Section 11-7-1. General Rules of Construction. The following shall apply for construing or interpreting the terms and provisions of this UDO.

Meanings and Intent. All provisions, terms, phrases, and expressions in this UDO shall be construed according to the general purpose set forth in Section 11-1-2 and the specific purpose statements elsewhere in this UDO. If a specific section provides a different meaning of a term defined for general purposes in this Article, the specific section's meaning and application shall control.

Headings, Illustrations, and Text. In case of any difference of meaning or implication between the text of this UDO and any heading, caption, figure, illustration, table, or map, the text shall control.

Lists and Examples. Unless otherwise indicated, lists of items or examples that use terms such as "for example," "including," and "such as," or similar are intended to provide examples and are not exhaustive lists of all possibilities.

Computation of Time. The time in which an act is to be done shall be computed by excluding the first day and including the last day. If a deadline or required date of action falls on a Saturday, Sunday, or holiday, the deadline shall be the next day that is not a Saturday, Sunday, or holiday. References to "days" are calendar days unless otherwise stated.

Public Officials and Agencies. All public officials, bodies, and agencies referred to in this UDO are those of the City of Northglenn unless otherwise stated.

Mandatory and Discretionary Terms. The words "shall," "must," and "will" are mandatory in nature, establishing an obligation to comply. The words "may" and "should" are permissive in nature.

Conjunctions. Unless the context clearly suggests otherwise, conjunctions shall be interpreted as follows:

"And" indicates that all connected items apply; and

"Or" indicates that one or more of the connected items apply.

Tenses, Plurals, and Gender.

Words used in the present tense include the future tense, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise.

Words used in the singular number include the plural number, and words used in the plural number include the singular number, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise.

Words used in the masculine gender shall include the feminine gender, and works used in the feminine gender shall include the masculine gender.

[Source: Ord. 1766, 2019]

Section 11-7-2. Definitions of Use Categories and Specific Use Types.

Residential Uses.

Household Living
Uses in the category are characterized by residential occupancy of a dwelling unit by a "family." Tenancy is arranged on a month-to-month or longer basis. Common accessory uses include recreational activities, personal gardens, personal storage buildings, hobbies, and resident parking. Specific use types include:

Dwelling, Co-Housing
A residential development that combines small individually-owned units on a single lot with common open space and sometimes including a larger community kitchen and dining room intended for communal use on a regular basis. The residents in a co-housing development agree to share in the provision of communal services such as cooking meals, maintenance of grounds, and child care.

Dwelling, Duplex
A building with two dwelling units located on a single lot designed or arranged to be occupied by two families living independently of each other.

Dwelling, Live/Work
A dwelling unit containing an integrated living and working space in different areas of the unit.

Dwelling, Multifamily
A building, group of buildings, or portion of a building that contains three or more dwelling units located on a single lot.

Dwelling, Single-Family Attached
Two or more dwelling units where each dwelling unit is located on its own separate lot, but attached to other units, and is designed for occupancy by one family.

Dwelling, Single-Family Detached
A building located on one lot containing one dwelling unit not physically attached to any other primary structure that is designed to be occupied by one family.

Manufactured Home Park, HUD-Code
A unified development of two or more manufactured home spaces arranged on a tract of land under private ownership meeting all requirements of this UDO. Accessory uses may include supervisory, managerial or other office facilities for control of the park, subdivision, and facilities. For floodplain regulations in Section 11-4-3, "manufactured home park" shall be defined pursuant to Section 11-7-4.

Group Living
Uses in this category are characterized by residential occupancy of a structure by a group of people who do not meet the definition of "household living." Tenancy is arranged on a monthly or longer basis and the size of the group may be larger than a "family". Generally, group living structures have a common eating area for residents. Residents may receive care, training, or treatment, and caregivers may or may not also reside at the site. Accessory uses commonly include recreational facilities and vehicle parking for occupants and staff. Specific use types include:

Assisted Living Facility
A facility licensed by the Colorado State Department of Public Health, that provides living accommodations and medical services for the aged who, due to illness or disability, require care similar to that provided to persons who are 55 years or over. Services like transportation, housekeeping, dietary supervision, and recreational activities may also be offered.

Group Home
A structure providing residential, non-institutional housing for a group of unrelated individuals not meeting the definition of "family," where assistance and/or supportive services are provided by professional support person(s). a group home shall have no more than 12 residents, including professional support persons. Group homes are further defined as "Group Home, FHAA," or "Group Home, Supportive Housing," according to the residence type.

Group Home, FHAA
A residence that provides a community living environment for those protected by the provisions of the federal Fair Housing Act Amendments of 1988, as defined in that Act and interpreted by the courts, or by any similar legislation of the State of Colorado, including, but not limited to:

Group Home for Persons with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities. A residence that provides state-licensed non-institutional housing for not more than eight persons living a single housekeeping unit for the exclusive use of persons with intellectual and developmental disabilities, as defined by Section 25.5-10-202 C.R.S., as amended.

Group Home for the Aged. A residence that provides non-institutional housing for not more than eight persons living as a single housekeeping unit for the exclusive use of persons who are 60 years of age or older, as defined by Section 31-23-303(2)(b)II) C.R.S., as amended.

Group Home for Persons with Mental Health Disorders. A residence that provides state-licensed non-institutional housing for no more than eight persons living as a single housekeeping unit for the exclusive use of persons with mental health disorders, as that term is defined by Section 27-65-102 C.R.S., as amended.

Group Home, Supportive Housing
A residence other than a "Group Home, FHAA" that provides a community living environment for no more than eight persons requiring correctional supervision, custodial care, medical treatment, or specialized social services for persons. Supportive housing includes, but is not limited to:

An owner-occupied or nonprofit residential dwelling for the exclusive use of at least two but not more than eight persons, who together with support services staff, live as a single housekeeping unit but do not require 24-hour medical or nursing care.

A shelter for persons experiencing temporary homelessness.

A shelter for domestic violence victims, which is a public or private building or structure housing residents for the purpose of the rehabilitation for victims of domestic violence or emotional or mental abuse. The term includes battered women's shelter.

Independent Living Facility
A multi-family dwelling restricted to adults at least 55 years of age or older, that includes central dining facilities and provides residents with access to meals and other services such as housekeeping, transportation, and social and recreational activities. Independent living facilities do not provide skilled medical and residential care and assistance such as provided at a group care institution.

Public, Institutional, and Civic Uses.

Community and Cultural Facilities
Uses in this category include buildings, structures, or facilities that provide a service to the public. Accessory uses may include limited retail, concessions, parking, and maintenance facilities. Specific use types include:

Assembly
A structure used by a religious organization or other congregation for regular organized activities. Accessory uses may include columbariums in association with an established religious institution. Other accessory uses may include those customarily associated with assembly uses such as educational programming, childcare, and community services.

Cemetery or Interment Facility
Land used or intended to be used for the burial of the dead and dedicated for such purposes and includes columbariums, crematoriums, mausoleums and mortuaries when operated in conjunction with and within the boundaries of such premises.

Club or Lodge
A meeting place for an incorporated or unincorporated association of persons organized for some common purpose, including social, educational, literary, political, or charitable purpose, operated by a private nonprofit or noncommercial organization.

Community Center
A structure or group of structures for a community's governmental, social, educational, and/or recreational activities. Community Service facilities include federal, state, county, and local government activities including libraries, museums, and other similar uses.

Daycare
A facility licensed, certified, or registered by the State of Colorado that provides care, protection and supervision for children or adults on a regular basis away from their primary residence for less than 24 hours per day.

Emergency or Community Operations Facility
A facility or property used for police, fire, and/or medical equipment or other emergency services and personnel.

Funeral Facility
An establishment for the care, preparation, or disposition of the deceased for burial and the display of the deceased and rituals connected with, and conducted before, burial or cremation. This use includes funeral homes and mortuaries, which are facilities in which dead bodies are prepared for burial or cremation, but shall not include crematoriums or other interment facilities.

Park and Open Space, Active
Areas for recreational uses that require constructed facilities for organized activities including playing fields, playgrounds, and ball courts. Accessory uses may include group picnic facilities, hard surfaced pathways, restrooms, parking lots, and similar facilities.

Park and Open Space, Passive
Areas for recreational uses related to the functions and values of a nature area including bike or running trails; natural areas with limited development for fishing, hiking, walking, or biking; wildlife preserves; lakes for fishing with accessible walks, conservation easements on agricultural land; environmental education programs; lands and waterways as community buffers; river and stream corridor land; unimproved flood plains; and wetlands. Accessory uses may include picnic facilities, restrooms, parking lots, and similar facilities.

Educational Facilities
Uses in this category include public, private, and parochial institutions at the primary, elementary, middle, high school, or post-secondary level, or vocational or trade schools. Accessory uses commonly include cafeterias, indoor and outdoor recreational and sport facilities, auditoriums, and day care facilities. Specific use types include:

School, Public or Private
A public or private institution that offers general academic instruction at preschool, kindergarten, elementary, secondary, and collegiate levels, including graduate schools, universities, nonprofit research and religious institutions.

School, Vocational or Trade
A secondary school offering instruction in a professional, vocational, or technical field. This use includes public or private schools providing domestic, recreational and other types of instruction, such as dance, gymnastics, cooking, music, martial arts and handicrafts.

Healthcare Facilities
Uses in this category are characterized by activities focusing on medical services, particularly licensed public or private institutions that provide primary health services and medical or surgical care to persons suffering from illness, disease, injury, or other physical or mental conditions. Accessory uses may include laboratories, outpatient, or training facilities, and parking, or other amenities primarily for the use of employees in the firm or building.

Hospital
An institution designed for the diagnosis, treatment, and care of human illness or infirmity and providing health services, primarily for inpatients, and including as related facilities, laboratories, outpatient departments, training facilities and staff offices.

Medical or Dental Clinic
An establishment where patients who are not lodged overnight are admitted for examination and treatment by a group of licensed health care practitioners, dentists, or licensed health care practitioners and dentists in practice together. This use includes health spas, alternative care and holistic healing centers. Accessory uses may include incidental retail sales of products incidental to the services provided.

Commercial Uses.

Agriculture and Animal Uses
This category includes agricultural and farming activities, including nurseries and facilities for processing and selling agricultural products. Agricultural uses involve farming, dairying, pasturage, beekeeping, horticulture, floriculture, viticulture, animal husbandry, and animal-related uses include the boarding and care of animals on a commercial basis. Accessory uses may include confinement facilities for animals, parking, and storage areas. Specific use types include:

Agriculture, General
The land use of animal husbandry, farming, cultivation of crops, dairying, pasturage, floriculture, horticulture, viticulture, aquaculture, hydroponics, together with necessary accompanying accessory uses, buildings, or structures for housing, packing, treating, or storing said products. This definition includes grain and feed elevators and associated dwellings for those involved in agricultural uses. Accessory uses may include incidental sales by the producer of products raised on the farm. This use excludes marijuana cultivation, slaughterhouses, commercial feedlots, or stockyards, fat rendering, meatpacking, tanning, cutting, curing, cleaning or storing of green hides or skins, and slaughtering or meatpacking of animals not raised on the premises.

