“Cafe” means a coffeehouse or small restaurant where drinks and snacks are sold.

“Campaign sign” means a temporary sign used by candidates running for political and elected offices in the city.

“Camping” means the temporary establishment of living facilities such as tents, RVs, travel trailers, recreational coaches, or any other temporary living or dwelling for any period of time. Camping on public property, including streets, parks and publicly owned lots, is prohibited. Camping on private property is prohibited except as allowed in this title.

“Cannabis production establishment” means the same as that term is defined and amended in Section 4-41a-102 of the Utah Code Annotated.

“Canopy” means a roof or awning constructed of nonrigid materials on a supporting framework, architectural metal, or other material and extending outward from a building to provide a protective shield for doors, windows, or other openings with supports extended to the ground directly under the canopy or cantilevered from the building.

“Canopy sign” means a sign affixed or applied to the exterior facing surface or surfaces of a canopy.

“Capital improvements program” means a proposed schedule and description of all proposed public works projects, listed in order of construction priority, together with cost estimates and the anticipated means of financing each project.

“Carport” means a private garage not completely enclosed by walls or doors.

“Car wash” means a facility used to clean the exterior, and sometimes the interior, of automobiles.

“Cemetery” means property used for the interring of the dead.

“Central Midvale neighborhood” is the neighborhood bounded by the State Street corridor to the east, I-15 to the west, Center Street to the north, and Wasatch Avenue to the south.

“Changeable copy sign (automatic)” means a sign on which the copy changes automatically on a lamp bank or through mechanical means, e.g., electrical or electronic time and temperature units.

“Changeable copy sign (manual)” means a sign on which copy is changed manually in the field, e.g., reader boards with changeable letters.

“Channel letter sign” means a sign consisting of fabricated three-dimensional letters mounted individually on a wall surface.

“Check cashing” means cashing a check for consideration or extending a deferred deposit loan and shall include any other similar types of businesses licensed by the state pursuant to the Check Cashing Registration Act. No check cashing or deferred deposit loan business shall be located within six hundred feet of any other check cashing business. Distance requirements defined in this section shall be measured in a straight line, without regard to intervening structures or zoning districts, from the entry door of each business. One check cashing or deferred deposit loan business shall be allowed for every ten thousand citizens living in Midvale City. The term “check cashing” shall not include fully automated stand-alone services located inside of an existing building, so long as the automated service incorporates no signage in the windows or outside of the building.

“Child care” means the provision, day or night, of supplemental parental care, instruction and supervision for a nonrelated child or children, on a regular basis, and for less than twenty-four hours a day. The term does not include babysitting services on a casual, non-recurring nature or in the child’s own home nor cooperative, reciprocative child care by a group of parents in their respective domiciles.

“Child care center” means the provision of child care for six or fewer children, including the provider’s children who are under the age of eighteen, within a dwelling unit.

“Child care facility” means the provision of child care for seven or more children including the provider’s children who are under the age of eighteen.

“Christmas tree sales” is defined as the sale of Christmas trees and related seasonal merchandise from a temporary location.

Clear view area. See “Sight distance triangle.”

Club, private. See “Private club.”

“Collector street” means a street which serves or is designed to serve moderate flows of traffic, such as 700 West Street, that collects from local streets and other collector streets and connects with arterial streets.

“Colocation” means the location of a telecommunication facility on an existing structure, tower, or building in a manner that precludes the need for that telecommunications facility to be located on a freestanding structure of its own.

“Colony” or “hive” means an aggregate of bees consisting principally of workers, but having, when perfect, one queen and at times many drones, including brood, combs, honey and the receptacle inhabited by the bees.

“Commercial convenience store” means those commercial establishments known as convenience stores, food marts, or c-stores and includes any retail establishment characterized by a rapid turnover of customers and high traffic generation, offering for sale a relatively limited line of prepackaged food products and snacks, household items, newspapers and magazines, and sandwiches and other freshly prepared foods, such as salads, for off-site consumption. Commercial convenience store does not include those uses classified as vehicle filling stations, vehicle-related uses, or twenty-four-hour uses.

“Commercial kennel” means a shelter for or a place where over three dogs or cats are bred, boarded, or trained for monetary gain.

“Commercial mixed-use” means development which incorporates a mix of uses, including retail commercial, and/or offices and residential.

“Commercial nursery” means a business where young plants or trees are raised for experimental horticultural purposes, for transplanting, or for sale.

