet rooms, mechanical area or similar features.
FLOOR AREA RATIO:	The floor area of a building(s) on a lot divided by the lot area.
FOSTER HOME:	A dwelling used in whole or in part as living quarters for a household including one or more minor children placed by a licensed child placement agency who are not members of the family occupying said dwelling but are under their supervision, as regulated by the State of Oklahoma. A maximum of five children are allowed to reside in the home, including any natural children, if any children in the home are age two or younger. If no children are under two years, the maximum number of children residing in the home is six.
FRONTAGE:	The linear measurement of a lot boundary which abuts a public street or the linear measurement of the building setback line when the boundary of the lot abuts a curbed non- arterial street or cul-de-sac.
HABITABLE FLOOR:	Any floor usable for living purposes, which includes working, sleeping, heating, cooking or recreation, or a combination thereof.
HALFWAY HOUSE:	A building used in whole or in part as a treatment center and dwelling quarters for persons unrelated by blood or marriage, who are undergoing care or rehabilitation for alcoholism or other forms of drug abuse.
HEAVY RETAIL (PERMANENT OUTDOOR STORAGE, SALES, AND USE):	Retail and/or service activities that have regular outdoor service, storage, and display or partially enclosed structures, including, but not limited to, permanent retail or wholesale operations outside of an enclosed building, excluding enclosed and attached garden or home centers. Examples include building materials, recreational equipment, trailers, portable buildings, auto and truck sales, fleet storage, farm or construction equipment, and portable housing sales.
HEIGHT, BUILDING:	See definition of Building Height.
HOME OCCUPATION:	Any occupation or activity conducted within a dwelling unit which is incidental and subordinate to the use of the premises for dwelling purposes.
HOSPITAL, CLINIC, MEDICAL LAB, MEDICAL OFFICE BUILDING, URGENT CARE CENTER:	A medical services facility, including hospitals, medical laboratories, clinics, urgent care centers, general medical and surgical hospitals, specialty hospitals, nursing homes, extended care, convalescence homes, and medical office buildings, where patients are examined and may include in-house clinical laboratory services and x-ray facilities for surgery or obstetrical care or other definitive medical treatment of similar extent, including physician and dental offices, physical or massage therapists, pharmacies, medical laboratories, rehabilitation, and related uses.
ILLEGAL NONCONFORMING USE OR STRUCTURE:	A use or structure that did not exist prior to the date of adoption of this Title and was created without the required approval of the City or Tulsa County or created in violation of the applicable codes in effect when the use or structure was established.
INDOOR RECREATION AND AMUSEMENT, COMMERCIAL INTENSIVE:	Commercial amusement and recreation activities typically conducted indoors that generate a variety of impacts on adjoining properties by hours of operation, noise, traffic volume, and the intensity of the use. Examples of typical uses include, but are not limited to: billiard parlor, bowling alley, dance hall, indoor theater, arena, and indoor recreation amusement center. This use category expressly excludes sexually oriented businesses.
INDUSTRIAL, HEAVY:	Refers to the following:
	A.   Any use classified as a “high hazard” occupancy.
	B.   Primary processing or manufacturing, or repair operations not specifically defined elsewhere in this Title, that involve:
	1.   Outdoor storage in an area greater than that of the first floor of buildings on the lot;
	2.   A material risk of environmental contamination, explosion, or fire; or
	3.   Perceptible ground vibration, excessive noise or dust, emission of objectionable odors, or other environmental impacts.
	C.   Processing of minerals, ores, or fossil fuels, excluding precious and semi-precious stone cutting for jewelry, or precision instruments, such as watches.
	D.   Industries subject to New Source Review under the Federal Clean Air Act, or subject to Title V of the Federal Clean Air Act.
	E.   For illustrative purposes, heavy industrial uses include, but are not limited to:
	1.   Coal cleaning plants with thermal dryers, coke oven batteries, carbon black plants (furnace process), petroleum refineries, petroleum storage and transfer units, and bulk fuel dealers.
	2.   Facilities used for food processing, such as fat rendering and stockyards.
	3.   Manufacturing and processing of glass, wood, plastics, other raw materials, and chemicals for their transformation into in new products or components.