Agriculture, Urban
The raising, keeping or production of fruits, vegetables, flowers, and other crops, poultry, and bees; composting; and the processing of those agricultural products. Accessory uses may include incidental sales of produce, plants, or products raised on the premises, preparing, treating, and storing agricultural products, equipment and machinery, but does not include marijuana cultivation or the dressing of animals not raised on the premises. This definition does not include the keeping or raising of swine, goats, sheep, cattle, horses, or other farm animals.

Community Garden
A public facility for the cultivation of fruits, flowers, vegetables, or ornamental plants by more than one person or family.

Kennel, Commercial
Any establishment where three or more domestic animals are kept, housed, boarded, lodged, fed, hired, trained, sold, or bred as a commercial activity.

Stable, Commercial
A facility or area where horses, mules, or other domestic animals are kept, housed, boarded, lodged, fed, hired, trained, sold, or bred as a commercial activity. The definition includes accessory uses such as riding lessons, clinics, and similar activities.

Veterinary Hospital or Clinic
Facility for the diagnosis, treatment, or hospitalization of domestic animals, operated under the supervision of a licensed veterinarian. The incidental temporary overnight boarding of animals that are recuperating from treatment is included in this definition.

Recreation and Entertainment
This category includes indoor and outdoor recreation and entertainment activities. Accessory uses may include limited retail, concessions, parking, and maintenance facilities. Specific use types include:

Indoor Recreation Facility
A commercial recreational use conducted entirely within a building, including bowling alley, pool hall, dance hall, gymnasium, swimming pool, skating rink, art gallery or studio, miniature golf course, kiddie park, theater, health club, athletic club, exhibit hall, and other similar amusement centers. Accessory uses may include limited retail, concessions, and maintenance facilities.

Outdoor Recreation Facility
Uses in this category provide recreation and entertainment activities operated by a commercial enterprise that is mostly outdoors or partially within a building, including picnic area, outdoor swimming pool, skateboard park, tennis court, basketball court, baseball diamond, soccer and football field, amphitheater, outdoor arena, outdoor theater, drive-in theater, golf course, golf driving range, or other similar outdoor recreational uses. Accessory uses may include limited retail, concessions, and maintenance facilities.

Food and Beverage Services
Establishments involved in serving prepared food or beverages for consumption on or off the premises. Accessory uses may include food preparation areas, offices, and parking. Specific use types include:

Bar, Tavern, or Lounge
An eating and drinking establishment providing or dispensing by the drink for on-site consumption fermented malt beverages, and/or malt, special malt, vinous, or spirituous liquors, and in which the sale of food products is secondary. A bar, lounge, or tavern may include live entertainment and/or dancing; however, shall not include any adult entertainment.

Catering Establishment
An establishment whose primary business is to prepare food on-site, then to transport and serve the food off-site. No business consumption of food or beverages is allowed on the premises.

Microbrewery, Distillery, or Winery
A small brewery, winery, or distillery operated separately or in conjunction with a drinking establishment or restaurant, provided the beer, wine, or liquor is sold for consumption onsite or off the premises.

Restaurant
An eating/drinking establishment that is open to the public, where food and beverages are prepared, served, and consumed within the primary building, or off the premises as carry-out orders; or in an outdoor seating area on the premises. Accessory uses may include an outdoor dining area or sidewalk café. This definition may include drive-through establishments, pursuant to Table 3-2 A.

Office, Business, and Professional Services
Uses in this category provide executive, management, administrative, governmental, or professional services, but do not sell merchandise except as incidental to an allowed use. Accessory uses may include cafeterias, health facilities, parking, or other amenities primarily for the use of employees in the firm or building. Specific use types include:

Administrative, Professional, and Government Office
A building in which services are provided and/or business is conducted including administrative, professional, governmental, or clerical operations. Typical examples include fire station, police station, judicial court or government offices, post office, real estate, radio and television broadcasting station, call center, insurance, property management, investment, financial, employment, travel, advertising, law, architecture, design, engineering, accounting, and similar offices. This use includes accessory uses such as restaurants, coffee shops, health facilities, parking, limited retail sales, or other amenities primarily for the use of employees in the firm or building.

Financial Institution
An establishment that provides retail banking, mortgage lending, and financial services to individuals and businesses, and including check-cashing facilities. Accessory uses may include automatic teller machines, offices, and parking.

Research and Development
A facility primarily engaged in conducting scientific research, experimental design, and prototype development of devices or products in the physical, engineering, or life sciences, such as agriculture, electronics, biology, biotechnology, chemistry, geology, medicine, pharmacy, veterinary, and other allied subjects. This use excludes marijuana cultivation and the manufacturing, servicing or sale of consumer products. Accessory uses may include incidental sales of goods produced on site, such as dentures, eyeglasses, contact lenses, and prosthetic devices, to the public.

Personal Services
Uses in this category provide individual services related to personal needs directly to customers at the site of the business, or that receive goods from or return goods to the customer, which have been treated or processed at that location or another location. Specific use types include:

Laundry Facility, Commercial
An establishment that cleans clothing, carpeting, drapes, and other cloth or synthetic fiber materials using a chemical process. This definition includes uses such as dry cleaning facilities; rug cleaning or repair service; pressing of garments or fabrics; carpet or upholstery; power laundry; industrial launderers; and linen supply.

Laundry Facility, Self-Service
An establishment providing washing, drying, or dry-cleaning machines on the premises for rental use to the general public. This definition includes automatic, self-service only, or hand laundries.

Personal Services, General
An establishment that provides repair, care, maintenance or customizing of wearing apparel or other personal articles or human grooming services and includes such uses as beauty/barber shops, shoe repair, laundry services, dry cleaning pick-up establishments, alterations, spas, tanning salons, tattoo parlors, photography studios, printing establishments, house cleaning services, small appliance repair, weight reduction centers, florist, or pet grooming shops. This use does not include commercial laundry facilities.

Retail Sales
Uses involving the sale, lease, or rent of new or used products directly to the final consumer for whatever purpose but not specifically or exclusively for the purpose of resale. Accessory uses may include offices, parking, storage of goods, assembly, repackaging, or repair of goods for on-site sale. Specific use types include:

Auction House
A place where the property of others, such as objects of art, furniture, and other goods (except livestock), are offered by a broker or auctioneer for sale to persons who bid on the items in competition with each other at scheduled sales periods or events.

Building Materials and Supply Store
A business involved in the sale, storage, and distribution of structure supplies and services including lumber, brick, tile, cement, insulation, floor covering, lighting, plumbing supplies, electrical supplies, cabinetry and roofing materials. This definition includes retail hardware stores. Accessory uses may include repair or delivery services, outside sale of plants and gardening supplies, and incidental wholesale trade.

General Retail, Less than 10,000 Square Feet
Retail sales, not otherwise included in a definition for a specific use type within the retail sales use category, containing less than 10,000 square feet of gross floor area.

General Retail, 10,000 Square Feet or More
Retail sales, not otherwise included in a definition for a specific use type within the retail sales use category, containing 10,000 square feet of gross floor area or greater.

Marijuana Establishment, Medical
A medical marijuana center, optional premises cultivation operation, medical marijuana transporter, or medical marijuana-infused products manufacturer as defined in the Colorado Medical Marijuana Code.

Marijuana Establishment, Retail
A retail marijuana store, a retail marijuana cultivation facility, a retail marijuana transporter, or a retail marijuana products manufacturing operation.

Nursery or Garden Supply Store
An establishment, including a building, part of a building, or open space for the growth, display and/or sale of plants, trees, and other materials used for planting for retail sales and incidental wholesale trade.

Lodging Facilities
For-profit facilities where lodging, meals, and the like are provided to transient visitors and guests for a defined period.

Bed and Breakfast
A detached dwelling that is owner-occupied or occupied by a resident manager in which rooms are rented and meals may be served to transient guests on an overnight basis.

Boarding or Rooming House
A building or portion of a building, other than a hotel/motel or multifamily dwelling, within which non-transient lodging and/or meals are provided for compensation. Meals may be provided if cooking is done in a central kitchen and not in individual rooms or suites.

Hotel/Motel
A structure or group of structures on the same lot containing individual guest units for rental on a daily rate to transients and consisting of individual sleeping quarters, detached or in connected rows, with or without cooking facilities. Accessory uses may include additional services such as restaurants, meeting rooms, and recreational facilities.

Short-Term Rental
The rental of an entire dwelling unit, or any portion of a dwelling unit, for monetary consideration for a period of time less than 30 consecutive days, not including a bed and breakfast, boarding or rooming house, or hotel/motel. This definition does not include offering the use of one's property where no fee is charged or collected.

Transportation
Uses in this category are primarily associated with train, bus, and aircraft facilities. Examples include depots, terminals, or other facilities which serve as a hub.

Rail Yard
An area for storing or switching of freight and passenger trains. Necessary and allowed functions include but are not limited to the switching, storing, assembling, distributing, consolidating, repairing, weighing, or transferring of cars, trains, engines, and rolling stock.

Transit Terminal or Station
A facility where public transit vehicles load and unload patrons, and where patrons may transfer from between public transit lines, when that is the primary use of the property. This use may include park & ride or ride-sharing facilities, but does not include public transit vehicle repair or maintenance facilities.

Vehicles and Equipment
This category includes a broad range of uses for the maintenance, sale, or rental of motor vehicles and related equipment. Accessory uses may include incidental repair and storage and offices. Specific use types include:

Auto Wash
The use of a site for washing, cleaning, and detailing of passenger vehicles, recreational vehicles, or other light-duty equipment. This use includes any auto wash facility attended by an employee and self-service and coin-operated washes.

Automotive Fuel Sales
A lot or portion of property where flammable or combustible liquids or gases used as fuel are stored and dispersed from fixed equipment into the fuel tanks of motor vehicles. Such an establishment may offer for sale motor oil, automobile lubricants, travel aids and other convenience items to the motoring public and may also include a freestanding, automatic car wash. Outside storage of automobiles or materials such as tires, auto parts, etc., is prohibited.

Automotive Repair, Major
An establishment primarily engaged in providing vehicle repair, body work, mechanical servicing, and/or painting.

Automotive Repair, Minor
An establishment primarily engaged in providing minor vehicle repair services such as lubrication, oil and tire changes, tune-ups, brake repair, tire replacement, and detailing and polishing, provided it is conducted within a completely enclosed building. Major repairs such as vehicle bodywork or painting, mechanical repair of engines or drive trains is prohibited.

Automotive Sales and Leasing
The sale, display, lease, rental, or storage of light motor vehicles, including automobiles, vans, light trucks, light trailers, boats, ATVs, snowmobiles, and recreational vehicles. This definition shall not include salvage operations, scrap operations, vehicle impound yards, or commercial parking lots available for short-term use.

