Subdividers Ordinance

Planned Area Development: A zoning designation intended to promote innovative, designed developments involving residential and nonresidential land uses, which together form an attractive and harmonious unit of the community. The area may be able to function as an individual community, neighborhood, or mixed-use development that requires flexibility because of unique circumstances or design characteristics. (See Section 3 PAD) Planning and Zoning Commission is appointed by the City Council to review and recommend proposed applications for zoning and proposed changes to the ordinance, as well as to review subdivisions. The Commission is also known as the “P&Z” or “Commission”. Principal Use is the main use of land or structures as distinguished from accessory use. For example, a house is a principal use in a residential area; a garage or pool is an accessory use. Private: In reference to a building, structure, utility, facility, or use, “private” means owned by someone other than a unit of government, or an agency of government, unless the context clearly indicates that “private” is being used in a broader sense of something not open or available to the general populace. Public: In reference to a building, structure, utility, facility, or use, “public” means owned and/or operated by a unit of government or an agency thereof, unless the context clearly indicates that “public” is being used in the broader sense of something available to the general populace. Setback: The distance required to obtain the front, side, or rear yard open space provisions of this Ordinance. All measurements are taken from the structure’s foundation or from the exterior wall at grade level. Public Information Sign: A directional or informational guide or aid erected by a public agency or by private persons and not intended primarily for advertising. Sexually-Oriented Businesses: An establishment, including bookstores, bars, restaurants, movie theaters, and arcades where films are shown, or videotapes, magazines, books, or other printed matters are sold, or live performances take place, that are characterized by an emphasis upon the depiction or exposure of “specified sexual activities” or “specified anatomical areas” as defined below. Massage parlors where services are not administered by a licensed practitioner, chiropractor, acupuncturist, therapist, or similar person licensed by the State are also included in this definition. 1) Specified Sexual Activities: Patently offensive acts, exhibitions, representations, depictions or descriptions of: 1) human genitals in a state of sexual stimulation or arousal; 2) fondling or other erotic touching of human genitals, pubic region, buttocks or female breast; 3) intrusion, however slight, actual or stimulated by an object, any part of an animal’s body or any part of a person’s body into the genital or anal openings of a person’s body; 4) cunnilingus, fellatio, analingus, masturbation, bestiality, lewd exhibition of genitals or excretory function, actual or simulated; 5) 14 Adopted November 14, 2007