	4.   Incinerators, foundries, smelting, fertilizer or ammunition manufacturing.
	5.   Fossil fuel combustion, such as boilers, electricity generation, or smelting.
	6.   Manufacturing and fabrication of building materials, such as countertops, drywall, cut stone; vehicles, manufacturing equipment, durable goods, pre-fabricated homes, or home components; plasma arc welding, cutting, gouging, surfacing, or spraying; gas welding, arc welding with equipment rated at more than 200 amps, or TIG welding; and other heavy welding procedures, such as for structural steel, automotive body, or heavy equipment manufacture or repair.
	7.   Airport/heliport.
	8.   Dry cleaner processing plants that use PERC or comparable petrochemical solvents.
	9.   Meat or seafood rendering and animal slaughter.
	10.   Fossil fuel, waste-to-energy, and biomass plants that produce power.
	11.   Recycling processing and collection.
	F.   Semi-Conductor related uses shall be considered to be a heavy industrial use when the use relates to weapons, nuclear energy, pharmaceutical and biotechnology applications. If the semi-conductor use relates to applications such as computers and software services, mobile telecommunications, and related technology and hardware equipment, the use may be considered to be light industrial if the operation of the use satisfies all other aspects of the definition of “Light Industrial, Flex Commercial/Light Industrial.”
INDUSTRIAL, LIGHT, FLEX COMMERCIAL:	Refers to industrial, wholesale, and intensive commercial uses that may have limited outdoor use, storage, and operations, and have limited environmental impact or risk. Typical uses include, but are not limited to, the following:
	A.   Assembly of products, instruments, electronics, office machines, and items from pre- manufactured components;
	B.   Auto or marine body, paint, or upholstery services;
	C.   Building, development, and general contracting;
	D.   Communications facilities, except wireless telecommunications facilities;
	E.   Food production, other than restaurants and micro-breweries, and those food processing uses expressly cited as Industrial, Heavy;
	F.   Furniture making or refinishing;
	G.   Manufacture of textiles and apparel;
	H.   Printing and publishing, except copy centers;
	I.   Special trade contractors, excluding outside storage of any equipment that is more than 12 feet in height;
	J.   Wholesale trade of durable and non-durable products, except farm products and combustible or hazardous materials;
	K.   Uses that involve outside storage of heavy vehicles, with limited environmental impacts or risks, such as truck rental, heavy equipment rental, recreational vehicle or manufactured home storage and sales, and transportation or warehouse services; and
	L.   Intensive commercial uses that provide services integral with the operation of an industrial center or that require the storage or warehousing of inventory and heavy equipment.
	Heavy industrial uses that are small in scale and involve limited environmental impact or safety risk may be permitted in this category if:
	•   The use is of high-tech nature involving small scale assembly, such as, but not limited to, computer components, data storage, and medical equipment, and where the use occupies less than 30,000 square feet and receives and ships via parcel courier service, not semi-trailers.
	•   The use occupies less than 30,000 square feet of a masonry building, has no outdoor storage, processing, or operations, and receives and ships via parcel courier service, not semi-trailers.
	•   The uses are in an industrial park setting and meet all light industrial criteria where the aggregate area of uses exceeds 30,000 square feet.
	•   The use involves mini-warehouses with outside storage.
	•   The use is a regional utility substation or distribution station.
	•   The use involves research, a testing lab, or product development.
INTEGRATED:	To combine things into a form so that they appear to become a whole. Where used architecturally, integrated requires screening elements to be adapted into the design of the building to create a unified building design for one, or a group, of buildings or uses. When used in conjunction with site development, integrated refers to parking, circulation, landscaping, and other site elements.
KENNEL:	Any facility, excluding an authorized federal, state, or City facility, veterinary hospital, or research facility, that is operated commercially where four or more dogs beyond the age of six months are kept for the purpose of boarding, sheltering, grooming, breeding and/or training with the intent to sell or donate, for a period of more than 60 days. This definition does not include a private residence nor shall it be interpreted to allow a private residence to exceed the limitation on animal ownership set forth by City Code.
LAND AREA:	The area of a lot or parcel, which for purposes of the minimum area requirements of this Title, is calculated as the area of the lot, plus one half, or 30 feet, whichever is less, of the right-of-way of any abutting street on which the lot has access.
