SENSITIVE AREA: | Lands containing environmentally and geologically sensitive elements which, if encroached upon by unsuspecting urban land development such as utilities, housing, streets, and/or public facilities, could be damaged beyond reparability or could cause severe damage to such urban development or cause complete destruction thereof or cause the loss of life or bodily harm. Such sensitive areas could include active earthquake faults, potential landslide areas, steep unstable terrain, or areas of potential rockfall. |
SENSITIVE VEGETATION: | Vegetative cover which can be harmed by compaction from overuse, urban development or altering of the hydrologic cycle in such a manner as to create an environmental imbalance causing a severe retardation of growth or elimination of a particular variety of vegetative species. |
SENSITIVE WILDLIFE HABITAT: | Wildlife habitat which provides an environmental biosphere critical to the well being and perpetuation of certain species of wildlife, particularly if encroached upon by urban related development. It is specifically related to the elimination of a limited habitat and its related wildlife. |
SEXUALLY ORIENTED BUSINESSES: | An inclusive term used to describe collectively those businesses for which a sexually oriented business license is required, pursuant to the sexually oriented business license chapter, set out in Title 5, Chapter 15, which types of businesses include for purposes of this title the following: outcall services, adult entertainment dancing agencies, adult businesses (an inclusive term including adult motion picture theaters, adult bookstores or adult video stores), and adult live entertainment businesses. This collective term does not describe a specific land use and shall not be considered a single use category for purposes of this title. |
SHELTER FOR THE HOMELESS: | Charitable lodgings or sleeping rooms provided on a temporary basis (usually on a daily basis), to those members of society lacking other safe, sanitary or affordable shelter. May also include kitchen and cafeteria. |
SHELTERED WORKSHOP: | An on site supervised educational or vocational training facility for persons with a disability that does not provide any residential facilities. |
SHORT TERM LOAN BUSINESS: | A. An establishment engaged in extending credit to individuals (regardless of whether the debt is secured or unsecured or in the form of a loan, advance or other credit intermediation service) that: |
1. generally charges an annual percentage rate of 30% or higher as calculated under the federal truth in lending act (15 USC 1601 et seq.) or the rules or regulations adopted pursuant to the truth in lending act; or 2. extends credit in amounts generally less than$10,000. B. This definition specifically includes businesses such as check cashers, deferred deposit lenders and title lenders, but does not include establishments whose primary activity is: 1. selling real estate or financing real estate transactions; 2. making retail or food sales or financing retail or food sales made on the installment plan; 3. selling vehicles or financing purchase money vehicle loans; 4. making repairs or improvements to real or personal property; 5. acting as a pawnbroker under the provisions of Title 5, Chapter 12, Article A; 6. providing professional, medical, dental, insurance or educational services; 7. acting as a charitable organization under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code or as a community development entity that has been certified by the U.S. Department of Treasury's community development financial institutions fund; or 8. providing deposit banking as a depository institution or depository institution holding company as defined in Section 7-1-103 of the Utah Code. C. In determining the primary activity of a business, the value of any goods sold or services rendered compared with the amount of credit extended shall be taken into account. D. A short term loan business may offer more than one type of credit intermediation service if it meets the licensing requirements for each service and operates from a single storefront. | |
SIDEWALK VENDOR: | Any person or persons licensed under Title 5, Chapter 13, Article B as a sidewalk vendor who sells, or offers to sell at retail, food, nonalcoholic beverages, balloons, or cut flowers on a public sidewalk. |
SINGLE ROOM OCCUPANCY: | A residential facility with six or more sleeping units created from a building that was formerly used as a hotel or motel, where the facility has common sanitation facilities, kitchen facilities, or both, and where the majority of sleeping units have only one sleeping room. |
SITE DEVELOPMENT STANDARDS: | Established regulations concerning lot areas, yard setbacks, building height, lot coverage, open green space and any other special regulations deemed necessary to accomplish the purpose of this title. |
SLEEPING UNIT: | A single unit that provides rooms or spaces for one or more persons, includes permanent provisions for sleeping and can include provisions for living, eating and either sanitation or kitchen facilities but not both. Such rooms and spaces that are also part of a dwelling unit are not sleeping units. |
SOCIAL HALL: | A for profit privately owned, multiuse indoor space that provides for a variety of private and public functions such as banquets, parties, games, social gatherings, entertainment, lectures and receptions. |
SOUP KITCHEN, CHARITABLE: | A not for profit establishment devoted exclusively to feeding the poor. Such establishment may provide one or more meals per day, at no monetary charge to the hungered. |
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. |
STABLE, PUBLIC: | A stable other than a private stable. |
STACKED UNITS (duplex, triplex, fourplex): | A multiple-family dwelling containing two (duplex), three (triplex), or four (fourplex) dwelling units where each dwelling unit is above or below a dwelling unit on another floor. |
STORY: | The space within a building, other than a cellar, included between the surface of any floor area and the surface of the ceiling next above. |
STORY, HALF: | A story with at least two of its sides situated in a sloping roof, the floor area of which does not exceed two-thirds of the floor immediately below it. |
STREET: | A public thoroughfare, dedicated, abandoned or condemned for public use prior to the initial enactment of the zoning ordinance, which affords the principal means of access of abutting property and is more than 26 feet wide, and any public thoroughfare dedicated to the public and accepted by proper public authority or condemned for public use after said date. |
STREET, PRIVATE: | A private right-of-way that is 26 feet wide or wider, that accesses the lots, other than footprint lots, within a PRUD, group dwelling, or similar development, and that otherwise functions much like a public street. |
STRUCTURAL ALTERATIONS: | Any change in supporting members of a building, such as bearing walls, columns, beams or girders. |
STRUCTURE: | Anything constructed or erected, the use of which requires location on the ground, or attachment to something having location on the ground. |
SWAP MEET: | A business operated entirely within an enclosed building where, under direction of a swap meet proprietor, individual sellers occupy a designated area where goods are sold or exchanged. |
SWIMMING POOL: | Any artificial or semiartificial container, whether indoors or outdoors, and whether above or below the surface of the ground, or both, used or intended to be used to contain a body of water for swimming by any person or persons, together with all permanent structures, equipment, appliances and other facilities used or intended for use in and about the operation, maintenance and use of such pool. |
SWIMMING POOL, FAMILY: | A swimming pool used and intended to be used solely by the owner, operator or lessee thereof and his family and by friends invited to use it without payment of any fee or consideration. |
(Ord. 2013-13, 3-26-2013; amd. Ord. 2023-7, 2-7-2023; Ord. 2023-16, 4-11-2023; Ord. 2024-4, 2-20-2024)