BAKERY: A. Retail Bakery: A retail sales facility which offers bakery products for direct sale to the public and which, as an accessory use, may include the preparation of products normally sold in bakeries, for sale off the premises.
B. Wholesale Bakery: A bakery or other food store which devotes over ninety percent (90%) of its gross floor area to the preparation of bakery products for sale at other locations. Wholesale bakeries may offer bakery products for direct sale to the public.
BALCONY: A platform that projects from the wall of a building, typically above the first level, and surrounded by a rail, balustrade, or parapet.
BAR: Premises used primarily for the dispensing of alcoholic beverages by the drink for on site consumption.
BASE FLOOD: A flood which has a one percent (1%) chance of being equaled or exceeded in any given year (also called the 100-year flood).
BASEMENT: Any floor level below the first story in a building, except that a floor level in a building having only one floor level shall be classified as a basement unless such floor level qualifies as a first story as defined herein.
BAZAAR: A benefit sale for a church or nonprofit organization.
BED AND BREAKFAST: A transient lodging establishment primarily engaged in providing overnight or otherwise temporary lodging for the general public and may provide meals to the extent otherwise permitted by law.
BEDROOM: A private room for sleeping, separated from other rooms and accessible to a bathroom without crossing another bedroom.
BERM, LANDSCAPE OR EARTHEN: A mound or embankment of earth or a mound which has been improved with landscaping.
BLOCK: A parcel of land surrounded by public streets, highways, freeways, railroad right of way, flood control channels, creeks, washes, rivers or unsubdivided acreage or any combination thereof.
BLOCK FACE: One complete side of a block, usually facing a public street.
BOARDING HOUSE: A dwelling with not more than five (5) guestrooms, with not more than one person per room, where lodging and meals are provided for compensation on a weekly or greater basis, not including those facilities defined as "social care facility".
BORROW PIT: Any place or premises where dirt, soil, sand, gravel or other material is removed below the grade of surrounding land for any purpose other than that necessary and incidental to site grading or building construction.
BUFFER AREA: A strip of land established to protect one type of land use from another land use that is incompatible. A buffer includes plantings, berms, or other screens which block vision, noise, or other negative impacts of more intense uses on less intense uses.
BUILDING: Any structure having a roof supported by columns or walls and used or intended for the shelter, housing or enclosure of any individual, animal, process, equipment or materials of any kind.
BUILDING, ACCESSORY: A subordinate building, the use of which is incidental to that of the main building or main use of the land. The use of an accessory building may be for either a primary or an accessory use allowed by the appropriate land use district. An accessory building shall be located on either the same parcel as the main building or main use; or shall be located on a contiguous abutting parcel that is owned by the same owner who owns the parcel which has the main building or use. An accessory building shall always exist in conjunction with and never without a legally established main building or main use that has the same common owner.
BUILDING AREA/BUILDING ENVELOPE: The net portion of the lot remaining after deducting all required setbacks from the gross area of the lot.
BUILDING COVERAGE: The percent of lot area which may be covered by all the footprints of buildings or structures on a lot.
BUILDING HEIGHT: The vertical distance above a reference datum to the highest point of the coping of a flat roof, or to the deck line of a mansard roof, or to the average height of the highest gable of a pitched or hipped roof. The reference datum shall be selected by either of the following, whichever yields a greater height of building:
A. The elevation of the highest adjoining sidewalk or ground surface within a five foot (5') horizontal distance of the exterior wall of the building when such sidewalk or ground surface is not more than ten feet (10') above lowest grade; or
B. An elevation ten feet (10') higher than the lowest grade when the sidewalk or ground surface described in subsection A of this definition is more than ten feet (10') above lowest grade.
The height of a stepped or terraced building is the maximum height of any segment of the building.
BUILDING MATERIALS AND SERVICES: Retailing or wholesaling of building supplies and/or equipment and excluding the general manufacturing of such supplies or equipment. This classification includes lumberyards, tool and equipment sales establishments, and building contractor's yards, but excludes establishments devoted exclusively to retail sales of paint and hardware.
BUILDING PERMIT: Written permission issued by the town for the construction, repair, alteration, or addition to a structure or building.
BUILDING, PRINCIPAL: A building in which the principal use is conducted.
BUILDING SITE: The ground area of a building together with all open spaces required by this development code.
BUS STOP SHELTER: A small, roofed structure, usually having three (3) walls, located near a street and designed primarily for the protection and convenience of bus passengers.
BUSINESS CENTER: A development in which businesses and structures are designed as an architecturally integrated and interrelated development. Such design is independent of the number of structures, lots, or parcels making up the center. (Ord. 252, 11-18-2014)