Equipment and Machinery Sales and Rental
An establishment engaged in the display, sale and rental of equipment, tools, supplies, machinery or other equipment used for building construction, manufacturing, farming or agriculture. This use includes the sale of farm-specific vehicles such as tractors, tillers, farm trailers, back hoes, graders, boom lifts, front-end loaders, truck tractors, and truck tractor trailers.

Parking Facility
As a primary use, the ownership, lease, operation, or management of a commercial surface parking lot, above-ground structure, or below-ground structure. This definition excludes park & ride or ride-sharing facilities associated with a transit terminal or station.

Sexually Oriented Businesses
Sexually oriented businesses includes: adult arcade, adult bookstore, adult novelty shop, adult video store, adult cabaret, adult motel, adult motion picture theater, adult theater, sexual encounter establishment, or nude model studio. The definition of sexually oriented business shall not include an establishment where a medical practitioner, psychologist, psychiatrist, or similar professional person licensed by the state engages in medically approved and recognized sexual therapy.

Sexually Oriented Business
This definition includes the following terms and definitions:

Adult Arcade
An establishment where, for any form of consideration, one or more still or motion picture projectors, slide projectors, or similar machines, or other image producing machines, for viewing by five or fewer persons each, are used to show films, motion pictures, video cassettes, slides, or other photographic reproductions which are characterized by the depiction or description of "specified sexual activities" or "specified anatomical areas."

Adult Bookstore, Adult Novelty Store, or Adult Video Store

A commercial establishment which

Devotes more than 50 percent of its interior floor space to the sale, rental, or viewing (in exchange for anything of value) of books, magazines, periodicals or other printed material, or photographs, films, motion pictures, video cassettes, slides, or other visual representations which are characterized by the depiction or description of "specified sexual activities" or "specified anatomical areas;" or

Displays on site any message or communication visible from any public street right-of-way or any other property which advertises the availability on site of merchandise characterized by the depiction or description of "specified sexual activities" or "specified anatomical area."

An establishment may have other primary business purposes that do not involve the offering for sale, rental, or viewing of materials depicting or describing "specified sexual activities" or "specified anatomical areas," and still be categorized as an adult bookstore, adult novelty store, or adult video store. Such other business purposes will not serve to exempt such establishment from being categorized as an adult bookstore, adult novelty store or adult video store, so long as the provisions of 11-7-2(c)(B)(i) are otherwise met.

Adult Cabaret
A nightclub, bar, or similar commercial establishment which features:

Persons who appear nude or in a state of nudity or semi-nudity;

Live performances which are characterized by the exposure of "specified anatomical areas" or by "specified sexual activities," or

Films, motion pictures, video cassettes, slides, or other photographic reproductions which are characterized by the depiction or description of "specified sexual activities" or "specified anatomical areas."

Adult Motel
A motel, hotel, or similar commercial establishment which:

Offers public accommodations for any form of consideration, and provides patrons with closed-circuit television transmissions, films, motion pictures, video cassettes, slides, or other photographic reproductions which are characterized by the depiction or description of "specified sexual activities" or "specified anatomical areas" and which advertises the availability of this sexually oriented type of material by means of a sign visible from the public right-of-way, or by means of any off-premises advertising including, but not limited to, newspapers, magazines, pamphlets or leaflets, radio or television, or

Offers a sleeping room for rent for a period of time less than 10 hours; or

Allows a tenant or occupant to sub-rent a sleeping room for a time period of less than 10 hours.

Adult Motion Picture Theater
A commercial establishment where films, motion pictures, video cassettes, slides or similar photographic reproductions rated "X" or "XXX" by the Motion Picture Association of America, or advertised on or off premises as rated "X" or "XXX" or "Adult," are regularly shown in exchange of anything of value.

Adult Theater
A theater, concert hall, auditorium, or similar commercial establishment which, for any form of consideration, regularly features persons who appear in a state of nudity or live performances which are characterized by exposure of "specified anatomical area" or by "specified sexual activities."

Nude Model Studio
Any place where a person, who appears in a state of nudity or displays "specified anatomical areas" is provided for money or any form of consideration to be observed, sketched, drawn, painted, sculpted, photographed, or similarly depicted by other persons.

Sexual Encounter Establishment
A business or commercial establishment, that as one of its primary business purposes, offers, for any form of consideration, a place where two or more persons may congregate, associate, or consort for the purpose of "specified sexual activities" or the exposure of "specified anatomical areas" or activities when one or more of the persons is in a state of nudity or semi-nudity. An adult motel will not be classified as a sexual encounter establishment by virtue of the fact that it offers private rooms for rent.

Lawful Age
As used in 11-3-3(e)(26), and in Article 12 of Chapter 18, lawful age shall mean any person who has attained the age of 18 years for purposes of patronage or employment at a sexually oriented business. Except, however, the lawful age for patronage or employment at a sexually oriented business which offers live entertainment shall be at least 21 years of age.

Nudity or State of Nudity

The appearance of human anus, male or female genitals, or the areola or nipple of the female breast; or

A state of dress which fails to opaquely and fully cover a human anus, male or female genitals, pubic region or areola or nipple of the female breast.

Peep Booth
Any enclosed or semi-enclosed space within the premises of a "sexually oriented business" within which a film, video cassette or other video reproduction is shown, or within which live nude models appear in any state of nudity or display any "specified anatomical areas" or simulate any "specified sexual activities."

Private Room
A room in an adult motel that has a bed and bath in the room or adjacent room, and is used primarily for lodging.

Semi-Nude
A state of dress in which clothing covers no more than the genitals, pubic region, and areola of the female breast, as well as portions of the body covered by supporting straps or devices.

Specified Anatomical Areas
Includes any of the following:

Less than completely and opaquely covered human genitals, pubic region, anus, or female breasts below a point immediately above the top of the areola; or

Human male genitals in a discernibly turgid state, even if completely and opaquely covered.

Specified Sexual Activities
Includes any of the following:

The fondling or other intentional touching of human genitals, pubic region, buttocks, anus or female breasts;

Sex acts, normal or perverted, actual or simulated, including intercourse, oral copulation, or sodomy;

Masturbation, actual or simulated; or

Human genitals in a state of sexual stimulation, arousal or tumescence;

Excretory functions as part of or in connection with any of the activities set forth in A through D.

Industrial Uses.

Manufacturing and Processing
Uses in this category includes the excavation, transporting, manufacture, fabrication, processing, reduction, destruction or any other treatment of any article, substance or commodity, in order to change its form, character or appearance. Accessory uses may include retail sales, offices, storage, cafeterias, employee amenities, parking, warehousing, and repair facilities. Specific use types include:

Food Processing
A facility where food for human consumption in its final form, such as candy, baked goods, tortillas, and ice cream is produced, and the food is distributed to retailers or wholesalers for resale on or off the premises.

Oil and Gas Operations
Exploration for oil and gas, including the conduct of seismic operations and the drilling of test bores; the siting, drilling, deepening, recompletion, reworking or abandonment of an oil and gas well, underground injection well or gas storage well; production operations related to any such well, including the installation of flowlines and gathering systems; the generation, transportation, storage, treatment or disposal of exploration and production wastes; and any construction, site preparation or reclamation activities associated with such operations.

Manufacturing, Artisan
An establishment or business where an artist, artisan, or craftsperson teaches, makes, or fabricates crafts or products by hand or with minimal automation and may include direct sales to consumers. This definition includes uses such as small-scale fabrication, manufacturing, and other industrial uses and processes such as welding and sculpting.

Manufacturing, Light
Industrial operations relying on the assembly, distributing, fabricating, manufacturing, packaging, processing, recycling, repairing, servicing, storing, or wholesaling of goods or products, using parts previously developed from raw material. This definition includes uses that ordinarily do not create noise, smoke, fumes, odors, glare, or health or safety hazards outside of the building where such assembly, fabrication, or processing takes place.

Mining and Extraction
The extraction of minerals, sand, gravel, and ores, from their natural occurrences on affected land and distribution of extracted materials.

Storage and Warehousing
Uses in this category are engaged in the storage or movement of goods for themselves or other businesses. Goods are generally delivered to other businesses or the final consumer, except for some will-call pickups. There are typically few customers present. Accessory uses may include offices, truck fleet parking, and maintenance areas. Specific use types include:

Contractor Office or Equipment Storage Yard
A building and related outdoor areas used to store and maintain construction equipment and other materials and facilities customarily required in the building trade by a construction contractor. This use may include showrooms and shops for the display and sale of electrical, plumbing, heating, air conditioning, sheet metal, and other material in connection with contracting services.

Outdoor Storage
As a primary use, a property or area used for the long term (more than 24 hours) storage of materials, merchandise, products, stock, supplies, machines, operable vehicles, equipment, manufacturing materials, or personal property of any nature that are not kept in a structure having at least four walls and a roof. Automobile sales and rental display and parking shall not be defined as outside storage.

Salvage Yard
A primary use where junk, waste, discarded, or salvaged materials are bought, sold, exchanged, baled, stored, packed, disassembled or handled, including auto wrecking activities, building wrecking activities, used lumber places, and places for storage of salvaged building materials and equipment. This use does not include facilities where such uses are conducted within an entirely enclosed building.

Self-Service Storage
A building or group of buildings consisting of individual, self-contained units that are leased to individuals, organizations, or businesses for self-service storage of personal property.

Warehousing and Wholesale Facility
A building or area for storage, wholesale, and/or distribution of goods and materials, supplies, and equipment that are manufactured or assembled off-site. This definition excludes the bulk storage of materials that are flammable or explosive or that create hazardous or commonly recognized offensive conditions. Accessory uses may include retail and office uses.

Public and Semi-Public Utility Uses. Uses including all lines, buildings, easements, passageways, or structures used or intended to be used by any public or private utility related to the provision, distribution, collection, transmission, or disposal of power, oil, gas, water, sanitary sewage, communication signals, or other similar public services at a local level. Specific use types include:

Public Utility, Major
A facility used to convert electric power, natural gas, telephone signals, cable/fiber optic communications, and water services from a form appropriate for transmission over long distances to a form appropriate for residential household or commercial use, or vice versa. This use includes but is not limited to: electric substations, natural gas regulator stations, telephone switching stations, water pressure control facilities, and sewage lift stations, regional stormwater drainage facilities, and water and sewer treatment facilities. Major public utilities are of a size and scale found only in scattered sites throughout the City.

Public Utility, Minor
A facility used for the collection and distribution of public utilities, including without limitation water, sewer, storm drainage, electric, and gas service, by a regulated utility or a public or quasi-public entity, of a size and scale commonly found in all areas of the city. This use includes accessory structures and storage facilities for public service providers but does not include wireless telecommunications facilities or water storage facilities.

Water Storage Facility
A tower or other facility for the storage of water for supply to a water system.

Wireless Service Facility
See Section 11-3-3(g)(3)(B).

