City of Raymore, MO Chapter 485 Definitions

§ 485.010 General Definitions.

[Amendment 22 – Ordinance 2015-068, 9-14-2015]

For the purpose of the Unified Development Code, certain terms or words used herein are defined as follows, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise.

Term	Definition
100-Year Flood	See “base flood.”
Accessory Building	A building that is subordinate in area, extent and purpose to the principal building and use on a lot and that is customarily used for a permitted accessory use.
Accessory Structure	See “appurtenant structure.”
Accessory Use	A use that is subordinate in area, extent and purpose to the principal use on a lot and that is customarily found in conjunction with a permitted principal use.
Accessory Utility Facility	Facilities including pedestals, boxes, vaults, or cabinets used for the transmission or distribution of utility services to a local area, including any associated equipment or appurtenances such as condensing units or generators. Towers, poles, mailboxes, and traffic signal controllers shall not be considered accessory utility facilities, nor shall substations or other utility facilities that require a conditional use permit.
Actuarial Rates	See “risk premium rates.”

Adult Business	1.	That has as a substantial or significant purpose the sale or rental of merchandise that is intended for use in connection with specified sexual activities or that emphasizes matters depicting, describing or relating to specified sexual activities or specified anatomical areas; or
	2.	That has as one (1) of its regular and substantial business purposes:
		a.	The providing of entertainment where the emphasis is on performances, live or otherwise, that depict, portray, exhibit or display specified anatomical areas or specified sexual activities; or
		b.	The providing of services that are intended to provide sexual arousl or excitement or that allow observation of specified sexual activities or specified anatomical areas ancillary to other pursuits or allow participation in specified sexual activities ancillary to other pursuits; or
	3.	That is "self designated" as an adult business, whether through the use of signage or other business activities.
	4.	The definition of adult business also includes but is not limited to any and all of the following specific adult businesses, as defined herein:
		a.	Business Offering Merchandise for Sale or Rent:
			(1)	Adult Media Outlet:
				A business engaging in the sale or rental of merchandise where a substantial or significant portion of the business is devoted to the sale or rental of adult media. The presumption that a substantial or significant portion of a business is devoted to the sale or rental of adult media, based upon the above guidelines, shall be rebuttable. For purposes of this section, “substantial or significant” portion of a business is devoted to the sale or rental of adult media if any one (1) or more of the following criteria are satisfied:
				(a)	Forty percent (40%) or more of the sales (including rentals) is derived from adult media;
				(b)	Forty percent (40%) or more of the number of transactions, measured over any consecutive ninety-day period, relate to adult media;
				(c)	Forty percent (40%) or more of the dollar value of all merchandise displayed at any time is attributable to adult media;
				(d)	Forty percent (40%) or more of the inventory consists of adult media at any time;
				(e)	Forty percent (40%) or more of the merchandise displayed for sale or rental consists of adult media at any time; or
				(f)	Forty percent (40%) or more of the sales floor area of the business (not including storerooms, stock areas, bathrooms, or any portion of the business not open to the public) is devoted to adult media at any time.
			(2)	Adult Newsrack:
				Any coin-or card-operated device that offers for sale by dispensing printed material which is distinguished or characterized by its emphasis on matter depicting, describing or relating to specified sexual activities or specified anatomical areas.
			(3)	Adult Retail Establishment:
				A business that displays or offers goods for sale or rent and that meets any of the following tests:
				(a)	It displays or offers for sale or rent items from any two (2) of the following categories: sexually-oriented toys or novelties; clothing that graphically depicts specified anatomical areas; leather goods designed or marketed for use for sexual bondage or sadomasochistic practices; and the combination of items constitutes ten percent (10%) or more of:
					i.	The sales (including rentals) measured in dollars over any consecutive ninety-day period; or
					ii.	The number of sales transactions, measured over any ninety-day period; or
					iii.	The dollar value of all merchandise displayed at any time; or
					iv.	All inventory at any time; or
					v.	The merchandise displayed for sale at any time; or
					vi.	The sales floor area of the business (not including storerooms, stock areas, bathrooms or any portion of the business not open to the public);
				(b)	Five percent (5%) or more of the sales (including rentals), measured in dollars over any consecutive ninety-day period is derived from sexually oriented toys or novelties; or
				(c)	Five percent (5%) or more of the number of sales transactions, measured over any consecutive ninety-day period, relate to sexually-oriented toys or novelties; or
				(d)	Five percent (5%) or more of the dollar value of all merchandise displayed at any time is attributable to sexually-oriented toys or novelties; or
				(e)	Five percent (5%) or more of all inventory consists of sexually-oriented toys or novelties at any time; or
				(f)	Five percent (5%) or more of the sales floor area of the business (not including storerooms, stock areas, bathrooms, or any portion of the business not open to the public) is devoted to sexually-oriented toys or novelties at any time.
		b.	Businesses that Provide Entertainment:
			(1)	Adult Entertainment Business:
				Any business to which the public, patrons or members are invited or admitted, which provides adult entertainment, as defined herein, as a regular and substantial portion of its business. The definition of adult entertainment business also includes, but is not limited to, the following specific adult entertainment businesses:
				(a)	Adult Motion Picture Theater:
					An establishment with a screen or projection areas, where a regular and substantial portion of its business is the exhibition to patrons of films, video tapes or motion pictures which:
					i.	Are intended to provide sexual arousal or sexual excitement to the patrons and
					ii.	Are distinguished by or characterized by an emphasis on matter depicting, describing or relating to specified sexual activities or specified anatomical areas.
				(b)	Adult Theater:
					An establishment where a regular and substantial portion of its business is providing live performance of activities relating to specified sexual activities or exhibition of specified anatomical areas of live performers, for observation by patrons.
				(c)	Adult Entertainment Cabaret:
					An establishment where a regular and substantial portion of its business is providing adult entertainment which features strippers, male or female impersonators or live performances; or material which depict, portray, exhibit, or display specified anatomical areas or specified sexual activities or are intended to arouse or excite the sexual desires of the entertainer, other entertainer or patron.
				(d)	Adult Entertainment Studio:
					The term “adult entertainment studio” also includes the terms “rap studio,” “exotic dance studio,” “sensitivity studio” or “encounter studio.” This is an establishment whose premises are physically arranged so as to provide booths, cubicles, rooms, compartments or stalls separate from the common areas of the premises, and where a regular and substantial portion of its business is providing entertainment which features materials or live performances characterized by an emphasis on or features materials relating to specified sexual activities or the exhibition of specified anatomical areas.
				(e)	Adult Encounter Parlor:
					An establishment where a regular and substantial portion of its business is the provision of premises where patrons congregate, associate, or consort with employees, performers, and/or other patrons or private contractors who display specified anatomical areas in the presence of such patrons, with the intent of providing sexual arousal or excitement to such patrons.
				(f)	Body Painting Studio:
					An establishment where a regular or substantial portion of its business is the application of paint or other substance to or on the human body by any means of application, technique or process when the subject’s body displays specified anatomical areas for the patron’s view.
		c.	Businesses that Provide Services:
			(1)	Bath House:
				An enterprise where a regular and substantial portion of its business is offering baths and/or showers with other persons present who are nude or displaying specified anatomical areas.
			(2)	Adult Motel:
				An enterprise where a regular and substantial portion of its business is offering public accommodations, containing more than one hundred fifty (150) square feet of gross floor area, for the purpose of viewing motion pictures or viewing publications which are distinguished by an emphasis on the depiction or description of specified sexual activities or specified anatomical areas by any photographic, electronic, magnetic tape, digital or other medium (including but not limited to film, video, magnetic tape, laser disc, CD-ROM, books, magazines or periodical) for observation by patrons therein and which rents room accommodations for less than six (6) hours at a time.

