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15-2-3: "B" DEFINITIONS:
BANK, LIMITED FUNCTION: A branch banking facility limited in use to accepting deposits and withdrawals, with drive-in window and/or automated teller machine (ATM) station, operated either directly or indirectly by staff personnel or automated equipment. The building shall not exceed one thousand (1,000) square feet.
BASEMENT: A story partly underground and having at least one-half (1/2) its height above the average level of the adjoining ground. A basement shall be counted as a story, for purposes of height measurement.
BED AND BREAKFAST INN: An owner occupied dwelling of historic significance (listed on the Ogden register of historic resources) in which eight (8) or fewer rooms are rented out by the day, offering overnight lodgings to travelers, and where one or more meals are provided by the host family, the price of which may be included in the room rate.
BOARD OF ZONING ADJUSTMENT: The Ogden City board of zoning adjustment as established in title 3, chapter 4 of this code.
BOARDER: A person living in a rented room in a boarding house. The boarding house operator, or a member of his or her immediate family who resides on the premises with the operator, shall not be considered to be a boarder.
BOARDING HOUSE: A building or portion thereof where, for compensation, rooms are rented together with meals for not more than fifteen (15) boarders who generally do not directly utilize kitchen facilities. The operator of a boarding house must reside on the premises of a boarding house. The word “compensation” shall include compensation in money, services, or other things of value. A boarding house does not include a single room occupancy, a residential facility for disabled persons or a residential facility for the elderly. A boarding house does not include a nonresidential facility, such as a rehabilitation/treatment facility, where the primary purpose of the facility is to deliver rehabilitation, treatment, counseling, medical, protective or other similar services to the occupants.
BUILDING: Any structure other than a boundary wall or fence.
BUILDING, ACCESSORY: A subordinate building or a portion of the main building on a lot, the use of which is customarily incidental to that of the main or principal building.
BUILDING, DETACHED: A building surrounded by open space on the same lot.
BUILDING, ENCLOSED: A building or structure having enclosing walls and roof.
BUILDING, HEIGHT OF: The vertical distance from the grade elevation to the highest point of the coping of a flat roof, or to the deck line of a mansard roof, or to a point midway between the lowest part of the eaves or cornice and ridge of a pitch or hip roof.
BUILDING, MAIN: A building in which is conducted the principal use of the lot on which it is located.
BUILDING OFFICIAL: The manager of the building services division, community and economic development department of the city, or the manager's duly authorized representative.
BUILDING, PUBLIC: A building owned and operated, or owned and intended to be operated, by the city, a public agency of the United States Of America, the state of Utah, or any of its political subdivisions. The use of a public building, with immunity, is nontransferable and terminates if the structure is devoted to a use other than as a public building with immunity. A public building referred to as with immunity under the provisions of this title includes:
   A.   "Properties owned by the state of Utah or the United States government" which are outside of the jurisdiction of the city's zoning authority as provided under section 10-9a-304, Utah Code Annotated, 1953, as amended, or its successor provision; and
   B.   The ownership or use of a building which is immune from the city's zoning authority under the supremacy clause of the United States constitution.
(Ord. 2011-2, 1-4-2011; amd. Ord. 2023-7, 2-7-2023)