LANDSCAPED AREA:	The unpaved area within a lot which contains grass, shrubs, flowers, ground cover, trees or native plant materials and which may include decorative fixtures such as rocks, pools and planters.
LANDSCAPING:	Trees, shrubs, ground cover, vines, unpaved walkways, ponds, fountains, sculpture, and other organic and inorganic materials used for creating an attractive appearance. Smooth concrete or asphalt surfaces are not landscaping.
LEGAL NONCONFORMING USE OR STRUCTURE:	A use or structure that was in existence prior to the date of adoption of this Title, or when established/constructed subsequent to that date, conformed to the applicable regulations in effect at that time and was rendered nonconforming by an amendment of the regulations, or was rendered nonconforming as a result of annexation into the City.
LIFE CARE RETIREMENT CENTER:	A residential facility containing dwellings designed for and principally occupied by senior citizens in a planned retirement community, which includes a residential complex, an activity or community center, or a medical or nursing facility licensed by the State of Oklahoma as an intermediate care facility, or a skilled nursing center.
LIGHT TRESPASS:	The shining of light produced by a luminaire beyond the boundaries of the property on which it is located.
LIMITED USE, AUTHORIZATION OF:	A land use which is permitted upon City Planner determination that all Limited Use criteria and other applicable requirements of this Title, and any other relevant City codes and ordinances, have been satisfied.
LIVABILITY SPACE:	The open space of a lot not allocated to or used for off-street parking, loading, or paved access, or buildings and the physical use of the property.
LOADING BERTH, OFF-STREET:	A space designed and located on a lot for the temporary parking of commercial vehicles while loading or unloading merchandise or materials.
LOT:	A lot of record on a plat which has been recorded in the office of the Tulsa County Clerk, or a parcel of land on a plat which was recorded in the office of the Tulsa County Clerk.
LOT AREA:	The total horizontal area within the lot lines of a lot.
LOT LINE:	Any property ownership boundary of a lot or parcel.
LOT LINE, EXTERIOR SIDE:	The boundary of a corner lot that sides onto a second street.
LOT LINE, FRONT:	The boundary of a lot which abuts a public street. Where the lot abuts more than one street, the plat shall be consulted as to which lot line is designated as a front or exterior side lot line. If not specified on the plat, the principal structure should be oriented in a manner appropriate with the orientation of the surrounding principal structures and other lots in the vicinity.
LOT LINE, REAR:	The boundary of a lot which is distant from and most nearly parallel to the front lot line.
LOT LINE, SIDE:	Any boundary of a lot which is not a front, rear, or exterior side lot line.
LOT OF RECORD:	A lot which is a part of a subdivision where a plat was recorded by the County Clerk of Tulsa County, or a parcel of land in which the deed was recorded by the County Clerk of Tulsa County.
LOT WIDTH:	The average horizontal distance between the side lot lines.
MAJOR STREET AND HIGHWAY PLAN:	The City of Glenpool Major Street and Highway Plan, as adopted by City Council, as may be amended.
MANUFACTURED HOME PARK:	A tract of land designed or being used to accommodate two or more manufactured homes as dwelling units, as defined herein, for dwelling or sleeping purposes, with pads available on a rental or lease basis.
MANUFACTURED HOME SUBDIVISION:	A tract of land subdivided into lots for manufactured homes, each of which will be served by separate utilities, have frontage on a dedicated public street, and be capable of being sold or rented.
MINI-STORAGE:	A building containing small partitioned storage spaces, which are separately and individually rented or leased, for the storage of personal goods or merchandise, but excluding commercial warehousing.
MIXED USE:	Development in which a combination of residential and commercial uses, such as residential uses as second story uses over ground level retail uses, or several classifications of commercial uses, such as office and retail, or a business park, are located on the same parcel proposed for development.
MOBILE HOME:	See definition of “Dwelling, Mobile Home”.
MOBILE HOME PARK:	An area zoned and established to provide one or more parking spaces intended for mobile home occupancy, usually providing utilities and public amenities.
NEIGHBORHOOD GROUP HOME:	A home for independent living with support personnel that provides room and board, personal care and habilitation services in a family environment as a single housekeeping unit for not more than five resident developmentally disabled and/or physically limited persons with at least one but not more than two resident staff persons. Personal care and habilitation services exclude on site institutional type educational training or medical or nursing care.
