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EARTHQUAKE FAULT: | For purposes of this title, earthquake fault shall refer to that portion of the Wasatch Fault which traverses the eastern area of the corporate limits of the City, said fault lines being approximately delineated on the zoning map of Ogden City. Source of delineation of the fault line is “Wasatch Fault, Northern Portion, Earthquake Fault Investigation and Evaluation, a Guide to Land Use Planning”, by Woodward/Clyde Associates, Oakland, California. The detailed and exact location of a fault is to be determined by the review procedure as specified in Section 15-27-6. |
EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTION: | A public elementary or secondary school, seminary, parochial school or private education institution having a curriculum similar to that ordinarily given in grades 1 through 12 in a public school system. The term educational institution for the purpose of this title does not include post-high school educational facilities or educational facilities which include residential facilities for its students. |
EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTION, POST-HIGH SCHOOL: | A postsecondary institution offering courses in general, technical, or religious education; operating completely within the City and including administrative and faculty offices, and student and faculty facilities. |
EDUCATIONAL/ POST-HIGH SCHOOL EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTION WITH HOUSING: | A public or private educational institution or post-high school educational institution with residential facilities or housing for its students and/or staff located on the same property as the institution. |
ELDERLY PERSON: | A person who is 60 years or older, who desires or needs to live with other elderly persons in a group setting, but who is capable of living independently. |
EV-CAPABLE STALL: | A dedicated parking stall that is provided with electrical panel capacity and space to support a minimum 40-ampere, 208/240-volt branch circuit for each parking space and the installation of raceways, both underground and surface mounted, to support electric vehicle supply equipment, whether the supply equipment is immediately installed or not. |
(Ord. 2015-32, 6-23-2015; amd. Ord. 2024-4, 2-20-2024)
FAÇADE MATERIALS: | The materials used to cover the exterior of a building. A. Primary Materials: Materials that make up the majority of the façade of a structure. B. Secondary Materials: A material that is used on the façade of a structure but does not make up for the majority of the envelope of a structure. |
A. One individual living alone; or B. One of the following groups of individuals, but not both at the same time, living together as a single nonprofit housekeeping unit, together with any incidental domestic staff residing on the premises: 1. Two (2) or more individuals related by blood, marriage, adoption, guardianship, or other duly authorized custodial relationship; 2. Two (2) unrelated individuals and any children of either such individuals, if any; or 3. A group of not more than three (3) unrelated individuals including in such number any domestic staff residing on the premises. | |
FENCE: | A structure that creates a tangible barrier or obstruction having the effect of preventing passage or view across the fence line. Where specified, a planting such as a hedge may be considered a fence. |
FENESTRATION: | Areas of glass on all building facades, including all types of windows and doors. |
FLOODPLAIN: | A relatively flat area or lowland adjoining a river, stream, watercourse, ocean or lake which has been or may be covered with floodwater. Specifically, for purposes of this title, floodplain shall be that area of this City designated within the boundaries of the official flood insurance rate map and approved amendments, which may be subject to periodic inundation in the event of the base flood. |
FLOODPLAIN OVERLAY ZONE: | Boundaries of the intermediate regional flood as defined by the Federal Emergency Management Agency maps. The floodplain zone is designed to overlay or be superimposed over existing zoning within the defined floodplain. Within such an overlay zone, the existing zone remains effective with the additional conditions superimposed by the Floodplain Zone. |
FLOOR AREA: | The sum of the gross horizontal area of the several floors of a building and its accessory buildings on the same lot, excluding cellar and basement floor areas not devoted to residential use, but including the area of roofed terraces. All dimensions shall be measured from the exterior faces of the exterior walls. |
FLOOR, LOT AREA RATIO (FAR): | The total floor area of a building divided by the area of the lot on which it is located. |
FRATERNAL AND BENEVOLENT SOCIETIES: | Includes chartered nonprofit drinking establishments including social clubs or lodges with or without dining facilities and cocktail lounges composing a branch of a fraternal order, or society such as Elks, Masons, American Legion, Eagles, Optimists, Odd Fellows, Kiwanis, Rotary and other similar nonprofit organizations and is open only to members and their duly authorized guests. |
FRATERNITY OR SORORITY HOUSE: | A building occupied by and maintained exclusively for students affiliated with Weber State University, who are associated together in a fraternity/sorority that is officially recognized by Weber State University and who receive lodging and/or meals on the premises for compensation. |
FRONTAGE: | Block frontage, building frontage, or lot frontage as the context dictates. |
FRONTAGE, BLOCK: | All the property fronting on one side of the street between intersecting or intercepting streets, or between a street and a right-of-way, waterway, end of dead-end street, or political subdivision boundary, measured along the street line. An intercepting street shall determine only the boundary of the frontage on the side of the street which it intercepts. |
