For the purpose of these regulations, the following terms, words and their derivations and phrases shall have the following meanings.
If any words and phrases are not defined by these regulations, but are defined in state or federal laws, the state or federal law definition shall apply.
ADA: The Americans with disabilities act.
ACCESS ROAD: Any roadway available to the public which provides access between a publicly dedicated or owned thoroughfare and the entrance or operating area of a facility.
ACCESSORY BUILDING OR USE: A building or use customarily incident to the primary building or use on the same lot or parcel.
ACCESSORY DWELLING UNIT: A habitable dwelling unit added to, created within, or detached from and on the same lot with a single-family dwelling that provides basic requirements for living, sleeping, eating, cooking, and sanitation. An accessory dwelling unit is subordinate to the primary dwelling unit on a lot intended for single-family residential use. An accessory dwelling unit is subject to compliance with the restrictions and regulations of MMC 9-8-1-D.
ADEQUATE PUBLIC FACILITIES: Storm water, water, wastewater, street, electric and telecommunications facilities at the minimum level of service established in this title.
ADJACENT: A lot or parcel of land that shares all or part of a common lot line with another lot or parcel of land.
ADMINISTRATIVE PERMIT: Any permit required for any type of development which may be approved by the zoning or building official or other employee of the city, including, but not limited to, building or occupation permits.
ADULT USES: Adult uses are those which are not open to the public generally but only to one or more classes of the public and excluding any minor by reason of age, a minor being a person under the age of eighteen (18) years. Adult uses involve specified sexual activities, including, but not limited to, adult bookstores, adult motion picture theaters, adult mini-motion picture theaters, adult massage parlors, adult saunas, adult rap/conversation parlors, adult health clubs, juice bars and adult cabarets, or similar adult uses.
AGRICULTURAL USE: Any use involved with the cultivation of the soil, production of plants or crops or the raising of livestock.
AIRPORT: Any landing area, runway or other facility designed, used or intended to be used either publicly or by any person or persons for the landing and taking off of aircraft, including all necessary taxiways, aircraft storage and tie down areas, hangars and other necessary buildings and open spaces.
AIRPORT ZONES: Federal Aviation Regulations, Part 77, establishes the following airport safety zones:
A. Horizontal surface
B. Conical surface
C. Primary surface
D. Approach Surface
E. Transitional surface
ALLEY: A public way primarily designed to serve as secondary access to the side or rear of those properties whose principal frontage is on a public street.
AMUSEMENT ARCADE: Any establishment other than a hotel-casino which maintains five (5) or more coin operated amusement machines, excluding coin operated gaming devices.
ANIMAL ENCLOSURE AREA: Any area designed for the containment of animals, excluding: livestock grazing areas, terrariums, aquariums, small cages kept within the living area of a residence and fenced yards.
ANIMAL EXHIBIT: Any use wherein exotic or wild animals are kept in captivity for the purpose of public display with or without charge. Exhibits of this type typically display animals in temporary exhibits which are not representative of the animals' natural habitat. Animal exhibit shall not be interpreted to include zoos.
ANIMAL, EXOTIC OR WILD: An animal which is not of a species customarily used as a household pet, but one which would ordinarily be confined to a zoo, or one which would ordinarily be found in the wilderness of this or any other country, or one which otherwise causes a reasonable person to be fearful of bodily harm or property damage. Fish and birds are not included in this definition.
ANIMAL HOSPITAL: A place where animals or pets are given medical or surgical treatment and are cared for during the time of such treatment.
APARTMENT: Includes the following:
A. Apartment, hotel: A facility offering transient lodging accommodation to the general public and where rooms or suites may include kitchen facilities and sitting rooms in addition to the bedroom.
B. Apartment house: A structure containing three (3) or more dwelling units.
C. Apartment, studio: One room and bath with or without cooking facilities, in a multiple dwelling.
APPLICANT: Any person requesting approval of any development application.
APPLICATION: A request for any development approval, including all required supplementary information.
ASSISTED LIVING FACILITY: In Nevada, the term “Assisted living facility” is synonymous with “Residential Facilities for Groups”, and means an establishment that furnishes food, shelter, assistance, and limited supervision to a person with an intellectual disability or with a physical disability or a person who is aged or infirm, have physical or other disabilities, or have chronic illnesses. The term does not include:
A. An establishment which provides care only during the day;
B. A natural person who provides care for no more than two persons in his or her own home;
C. A natural person who provides care for one or more persons related to him or her within the third degree of consanguinity or affinity;
D. A halfway house for persons recovering from alcohol or other substance use disorders; or
E. A home in which community-based living arrangement services or supported living arrangement services are provided by a provider of such services during any period in which the provider is providing the services. (NRS 449.017).
(See NRS Chapter 449 for State regulations and licensing requirements.)
ATTENTION GAINING DEVICES: Any streamers, flags, wheels, propellers, bunting or other artificial devices, figures, shapes, colors, sounds, lights and exhibits, live, animated or still, intended for attracting attention of passersby.
AUTO WRECKING: The collecting, dismantling or wrecking of used motor vehicles or trailers, or the storage or sale of dismantled, partially dismantled, obsolete or wrecked motor vehicles or their parts.
AUTOMOBILE OR TOURIST COURT: A group of two (2) or more detached or semidetached buildings (including groups designated as auto courts, motels or motor lodges) containing individual dwelling or sleeping units furnished with a garage attached or parking spaces conveniently located to each unit, with a daily maid service, a daily linen service, on site maintenance and a resident manager, designed for or used on a daily basis by automobile tourists or transients. Ten percent (10%) of rooms may be designated for a stay up to but not exceeding twenty eight (28) days. A twenty four (24) hour security guard, separate from the resident manager, will be required for all motels having fifty (50) units or more. RV parking is not allowed unless RV specific parking is provided.
AUTOMOBILE, TRUCK AND/OR TRAILER SALES LOT: An open area used for display, sales and/or rental of new or used automobiles, trucks or trailers, but where no repair, repainting or remodeling is done.
AVIARY: A house, large cage or enclosure for keeping and rearing of birds in confinement.
BANQUET FACILITY: An establishment that is rented by individuals or groups to accommodate private functions such as banquets, weddings, anniversaries, and other similar celebrations. Such a use may or may not include: a) kitchen facilities for the preparation or catering of food; b) the sale of alcoholic beverages for on premises consumption only during an event; and c) outdoor gardens or reception facilities.
BASEMENT: A story completely or partly underground.
BICYCLE LANE: That portion of an existing roadway designated and marked by pavement markings or signing for the specific use of nonmotorized bicycles.
BLOCK: A parcel of land bounded by streets or by streets and a natural or artificial barrier.
BOARD: The zoning board of adjustment ("ZBA"), an officially constituted body whose principal duties are to hear appeals and, where appropriate, grant variances from the strict application of these regulations.
BOARD AND CARE FACILITY: See Assisted Living Facility
BOARDING HOUSE: A dwelling unit or part thereof in which, for compensation, lodging and meals are provided; personal and financial services may be offered as well.
BREEZEWAY: Any structure connecting two (2) buildings and with a roof in keeping with the design and construction of the main building.
BREW PUB: An establishment which manufactures malt beverages and sells those malt beverages at retail pursuant to the provisions of NRS 597.230. (NRS 597.200)
BREWERY, PRODUCTION: Facilities which produce ales, beers, meads, hard ciders, and/or similar beverages on site, and sells/distributes its product through a wholesale dealer as defined by NRS 597.150. The term includes production wineries.
