YAVAPAI COUNTY PLANNING AND ZONING ORDINANCE
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location (factory assembled) to be assembled on-site, and complies with current adopted Building Codes
(except that it does not include a multi-section manufactured home, manufactured home, park model,
recreational vehicle or mobile home).
BUILDING (PRINCIPAL) - A building or buildings in which is conducted the principal use of the lot
on which it is situated. In any residential district, any dwelling shall be deemed to be the principal
building of the lot on which the same is situated. Any commercial building with an adequate approved
sanitary sewage disposal system may be considered the principal building
BUILDING (SITE BUILT) - A building, all or a major portion of which was constructed on site.
BUILDING AREA - The total areas (taken on a horizontal plane at the mean grade level) of the
principal buildings and all accessory buildings and structures (exclusive of terraces and steps).
BUILDING FLOOR AREA - Sum of the floor areas of all stories of a building. This includes courts
and decks or porches when covered by a roof.
BUILDING HEIGHT - The vertical distance (measured from the average natural grade level) to the
average height of the highest roof surface. As provided for in Section 540, building height does not
apply to portions of buildings extending above the general roof line and comprising an aggregate area
not greater than twenty-five percent (25%) of the total roof area, or to structures other than buildings.
BUILDING PERMIT - Shall mean a permit required for the erection, construction, modification,
addition to or moving of any building, structure or use in the unincorporated areas of Yavapai County,
pursuant to building codes adopted by the Board of Supervisors.
BUILDING SEPARATION – The distance between two structures measured from the nearest two
points (i.e., eave to eave).
CARPORT - An open porch used solely for the parking of motor vehicles and containing no enclosing
walls, screen, lattice or other material other than the wall or walls of the building to which it attaches,
or other than a storage room (where the side adjoining the lot boundary does not exceed six feet (6’)).
CEMETERY - A burial ground for human remains.
COMMISSARY – A base of operations for all mobile food units, pushcarts and food peddlers selling
potentially hazardous foods.
COMMISSION - Planning and Zoning Commission of Yavapai County, Arizona.
COMMUNITY BUILDING - See BUILDING.
COMMUNITY GARDEN – A piece of property gardened by an individual/group of people to produce
flowers, fruits, orchards and/or vegetables for personal use, subject to performance criteria set out in
Section 512 (Community Garden).
CONTIGUOUS - In actual contact.
COURT - Any space (other than a yard) on the same lot with a building or group of buildings which is
unobstructed and open to the sky from and above the floor level of any room having a window or door
opening on such court. The width of a court shall be its least horizontal dimension.
CUSTOM - Pertaining to work, service or assembly done to order for individual customers for their
own use or convenience.
DEAD STORAGE - Goods not in use and not associated with any office, retail or other business use
on premise in a self-storage facility or structure.
DECK - An exterior floor system supported on at least two (2) opposing sides by an adjoining structure
and/or posts, piers, or other independent supports without a roof.