For the purpose of this subchapter, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
BED AND BREAKFAST INN. A family home structure, with more than 15 sleeping rooms, which has been modified to serve as a transient public lodging establishment, which provides the accommodation and meal services generally offered by a bed and breakfast inn, and which is recognized as a bed and breakfast inn in the community in which it is situated or by the industry.
BUILDING. Any structure, whether temporary or permanent, built for the support, shelter or enclosure of persons, chattels or property of any kind. This term shall include tents, trailers, mobile homes or any vehicles serving in any way the function of a BUILDING. This term shall not include temporary construction sheds or trailers erected to assist in construction and maintenance during the term of a building permit.
BUILDING PERMIT. An official document or certificate issued by the authority having jurisdiction authorizing the commencement of construction of any building or parts thereof; the term also includes construction plan approval for new mobile home development and new recreational vehicle spaces.
COMPREHENSIVE PLAN. The Comprehensive Plan of the City of Mexico Beach adopted and amended pursuant to the Local Government Comprehensive Planning and Land Development Regulation Act.
DWELLING UNIT. A separate housing unit constituting or located within a residential structure.
ENCUMBERED. In reference to funds for capital improvements, means funds committed in the capital improvements program for a specified improvement on a specified time schedule.
HOTEL. Any public lodging establishment containing sleeping room accommodations for 25 or more guests and providing the services generally provided by a hotel and recognized as a hotel in the community in which it is situated or by the industry.
IMPACT FEE STATEMENT. The document issued to an applicant prior to the issuance of a building permit containing the calculation of the impact fees imposed on construction under § 151.022.
LAND. The earth, water and air above, below or on the surface, and includes any improvements or structures customarily regarded as land.
MOTEL. Any public lodging establishment which offers rental units with an exit to the outside of each rental unit, daily or weekly rates, off-street parking for each unit, a central office on the property with specified hours of operation, a bathroom or connecting bathroom for each rental unit, and at least six rental units, and which is recognized as a motel in the community in which it is situated or by the industry.
NONRESIDENTIAL STRUCTURE. Any building which encloses space for the occupancy by persons or their activities (other than residential dwellings and buildings which are accessory to residential dwellings) including, but not limited to, professional buildings, commercial buildings, hotels, motels, rentals, industrial buildings, warehouse, public assembly buildings or institutional buildings except public schools and government buildings. A building accessory to a residential dwelling is a subordinate building, the use of which is incidental to that of a principal, residential structure.
PUBLIC FACILITIES. The buildings, structures, equipment and facilities as may be necessary to meet the need for recreation, police and fire/rescue facilities, which are created by new development including those costs incidental to the above.
PUBLIC LODGING ESTABLISHMENT. A hotel, motel, resort condominium, rooming house or bed and breakfast inn, each as defined in this subchapter.
RESIDENTIAL STRUCTURE. Each single-family dwelling unit and each dwelling unit of a condominium, duplex, triplex, mobile home, modular housing, manufactured home, apartment or multiple dwelling structure designated as a complete, separate housing unit for one or more persons, and utilized or designed or intended to be utilized for human habitation either temporarily or permanently.
RESORT CONDOMINIUM. Any unit or group of units in a condominium, cooperative or timeshare plan which is rented more than three times in a calendar year for periods of less than 30 days or one calendar month, whichever is less, or which is advertised or held out to the public as a place regularly rented for periods of less than 30 days or one calendar month.
ROOMING HOUSE. Any public lodging establishment that may not be classified as a hotel, motel, resort condominium, or bed and breakfast inn. A ROOMING HOUSE includes, but is not limited to, a boardinghouse.
SQUARE FOOTAGE. The gross area measured in feet from the exterior faces of exterior walls or other exterior boundaries of the building or structure.
UNIT. A combination of one or more bedrooms and bathrooms held out to the public as a single habitable unit or recognized as a single habitable unit in the community in which it is situated.
(F.S. § 509.242) (Ord. 483, passed 3-8-2005)