BRIDGE: A structure, including supports, erected over a depression or an obstruction, having a track or passageway for carrying traffic or other moving loads, and having a clear span or multiple spans totaling twenty feet (20') or more, as measured in a horizontal plane along the centerline of the roadway.
BUFFER YARD: A strip of land established to protect one type of land use from another land use or to provide screening.
BUILDING: A structure which is permanently affixed to the ground, as provided by the building code, has a roof supported by columns or walls, and is used for housing or enclosure of people, animals or personal property.
BUILDING CODE: An adopted description of building and structural specifications adopted by the city.
BUILDING, PRINCIPAL: A building in which is the principal use of the lot on which it is situated.
BUILDING SETBACK LINE: A line specifically established which generally is parallel to and set back from a property line and which identifies an area into which no part of a building shall project (see "Exhibit 9-2:1: Building Setbacks" of this definition).
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BULK REGULATIONS: Standards and controls that establish the maximum size of buildings and structures on a lot and the buildable area within which the building can be located, including coverage, setbacks, height, floor area ratio and yard requirements.
BUSINESS: Includes retail, commercial and industrial uses and districts, as herein defined.
CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PROGRAM: A proposed schedule setting forth all proposed future capital facility projects in order of construction priority, together with cost estimates and the anticipated means of financing such projects which are required to implement the master plan.
CASITA (attached and detached): A room or suite of rooms constructed in conjunction with a primary single-family residence to which it is associated, to provide additional housing space for family members or visiting guests. A casita typically has its own outdoor access. A casita is distinguished from an Accessory Dwelling Unit (ADU) by lack of separate cooking facilities and restrictions on the use of the space. A detached casita is considered an accessory building, and an integral part of the primary single-family residence. A casita is not considered a separate dwelling unit.
CEMETERY: Property used for the interment of the dead.
CHECK CASHING SERVICE: Any person(s) engaged in the business of cashing checks for a fee, service charge or other consideration.
CHILDCARE FACILITY: An establishment operated and maintained for the purpose of furnishing care on a temporary or permanent basis during the day or overnight to five (5) or more children under eighteen (18) years of age, if compensation is received for the care of any of those children. A community residence is not a childcare facility.
CHURCH: Any building or structure regularly and primarily used as a place of worship, or other religious assembly, by any organized religious society, organization or congregation recognized by the 1986 federal tax code section 501(c), regardless of whether or not such building or structure was originally designed and constructed for such purpose.
CITY: The incorporated city of Mesquite, Nevada.
COMMENCEMENT OF CONSTRUCTION FOR BUILDING: When a valid building permit is issued, and the footings and foundation are placed in the ground.
Subdivisions: Field construction approved off site and grading plans.
COMMERCIAL HAULERS: Individuals or companies that transport nonhazardous and/or hazardous wastes for a fee or in the regular course of business.
COMMERCIAL USE: An activity involving the sale of goods or services carried out for a profit.
COMMISSION: Mesquite, Nevada, planning commission or city council acting as planning commission.
COMMON OPEN SPACE: A parcel or parcels of land or an area of water or a combination of land and water or easements, licenses or equitable servitudes within the site designated for a planned unit development which is designed and intended for the use or enjoyment of the residents or owners of the development. Common open space may contain such complementary structures and improvements as are necessary and appropriate for the benefit and enjoyment of the residents or owners of the development. Ownership of common open space is typically held by the PUD developer(s) or the PUD homeowner’s association.
COMMON OWNERSHIP AREA: Ownership by one or more individuals in any form of ownership of two (2) or more contiguous lots.
COMMUNITY RESIDENCE: A residential living arrangement for six (6) or more unrelated individuals with disabilities in need of the mutual support furnished by other residents as well as the support services, if any, provided by the staff. A community residence shall be considered a residential use of property for purposes of all zoning and building codes. The term does not include "facilities for the treatment of alcohol and drug abuse", "modified medical detoxification facilities", "transitional living facilities for released offenders", "facilities for treatment with narcotics", or "community triage centers" as each of these terms is defined within chapter 449 of the Nevada Revised Statutes. The term also does not include an "institution", "hospital", "boarding house", "lodging house", "fraternity", "sorority", "dormitory", or any other group living arrangement for unrelated individuals who are not disabled. The term "community residence" includes the following two (2) categories:
Community Residence - Family: A relatively permanent living arrangement for six (6) or more unrelated persons with disabilities including, but not limited to, "residential facilities for groups" of six (6) or more residents as defined by Nevada Revised Statutes 449.017. No limit is placed on the length of tenancy.
Community Residence - Transitional: A temporary living arrangement, with a limit on length of tenancy, for six (6) or more unrelated persons with disabilities, including, but not limited to, "halfway house for recovering alcohol and drug abusers" for six (6) or more residents as defined by Nevada Revised Statutes 449.008.
COMPOSTING: Process by which biological decomposition of organic matter is carried out under controlled aerobic conditions.
COMPOSTING FACILITY: A solid waste management facility where yard wastes and other permitted wastes are processed using composting technology.
COMPREHENSIVE PLAN (MASTER PLAN): A comprehensive, long range plan intended to guide the growth and development of Mesquite.
CONCEPT PLAN: A plan submitted in connection with a multiphase subdivision application that provides the information and graphics sufficient to meet the requirements of this ordinance for the purpose of implementing an integrated development scheme for all phases of the proposed subdivision.
CONSTRUCTION DRAWINGS: Complete construction drawings of a facility or improvement, including, but not limited to, road plans and profiles, drainage plans and utility plans.
CONVALESCENT, NURSING OR HOME FOR AGED: A facility that provides nursing care and related medical services on a twenty four (24) hour per day basis to three (3) or more individuals due to illness, disease, or physical or mental infirmity in an institutional setting rather than the family like environment of a community residence.
CORRAL: A space, other than a building, used for the confinement of large animals or livestock.
COUNCIL: The Mesquite city council.
COUNTY: Clark County, Nevada.
COURT: An open, unoccupied area, other than a yard, on the same lot with a building and bounded on two (2) or more sides by such a building. "Court apartment" means any multiple dwelling arranged around two (2) or three (3) sides of a court which opens onto a street.
CRAFT DISTILLERY: An establishment which:
A. Manufactures distilled spirits from agricultural raw materials through distillation; and
B. Is authorized to sell those distilled spirits pursuant to the provisions of this NRS Chapter 597.
CUL-DE-SAC: A local street with only one outlet and having a terminal for safe and convenient reversal of traffic movement.
CULVERT: Any structure not classified as a bridge which provides an opening under any roadway, including pipe culverts and any structure so named in the plans.
CURB: A stone, concrete or other improved boundary usually marking the edge of a road or other paved area.
DAIRY: Any premises upon which three (3) or more cows or goats are kept for the commercial production or sale of milk and dairy products.
DECORATIVE LIGHTING: Superfluous light, not used as part of an advertising display, intended to increase attractiveness or other incidental use.
DEFERRED DEPOSIT SERVICE: A transaction in which, pursuant to a written agreement: a) a customer tenders to a person a personal check drawn upon the account of the customer; and b) the person provides to the customer an amount of money that is equal to the face value of a check, less any fee charged for the transaction and agrees not to cash the check for a specified period. Also known as a "payday loan".
