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Adult-Oriented Businesses. An establishment that, as a regular and substantial course of conduct, offers, sells or distributes adult-oriented merchandise, or that offers to its patrons materials, products, merchandise, services, entertainment or performances that have sexual arousal, sexual gratification, and/or sexual stimulation as their dominant theme, or are distinguished or characterized by an emphasis on the depiction, simulation, or acting out of specified sexual activities or specified anatomical areas and are not customarily open to the general public because they exclude minors by virtue of their age. This classification includes, but is not limited to, adult arcades, adult bookstore, adult cabarets, adult hotel/motel, adult motion picture theater, adult retail use establishment, and adult theater. It does not include any establishment offering professional services conducted, operated, or supervised by medical practitioners, physical therapists, nurses, chiropractors, psychologists, social workers, marriage and family counselors, osteopaths, and persons holding licenses or certificates under applicable state law or accreditation from recognized programs when performing functions pursuant to the respective license or certificate.

Animal Care, Sales and Services. Retail sales and services related to the boarding, grooming, and care of household pets, including:

Animal Sales and Grooming. Retail sales of animals and/or services, including grooming, for animals on a commercial basis. Typical uses include dog bathing and clipping salons, pet grooming shops, and pet stores and shops. This classification excludes dog walking and similar pet care services not carried out at a fixed location, and excludes pet supply stores that do not sell animals or provide on-site animal services.

Kennels. A commercial, nonprofit, or governmental facility for keeping, boarding, training, breeding or maintaining four or more dogs, cats, or other household pets not owned by the kennel owner or operator on a 24-hour basis. This classification includes animal shelters and pet shops and animal hospitals that provide boarding-only services for animals not receiving services on the site but excludes the provision by shops and hospitals of 24-hour accommodation of animals receiving medical or grooming services on site. This classification also includes kennels that, in addition to 24-hour accommodation, provide pet care for periods of less than 24 hours but it does not include facilities that provide pet day care exclusively or predominantly.

Riding Schools and Stables. A stable is a place where horses are kept in individual box stalls or in groups in large rooms. The interior of a stable usually consists of two rows of box stalls, tie stalls, and large rooms along the outer walls and a central passage running lengthwise. A horse stable may also contain other facilities, such as a riding school, a feed room, a dressing room, a harness room, a staff area, watering place, and a room for animal care services. A riding school generally operates on the basis of hiring out horses or ponies on a pay-per-hour basis. Typically students go out together on a ride accompanied by a member of staff, and range from small establishments in converted farm buildings to much larger premises with purpose-built stables, indoor or outdoor schools and, sometimes, cross-country courses.

Small Animal Day Care Services. A commercial, nonprofit, or governmental facility for keeping four or more dogs, cats, or other household pets not owned by the kennel owner or operator primarily for periods of less than 24 hours.

Veterinary Services. Veterinary services for small and large animals including domestic and agricultural/farm animals. This classification allows 24-hour accommodation of animals receiving medical services but does not include kennels.

Automobile/Vehicle Sales and Services. Retail or wholesale businesses that sell, rent, and/or repair automobiles, boats, recreational vehicles, trucks, vans, trailers, and motorcycles, including the following:

Automobile Rental. Rental of automobiles. Typical uses include car rental agencies.

Automobile/Vehicle Service and Repair, Minor. The service and repair of automobiles, light-duty trucks, boats, and motorcycles, including the incidental sale, installation, and servicing of related equipment and parts. This classification includes the replacement of small automotive parts and liquids as an accessory use to a gasoline sales station or automotive accessories and supply store, as well as smog check, quick-service oil, tune-up and brake and muffler shops where repairs are made or service provided in enclosed bays and no vehicles are stored overnight. This classification excludes disassembly, removal or replacement of major components such as engines, drive trains, transmissions or axles, automotive body and fender work, vehicle painting or other operations that generate excessive noise, objectionable odors or hazardous materials, and towing services. It also excludes repair of heavy trucks, limousines or construction vehicles.

