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TOWN COUNCIL
MEETING
INFORMATION
TOWN OF MARANA
MEETING DATE: March 20, 2007
AGENDA ITEM:
JA
TO: MAYOR AND COUNCIL
FROM: Kevin Kish, AICP
AGENDA TITLE: PUBLIC HEARING. Ordinance No. 2007.07: Relating to Land
Development; Adopting Commercial Design Standards Title 8,
and amending Title 3, Definitions, of the Land Development Code
DISCUSSION
At the September 2004 Council/management retreat, the Town Council identified commercial
design standards, along with residential design standards, as a high priority project for the
Planning Department with residential design taking the higher priority. The Council approved
funding for a complete rewriting of the Land Development Code, which is ongoing. The Town
contracted with Clarion Associates of Denver for this project in January 2006, placing
commercial design standards as a priority project for adoption before the completion of the entire
code. Accordingly, the new standards would become a new section of Title 8, General
Development Regulations, and amend Title 3, Definitions.
Clarion crafted an initial set of draft commercial design standards that respond to the concerns
voiced during their interview process. Staff received an initial draft in March and returned
comments and suggestions to Clarion and received a revised draft in early May. After presenting
the draft as an informational item to the Mayor and Council May 9, staff circulated the draft to a
number of interested parties, including some of the development firms who will soon be
submitting projects for review, as well as other groups such as the Marana Chamber of
Commerce. Staff also presented the draft to a meeting of the economic development committee
of the Chamber in June.
The Planning Commission held a public hearing on this matter July 26, 2006 and unanimously
recommended approval.
This item was presented to the Council on September 19,2006 and continued to an unspecified
date. Staff has further refined the proposed commercial design standards addressing additional
comments received from internal staff, as well as the commercial development communities.
Intent
The intent of the commercial design standards is similar to that of the residential design
standards: to establish a set of clear, enforceable yet flexible standards that are applicable to all
pertinent development without the need to use the specific plan process. With the code rewrite,
we hope to have in place usable commercial zoning districts that offer the needed flexibility but
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also achieve attractive, successful development. With standardizing the commercial zones,
enforcement and future redevelopment will be more streamlined for the Town, and lead to a
more predictable process for the developer.
Specifically, the commercial design standards are intended to:
1. Encourage consistency in the quality of commercial development within the Town;
2. Establish a set of baseline review criteria for commercial projects (both new development
and renovation of existing centers) that provide consistency for town staff, elected
officials, and the development community;
3. Foster a more creative approach to commercial development in the Town;
4. Serve as the foundation for the development of future commercially-oriented specific
plans;
5. Assure the fair and consistent application of the Town's design objectives for commercial
projects; and
6. Ensure that commercial development is functional and safe.
Applicability
The new standards will apply to all new commercial development. In addition, they will apply to
redevelopment of an existing center where all or most of the existing structure would be razed
and new structures built. Also, they will apply to situations similar to other nonconformities,
where an addition is greater than fifty percent of the total square footage of the existing principal
structure or exceeds fifty percent of the current appraised value. The standards would not apply
to routine maintenance and repair.
General Desie:n Principles
The design standards are organized around site planning and building design. Site planning
includes the overall site layout and building orientation, including the relationship of buildings to
one another, which is new to the LDC. The standards expand upon existing circulation,
vehicular and pedestrian access, landscaping and screening requirements.
Building design includes architectural character, including requiring a unified design concept and
four-sided design, and provides special consideration to buildings visible from 1-10. The
standards address other concerns, such as massing-especially with respect to very large
commercial structures (big box) and long expanses of store fronts.
By identifying materials and colors specific to the Sonoran Desert, as well as addressing massing
and scale, the standards are not intended to impose a specific architectural style; rather, they
offer guidance to achieving commercial development with a local sensibility.
A TT ACHMENTS
Commercial Design Standards.
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RECOMMENDATION
Staff recommends approval.
SUGGESTED MOTION
I move to adopt Ordinance Number 2007.07.