Adult Entertainment	Any exhibition, performance, display or dance of any type, including, but not limited to, talking, singing, reading, listening, posing, serving food or beverages, soliciting for the sale of food, beverages or entertainment, pantomiming, modeling, removal of clothing, or any service offered on a premises where such exhibition, performance, display or dance is intended to arouse or excite the sexual desires of the entertainer, other entertainers or patrons, or if the entertainment depicts, portrays, exhibits or displays specified anatomical areas or specified sexual activities.
Adult Media	Books, magazines, periodicals, other printed matter, pictures, slides, records, audiotapes, videotapes, compact discs, motion pictures, films, CD-ROMs or other devices used to record computer images, or other media which are distinguished or characterized by an emphasis on matters depicting, describing or relating to specified sexual activities or specified anatomical areas.
Adult Video Viewing Booth	Any booth, cubicle, stall or compartment which is designed, constructed or used to hold or seat patrons and is used for presenting or viewing motion pictures or viewing publications which are distinguished or characterized by an emphasis on the depiction of specified sexual activities or specified anatomical areas by any photographic, electronic, magnetic tape, digital or other medium (including, but not limited to, film, video, magnetic tape, laser disc, CD-ROM, books, magazines or periodicals) for observation by patrons therein. Adult video viewing booths are sometimes referred to as “peep shows,” “adult video arcades,” “panorams” and “adult mini-motion picture theaters.” An adult video viewing booth shall not mean a theater, movie house, playhouse or a room or enclosure or a portion thereof which contains more than one hundred fifty (150) square feet of gross floor area.
Agency	For the purposes of Chapter 460, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA).
Agricultural Commodities	For the purposes of Chapter 460, agricultural products and livestock.
Agricultural Structure	For the purposes of Chapter 460, any structure used exclusively in connection with the production, harvesting, storage, drying or raising of agricultural commodities.
Alley	A public or private right-of-way, other than a street, that provides a secondary means of access to abutting property.
Alteration	Any change in the supporting members of a structure, such as bearing walls or partitions, columns, beams or girders, or any complete rebuilding of the roof or the exterior walls. For the purpose of this Code, the following will not be considered a structural alteration: 1. Attachment of a new front facade where structural supports are not changed; 2. Addition of fire escapes where structural supports are not changed; 3. New windows where lintels and support walls are not materially changed; 4. Repair or replacement of non-structural members.
Alternative Support Structure	Any man-made clock towers, bell steeples, light poles, and similar alternative-design mounting structures that camouflage or conceal the presence of antennas or towers.
Antenna	A structure or device used to collect or radiate electromagnetic waves, including directional antennas, such as panels, wireless cable and satellite dishes, except those used on a residence or residential property for the reception of television and/or radio broadcasts; and omni-directional antennas, such as whips, but not including satellite earth stations. Antenna may include all antennas working together as a unit on the site, also known as an antenna array. Types of antennas include: 1. Dish: A parabolic or bowl shaped device that receives and/or transmits signals in a specific directional pattern. 2. Panel: An antenna that receives and/or transmits in a specific directional panel. 3. Whip: An omni-directional dipole antenna of cylindrical shape that is no more than six (6) inches in diameter.
Apartment Community	A group of two (2) or more multi-family dwellings occupying a parcel of land in one (1) ownership and having a park or court in common, but not including motels or other lodging uses.
Appeal	For the purposes of Chapter 460, a request for review of the Floodplain Administrator’s interpretation of any provision of this chapter or a request for a variance.
Applicant	Any person submitting an application for development.
Application for Development	The application form and all accompanying documents required by ordinance for approval of a specific request.
Approved Combustible Material	Wood, or materials not more combustible than wood, and approved combustible plastics.
Approved Combustible Plastics	Those plastics that, when tested in accordance with American Society for Testing Materials standard methods for test for flammability of plastics over five-hundredths (0.05) inch in thickness (D635-44), burn no faster than two and one-half (2.5) inches per minute in sheets of six-hundredths (0.06) inch thickness.
Appurtenant Structure	For the purposes of Chapter 460, a structure that is on the same parcel of property as the principle structure to be insured and the use of which is incidental to the use of the principal structure.
APWA	The American Public Works Association.
Area of Special Flood Hazard	The land in the floodplain within a community subject to a one percent (1%) or greater chance of flooding in any given year.
Art Gallery	Uses dedicated to the showing or sale of art, including art galleries and studios. Art museums are classified in the “Cultural Exhibits and Libraries” use category.
As-Built Plans	Construction plans showing a facility or structure as actually constructed and as it appears on the tract of land involved.
Assisted Living	A group living facility that provides health and living services for persons who because of age, illness or infirmity cannot live independently but do not require continuous nursing care.
Attention Attracting Device	Any flasher, blinker, animation, streamer, pennant, clock or other object designed or intended to attract the attention of the public to an establishment or to a sign.
Banks	Financial or securities brokerage services, including but not limited to banks, savings and loan or consumer investment businesses.
Bar [Amendment 10 – Ordinance 2011-26, 4-25-2011]	An establishment at which the principal business is the sale at retail of alcoholic beverages for consumption on the premises. The term shall not include a premises at which such beverages are sold in conjunction with the sale of food for consumption on the premises and the sale of the alcoholic beverages comprises less than twenty-five percent (25%) of the gross receipts of the establishment.
Base Flood	The flood having a one percent (1%) chance of being equaled or exceeded in any given year.
Base Flow	The sustained flow of a stream in the absence of direct runoff. It includes natural and human-induced streamflows. Natural base flow is sustained largely by ground-water discharge.
Basement	The portion of a building having more than one-half (1/2) of its height below grade. For the purposes of Chapter 460, a basement is any area on a building having its floor subgrade (below ground level) on all sides.
Bed and Breakfast	An owner-occupied detached house in which sleeping rooms are available for rent for transient occupancy by registered guests, not including multi-unit residential or accessory buildings.
Block	An area of land that is entirely bounded by streets, highways, or rights-of-way, except alleys, or between streets, highways, streams, parks, etc., or any other barrier or combination thereof.
Board of Appeals	That Board which has been created by the Governing Body having jurisdiction and which has the statutory authority to hear and determine appeals and variances to Chapters 500 and 510 of the Raymore Municipal Code and Chapters 455 and 460 of this Code.
Board of Adjustment	That Board which has been created by the Governing Body having jurisdiction and which has the statutory authority to hear and determine appeals and variances to the Unified Development Code.
Boarding Stables and Riding Schools	Facilities used for horses, including horse ranches; boarding stables; riding schools and academies; horse exhibition facilities; and any barns, stables, corrals and paddocks incidental to these uses.
Body Art Services	Provision of any of the following procedures: body piercing, tattooing, cosmetic tattooing, branding, and scarification. This definition does not include practices that are considered medical procedures by the Missouri Medical Board, which may not be performed in a body art services establishment.
Buffer	With respect to a stream, a natural or enhanced vegetated area (established by Section E.1 below), lying adjacent to the stream.
Building	Any structure designed or intended for the enclosure, support, shelter or protection of persons, animals or property. For the purposes of Chapter 460, see “structure.”
Building Coverage	See “Measurements and Exceptions ” Section 485.020.
Building Façade Area	The entire area of a building wall, including doors, windows, recessed and projecting areas, and all other features.
Building Height	See “Measurements and Exceptions,” Section 485.020.
Building Line or Setback Line	A line parallel to a street or right-of-way line, shore of a lake, edge of a stream or other property line established on a parcel of land or lot for the purpose of prohibiting construction of a building or structure in the area between such building line and right-of-way, lakeshore, streambank or other property line.
Business Support Services	Provision of clerical, employment, protective or minor processing services to firms rather than individuals, excluding any storage of goods other than samples. Typical uses include secretarial services, telephone answering services and copying or blueprint services. Also includes business or trade schools that do not involving any outdoor storage or manufacturing processes.
Candlepower	The amount of light that will illuminate a surface one (1) foot distance from a light source to an intensity of one (1) foot candle. Maximum (peak) candlepower is the largest amount of candlepower emitted by any lamp, light source or luminaire.
Car Wash	Any building or site providing facilities for washing motor vehicles, using either automatic equipment or providing space and equipment for hand-washing of vehicles by either customers or employees.
Cemetery	Land or facilities used for burial of the dead.
Channel	The bed and banks of a natural stream which convey the constant or intermittent flow of the stream.
Channelization	The straightening and deepening of channels and/or the surfacing thereof to permit water to move rapidly and/or directly.
Chief Executive Officer or Chief Elected Official	For the purposes of Chapter 460, the official of the community who is charged with the authority to implement and administer laws, ordinances, and regulations for that community.
City	The City of Raymore, Missouri.
City Council	The City Council of the City of Raymore, Missouri.
Cluster Residential Development	Dwelling units permitted on smaller lots in exchange for preserving common open spaces, natural features, and other amenities.
College or University	Institution of higher learning that offers courses of general or specialized study leading to a degree and is certified by the state or a recognized accrediting agency.
Common Open Space	An outdoor area designated and intended for the common use and enjoyment of residents or other members of the controlling association (such as a homeowner’s association), not including streets, alleys, driveways, parking or loading areas.
Community	For the purposes of Chapter 460, any State or area or political subdivision thereof, which has authority to adopt and enforce floodplain management regulations for the areas of its jurisdiction.
Community Park	A large park generally 25 or more acres that serves the residents living within a one (1) mile radius of the park.
Component of Use	An element of use of land including, but not limited to, of-street parking, off-street loading, and landscaping.
Comprehensive Marijuana Cultivation Facility [Amendment 31 - Ordinance 2019-48, 7-22-2019; Amendment 36 – Ordinance 2023-076, 10-9-2023]	A facility licensed by the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services to acquire, cultivate, process, package, store on-site or off-site, transport to or from, and sell marijuana, marijuana seeds, marijuana vegetative cuttings (clones) to a medical facility, comprehensive facility, or marijuana testing facility. A comprehensive marijuana cultivation facility need not segregate or account for its marijuana products as either non-medical marijuana or medical marijuana. A comprehensive marijuana cultivation facility's authority to process marijuana shall include the creation of pre-rolls, but shall not include the manufacture of marijuana-infused products.
Comprehensive Marijuana Dispensary Facility [Amendment 31 - Ordinance 2019-48, 7-22-2019; Amendment 36 – Ordinance 2023-076, 10-9-2023]	A facility licensed by the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services to acquire, process, package, store on-site or off-site, sell, transport to or from, and deliver marijuana, marijuana seeds, marijuana vegetative cuttings (clones), marijuana-infused products, and drug paraphernalia used to administer marijuana as allowed by applicable law to a qualifying patient or primary caregiver, as defined by law, or to a consumer, anywhere on the licensed property or to any address as directed by the patient, primary caregiver, or consumer and consistent with the limitations of applicable laws and as otherwise allowed by law, to a comprehensive facility, a marijuana testing facility, or a medical facility. Comprehensive dispensary facilities may receive transaction orders at the dispensary directly from the consumer in person, by phone, or via the internet, including from a third party. A comprehensive marijuana dispensary facility need not segregate or account for its marijuana products as either non-medical marijuana or medical marijuana, but shall collect all appropriate tangible personal property sales tax for each sale, as set forth in Article XIV of the Missouri Constitution and provided for by general or local law. A comprehensive marijuana dispensary facility's authority to process marijuana shall include the creation of pre-rolls.
Comprehensive Marijuana Facility [Amendment 31 - Ordinance 2019-48, 7-22-2019; Amendment 36 – Ordinance 2023-076, 10-9-2023]	A comprehensive marijuana cultivation facility, comprehensive marijuana dispensary facility, marijuana testing facility, comprehensive marijuana-infused products facility, microbusiness wholesale facility, microbusiness dispensary facility, or any other type of marijuana-related facility or business licensed or certified by the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services.
Comprehensive Marijuana-Infused Products Manufacturing Facility [Amendment 31 - Ordinance 2019-48, 7-22-2019; Amendment 36 – Ordinance 2023-076, 10-9-2023]	A facility licensed by the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services to acquire, process, package, store, manufacture, transport to or from a medical facility, comprehensive facility, or marijuana testing facility, and sell marijuana-infused products, pre-rolls, and infused pre-rolls to a marijuana dispensary facility, a marijuana testing facility, or another marijuana-infused products manufacturing facility. A comprehensive marijuana-infused products manufacturing facility need not segregate or account for its marijuana products as either non-medical marijuana or medical marijuana.
Comprehensive Marijuana Testing Facility [Amendment 31 - Ordinance 2019-48, 7-22-2019; Amendment 36 – Ordinance 2023-076, 10-9-2023]	A facility certified by the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services to acquire, test, certify, and transport marijuana, including those originally certified as a medical marijuana testing facility.
Construction Plans	The engineering drawings showing types of materials and construction details for physical structures and facilities, excluding dwelling units to be installed in conjunction with development of a subdivision.
Construction Sales and Service	Construction activities and incidental storage on lots other than construction sites. Also includes the retail or wholesale sale of materials used in the construction of buildings or other structures other than retail sale of paint, fixtures, and hardware. This category includes, but is not limited to uses such as building materials stores, tool rental or sales and building contracting/construction offices.
