Mohave County Planning & Zoning Department Zoning Ordinance

Section 9 DEFINITIONS (continued)Airport: A licensed facility for commercial, military, and private aircraft may include repairs, services,storage facilities, and offices and buildings for administration and passenger convenience.Alley: Any public thoroughfare at least twenty (20) feet in width in residential areas and twenty-five(25) feet in width in commercial areas, for the use of pedestrians and/or vehicles which affords only asecondary means of access to property.Amendment: Shall mean a change in the wording, context or substance of this Ordinance, or anaddition, deletion, or change in the zone boundaries or classifications upon the Zoning Map.Animal Hospital: (see Veterinary Clinic.)Apartment: One or more rooms designed for, intended for, and/or occupied by individuals doingcooking therein.Area, Open: Land area on which there is no building or structure erected.ARS: Arizona Revised Statutes.Automobile and Trailer Sales Lot: Shall mean an open area used for the display, sales, or rental of newor used automobiles and trailer coaches, but where no repair, repainting or remodeling is done.Automobile Repair Shop: Facilities for the storage and mechanical repair of an automobile, but notinclude body and fender shops.Automobile Service Stations: Shall mean an occupancy which provides for the servicing of motorvehicles and operations incidental thereto, and does not include overhauling or body and fender repairsor such major repairs requiring the continuous storage of the vehicle on the premises.Automobile Wrecking (Auto Wrecking): (see Junk Yards.)Barrier: Anything that prevents passage or approach, an obstruction, as a fence, wall, etc.Berm: An earthen mound usually man made and in excess of two (2) feet in height used to shield orbuffer properties from adjoining uses, noise or highway visibility.Board: Mohave County Board of Supervisors.Boarding House: Shall mean a building or buildings containing central kitchen facilities where lodgingis provided for compensation with or without meals, but not to include rest homes.Borrow Pit: Shall mean any place or premises where dirt, soil, sand, gravel, or other materials areremoved by excavation or other means, below the grade of surrounding land, for any purpose otherthan that necessary and incidental to grading and/or building construction.- 6 -