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MARANA ORDINANCE NO. 2007.07
RELATING TO LAND DEVELOPMENT; ADOPTING COMMERCIAL DESIGN
STANDARDS TITLE 8; AND AMENDING TITLE 3, DEFINITIONS OF THE LAND
DEVELOPMENT CODE
WHEREAS, the Marana Land Development Code (the "Code") was adopted by
the Mayor and Council ofthe Town of Marana on May 14, 1984 by Ordinance No.
84.04; and
WHEREAS, the Mayor and Council have amended the Code from time to time;
and
WHEREAS, the Code contains Title 8 General Development Regulations, which
regulate the development ofland in the Town of Marana; and Title 3, Definitions; and
WHEREAS, the Marana Planning Commission held a public hearing on a request
to amend Title 8 and Title 3 of the Code on July 26,2006 to consider comments from
Town staff and the public on the proposed amendments; and
WHEREAS, the Town Council held a public hearing on a request to amend Title
8 and Title 3 of the Code on March 20,2007; and
WHEREAS, the Mayor and Council find that approval of the proposed
amendments is in the best interest of the residents and businesses of the Town of Marana.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED by the Mayor and Council of the Town
of Maran a, as follows:
SECTION 1. Title 8, General Development Regulations, of the Town of Marana Land
Development Code is hereby amended by adding Section 08.07.01 through 08.07.03,
three copies of which are on file in the office of the Town Clerk of the Town of Marana,
Arizona, having been made a public record by and attached as Exhibit A to Resolution
No. 2007-42; and Title 3, Definitions, ofthe Town of Marana Land Development Code,
is hereby amended by incorporating the definitions contained in Section 08.07.04, three
copies of which are on file in the office of the Town Clerk ofthe Town of Marana,
Arizona, having been made a public record by and attached as Exhibit B to Resolution
No. 2007-42.
SECTION 2. The adoption of this ordinance shall have the effect of invalidating that
portion of all previous versions of the Land Development Code.
SECTION 3. In the event that any provision, or any portion of any provision, of this
ordinance or application thereof, is held invalid, illegal, or unenforceable, such invalidity,
illegality, or unenforceability shall have no effect on the remaining portion of any
provision or any other provision, or their application, which can be given effect without
the invalid provision or application and to this end the provision of this ordinance shall be
deemed to be severable.
SECTION 4. This ordinance shall be effective on the thirty-first day after its adoption.
PASSED AND ADOPTED by the Town Council, Town of Marana, Arizona, this 20th
day of March, 2007.
Mayor
Date
ATTEST:
Jocelyn C. Bronson, Town Clerk
APPROVED AS TO FORM:
Frank Cassidy, Town Attorney
TOWN OF MARANA ARIZONA
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TITLE 8
GENERAL DEVELOPMENT REGULATIONS
SECTIONS:
08.01
08.02
08.03
08.04
08.05
08.06
08.07
Building Permits Required, Procedure Therefore
(Reserved)
Adoption of the Uniform Building, Plumbing, and Electrical Codes,
with Exceptions
Animal Keeping and Related Structures
Building Height Increase
Residential Design
Commercial Desion Standards
08.01. Building Permits Required, Procedure Therefore
Any person, partnership, firm, or corporation desiring to construct, erect, or move, any residential
building or mobile home or associated outbuilding where such building or mobile home contains
more than one hundred twenty (120) square feet under roof, or desiring to enlarge or substantially
modify any residential building or mobile home where such work will involve an area of more than
one hundred twenty (120) square feet under roof, shall first make application for a building permit
to the Town Clerk and shall not commence any such construction without first obtaining a building
permit from the Town. All applications for a building permit shall be accompanied by plans which
have been drawn to scale and which show the actual dimension of the lot to be built upon, the
size and location of existing buildings, if any, the building to be erected, enlarged, modified, or
moved, the location and layout of said structures with respect to front, rear, and side property
lines, and the location and layout of proposed off-street parking areas.
Even when a building permit is not required, any person, partnership, firm or corporation
constructing, erecting, enlarging, moving, or substantially modifying any residential building or
mobile home, or associated outbuilding, shall be responsible for compliance with all other
provisions of this development code.
