YAVAPAI COUNTY PLANNING AND ZONING ORDINANCE
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USE (PRIVATE) - A use restricted to the occupants of a lot or building together with their guests,
where compensation is not received and where no commercial activity is associated with same.
USE (PROFESSIONAL) - The rendering of services of a professional nature by: members of the
professions licensed by competent authority; teachers in a school of general instruction; artists practicing
the fine arts; consultants recognized by organizations of licensed professions.
USE (PUBLIC) - A use (or building) located on public land to serve public benefits (but not necessarily
available to the public admission).
USE (RESIDENTIAL) - Shall be deemed to include single and multiple dwelling units, guestrooms,
rooming and boarding houses, fraternity and sorority houses, convents, homes for the aged and similar.
VEHICLE - The result of arranging materials and parts together for conveyance over roads (whether
or not self propelled). Such is not deemed a structure in qualifying for a building permit, but as being
accessory to the principal use on a lot (except in connection with vehicular rental or sales agencies and
mobile home courts).
VEHICLE (COMMERCIAL) – A vehicle utilized for financial gain in relationship to a business, non-
profit or other non-residential entity, regardless of the location of the entity.
VEHICLE (JUNK) – A vehicle that is in such a state of deterioration that it cannot be profitably
dismantled or salvaged for parts and cannot be profitably restored (from A.R.S. §28-4881).
VEHICLE (PRIVATELY OWNED) – A vehicle used for private purposes.
VEHICLE (RECREATIONAL) - Means a motor vehicle that is designed and customarily used for
private pleasure, including vehicles commonly called motor homes, pickup trucks with campers and
pickup trucks with a fifth wheel trailing device. (See also TRAILER (TRAVEL))
WALL – A barrier constructed of materials such as solid block, native stone and rock or wood stucco.
Barriers constructed with materials not designed for walls are not applicable to this definition.
WELL HOUSE – A building that may house equipment directly related to the operation of a well and
may be utilized to store the well pump, pressure tank, tractor and tools to maintain the same lot.
WIND TURBINE (HEIGHT) – The height of a wind turbine is measured from the average natural
grade to the tip of the rotor blade at its highest point.
WRECKING YARD - See YARD (WRECKING).
YARD - A required space of uniform width adjacent to the perimeter of a lot, the interior boundary of
which is measured as a minimum horizontal distance to the required setback of a principal structure
from a lot boundary; or from any future width line.
YARD (FRONT) - A yard abutting the front street.
YARD (JUNK) - An open-land area or portion thereof (exclusive of an area not exceeding the
provisions of Section 564 (Outside Storage)) used for storage, keeping, sale or abandonment of junk
(including scrap material, disabled vehicles or used vehicular parts).
YARD (REAR) - A yard abutting the rear lot line or alley.
YARD (SIDE) - A yard abutting a side street (exterior side yard) or a common side boundary (interior
side yard), lying between required front and rear yards.
YARD (WRECKING) - An open-land area used for dismantling or demolition of motor vehicles,
machinery, equipment or similar and usually the storage thereof.
ZONING AREA - The area within three hundred feet (300’) of the proposed amendment or change.