DEMOLITION AND CONSTRUCTION WASTE: Waste materials such as brick and stone from the construction or destruction of residential, industrial or commercial structure, but excluding hazardous materials such as asbestos.
DENSITY: The number of families, individuals, dwelling units, households or housing structures per unit of land.
DEPENDENT UNIT: A recreational vehicle which requires connection or access to external sources of electricity, water and sewage systems.
DEVELOPER: The legal or beneficial owner or owners of a lot or of any land included in the proposed development. Also, the holder of an option or contract to purchase, or any person having enforceable proprietary interest in such land.
DEVELOPMENT: The division of a parcel of land into two (2) or more parcels; the construction, reconstruction, conversion, structural alteration, relocation or enlargement of any structure; any mining, excavation, clearing of roadways or building sites, landfill or land disturbance, and any use or extension of the use of land. This definition excludes normal earth working associated with crop farming or landscaping at an individual lot.
DIRECTOR: The director of Development Services or his or her authorized deputy, agent or representative.
DISABILITY: A physical or mental impairment that substantially limits one or more of an individual's major life activities, impairs an individual's ability to live independently, having a record of such an impairment, or being regarded as having such an impairment. People with disabilities do not include drug addicts or alcoholics when they are using alcohol, illegal drugs, or using legal drugs to which they are addicted.
DISPOSAL FACILITY: A facility or part of a facility at which hazardous waste is intentionally placed into or on any land or water, and at which waste will remain after closure.
DISTRICT: A part, zone or geographic area within the city within which certain zoning or development regulations apply.
DIVISION INTO LARGE PARCELS: Division of property pursuant to Nevada Revised Statutes section 278.471.
DORMITORY: A building used as group living quarters for a student body or religious order as an accessory use for a college, university, boarding school, convent, monastery or other similar institutional use.
DRAINAGE: The removal of surface water or groundwater from land by drains, grading or other means.
DRAINAGE EASEMENT: Area reserved for the conveyance of stormwater, stormwater improvements and required access.
DRIVEWAY: A paved or unpaved area used for ingress or egress of vehicles from a street to a lot, building, garage or other structure or facility.
DUMP: A place used for the disposal, by abandonment, discarding, dumping, reduction, burial, incineration or by other means, of garbage, sewage, trash, refuse, waste material, offal or dead animals.
DWELLING: A structure or portion thereof that is used exclusively for human habitation.
DWELLING, MULTI-FAMILY: A building or portion thereof used for occupancy containing three (3) or more dwelling units.
DWELLING, SINGLE-FAMILY ATTACHED: One of two (2) or more buildings having a common or party wall which is fire resistant separating dwelling units.
DWELLING, SINGLE-FAMILY DETACHED: A detached building containing not more than one dwelling unit entirely surrounded by open space on the same lot or parcel (also referred to as single-family dwelling).
DWELLING, TWO-FAMILY (DUPLEX): A detached building having dwelling units for not more than two (2) families.
DWELLING UNIT: One or more connecting rooms, designed, occupied or intended for occupancy as a separate living quarter for occupancy by a single household, which have direct access to the outside or to a common hall, with cooking, sleeping and sanitary facilities provided within the dwelling unit. Dwelling units are usually located in a dwelling but may be included as a mixed or accessory use in buildings or in group quarters.
EASEMENT: A privilege or right of use, access or enjoyment granted on, above, under or across a particular tract of land by the landowner.
ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH DIVISION: Division of the Clark County health department and sanitation department responsible for regulation of on site disposal waste treatment systems.
ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT STATEMENT: A statement of the effect of proposed development on the environment.
ESCORT BUREAU: See license fee referred to in section 2-1-13 of this code.
ESTATE DISTILLERY: An establishment which:
A. Manufactures distilled spirits from agricultural raw materials through distillation, provided that 85 percent of such agricultural raw materials, in the aggregate, were grown on land within this State which is owned or controlled by the owner of the distillery; and
B. Is authorized to sell those distilled spirits pursuant to the provisions of NRS Chapter 597.
FEMA: The federal emergency management agency, which promulgates flood boundary and floodway maps.
FACILITY FOR INTERMEDIATE CARE: An institution operated and maintained to provide twenty four (24) hour personal and medical supervision, for a person who does not have illness, disease, injury or other condition that would require the degree of care and treatment which a hospital or facility for skilled nursing is designed to provide. A community residence is not a facility for intermediate care.
FACILITY FOR SKILLED NURSING: An institution which provides continuous skilled nursing and related care as prescribed by a physician to a patient in the facility who is not in an acute episode of illness and whose primary need is the availability of such care on a continuous basis. A community residence is not a facility for skilled nursing.
FACILITY FOR THE CARE OF ADULTS DURING THE DAY: An establishment operated and maintained to provide care during the day on a temporary or permanent basis for the aged or infirm persons.
FAMILY: As used herein shall mean:
A. Any number of persons occupying a single dwelling unit, related by blood, marriage or legal adoption, living and cooking together as a single housekeeping unit.
B. Any number of persons occupying a single dwelling unit, not exceeding five adults living and cooking together as a single housekeeping unit as the functional equivalent of a family where all are not related by blood, marriage or legal adoption.
C. It shall be presumptive evidence that more than five persons living in a single dwelling unit who are not related by blood, marriage or legal adoption do not constitute the functional equivalent of a traditional family.
D. Notwithstanding the provisions of this definition, a group of unrelated persons numbering more than five shall be considered a family upon a determination by the Development Services Director that the group is the functional equivalent of a family pursuant to the standards enumerated below. This presumption may be rebutted, and the unrelated individuals may be considered the functional equivalent of a family for the purposes of this article by the Development Services Director if such group of individuals exhibits characteristics consistent with the purposes of zoning restrictions in residential districts. In determining whether a group of more than five unrelated persons constitutes a family for the purpose of occupying a dwelling unit, as provided herein, the Development Services Director shall utilize the standards enumerated herein in making said determination. Before making a determination under this subsection, the Development Services Director shall solicit input from the owners of properties within 100 feet of the subject property. In determining whether individuals living together are the functional equivalent of a family, the following criteria shall be considered:
(1) Whether the occupants share the entire dwelling unit or act as separate boarders.
(2) Whether the household has stability akin to a permanent family structure. The criteria used to determine this test include the following:
(a) Length of stay together among the occupants in the current dwelling unit or other dwelling units.
(b) The presence of minor, dependent children regularly residing in the household.
(c) The presence of an individual acting as head of household.
(d) Proof of sharing expenses for food, rent or ownership costs, transportation, insurance, utilities, and other household expenses.
(e) Common ownership of furniture and appliances and the common use of vehicles among the members of the household.
(f) Whether the household is a temporary living arrangement or a framework for transient living.
(g) Whether the composition of the household changes from year to year or within the year.
(h) Whether each of the occupants uses the address of the dwelling for his vehicle registration, driver’s licenses, passports, bank accounts, bills, loans, tax returns, and other licenses and permits, etc.
(i) Any other factor reasonably related to whether or not the group of persons is the functional equivalent of a family.
E. Any determination under this subsection shall be limited to the status of a particular group as a family and shall not be interpreted as authorizing any other use, occupancy or activity. In making any such determination, the Development Services Director may impose such conditions and safeguards as the Development Services Director shall deem necessary or advisable in order to maintain the stability and character of the neighborhood and protect the public health, safety and welfare.
F. In no case shall a dwelling be occupied by more than two adults to a conventional bedroom.
G. Persons occupying group quarters such as a dormitory, fraternity or sorority house or a seminary shall not be considered a family.