NURSING HOME:	A residential healthcare facility licensed and regulated by the State of Oklahoma which provides lodging, personal care and supervision for aged, chronically ill, physically infirm, or convalescent patients.
OFFICE, GENERAL:	Uses performed in an office, or office-like setting, in which professional, outpatient medical, or financial services are provided. The term includes accounting, auditing and bookkeeping, graphic design, interior design, architecture, engineering, legal services, mortgage services, insurance and financial services, computer programming, counseling, medical/dental/ chiropractic offices, real estate sales, and virtual office services.
100-YEAR FREQUENCY FLOOD:	A flood having an average frequency of occurrence once in 100 years, although the flood may occur in any year, based on statistical analyses of stream flow records available for the watershed and analyses of rainfall and runoff characteristics in the general region of the watershed, as predicted by FEMA, as depicted on FIRMmaps, or as predicted by the U.S. Corps of Engineers and interpreted by the City Engineer.
OPAQUE:	Non-transparent and not able to be seen through on a year round basis.
OUTDOOR RECREATION, COMMERCIAL INTENSIVE:	Commercial recreation activities typically conducted outdoors that generate a variety of impacts on adjoining properties by outdoor lighting, noise, traffic volume, and the intensity of the use. Examples of typical uses include, but are not limited to, commercial campground, recreation vehicle park, race track, drive-in theater, golf driving range, carnival, or fairgrounds.
OUTDOOR RECREATION, PUBLIC:	Recreation sites or facilities such as public parks, Homeowner Association operated facilities, designated public or commonly shared open space, golf courses, swimming pools, and tennis courts, typically located in or near neighborhoods, but do not include shooting ranges, amusement parks, carnivals, or similar forms of recreation that are incompatible with residential and public uses.
OUTDOOR SALES AND DISPLAY:	A principal use where products and inventory are displayed, stored, and sold outdoors because of their size, mass, or quantity. Examples include plant nurseries, automobile dealerships, recreational equipment dealerships, or agricultural implements. This definition does not pertain to seasonal sales, temporary sales, or any other short term or temporary outdoor use permitted in this Title.
OUT-PARCEL:	A building lot subdivided from a larger “parent” principal parcel, the combination of which functions as an integrated development that shares access, driveways, signs, landscaping, and off-street parking. The term is synonymous with the term “out-lot” and is typical with large scale integrated commercial developments. Out-parcels vary in size, may be platted lots or lease areas, but are generally smaller than 10 acres and often used as a restaurant, bank, drug store, or small scale retail or service use. It is typical for integrated developments to have multiple out-parcels with a variety of sizes.
OVERLAY DISTRICT:	Zoning, applied over one or more other districts, creates a second, mapped zone that is superimposed over the conventional zoning districts. Overlay districts, when used, typically provide a higher level of regulation than conventional zoning districts.
OVERSPEED CONTROL:	A mechanism used to limit the speed of blade rotation to below the design limits of the Wind Energy Conversion System (WECS).
PARKING DURATION:	The length of time an individual vehicle remains in a given parking space. Duration is a function of the driver’s trip and purpose.
PARKING SPACE, OFF-STREET:	A space on a lot intended and reserved for the parking of an automobile, together with a driveway connecting the space with a street or alley and permitting safe ingress or egress of an automobile.
PAWNSHOP / SHORT TERM FINANCING:	An establishment that regularly engages in the short term loan of money on deposit of personal property or the possession of personal property on condition of selling the same back again to the pledger, or that loans or advances money on personal property by taking chattel mortgage security thereon. State and federally chartered banks and lending institutions are excluded.
PERSONAL SERVICE:	Uses that generally offer indoor personal care services, including, but not limited to, spas, salons, dry cleaners, craft shops, travel bureaus, fitness centers, and customer personal services, but excluding services defined as a sexually oriented business.
PLACE OF ASSEMBLY:	An indoor place where people gather for civic, religious or cultural purposes. The phrase “place of assembly” includes place of worship, meeting hall, lecture hall, or a place where a fraternal organization meets. The phrase “place of assembly” does not include the phrase “indoor recreation” or “indoor commercial amusement.”