Accessory Uses. A use that is incidental and subordinate to the primary use of the lot, building, or another structure on the same lot. Specific use types include:

Accessory Dwelling Unit
A subordinate dwelling unit added to, created within, or detached from a single-family residence, that contains a dwelling that is subordinate to a primary single-family detached dwelling and that provides basic requirements for living, sleeping, cooking, and sanitation. A mobile home or HUD-Code manufactured home shall not be considered an accessory dwelling unit.

Accessory Structure
A detached subordinate structure or building located on the same lot as the primary structure or building, the use of which is incidental to the primary structure, building or use of the lot. A detached garage and a detached carport are included as accessory structures.

Caretaker Dwelling Unit
An accessory dwelling on a nonresidential property occupied by a caretaker, security guard, or other person charged with oversight or protection of the primary use.

Drive-Through Facility
Any building or structure used to provide or dispense products or services, through an attendant, a window or an automated machine, to persons remaining in vehicles in a designated stacking lane. A drive-through facility may be in combination with other uses, such as banks, credit unions, loan associations, automated teller machines (ATM's), dry cleaners, drug stores, pharmacies, restaurants, or similar uses. This definition excludes auto wash, automotive repair facility, or automotive fuel sales.

Home Occupation
An occupation or profession which is conducted within a dwelling or on the premises where a dwelling is located, and is clearly incidental and secondary to the use of the dwelling for dwelling purposes.

Outdoor Storage, Accessory
The incidental keeping of goods, materials, equipment, or personal property of any nature that are not kept in a structure having at least four walls and a roof. Automotive sales and leasing display and parking shall not be defined as outside storage. Donation receiving areas and associated equipment are included as accessory outside storage.

Outdoor Sales and Display
The outdoor sale and display area of retail goods, produce, handcrafts, and the like conducted on the same lot or parcel as the primary business with which such activities are associated. This use does not include mobile food vending. Vending machines, service kiosks, and online retail storage lockers are included as outside sales and display.

Sale of Produce and Plants Raised on Premises
The incidental on-site sale of feed, grain, fruits, flowers, vegetables, ornamental plants, or similar goods.

Temporary Uses. Temporary uses are uses that occur for a specified time period only. Such uses shall not include the frequent occurrence of an activity at short intervals or events repeated on a regular basis, such as every weekend or every other weekend.

Construction Support Activity
A temporary construction yard, building, or structure located on the same lot as the construction site it serves until the given construction work is completed. This use does not include concrete or asphalt batching plants.

Farmer's Market or Open Air Market
The seasonal selling or offering for sale at retail directly to the consumer of fresh fruits, vegetables, flowers, herbs, or plants, processed food stuffs and products such as jams, honey, pickled products, sauces, baked goods, crafts, and art, clothing and other goods, occurring in a pre-designated area, where the vendors are generally individuals who have raised the produce or have taken the same or other goods on consignment for retail sales.

Mobile Food Vending
A vehicle, typically a van, truck, or towed trailer, from which food and/or beverages are sold.

Seasonal Sales
The temporary sale of goods or products associated with the season or a cultural event, such as the sale of Christmas trees, pumpkins, or seasonal produce. Such sales typically take place in locations not devoted to such sales for the remainder of the year.

Special Event
A temporary use on public or private property that extends beyond the normal uses and standards allowed by the Northglenn Unified Development Ordinance. "Special events" include, but are not limited to, fundraising activities, educational, historic, religious and patriotic displays or exhibits, circuses, carnivals, grand openings, amusements, outdoor concerts, festivals, revivals, street fairs, arts and crafts fairs, and other organized events. These activities may include the use of tents, semi-trailers and other vehicles, temporary stands or kiosks, food service, entertainment, performers, or displays.

[Source: Ord. 1766, 2019; 1782, 2019]

Section 11-7-3. Definitions related to Oil and Gas Regulations.

All terms used in Section 11-3-6 that are defined in the Oil and Gas Conservation Act of the State of Colorado ("Act"), or in Oil and Gas Conservation Commission ("COGCC") regulations and are not otherwise defined in the regulations in this UDO, are defined as provided in the Act or in such regulations as of the effective date of this UDO.

All other words used in Section 11-3-6 are given their usual, customary and accepted meaning, and all words of a technical nature, or peculiar to the oil and gas industry, shall be given that meaning which is generally accepted in said oil and gas industry. When not clearly otherwise indicated by the context, the following words and phrases used in Section 11-3-6 have the meaning as described below.

Act
The Oil and Gas Conservation Act of the State of Colorado.

Alternative Location Analysis
A review of all locations that are legally accessible (based on current state and local government setback regulations) and are technically feasible to develop a proposed drilling and spacing unit. The review must also evaluate the compatibility of each location with adjacent land uses and whether the location would provide greater protection for public health, safety, welfare and the environment.

Applicant
The person making an application for an oil and gas permit on behalf of the Operator or Owner of a well.

Approved Plan
The totality of the material contained in the application for an oil and gas permit approved by the City Council following a public hearing or, in the case of an existing use site plan order, the totality of the materials contained in the application for an existing use site plan order approved administratively by the City.

Building Unit
A building or structure intended for human occupancy. A dwelling unit is equal to one building unit; every guest room in a hotel/motel is equal to one building unit; and every 5,000 square feet of building floor area in commercial facilities, and every 15,000 square feet of building floor area in warehouses, or other similar storage facilities, is equal to one building unit.

Commission or COGCC
The Oil and Gas Conservation Commission of the State of Colorado.

Completion
An oil well shall be considered complete when the first new oil is produced through wellhead equipment into lease tanks from the ultimate producing interval after the production string has been run. A gas well shall be considered completed when the well is capable of producing gas through wellhead equipment from the ultimate producing zone after the production string has been run. A dry hole shall be considered completed when all provisions of plugging are complied with as set out in the rules of the COGCC. Any well not previously defined as an oil or gas well shall be considered completed 90 days after reaching total depth. If approved by the Director, a well that requires extensive testing shall be considered completed when the drilling rig is released or six months after reaching total depth, whichever is later.

Day
A period of 24 consecutive hours.

Director
The Director of the Oil and Gas Conservation Commission of the State of Colorado.

Drill Pad Site
The areas which are directly disturbed during the drilling and subsequent operation of, or affected by, production facilities directly associated with one or more oil well, gas well or injection well(s).

Flow Lines
Those segments of pipe from the wellhead downstream through the production facilities ending at the gas metering equipment or the oil loading point.

Future School Facility
A school facility that is not yet built, but that the school or school governing body plans to build and use for students and staff within ten years of the date the school or school governing body receives a pre-application notice pursuant to Rule 305.a.(4). In order to be considered a future school facility, the following requirements must be satisfied:

° For public, non-chartered schools, the school governing body must affirm the nature, timing, and location of the future school facility in writing; or

° For charter schools, the school must have been approved by the appropriate school district or the State Charter School Institute, § 22-30.5-505, C.R.S., at the time it receives a pre-application notice pursuant to Rule 305.a.(4), and the school governing body must affirm the nature, timing, and location of the future school facility in writing; or

° For private schools, the school governing body must be registered with the Office of the Colorado Secretary of State at the time it receives a pre-application notice pursuant to Rule 305.a.(4), and must provide documentation proving its registration with the Office of the Colorado Secretary of State, its tax exempt status, and its submitted plans to the relevant local government building and planning office.

Gas Well
A producing well with natural gas as the primary commercial product. Most gas wells frequently produce some condensate (natural gas liquids such as propane and butane) and occasionally produce some water.

Gathering Line
A pipeline that transports gas from a current production facility to a transmission line or main.

High-Density Area Rules for Building Units
A high-density area shall be determined at the time the well is permitted on a well-by-well basis by calculating the number of occupied building units within the seventy-two-acre area defined by a 1,000 foot radius from the wellhead or production facility. If 36 or more actual or platted building units (as defined in the COGCC 100 Series rules) are within the 1,000 foot radius or 18 or more building units are within any semicircle of the 1,000 foot radius (i.e., an average density of one building unit per two acres), it shall be deemed a high-density area. If platted building units are used to determine the density, then 50 percent of said platted units shall have building units under construction or constructed.

Injection Well
Any hole drilled into the earth into which fluids are injected for the purposes of secondary recovery, storage or disposal pursuant to authorizations granted by the Commission.

Mineral Owner
Any person having title or right of ownership in subsurface oil, gas, or other hydrocarbon and/or, where context dictates, any leasehold interest therein.

Multiple Oil and Gas Operations Permit
A permit issued by the City if more than one well or production facility is being applied for and approved at the same time by the same applicant.

Multiwell Site
A common well pad from which multiple wells may be drilled to various bottomhole locations.

Oil and Gas Operations
Exploration for oil and gas, including the conduct of seismic operations and the drilling of test bores; the siting, drilling, deepening, recompletion, reworking or abandonment of an oil and gas well, underground injection well or gas storage well; production operations related to any such well, including the installation of flowlines and gathering systems; the generation, transportation, storage, treatment or disposal of exploration and production wastes; and any construction, site preparation or reclamation activities associated with such operations.

Operating Plan
A general description of a well site or a production site identifying the purpose, use, typical staffing, seasonal or periodic considerations, routine hours of operation, source of services/infrastructure and any other information related to the regular functioning of the facility. Operating Plan includes a Schedule of Operations -- estimated project schedules that may vary for all phases, including "construction phase" (including pipeline construction), "drilling phase," "completion phase" (broken down into activity-based components including flowback), and "production phase" (including estimated timelines for interim reclamation and landscaping).

Operator
The person designated by the owner or lessee of the mineral rights as the operator of oil and gas operations or a production facility and so identified in the Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission applications.

Person
Both the singular and plural and means a natural person, a corporation, association, guardian, partnership, receiver, trustee, administrator, executor and/or fiduciary, any other legal entity or representative of any kind.

Production Facilities
All storage, separation, treating, dehydration, artificial lift, power supply, compression, pumping, metering, monitoring, flow lines and other equipment directly associated with oil wells, gas wells or injection wells.

Production Site
The area containing production facilities, exclusive of gathering lines.

Reentering
Accessing an existing well bore for either the original or amended purpose, provided that such well has not been abandoned.

Separator
A cylindrical or spherical vessel used to separate oil, gas and water from the total fluid stream produced by a well. Separators can be either horizontal or vertical.

Surface Owner
Any person having the title or right of ownership in the surface estate of real property and/or, where context indicates, any leasehold interest therein.

Surface Use Agreement
Any agreement entered into between a mineral owner and a surface owner in order to conduct oil and gas operations.

Well
An oil well, gas well or injection well.

Well Site
The areas which are directly disturbed during the drilling and subsequent operation of, or affected by production facilities directly associated with, any oil well, gas well or injection well.

Wellhead
The mouth of the well at which oil and gas is produced, and any appurtenant above-ground facilities.

