17-2-9 “I” definitions.
“IBC commercial kitchen” means a kitchen that is required by the International Building Code (IBC), because of the nature of the cooking or food preparation activities, to have commercial food heat-processing equipment, such as compensating hoods, grease filters, kitchen hoods, and similar types of equipment.
“Identification sign” means a sign whose copy is limited to the name and address of a building, institution, or person or to the activity or occupation being identified.
“Illegal sign” means a sign which does not meet the requirements of the Midvale City zoning ordinance and which has not received nonconforming status.
“Illuminated sign” means a sign which has characters, letters, figures, designs, or outlines illuminated by electric lights or luminous tubes.
“Impact analysis” means a determination of the potential effect(s) (environmental, fiscal, social, etc.) upon the community of a proposed development.
“Impervious surface” means and includes all buildings or structures measured at their greatest extent and so as to include areas overhung by eaves, balconies, decks and other projecting features of the structure; also all paved or otherwise hard-surfaced areas such as roads, curbs and gutters, walks, parking lots and loading areas, and asphalt or concrete aprons for solid waste containers, signs or outdoor mechanical equipment.
“Improved, common open space” means open space, held in common ownership, that is improved beyond that of natural open space to facilitate an activity or series of activities, including such uses as mini parks, picnic areas, playgrounds, gazebos, basketball courts, tennis courts, recreation areas and structures such as club houses, pavilions, swimming pools, skate parks, and other similar uses and facilities. Improved common space does not include for profit recreational facilities, secondary recreational facilities that happen to be located in an area or on a surface that has a different primary use such as a basketball court located in a roadway, activity areas that are not held either in common ownership or public ownership, or areas and/or facilities that do not reasonably lend themselves to the intended activity. Any other uses specifically listed within each particular zoning district shall not be construed as falling within this generic definition.
“Improvement” means street construction, water systems, sewer systems, sidewalks, curbs and gutters, drainage facilities, on-site construction, street trees, street signs, street lights, traffic control or safety devices, fire hydrants, and such other facilities, utilities, or construction.
Inaction. An application is inactive and subject to denial on the basis of inactivity if, through the act or omission solely of the applicant and not of the city:
A. More than six months has passed since a request for additional information was made by the city without a response from the applicant;
B. Upon notice the applicant is more than sixty days in default of the payment of any fee assessed by resolution or has not paid the fee under protest;
C. The applicant has stated an intent to abandon the project; or
D. The application appears to have been filed in bad faith for the purpose of attempting to vest rights prior to a zoning change, without actual intent to construct the project applied for.
An application found to be inactive or subject to denial based on inaction as defined herein may be denied in accordance with Section 17-3-10.
“Industrial parking area” means an area used or designed for parking commercial and industrial vehicles over 12,000 pounds GVW. A designated industrial parking area can also be used for parking on site use related motor vehicles less than 12,000 pounds GVW.
“Inflated sign” means a temporary advertisement consisting of balloons and other devices supported by the pressure of forced or heated air or of lighter-than-air gases anchored to the premises where the advertised use is conducted, product or commodity sold, service performed, or business name is located.
“Inoperative vehicle or trailer” means any vehicle or trailer that due to mechanical, electrical or structural problems, or lack of maintenance, cannot operate as it was originally constructed and designed to do or should not be operated due to conditions rendering it as unsafe. This includes any vehicle or trailer that is not currently licensed.
“Intensity of use” means the maximum number of residential units, or commercial or industrial space within, a specified land area designated for that purpose.
“Intensive office” means a business offering executive, administrative, professional or clerical services with a high level of client interaction and traffic generated; and/or a business which employs five or more persons per one thousand square feet of net leasable office space.
“Interior landscaping” refers to planting islands and areas within the interior of the development.
“Interior sign” means a sign located within a building so as to be visible only from within the building in which the sign is located.
“Internal accessory dwelling unit” or “IADU” means the same as that term is defined in Section 10-9a-530 of the Utah Code Annotated, as amended.
“Irrigated landscaped area” means all portions of a development site to be improved with planting and irrigation. Natural open space areas shall not be included in the irrigated landscaped area.
“Irrigation efficiency” means the measurement of the amount of water beneficially applied, divided by the total amount of water applied. Irrigation efficiency is derived from measurements and estimates of irrigation system hardware characteristics and management practices.
Irrigation Plan. The “irrigation plan” shall be shown at the same scale as the planting plan. The irrigation plan shall show the components of the irrigation system with water meter size, backflow prevention, precipitation rates, flow rate and operating pressure for each irrigation circuit, and identification of all irrigation equipment.
“Itinerant merchant” means any person who engages in a temporary business of selling or offering to sell any goods, wares, merchandise or services from a stand, cart, tent or other structure not permanently affixed to real property. (Ord. 2021-19 § 1 (Att. A); Ord. 5/5/2009O-8 § 1 (Att. A (part)); Ord. 7/11/2006O-9 § 1 (part); Ord. 10/28/2003O-11 § 1(8) (part); Ord. 12/03/2002A § 1 (part); Ord. 12-11-2001C § 2 (part))