FARMING SMALL LIVESTOCK: The raising or keeping of more than twelve (12) fowl of any kind or twelve (12) rabbits or twelve (12) similar animals; any goats, sheep or similar livestock but not hogs; or the breeding, raising or keeping of any cats or dogs; provided however, that "small livestock farming" as used in these regulations shall not include animal hospitals, commercial cat or dog kennels, hog raising or the breeding for commercial purposes of horses, cattle or similar livestock as determined by the City Council.
FENCE HEIGHT: The vertical distance between the finished grade and the highest point of the fence or wall. (See definition of grade, finished.)
FINAL MAP: A map of all or a portion of a subdivision or site plan that is presented to the approving authority for final approval.
FLAG: A piece of fabric or other flexible material, usually rectangular and of distinctive design which is used as a symbol, such as for a nation, state, locality or corporation.
FLOOD HAZARD AREA: The floodplain consisting of the floodway and the flood fringe area.
FLOODPLAIN: The channel and adjoining lands of a river or other watercourse, either flowing, intermittent or ephemeral, which has been or may be inundated partially or completely by floodwater (see exhibit 9-2:2 of this section).
FLOODPROOFING: A combination of nonstructural provisions and changes or adjustments to properties and structures subject to flooding for the reduction or elimination of flood damage to properties, water and sanitary facilities, and other utilities, structures and the contents of buildings.
FLOODWAY: Regulation of the channel of a river or other watercourse and the adjacent portion of the floodplain that must be reserved in order to discharge the regulation base flood without cumulatively increasing the water surface elevation more than two-tenths (2/10) of one foot (1') (see exhibit 9-2:2 of this section).
FLOODWAY FRINGE: The area of the floodplain, outside the floodway, that has a one percent (1%) chance of flood occurrence in any one year (see exhibit 9-2:2 of this section).
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FLOOR AREA RATIO: The gross floor area of all buildings or structures on a lot divided by the total lot area.
FUNERAL HOME AND INTERMENT SERVICE: Establishments primarily engaged in the provision of services involving the care, preparation, or disposition of human dead other than in cemeteries or religious assembly uses. This use includes mortuaries, which are facilities in which dead bodies are prepared for burial or cremation; and it includes crematoria, which are establishments or structures in which the bodies of the dead are cremated.
GAMBLING ESTABLISHMENT, GAMING: Any place where gaming is operated and maintained. "Gaming" means and includes all games of chance or devices and any slot machines played for money or for checks or tokens redeemable in money, except, for the purposes of these regulations only, "gaming" shall not be construed to include slot machines when such slot machines are operated incidental or accessory to the conduct of a business permitted under the provisions of these regulations.
GARAGE, PRIVATE: A detached accessory building or a portion of a main building designed or used for the parking or temporary storage of automobiles owned and used by the occupants of the premises.
GARAGE, PUBLIC: Any building or portion thereof, other than a private garage, designed or used for servicing, repairing, equipping, hiring, selling or storing of motor driven vehicles.
GARBAGE: Putrescible animal or vegetable or mineral wastes resulting from the storage, handling, preparation, cooking, serving, sale or consumption of food.
GOLF COURSE: A tract of land laid out for at least nine (9) holes for playing the game of golf and improved with tees, greens, fairways and hazards, and that may include a clubhouse and shelter.
GRADE, FINISHED: "Finished grade" includes the following meanings:
A. The average level of the finished ground level at the center of all walls of the building.
B. The finished grade for the purpose of determining the height of fences, walls, and/or hedges shall be the top of curb grade along a street. Where the finished grade line of a lot is above or below the finished grade line of an abutting lot, the finished grade shall be the point on the high side.
GRADE, NATURAL: The elevation of the ground level in its natural state, before construction, filling or excavation.
GROSS FLOOR AREA: The total enclosed area of all floors in a building with a clear height of more than six feet (6'), measured to the outside surface of the exterior walls. Parking facilities, driveways and airspace above the atria ground floor are excluded from gross floor area calculations.
GROSS LAND AREA: All land contained within the boundaries of a particular lot or tract of legally described property, including all existing and proposed public and private streets and one-half (1/2) of any abutting street rights-of- way, excluding State and Federal street rights-of-way.
GROUND LEVEL: The average level of earth adjoining the foundation of a structure measured around the foundation's perimeter.
GROUNDWATER: Water occurring below the ground surface either intermittently or in a zone of saturation.
GROUP QUARTERS: A building or structure used as a place of residence by several persons who share the living accommodations and do not occupy separate dwelling units. Group quarters are found in institutions, dormitories, rooming and boarding houses, lodges, sorority and fraternity houses, and similar establishments. A community residence is not a group quarter.
GUEST HOUSE OR COTTAGE: A separate dwelling structure located on a lot with one or more main dwelling structures and used for the housing of guests or servants of the occupant of the premises; and such building shall not have a kitchen and shall not be rented, leased or sold separately from the rental, lease or sale of the main dwelling.
GUESTROOM: Any room in a hotel, dormitory, boarding or lodging house, or home for the aged, used and maintained to provide sleeping accommodations for not more than two (2) persons. Each one hundred (100) square feet or fraction thereof of floor area used for sleeping purposes shall be considered to be a separate guestroom.
HABITABLE STRUCTURE: Any building or structure designed to accommodate occupancy residents, clients, workers or other persons on a regular basis.
HAZARDOUS WASTE: Any waste or combination of wastes that, by reason of its toxic, caustic, corrosive, abrasive or otherwise injurious properties, may be detrimental or deleterious to the health of any person handling or otherwise coming into contact with such material or substance.
HEAD IN PARKING: Parking a motor vehicle in such a manner that it must be backed out of, or into the space directly from a public right of way.
HEIGHT: The vertical distance of a structure measured from the average elevation of the finished grade surrounding the structure to the highest point of the structure.
HELIPORT: Any area used or to be used for the landing or takeoff of helicopters or other steep gradient aircraft capable of hovering, and shall include any and all the areas or buildings which are appropriate to accomplish these functions.
HOG RANCH: Any premises where three (3) or more hogs are kept.
HOME OCCUPATION: Any activity carried out for gain by a resident and conducted as a customary, incidental and accessory use in the resident's dwelling unit.
HOSPITAL: Any building or portion thereof used for the accommodation and medical care of sick, injured or infirm persons. This would include sanitariums, institutions for the cure of chronic drug addicts and mental patients, rest homes, homes for the aged and alcoholic sanitariums.
HOTEL: A facility offering transient lodging accommodations to the general public and providing additional services, such as restaurants, meeting rooms, entertainment and recreational facilities.
HOTEL, RESORT: Any building or group of buildings used as a hotel, and in which there are one or more dining rooms available for meals to be served and where entertainment may be provided to transient guests. Additionally that in which there are facilities used, designed or intended to be used in order to serve or sell intoxicating beverages. Also, those which permit the operation of gambling or games of chance, and meet all of the components found in section 2-3A-2 of this code.
HOUSEHOLD PET: Those animals which are customarily kept for personal use or enjoyment on a residential property (and which could normally be, although not required to be, contained within a residential structure). "Household pets" shall include, but not be limited to, domesticated dogs, cats, small mammals, birds, fish, common aquarium animals and rodents which are not exotic or wild animals.
IMPERVIOUS COVER: Surfaces which do not permit the absorption of storm water into the ground.