Wildlife and Natural Area Hall
Include, but not be limited to, floodplains and floodways; natural drainage and waterways; significant native trees and vegetation; wildlife travel corridors; special habitat features such as raptor nests, key nesting, breeding or feeding areas for birds; fox and coyote dens; prairie dog colonies more than 25 acres in size; remnant native prairie habitat; plains cottonwood galleries; natural or man-made lakes and ponds and any wetlands greater than one-quarter acre in size.

[Source: Ord. 1782, 2019; 1784, 2019]

Section 11-7-4. Definitions Related to Floodplain Regulations. The following definitions pertain to the Regulations to Minimize Flood Losses in Section 11-4-3.

100-Year Flood
A flood having a recurrence interval that has a one-percent chance of being equaled or exceeded during any given year (One-Percent-Annual-Chance Flood). The terms "one-hundred-year-flood" and "one percent chance flood" are synonymous with the term "100-Year Flood." The term does not imply that the flood will necessarily happen once every 100 years.

100-Year Floodplain
The area of land susceptible to being inundated as a result of the occurrence of a one-hundred-year flood.

500-Year Flood
A flood having a recurrence interval that has a 0.2-percent chance of being equaled or exceeded during any given year (0.2-percent-annual-chance flood). The term does not imply that the flood will necessarily happen once every 500 years.

500-Year Floodplain
The area of land susceptible to being inundated as a result of the occurrence of a 500-year flood.

Addition
Any activity that expands the enclosed footprint or increases the square footage of an existing structure.

Appeal
A request for a review by the Board of Adjustment of the floodplain administrator's interpretation of any provision of this Ordinance or a request for a variance.

Base Flood Elevation (BFE)
The elevation shown on a FEMA Flood Insurance Rate Map for zones AE, AH, A1-A30, AR, AR/A, AR/AE, AR/A1-A30, AR/AH, AR/AO, V1-V30, and VE that indicates the water surface elevation resulting from a flood that has a one percent chance of equaling or exceeding that level in any given year.

Basement
Any area of the building having its floor sub-grade (below ground level) on all sides.

Conditional Letter of Map Revision (CLOMR)
FEMA's comment on a proposed project, which does not revise an effective floodplain map, that would, upon construction, affect the hydrologic or hydraulic characteristics of a flooding source and thus result in the modification of the existing regulatory floodplain.

Critical Facility
A structure or related infrastructure, but not the land on which it is situated, as specified in the provisions for flood hazard reduction, that if flooded may result in significant hazards to public health and safety or interrupt essential services and operations for the community at any time before, during and after a flood.

Development
Any man-made change to improved or unimproved real estate, including but not limited to buildings or other structures, mining, dredging, filling, grading, paving, excavation, or drilling operations or storage of equipment, vehicles or materials located within the Area of Special Flood Hazard.

Development Permit
For the purposes of this ordinance only, an application to the floodplain administrator on forms supplied by the floodplain administrator, for permission to develop land and/or construct any structure within any area of special flood hazard.

DFIRM Database
A database (usually spreadsheets containing data and analyses that accompany DFIRMS). The FEMA mapping specifications and guidelines outline requirements for the development and maintenance of DFIRM databases.

Digital Flood Insurance Rate Map (DFIRM)
The FEMA Digital Floodplain Map. These digital maps serve as "regulatory floodplain maps" for insurance and floodplain management purposes.

Elevated Building
A non-basement building (I) built in the case of a building in zones A1-30, AE, A, A99, AO, AH, B, C, X, and D, to have the top of the elevated floor, above the ground level by means of pilings, columns (posts and piers), or shear walls parallel to the flow of the water; and (II) adequately anchored so as not to impair the structural integrity of the building during a flood of up to the magnitude of the base flood. In the case of zones A1-30, AE, A, A99, AO, AH, B, C, X, and D, "Elevated Building" also includes a building elevated by means of fill or solid foundation perimeter walls with openings sufficient to facilitate the unimpeded movement of flood waters.

FEMA
The Federal Emergency Management Agency, the agency responsible for administering the National Flood Insurance Program.

Flood or Flooding
A general and temporary condition of partial or complete inundation of normally dry land areas from:

the overflow of water from channels and reservoir spillways;

the unusual and rapid accumulation or runoff of surface waters from any source; or

mudslides or mudflows that occur from excess surface water that is combined with mud or other debris that is sufficiently fluid so as to flow over the surface of normally dry land areas (such as earth carried by a current of water and deposited along the path of the current).

Flood Insurance Rate Map (FIRM)
The official map on which the Federal Emergency Management Agency has delineated both the areas of special flood hazards and the risk premium zones applicable to the community.

Flood Insurance Study (FIS)
The official report entitled, the Flood Insurance Study for Adams County, Colorado and Incorporated Areas, dated January 20, 2016, with accompanying flood insurance rate maps and/or flood boundary floodway maps (FIRM and/or FBFM) in which the Federal Emergency Management Agency has provided flood profiles, the Floodway Map, and the water surface elevation of the base flood, and any subsequent additions, updates, revisions or modifications to said study.

Floodplain or Flood-Prone Area
Any land area susceptible to being inundated by water from any source (See definition of flooding).

Flood Profile
A graph of a longitudinal profile showing the relationship of the water surface elevation of a flood event to location along a stream or river.

Flood Proofing
A combination of structural and non-structural additions, provisions, changes, or adjustments to properties and structures subject to flooding primarily for the reduction or elimination of flood damage to properties, water and sanitary facilities, structures, and contents of buildings in a flood hazard area.

Floodway (Regulatory Floodway)
The channel of a river or other watercourse and the adjacent land areas that must be reserved in order to discharge the 100-year flood without cumulatively increasing the water surface elevation more than a designated height. The Colorado statewide standard for the designated height to be used for all newly studied reaches shall be one-half foot (six inches). Letters of map revision to existing floodway delineations may continue to use the floodway criteria in place at the time of the existing floodway delineation.

Floodway and Floodplain Zoning Administrator
The City Manager of the City of Northglenn or the City Manager's authorized representative.

Freeboard
The vertical distance in feet above a predicted water surface elevation intended to provide a margin of safety to compensate for unknown factors that could contribute to flood heights greater than the height calculated for a selected size flood such as debris blockage of bridge openings and the increased runoff due to urbanization of the watershed.

Highest Adjacent Grade
The highest natural elevation of the ground surface prior to construction next to the proposed walls of a structure.

Historic Structure
Any structure that is:

Listed individually in the National Register of Historic Places (a listing maintained by the Department of the Interior) or preliminarily determined by the Secretary of the Interior as meeting the requirements for individual listing on the National Register;

Certified or preliminarily determined by the Secretary of the Interior as contributing to the historical significance of a registered historic district or a district preliminarily determined by the Secretary to qualify as a registered historic district;

Individually listed on a state inventory of historic places in states with historic preservation programs which have been approved by the Secretary of the Interior; or

Individually listed on a local inventory of historic places in communities with historic preservation programs that have been certified either:

By an approved state program as determined by the Secretary of the Interior; or

Directly by the Secretary of the Interior in states without approved programs.

Letter of Map Revision (LOMR)
FEMA's official revision of an effective flood insurance rate map (FIRM), or flood boundary and floodway map (FBFM), or both. LOMRs are generally based on the implementation of physical measures that affect the hydrologic or hydraulic characteristics of a flooding source and thus result in the modification of the existing regulatory floodway, the effective base flood elevations (BFEs), or the special flood hazard area (SFHA).

Letter of Map Revision Based on Fill (LOMR-F)
FEMA's modification of the special flood hazard area (SFHA) shown on the flood insurance rate map (FIRM) based on the placement of fill outside the existing regulatory floodway.

Lowest Floor
The lowest floor of the lowest enclosed area (including basement). Any floor used for living purposes which includes working, storage, sleeping, cooking and eating, or recreation or any combination of uses for living purposes. This includes any floor that could be converted to such a use such as a basement or crawl space. The lowest floor is a determinate for the flood insurance premium for a building, home or business. An unfinished or flood resistant enclosure, usable solely for parking or vehicles, building access or storage in an area other than a basement area is not considered a building's lowest floor; provided that such enclosure is not built so as to render the structure in violation of the applicable non-elevation design requirements of Section 60.3 of the National Flood Insurance Program Regulations.

Manufactured Home
A structure, transportable in one or more sections, which is built on a permanent chassis and is designed for use with or without a permanent foundation when connected to the required utilities. This term also includes park trailers, travel trailers, and other similar vehicles placed on a site for greater than 180 consecutive days. The term "Manufactured Home" does not include a "Recreational Vehicle".

Manufactured Home Park or Subdivision
A parcel (or contiguous parcels) of land divided into two or more manufactured home lots for rent or sale.

Mean Sea Level
The National Geodetic Vertical Datum (NGVD) of 1929 or other datum, to which base flood elevations are referenced.

National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP)
FEMA's program of flood insurance coverage and floodplain management administered in conjunction with the Robert T. Stafford Relief and Emergency Assistance Act. The NFIP has applicable federal regulations promulgated in Title 44 of the Code of Federal Regulations. The U.S. Congress established the NFIP in 1968 with the passage of the National Flood Insurance Act of 1968.

New Construction
Structures for which the start of construction commenced on or after the effective date of this Ordinance, as amended.

No-Rise Certification
A record of the results of an engineering analysis conducted to determine whether a project will increase flood heights in a floodway. A no-rise certification must be supported by technical data and signed by a registered Colorado professional engineer. The supporting technical data should be based on the standard step-backwater computer model used to develop the 100-year floodway shown on the flood insurance rate map (FIRM) or flood boundary and floodway map (FBFM).

Obstruction
Sandbars formed by the natural flow of a watercourse, temporary structure, planks, snags, and debris in and along an existing channel which cause a flood hazard.

Physical Map Revisions (PMR)
FEMA's action whereby one or more map panels are physically revised and republished. A PMR is used to change flood risk zones, floodplain, and/or floodway delineations, flood elevations, and/or planimetric features.

Recreational Vehicle
A vehicle that is:

Historic Structure
Any structure that is:

Built on a single chassis;

400 square feet or less when measured at the largest horizontal projection;

Designed to be self-propelled or permanently towable by a light duty truck; and

Designed primarily not for use as a permanent dwelling but as temporary living quarters for recreational, camping, travel or seasonal use.

Special Flood Hazard Area
The land in the floodplain within a community subject to a one percent or greater chance of flooding in any given year, i.e., the 100-year floodplain.

Start of Construction
Includes substantial improvement and means the date the building permit was issued, provided the actual start of construction, repair, reconstruction, rehabilitation, addition, placement, or other improvement was within 180 days of the permit date. The actual start means either the first placement of permanent construction of a structure on a site, such as the pouring of slab or footings, the installation of piles, the construction of columns, or any work beyond the stage of excavation; or the placement of a manufactured home on a foundation. Permanent construction does not include land preparation, such as clearing, grading and filling; nor does it include the installation of streets and/or walkways; nor does it include excavation for basement, footings, piers or foundations or the erection of temporary forms; nor does it include the installation on the property of accessory structures, such as garages or sheds not occupied as dwelling units or not part of the main structure. For a substantial improvement, the actual start of construction means the first alteration of any wall, ceiling, floor, or other structural part of a building, whether or not that alteration affects the external dimensions of the building.

