HABITABLE STRUCTURE: A structure which includes habitable space for living, sleeping, eating or cooking. Bathrooms, toilet compartments, closets, halls, storage or utility space, and similar areas are not considered habitable space.
HALF STORY: A story under a gable, hip or gambrel roof, plates of which are not more than two feet (2') above the floor of such story.
HANDICAPPED PERSON: A person who may be classified as having a physical impairment that manifests itself in one or more of the following ways: nonambulatory, semiambulatory, visually impaired, deaf or hard of hearing, having faulty coordination, and having reduced mobility, flexibility, coordination, or perceptiveness due to age or physical or mental conditions.
HAWKER: A person who engages in hawking.
HAWKING: Offering merchandise for sale on the streets by outcry or by attracting the attention of persons by exposing goods in a public place, or by placards, labels or signals.
HEALTH CENTER: See definition of Fitness Center.
HEALTHCARE FACILITY: A public or private facility principally engaged in providing services for health maintenance and the treatment of mental or physical conditions. This includes establishments providing support to the medical profession and patients, such as medical and dental laboratories, blood banks, or oxygen and other similar types of medical supplies and services.
HIGHEST ADJACENT GRADE: The highest natural elevation of the ground surface prior to construction next to the proposed wall of a structure.
HILLSIDE AREA: Any property containing slope areas of ten percent (10%) or greater.
HOME OCCUPATION: A commercial activity conducted in compliance with chapter 9.50 of this title, carried out by an occupant and conducted as an accessory use within the primary dwelling unit, an accessory structure or approved outdoor activity.
HOMELESS SHELTER: See definition of Emergency Shelter.
HOMEOWNERS' ASSOCIATION: An association of owners in a condominium, planned unit development, or residential subdivision established to provide management of property in which they own an undivided common interest.
HOOKAH BAR/LOUNGE: An establishment where patrons share flavored tobacco (Shisha - a smokable mixture of tobacco, dried fruits, molasses) or a nontobacco based substitute from a communal hookah (a water pipe device for smoking). A hookah is a water pipe of Middle Eastern origin that is used to smoke sweet, often flavored tobacco. The smoke is filtered through water at the base of the hookah's pipe.
HORSE BOARDING: See definition of Animal Sales And Service: Animal Boarding.
HORSE KEEPING: Boarding of horses owned by the occupants of the residential property. See also definition of Animal Keeping.
HORTICULTURE: The study and practice of cultivating plants, such as growing fruit, flowers, ornamental plants, and vegetables.
A. Horticulture, Commercial: The cultivation of agricultural products for retail or wholesale sales. Includes plant nurseries.
B. Horticulture, Private: The cultivation (but not sale) of agricultural products for use or consumption only by property owner or tenant.
C. Horticulture, Public: See definition of Plant Nursery.
HOSPITAL: An institutional land use consisting of a facility licensed by the state department of public health for the provision of clinical and temporary or emergency service of a medical, obstetrical, nursing, surgical, anesthesia, laboratory, radiology, pharmacy, and dietary services nature to human patients, including inpatient and outpatient care.
HOTEL: A facility in which guest rooms or suites are offered for compensation to the general public for lodging with or without meals and where no provision is made for cooking in any individual guest room or suite.
HUMAN SCALE: The relationship of a building or portions of a building to a human being. Harmonious relationship of the size of parts to one another and to the human figure, usually around eight (8) to ten feet (10') in size. This distance is about the limit of sensory perception of communication between people including voice inclination and facial expression. This distance is also about the limit of an upstretched arm reach for human beings which is another measure of human scale.
HYDROPHYTE: A plant that grows in and is adapted to an aquatic or very wet environment. (Ord. 252, 11-18-2014)