FRONTAGE, BUILDING: | The length of a building that faces and is roughly parallel to an abutting street. |
FRONTAGE, LOT or FRONTAGE, STREET: | The length of a lot that is coterminous with the street right-of-way line. |
FRONTAGE, PRIVATE STREET: | The length of a lot that is coterminous with the private street right-of-way line. |
(Ord. 2015-58, 12-1-2015; amd. Ord. 2020-24, 6-23-2020; Ord. 2023-16, 4-11-2023)
Notes
| 1 | 1. See section 15-13-31 of this title. |
GARAGE, CARPORT: | A private garage not completely enclosed by walls or doors. For the purpose of this title, a carport shall be subject to all of the regulations prescribed for a private garage. |
GARAGE, PRIVATE: | An enclosed space or accessory building for the storage of one or more motor vehicles; provided, that no business, occupation or service is conducted for profit therein, nor space therein for more than one car is leased to a nonresident of the premises. A garage shall be considered part of the dwelling if the garage and dwelling have a roof or wall in common, or are connected structurally by a physical connection such as a wall, trellis or solid fence. |
GARAGE, PUBLIC: | A building or portion thereof, other than a private garage, designed or used for servicing, repairing, equipping, hiring, selling, or storing motor driven vehicles. |
GARDEN APARTMENT OR COURTYARD DWELLING: | A dwelling within a one-, two- or three-story building that is U-shaped and has a large shared green space or center courtyard. |
GRADE: | The average level of the finished surface or the ground adjacent to the exterior walls of those buildings more than five feet from a street line. For buildings closer than five feet to a street line, the grade is the sidewalk elevation to the center of the building. If there is more than one street, an average sidewalk elevation is to be used. If there is no sidewalk, the City Engineer may establish the grade. |
GREAT HOUSE: | A multiple-family dwelling that resembles a large detached single-family dwelling and has three to eight dwelling units. A great house includes a single main entrance feature that is located at the front of the building. |
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GROVE, SIGNIFICANT: | A group of five or more trees in healthy condition with the trunk of any individual tree being not more than 20 feet from the trunk of another tree, where those trees include: A. at least one significant tree; and B. other trees with a caliper of at least three inches, as measured by industry standards, that would meet the definition of a significant tree other than size. |
GUESTHOUSE: | A separate dwelling structure located on a lot with one or more main dwelling structures used for housing of guests or servants and not rented, leased or sold separate from rental, lease or sale of the main building. |
(Ord. 2016-12, 3-1-2016; amd. Ord. 2023-16, 4-11-2023; Ord. 2024-4, 2-20-2024)
HOME OCCUPATION: The use of a portion of a dwelling as an office, studio or workroom for occupations which are customarily conducted in the home that are incidental to the primary use as a home or residence; provided additionally, that: a) the occupation is limited to members of the family who reside on the premises; b) such occupation shall not require interior or exterior alterations; c) the occupation shall not include the sale of commodities which are not produced on the premises; and d) the occupation shall not use any accessory buildings, yard or any space outside of the main building not normally associated with residential use (it may include child daycare of not more than 8 children or preschool of not more than 8 children); and e) wholesale and/or retail sales of commodities are not permitted directly from the home.
HORIZONTAL SETBACK: The required offset of a building from a lot line, as measured from the property line to the building façade.
HOSPITAL: An institution licensed by the State of Utah which provides diagnostic, therapeutic, and rehabilitative services to individuals on both an inpatient and outpatient basis by or under the supervision of one or more physicians. Any medical clinic or professional office which offers any inpatient or overnight care, or operates on a twenty four (24) hour basis shall be considered to be a hospital. A hospital may include integral support service facilities such as laboratories, outpatient units and training and central services, together with staff offices necessary to the operation of the hospital.
HOTEL: A building providing, for a fee, sleeping accommodations and customary lodging related service for the traveling or business public who have primary residence at another location. Such building is designed with an interior lobby and interior access to the individual rooms. It may or may not include central dining facilities and conference rooms for guests and the general public. It is not intended to be a residence or residential facility.
HOUSEHOLD PETS: Animals or fowl ordinarily permitted in the house and kept for company or pleasure, such as dogs, cats, or canaries, but not including a sufficient number of dogs or cats to constitute a "kennel", as defined in this chapter.
HOUSING, STUDENT: A type of dwelling unit specifically designed for, and occupied by, not more than four (4) individuals who may or may not be related.
(Ord. 2017-32, 6-13-2017; amd. Ord. 2023-16, 4-11-2023)
ILLEGAL NONCOMPLYING STRUCTURE: A structure that does not conform to the land use ordinances currently in effect and does not have rights as a noncomplying structure.
ILLEGAL USE: A use of land that does not conform to the land use ordinances currently in effect and does not have rights as a nonconforming use.