“Commercial parking lot” means a parking lot or structure primarily used for parking motor vehicles for a fee, for a use that is not located on site, or for intermodal transfer facilities such as park and ride lots or transit stations. A vehicle may not be parked in a commercial parking lot for more than a total of twenty-four hours if the vehicle is inoperable, disassembled, dismantled, or in a state of disrepair.

“Commercial recreation facilities” means recreation facilities operated as a business on private or public property and open to the public for a fee.

“Commercial repair services” means repair of products, not to include vehicles or heavy equipment. These uses include consumer repair services for individuals and households for items such as household appliances, musical instruments, cameras, household electronic equipment, and similar uses. Any other uses specifically listed within each particular zoning district shall not be construed as falling within this generic definition.

“Commercial use” means an occupation, employment, or enterprise that is carried on to facilitate an exchange of goods, services or ideas.

“Common area” means facilities, open space and yards under common ownership, identified within projects, for the use and enjoyment of the residents.

“Common ownership” means ownership of the same property by different persons.

“Community council” means a neighborhood-based organization created for the purpose of providing citizen input regarding planning and development issues, and other relevant city business and decisions. Officially recognized community councils of the city include the Union community council and the Midvale community council.

“Compatible” means when the characteristics of new development or a change in use integrate with, relate to, and/or enhance the context of a surrounding area or neighborhood. Elements affecting compatibility include, but are not limited to, height, scale, mass and bulk of buildings, pedestrian and vehicular circulation, parking, landscaping and architecture, topography, environmentally sensitive areas, and building patterns.

“Complete application” means a submission which includes all information requested on the appropriate form and full payment of all applicable fees.

“Comprehensive mental health treatment” means a facility used to treat people with mental illnesses of all ages and genders in a comprehensive manner.

“Conditional use” means a land use that, because of its unique characteristics or potential impact on the municipality, surrounding neighbors, or adjacent land uses, may not be compatible in some areas of a zone district, or may be compatible only if certain conditions are required that mitigate or eliminate the detrimental impacts.

“Condominium” means any structure or parcel that has been submitted to fractionalize ownership under the provisions of the Utah Condominium Ownership Act.

“Conservation activity” means a process to restore, enhance, protect, and sustain the quality and quantity of ecosystems and natural resources.

“Constitutional taking” means final action by the city to physically take or exact private real property that requires compensation to the owner because of the mandates of the Fifth or Fourteenth Amendments to the Constitution of the United States, or Article I, Section 22, of the Utah Constitution.

“Construction activity” means all excavation, construction, mining, or other development activity which disturbs or changes the natural vegetation, grade, or any existing structure, or the act of adding an addition to an existing structure, or the erection of a new principal or accessory structure on a lot or property.

“Construction mitigation plan” means a written description of the method by which an owner will ameliorate the adverse impacts of construction activity to the surrounding area and/or neighborhood.

“Construction plan” means the map and drawings showing the specific location and design of the development.

“Construction sign” means a sign identifying an existing or proposed development project which may contain the name of the project, name and address of construction firms, architect, engineers, developers, etc.

“Coop” means a freestanding building for the sheltering of fowl.

“Copperview neighborhood” is the neighborhood bounded by the State Street corridor to the east, I-15 to the west, Midvale City boundary to the south, and Wasatch Avenue to the north.

“Corner lot” means a lot situated at the intersection of two streets, the interior angle of such intersection does not exceed one hundred thirty-five degrees.

“Cornice” means a horizontal molding projecting along the top of a wall or building.

“Council” means members of the city council of Midvale.

“County” is the unincorporated area of Salt Lake County.

Cover, site. See “Site cover.”

“CPTED (Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design)” means guiding design principles for creating safer built environments, incorporating natural surveillance, natural access control, territorial enforcement, management and maintenance. Such principles are published by the National Crime Prevention Council in the CPTED Handbook on file in the office of community and economic development.

“Cul-de-sac” means a dead end street with an area for the safe and convenient reversal of traffic.

“Cutoff-type luminaire” means a luminaire with shields, reflectors, refractors, or other such elements that direct and cut off emitted light at an angle less than ninety degrees. (Ord. 2024-02 § 3 (Exh. A); Ord. 2020-02 § 1 (Att. A (part)); Ord. 9/22/2009O-15 § 1 (Att. A (part)); Ord. 6/16/2009O-10 § 3 (part); Ord. 5/5/2009O-8 § 1 (Att. A (part)); Ord. 8/22/2006O-14 § 1 (part); Ord. 7/11/2006O-9 § 1 (part); Ord. 3/07/2006O-1 § 1 (part); Ord. 8/10/2004O-25 § 1(6) (part); Ord. 12-11-2001C § 2 (part))