Structure
A walled and roofed building or manufactured home, or a gas or liquid storage tank that is principally above ground.

Substantial Damage
Damage of any origin sustained by a structure whereby the cost of restoring the structure to its before damaged condition would equal or exceed 50 percent of the market value of the structure before the damage occurred.

Substantial Improvement
Any repair, reconstruction, or improvement to a structure, the cost of which equals or exceeds 50 percent of the market value of the structure either:

Before the improvement or repair is started; or

If the structure has been damaged and is being restored, before the damage occurred.

This term does not, however, include any project for improvement of a structure to comply with existing state or local health, sanitary, or safety code specifications which are necessary to assure a safe living condition. Nor shall this term include any alteration of a structure listed on the National Register of Historic Places or a state inventory of historic places, provided that the alteration will not preclude the structure's continued designation of a "historic structure".

Threshold Planning Quantity (TPQ)
A quantity designated for each chemical on the list of extreme hazardous substances that triggers notification by facilities to the state that such facilities are subject to emergency planning requirements.

Violation
The failure of a structure or other development to be fully compliant with the community's floodplain management regulations. A structure or other development without the elevation certificate, other certifications, or other evidence of compliance required in Section 60.3(b)(5), (c)(4), (c)(10), (d)(3), (e)(2), (e)(4), or (e)(5) of the National Flood Insurance Regulations is presumed to be in violation until such time as that documentation is provided.

Water Surface Elevation
The height, in relation to the National Geodetic Vertical Datum (NGVD) of 1929 (or other datum, where specified), of floods of various magnitudes and frequencies in the floodplains of coastal or riverine areas.

[Source: Ord. 1766, 2019; 1782, 2019]

Section 11-7-5. Definitions Related to Sign Regulations. The definitions in this section apply to the sign regulations in Section 11-4-10, Signs.

Abandoned
Any sign and/or its supporting sign structure which remains without a message or whose display surface remains blank for a period of 90 days or more, or any sign which pertains to a time, event or purpose which no longer applies, shall be deemed to have been abandoned. Signs applicable to a business temporarily suspended because of a change in ownership or management of such business shall not be deemed abandoned unless the property remains vacant for a period of 90 days or more. Any sign remaining after demolition of a principal structure shall be deemed to be abandoned.

Abandonment
See abandoned.

Animated Sign
Any sign or part of a sign which changes physical position by any movement or which gives the illusion of such change of physical position.

Architectural Feature
Any construction attendant to, but not an integral part of, the sign, which may consist of landscape, building or structural forms on the site in general; also, graphic stripes and other architectural painting techniques applied to a structure, when the stripes or other painting techniques are applied to a building, provided that such treatment does not include lettering, logos or pictures.

Area of Sign
See sign area.

Awning
A roof-like cover, often of fabric, plastic, metal or glass designed and intended for protection from the weather or as a decorative embellishment, and which projects from a wall or roof of a structure primarily over a window, walk, or the like.

Awning Sign
A sign or graphic printed on or in some fashion attached directly to the awning material.

Banner
Any sign of lightweight fabric or similar material that is mounted to a pole or structure.

Building Directory Sign
A sign established to communicate to tenants their location within a building.

Building Façade
The total area of the horizontal and vertical dimensions of that side of a building which is adjacent to a dedicated street and architecturally finished to match the principal building façade, or which has a public entrance to the building and abuts a street, parking area, or other circulation area open to the general public. In shopping centers, any outside architecturally finished wall of a first-floor use shall be considered building facade.

Building Marker
Any sign cut into a masonry surface or made of bronze or other permanent material and which relates to its construction.

Canopy
A roof-like cover, often of fabric, plastic, metal, or glass on a support, which provides shelter.

Canopy Sign
Any sign, which is a part of or attached to an awning or canopy; or any other entrance, window, or outdoor service area. A canopy sign is not a marquee and is different from service area canopy signs.

Changeable Copy Sign
A sign or portion of a sign with characters, letters, or illustrations that can be changed or rearranged, by physical means, without altering the face or the surface of the sign.

Commercial
Predominantly related to economic interests or commerce.

Commercial Message
Any sign wording, logo, or other representation directly or indirectly, which advertises or directs attention to a business, product, service or other commercial activity.

Comprehensive Sign Plan (CSP)
Provides a means for the flexible application of sign regulations for developments that require multiple signs due to multiple tenants or lots; CSPs are used to provide incentive for latitude in the design and display of multiple signs.

Directional Sign
Any sign used to primarily communicate navigational information.

Display Area
The area or display surface used for the graphic message.

Duration
The time during which something exists or lasts.

Edge of Curb
Stone or concrete edging to a street defining the furthest extent of the improved roadway surface.

Election Season
Sixty days prior to and five days after any City regular or special election, any county or special district election or any state or federal primary or general election.

Electronic Message Center (EMC)
A sign capable of displaying words, symbols, figures, or images that can be periodically changed by manual, electronic, remote or automatic means.

Entrance or Exit Sign
A sign located at the driveway entrance or exit and intended to provide for safe ingress and egress.

Erect
The activity of constructing, building, raising, assembling, placing, affixing, attaching, creating, painting, drawing or any other way of bringing into being or establishing.

Exemptions
Signs do not require a sign permit, but still subject to regulations and maintenance requirements of Section 11-4-10, Signs.

Flag
Any fabric or similar lightweight material attached at one end of the material, usually to a staff or pole, so as to allow movement of the material by atmospheric changes and which contains distinctive colors, patterns, symbols, emblems, insignia, or other symbolic devices.

Flow Line
The transition between the gutter and the face of the curb within a public road right-of -way. Where no curb exists, the flow line will be considered the edge of the pavement or roadway of the outside traveled lane.

Freestanding Sign
Any sign which has supporting framework that is placed on, or anchored in, the ground and which is independent from any building or other structure.

Grade
The average elevation of the ground at the base of the sign after construction. Earth mounding criteria for landscaping and screening is part of the final grade for sign height computation.

Good Structural Condition
A qualification of the structural integrity of an existing sign. For this UDO, these definitions defer to the definition provided by the adopted International Building Code at the time of interpretation.

Height of Sign
The height of the sign shall be computed as the vertical distance measured from the base of the sign at grade to the top of the highest attached component of the sign.

High Wall Sign
Sign allowed on multiple-tenant buildings of three stories or greater and shall be located in the area between the bottom of the top floor and the top of the parapet wall.

Holiday Lights and Decorations
Displays, including lighting, which are a nonpermanent installation celebrating national, state, and local legal holidays or holiday seasons.

Illuminated Sign
Any sign which contains an element designed to emanate artificial light internally or externally.

Illumination
Direct: lighting by means of an unshielded light source which is effectively visible as a part of the sign. Neon lighting is considered direct lighting.

Indirect
Lighting which illuminates the front of a sign or the entire building façade upon which the sign is displayed, the source of the light being shielded from public view and from surrounding properties. Indirect illumination does not include lighting which is primarily used for purposes other than sign illumination, such as parking lot light.

Internal
Lighting by means of a light source which is within a sign having a translucent background and which silhouettes opaque letters or designs, or lighting within or behind letters or designs which are themselves made of translucent or opaque material.

Joint Identification Sign
A sign which serves as a common or collective identification. A joint identification sign is required if two (2) or more businesses share a building.

Lot
See parcel.

Maintenance
The replacing, repairing, or repainting of a portion of a sign or sign structure, and watering, weeding, mowing, trimming and similar activities on any landscaped area in which the sign is located.

Marquee
A rigid, roof-like structure attached to a wall or walls of a building or structure and supported entirely by the building or structure.

Marquee Sign

Monument Sign
A low-profile freestanding sign that is anchored to the ground, designed to generally complement the building on the premises, and which has a height not exceeding eight feet.

Multi-faced Sign
Any sign with more than one display area visible from any point at the same time.

Multiple-Tenant Building
Any building which is intended to have more than one tenant. A building which has multiple units, of one (1) or more of which are vacant, is still considered a multiple-tenant building.

Multiple Tenant Unit
A unit within a multiple-tenant building.

Non-Residential Use
Any principal use other than dwelling, such as office buildings, shopping centers, industrial, institutional, or hotel.

Nonconforming Sign
Any sign, the area, dimensions or location of which were lawful at the time the sign was erected, but which fails to conform to the current standards and regulations of this Ordinance due to adoption, revision or amendment.

Off-Premise Commercial Advertising Sign
Sign advertising a commercial establishment, merchandise, service, or entertainment, which is not sold, produced, manufactured, or furnished at the property on which the sign is located. These signs are commonly referred to as billboards.

Parcel
The area of land necessary for a use to be in compliance with this UDO. The term lot may also be referring to a parcel.

Pennant
Any lightweight plastic, fabric, or other material whether or not containing a message of any kind, suspended from a rope, wire, string or pole, usually in series, designed to move in the wind. See also wind blade.

Permanent Sign
Any sign with a structure that is permanently placed or affixed to a structure or in the ground.

Permitted
Sign which has received an approved sign permit.

Portable Sign
A sign that is not permanently attached to the ground or other permanent structure, or a sign designed to be transported on wheels, skids, a bench, runners, brackets, or has a frame to which wheels, skids, runners, brackets, or similar mechanical devices can be attached to or support the sign. A portable sign includes inflatable devices and mobile signs such as parked trailers, which include signs which are visible from the public right-of-way unless such vehicle is used in the normal day-to-day operations of the business. A portable sign also includes a sign displaying a commercial message held by, attached to, or affixed on an individual who is exhibiting such sign for the predominant purpose of conveying the commercial message on such sign. A portable sign shall not include a sign considered to be an A-frame or a sign displaying a noncommercial message held by, attached to, or affixed on an individual.

Prohibited Sign
Any sign not allowed by these standards and regulations.

Projecting Sign
Any sign affixed to a structure or wall in such a manner so that its leading edge extends more than eighteen (18) inches beyond the surface of such structure or wall. Signs affixed to the structure that extend less than eighteen (18) inches beyond the surface are considered to be wall signs.

Residential Use
Pertaining to an area that is primarily for family residences. A building used or suitable to be used as a dwelling, including ones that are being built or adapted to be used as a dwelling.

Right-Of-Way
Any public street, way, place, alley, sidewalk, trail, path, easement, park, square, median, parkway, boulevard or plaza that is dedicated to public use.

Roof Sign
Any sign painted, erected, or constructed wholly on and over the roof of a structure, supported by the roof structure, or extending vertically above the highest portion of the roof.

Search Light
Any light with one or more beams directed into the atmosphere or directed at one or more points not on the same lot as the light source; also, any light with one or more beams that rotate, flash, or move.

Sequential Messaging
A selection technique in which messages are recorded in a preset order and played back individually upon each activation of the device.

