(a) For purposes of sections 17-2 through 17-4, the following definitions shall apply:
(1) Address: A unique identification of a location which may consist of a street number, street direction, street name, street type, and unit, at a minimum, a number and a name is required.
(2) Property number: The numeric part of an address.
(3) Site number: The street number component, or any part thereof, of an address. This number may or may not be the same as the property number.
(4) Building number: The number, or any part thereof, assigned to a principal building or structure. Where there is more than one (1) principal building or structure on a property, each principal building or structure will be assigned either a building number or other site number.
(5) Principal building or structure: A structure such as an office building, apartment building, retail structure or other similar structure wherein the primary or major activity on the property takes place. The term as used in this section does not include accessory or incidental structures such as garages, storage sheds or similar structures. The Division of Enhanced 911, Office of Addressing shall determine whether, for purposes of this section only, a structure constitutes a principal building or structure.
(6) Private access easement: The right of a land owner to ingress and egress to his property over any adjoining property of another for the purpose of accessing the public right-of-way.
(b) All properties within the urban county shall be assigned an address by the Division of Enhanced 911, Office of Addressing for the purposes of taxation, public safety and provision of services.
(c) All principal buildings and leasable/salable portions of such buildings which have separate and direct outside entrances shall have the site number and assigned unit number permanently and prominently displayed at the expense of the owners thereof.
(d) Minimum criteria. Unless otherwise provided herein, any site number that is required to be posted pursuant to sections 17-2 through 17-4 shall comply with the following minimum criteria or standards of visibility:
(1) It shall be made up of numbers, contrasting in color with the background on which they are affixed, which clearly identify the correct building or structure and which are clearly visible and identifiable at all times during daylight hours to persons in vehicles traveling in both directions of all streets or named easements from which the structure is accessed;
(2) Unless determined otherwise by the Division of Enhanced 911, Office of Addressing, it shall be a minimum of four (4) inches in height, except for industrial or commercial buildings or structures from which such numbers are not readily visible from the street or named easement, which shall be a minimum of ten (10) inches in height, with a minimum width of one and three-quarter (1.75) inches, and which shall be affixed above or beside the main entrance of such industrial or commercial building or structure whenever possible;
(3) It shall be affixed to the structure and at least three (3) feet above ground level.
(4) It shall be affixed to the structure or displayed not more than four (4) feet from the street or named easement upon which the structure is located and addressed (i.e., on both sides of a single mailbox); however, postings will only be satisfactory if they clearly indicate the correct structure.
Notwithstanding the above, where more than one (1) principal building or structure is located upon a property and where the site number is clearly displayed at the street entrance to the property, each principal building or structure shall not be required to display the site number so long as each building or structure is clearly identified by a building number.
(e) The Division of Enhanced 911, Office of Addressing shall be the only department of the urban county government authorized to assign or cause to be assigned, delete, or change a property number, site number, unit number, and/or a building number where appropriate so as to ensure no duplication of numbers or street names. The Division of Enhanced 911, Office of Addressing shall maintain a street index file containing the official list of valid street names. No other government entity, agency, department or division is authorized to assign site, unit, property or building numbers or street names. All such actions are to be reviewed and approved by the addressing committee, which is comprised of members of the divisions of enhanced 911 and its addressing office, fire and emergency services, police, planning, and GIS; the Fayette County Property Valuation Administrator's Office, and the United States Post Office, as further provided in The Addressing Guide for Lexington-Fayette Urban County Government, which is attached hereto and incorporated herein by reference as additional guidance in numbering and addressing properties, and filed with the urban county council clerk as a part of the public records of this government. In addition, the commissioner of public safety is hereby empowered to prescribe, adopt, promulgate and enforce rules and regulations relating to any matter or thing pertaining to the administration and enforcement of the provisions of sections 17-2 through 17-4, and which are not otherwise inconsistent with this section.
(f) The Division of Enhanced 911, Office of Addressing shall be the only department of the urban county government authorized to assign or cause to be assigned, delete, or change a property number, site number, unit number, and/or a building number where appropriate. The Division of Enhanced 911, Office of Addressing shall maintain a street index file containing the official list of valid street names. No other government entity, agency, department or division, other than Division of Enhanced 911, Office of Addressing, is authorized to assign site, unit, property or building numbers or street names. All such actions are to be reviewed and approved by the addressing committee, which is comprised of members of the divisions of enhanced 911 and its addressing office, fire and emergency services, police, planning, and GIS; the Fayette County Property Valuation Administrator's Office, and the United States Post Office, as further provided in The Addressing Guide for Lexington-Fayette Urban County Government, which is attached hereto and incorporated herein by reference as additional guidance in numbering and addressing properties, and filed with the urban county council clerk as a part of the public records of this government. In addition, the commissioner of public safety is hereby empowered to prescribe, adopt, promulgate and enforce rules and regulations relating to any matter or thing pertaining to the administration and enforcement of the provisions of sections 17-2 through 17-4, and which are not otherwise inconsistent with this section.
(g) No private access easement shall be named without the prior approval of the Division of Enhanced 911, Office of Addressing. All private access easements that are named with the approval of the Division of Enhanced 911, Office of Addressing shall have a regulation street sign placed at each intersection of the named easement and any other named easement or street. The regulation street sign shall be purchased and erected at the expense of the owner of the private access easement unless the street sign is located at the intersection of a private access easement and the public right-of-way.
(Ord. No. 231-89, § 1, 12-7-89; Ord. No. 3-96, § 1, 1-11-96; Ord. No. 329-2002, § 1, 12-5-02; Ord. No. 374-2006, §§ 1, 2, 12-12-06; Ord. No. 8-2010, § 1, 1-14-10; Ord. No. 92-2017 , § 1, 5-25-17)
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| 2 | Cross reference(s)—Similar provisions, § 21-1(PM 302.2). |