INDEPENDENT CANNABIS TESTING LABORATORY: A person that:
A. Conducts a chemical or other analysis of cannabis or a cannabis product; or
B. Acquires, possesses, and transports cannabis or a cannabis product with the intent to conduct a chemical or other analysis of the cannabis or cannabis product.
INITIAL ENACTMENT OF THE ZONING ORDINANCES: The date of enactment of the first zoning ordinances of Ogden City, February 8, 1951.
INOPERABLE VEHICLE: Any motor vehicle, trailer or semitrailer that cannot be operated in its existing condition because the parts necessary for operation such as, but not limited to, tires, windshield, engine, drive train, driver's seat, steering wheel or column, gas or brake pedals are removed, destroyed, damaged, deteriorated or nonfunctioning; or any motor vehicle which is not currently registered and licensed in this State or another state, except for motor vehicles owned or possessed under consignment by a person licensed under the Motor Vehicle Business Regulation Act.
(Ord. 2011-2, 1-4-2011; amd. Ord. 2019-46, 10-22-2019)
JAIL: A place of incarceration owned and operated by the County, or operated under contract with the County.
JUNK OR SALVAGE MATERIAL: Articles that are used, secondhand, worn out, obsolete, defective, destroyed or discarded and which may be reused or resold in their original form, or which may have outlived their usefulness in their original form and are commonly gathered up and sold to be converted into another product either of the same or a different kind by some manufacturing or recycling process, or which may be salvaged by separating, collecting, or retrieving reusable materials or parts therefrom. Junk or salvage material includes, but is not limited to, inoperable vehicles, auto parts or parts from other types of vehicles, tires, machinery or parts thereof, building materials, scrap metal or other scrap material, and recyclable materials when not located in a recycling processing center, but does not include refuse or hazardous materials. No article shall be considered "used" or "secondhand" for purposes of this definition, if the article is being used in its original form in conjunction with a main use established in conformance with this title, other than those uses involving salvaging or recycling.
JUNK OR SALVAGE YARD: The use of any lot, portion of a lot, or tract of land for the storage, buying, selling, dismantling, demolition or abandonment of junk, whether or not the use is a main use or is accessory to the main use. Junk or salvage yard shall not include:
A. Businesses whose main use involves the sale of used, secondhand or reprocessed goods when the use is conducted entirely within an enclosed building, which may include, but is not limited to, antique stores, or secondhand or thrift shops, and the reprocessing and reconditioning of such goods as an accessory use to the main retail use;
B. Used car lots or used and rebuildable car lots;
C. Swap meets meeting the requirements of subsection 15-38-5S of this title;
D. Warehousing, where articles meeting the definition of junk or salvage are stored entirely within an enclosed building, or outdoor storage allowed as an accessory use to warehousing under the definition of "warehouse, warehousing, warehouse storage", as defined in this chapter;
E. Auto repair or body shops where vehicles meeting the definition of junk vehicles are temporarily parked on the associated open premises awaiting imminent repair or bodywork; provided, that this use shall not allow the outdoor storage of junk vehicles, except as allowed as an accessory use under the definition of "auto repair or body shops", as defined in this chapter;
F. Residential recycling drop off stations, recycling drop off stations, recycling collection centers, and recycling processing centers, established in conformance with the requirements of this title;
G. One automobile or one truck with a capacity of one ton or less, which is inoperable, may be temporarily stored, rather than parked, in a rear yard or in a side yard other than a side yard facing a street, on property which is the place of residence of the owner of the vehicle for a period not to exceed six (6) months, as accessory to a residential use, provided:
1. The automobile or truck is located on a legal parking slab; and
2. The body of the automobile or truck is entirely concealed by an opaque, weather resistant covering which is maintained in good condition; and
3. The main use meets existing parking requirements; and
4. The vehicle is being stored by the owner in order to repair or restore the vehicle for personal use or as a hobby; and
5. A vehicle which is twenty five (25) years or older may be stored in accordance with the above requirements for an additional period of eighteen (18) months; and
H. Junk or salvage material stored in an enclosed building accessory to a main use.
JUVENILE DETENTION FACILITY: A place of temporary detention for delinquent juveniles, which either is owned and operated by the state of Utah or is under contract with the state of Utah.
JUVENILE SECURE FACILITY: A place of incarceration for delinquent juveniles, which either is owned and operated by the state of Utah or is under contract with the state of Utah.
(Ord. 2011-2, 1-4-2011; amd. Ord. 2023-16, 4-11-2023)
KENNEL: The land or building used for the keeping of three (3) or more dogs at least six (6) months old and/or eight (8) or more cats at least six (6) months old, which may also be referred to as a cattery.
KINDERGARTEN: A school or class for children of the four (4) to six (6) age group.
(Ord. 2011-2, 1-4-2011)
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