“Habitable space (room)” means space in a structure for living, sleeping, eating, or cooking. Bathrooms, toilet compartments, closets, halls, storage, or utility space, and similar areas are not considered “habitable space.”

“Hardscape” means patios, decks and paths. Does not include driveways and sidewalks.

“Hard-surfaced” means covered with concrete, brick, asphalt, or other impervious surface.

“Hedge” means a fence, boundary, and/or visual barrier formed by a row of closely planted shrubs, bushes or low trees.

Height, building. See “Building height.”

“Heliport” means an area of land or water or structural surface which is used, or intended for use, for landings and takeoffs of helicopters, including facilities for maintenance, fueling, storage, and hangars, and other necessary buildings and open spaces.

“Historic” means that which has interest or value to the heritage, background and/or cultural character of Midvale and its environs.

“Historic building, structure, site or object” means any building, structure, site and/or object that demonstrates historic significance as set forth in Chapter 17-7-11.

“Historic district” means a geographically definable area possessing a significant concentration, linkage, or continuity of buildings, structures, sites, or objects united by past events, plan or physical development. A “historic district” may comprise an individual site or individual elements separated geographically but linked by association, plan, design, or history.

“Home occupation” means a business carried on entirely within a dwelling by persons residing within the dwelling, which business is clearly incidental and secondary to the use of the dwelling for residential purposes.

“Honey bee” means all life stages of the common domestic honey bee, Apis mellifera species.

“Horizontal foot candle (HFC)” means a unit of illumination produced on a horizontal surface, all points of which are one foot from a uniform point source of one candle.

“Horizontal mixed-use” means commercial and residential uses which are within close proximity to each other and designed in a “village” manner, but not necessarily within the same building structures.

“Hospital” means an institution specializing in clinical, temporary or emergency medical services to humans and/or licensed by the state to provide diagnosis, treatment, surgery, obstetrics and general medical practice.

“Hotel/motel” means an establishment with temporary lodging in rooms, for less than one month, that has interior common corridor access to rooms, may include a restaurant, and may contain accessory uses and services, including, without limitation, newsstands, gift shops, and similar incidental uses conducted entirely within the principal building but excludes a “bed and breakfast,” as defined in this section.

“Hotel room” means a unit consisting of one room, without a kitchen, intended for temporary living and sleeping purposes and including a separate, exclusive bathroom.

“Hotel suite” means two or more interconnected hotel rooms with a single corridor or exterior access. May include a “kitchenette.” (Ord. 6/16/2009O-10 § 3 (part); Ord. 7/11/2006O-9 § 1 (part); Ord. 12/03/2002A § 1 (part); Ord. 12-11-2001C § 2 (part))