Consumer Loan Establishment	Any business that makes loans in a principal amount not exceeding twenty-five thousand dollars ($25,000.00) secured other than by a mortgage or lien on the borrower’s real property or on personal property acquired by the borrower with the proceeds of the loan, not including any bank, savings bank, savings and loan association or credit union. Includes title loan businesses.
Contagious and Communicable Diseases	Those diseases which are set out in Missouri Code of State Regulations, Department of Health, 19 C.S.R. 20-20.020, as amended.
Cremating	Services involving the purification and reduction of human remains by fire.
Cul-de-sac	A street having one end open to traffic and the other end being terminated by a vehicle turnaround.
Cultural Exhibits and Libraries	Museum-like preservation and/or exhibition of objects in one (1) or more of the arts and sciences; gallery exhibition of works of art; or a library collection of books, manuscripts and other materials for study and reading, excluding public assembly facilities, which are classified as places of public assembly.
Curb	A vertical or sloping edge of a roadway.
Cutoff	The point at which all light rays emitted by a lamp, light source or luminaire are completely eliminated (cut off) at a specific angle above the ground.
Cutoff Angle	The angle formed by a line drawn from the direction of light rays at the light source and a line perpendicular to the ground from the light source above which no light is emitted.
Cutoff-Type Luminaire	A luminaire with elements such as shields, reflectors or refractor panels which direct and cut off the light at a cutoff angle that is less than ninety degrees (90°).
Day Care	A place where 3 or more unrelated children or adults are cared for by persons other than parents or guardians.
Day Care Center	A structure or place where care, supervision, custody or control is provided for more than six (6) unrelated children or adults.
Day Care Home	A dwelling or structure in which care, supervision, custody or control is provided for six (6) or fewer unrelated children or adults for any part of a twenty-four-hour day up to twelve (12) hours.
Dedication	An act transmitting property or interest thereto.
Density	The permitted number of dwelling units per gross acre of land to be developed.
Design Flood	The relative size or magnitude of a major flood of reasonable expectancy, which reflects both flood experience and flood potential and is the basis of the delineation of the floodway, the flood hazard area, and the water surface elevations.
Developer	The legal or beneficial owner or owners of a lot or of any land included in a proposed development. Also, the holder of an option or contract to purchase or any other person having enforceable proprietary interest in such land.
Development	A planning or construction project involving substantial property improvement and, usually, a change of land-use character within the site; the act of using land for building or extractive purposes. For the purposes of Chapter 460, development is any man-made change to improved or unimproved real estate, including but not limited to buildings or other structures, levees, levee systems, mining, dredging, filling, grading, paving, excavation or drilling operations, or storage of equipment or materials.
Development Regulations	Zoning, subdivision, site plan, official map, floodplain regulation or other governmental regulations of the use and development of land.
Development Services Director	The person or persons authorized and empowered by the Governing Body having jurisdiction to administer the requirements of this Code.
Director of Public Works	The officially appointed Engineer of the City of Raymore, Missouri or his/her designee.
Divided Street	A street having an island or other barrier separating moving lanes.
Drainage	The removal of surface water or groundwater from land by drains, grading or other means.
Drainage Facility	Any component of a drainage system.
Drainage System	The system through which water flows from the land, including all watercourses, water bodies and wetlands.
Drive-through Facilities	Facilities used to provide or dispense products or services, through an attendant or a window or an automated machine, to persons remaining in vehicles that are in a designated stacking aisle. A drive-through facility may be in combination with other uses, such as a financial institution, personal service use, retail store or eating establishment. A drive-through facility does not include a “Car Wash” or “Gas Station” as defined herein.
Driveway	A paved or unpaved area used for ingress or egress of vehicles, and allowing access from a street to a building or other structure or facility.
Dwelling	A building or portion thereof, not including manufactured homes, which is designed and used exclusively for residential purposes.
Dwelling, Accessory [Amendment 18 – Ordinance 2014-006, 2-10-2014]	A separate and subordinate dwelling that is contained on the same lot as the primary dwelling.
Dwelling, Accessory, Attached [Amendment 27 - Ordinance 2018-041, 6-11-2018]	A dwelling that is attached to, and/or located within the principal building on the lot, but physically separated from, and not connected to the interior of, the principal building.
Dwelling, Accessory, Detached [Amendment 27 - Ordinance 2018-041, 6-11-2018]	A dwelling that is built separate from the principal building or above an existing accessory structure such as a detached garage.
Dwelling, Multi-family	A building designed for or occupied exclusively by three (3) or more families. A multi-family dwelling also includes the terms “tri-plex”, “quad-plex” and “four-plex”.
Dwelling, Single-family Attached	A dwelling unit designed for one family having its own ground floor entrance and open space, and joined to two (2) or more dwellings by common walls or other horizontally unifying structural element. This use type includes townhouses, rowhouses, and other similar dwelling types.
Dwelling, Single-family Detached	A dwelling unit designed for one family that does not share a common wall with any other dwelling and is surrounded on all sides by open space located on the same lot.
Dwelling, Two-family	A building designed for or occupied exclusively by two (2) families. A two-family dwelling also includes the terms “duplex” and “two-flat”.
Dwelling Units Located Above the Ground Floor	Dwelling units located above the ground floor of a non-residential use or space located within the same building.
Easement	A right-of-way granted, but not dedicated, for limited use of private land for a public or quasi-public purpose and within which the owner of the property may not erect any permanent structures.
EIFS [Amendment 33 - Ordinance 2020-068, 11-23-2020]	Exterior Insulation and Finish Systems is a non load-bearing, exterior wall system. For the purposes of this Code, EIFS shall be considered a masonry material.
Elevated Building	For insurance purposes, a non-basement building which has its lowest elevated floor raised above ground level by foundation walls, shear walls, posts, piers, pilings or columns.
Eligible Community or Participating Community	For the purposes of Chapter 460, a community for which the Federal Flood Insurance Administrator has authorized the sale of flood insurance under the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP).
Employee	Any and all persons, including managers, entertainers and independent contractors, who work in or at or render any services directly related to the operation of an adult business.
Employee Living Quarters	Living quarters for persons employed on the premises and not rented otherwise as a separate dwelling.
Engineer	A professional engineer registered in the State of Missouri.
Entertainment and Spectator Sports	Provision of cultural, entertainment, athletic and other events to spectators.
Entertainer	Any person who provides adult entertainment within an adult business, whether or not a fee is charged or accepted for entertainment.
Escrow	Money delivered to a third person to be delivered by him/her to the grantee only upon fulfillment of a condition.
Establishment [Amendment 9 – Ordinance 2011-22, 4-11-2011]	An individual business or tenant space.
Existing Construction	For the purposes of Chapter 460, for the purposes of determining rates, structures for which the “start of construction” commenced before the effective date of the FIRM or before January 1, 1975, for the FIRMs effective before that date. “Existing Construction” may also be referred to as “Existing Structures”.
Existing Manufactured Home Park or Subdivision	For the purposes of Chapter 460, a manufactured home park or subdivision for which the construction of facilities for servicing the lots on which the manufactured homes are to be affixed (including, at a minimum, the installation of utilities, the construction of streets, and either final site grading or the pouring of concrete pads) is completed before the effective date of the floodplain management regulations adopted by a community.
Expansion to an Existing Manufactured Home Park or Subdivision	For the purposes of Chapter 460, the preparation of additional sites by the construction of facilities for servicing the lots on which the manufactured homes are to be affixed (including the installations of utilities, the construction of streets, and either final site grading or the pouring of concrete pads).
Family	One or more persons related by blood, marriage or adoption, living together as a single housekeeping unit; or a group of not more than four (4) unrelated persons living together as a single housekeeping unit; plus in either case, usual domestic services. A family may under no circumstances be construed as a boarding house, fraternity or sorority house, club, lodging house, hotel, motel or commune.
Farming	The use of a tract of land for the growing of crops, pasturage, nursery or the raising of livestock and poultry, including the structures necessary for carrying out farming operations and the residence or residences of those owning or operating the premises, a member of the family thereof, or persons employed thereon, and the family thereof, but such use shall not include feedlots, sale yards and auction yards for cattle and hogs.
Fence	A free standing structure of metal, masonry, composition or wood or any combination thereof resting on or partially buried in the ground and rising above the ground level, and used for confinement, ornamental, screening or partition purposes.
Fence, Chain-link	An open mesh fence made entirely of woven wire.
Fence, Decorative [Amendment 8 – Ordinance 2011-9, 2-28-2011]	An open fence, other than chain link, that is no more than sixty-six percent (66%) opaque and is intended to decorate, accent, or frame a feature of the landscape. Decorative fences include but shall not be limited to split rail, picket, wrought iron, and similar open fences.
Fence, Privacy	A solid fence constructed of materials which creates an opaque wall or screen.
Fence, Security	A fence intended to guard property against unauthorized entry, and to protect goods and products from theft and other unauthorized handling. Security fences are often made of wrought iron or chain link, and may incorporate additional security features such as barbed wire.
Final Approval	The official action taken on a preliminarily approved major subdivision or site plan, after all conditions, engineering plans, and other requirements have been completed or fulfilled.
Final Plat	The final map of all or a portion of a subdivision which is presented for final approval and recording.
Flood or Flooding	A general and temporary condition of partial or complete inundation of normally dry land areas from: 1. The overflow of inland; and/or 2. The unusual and rapid accumulation or runoff of surface waters from any source.
Flood Boundary and Floodway Map (FBFM)	An official map of a community on which the Federal Flood Insurance Administrator has delineated both special flood hazard areas and the designated regulatory floodway.
Flood Elevation Determination	A determination by the Federal Flood Insurance Administrator of the water surface elevations of the base flood, that is, the flood level that has a one percent (1%) or greater chance of occurrence in any given year.
Flood Elevation Study	An examination, evaluation and determination of flood hazards.
Flood Fringe	The area outside the floodway encroachment lines, but still subject to inundation by the regulatory flood.
Flood Hazard Boundary Map (FHBM)	An official map of a community, issued by the Federal Flood Insurance Administrator, where the boundaries of the flood areas having special flood hazards have been designated as (unnumbered or numbered) A zones.
Flood Insurance Rate Map (FIRM)	An official map of a community, on which the Federal Flood Insurance Administrator has delineated both the special flood hazard areas and the risk premium zones applicable to the community.
Flood Plain	Any land area susceptible to flooding, which would have at least a one percent (1%) probability of flooding occurrence in any calendar year based on the basin being fully developed as shown on the current land use plan; i.e., the regulatory flood. This area may or may not be a regulatory flood plain. With respect to Chapter 460, any land area susceptible to being inundated by water from any source (see “flooding”).
Floodplain Management	The operation of an overall program of corrective and preventive measures for reducing flood damage, including but not limited to emergency preparedness plans, flood control works, and floodplain management regulations.
Floodplain Management Regulations	Zoning ordinances, subdivision regulations, land development codes, building codes, health regulations, special purpose ordinances (such as floodplain and grading ordinances) and other applications of police power. The term describes such State and local regulations, in any combination, that provide standards for the purpose of flood damage prevention or reduction.
Floodproofing	Any combination of structural and non-structural additions, changes or adjustments to structures that reduce or eliminate flood damage to real estate or improved real property, water and sanitary facilities or structures and their contents.
Floodway or Regulatory Floodway	The channel of a river or other watercourse and the adjacent land areas that must be reserved in order to discharge the base flood without cumulatively increasing the water surface elevation more than one (1) foot.
Floodway Encroachment Lines	The lines marking the limits of floodways on Federal, State and local floodplain maps.
Floor Area	The gross floor area of the building measured from the exterior faces of the exterior walls or from the centerline of walls separating two (2) buildings and includes the following areas: 1. The area of each floor of the structure; and 2. The attic space having headroom of seven (7) feet ten (10) inches or more.
Foot Candle	A unit of illumination produced on a surface, all points of which are one (1) foot from a uniform point source of one (1) candle.
Freeboard	A factor of safety usually expressed in feet above a flood level for purposes of floodplain management. “Freeboard” tends to compensate for the many unknown factors that could contribute to flood heights greater than the height calculated for a selected size flood and floodway conditions, such as bridge openings and hydrological effect of urbanization of the watershed.
Free Standing Fast-food Restaurant [Amendment 10 – Ordinance 2011-26, 4-25-2011]	An establishment a substantial portion of whose business involves the sale of foods, frozen desserts or beverages in ready-to-consume individual servings to occupants of motor vehicles for consumption off-premises.
Frontage	The length of the property abutting on one side of a street measured along the dividing line between the property and the street right-of-way.
Functionally Dependent Use	For the purposes of Chapter 460, a use that cannot perform its intended purpose unless it is located or carried out in a close proximity to water. This term includes only docking facilities and facilities that are necessary for the loading and unloading of cargo or passengers, but does not include long term storage or related manufacturing facilities.
Funeral Home	An establishment providing services of preparing the dead for burial and arranging or managing funerals.
Garage Sale	The sale of personal items on an infrequent basis at a private residence.
Gas Station	Any building or premises whose principal use is the dispensing, sale or offering for sale at retail of any motor vehicle fuels, oil or accessories, where repair service or car wash facilities is incidental, where no motor vehicle storage is present and where no motor vehicles are offered for sale.
General Development Plan	A plan outlining general, rather than detailed, development intentions. It describes the basic parameters of a major development proposal, rather than giving full engineering details. As such, it allows general intentions to be proposed and discussed without the extensive costs involved in submitting a detailed proposal.