IMPROVEMENTS: On or off site street pavements, curbs, sanitary and storm sewers, permanent street monuments, sidewalks, drainage, culverts, utilities, water lines and connections, sewer lines and connections, lighting fixtures and other similar capital and public facility projects.
INDUSTRY: The manufacture, fabrication, processing, reduction or distribution of any article, substance or commodity, or any other treatment thereof, in such a manner as to change the form, character or appearance thereof, including but not limited to, the following: animal hospitals, bakeries, bottling plants, building or contractor's yards, cleaning and dyeing establishments, creameries, dog pounds, junkyards, laundries, lumberyards, milk bottling and distributing stations, stockyards, storage elevators, truck storage yards, warehouses, wholesale storage and other similar types of enterprise.
INFRASTRUCTURE: Facilities and services needed to sustain industry, residential, commercial and all other land use activities. Infrastructure includes water, sewer lines and other utilities, streets and roads, communications and public facilities such as firehouses, parks, schools, etc.
INSTRUCTIONAL WINE-MAKING FACILITY: An instructional wine-making facility operated pursuant to NRS 597.245.
INTENSITY OF LAND USE: The number of dwelling units per acre for residential development and floor area ratio (FAR) for nonresidential development, such as commercial, office and industrial.
JUNKYARD:
A. A place where waste, discarded or salvaged metals, used plumbing fixtures and other materials are bought, sold, exchanged, stored, baled or cleaned; and/or
B. A place or yard for the storage of salvaged materials and equipment from house wrecking and salvage structural steel materials and equipment.
KENNEL: A commercial establishment in which dogs or domesticated animals are housed, groomed, bred, boarded, trained or sold, all for a fee or compensation.
KENNEL, ANIMAL FANCIER/BREEDER: A private facility that may be a residence, where between four (4) and six (6) dogs, cats, or other household pets are kept for non-commercial purposes, provided that individual animals that have been bred and raised at the facility may be sold or adopted to other persons. Animal fancier/breeders must obtain a Dog Fancier or Cat Fancier permit to keep 4 or more animals at one location or residence. The keeping of more than six (6) dogs, cats, or other animals in one location or residence is not permitted. See Title 10 of the Mesquite Municipal Code for additional information.
KITCHEN: Any room principally used, intended or designed to be used for cooking or the preparation of food. The presence of a range or oven, or utility connections suitable for servicing a range or oven, shall normally be considered as establishing a kitchen.
LAND SALES PRESENTATION OFFICE: Any building or room therein or portion thereof wherein land sales presentations are presented, held or conducted.
LAND SALES PRESENTATION UNIT BROKER OFFICE: Any building or room therein or portion thereof wherein prospective customers are solicited to attend land sales presentations.
LANDOWNER: The legal or beneficial owner of all the land proposed to be included in a planned unit development. The holder of an option or contract of purchase, a lessee having a remaining term of not less than thirty (30) years, or another person having an enforceable proprietary interest in the land is a landowner for the purposes of this title.
LIVESTOCK FEED YARD: A lot or parcel of land improved with corrals, fences, buildings or improvements, and used primarily for the feeding and fattening of livestock for subsequent sale, and includes the feeding of garbage for disposal.
LIVING AREA: That portion of the dwelling unit utilized for living purposes within the exterior walls of the structure and does not include porches, breezeways, garages and carports.
LOADING SPACE: An off street space or berth on the same lot with a building or contiguous to a group of buildings, for the temporary parking of a commercial vehicle while loading or unloading merchandise or materials.
LODGING HOUSE: A facility in which rental sleeping accommodations are provided and in which meals also may be supplied as part of the fee.
LOT: A parcel of land that is defined on a subdivision plat of record, which is intended to be occupied by a principal building(s) or building(s) and open space. Streets are not included in this definition.
LOT AREA: The area of the lot shall be the net horizontal area of the lot and shall not include portions of streets, alleys and water bodies.
LOT, CORNER: A lot abutting upon two (2) or more intersecting streets. A corner lot shall be deemed to front on that street on which it has its least dimension (see exhibit 9-2:3: Lot Types).
LOT DEPTH: The horizontal distance from the front property line to the rear property line. If front and rear property lines are not parallel, the lot depth is the shortest distance between the front and rear property lines.
LOT, DOUBLE FRONTAGE (THROUGH LOT): An interior lot having frontage on two (2) nonintersecting streets (see exhibit 9-2:3: Lot Types).
LOT, FLAG: A lot having no frontage or access to a street or place except by a narrow strip of land (see exhibit 9-2:3: Lot Types).
LOT, FRONT LINE: The property line of a lot separating the lot from the street. In the case of a corner or through lot, one of the frontages shall be deemed the front line, and any others may be deemed a street sideyard. In the case of residential properties, the front lot line of a corner lot shall be the side where the property is addressed, generally the lower classification side street. In other situations, the lot line adjacent to the higher classified street may be considered the front lot line. In all cases, the Development Services Director shall make the final determination regarding yard requirements.
LOT FRONTAGE: The length of the front lot line measured at the street right of way line.
LOT, INTERIOR: A lot whose side lines do not abut on any street (see exhibit 9-2:3: Lot Types).
LOT LINE: A line of record bounding a lot which divides one lot from another lot or from a public or private street or any other public space.
LOT, REAR LINE: A lot line which is opposite and most distant from the front line and, in the case of an irregular, triangular or gore shaped lot, a line ten feet (10') in length within the lot parallel to and at the maximum distance from the front lot line.
LOT, WIDTH: The horizontal distance between side property lines measured parallel to the street side property lines or to the tangent of a curved street property line.
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MANUFACTURED HOME:
A. A structure which is:
1. Built on a permanent chassis;
2. Designed to be used with or without a permanent foundation as a dwelling when connected to utilities;
3. Transportable in one or more sections; and
4. Eight feet or more in body width or 40 feet or more in body length when transported, or, when erected on-site, contains 320 square feet or more.
B. The term includes:
1. The plumbing, heating, air-conditioning and electrical systems of the structure.
2. Any structure:
(a) Which meets the requirements of paragraphs (a), (b) and (c) of subsection 1, and with respect to which the manufacturer voluntarily files a certification required by the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development and complies with the standards established under the National Manufactured Housing Construction and Safety Standards Act of 1974, 42 U.S.C. §§ 5401 et seq.; or
(b) Built in compliance with the requirements of chapter 461 of NRS.
C. The term does not include a recreational park trailer.
Placement of manufactured housing must comply with the provisions of MMC 9-8-7.A.3.a.
MANUFACTURED HOME SUBDIVISION: A parcel (or contiguous parcels) of land divided into two (2) or more manufactured home lots for rent or sale.
MAP, TENTATIVE: A plat prepared in accordance with the provisions of the subdivision regulations and is submitted for the purpose of showing the design of a proposed subdivision and the existing conditions in and around it.
MARQUEE: A permanent structure attached to and supported by a building and projecting beyond the face of the building, typically for the purpose of presenting signage.
MASSAGE PARLOR, HEALTH STUDIO AND BATHHOUSE: A commercial enterprise that is established to serve the general public and not including any commercial enterprise at which the human anatomy is exposed in a lewd, lascivious or salacious manner.
MASTER PLAN: The adopted comprehensive plan of Mesquite, Nevada.
METES AND BOUNDS: A method of describing the boundaries of land by directions (bounds) and distances (metes) from a point of reference.