Automobile/Vehicle Repair, Major. Repair of automobiles, trucks, motorcycles, motor homes, boats and recreational vehicles, including the incidental sale, installation, and servicing of related equipment and parts. This classification includes auto repair shops, body and fender shops, transmission shops, wheel and brake shops, auto glass services, vehicle painting, tire sales and installation, and installation of car alarms, sound, telecommunications, and navigation systems, but excludes vehicle dismantling or salvaging and tire retreading or recapping.

Automobile/Vehicle Sales and Leasing. Sale or lease, retail or wholesale, of new or used automobiles, light trucks, motorcycles, motor homes, and trailers, together with associated minor repair services and parts sales for vehicles sold or leased by the dealership. (For auto repair as a primary use or repair of vehicles not sold on the premises, see Automobile/Vehicle Service and Repair, Minor.) This classification includes on-site facilities for maintaining an inventory of vehicles for sale or lease but excludes buildings and property on a separate site that are used for storing vehicles. Typical uses include automobile dealers and recreational vehicle sales agencies. This classification does not include automobile brokerage and other establishments that solely provide services of arranging, negotiating, assisting, or effectuating the purchase of automobiles for others.

Automobile/Vehicle Washing and Services. Washing, waxing, or cleaning of automobiles or similar light vehicles, including self-serve washing facilities that are the principal use of a building, structure, or site.

Service Station. Establishments primarily engaged in retailing automotive fuels or retailing these fuels in combination with activities, such as providing minor automobile/vehicle repair services; selling automotive oils, replacement parts, and accessories; and/or providing incidental food and retail services.

Towing and Impound. Establishments primarily engaged in towing light or heavy motor vehicles, both local and long distance. These establishments may provide incidental services, such as vehicle storage and emergency road repair services (for automobile dismantling, see Salvage and Wrecking). This classification includes lots used for storage of impounded vehicles.

Banks and Credit Unions. Financial institutions providing retail banking or check-cashing services. This classification includes only those institutions engaged in the on-site circulation of money, including credit unions, but excluding check-cashing businesses. For administration, headquarters, or other offices of banks and credit unions without retail banking services/on-site circulation of money, see Offices, Business and Professional.

Noninstitutional Banking. Establishments that, for compensation, engage in the business of cashing checks, warrants, drafts, money orders, or other commercial paper serving the same purpose. This classification also includes the business of deferred deposits, whereby the check casher refrains from depositing a personal check written by a customer until a specific date pursuant to a written agreement. Noninstitutional banking does not include state or federally chartered banks, savings associations, credit unions, or industrial loan companies.

Building Materials Sales and Services. Establishments whose primary activity is the sale of equipment to individuals and business, and whose activities may include storage and delivery of items to customers. This classification includes lumberyards, tool and equipment sales or rental establishments, and includes establishments devoted principally to taxable retail sales to individuals for their own use but may include wholesale of building materials and goods. This definition does not include plant nurseries (see Nurseries and Garden Centers).

Business Services. Establishments providing goods and services to other businesses on a fee or contract basis, including printing and copying, blueprint services, mailbox services, equipment rental and leasing, office security, custodial services, film processing, model building, and taxi or delivery services with two or fewer fleet vehicles on site (for three or more fleet vehicles, see Light Fleet-Based Services).

Commercial Entertainment and Recreation. Provision of participant or spectator entertainment to the general public. This classification may include restaurants, snack bars, and other incidental food and beverage services to patrons.

Banquet and Conference Centers. Facilities designed and used for conventions, conferences, seminars, trade shows, product displays, and other events in which groups gather to promote and share common interests. Convention centers typically have at least one auditorium and may also contain concert halls, lecture halls, meeting rooms, and conference rooms, as well as accessory uses such as facilities for food preparation and serving and administrative offices.