Glare	The brightness of a light source which causes eye discomfort.
Governing Body	The chief legislative body of the municipality.
Grade	The slope of a street or other public way, specified in percentage (%) terms.
Group Home	1. Any dwelling occupied by not more than ten (10) persons, including eight or fewer persons with a disability, as defined in this Code, who need not be related by blood or marriage and not to exceed two (2) staff residents who need not be related by blood or marriage to each other or to the residents of the home, or 2. Any private residence licensed by the Division of Family Services or Department of Mental Health to provide foster care to one (1) or more but less than seven (7) children who are unrelated to either foster parent by blood, marriage or adoption; subject to occupancy limitations for the particular dwelling.
Group Living	Residential uses other than household living; usually provide common kitchen/dining facilities.
Group Living not Otherwise Classified	Group living uses that do not fit into any other category, such as fraternities, sororities, convents, and monasteries.
Gutter	A shallow channel usually set along a curb or the pavement edge of a road for purposes of catching and carrying runoff water.
Heavy Equipment Sales or Rental	Businesses that sell, lease, rent or wholesale from the premises heavy construction equipment, farm implements, tractors, trucks or aircraft, along with incidental maintenance.
Highest Adjacent Grade	For the purposes of Chapter 460, the highest natural elevation of the ground surface prior to construction next to the proposed walls of a structure.
Historic Structure	Any structure that is: 1. Listed individually in the National Register of Historic Places (a listing maintained by the Department of Interior) or preliminarily determined by the Secretary of the Interior as meeting the requirements for individual listing on the National Register; 2. Certified or preliminarily determined by the Secretary of the Interior as contributing to the historical significance of a registered historic district or a district preliminarily determined by the Secretary to qualify as a registered historic district; 3. Individually listed on a State inventory of historic places in States with preservation programs which have been approved by the Secretary of the Interior; or 4. Individually listed on a local inventory of historic places in communities with historic preservation programs that have been certified either: a. By an approved State program as determined by the Secretary of the Interior; or b. Directly by the Secretary of the Interior in States without approved programs.
Home Occupation	An accessory use of a dwelling unit for business or commercial purposes where the dwelling unit is the principal residence of the business operator, subject to the standards of the Unified Development Code.
Hospital	Uses providing medical or surgical care to patients and offering inpatient (overnight) care.
Hotel/Motel	An establishment containing lodging rooms for occupancy by transient guests. Such an establishment may provide customary hotel services such as maid and bellboy services, furnishing of and laundry of linens used in the lodging rooms, central desk, and meeting rooms.
Impervious Cover	Any manmade paved, hardened or structural surface regardless of material. Impervious cover includes but is not limited to rooftops, buildings, streets, roads, decks, swimming pools and any concrete or asphalt.
Impoundment	A body of water, such as a pond, confined by a dam, dike, floodgate or other barrier.
Improvement	Street work, utilities, sidewalks, drainage structures and other physical modifications which are to be installed or constructed by the subdivider for the benefit of the lot owners and for the proper development of the community as a condition precedent to the approval and acceptance of the final plat.
Inoperable Vehicle	A vehicle is deemed to be inoperable if it meets one (1) or more of the following criteria regardless of the circumstances of how the vehicle came to be in its current location or ownership: 1. Does not display current valid license plates registered to the vehicle; 2. Does not display a valid inspection decal that is valid; 3. It has flat or missing tires or wheels; 4. It is wrecked or junked; 5. It is wholly or partially dismantled; 6. It is missing parts or equipment necessary to safely and legally operate on a public street; 7. It has mechanical or other problems that prevent the vehicle from being driven under its own power; 8. It has vegetation or debris is collected in, on, around or under the vehicle; and/or 9. It is used to store auto parts, household items, lawn equipment or other types of storage.
Junkyard	Any land or structure used for a salvaging operation, including, among other things, the storage and sale of wastepaper, rags, scrap metal and discarded materials, and the collecting, dismantling, storage and salvaging of unlicensed, inoperative vehicles.
Kennels	Any premises where three (3) or more animals are owned, boarded, bred and/or offered for sale, including but not limited to boarding kennels, breeding kennels, dog training centers and animal rescue shelters.
Land Development	With respect to stream buffers and natural resource protection, any land change, including but not limited to clearing, grubbing, stripping, removal of vegetation, dredging, grading, excavating, transporting and filling of land, construction, paving and any other activity which results in an increase of impervious cover.
Land Development Activity	Those actions or activities which comprise, facilitate or result in land development.
Land Disturbance	Any land or vegetation change, including, but not limited to, clearing, grubbing, stripping, removal of vegetation, dredging, grading, excavating, transporting and filling of land, or other activities that involve construction, paving or any other installation of impervious cover.
Land Disturbance Activity	Those actions or activities which comprise, facilitate or result in land disturbance.
Landscaped	An area devoted to or developed predominately with plant material or natural landscape features, including lawn, ground cover, gardens, trees, shrubs, and other plant materials; and also including accessory decorative outdoor landscape elements such as pools, fountains, water features, paved or decorated surfaces or rock, stone, brick, block or similar material. This does not include driveways, parking, loading, or storage areas, and sculptural elements.
Lateral Sewers	Pipes conducting sewage from individual buildings to larger pipes called trunk or interceptor sewers that usually are located in street rights-of-way.
Light Equipment and Vehicle Sales/Rental	Businesses that sell, lease, rent or wholesale from the premises automobiles, noncommercial trucks, motorcycles, trailers with less than 10,000 pounds of gross cargo capacity, motor homes and boat dealers, along with incidental maintenance.
Live/Work [Amendment 5 – Ordinance 2010-34, 4-26-2010]	A building and/or lot used by a single family for both dwelling purposes and a permitted commercial use.
Local Street	Roadway that is intended to provide access to abutting properties, tends to accommodate lower traffic volumes, serves short trips, and provides connection to collector streets.
Lot	A “zoning lot” unless the context clearly indicates a “lot of record.” The term “lot” will be construed to include the terms “site,” “parcel” and any other similar undefined term.
Lot of Record	A designated parcel, tract or area of land established by a plat or otherwise as permitted by law and to be used, developed or built upon as a unit.
Lot Area	The size of a lot measured within the lot lines and expressed in terms of acres or square feet. See “Measurements and Exceptions,”Section 485.020.
Lot, Corner	A lot abutting upon two (2) or more streets at their intersection.
Lot Depth	See “Measurements and Exceptions,”Section 485.020.
Lot, Double Frontage	A lot having a frontage on two (2) non-intersecting streets, as distinguished from a corner lot. See also “Measurements and Exceptions,” Section 485.020.
Lot Frontage	That portion of a lot extending along a street line.
Lot, Interior	A lot whose side lines do not abut upon any street.
Lot Width	The mean horizontal distance between side lines measured at right angles to the depth of the lot. See “Measurements and Exceptions,” Section 485.020.
Lot, Zoning	A parcel or tract of land used, developed or built upon as a unit under single ownership or control. Said parcel or tract may consist of one (1) or more lots of record, one (1) or more portions of a lot or lots of record or any combination thereof; and must be contiguous parcels.
Lot Line	Lot boundary line. See “Lot Line, Front”; “Lot Line, Rear”; “Lot Line, Side”.
Lot Line, Front	A street right-of-way line forming the boundary of a lot. If a lot has two (2) or more front lot lines, the owner or developer must designate the yard which is to be the front yard.
Lot Line, Rear	The lot line that is most distant from, and is, or is mostly nearly, parallel to, the front lot line.
Lot Line, Side	The lot line on each side of a lot that connects the front and rear lot lines.
Lot of Record	A lot which is a part of a subdivision, the plat of which has been recorded in the office of the Recorder of Deeds; or a lot described by metes and bounds, the description of which has been recorded in the office of the Recorder of Deeds prior to the original adoption of the various Unified Development Code for the City.
Lowest Floor	For the purposes of Chapter 460, the lowest floor of the lowest enclosed area (including basement). An unfinished or flood-resistant enclosure, usable solely for parking of vehicles, building access or storage, in an area other than a basement area, is not considered a building’s lowest floor, provided that such enclosure is not built so as to render the structure in violation of the applicable flood-proofing design requirements of this chapter.
Luminaire	A complete lighting unit consisting of a light source and all necessary mechanical, electrical, and decorative parts.
Main	In any system of continuous piping, the principal artery of the system to which branches may be connected.
Maintenance Guarantee	Any security which may be required and accepted by a governmental agency to ensure that necessary improvements will function as required for a specific period of time.
Major Subdivision	Any subdivision not classified as a minor subdivision.
Manager	Any person who manages, directs, administers or is in charge of the affairs and/or conduct of any portion of any activity at any adult business.
Manufactured Home	Any structure which is: a. Subject to the Federal Manufactured Home Construction and Safety Standards established pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 5403, and constructed on or after June 15, 1976; or b. Transportable in one (1) or more sections, that is built on a permanent chassis and is designed for use with or without a permanent foundation when attached to the required utilities; or c. Not constructed under the requirements of the International One and Two-Family Residential Code. The term “manufactured home” does not include a recreational vehicle.
Manufactured Home Park	Any area, piece, parcel, tract or plot of ground equipped as required for support of manufactured homes and offered for use by the owner or representative for manufactured home park purposes and/or ground upon which three (3) or more manufactured homes are parked, whether for compensation or not, including all accessory uses thereof. The term “manufactured home park” does not include sales lots of which unoccupied manufactured homes are parked for the purpose of inspection and sale. For the purposes of Chapter 460, a parcel (or contiguous parcels) of land divided into two (2) or more manufactured home lots for sale or rent; also known as a “manufactured home park.”
Manufactured Home Residential-Design	A manufactured home which satisfies the following additional criteria: 1. Minimum dimensions of twenty-two (22) feet in width and forty (40) feet in length; 2. The pitch of the roof of the manufactured home has a minimum vertical rise of four (4) feet for each twelve (12) feet of horizontal run and the roof finished with a type of shingle that is commonly used in standard residential construction in the City; 3. All roof structures provide an eave projection of no less than twelve (12) inches, exclusive of any guttering; 4. The exterior siding consists of vinyl or metal horizontal lap siding (whose reflectivity does not exceed that of low luster white paint), wood, or hardboard, comparable in composition, appearance and durability to the exterior siding commonly used in standard residential construction in the City; 5. Is set up in accordance with the recommended installation procedures of the manufacturer and the standards set by the National Conference of States on Building Codes and Standards and published in “Manufactured Home Installations, 1987” (NCS BCS A225.1), and a continuous, permanent masonry foundation or masonry curtain wall, or poured concrete wall, unpierced except for required ventilation and access, is installed under the perimeter of the Residential-Design Manufactured Home; 6. Stairs, porches, entrance platforms, ramps and other means of entrance and exit to and from the home are installed or constructed in accordance with the standards set by the building code and attached firmly to the primary structure and anchored securely to the ground; and 7. Has substantially the appearance of an on-site, conventionally built, single-family dwelling.
Manufactured Home Space	A plot of ground within a manufactured home park which can accommodate one (1) manufactured home and which provides the necessary utility services for water, sewerage, electricity, gas, etc.
Manufactured Home Subdivision	Any area, piece, parcel, tract or plot of ground used or intended to be used for the purpose of selling individual lots for occupancy by mobile homes.
Manufacturing, Production and Industrial Service, Limited	Manufacturing of finished parts or products, primarily from previously prepared materials, including but not limited to printing and related support activities; machinery manufacturing; food manufacturing; computer and electronic product manufacturing/assembly; electrical equipment, appliance, component manufacturing/assembly; furniture and related product manufacturing/assembly; and other manufacturing and production establishments that typically have very few, if any, negative external impacts on surrounding properties.
Manufacturing, Production and Industrial Service, General	1. Manufacturing of finished or unfinished products, primarily from extracted or raw materials, or recycled or secondary materials, or bulk storage and handling of such products and materials, including but not limited to: textile mills; textile product mills; apparel manufacturing; leather and allied product manufacturing; and wood product manufacturing. 2. Industrial service firms engaged in the repair or servicing of industrial or commercial machinery, equipment, products or by-products, including but not limited to: welding shops; machine shops; industrial tool repair; laundry, dry-cleaning, and carpet cleaning plants; and photofinishing laboratories.
Manufacturing, Production and Industrial Service, Intensive	1. Manufacturing of finished or unfinished products, primarily from extracted, raw, recycled or secondary materials, particularly those of a hazardous nature; or bulk storage and handling of such products and materials. Intensive manufacturing uses are those that have the greatest potential for negative external impacts on surrounding properties. 2. Typical intensive manufacturing, production and industrial uses include: manufacturing, processing or storage of chemicals, asbestos, metals, hazardous materials, plastics, rubber and rubber products, paper products, carpets, cleaning products, toiletries, electronics, nonmetallic minerals, transportation equipment, paints, and petroleum; gas and petroleum drilling; and the manufacture, storage, processing or warehousing of hazardous, radioactive, explosive or volatile materials.
Map	For the purposes of Chapter 460, the Flood Hazard Boundary Map (FHBM), the Flood Insurance Rate Map (FIRM) or the Flood Boundary and Floodway Map (FBFM) for a community issued by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA).
Marijuana or Marihuana [Amendment 31 - Ordinance 2019-48, 7-22-2019]	Means Cannabis indica, Cannabis sativa, and Cannabis ruderalis, hybrids of such species, and any other strains commonly understood within the scientific community to constitute marijuana, as well as resin extracted from the plant and marijuana-infused products. “Marijuana” or “Marihuana” does not include industrial hemp containing a crop-wide average tetrahydrocannabinol concentration that does not exceed three-tenths (3/10) of one percent (1%) on a dry weight basis, or commodities or products manufactured from industrial hemp.