MOBILE HOME: A single-family dwelling, factory built and factory assembled residence which does not comply with the national manufactured homes construction safety and standards act.
MODULAR HOME: Modular home” means a dwelling, other than a mobile home or manufactured home, which is prefabricated, at a place other than the building site, in accordance with the International Building Code, International Residential Code, Uniform Plumbing Code, International Mechanical Code and National Electrical Code.
MOTEL: A facility offering transient lodging accommodations to the general public and that may provide services such as restaurants, meeting rooms and entertainment and recreational facilities. All guestrooms are accessed from the structure's exterior.
MOTORIZED HOME (MOTOR HOME): A portable home designed and constructed as an integral part of a self-propelled vehicle.
MULTI-OCCUPANT BUILDING: A building containing two (2) or more commercial units, including units that are located one over the other.
NRS: Nevada Revised Statutes.
NATURAL OUTLET: Any nonmanmade outlet into a watercourse, pond, ditch, lake or any other body of surface or ground water.
NO BUILD ZONE: An area identified on a plat which is reserved for conveyance of drainage and precludes the construction of buildings, fences or other obstructions which reduce drainageway capacity.
NONCONFORMING BUILDING OR STRUCTURE: A structure or portion thereof which was lawfully erected or altered, but which does not comply with the regulations applicable to new structures in the zoning district in which it is located.
NONCONFORMING USE: A use which was lawfully established and maintained, but which does not comply with the use regulations applicable to new uses in the zoning district in which it is located; the use of any land, building or structure which does not conform with currently applicable use regulations, but which complied with use regulation in effect at the time the use was established.
OCCUPANT: Any person who, alone or jointly or severally with others, shall be in actual possession of any dwelling unit or of any other improved real property, either as owner or as a tenant.
OFFICE BUILDING: A building used primarily for conducting the affairs of a business, profession, service, industry or government or like activity, and may include ancillary services for office workers, such as restaurant, coffee shop, newspaper or candy stand, and childcare facilities.
OFFICE/WAREHOUSE COMPLEX: A structure or group of structures offering compartments of varying size for rental to different tenants for the storage of commercial goods or wares, conducting of certain retail trade activities, or provision of those personal or business services permitted by zoning.
OFFICIAL MAP: An ordinance in map form adopted by the governing body that indicates the location and width of proposed streets, public facilities, public areas and drainage rights of way.
100-YEAR FLOOD: A flood that has a one percent (1%) chance of recurring in any year or a flood of magnitude equaled or exceeded once in one hundred (100) years on average over a significantly long period.
OPEN STORAGE: The location of bulk items, assemblies, or subassemblies in areas exposed to weather, in whole or in part, for the end use of further manufacturing process, sale or transportation. This shall include, but not be limited to, open display of transportation vehicles, marine craft, aircraft, mobile homes, modules, recreation vehicles, junkyards or "piggy back" containers. It does not include storage that is totally enclosed in a structure.
OUTSIDE STORAGE: The keeping, in an unroofed and unenclosed area, of any goods, junk, material, merchandise or vehicles in the same place for more than twenty four (24) hours.
PARCEL: A contiguous lot or tract of land owned and recorded as the property of the same person or controlled by a single entity.
PARCEL MAP: A subdivision of land creating no more than four (4) lots.
PARKING LOT, PUBLIC: An open area, other than a street, used for the 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 SPACE: Space within a building, lot or parking lot for the parking or storage of one automobile.
PATIO COVER/RESIDENTIAL PATIO COVER: A residential structure that is entirely open on two (2) or more sides. Patio covers may be attached or detached from the dwelling structure, and shall be reviewed and approved as an accessory use. Patio covers shall only be used for recreational and outdoor living purposes, and not as carports, garages, storage areas, or as habitable space.
PAVEMENT: The uppermost layer of material placed on the street usually as the wearing or riding surface.
PERSON: Any individual, partnership, copartnership, firm, company, corporation, association, joint stock company, trust, estate, political subdivision, organization of any kind or its legal representative, agent or assigns.
PERSONAL SERVICES: Service shops, such as shoe repair, dry cleaning, jewelry repair, hair care or accounting, which derive little or no income from the sale of goods. Adult uses are not considered personal services.
PERVIOUS COVER: Land which permits storm water to absorb into the ground. This may include walkways and driveways which are pervious to storm water.
pH: A measure of acidity or alkalinity, measured as the logarithm to the base ten (10) of the reciprocal of the number of gram ionic hydrogen equivalents per liter of solution.
PLAN: The provisions for development of a planned unit development, including a plat of subdivision, all covenants relating to use, location and bulk of buildings and other structures, intensity of use or density of development, public and/or private streets, ways and parking facilities, common open space and public facilities. The phrase "provisions of the plan" means the written and graphic materials referred to in this title.
PLAN, SKETCH: The plan for discussion before a formal development application.
PLANNED UNIT DEVELOPMENT (PUD): An area of land controlled by a landowner, which is to be developed as a single entity for one or more planned unit residential development(s), one or more public, quasi-public, commercial or industrial areas, or both.
PLANNED UNIT RESIDENTIAL DEVELOPMENT: An area of land controlled by a landowner, which is to be developed as a single entity for a number of dwelling units, the plan for which does not correspond in lot size, bulk or type of dwelling, density, lot coverage and required open space to the regulations established in any one residential district created, from time to time, under the provisions of the UDO.
PLAT:
A. A map representing a tract of land showing the boundaries and location of individual properties and streets;
B. A map of a subdivision or site plan.
PRINCIPAL USE: The primary or predominant use to which a property is or may be devoted and to which all other uses on the premises are accessory.
PROFESSIONAL OFFICE: The office of a member of a recognized profession which is legal to conduct business in the city of Mesquite.
PROPERTY LINE: A line marking the boundary of one or more lots in a proposed subdivision or subdivision of record.
PUBLIC RESERVATION: A right created and retained by the city, including, but not limited to, easements and right of way interests.
PUBLIC SERVICES: Those services or facilities typically provided by the city or other public or quasi-public service provider, including, but not limited to, water, wastewater, stormwater management, streets and solid waste treatment.
REAL ESTATE OFFICE: Any building or room therein or portion thereof, maintained by a licensed real estate broker or salesperson.
RECORD OWNER: An individual, firm, association, syndicate, partnership or corporation having a sufficient proprietary interest in land to seek development of the land.
RECREATIONAL FACILITIES: Amusement parks and mechanical amusement devices; commercial baseball, athletic fields and racetracks; circuses, carnivals and fairgrounds; commercial fishing lakes; riding or boarding stables and exercising tracks; pony rides, hayrides; or any other similar activity, including temporary amusements. This definition includes public parks and publicly owned facilities.
RECREATIONAL VEHICLE: Includes "housecar", "camp car", or "travel trailer" unit and means any building or structure designed and/or used for living or sleeping purposes and equipped with wheels to facilitate movement from place to place, and automobiles when used for living or sleeping purposes and including pickup coaches (campers), motorized homes, travel trailers and camping trailers.
RECREATIONAL VEHICLE PARK OR TRAILER PARK: A tract, lot or parcel of land on which temporary accommodations are provided for two (2) or more automobile trailers, recreational vehicles, tents or housecars, and which is open to the public either free or for a fee.
RECREATIONAL VEHICLE SITE (OR SPACE): A plat of land in a recreational vehicle park, used or intended to be used for the accommodation of not more than one recreational vehicle and one tow motor vehicle which is not in itself a recreational vehicle.