Large-Scale Facility. This classification includes large outdoor facilities such as amusement and theme parks, resorts, sports stadiums and arenas, racetracks, amphitheaters, multiplex movie theaters, drive-in theaters, and driving ranges. It also includes indoor and outdoor facilities with more than 5,000 square feet in building area such as fitness centers, gymnasiums, handball, racquetball, or large tennis club facilities; ice or roller skating rinks; swimming or wave pools; miniature golf courses; bowling alleys; and archery or indoor shooting ranges.

Small-Scale Facility. This classification includes small, generally indoor facilities that occupy less than 5,000 square feet of building area, such as health clubs and amusement arcades.

Theaters. Facilities designed and used for live entertainment which contain a permanent stage upon which movable scenery and theatrical appliances are used and where regular theatrical performances are given. Includes stand-alone movie theaters (cinemas) not located in a shopping center.

Golf Courses. An open-air golfing facility having not less than 30 acres and nine holes. It may include an accessory pro shop, clubhouse, restaurants and lounges.

Club or Lodge. Facilities serving food, meals and alcoholic beverages to members and their guests.

Commercial Kitchen. Kitchens used for the preparation of food to be delivered and consumed off site. Typical uses include catering facilities. This classification does not include businesses involved in the processing or manufacturing of food products (see Industry, Limited).

Eating and Drinking Establishments. Businesses primarily engaged in serving prepared food and/or beverages for consumption on or off the premises.

Bars and Lounges. Businesses serving beverages for consumption on the premises as a primary use and including on-sale service of alcohol, including beer, wine, and mixed drinks.

Restaurant, Full-Service. Restaurants providing food and beverage services to patrons who order and are served while seated and pay after eating. Takeout service may also be provided. This classification includes microbreweries and brew pubs which are primarily intended as eating and drinking facilities.

Restaurant, Limited-Service. Establishments where food and beverages may be consumed on the premises, taken out, or delivered, but where limited table service is provided. This classification includes cafes, cafeterias, coffee shops, delicatessens, fast-food restaurants, sandwich shops, limited-service pizza parlors, self-service restaurants, and snack bars with indoor or outdoor seating for customers. This classification includes bakeries that have tables for on-site consumption of products. It excludes catering services that do not sell food or beverages for on-site consumption (see Commercial Kitchen).

Restaurant, Take-Out Only. Restaurants where food and beverages are prepared on a customer-demand basis and may be taken out or delivered, but are not consumed on the premises. No seating or other facilities for on-premises dining are provided.

Food and Beverage Sales. Retail sales of food and beverages for off-site preparation and consumption. Typical uses include food markets, groceries, and liquor stores.

Convenience Market. Retail establishments that sell a limited line of groceries, prepackaged food items, tobacco, magazines, and other household goods, primarily for off-premises consumption. These establishments typically have long or late hours of operation and occupy a relatively small building. This classification includes small retail stores located on the same lot as or operated in conjunction with a service station.

General Market. Retail food markets of food and grocery items for off-site preparation and may have on-site consumption of food and beverages with required licenses.

Liquor Store. Establishments primarily engaged in selling packaged alcoholic beverages such as ale, beer, wine and liquor.

Specialty Food Sales and Facilities. Retail establishments that process and prepare food on site and are small to medium scale in size. Typical uses include bakeries; butchers, candy, nuts and confectionery stores; cheese stores, and pasta shops.

Funeral Parlors and Mortuaries. An establishment primarily engaged in the provision of services involving the care, preparation, or disposition of human remains and conducting memorial services. Typical uses include a crematory, columbarium, mausoleum, or mortuary.

Instructional Services. Establishments that offer specialized programs in personal growth and development. Typical uses include classes or instruction in music, fitness, art, or academics. Instructional services may include rehearsal studios as an accessory use.

Light Fleet-Based Services. Passenger transportation services, local delivery services, medical transport, and other businesses that rely on fleets of three or more vehicles with rated capacities less than 10,000 pounds. This classification includes parking, dispatching, and offices for taxicab and limousine operations, ambulance services, nonemergency medical transport, local messenger and document delivery services, home cleaning services, and similar businesses. This classification does not include towing operations (see Automobile/Vehicle Sales and Service, Towing and Impound) or taxi or delivery services with two or fewer fleet vehicles on site (see Business Services).