Marijuana-Infused Products [Amendment 31 - Ordinance 2019-48, 7-22-2019]	Products that are infused with marijuana or an extract thereof and are intended for use or consumption other than by smoking, including, but not limited to, edible products, ointments, tinctures and concentrates.
Market Value or Fair Market Value	For the purposes of Chapter 460, an estimate of what is fair, economic, just and equitable value under normal local market conditions.
Master Plan	A comprehensive long-range plan intended to guide the growth and development of a community or region. Includes analysis, recommendations, and proposals for the community’s population, economy, housing, transportation, community facilities, and land use.
Major Arterial	Roadway that is of regional importance and is intended to serve high volumes of traffic traveling relatively long distances. A major arterial is intended primarily to serve through traffic, and access is controlled.
Major Collector	Roadway that provides for traffic movement between arterials and local streets and carries moderate traffic volumes over moderate distances. Collectors may also provide direct access to abutting properties except individual residences.
Maximum Permitted Illumination	The maximum illumination measured in foot candles at the interior setback yard line at ground level.
Mean Sea Level	For the purposes of the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP), the National Geodetic Vertical Datum (NGVD) of the 1929 or other datum, to which base flood elevations shown on a community’s Flood Insurance Rate Map (FIRM) are referenced.
Medical or Dental Clinic	An establishment where patients are not lodged overnight but are admitted for examination and treatment by a group of physicians or dentists practicing medicine.
Medical Marijuana Transportation Facility [Amendment 31 - Ordinance 2019-48, 7-22-2019; Amendment 36 – Ordinance 2023-076, 10-9-2023]	A facility certified by the State of Missouri to transport marijuana to a qualifying patient, a primary caregiver, a medical marijuana cultivation facility, a medical marijuana-infused products manufacturing facility, a medical marijuana dispensary facility, a medical marijuana testing facility, or another medical marijuana transportation facility.
Memorandum of Understanding	A written agreement executed by the Mayor of the City of Raymore and the property owner(s) of land included in a development proposal. This agreement typically outlines the specific details of any terms or conditions of development, such as land use, density, access to the property, infrastructure improvements, parkland dedications, and similar matters.
Meteorological Tower [Amendment 3 – Ordinance 29092, 9-14-2009]	A temporary facility consisting of a tower and related wind-measuring devices and equipment used to monitor or transmit wind speed and wind flow characteristics over a period of time for either instantaneous wind information or to characterize the wind resource at a given location. Also called an anemometer or met tower.
Microbusiness Dispensary Facility [Amendment 36 – Ordinance 2023-076, 10-9-2023]	A facility licensed by the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services to acquire, process, package, store on-site or off-site, sell, transport to or from, and deliver marijuana, marijuana seeds, marijuana vegetative cuttings (clones), marijuana-infused products, and drug paraphernalia used to administer marijuana as allowed by law to a qualifying patient or primary caregiver, as defined by law, or to a consumer, anywhere on the licensed property or to any address as directed by the qualifying patient, primary caregiver, or consumer and consistent with the limitations of Article XIV of the Missouri Constitution and as otherwise allowed by law, a microbusiness wholesale facility, or a marijuana testing facility. Microbusiness dispensary facilities may receive transaction orders at the dispensary directly from the consumer in person, by phone, or via the internet, including from a third party. A microbusiness marijuana dispensary facility's authority to process marijuana shall include the creation of pre-rolls.
Microbusiness Wholesale Facility [Amendment 36 – Ordinance 2023-076, 10-9-2023]	A facility licensed by the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services to acquire, cultivate, process, package, store on-site or off-site, manufacture, transport to or from, deliver, and sell marijuana, marijuana seeds, marijuana vegetative cuttings (clones) and marijuana-infused products to a microbusiness dispensary facility, other microbusiness wholesale facility, or marijuana testing facility. A microbusiness wholesale facility may cultivate up to two hundred fifty (250) flowering marijuana plants at any given time. A microbusiness wholesale facility's authority to process marijuana shall include the creation of pre-rolls and infused pre-rolls.
Minor	Any person less than eighteen (18) years of age.
Minor Arterial	Roadway that is similar in function to major arterials, but operates under lower traffic volumes, serves trips of shorter distances, and provides a higher degree of property access than major arterials.
Minor Collector	Roadway that is similar in function to a major collector, but carries lower traffic volumes over shorter distances and has a higher degree of property access.
Minor Subdivision	A subdivision of land of not more than five (5) lots, provided that such subdivision does not involve a planned development, any new street or the extension of a utility or other municipal facility.
Mobile Vendor [Amendment 15 – Ordinance 2013-010, 2-11-2013]	A portable cart, vehicle, apparatus, trailer, or structure used for the sale or display of food, beverages, goods or merchandise for walk-up customers.
Motel	See “Hotel/Motel”.
Motor Vehicle Repair	A business or premises where repair work on or for motor vehicles, the replenishing of parts thereto, the changing of tires, the diagnosis of malfunctions of a motor vehicle or the estimating of damage and necessary repairs is conducted. Also includes painting and body work, and commercial vehicle repairs.
Mountable Curb	A low curb with a flat slope designed to be crossed easily without discomfort.
Neighborhood Park	A local park generally six (6) or more acres that serves the residents living within a one-half (1/2) mile radius of the park.
New Construction	For the purposes of determining insurance rates, structures for which the “start of construction” commenced on or after the effective date of an initial FIRM or after December 31, 1974, whichever is later, and includes any subsequent improvements to such structures. For floodplain management purposes, “new construction” means structures for which the “start of construction” commenced on or after the effective date of the floodplain management regulations adopted by a community and includes any subsequent improvements to such structures.
New Manufactured Home Park or Subdivision	For the purposes of Chapter 460, a manufactured home park or subdivision for which the construction of facilities for servicing the lot on which the manufactured homes are to be affixed (including at a minimum, the installation of utilities, the construction of streets, and either final site grading or the pouring of concrete pads) is completed on or after the effective date of floodplain management regulations adopted by the community.
NFIP	The National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP).
Nonconforming Component of Use	An element of use of land including, but not limited to, off-street parking, off-street loading, and landscaping, which does not comply with the requirements of this code.
Nonconforming Structure	A structure which does not comply with the lot size requirements or bulk regulations applicable to new structures in the zoning district in which it is located.
Nonconforming Use	An existing use of a structure or land which does not conform with the regulations of the district in which it is situated as established by this chapter or any amendments hereto. A legal nonconforming use is one (1) which was legally established prior to the effective date of this code.
Nude or Nudity	The appearance of the human bare buttocks, anus, human genitals, the areola or the nipple of the female breast or a state of dress which fails to opaquely or fully cover the anus, human genitals or the areola or the nipple of the female breast.
Nursing Care Facility	A facility that provides shelter and medical, nursing, and/or rehabilitation services for persons who require twenty-four-hour skilled nursing supervision and care.
Official Zoning Map	The Official Zoning District Map, filed in the office of the City Clerk as from time to time amended in accordance with the Unified Development Code.
Off-Site	Located outside the lot lines of the lot in question but within the property (of which the lot is a part) that is the subject of a development application or on a contiguous portion of a street or right-of-way.
Off-Tract	Not located on the property that is the subject of a development application nor on a contiguous portion of a street or right-of-way.
Office	Professional, governmental, executive, management or administrative offices of private or governmental organizations.
On-Site	Located on the lot in question.
Open Space	An area of land or water or combination thereof planned for passive or active recreation but does not include areas utilized for streets, alleys, driveways or private roads, off-street parking or loading areas, or required front, rear or side yards.
Operate	To own, conduct or maintain the affairs of any adult business.
Operator	Any person owning, operating, conducting or maintaining an adult business.
Ordinary High Water Mark	A line on the bank established by the fluctuations of water and indicated by the physical characteristics such as clear, natural line impressed on the bank, shelving, changes in the character of the soil, destruction of terrestrial vegetation, the presence of litter and debris, or other appropriate means that consider the characteristics of the surrounding areas.
Outdoor Event	The temporary outdoor use of property for a special occasion, such as a live Christmas nativity scene, summer festival, Halloween haunted house, or similar event.
Outdoor Sales Event	The display and sale of products outside of a building, typically located within a parking area, for a temporary period of time.
Parcel	Any plot, lot or acreage shown as a unit on the latest county tax assessment records.
Parking, Accessory	Motor vehicle parking facilities that provide parking that are accessory to a specific use or uses.
Parking, Non-accessory	Facilities that provide motor vehicle parking that are not accessory to a specific use, regardless of whether a fee is charged.
Parks and Recreation	Recreational, social or multi-purpose uses typically associated with public parks, public open spaces, outdoor recreation areas, public or private golf courses, and associated buildings.
Participating Community	For the purposes of Chapter 460, participating community means a community in which the Federal Flood Insurance Administrator has authorized the sale of flood insurance; also known as an “eligible community.”
Patron	Any person who enters an adult business, without regard to whether a purchase is made from the adult business or compensation is paid to the adult business for merchandise, entertainment or service, provided that the term patron shall not include persons who enter an adult business for the sole purpose of providing service or merchandise to the adult business and who do not remain in the adult business after the purpose had been accomplished, including but not limited to persons performing construction, repair or maintenance on the premises or delivering goods or merchandise to the adult business and any similar activity.
Pawn Shop	An establishment or person (pawnbroker) engaged in the business of receiving property in pledge or as security for money or other things advanced to the pawner or pledger.
Payday Loan Store	An establishment other than a bank that engages in the business of offering payday loans, cashing checks or exchanging currency. A “payday loan” is a loan transaction where a post-dated check or other check that the parties agree will be held for a period of time before presentment for payment or deposit is accepted as collateral for the loan. Includes check cashing services.
Performance Guarantee	Any security that may be accepted by a municipality as a guarantee that the improvements required as part of an application for development are satisfactorily completed.
Permit	The permit issued by the (permitting authority) required for undertaking any land development activity.
Person	Any individual, partnership, firm, incorporated or unincorporated association, joint venture, public or Private Corporation, trust, estate, commission, board, public or private institution, utility, cooperative, city, county or other political subdivision of the State, any interstate body or any other legal entity or group of persons, however organized. For the purposes of Chapter 460, person includes any individual or group of individuals, corporation, partnership, association or any other entity, including Federal, State, and local governments and agencies.
Personal and Consumer Service	Sale of any service to individual customers for their own personal benefit, enjoyment or convenience. For example, consumer services include the provision of personal services such as beautician and barbering services, specialized instruction, laundry and dry cleaning services, and all other similar services.
Planned Unit Development	An area of a minimum contiguous size, as specified by ordinance, to be planned, developed, operated, and maintained as a single entity containing one (1) or more structures to accommodate commercial or office uses, or both, and appurtenant common area and other uses incidental to the predominant uses.
Planning and Zoning Commission	The officially appointed Planning and Zoning Commission of the City of Raymore; the term may be abbreviated in this chapter as the “Commission”.
Plat	A map or maps of a subdivision or site plan.
Post Office	Uses associated with the processing and delivering of mail, including those either owned or leased by postal service companies.
Pre-application Conference	An initial meeting between developers and municipal representatives which affords developers the opportunity to present their proposals informally.
Preliminary Approval	The conferral of certain rights prior to final approval after specific elements of a development plan have been agreed upon by the City and the applicant.
Preliminary Subdivision Plat	A map indicating the proposed layout of a development and related information that is submitted for preliminary approval.
Principal Building	A building or structure in which a principal use of the lot on which the structure is located is conducted.
Principal Use	An activity or combination of activities of chief importance on the lot. One (1) of the main purposes for which the land, buildings or structures are intended, designed, or ordinarily used.
Principally Above Ground	For the purposes of Chapter 460, at least fifty-one percent (51%) of the actual cash value of the structure, less land value, is above ground.
Private Utilities	Utilities that are not subject to city acceptance for operation or maintenance, including natural gas lines, power lines, telephone lines, cable television lines, fiber optic lines, and other communication lines, their appurtenances and any other component thereof.
Protection Area, or Stream Protection Area	With respect to a stream, the combined areas of all required buffers and setbacks applicable to such stream.
Public Facilities and/or Uses	Those municipal uses that include and/or accommodate governmental, municipal public utilities or recreational facilities and/or uses. Such facilities and/or uses are unique in that their proximity to sensitive land uses or facilities is not generally detrimental to the quality of life and in many cases are desirable, convenient or required.
Public Open Space	Any publicly-owned open area, including but not limited to parks and playgrounds, but not including streets, alleys, parking or loading areas.
Public Safety Services	Public safety services that provide fire, police or life protection, together with incidental storage and maintenance of necessary vehicles, including but not limited to fire stations, police stations, and ambulance services.
Public Utilities	Utilities that are subject to city acceptance for operation and maintenance, including water lines, sanitary sewer lines, storm sewer lines located in the right-of-way, and their appurtenances and any other components thereof.