Setback of Sign
The required minimum distance between placement of a sign and the right-of-way.

Sight Distance
The length of roadway ahead visible to the driver.

Sign
An object or device or any part of such object or device situated outdoors or indoors which is used to advertise, identify, display, direct, or attract attention to an object, place, person, institution, organization, business, product, service, event, or location by any means, including words, letters, figures, designs, logos, fixtures, colors, motion, illumination, or projected images. If, for any reason, it cannot be readily determined whether or not an object is a sign, the Director of Planning and Development shall make such determination. Also known as an outdoor advertise sign device.

Sign Area
The entire sign face, including the advertise sign surface of any framing, trim, or molding, but not including the supporting structure. The sign area shall be measured using a regular geometric shape (rectangle, circle, trapezoid, triangle, etc.) or a combination of regular geometric shapes.

Sign Structure
Any supports, uprights, braces, or framework of the sign, excluding the sign face.

Single-Tenant Building
A building with one unit and/or is intended for one tenant without regard to vacancies.

Site
A lot or combination of contiguous lots which are intended, designated, and/or approved to function as an integrated unit.

Street Frontage
The area of a property or site that includes building facades facing a public street, a primary parking area, or containing public entrances to the building or units.

Temporary Display Structure
Any structure used only for display of retail sales items and does not require a building permit.

Temporary Sign
Any sign used only temporarily and is not permanently mounted.

Traffic Sign
An official sign erected, mounted, displayed, maintained or remodeled by the City, the State of the Federal Governments at the side of or above roads to provide information to road users.

Vehicle Sign
A sign that is mounted, placed, written or painted on a vehicle or trailer, whether motor driven or not.

Wall
Any structure which defines the exterior boundaries or courts of a building or structure and which has a slope of 60 degrees or greater with the horizontal plane.

Wall Sign
Any sign attached parallel to, but within 18 inches of a wall, painted on the wall surface of, or erected and confined within the limits of an outside wall of any structure, which is supported by such wall or structure, and which displays only one sign surface.

Weekend Sign
Small temporary signs allowed without a permit for a constrained period of time.

Wind Blades
A sign typically made from a piece of cloth, varying in size, shape, color, and design, usually attached at an edge to a staff or cord, and used as a means of conveying a message.

Window Sign
Any sign, picture, symbol, or combination of any sign, picture, or symbol, designed to communicate information about an activity, business, commodity, event, sale, or service that is placed inside a window or upon the windowpane or glass and is visible from the exterior of the window.

Work of Art
A hand produced work of visual art that is tiled or painted by hand directly upon, or affixed directly to an exterior wall of a building with the permission of the property owner.

[Source: Ord. 1766, 2019]

Section 11-7-6. Other Terms Defined.

A
Acreage, Gross
The total area contained within any defined set of boundaries.

Acreage, Net
Gross acreage less the area contained within dedicated public rights-of-way.

Administrative Adjustment
A development approval authorizing limited deviations from certain provisions of this UDO's dimensional or numerical development standards that is reviewed pursuant to Section 11-6-7(b).

Administrative Manual
A manual containing details regarding the development review process, information for potential applicants, and development review forms.

Alley
A street or way, other than a footpath, within a block set apart for public use, vehicular travel, and local convenience, primarily for the purpose of secondary vehicular access to the rear or side of lots.

Apartment
A room or suite of rooms used for living and sleeping purposes, including separate kitchen and bathroom facilities.

Appeal
A request for review of an administrative official's or decision-making body's interpretation or decision made under this UDO. For floodplain regulations in Section 11-4-3, "appeal" shall be defined pursuant to Section 11-7-4.

Applicant
A person who submits a development application requesting a development permit or approval authorized by this UDO. For Oil and Gas Regulations in Section 11-3-6, "applicant" shall be defined pursuant to Section 11-7-3.

Arterial Street
A street for the primary purpose of carrying through traffic but also for the secondary purpose of access to abutting lots. An arterial street is also a through street.

B
Basement
That portion of a building between the floor and ceiling which is partly above and partly below grade but so located that the vertical distance from grade to the floor below is more than the vertical distance from grade to the ceiling.

Building
Any permanent structure designed or intended for the support, enclosure, shelter, or protection of persons, animals, or property of any kind, having an enclosed space and a permanent roof supported by columns or walls.

Building Code
The adopted Building Code of the City of Northglenn pursuant to the Northglenn Municipal Code.

Building Coverage
All areas under roof or projections from buildings on a lot.

Building Envelope
The area within the setback lines required by this UDO where a building may be located on a site.

Building, Height of
The vertical distance measured from the average elevation of the finished grade (the mean elevation of the lowest and highest corners of a structure) to the highest point of the roof. See 11-2-19(e)(1).

Building Line, Front
A line parallel to the front lot line at the rear of the required front yard.

Building, Principal
That building in which the principal use is conducted including any attachments to that building such as a garage or carport. (A.K.A. "primary building.")

Building Permit
An official document or certification issued by the Chief Building Official pursuant to the Building Code and that authorizes the construction, alteration, enlargement, conversion, reconstruction, remodeling, rehabilitation, erection, demolition, moving, or repair of a building or structure as being in compliance with Building Code standards.

C
Centerline
A line painted or otherwise marked on a roadway for the purpose of separating traffic flowing in opposite directions. If no such line is painted or otherwise marked on a roadway, the centerline is a putative line an equal distance between the curb lines or lateral lines of a roadway.

Certificate of Occupancy
A document issued by the Chief Building Official pursuant to the Building Code that allows the occupancy and use of building(s) and structure(s) and certifying that said building(s) and structure(s) and use(s) have been constructed and will be used in compliance with all applicable municipal codes.

Change in Use
Any use that differs from the previous use of a building or land as determined by the table of allowed uses in Section 11-3-2.

City
The City of Northglenn, Colorado.

City Manager
The City Manager of the City of Northglenn, Colorado, or his/her designee.

Comprehensive Plan
The official Comprehensive Plan for the City of Northglenn, stating goals, recommendations, and policies used to guide physical development of the City, as formally adopted by the Planning Commission.

CONEX (intermodal or shipping container)
A CONEX box is a large shipping container built for intermodal freight transport. Such containers are mostly constructed from steel. In the UDO, CONEX boxes are in reference to their repurposing for other uses such as on-site storage, housing, or other structural uses.

Cul-de-Sac
A short, local street terminating in a vehicular turnaround.

D
Dead-End Street
A street, other than a cul-de-sac, having only one outlet for vehicular traffic.

Detached
Any structure or building having no party wall or common wall with another structure. Bridges, tunnels, breezeways, and other means of connecting one structure to another shall not constitute a party wall or common wall.

Density
A ratio of dwelling units to land area.

Detached
Any structure or building having no party wall or common wall with another structure. Bridges, tunnels, breezeways, and other similar means of connecting one structure or building to another shall not, for the purposes of this Ordinance, be considered to constitute a party wall or a common wall.

Developer
Any person, firm, partnership, joint venture, limited liability company, association, or corporation who participates as owner, promoter, developer, or sales agent in the planning, platting, development, promotion, sale, or lease of a subdivision or development.

Development
The construction of a building or structure, any clearing, grading, excavation, or other movement of land, or the subdivision of land unless expressly excluded in this UDO. For floodplain regulations in Section 11-4-3, "development" shall be defined pursuant to Section 11-7-4.

Development Review Committee
A committee consisting of representatives from various City departments, including Planning and Development, Public Works, Parks and Recreation, Water, and any other applicable City department. The Development Review Committee is responsible for review of most development applications as indicated in Article 6.

Diameter Breast Height
The diameter of a tree measured at four and one-half feet above the existing grade at the base of the tree.

Director
The Director of the Planning and Development Department, or his designee. For Oil and Gas Regulations in Section 11-3-6, "Director" shall be defined pursuant to Section 11-7-3.

Distinct Elevation
As it applies to building variety, distinct elevation means a different roof line, different wall planes, and use of different exterior finish materials.

Driveways
An area of pavement, or other approved surfacing designed and intended for driveways that provides vehicle access from a public right-of-way to a parking area, garage, or house.

Dwelling/Dwelling Unit
A structure or portion of a structure that provides living, sleeping, eating, cooking, and sanitation accommodations.

E
Easement
A grant by a property for use of land for designated private or public purposes by another agency.

F
Façade
The exterior wall on the front, side, or rear elevation of a building or structure.

Family
Either of the following shall be deemed "family" by definition:

An individual, or two or more persons related by blood, marriage, or adoption, excluding domestic servants, plus an additional two persons per dwelling unit, used as a single housekeeping unit.

A group of unrelated persons not to exceed two persons per bedroom plus an additional two persons per dwelling unit used as a single housekeeping unit.

Fence
A free-standing structure resting on or partially buried in the ground and rising above ground level used for confinement, screening, partition purposes, or enclosures.

Fence, Privacy
A continuous, solid fence used to prevent view across the fence line.

Floor Area
For residences, the floor area is the total number of square feet of floor space contained within the exterior walls of the structure, not including space in the basements, carports, or garages. For commercial buildings, the floor area is the total floor area of all stories of the building including garages, but excluding basements.

Flowline
The transition point between the gutter and the face of the curb. For a cross or valley pan, the flowline shall be the center of the plan. For Oil and Gas Regulations in Section 11-3-6, "flowline" shall be defined pursuant to Section 11-7-3.

Frontage
The length of the property line of any parcel along each street or other right-of-way that it borders and/or faces.

Full Cutoff Fixture
A light fixture that prevents distribution of light above a horizontal plane through the lowest point of the bulb or lens, diffuser, reflective passing enclosure, or other parts intended to distribute light.

G
Reserved

H
Hard Surfaced
Hard surfaced shall mean surfaced with asphalt, concrete, paving stone or surfaces as approved by the City Manager or his designees; provided however that asphalt shall not be used as a surface for single-family residential driveways or parking surfaces.

I
Impervious Coverage
Any surface on a lot that cannot effectively absorb or infiltrate rainfall as specified in Section 11-2-19(g)(2).

Improvements Agreement Guarantee
Any security which may be accepted by the City in lieu of a requirement that certain improvements be made by the subdivider before the plat is approved, including performance bonds, escrow agreements, and other similar collateral or surety agreements.

Intersection
The area embraced within the prolongation of the lateral curb lines or the lateral boundary lines of two or more streets which join one another at an angle whether or not one such street crosses the other. If a street includes two roadways 30 feet or more apart, then every crossing of each roadway of such divided street by an intersecting street shall be regarded as a separate intersection. If such intersecting street also includes two roadways 30 feet or more apart, then each crossing of two roadways of such streets shall be regarded as a separate intersection.

Island
Space within a street, indicated by construction, signs, paint, or other marks on the surface of a street so as to be plainly visible and prohibited for use by motor vehicle.

J
Reserved

K
Reserved

L
Landscaped Area
The area of a site devoted to and maintained for the growing of living plants, trees, ground covers, and in some cases nonliving material as allowed by this UDO.