Live/Work. A unit that combines a work space and incidental residential occupancy occupied and used by a single household in a structure that has been constructed for such use or converted from commercial or industrial use and structurally modified to accommodate residential occupancy and work activity.

Lodging. An establishment providing overnight accommodations to transient patrons who maintain a permanent place of residence elsewhere for payment for periods of less than 30 consecutive calendar days.

Bed and Breakfast. A residential structure that is in residential use by the property owner or manager and within which up to four bedrooms are rented for overnight lodging and where meals may be provided.

Guest Ranch. A building or group of buildings containing two or more guest rooms, other than a bed and breakfast, boarding house, hotel or motel, and including outdoor recreational facilities such as but not limited to horseback riding, swimming, tennis courts, shuffleboard courts, barbecue and picnic facilities, and dining facilities intended primarily for use by the guests of the guest ranch but not including bars and restaurants which cater primarily to other than guests of the guest ranch.

Hotels and Motels. An establishment providing overnight lodging to transient patrons. These establishments may provide additional services, such as conference and meeting rooms, restaurants, bars, or recreation facilities available to guests or to the general public. This use classification includes motor lodges, motels, extended-stay hotels, hostels, and tourist courts, but does not include rooming houses, boarding houses, or private residential clubs, or bed and breakfast establishments within a single-unit residence.

Large-Scale Resorts. Large parcels of land not less than five acres open to the general public and providing a particular, unique, recreational or other tourism resource, be it a natural, cultural or historic site, seasonal occurrence or manmade attraction, or special quality of place. It includes resorts for day visitors as well as those providing overnight accommodation. It may include dwelling units for short-term rental in one or more permanent buildings utilized principally for the accommodation of the public for recreation.

Maintenance and Repair Services. Establishments engaged in the maintenance or repair of office machines, household appliances, furniture, and similar items. This classification excludes maintenance and repair of motor vehicles or boats (see Automotive/Vehicle Sales and Services) and personal apparel (see Personal Services).

Medical Marijuana Uses.

Dispensary. A nonprofit entity, defined in A.R.S. § 36-2801(11), that acquires, possesses, sells, distributes, transmits, gives, dispenses, or otherwise provides medical marijuana to qualifying patients.

Cultivation. The process by which a person grows a marijuana plant. A facility shall mean a building, structure, or premises used for the cultivation or storage of medical marijuana that is physically separate and off site from a medical marijuana dispensary.

Mobile Merchant. Person who sells any type of tangible personal property, including, but not limited to, food and drink, at or adjacent to the person’s mobile sales unit in which such tangible personal property is carried. This definition shall not include any person working or acting for a person holding a mobile merchant permit issued in accordance with this section.

Nurseries and Garden Centers. Establishments primarily engaged in retailing nursery and garden products, such as trees, shrubs, plants, seeds, bulbs, and sod, that are predominantly grown elsewhere. These establishments may sell a limited amount of a product they grow themselves. Fertilizer and soil products are stored and sold in packaged form only.

Offices. Offices of firms, organizations, or public agencies providing professional, executive, management, administrative or design services, such as accounting, architectural, computer software design, engineering, graphic design, interior design, investment, insurance, and legal offices, excluding banks and savings and loan associations with retail banking services (see Banks and Financial Institutions). This classification also includes offices where medical and dental services are provided by physicians, dentists, chiropractors, acupuncturists, optometrists, and similar medical professionals, including medical/dental laboratories within medical office buildings but excluding clinics or independent research laboratory facilities (see Research and Development) and hospitals.

Business and Professional. Offices of firms, organizations, or agencies providing professional, executive, management, administrative, financial, accounting, or legal services, but excluding those that primarily provide direct services to patrons that visit the office (see Offices, Walk-In Clientele).