REFUSE: See definition of Solid Waste.
RELIGIOUS ASSEMBLY: Religious services involving public assembly intended primarily for purposes connected with faith, such as customarily occurs in churches, temples, mosques, and synagogues.
REMODEL: The internal or external alteration or change, in whole or in part, of a structure.
REPAIR: The mending or restoration of a building or structure to a sound or good state at or nearest to its original designed condition. Such work shall not change the size or shape in whole or in part of a building or structure to expand a use. It shall include the terms "renovation", "rebuilding" and "reconstruction".
RESIDENTIAL: Land designated for buildings consisting only of dwelling units. May be improved, vacant or unimproved.
RESUBDIVISION: A change in a recorded subdivision plat if that change affects any street layout or area reserved for public use, or any lot line.
RIGHT OF WAY: A strip of land occupied or intended to be occupied by a street, crosswalk, railroad, road or for another special use.
ROAD: Includes streets, bridges and roadways.
ROADWAY: The improved portion of a thoroughfare, exclusive of berm or shoulder, used for vehicular travel.
SALVAGE YARD: A place where used parts of automobiles or other equipment are collected and processed for resale.
SANITARIUM: A building or institution for the recuperation and treatment of persons with physical or mental disorders.
SANITARY SEWERS: Pipes that carry domestic or commercial sanitary sewage and into which storm, surface and ground waters are not intentionally admitted.
SCHOOL: Any building which is regularly used as a public, private or parochial school, elementary school, middle school or high school.
SCREENING: A method of visually shielding or obscuring one abutting or nearby structure or use from another by fencing, walls, berms or densely planted vegetation.
SCREENING, OPAQUE: A combination of screening elements, designed to substantially or completely obscure horizontal views between abutting or adjacent properties.
SECOND-HAND MERCHANDISE STORE: Secondhand store” means a retail store that buys and sell used products, including clothing, furniture and household goods, jewelry, appliances, musical instruments, business machines and office equipment, tools, motors, machines, instruments, firearms, or any similar secondhand articles or objects. Does not include thrift stores, pawnbroker or secondhand dealer. Does not include outdoor flea markets or swap meets. Does not include bookstores (“retail stores”); secondhand farm and construction equipment (“construction/heavy equipment sales and rental”); junk dealers, or scrap/dismantling yards (“recycling facilities - scrap and dismantling yards”); the sale of antiques and collectibles (“retail stores”); or the sale of cars and other used vehicles (“auto and vehicle sales/rental”). Second-hand stores are distinguished from Thrift Stores in that Thrift Stores accept merchandise donations from the general public.
SERVANT'S QUARTERS: Living quarters in the main building or in an accessory building for the sole use of persons employed on the premises. Such quarters shall not have a kitchen nor cooking facilities and shall not be rented or otherwise used as a separate dwelling.
SERVICE STATION: Any building or structure, premises or other place used to supply motor fuels, lubricants, tires, batteries and other small accessories to motor vehicles; and where repair work is not done other than minor repairs made by the attendant in the installation and servicing of such lubricants, tires, batteries and other small accessories.
SEWAGE: A combination of the water carried wastes from residences, business buildings, institutions and industrial establishments.
SEWAGE TREATMENT PLANT: Any arrangement of devices and structures used for treating sewage.
SEWAGE WORKS: All facilities for collecting, transporting, pumping, treating and disposing of sewage.
SEWER: A pipe or conduit for carrying sewage.
SEWER, PUBLIC: Any lateral or main, sanitary sewer construction in a street, alley, place, easement or right of way, which is owned and operated by any county, municipality, sewer district or agency thereof, but not including a building sewer.
SHOPPING CENTER: A group or cluster of stores or buildings, divided for separate commercial or service facilities, organized in a balanced arrangement for retail trade, with provisions for parking.
SHORT PLAT: The subdivision of land into four or fewer parcels. See Parcel Map.
SHORT TERM RENTAL: See “Vacation Home rental”.
SIGHT TRIANGLE: A triangular shaped portion of land established at street intersections in which nothing is permitted which limits or obstructs the sight distance of motorists entering or leaving the intersection.
SLAUGHTERHOUSE: A place where cattle, sheep, hogs or other animals, that are not poultry or rabbits, are killed or butchered for market or for sale.
SOLID WASTE: Unwanted or discarded waste materials in a solid or semisolid state, including, but not limited to, garbage, ashes, street refuse, rubbish, dead animals, animal and agricultural wastes, yard wastes, discarded appliances, special wastes, industrial wastes and demolition and construction wastes.
SOLID WASTE PROCESSING FACILITY: An incinerator, compost plant, transfer station or any facility where solid wastes are salvaged or composition is changed.
SOLID WASTE, RESIDENTIAL: Waste resulting from the maintenance and operation of dwelling units.
SOLID WASTE STORAGE: Keeping, maintaining or storing solid waste from the time of its production until the time of its collection or disposal.
SPECIFIED ANATOMICAL AREAS:
A. Less than completely and opaquely covered: human genitals, pubic region, buttock and female breast below a point immediately above the top of the areola; and
B. Human male genitals in a discernable turgid state, even if completely and opaquely covered.
SPECIFIED SEXUAL ACTIVITIES:
A. Display or exhibition of specified anatomical areas or human genitals in a state of sexual stimulation or arousal;
B. Acts of human masturbation, sexual intercourse or sodomy;
C. Fondling or other erotic touching of human genitals, pubic region, buttock or female breast.
STABLE, COMMERCIAL: A stable where horses are left, hired, used, boarded or sold on a commercial basis for remuneration.
STABLE, PRIVATE: A detached accessory building for the keeping of horses owned by the occupants of the premises, and not kept for remuneration, hire or sale.
STATE: The state of Nevada.
STORMWATER MANAGEMENT PLAN: The control and management of stormwater to minimize the detrimental effects of surface water runoff.
STORY: A space within a building included between the surface of any floor and the surface of the ceiling above.
STREAM, RECEIVING: Any natural watercourse into which sewage is discharged.
STREET: Any vehicular way that:
A. Is an existing state, county or municipal roadway;
B. Is shown upon a plat approved pursuant to these regulations;
C. Is approved by other official action; or
D. Is shown on a plat duly filed and recorded in the office of the county recording officer prior to the adoption of these regulations which meet the minimum width requirements of these regulations.
STREET, ARTERIAL: A street intended to link communities and urban centers, carrying high traffic volumes at high speeds. Traffic flow is continuous and access is tightly controlled.
STREET LINE: A property line marking the boundary between a street and a lot or parcel.
STREET, LOCAL: A street intended to provide access to individual lots carrying low volumes of traffic at low speeds.
STREET, MAJOR COLLECTOR: A street intended to link major arterials and small developments and/or communities carrying moderately high traffic volumes at moderate speeds. Traffic flow is continuous with controlled access.
STREET, MINOR COLLECTOR: A street intended to link local streets with arterial streets carrying moderate traffic volumes at low speeds.
STRUCTURAL ALTERATIONS: Any change in a supporting member of a building or structure, including, but not limited to, bearing walls, columns, beams or girders.
STRUCTURE: A combination of materials to form a construction for use, occupancy or ornamentation whether installed on, above or below the surface of land or water.
SUBDIVIDER: Any person having an interest in land that is the subject of an application for subdivision.
SUBDIVISION: Any land, vacant or improved, which is divided or proposed to be divided into two (2) or more lots, sites, units or plats.