Landscaping Screen
Plant materials used to create a visual barrier which are planted center-to-center no further apart than two-thirds of the mature spread; are no smaller than the minimum sizes allowed by the landscape regulations when planted; and are of a type or species approved by the Director of Community Development and normally expected to reach a minimum height of 6 feet within 3 years.

Legislative Rezoning
Broad-based changes to zoning district classifications applied to land by the Zoning Map in the nature of policy making by the City Council.

Loading or Unloading Space
An off-street space or berth on the site of a building or contiguous to a group of buildings for the temporary parking of a commercial vehicle while loading or unloading merchandise or materials.

Lot
A portion of a subdivision or other parcel or tract of land intended as a unit for the transfer of title and/or for development.

Lot Lines
The property lines bounding a lot.

Lot Line, Front
The line separating such lot from any street. In cases where two lot lines face streets, then the Commission shall designate the front lot line or may designate more than one front lot line.

Lot Line, Rear
Any boundary of a lot which abuts an alley. If there is no alley abutting the lot, then the rear line shall be the boundary opposite the front lot line if there is one front lot line. If the Commission designates the front lot line or lines, the Commission shall also designate the rear lot line or lines.

Lot Lines, Side
Any boundary of a lot which is neither a front lot line nor a rear lot line.

Lot Width
Lot width refers to the horizontal distance between side lot lines as measured at the front setback line.

M
Manufactured Home, HUD-Code
A pre-constructed building unit or combination of pre-constructed building units constructed on or after June 15, 1976, according to the rules of the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development, transportable in one or more sections, which, in the traveling mode, is eight body feet or more in width, or 40 body feet or more in length, or, when erected on site, is 400 or more square feet, and which 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, air conditioning and electrical systems. The term does not include a recreational vehicle or mobile homes.

Manufactured Home Space/Site
A plot of ground within a manufactured home park designed for the accommodation of one manufactured home, together with its accessory structures including carports and other off-street parking areas, storage lockers, ramadas, cabanas, patios, patio covers, awnings, and other appurtenances.

Mature Tree
A tree on the City's approved plant list with a diameter at breast height (dbh) of six inches or more.

Mature Spread
The distance measured across the widest diameter of a plant when it is fully grown.

Maximum Extent Practicable
Under the circumstances, reasonable efforts have been taken to comply with the requirement, the costs of compliance clearly outweigh the potential benefits to the public or would unreasonably burden the project, and reasonable steps have been taken to minimize adverse impacts resulting from noncompliance with the requirement.

Median
An area other than a centerline marked or constructed on a roadway or between two adjacent roadways for the purpose of separating traffic flowing in opposite directions.

Minor Subdivision
Any subdivision meeting the applicability standards in Section 11-6-6(a)(2).

Mobile Home
A structure that was constructed before June 15, 1976, transportable in one or more sections which, in the traveling mode, is eight body feet or more in width or 40 body feet or more in length or, when erected on site, is 400 or more square feet and which 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, air conditioning and electrical systems.

N
Nature Area
An area established primarily as a conservation district to preserve the environment and natural character of the landscape within the district. Land within the district shall be protected from development, but may also be used for unimproved trails, buffering between land uses, defining the edges of urbanization and the preservation of valuable natural features and ecosystems. Utilities and existing improvements located in a nature area may be maintained as necessary, but reasonable efforts should be used to minimize environmental impacts.

Negative Impact
Any adverse external effect, such as noise, glare, hazardous condition, visual intrusion, or physical intrusion.

Nonconforming Lot
A legally-established lot that does not comply with the minimum lot requirements or subdivision regulations of this UDO.

Nonconforming Site Feature
Any stormwater and drainage facility, driveway, off-street parking and loading, landscaped area, buffer, screening, or exterior lighting that legally existed before adoption of this UDO but does not comply with the driveway, off-street parking and loading, landscaped area, buffer, screening, or exterior lighting standards of this UDO.

Nonconforming Structure
A legally-established building or structure that does not comply with the area, height, or placement regulations of this UDO.

Nonconforming Use
A use that legally existed before adoption of this UDO, but does not comply with the terms of this UDO.

O
Off-Street Parking Space
The space required to park one passenger vehicle which space shall be not less than two hundred (200) square feet in area, exclusive of access drives.

P
Parking Area
An area, other than a street or alley, designed or used primarily for the temporary parking of vehicles.

Pervious Coverage
Any surface on a lot not defined as impervious coverage.

Planned Development
A development designed to accommodate varied types of development in patterns or layouts not otherwise permissible in other zoning districts of this UDO. Planned Developments are designed to provide additional amenities or benefits to the City in return for flexibility in the design, layout, and dimensions of the development.

Plat
A map delineating the subdivision of land, commonly showing lots, blocks, streets, and other features relevant to the development of land pursuant to this UDO.

Porch
A covered or uncovered structure projecting from any wall of a principal building and supported by piers, posts, or columns and typically unenclosed and open to the elements.

Primary Use
The primary purpose for which a lot or the main building on a lot is designed, arranged, or intended to be used.

Property Owner
The owner or titleholder of any fee, leasehold, or possessory interest in property subject to the requirements of this UDO, and shall include any agent, representative, person, or entity authorized to act on the owner's behalf.

Public Hearing
A formal meeting held under public notice, intended to inform and obtain public input.

Public Right-of-Way
That portion of land dedicated to public use for street and utility purposes.

Q
Quorum
The minimum number of board, commission, or council members that must be present at a meeting to conduct official business or take official actions.

R
Recreational Vehicle
See "Recreational Vehicle" in Section 11-7-4.

Redevelopment
Replacement of any existing primary building or expansion of any existing primary building in excess of 50 percent of the existing gross floor area or 10,000 square feet, whichever is less.

Reverse Frontage Lots
Lots which front on one public street and back on another. Also called "double frontage lots."

Rezoning
A change in the zoning district classification applied to land by the Zoning Map, reviewed and decided by the City Council under Section 11-6-4(a).

Rooming Unit
A room rented as sleeping and living quarters but without cooking facilities and with or without an individual bathroom. In a suite of rooms without cooking facilities, each room which provides sleeping accommodations shall be counted as one rooming unit for purposes of this Code.

S
Screen
A protective or ornamental device, fence, wall, hedge, or landscaping that shields an area from view or negative impacts.

Setback
The minimum distance that a building or structure must be located from a lot line, public right-of-way, or private street, as required by this UDO.

Site Plan
A plan drawn to scale showing uses and structures proposed for a lot.

Site Plan Approval
Approval procedures pursuant to Section 11-6-5(a).

Special Use Permit
A permit issued pursuant to Section 11-6-5(b) for uses designated in the Table of Allowed Uses (Table 3-2 A) as requiring special use permit approval.

Staff
Employees of the City of Northglenn.

Stoop
A small porch, typically with a small platform at the top of a staircase leading to the entry of a building.

Story
That portion of a building included between the upper surface of any floor and the upper surface of the floor next above, except that the topmost story shall be that portion of a building included between the upper surface of the topmost floor and the ceiling or roof above. If the finished floor level directly above a basement, cellar, or unused underfloor space is more than six feet above grade as defined herein for more than 50 percent of the total perimeter or is more than 12 feet above grade as defined herein at any point, such basement, cellar, or unused underfloor space shall be considered as a story.

Stop Work Order
An order issued by the Director that directs the person responsible for an activity in violation of this UDO to cease and desist such activity.

Street
A dedicated way for vehicular traffic, whether designated as a street, highway, thoroughfare, parkway, throughway, road, avenue, boulevard, lane, place, or otherwise designated.

Street, Front
A street on which the lots of a block or subdivision generally front. The Commission shall designate front streets.

Street, Side
A street intersecting a front street. The Commission shall designate side streets.

Street Improvements
Street grading, street surfacing and paving, curbs, gutters, and sidewalks.

Street Tree
Trees located in the public right-of-way between the edge of the street and the edge of private or common property, and trees located in street medians. Street trees can also be located on private property abutting the street right-of-way.

Structure
Anything constructed, erected, or placed with a more or less fixed location on the ground or attached or resting on something having a fixed location on the ground. For floodplain regulations in Section 11-4-3, "structure" shall be defined pursuant to Section 11-7-4.

Stub Street
A street or road extending from within a subdivision boundary and terminating there with no permanent vehicular turn around. Stub streets are provided to permit adjacent undeveloped parcels of land to be developed later with adjacent connecting street system.

Subdivider
Any person, partnership, joint venture, association, corporation, or legal representative capacity, or other legal entity or legal representative who shall participate in any manner in the dividing of land for the purpose, whether immediate or future, of sale or building development.

Subdivision
The division of a lot, tract, or parcel of land into two or more lots, plats, sites, or other divisions of land for the purpose, whether immediate or future, of sale or building development, whether residential, industrial, office, business, or other use. The term shall also include and refer to any division of land previously subdivided or platted but shall not include nor refer to a transaction or transactions which is or are exempt under the provisions of Section 11-6-6.

T
Temporary Use Permit
A permit issued pursuant to the provisions of Section 11-6-5(c) of this UDO.

Through Street
A street or portion of a street where vehicular traffic has the right-of-way and where vehicular traffic from intersecting streets by law must yield the right-of-way in obedience to either a stop sign or a yield sign.

U
Unimproved Street
Any street or portion of any street on which the street improvements have not been installed and constructed.

Use
The utilization of property as allowed by this UDO. Allowable uses for each zoning district are shown in Table 3-2 A: Table of Allowed Uses.

V
Variance
A development permit authorizing a deviation from the standards of this UDO where strict application of the standard creates a hardship due to circumstances particular to a lot and that is reviewed and decided by the Board of Adjustment pursuant to Section 11-6-7(a). For floodplain regulations in Section 11-4-3, "variance" shall be defined pursuant to Section 11-7-4.

Vision Triangle
The vision triangle (a.k.a. "sight triangle") is a triangle measured from the point of intersection of the flow lines, abutting the two points of access, a certain distance along each based on travel speeds of the adjacent roadway.

Vestibule
An enclosed exterior entryway into a building.

W
Width of Lot
The distance parallel to the front lot line measured between side lot lines through that part of the building or structure where the lot is narrowest.

X
Reserved

Y
Yard
An open space other than a court, on a lot, unoccupied and unobstructed from the ground upward, existing or required on the same lot with a principal building.

Yard, Front
A yard between the front building line and the front lot line of the site and extending the full width of the site.

Yard, Rear
A yard between the rear lot line of the site and the nearest point of the primary building, extending the full width of the site.

Yard, Side
A yard between side lot lines of the site and the nearest point of the primary building, extending from the front yard to the rear yard.

Z
Zoning District
A specifically delineated area within which uniform standards govern the use, placement, spacing, size, and form of land and buildings.

Zoning Map
The official zoning map as adopted by the City of Northglenn.

[Source: Ord. 1766, 2019; 1782, 2019]