PLANNED NEIGHBORHOOD:	A subdivision that includes a minimum of two housing types that may be clustered around a greater amount of open space that is used to protect site resources, preserve natural features, provide recreation area, and to buffer different housing types. A planned neighborhood provides for a mixture of housing types.
PLANNED UNIT DEVELOPMENT:	A discretionary type of development for a tract of land under single ownership or control, based upon an approved development plan permitting flexibility of principal land uses, lot sizes and accessory uses not otherwise available under conventional development standards.
PLANNING COMMISSION:	The City of Glenpool Planning Commission.
PRIVATE CLUB OR LODGE:	An association of persons organized for some common purpose, including fraternal organizations, whether incorporated or not, but not including groups organized primarily to render a service that is customarily carried on as a business.
PUBLIC/PRIVATE SCHOOL (GRADES K-12):	An institution that provides full-time instruction for students from kindergarten to 12th grade.
RECREATIONAL VEHICLE:	A vehicular-type unit primarily designed as temporary living quarters for recreational, camping, or travel use, which either has its own motive power or is mounted on or drawn by another vehicle.
RECREATIONAL VEHICLE PARK:	A plot of land upon which two or more recreational vehicle sites are located, established, or maintained for occupancy by recreational vehicles.
REFUSE CONTAINER:	A collection facility for garbage, paper, cartons, boxes, metals, glass and similar materials. Dumpsters and trash compactors are examples of refuse containers.
RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT, RESEARCHING AND TESTING LABORATORIES:	A business that engages in research and development of innovative ideas in technology-intensive fields, with product testing, scientific research, evaluation, and test marketing.
RESIDENTIAL CARE FACILITY:	A facility that provides custodial care to persons who, because of physical, mental, or emotional disorders, are not able to live independently.
RESIDENTIAL TREATMENT CENTER:	A community based residential facility providing diagnostic or therapeutic services and long term room and board in a highly structured environment for its residents for substance abuse, mental illness, or behavioral disorders, as regulated by the State of Oklahoma.
ROOMING AND BOARDING HOUSE:	A facility wherein congregate meals and lodging are provided to residents exclusive of a supervised living or residential care facility and exclusive of a hotel or motel.
SALVAGE YARD:	A yard, lot or place, covered or uncovered, outdoors or in an enclosed building, containing salvage or junk, upon which occurs one or more acts of buying, storing, dismantling, processing, recycling, selling, or offering for sale any such salvage, in units or in parts, for a business or a commercial purpose. Wrecking yards used for the dismantling of cars and other equipment constitute a potential public nuisance and will only be considered if an applicant demonstrates that such a facility can be operated in a manner that would not constitute a nuisance.
SATELLITE RECEIVING DISH:	Any parabolic antenna positioned to receive a signal from a satellite in a geosynchronous orbit.
SCREEN:	A fence, wall, or hedge designed to obstruct public view of a storage or other area.
SETBACK:	A horizontal distance determining the location of a building with respect to a street, use district boundary line, or another use. Where the term “setback” is used in conjunction with a modifying word or words such as “parking area”, the setback shall, in its application, include, but not be limited to, buildings.
SELF-STORAGE FACILITY, INTERIOR ACCESS:	A structure containing separate storage spaces, which may be of various sizes, leased or rented on an individual basis, with all units being accessible from within the facility, with no access to outdoor roll up doors or storage lockers.
SELF-STORAGE FACILITY, EXTERIOR ACCESS:	A structure containing separate storage spaces, which may be of various sizes, leased or rented on an individual basis, which may have interior and/or exterior access.
SHOPPING CENTER; GENERAL:	A group of retail, service, or office uses managed as a single entity to serve a broad region of the City and surrounding area.
SHOPPING CENTER, NEIGHBORHOOD:	A group of retail, service, or office uses managed as a single entity to serve residents primarily within the immediate area of the center.
SIGN:	Any object or device or part thereof situated outdoors or indoors used to advertise, identify, display, direct, or attract attention to an object, person, institution, organization, business, product, service, event, or location by any means. Signs do not include official flags of governments or of fraternal, religious or civic organizations, window displays, time and temperature devices, murals or works of art, or scoreboards on athletic fields.
