(1) “Accessory dwelling unit/ADU” means an interior, attached or detached residential structure complete with independent living facilities including permanent provisions for living, sleeping, eating, cooking, and sanitation, that is used in conjunction with, or that is accessory to, a primary single-family dwelling. An ADU is not a motor vehicle or recreational vehicle, as defined in Chapter 18.48 NBCC, of any kind.

(2) “Accessory structure or use” means a structure or use incidental and subordinate to the main use of the property and which is located on the same lot with the main use. A home occupation is an accessory use. An unenclosed, covered porch and/or deck is an accessory structure.

(3) “Alley” means a narrow public right-of-way through a block primarily for utilities and access to the back or side of properties fronting another street.

(4) Apartment House. See “Dwelling, multifamily.”

(5) “Billboard” means a sign which advertises a business, commodity or activity which is not sold, manufactured or conducted on the property where the sign is located.

(6) “Building” means a structure built for the support, shelter, or enclosure of persons, animals, chattels or property of any kind.

(7) “Church” means a building, together with its accessory buildings and uses, where persons regularly assemble for worship and which is maintained and controlled by a religious body organized to sustain public worship. For purposes of this title, a synagogue, temple, mosque, chapel, meeting house, or other nonresidential place of worship is a church. See “Place of worship.”

(8) “Cooking facility” means some combination of appliance and utility access that allows for the sanitary preparation and storage of food in a discrete and defined space.

(9) “City” means the city of North Bend, Oregon.

(10) “Development” means the placement, erection, or removal of any fill, solid material, or structure on land, in or under the water; discharge or disposal of any dredged material or of any liquid or solid waste; or the grading, removing, dredging, mining, or extraction of any materials, including mineral resources; the construction, reconstruction, removal, demolition or alteration of the size of any structure; or the removal or harvesting of vegetation. “Development” shall not be defined or interpreted to include activities related to or undertaken in conjunction with the cultivation, use, or subdivision of land for agricultural purposes or any improvement made in the interior of any structure.

(11) “Dwelling, single-family” means a detached building containing one dwelling unit.

(12) “Dwelling, duplex” or “dwelling, two-family” means two attached or detached dwelling units on a lot.

(13) “Dwelling, multifamily” means a building containing three or more dwelling units.

(14) “Dwelling, triplex” means three attached or detached dwelling units on a lot.

(15) “Dwelling, quadplex” means four attached or detached dwelling units on a lot.

(16) “Dwelling, cottage cluster” means a grouping of four or fewer detached dwelling units, located on a single lot that includes a common courtyard.

(17) “Dwelling unit” means one or more rooms providing complete independent living facilities for one family, including permanent provisions for living, sleeping, eating, cooking, and sanitation. For the purposes of this title, the term “dwelling unit” does not include the term “trailer house.”

(18) “Family” means an individual or two or more persons living together in a dwelling unit in which board and lodging are available; provided, that the total number of such persons shall not exceed one for every 200 square feet of living space within a dwelling unit.

(19) “Fence” means any artificially constructed barrier or any material or combination of materials erected to enclose or screen areas of land. Vegetative plantings arranged in such a way as to enclose or screen areas of land are considered fences for the purposes of this title. A fence is sight-obscuring when it obstructs vision.

(20) “Floor area” means the area included in surrounding walls of a building, or portion thereof, exclusive of vent shafts and courts.

(21) “Garage, private” means an accessory building or portion of a main building used for the parking or temporary storage of vehicles owned or used by occupants of the main building.

(22) “Garage, public” means a building other than a private garage used for the care and repair of motor vehicles or where such vehicles are parked or stored for compensation, hire or sale.

(23) “Grade (ground level)” means the average of the finished ground level at the center of all exterior walls of the building. In case a wall is parallel to and within five feet of a sidewalk, the ground level shall be measured at the sidewalk.

(24) “Guest house” means a small, detached accessory building without cooking facilities that is designed for and used to house nonpaying transient visitors or guests or the occupants of the primary dwelling on the lot.

(25) “Height of building” means the vertical distance from the grade to the highest point of the coping of a flat roof or to the deck line of a mansard roof or to the average height of the highest gable of a pitch or hip roof.