Medical and Dental. Offices providing consultation, diagnosis, therapeutic, preventive, or corrective personal treatment services by doctors, dentists, and optometrists; medical and dental laboratories that see patients; and similar practitioners of medical and healing arts for humans licensed for such practice by the state of Arizona. Incidental medical and/or dental research within the office is considered part of the office use if it supports the on-site patient services.

Walk-In Clientele. Offices providing direct services to patrons or clients that may or may not require appointments. This use classification includes employment agencies, insurance agent offices, real estate offices, travel agencies, utility company offices, and offices for elected officials. It does not include banks or check-cashing facilities, which are separately classified and regulated (see Banks and Financial Institutions).

Off-Track Betting Establishment. A wagering facility which simulcasts horse, harness or dog racing events for the purpose of pari-mutuel wagering. It may be operated as an accessory use to an eating and drinking establishment. An off-track betting establishment is authorized by issuance of a teletrack wagering permit in accordance with A.R.S. § 5-112 and Arizona Administrative Code Title 19, Chapter 2, Article 4.

Outdoor, Temporary, and Seasonal Sales. An outdoor place, in an approved location, or for an approved activity, where new or used goods or secondhand personal property is offered for sale or exchange to the general public by a multitude of individual licensed vendors, usually in compartmentalized spaces. The term is interchangeable with and applicable to swap meets, flea markets, auctions, open air markets, outdoor sales activities, or other similarly named or labeled activities.

Parking Facility. Surface lots and structures for long- or short-term automobile parking that can be for the use of occupants, employees, or patrons on the subject site or offering parking to the public for a fee when such use is not incidental to another on-site activity. They can be publicly or privately owned.

Personal Services.

General Personal Services. Provision of recurrently needed services of a personal nature. This classification includes barber shops and beauty salons, day spas, palm readers, seamstresses, tailors, dry cleaning agents (excluding large-scale bulk cleaning plants), shoe repair shops, self-service laundries, video rental stores, photocopying and photo-finishing services, and travel agencies mainly intended for the consumer.

Restricted Personal Service. An establishment whose principal business activity is one or more of the following: (1) providing massage or massage services; (2) using ink or other substances that result in the permanent coloration of the skin through the use of needles or other instruments designed to contact or puncture the skin; or (3) creation of an opening in the body of a person for the purpose of inserting jewelry or other decoration.

Retail Sales.

General Retail Sales, Small-Scale. The retail sale or rental of merchandise not specifically listed under another use classification. This classification includes retail establishments with 25,000 square feet or less of sales area, including department stores, clothing stores, furniture stores, pet supply stores, small hardware stores, and businesses retailing goods including but not limited to the following: toys, hobby materials, handcrafted items, jewelry, cameras, photographic supplies and services (including portraiture and retail photo processing), medical supplies and equipment, pharmacies, electronic equipment, sporting goods, kitchen utensils, hardware, appliances, antiques, art galleries, art supplies and services, paint and wallpaper, carpeting and floor covering, office supplies, bicycles, video rental, and new automotive parts and accessories (excluding vehicle service and installation). Retail sales may be combined with other services such as office machine, computer, electronics, and similar small-item repairs.

General Retail Sales, Large-Scale. Retail establishments with over 25,000 square feet of sales area that sell merchandise and bulk goods for individual consumption, including membership warehouse clubs, where sales of grocery items do not occupy more than 25 percent of the floor area.

Tobacco-Oriented Retailer. An establishment where the primary component is in the sale and/or display of tobacco related products, including, but not limited to: cigarettes, electronic cigarettes and vapor products (vaping), chewing and dipping tobacco, cigarette papers, or any other instrument or paraphernalia for the smoking or ingestion of tobacco and products prepared from tobacco. This includes uses such as, but not limited to, a cigar store, head shop, vapor store or hookah lounge. This shall not include any establishment where such products listed here occupy less than five percent of the business floor area. [Res. 21-09; Ord. 21-05 § 2; Res. 18-20; Ord. 18-05 § 1; Res. 14-36 Art. 601; Ord. 14-12 § 1.]