SPECIAL EXCEPTION:	A use or a design element of a use which is not permitted by right in a particular district because of potential adverse effects, but which, if controlled in the particular instance as to its relationship to the neighborhood and to the general welfare, may be permitted by the Board of Adjustment, where specifically authorized by this Title, and in accordance with the substantive and procedural standards of this Title.
SPECIAL USE PERMIT:	A use or a design element which is not permitted by right in a particular district because of potential adverse effects, but which, if designed and operated in a manner that is sensitive to its relationship to surrounding uses, may be permitted by the City Council, following review and a recommendation from the Planning Commission where specifically authorized by this Title, and in accordance with the substantive and procedural standards of this Title.
STORAGE OR USE OF FLAMMABLE OR NOXIOUS MATERIALS OR SUBSTANCES:	A use engaged in storage or manufacturing that uses flammable, noxious, or explosive materials. Typical uses include, but are not limited to, chemical manufacturing and warehousing, fat rendering, fertilizer manufacturing, the manufacture and warehousing of fireworks and other explosives, petroleum refineries, pulp processing and paper product manufacturing, processes using radioactive materials, steel works, slaughter houses, and tanneries.
STREET WALL:	The wall or part of the building nearest to the street line.
STREET YARD:	The minimum required yard abutting a public street or the area of a lot contained between the minimum required building setback line and an abutting public street.
STRUCTURE:	Anything constructed or erected with a fixed location on the ground, or attached to something having a fixed location on the ground, and includes buildings, walks, fences, and signs.
SUBSTANTIAL IMPROVEMENT:	The commencement of construction of initial permanent physical improvements necessary to construct an overall permitted development project, within the life of the permit that allowed such improvements. Examples of substantial improvements include the pouring of slabs or footings and the preparation of a building pad, followed by the continued progression of the project to its completion.
TAVERN, NIGHT CLUB:	An establishment where the dispensing and consumption of alcoholic beverages is the principal use.
TEMPORARY CONSTRUCTION STRUCTURE:	A temporary or portable structure used for a limited period of time as an administrative office for construction related activities occurring on the same lot under an active building permit. The structure will be removed at a time predetermined with the issuance of a Zoning Clearance Permit to allow the structure.
TOP PLATE:	The horizontal timber directly carrying the trusses of a roof or the rafters.
TRANSITIONAL LIVING CENTER:	A community based residential facility that provides short term residential (120 days or less) room and board in a supervised living environment utilizing counseling and rehabilitation services for persons with a history of juvenile delinquency, behavioral disorders, mental illness, alcoholism, or drug abuse, for a period not to exceed 120 days, as regulated by the State of Oklahoma.
TREE:	A woody plant having one or more defined stems or trunks and having a defined crown and customarily attaining a mature height of eight feet or greater.
USABLE FLOOR AREA:	All of the floor area in a building or buildings including hallways, but excluding areas of floor devoted to structural or partition walls, stair wells, elevator shafts, storage, boiler rooms, and mechanical service rooms.
VARIANCE:	A relaxation of a restriction of this Title, granted by the Board of Adjustment, where, by reason of extraordinary or exceptional situation, condition or circumstance of a particular property, the literal enforcement of the restriction of this Title would result in unnecessary hardship.
VETERINARIAN CLINIC:	A building used exclusively for the care and treatment of animals, including incidental overnight boarding of animals within the enclosed building, but excluding outside animal runs or boarding services.
WIND ENERGY CONVERSION SYSTEM (WECS) (Wind Turbine, Wind Generator, Windmill, and Wind Machine):	A machine that converts the kinetic energy of wind into a usable form of energy. WECS includes all parts of a system except the tower and transmission equipment.
YARD:	An open, unoccupied space on a lot between a building and a lot line.
YARD, EXTERIOR SIDE:	A yard extending along the full length of a lot located at the corner of two streets.
YARD, FRONT:	A yard extending along the full length of the front lot line between the side lot lines.
YARD, REAR:	A yard extending along the full length of the rear lot line between the side lot lines.
YARD, REQUIRED:	The minimum permitted distance of open unoccupied space between a building and a lot line.
YARD, SIDE:	A yard extending along a side lot line between the required front yard and the required rear yard.
ZONING CLEARANCE PERMIT:	A permit issued by the Building Official upon the direction of the City Planner after all requirements of this Title have been satisfied. (Ord. 746, 11-14-2017)