(26) “Home occupation” means an occupation commonly carried on within a dwelling or accessory structure located on the same lot or parcel by members of the family occupying the dwelling; provided, that the residential character of the building is maintained and the occupation is conducted in such a manner as not to give an outward appearance nor outwardly manifest any characteristic of a business in the ordinary meaning of the term nor infringe upon the right of neighboring residents to enjoy the peaceful occupancy of their homes. A home occupation does not involve the retail sale of a product on the premises nor does it occupy an area in either the dwelling or the accessory structure greater than 30 percent of the total floor area of the dwelling, excluding the area of any attached or detached garage or accessory structure. In the R-M, R-5, R-6, R-7 and R-10 residential zones, a home occupation does not involve the presence on the premises of more than one customer, client or patient at any one time. See Chapter 5.35 NBCC.

(27) “Hospital” means an establishment which provides sleeping and eating facilities to persons receiving medical, obstetrical, or surgical care and a nursing service on a continuous basis.

(28) “Hotel” means a building in which lodging is provided to guests for compensation and in which no provision is made for cooking in the lodging rooms.

(29) “Lot” means, for the purposes of this title, a parcel or tract of land.

(30) “Lot area” means the total horizontal area within the lot lines of a lot.

(31) “Lot, corner” means a lot abutting on two intersecting streets other than an alley; provided, that the streets do not intersect at an angle greater than 135 degrees.

(32) “Lot coverage” means that percentage of a lot that when viewed directly from above is covered by buildings, accessory structures, access ways, parking spaces, and other similar impervious surfaced areas.

(33) “Lot depth” means the horizontal distance from the midpoint of the front lot line to the midpoint of the rear lot line.

(34) “Lot, interior” means a lot other than a corner lot.

(35) “Lot line” means the property line bounding a lot.

(36) “Lot line, front” means, in the case of an interior lot, the lot line separating the lot from the street other than an alley, and in the case of a corner lot, the front of the lot shall be the lot line on which the street address is assigned.

(37) “Lot line, rear” means a lot line which is opposite and most distant from the front lot line, and in the case of an irregular, triangular, or other shaped lot a line 10 feet in length within the lot parallel to and at a maximum distance from the front lot line.

(38) “Lot line, side” means any lot line not a front or rear lot line.

(39) “Lot width” means the horizontal distance between the side lot lines, ordinarily measured parallel to the front lot line.

(40) “Manufactured home (dwelling)” and “manufactured home (dwelling) park” are defined as provided in ORS 446.003.

(41) “Middle housing” means duplex, triplex, quadplex, and cottage cluster dwellings.

(42) “Motel” means a building or group of buildings on the same lot containing guest units with separate entrances directly to the exterior and consisting of individual sleeping quarters, detached or in connected rows, with or without cooking facilities, for rental to transients.

(43) “Nonconforming structure or use” means a lawful existing structure or use at the time this title or any amendment thereto becomes effective which does not conform to the requirements of the zone in which it is located.

(44) “Parking, tandem” means a rectangle not less than 36 feet long and nine feet wide that is only accessed by passing through another parking space from a street, alley, or driveway.

(45) “Parking space” means a rectangle not less than 18¹ feet long and nine feet wide together with access space sufficient to permit a standard automobile to be parked within the rectangle without the necessity of moving other vehicles.

(46) “Parking space, compact” means a rectangle not less than 15 feet long and eight feet wide together with access space sufficient to permit a standard automobile to be parked within the rectangle without the necessity of moving other vehicles.

(47) “Pathway” means a surfaced walkway that provides pedestrian and bicycle passage either between streets or from a street to a building or other destination such as a school, park, or transit stop. Pathways are physically separated by curbs and/or landscaping from vehicle maneuvering areas.

(48) “Person” means every natural person, firm, partnership, association or corporation.

(49) “Person, local contact” means an authorized individual who is personally available by telephone on a 24-hour basis and who maintains the ability to respond on site within 60 minutes.

(50) Place of Worship. See “Church.”

(51) “Porch, covered front” means a structure adjoining the front entrance to a dwelling that provides covered shelter that is not weathertight.

(52) “Resident, permanent” means an individual using any building continuously as a residence for a period of six consecutive months or more.

(53) “Rideshare” means a formal or informal arrangement in which a passenger travels in a private vehicle driven by its owner. The arrangement may be made by means of a website or online app.

(54) “Rowhouse” or “townhouse” means a single-family dwelling unit constructed in a row of attached units separated by property lines and with open space (side yard setbacks) on at least two sides.

