For the purpose of this chapter, certain words and terms are to be interpreted as follows:
(1)
The inclusion of "shall" in a regulation indicates the requirement is mandatory.
(2)
Unless otherwise specified, all distances shall be measured horizontally and at right angles to the line from which the distance is specified.
(3)
The requirements in this chapter shall in no way nullify, but shall compliment, the requirements and guidelines from other regulations and plans such as the shoreline master program, comprehensive plan, environmental policy ordinance, etc.
(Ord. 118-91 (part), 1991).
The definitions designated in this section shall apply in this chapter.
"Administrator" means the director of the department of community development.
"Board" means the board of county commissioners.
"Campground." See "Recreational vehicle park."
"Centerline" means a line lying midway between the sidelines of a street right-of-way.
"Cul-de-sac" means an area for vehicle turnabout, usually circular, located at the closed end of a dead end road. The minimum dimensions of which shall be sixty feet in diameter.
"Floodplain" means any area that would be inundated by a flood of such magnitude that it would occur theoretically at least once in one hundred years. For the purpose of this chapter the most recent Flood Insurance Rate Maps issued by the Federal Emergency Management Agency shall be used to delineate the one-hundred-year floodplain.
"Health department" means the county health services department.
"Land" means all property or parcels of property in a single or unified ownership regardless of the type or time of acquisition (excluding acquisition by easement) that are contiguous or abutting upon each other and which may be in different sections or different government lots that are not separated from each other by public roads. Provided, that land in an approved subdivision, each containing only one mobile home per parcel, will not be considered a mobile home park, even if under the ownership of the same owner.
"Mobile home" means a structure, transportable in one or more sections, that is built on a permanent chassis and designed to be used as a dwelling with or without a permanent foundation when connected to the required utilities, and includes the plumbing, heating, and electrical systems contained therein.
"Mobile home park" means a tract of land that is occupied or designed for occupancy by two or more mobile homes in accordance with this chapter.
"Mobile home space or site" means a parcel of land within a mobile home park used for placement of a mobile home, appurtenant structures or additions.
"Modular home" means a factory fabricated transportable building normally made of wood designed to be used by itself or to be incorporated with similar units at a building site into a modular structure that will be a finished building in a fixed location on a permanent foundation. For the purposes of this chapter, a modular home shall not be considered to be a mobile home. Modular home regulations shall be considered under the current applicable building codes.
"Open space" means land having value for the following: (1) parks and recreation purposes; (2) conservation of land and other natural resource purposes; and (3) scenic and historical purposes.
"Parking lot" means an area where motor vehicles may be stored for the purpose of temporary, daily or overnight off-street parking.
"Parking spaces" means designated areas which are available and useable for motor vehicles, and which shall have a minimum width of nine feet, and a minimum length of twenty feet, exclusive of access drives.
"Public works department" means the county public works department.
"Recreational activities" means leisure activities which often require equipment and that take place at prescribed places, sites or fields.
"Recreational vehicle" means a vehicular type unit primarily designed for temporary occupation such as recreational camping, travel, or seasonal use which has its own motive power or is mounted on or towed by another vehicle. Recreational vehicles set up in a permanent fashion, as defined by the building code, shall be permitted as residences.
"Recreational vehicle park" means a tract of land that is occupied or designed for occupancy by two or more recreational vehicles for transient dwelling purposes in accordance with this chapter (including campgrounds); provided that landowners using their land for personal recreational purposes may have their recreational vehicle and three guest recreational vehicles and not be considered a recreational vehicle park; provided further that at no time shall guest recreational vehicles be occupied for any longer than three weeks in any sixty-day period on the premises; provided further that landowners using their land for family reunions and other personal gatherings where more than three R.V.'s are involved shall not be considered a recreational vehicle park, as long as the gathering lasts no longer than five days, and that no health problems, litter problems, etc., develop; provided further that recreational vehicles set up in a permanent fashion, as defined by the building code, shall be permitted as permanent residences.
"RV space or site" means a parcel of land within an RV park used or placement of an RV, appurtenant structures or additions.
"Sanitary dump station" means a facility used for disposing of wastes from recreational vehicle holding tanks.
"Small mobile home park" means a mobile home park designed to be occupied by four or fewer mobile homes.
"Street" means a public or private right-of-way which affords the principal means of access to abutting property.
"Unit" means an RV or mobile home.
"Urban growth area" means those such areas designated in the county comprehensive plan or other land control ordinance.
(Ord. 3-96 ยง 5 (part), 1996: Ord. 118-91 (part), 1991).