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AUTO ORIENTED LAYOUT - Alternative layout standard for Single -Use Buildings and Retail/Office Buildings designed <br />and intended for occupancy by automotive service business using drive —thru bays, service bays, or a combination thereof. <br />Note - This is Building Template 15 for the Gateway District. <br />BASEMENT - That portion of a building that is partly or completely below ground level. <br />BASEMENT, LOOK OUT - A Look -Out basement has the walls extended sufficiently above ground level so that some of <br />the basement windows are completely above ground level. For purposes of this definition, the exposed windows must be at least <br />three (3') feet in height with the bottom of the window not less than one (1) foot above ground level before that basement shall <br />be considered a Look Out type. <br />BASEMENT, WALK OUT - A Walk Out basement (also known as a Daylight Basement) is used on a sloping lot where <br />typically the rear and/or one of the two sides are above grade and part of the basement is above ground level. Occupants can <br />walk out at that point without use of stairs, ramps, lifts and the like. <br />BASEMENT, WALK UP - A basement which has an exterior exit via a stairwell or ramp. Some designs cover the stairwell <br />with angled basement doors to prevent rainwater from accumulating in the stairwell. <br />BED AND BREAKFAST (B & B) - A residential building other than a motel or hotel where, for compensation and by <br />prearrangement for definite periods not more than one week, meals or lodgings are provided for three (3) or more persons, but <br />not to exceed eight (8) persons. <br />"Best Management Practices RBMPsj" means the most effective and practicable means of erosion prevention and sediment <br />control. and water quality management practices that are the most effective and practicable means of to control, prevent, <br />and minimize degradation of surface water, including avoidance of impacts, construction -phasing, minimizing the length of <br />time soil areas are exposed, prohibitions, pollution prevention through good housekeeping, and other management <br />practices published by state or designated area -wide planning agencies. <br />I <br />BIOENGINEERING -'fire use of live plantings in constructed features to stabilize streambanks and shorelines. <br />BLADE DIAMETER - The diameter of the circle created by the tips of the turbine blades when a WECS is in operation. <br />BOARDING HOUSE - A residential building other than a motel or hotel where, for compensation and by pre -arrangement <br />for definite periods not less than one week, meals or lodgings are provided for three (3) or more persons, but not to exceed <br />eight (8) persons. <br />BUILDABLE AREA - A contiguous area of real property within a lot deemed suitable by best engineering practices for <br />construction of a principal use structure with no part of said area of real property within delineated wetlands, rights -of -way, set- <br />backs, or easements. <br />BUILDING - Any structure having a roof which may provide shelter or enclosure of personas, animals or chattel, and when <br />said structures are divided by party walls without openings, each portion of such building so separated shall be deemed a separate <br />building. <br />BUILDING, COLLAR - Structures accompanying a commercial use with large parking requirements, intended to maintain <br />storefronts and entrances on the public street. <br />Note - This is Building Template 14b for the Gateway district. <br />Updated November 7, 2017 Appendix A' <br />Gem Lake Consolidated Land Use Ordinance Definitions <br />Page 2 <br />