(55) Screening. See “Fence.”

(56) “Service drive” means a driveway entering a street from a drive-in business establishment or from an off-street parking area, excluding residential driveways, serving fewer than five dwelling units.

(57) “Short-term rental” means short-term lodging provided within a dwelling constructed with a building permit for rent to overnight guests on a daily or weekly basis for periods of less than 30 consecutive days. Each room or rooms rented separately constitute a single short-term rental. See Chapter 3.12 NBCC.

(58) “Short-term rental operator” means a person who is the proprietor of a short-term rental in any capacity.

(59) “Sign” means any device designed to inform or to attract the attention of persons not on the premises.

(60) “Story” means that portion of a building included between the upper surface of any floor and the upper surface of the floor next above, except that the top story shall be that portion of a building included between the upper surface of the top floor and the ceiling above. If the finished floor level directly above a basement or cellar is more than six feet above grade, the basement or cellar shall be considered a story.

(61) “Street” means the entire width between the boundary lines of every public way provided for public use for vehicular and pedestrian traffic, and the placement of utilities, and including “road,” “highway,” “lane,” “place,” “avenue,” or similar designations.

(62) “Structural alteration” means a change to the supporting members of a structure including foundations, bearing walls or partitions, columns, beams or girders, or the roof.

(63) “Structure” means that which is built or constructed. An edifice or building of any kind or any piece of work artificially built up or composed of parts joined together in some definite manner and which requires location on the ground or which is attached to something having a location on the ground.

(64) “Surface, impervious” means any surface that prevents or retards saturation of water into the land surface including, but not limited to, buildings, accessory structures, rooftops, concrete or asphalt sidewalks, walkways, patio areas, driveways, parking lots, graveled areas, and storage areas.

(65) “Surface, pervious” means any surface that allows the unimpeded saturation of water into the land surface.

(66) “Tiny house” means a single-family dwelling not more than 600 square feet in floor area including loft floor area that is site built or prefabricated and permanently anchored to a foundation and provided with permanent utility connections. A tiny house is not designed to be movable or constructed on a wheeled chassis nor is it a manufactured home, recreational vehicle, shipping container, trailer, tiny house on wheels (THOW), or other similar object.

(67) “Transit improvements” means transit stop-related improvements including, but not limited to, bus pullouts, shelters, waiting areas, information and directional signs, benches, and lighting. Improvements at transit stops shall be consistent with an adopted transit plan.

(68) “Transit park and ride” means a parking area at, adjacent, or near (within 500 feet of) a transit stop where automobiles, bicycles, and other vehicles and mobility devices can be parked by transit and rideshare users. Location and design are guided by the currently adopted transit master plan.

(69) “Transit stops” means an area posted where transit vehicles stop and where transit passengers board or exit. The stop location and improvements at the transit stop shall be consistent with an adopted transit plan.

(70) “Use” means the purpose for which land or a structure is designed, arranged, or intended, or for which it is occupied or maintained.

(71) “Vision clearance area” means a triangular area on a lot at the intersection of two streets or a street and a railroad, two sides of which are lot lines measured from the corner intersection of the lot lines for a distance specified in these regulations. The third side of the triangle is a line across the corner of the lot joining the ends of the other two sides. Where the lot lines at intersections have rounded corners, the lot lines will be extended in a straight line to a point of intersection. The vision clearance area contains no plantings, walls, structures, or temporary or permanent obstructions exceeding three and one-half feet in height measured from the top of the curb.

(72) “Yard” means an open space on a lot which is unobstructed from the ground upward except as otherwise provided in this title.

(73) “Yard, front” means a yard between side lot lines and measured horizontally at right angles to the front lot line from the front lot line to the nearest point of the building.

(74) “Yard, rear” means a yard extending between side lot lines and measured horizontally at right angles to the rear lot line from the rear lot line to the nearest point of the main building.

(75) “Yard, side” means an open space between the front and rear yards measured horizontally and at right angles from the side lot line to the nearest point of the building. (Ord. 2068 § 1 (Att. A), 2023; Ord. 2054 § 1, 2021; Ord. 2048 § 8, 2021; Ord. 2040 § 1, 2020; Ord. 2025 § 1, 2018; Ord. 1982 § 2, 2013; Ord. 1952 § 1(4), 2006)