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Utility Facility. A permanent structure or facility serving as a junction point for transferring a utility services product from transmission lines to local distribution and service lines, whether for electricity, natural gas, or domestic water supply. These uses include any of the following facilities that are not exempted from land use permit requirements by or facility serving as a junction point for transferring a utility services product from transmission lines to local distribution and service lines, whether for electricity, natural gas, or domestic water supply. These uses include any of the following facilities that are not exempted from land use permit requirements by 53091:

corporation and maintenance yards

public water system wells, treatment plants and storage

electrical substations and switching stations

wastewater treatment plants, settling ponds, and disposal

natural gas regulating and distribution facilities

fields

These uses do not include office or customer service centers, which are classified in "Offices"; or transmission, switching, distribution, or service facilities for telephone or other telecommunications services, which are instead classified in "Telecommunications Facilities."

Usable Open Space. Includes the aggregate area of side and rear yards, patios, and balconies and decks having a depth of not less than three (3) feet and area not less than 30 square feet, on a building site or building, which is available and accessible to the occupants of the building or building site for purposes of active and/or passive outdoor recreation. This area is exclusive of driveways, areas for off-street parking and services, and ground level areas with a width of less than five (5) feet or maximum dimension of under ten (10) feet. At least seventy-five (75%) percent of the usable open space shall have a slope of ten (10%) percent or less.

Use, Accessory. A use customarily incidental to, related and clearly subordinate to a primary use on the same parcel, which does not alter the primary use nor serve property other than the parcel where the primary use is located. See also "Primary Use."

Use, Conditional. A use of a site for which application for and approval of a Conditional Use Permit is required.

Use, Permitted. For the purpose of this ordinance, a permitted use in any district shall include any use listed as a Permitted Principal Use or Accessory Use.

Use, Primary. The main purpose for which a site is developed or occupied, including the activities that are conducted on the site a majority of the hours during which the activities occur.

Use, Temporary. A use of land that is designed operated and occupies a site for a limited period of time, typically less than 12 consecutive months.