PUD	See “Planned Unit Development”.
Recreational Vehicle	A vehicular-type unit primarily designed as temporary living quarters for recreational, camping or travel use, which either has its own motive power or is mounted on or drawn by another vehicle. Examples are travel trailers, camping trailers, truck campers, and motor homes. Manufactured homes are not considered trailers or recreational vehicles. For the purposes of Chapter 460, a vehicle which is: 1. Built on a single chassis; 2. Four hundred (400) square feet or less when measured at the largest horizontal projections; 3. Designed to be self-propelled or permanently towable by a light duty truck; and 4. Designed primarily not for use as a permanent dwelling but as temporary living quarters for recreational, camping, travel or seasonal use.
Recycling Facility	Any business that engages in the collection, storage or processing of any type of aluminum, glass, paper, plastic, rubber, textile, landscape waste or other similar materials for the purpose of marketing the material for use in the manufacturing process of new, reused or reconstituted products.
Regional Park	The largest of parks generally one hundred (100) or more acres serving the residents that live within a five (5) mile radius of the park.
Religious Assembly	Religious uses commonly involving public assembly as customarily occurs in churches, synagogues, mosques, and temples.
Remedy a Violation	For the purposes of Chapter 460, to bring the structure or other development into compliance with Federal, State or local floodplain management regulations; or, if this is not possible, to reduce the impacts of its non-compliance.
Renewable Energy System [Amendment 3 – Ordinance 29092, 9-14-2009]	Equipment or a device that converts energy from a renewable resource such as wind or the sun into electrical or thermal energy to reduce or supplant the consumption of utility power.
Replat [Amendment 24 – Ordinance 2017-004, 2-13-2017]	A legal survey document that is recorded when changes need to be made to a portion or all of a recorded plat.
Research Laboratory	A building or group of buildings in which are located facilities for scientific research, investigation, testing or experimentation, but not primarily facilities for the manufacture or sale of products.
Residential Density	The number of dwelling units per gross acre of residential land area including streets, easements, and open space portions of a development.
Restaurant	An establishment primarily engaged in serving prepared food to the public, including those with outdoor seating areas.
Retail Sales	Businesses that sell, lease or rent new or used products to the general public that are not intended for resale.
Retail Sales, Large	Retail sales uses with one hundred thousand (100,000) square feet of gross floor area or greater.
Retail Sales, Small	Retail sales uses with less than one hundred thousand (100,000) square feet of gross floor area.
Retention Basin	A pond, pool, or basin used for the permanent storage of water runoff.
Right-of-Way	A strip of land occupied or intended to be occupied by a street, alley, crosswalk, railroad, road, electric transmission line, oil or gas pipeline, water main, sanitary or storm sewer, or for another special use.
Riparian	Belonging or related to the bank of a river, stream, lake, pond or impoundment.
Risk Premium Rates	For the purposes of Chapter 460, those rates established by the Federal Flood Insurance Administrator pursuant to individual community studies and investigations which are undertaken to provide flood insurance according to Section 1307 of the National Flood Disaster Protection Act of 1973 and the accepted actuarial principles. Risk premium rates include provisions for operating costs and allowances.
Roadway	The actual road surface area from curbline to curbline, which may include travel lanes, and parking lanes. Where there are no curbs, the roadway is that portion between the edges of the paved, or hard surface, width.
Roof	A structural covering over any portion of a building or structure including projections beyond the walls or supports of the building or structure.
Rotor [Amendment 3 – Ordinance 29092, 9-14-2009]	A component of a small wind energy conversion system consisting of the blades and the hub.
Rotor Diameter [Amendment 3 – Ordinance 29092, 9-14-2009]	The cross sectional dimension of the circle swept by the rotating blades of a wind energy conversion system.
Sale or Lease	Any immediate or future transfer of ownership, including contract of sale or transfer of an interest in a subdivision or part thereof, whether by metes and bounds, deed, contract, plat, map or other written instrument.
Sanitary Landfill	A method of disposing of refuse by spreading and covering such refuse with earth to a depth of two (2) feet or more on the top surface and one (1) foot or more on the sides of the bank.
School	Public or private institutions that provide state-mandated basic education at the elementary, junior high or high school level.
Screened	Shielded, concealed, and effectively hidden from view by a person standing at ground level on an abutting site, or outside the area or feature so screened, by a fence, wall, hedge, berm, or similar architectural and landscaped feature.
Server	Any person who serves food and drink at an adult entertainment business.
Self Storage Facility	Storage or warehousing services within a building for individuals to store personal effects and for businesses to store materials for operation of an industrial or commercial enterprise located elsewhere, where such storage space is not used for any retail, manufacturing, wholesale, business or service use.
Self Storage Facility, Indoor	A fully enclosed self-storage facility with independent, enclosed units to individuals to store personal effects and for businesses to store materials for operation of an industrial or commercial enterprise located elsewhere, where such storage spaces is not used for any retail, manufacturing, wholesale, business or service use.
Setback	The required minimum horizontal distance between the structure line and the related front, side, or rear property line.
Setback, Stream	With respect to a stream, the area established by Section 455.040 extending beyond any buffer applicable to the stream.
Sexually Oriented Toys or Novelties	1. Instruments, devices or paraphernalia which either depict specified anatomical areas or are designed or marketed for use in connection with specified sexual activities. In determining whether an item is designed for marketed for use in connection with specified sexual activities, the following guidelines may be considered: a. Expert testimony as to the principal use of the item; b. Evidence concerning the total business of a person or business, or a person or business establishment, and the type of merchandise involved in the business; c. National and local advertising concerning the use of the item; d. Evidence of advertising concerning the nature of the business establishment; e. Instructions, graphics or other material contained on the item itself or on the packaging materials for the item; f. The physical or structural characteristics of the item; g. The manner in which the item is displayed, including its proximity to other regulated merchandise or signage relating to items in a display area. 2. Any person may request an interpretive ruling from the Chief of Police, or his or her designee, as to whether a particular item is considered by the City to be designed or marketed for use in connection with specified sexual activities. An application for an interpretive ruling shall be made in writing on a form provided by the Chief of Police, and shall be accompanied by such other information as may reasonably be requested under the circumstances pertaining to the specific item about which a ruling is requested. The Chief of Police shall issue a written interpretive ruling within ten (10) business days following submission of a completed application. The decision of the Chief of Police may be appealed to the City Council within fifteen (15) days following the date of the interpretive ruling by submitting a written notice of appeal to the City Clerk.
Shopping Center	A unified retail commercial grouping in one (1) or more buildings of a minimum five (5) retail or service establishments.
Sidewalk	A paved path provided for pedestrian use and usually located at the side of a road within the right-of-way.
Sight Triangle	A triangular-shaped portion of land established at street intersections in which nothing is erected, placed, planted, or allowed to grow in such a manner as to limit or obstruct the sight distance of motorists entering or leaving the intersection.
Sign	Any device, structure or painting which displays or includes any letter, word, model, banner, flag, pennant, insignia, device, or representation used as, or which is in the nature of, an advertisement or announcement which directs attention to an object, product, place, activity, person, institution, organization, or business, but not including any display of official notice or official flag.
Sign Area	The area of a sign means the area encompassed by the perimeter of the sign. The area of the sign shall be computed from the area enclosed by the perimeter upon which the letters, logo, etc., are placed, except that when individual letters, logo, etc., are mounted individually and directly upon a building surface without change in the color or appearance of the surface background, the area of the sign shall be deemed to be the rectangle or other geometric form that encompasses the letters, logo, etc.
Sign, Billboard [Amendment 9 – Ordinance 2011-22, 4-11-2011]	A freestanding monument or ground sign that directs attention to a business, commodity, service, or entertainment conducted, sold or offered at a location other than the parcel on which the sign is located.
Sign, Changeable Copy	A sign or portion thereof designed to accommodate frequent message changes composed of characters, letters, or illustrations and that can be changed or rearranged, either manually or electronically, without altering the face or surface of such sign.
Sign, Commercial Message [Amendment 9 – Ordinance 2011-22, 4-11-2011]	A sign that directs attention to or advertises a business, office or any other commercial interest or activity, or that directs attention to a product, commodity or service offered for sale or lease.
Sign, Directly Illuminated	Any sign that is illuminated by an external or internal light source that is visible.
Sign, Electronic Message Center	Any sign that has copy change completed by electronic means. This definition includes television screens, plasma screens, digital screens, flat screens, LED screens, video boards, and/or the use of changing lights to form a message.
Sign, Freestanding [Amendment 9 – Ordinance 2011-22, 4-11-2011]	Any sign supported wholly or in part by some structure other than the building or buildings housing the use to which the sign pertains or any other building upon the property.
Sign, Ground [Amendment 9 – Ordinance 2011-22, 4-11-2011]	A freestanding sign with 2 or more posts in which the bottom of the sign face is less than six (6) feet above the ground, but not directly in contact with the ground.
Sign, Home Occupation	A sign that advertises or identifies a properly permitted home occupation.
Sign, Identification	A sign giving the name or other attributes of a business or entity, for purposes of identification.
Sign, Incidental	A sign providing information or direction regarding the use upon which the sign is located. Incidental signs include help wanted signs, open/closed signs, signs indicating hours of operation, signs directing traffic flow through the site, menu boards, signs identifying drive-thru lanes, and similar signs.
Sign, Indirectly Illuminated	Any sign that is completely or partially illuminated at any time by an external light source that is so shielded as to not be visible at eye level.
Sign, Inflatable	A sign that is intended to be expanded by air or other gas for its proper display or support.
Sign, Marquee	Any sign attached flat against the marquee or permanent sidewalk canopy of a building and not extending above the roof line.
Sign, Monument [Amendment 9 – Ordinance 2011-22, 4-11-2011]	A freestanding sign that rises from the ground and has no clearance under it, with an opaque base having a width at least eighty percent (80%) of the width of the sign at the widest point.
Sign, Noncommercial Message [Amendment 2 – Ordinance 29073, 7-27-2009]	A sign that does not direct attention to or advertise a business, office or any other commercial interest or activity, or does not direct attention to a product, commodity or service offered for sale or lease.
Sign, Permanent	A sign that is permanently affixed to a building surface, parapet or overhang or is a monument type sign designed to remain in the original location. (Defined as Marquee; Monument; Projecting; Roof; Subdivision Entrance Marker; Under Canopy; or Wall Signs.)
Sign, Pole [Amendment 9 – Ordinance 2011-22, 4-11-2011]	A freestanding sign with a single pole or post.
Sign, Portable	A sign that is not permanently affixed to one location and has the capability of being moved from one (1) site to the next.
Sign, Projecting	Any sign extending more than one (1) foot from the face of the building to which it is attached.
Sign, Real Estate	A sign advertising a piece of real property for sale or lease located on the real property that is for sale.
Sign, Roof [Amendment 9 – Ordinance 2011-22, 4-11-2011]	A sign that extends above a roof or parapet wall of a building.
Sign, Semi-Illuminated	Any sign that is uniformly illuminated internally over its entire area, including the area of the sign, by use of electricity or other artificial light.
Sign, Snipe	Any sign of a material such as cardboard, paper, pressed wood, plastic or metal that is attached to a fence, tree, light pole, utility pole or temporary structure or those staked into the ground, or any sign that is not securely fastened to a building or firmly anchored to the ground.
Sign, Subdivision Amenity	A sign directing traffic to amenities such as a clubhouse or swimming pool within the subdivision.
Sign, Subdivision Entrance Marker	A detached sign identifying the subdivision, located at one (1) or more of the subdivision entrances.
Sign, Temporary Event [Amendment 9 – Ordinance 2011-22, 4-11-2011]	A sign not intended, designed or installed for permanent display.
Sign, Under Canopy	A display attached to the underside of a marquee or canopy and protruding over public or private sidewalks or right-of-way.
Sign, Vehicle	A sign attached to, placed upon, mounted, painted, pasted or drawn on any vehicle or trailer that is parked on a property for the principal purpose of displaying the sign message and is not regularly and customarily used in the operation of the business.
Sign, Wall	A sign attached to or erected against an exterior wall of a building or structure that projects not more than twelve (12) inches from a wall and presents only one (1) face with advertising copy to the public and does not extend above the roofline.
Site Plan	An accurately scaled development plan that illustrates the existing conditions on a land parcel as well as depicting details of a proposed development, including topographic characteristics; the location and dimensions of buildings, yards, courts, landscape, pedestrian and vehicular circulation and parking, fences and screening.
Social Club or Lodge	Any establishment, public or private, commercial or nonprofit, that provides a gathering place for people, with or without food and beverage, commonly known as, but not limited to the following: teen centers; youth centers; senior centers; and dance clubs.
Solar Collector [Amendment 3 – Ordinance 29092, 9-14-2009]	Any apparatus or equipment designed for the purpose of collecting and transforming solar energy into thermal or electrical energy. Solar collectors may include solar photovoltaic panels or solar thermal systems such as solar water heaters.
Solar Energy System [Amendment 3 – Ordinance 29092, 9-14-2009]	An assemblage of equipment designed to absorb, collect, transform, or otherwise use the sun’s energy as a source of heat or electricity. This equipment may include a solar collector, mounting apparatus, inverter, and other appurtenant components.
Special Flood Hazard Area	See “Area of Special Flood Hazard.”
Special Hazard Area	For the purposes of Chapter 460, an area having special flood hazards and shown on an FHBM, FIRM or FBFM as zones (unnumbered or numbered) A or AE.
Specified Anatomical Areas	1. Uncovered or exposed human genitals, pubic region or pubic hair, buttocks, female breast or breasts below a point immediately above the top of the areola encircling the nipple, or any combination of the foregoing; or 2. Human male genitals in a discernibly erect state, even if completely and opaquely covered.