SUBDIVISION, MAJOR: Any subdivision not defined as a "parcel map" or "division into large parcels".
SUBDIVISION, MINOR: See definition of parcel map.
SUBDIVISION OF RECORD: A subdivision which has been recorded by the County Recorder.
SURFACE WATER DRAINAGE: The drainage of surplus surface water that does not seep into the earth but flows over land to flowing or stagnant bodies of water.
TAVERN: An establishment used primarily for the serving of liquor by the drink to the general public and where food or packaged liquors may be served or sold only as accessory to the primary use.
THRIFT STORE: A thrift store is defined as a facility, often operated by a non-profit organization, that accepts donations of new and used merchandise and clothing from the general public for re-sale.
TOURIST HOME: A home which has been converted into premises offering rooms to transient guests for remuneration.
TRAFFIC: Pedestrians, ridden or herded animals, vehicles, streetcars and other conveyances either singularly or together while using any street, trail system or path for purpose of travel.
TRAFFIC LEVEL OF SERVICE: A measure of how effectively a road is accommodating "traffic", as defined in subsection 9-9-6A2 of this title.
TRAILER: Any automobile trailer, trailer coach, housecar or other vehicle designed and constructed to permit occupancy of that vehicle as a temporary or permanent dwelling or sleeping quarters for one or more persons and designed or constructed so that it is mounted on wheels and used as a conveyance on major or State highways, County roads or City streets, propelled or drawn by its own or other motive power.
TRANSIENT GUEST: Any individual occupant who has or shall have the right of occupancy to any sleeping room/space in a transient lodging establishment for twenty seven (27) consecutive days or less.
TRANSIENT LODGING ESTABLISHMENT: Any facility, structure, or portion of any structure which is occupied or intended or designed for occupancy by a person or persons who pay rent for dwelling, lodging, or sleeping purposes, and includes any hotel, resort hotel, motel, bed and breakfast, lodging house, timeshare condominium, vacation home, apartment house, or other similar structure or facility. (The term "transient lodging establishment" does not include any of the following: any room within a private dwelling house or other single- family unit if the permanent or principal owner also resides in and occupies the dwelling; any unit within a timeshare project occupied by an owner, or the nonpaying guests of an owner; any medical facility, nursing home, assisted living facility, or other group home or group care facility.)
TRANSPORTATION NETWORK COMPANY (TNC): Any business entity that uses a digital network or software application service to connect a passenger to a driver who can provide transportation services to the passenger as defined by Nevada Revised Statutes title 58.
TRANSPORTATION NETWORK COMPANY DRIVER: Any person providing transportation network services and who enters into an agreement with a TNC to receive connections to potential passengers and related services.
USGS: United States Geological Survey.
USP; UNIFORM STANDARDS: The uniform standard drawings for public works construction, off site improvements, Clark County area, Nevada.
USE: The purpose or activity for which land and buildings are designed, arranged or intended, or for which land or buildings are occupied or maintained.
USE, MULTIPLE: The development of land or buildings for a variety of complementary or integrated residential, nonresidential or community services uses.
VACATION HOME RENTAL: A privately owned residential dwelling, such as, but not limited to, a single-family detached or multiple- family attached unit, apartment house, condominium, cooperative apartment, duplex, or any portion of such dwellings, rented for the purpose of overnight lodging for a period of not less than two (2) days and not more than twenty seven (27) consecutive calendar days, counting portions of calendar days as full days. Also known as a Short Term Rental.
VARIANCE: An exception to these regulations in a specific instance, permitting a modification to the development standards of the applicable zoning district in order to alleviate undue burden or unnecessary hardship on the property owner which these regulations otherwise impose. Variances for allowable use types are not permitted. See UDC Section 9-5-5.
VEHICLE: As defined in Nevada Revised Statutes 484A.320:
Vehicle means every device in, upon or by which any person or property is or may be transported or drawn upon a highway, except:
1. Devices moved by human power or used exclusively upon stationary rails; and
2. Electric personal assistive mobility devices as defined in NRS 482.029.
WASTE TREATMENT SYSTEM, PRIVATE: A sewage disposal system consisting of a house sewer, a septic tank or other approved sedimentation tank, an approved mechanical treatment plant, or an individual home aerobic plant and an acceptable absorption system.
WASTES, COMMERCIAL AND INDUSTRIAL: The water carried wastes from commercial and industrial establishments as sanitary sewage.
WASTES, YARD: Grass clippings, leaves and tree trimmings.
WATER BODY: Any natural or artificial collection of water, whether permanent or temporary.
WATER MAIN: In any system of continuous piping, the principal artery of the water system to which branches or lines may be connected.
WATERCOURSE: A channel or other location in which a natural flow of water occurs either continuously or intermittently.
WATERSHED: A region or area bounded peripherally by a water parting and draining ultimately to a particular watercourse or body of water.
WETLAND: An area that is inundated or saturated by surface or ground water at a frequency and duration sufficient to support, and that under normal circumstances does support, a prevalence of vegetation typically adapted for life in saturated soil conditions. A wetland generally includes swamps, marshes, bogs and similar areas. A wetland is not an area that is artificially created on dry land and maintained for the treatment of mine drainage, stormwater control and drainage associated with road construction. This definition is consistent with both the United States Army Corps of Engineers 33 CFR 328.3(b) and the United States Environmental Protection Agency 40 CFR 232.2(r).
YARD: An open space on a lot, other than a court, unoccupied and unobstructed from the ground upward.
YARD, FRONT: An open space unoccupied by buildings or structures across the full width of the lot extending from the front line of the building to the front property line of the lot or parcel (see exhibit 9-2:5, "Yard Types", of this section).
YARD, FRONT DEPTH: The minimum horizontal distance from the front line of the building to the front property line of the lot or parcel (see exhibit 9-2:5, "Yard Types", of this section).
YARD, REAR: An open space, unoccupied between the rear lot line and rear line of the principal building and the side property lines (see exhibit 9-2:5, "Yard Types", of this section).
YARD, REAR DEPTH: The minimum horizontal distance from the rear line of the principal building to the rear lot line (see exhibit 9-2:5, "Yard Types", of this section).
YARD, SIDE: An open unoccupied space on the same lot with the building between the main building and the adjacent side line of the lot, and extending from the front yard to the rear yard (see exhibit 9-2:5, "Yard Types", of this section).
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ZOO: A permanent facility where exotic or wild animals are housed and maintained, under the supervision of professional staff, and exhibited to the public on a regularly scheduled basis, in a variety of natural or habitat like settings, for the purposes of education, conservation, scientific studies and recreation. (Ord. 172, 9-24-1996, eff. 10-31-1996; amd. Ord. 263, 1-16-2002; Ord. 339, 6-27-2006, eff. 8-15-2006; Ord. 363, 1-23-2007, eff. 2-16-2007; Ord. 377, 6-12-2007, eff. 7-5-2007; Ord. 401, 6-24-2008, eff. 7-22-2008; Ord. 412, 10-28-2008, eff. 11-27-2008; Ord. 437, 5-25-2010; Ord. 443, 1-25-2011, eff. 2-17-2011; Ord. 455, 10-23-2012; Ord. 475, 11-26-2013, eff. 12-18-2013; Ord. 537, 8-28-2018, eff. 9-18-2018; Ord. 562, 4-23-2019, eff. 5-14-2019; Ord. B21-001, 2-9-2021)