Specified Sexual Activities	Any of the following acts of intended sexual arousal or excitement: 1. Sexual conduct including, but not limited to, actual or simulated acts of sexual intercourse, masturbation, oral copulation or sodomy; 2. Fondling or other intentional touching of a person’s clothed or unclothed genitals, pubic area, buttocks, or the breast of a female; 3. Sadomasochistic acts; or 4. Acts involving animals or latent objects.
Sports and Recreation, Participant	Public and private facilities for the provision of sports, athletic, and other recreational activities. This use does not include private recreational facilities that are accessory to a multi-family or other residential development and are for the sole use of residents thereof.
Stable	A building or structure for the keeping of ponies, horses or mules owned by the occupants of the premises, and not kept for remuneration, hire or sale. See also “Boarding Stables and Riding Schools.”
Start of Construction	For the purposes of Chapter 460, includes substantial improvements, and means the date the building permit was issued, provided the actual start of construction, repair, reconstruction, rehabilitation, addition placement or other improvements were within one hundred eighty (180) days of the permit date. The “actual start” means either the first placement of permanent construction of a structure on a site, such as the pouring of slabs or footings, the installation of piles, the construction of columns, and work beyond the stage of excavation; or the placement of a manufactured home on a foundation. Permanent construction does not include land preparation, such as clearing, grading and filling, the installation of streets and/or sidewalks, excavation for a basement, footings, piers, foundations, the erection of temporary forms, nor installation on the property of accessory buildings, such as garages or sheds not occupied as dwelling units or not part of the main structure. For a substantial improvement, the “actual start of construction” means the first alteration of any wall, ceiling, floor or other structural part of the building, whether or not that alteration affects the external dimensions of the building.
State Coordinating Agency	For the purposes of Chapter 460, that agency of the State government or other office designated by the Governor of the State or by State Statute at the request of the Federal Flood Insurance Administrator to assist in the implementation of the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) in that State.
Stream	Any water course identified on the City of Raymore Stream Map as shown in the latest revision of the Raymore Watershed Management Plan dated May 22, 2006.
Stream Centerline	The sloping land that contains the stream channel and the normal flows of the stream.
Stream Channel	The portion of a watercourse that contains the base flow of the stream.
Stream Order	The Strahler classification system for streams based on stream hierarchy and the position within a watershed. The smaller the stream, the lower its numerical classification. Stream order is determined by a combination of factors, including the confluence of smaller streams, increased flow from contributing water sources and the size of the watershed that feeds the stream. First order streams are the smallest streams regulated by this Chapter; the term does not include roadside ditches. When two (2) first-order streams come together, they form a second-order stream. When two (2) second-order streams come together, they form a third-order stream. Streams of lower order joining a higher order stream do not change the order of the higher stream. Thus, if a first-order stream joins a second-order stream, it remains a second-order stream. It is not until a second-order stream combines with another second-order stream that it becomes a third-order stream. Streams orders are designated on the City of Raymore Stream Map. An example of stream orders is shown below.
Stream Protection Area	See “Protection Area.”
Street	A right-of-way dedicated to the public use which provides vehicular and pedestrian access to adjacent properties.
Street Line	A dividing line between a lot, tract, or parcel of land and the contiguous street.
Street Hierarchy	The conceptual arrangement of streets based upon the function. A hierarchical approach to street design classifies streets according to function, from high-traffic arterial roads down to streets whose function is residential access. Systematizing street design into a road hierarchy promotes safety, efficient land use, and residential quality.
Street Network	The following street designations are adopted as a part of the transportation component of the Comprehensive Plan. 1. Local street--provides access to properties. 2. Collector streets--conducts traffic from local streets to arterial streets, with access to properties. 3. Arterial streets--carries traffic out of and through the area, subject to certain control of entrances, exits and curb cuts.
Structural Alteration	See “Alteration.”
Structure	Anything constructed or erected with a fixed location on the ground, or attached to something having a fixed location on the ground. Among other things, “structures” include buildings, walls, fences, signs, billboards, sheds, towers, and bins. For purposes of this chapter, central air-conditioning condensing units and similar cooling system apparatus, other than so-called “window” or “room” conditioners, will be considered as structures. For floodplain management purposes, a walled and roofed building, including a gas or liquid storage tank, that is principally above ground, as well as a manufactured home. For insurance purposes, “structure” means a walled and roofed building, other than a gas or liquid storage tank, that is principally above ground and affixed to a permanent site, as well as a manufactured home on a permanent foundation. For the latter purpose, the term includes a building while in the course of construction, alteration or repair, but does not include building materials or supplies intended for use in such construction, alteration or repair, unless such materials or supplies are within an enclosed building on the premises.
Stub Street	A portion of a street for which an extension has been proposed and approved. May be permitted when development is phased over a period of time, but only if the street in its entirety has been approved in the preliminary plat.
Subdivider	A person, firm, corporation, partnership, or association which causes land to be divided into a subdivision for itself or for others.
Subdivision	The division of a tract of land into two (2) or more lots or parcels for the purpose of transfer of ownership or building development, or, if a new street is involved, any division of a parcel of land. The term “subdivision” includes “resubdivision”, and the term “resubdivision”, as used herein, will include any further subdivision of a lot or parcel of land previously subdivided for sale, use, or other purposes, which vary from the latest, approved plat of the same.
Subject Property [Amendment 21 – Ordinance 2015-005, 1-26-2015]	The lot or portion thereof to which an application (rezoning, Conditional Use Permit, etc.) is applicable.
Substantial Damage	For the purposes of Chapter 460, damage of any origin sustained by a structure whereby the cost of restoring the structure to pre-damaged condition would equal or exceed fifty percent (50%) of the market value of the structure before the damage occurred.
Substantial Improvement	For the purposes of Chapter 460, any reconstruction, rehabilitation, addition or other improvement of a structure, the cost of which equals or exceeds fifty percent (50%) of the market value of the structure before “start of construction” of the improvement. The term includes structures which have incurred “substantial damage”, regardless of the actual repair work performed. The term does not, however, include either: 1. Any project for improvement of a structure to correct existing violations of state or local health, sanitary or safety code specifications that have been identified by the local Code Enforcement Official and which are the minimum necessary to assure safe living conditions, or 2. Any alteration of a “historic structure”, provided that the alteration will not preclude the structure’s continued designation as a “historic structure.”
Surveyor	A professional land surveyor registered in the State of Missouri.
Tavern	An establishment primarily engaged in serving alcoholic beverages for consumption on the premises and in which the serving of prepared food and live entertainment may be provided.
Transitional Residence	A temporary residential living arrangement for persons receiving therapy or counseling for purposes including, but not limited to, the following: 1. Recuperation from drug or alcohol addiction; 2. Assistance with re-entering society while housed under supervision as an alternative to imprisonment, including pre-release, work-release and probationary programs; or 3. Assistance with family or school adjustment problems that require specialized attention in order to achieve personal independence.
Trash Receptacle	A container used for the temporary storage of rubbish or materials pending collection.
Trash Receptacle, Commercial [Amendment 15 – Ordinance 2013-010, 2-11-2013]	A container used for the temporary storage of rubbish or materials pending collection, having a capacity of at least one (1) cubic yard.
Trash Receptacle, Residential [Amendment 15 – Ordinance 2013-010, 2-11-2013]	A container used for the temporary storage of rubbish or materials pending collection, having a capacity of less than one (1) cubic yard. This may include a galvanized metal container, rubber or fiberglass containers, and plastic containers which do not become brittle in cold weather.
Trucking/Freight Terminal	A building or area where freight is collected, stored and/or dispatched for intrastate or interstate shipment.
Undeveloped Lot [Amendment 21 – Ordinance 2015-005, 1-26-2015]	A lot, tract, or other parcel of land without a principal building upon the property.
Unified Development Code	The terms “Unified Development Code”, “these regulations”, “this Title,” “this ordinance” or “this Code” mean the requirements contained in the Unified Development Code of the City of Raymore, Chapters 400 through 480 of the Raymore Municipal Code, as from time to time amended.
Unnecessary Hardship [Amendment 24 – Ordinance 2017-004, 2-13-2017]	An unnecessary hardship arises when the physical characteristics of a property, coupled with imposed governmental regulations, preclude a property owner from a reasonable use of their property.
Use	Any purpose for which a structure or a tract of land may be designed, arranged, intended, maintained, or occupied; also, any activity, occupation, business, or operation carried on, or intended to be carried on, in a structure or on a tract of land.
USGS	United States Coast and Geodetic Survey.
Utility, Major	Services and utilities that have substantial impacts on surrounding areas, including but not limited to water and wastewater treatment facilities, public works garages, major water storage facilities, pumping stations, electric substations, gas regulator stations, telephone transmission structures, radio, and television and microwave relay towers.
Utility, Minor	Public utilities that have few, if any, impacts upon the surrounding neighborhood, such as electrical and gas distribution substations or power transmission lines.
Variance	A waiver from compliance with a specific provision granted to a particular property owner because of the practical difficulties or unnecessary hardship that would be imposed by the strict application of that provision of this chapter. For the purposes of Chapter 460, a grant of relief by the community from the terms of a floodplain management regulations. Flood insurance requirements remain in place for any varied use or structure and cannot be varied by the community.
Vehicle [Amendment 8 – Ordinance 2011-9, 2-28-2011]	Any car, truck, trailer, camper, recreational vehicle, boat or other device utilized for transporting goods, passengers or equipment.
Vehicle, Recreational Vehicle or Boat Storage/Towing	The operating of a vehicle towing service or the storage of automobiles, recreational vehicles or boats as a principal use.
Veterinary Services	Any building or portion thereof designed or used for the care, observation or treatment of domestic animals.
Violation	For the purposes of Chapter 460, the failure of a structure or other development to be fully compliant with the community’s floodplain management regulations. A structure or other development without the elevation certificate, other certification or other evidence of compliance required by this chapter is presumed to be in violation until such time as that documentation is provided.
Warehousing and Wholesaling	Storage, wholesale sales and distribution of materials and equipment, including but not limited to storage warehouses, moving and storage firms, trucking or cartage operations, truck staging or storage areas, and wholesale sales of materials and equipment to parties other than the general public.
Water Ponding Area	Limits of the area inundated as a result of run-off from the one-hundred-year storm.
Water Surface Elevation	The height, in relation to the National Geodetic Vertical Datum (NGVD) of 1929 (or other datum where specified) of floods of various magnitudes and frequencies in the floodplain.
Watercourse	The natural stream channel. For the purposes of Chapter 460, a running stream of water; a natural stream fed from permanent or natural sources, including rivers, creeks, and streams. It must flow in a definite channel, having a bed or banks. It must be something more than mere surface drainage over the land.
Watershed	The land area that drains into a particular stream.
Wind Energy Conversion System, Large [Amendment 3 – Ordinance 29092, 9-14-2009]	An assemblage of equipment designed for the purpose of converting wind energy into power. Large wind energy conversion systems may be designed to serve one (1) or more properties and may have an electrical generating capacity of greater than one hundred (100) kilowatts. This equipment may include a horizontal or vertical axis wind turbine, tower, foundation, vane and associated control or conversion electronics.
Wind Energy Conversion System, Small [Amendment 3 – Ordinance 29092, 9-14-2009]	An assemblage of equipment designed for the purpose of converting wind energy into power. Small wind energy conversion systems shall be used primarily for the reduction of on-site utility power and shall have an electrical generating capacity of not more than one hundred (100) kilowatts. This equipment may include a horizontal or vertical axis wind turbine, tower, foundation, vane and associated control or conversion electronics.
Wireless Communication Facility	A facility related to the use of the radio frequency spectrum for the purposes of transmitting or receiving radio signals, and may include, but is not limited to radio towers, television towers, telephone exchanges, micro-wave relay towers, telephone transmission equipment buildings and commercial mobile radio service facilities. The wireless communication facility use category includes all associated equipment unless the written context clearly indicates that another meaning is intended. The term “associated equipment” is to be read broadly and in context. Associated equipment may include, but is not limited to: antenna, equipment shelter or platform, lighting, monopole tower, mounting hardware, and supporting electrical or mechanical equipment.
Wireless Communication Facility, Collocated	A wireless telecommunication facility that is attached to an existing pole, tower or other structure including, but not limited to, a structure that can accommodate the future installation of two (2) or more antenna systems.
Wireless Communication Facility, Freestanding	A new tower, monopole or other unattached structure erected to support wireless communication antennas and connecting appurtenances.
Yard	A space on the same lot with a main structure, open, unoccupied and unobstructed by structures from the ground upward. See “Measurements and Exceptions,” Section 485.020.
Yard, Front	See “Measurements and Exceptions,” Section 485.020.
Yard, Rear	See “Measurements and Exceptions,” Section 485.020.
Yard, Side	See “Measurements and Exceptions,” Section 485.020.
Yard, Through Lot	See “Measurements and Exceptions,” Section 485.020.
Zone, District or Zoning District	A portion of the City the boundaries of which are designated on the Official Zoning Map and for which the regulations governing the use, height, area, size, and intensity of use of buildings and land are uniform.

§ 485.020 Measurements and Exceptions.

[Amendment 13 – Ordinance 2012-074, 9-24-2012]

A. Lot Area, Total.

1. Measurement. Lot area includes the total land area contained within the property lines of a lot. No lot, yard, parking area, building area or other space may be reduced in area or dimension so as not to meet the provisions of this chapter.

2. Exceptions for Nonconforming Lots of Record. See Section 475.060 for rules governing nonconforming lots of record.

3. Exceptions for Lots not Serviced by Public Sewers. On lots with on-site sewage disposal systems, the minimum lot area may be required to be increased so the lot size is sufficient to permit the use of an on-site sewage disposal system designed in accordance with state of Missouri Department of Public Health requirements.

B. Lot Area per Dwelling Unit.

1. Measurement. The lot area per dwelling unit refers to the minimum amount of lot area that is required for each dwelling unit on the property. For residential or mixed-use development, dwelling unit density is controlled through a minimum lot-area-per-dwelling-unit standard.

2. Rounding. When the number of dwelling units yielded by the density calculation results in a fraction, the fraction must be rounded down to the previous whole number. For example, if a minimum lot-area-per-unit standard of six thousand (6,000) square feet is applied to a 15,000 square foot lot, a maximum of two (2) dwelling units would be allowed on the property.

C. Lot Width.

1. Measurement. Lot width is the mean horizontal distance between side lines measured at right angles to the depth of the lot. Lot width is measured as the horizontal distance between the side lot lines measured at the minimum front setback line.

2. Exceptions for Nonconforming Lots of Record. See Section 475.060 for rules governing nonconforming lots of record.

D. Lot Depth. Lot depth is measured as the mean horizontal distance between the front and rear property lines as measured along each side yard line.

E. Front Yard. The front yard extends across the full width of the lot, adjacent to the street right-of-way. The front yard is to be measured from the front property line to the closest point of the structure on the subject lot, not including those projections and features allowed by this code. Corner lots have two (2) front yards.

F. Rear Yard. The rear yard extends across the full width of the lot. The rear yard is to be measured from the rear property line to the closest point of the structure on the subject lot, not including those projections and features allowed by this code to project into the rear setback. On pie-shaped or triangular lots with side property lines that come to a point at the rear, the rear yard is measured from a line segment that connects the side property lines and is a minimum of ten (10) feet in length. In computing the depth of a rear yard for any structure where such a yard abuts an alley, one-half (1/2) the width of such alley may be included in the required rear yard dimension.

G. Side Yard. The side yard extends from the front yard, or the front lot line where no front yard is required, to the rear yard. The side yard is to be measured from the side property line to the closest point of the structure on the subject lot, not including those projections and features allowed by this code to project into the side yard. Corner lots have two (2) side yards and two (2) front yards.

H. Through Lot Yards. On through lots, property lines that abut public right-of-way lines are considered front property lines and front yard requirements apply. Rear yard requirements do not apply.

I. Building Height.

1. Measurement. Building height is to be measured from the average elevation of the finished grade adjoining the front building line to the highest point of the roof surface in the case of a flat roof; to the deck line of a mansard roof; and to the average height between the eaves and ridge of a gable, hip or gambrel roof.

2. Exceptions to Maximum Height Requirements. Certain structures and features may exceed the maximum permitted height requirements stipulated elsewhere in this chapter. The following are exempt from the height requirements of this chapter.

a. Architectural projections such as spires, belfries, parapet walls, cupolas, domes, flues and chimneys.

b. Structures such as elevator penthouses, gas tanks, grain elevators, radio and television reception towers and aerials, roof-mounted mechanical equipment, cooling towers, fire towers, and smoke stacks.

c. Structures related to utility services such as water towers, electric power and communication transmission lines, traffic signals and light poles.

d. Radio transmission and reception antenna in residential districts may exceed the maximum permitted height, provided the height does not exceed three times its distance from the nearest property line.

e. Renewable energy systems in conformance with Section 420.070.

[Amendment 3 – Ordinance 29092, 9-14-2009]

J. Building Coverage. Building coverage is to be measured as the percentage of lot area that is covered with principal and accessory buildings and above-grade structures, including garages, sheds, gazebos, covered decks, and covered porches. At-grade accessory structures such as driveways, patios, walkways, and other paved surfaces on a lot are not included in the calculation of maximum building coverage.