Any person, firm, or corporation desiring to erect, construct, enlarge, move, or substantially modify
any commercial, industrial, quasi-public, or public building or structure shall first make application
to the Town Clerk for a separate building permit for each such building or structure and shall not
undertake any such construction, enlargement, or movement without first obtaining a building
permit from the Town. Each application for a building permit shall be accompanies by plans which
have been drawn to scale and which show the actual dimensions of the lot to built upon, the size
and location of existing buildings, if any, the buildings to be erected, the location of the proposed
off-street parking.
Plans submitted for new construction or enlargement shall provide sufficient details of proposed
structural features, and electrical, plumbing, and mechanical installations to permit evaluation of
their adequacy by the Town Building Inspector. .
The term, "substantially modify" shall be taken to mean the installation or removal of any interior
or exterior wall or the addition or replacement of an amount of electrical wiring or plumbing equal
to twenty-five (25) percent or more of such installation in the modified building or structure.
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08.07.03 Commercial Design Standards
A. Site Plannina
1. Site Lavout and Buildina Orientation
a) Intent
1. To ensure that the oraanization of commercial centers helos to define orimarv
street frontaaes and develooment entrances. and to establish a more comoact.
oedestrian-friendlv oattem of develooment.
2. To encouraae a less enaineered. more naturalized aooroach to the treatment of
washes. drainaae basins. and other natural features in commercial develooments.
b) Desion Standards
(1) General
(a) Commercial buildinas should be oriented with the crimarv buildina
entrance facina the orimarv oublic street. unless toooaraohical or other
site features make such orientation infeasible.
(b) The lavout of larae. commercial develooments shall be desianed to break
the site into a series of smaller "blocks" defined bv Dad site buildinas.
oedestrian walkwavs. streets or other vehicular circulation routes.
(2) Buildina Re/ationshiDs and Orientation:
(a) Buildinas within multi-buildina centers shall be arranaed and arouoed so
that their orimarv orientation comolements one another and adiacent.
existina develooment and either:
(i) Frames the comer of an
adiacent street intersection or
entrv ooint to the develooment:
(ii) Frames and encloses a "main
street" oedestrian and/or
vehicle access corridor within
the develooment site:
(iii) Frames and encloses on at
least two sides oarkina areas.
oublic soaces. or other site
amenities: or
Buildings arranged to enclose a "main street"pedestrian
and vehicle .'orridor Ivi/hin one area of a lar;ger center.
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(iv) Frames and encloses outdoor dinina or aatherina soaces for
oedestrians between buildinas.
(3) Washes/Natural Features
(a) To the maximum extent oracticable. washes with sianificant aualitv
veaetation or other sianificant natural features shall be incoroorated into
the overall desian and lavout of a develooment as visual and functional
amenities l e.a.. naturalized drainaaes. oedestrian connections). rather
than beina oioed and olaced underaround.
2. Circulation and Access
a) Intent
1. To orovide safe. efficient. and convenient vehicular and oedestrian access and
circulation oattems within and between develooments:
2. To oreserve the efficiencv of arterial roadwavs as additional develooment occurs:
.and
3. To ensure that service areas ldeliverv. trash. and loadina facilities) are located and
sized so as to function without imoedina reaular vehicular and oedestrian
circulation and access routes.
b) Desian Standards
(1) Preliminarv Site Plan Reauirements
(a) In addition to site olan reauirements outlined in the Land Oevelooment
Code. the followina shall be illustrated:
(i) Vehicular circulation and access:
(ii) Pedestrian circulation and access. includina location and treatment of
entrances from the adiacent roadwavs:
(iii) Stackina caoacitv of drive-thru lanes:
(iv) Location and access to trash receotacles:
(v) Loadina and deliverv circulation and access: and
(vi) Buildina lavout and orientation.
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(2) Vehicular Circulation and Access
(a) Vehicular connections shall be orovided from a develooment site to
adioinina roadwavs or circulation routes on adiacent orooerties to allow
convenient access to multi ole businesses and to helD reduce the overall
number of access ooints on arterial roadwavs.
(b) Circulation oatterns for drive-thru facilities shall be desianed to
accommodate the stackina of vehicles without interferina with the
movement of vehicles or oedestrians on orimarv circulator routes.
(c) To the maximum extent oracticable. drive aisles shall utilize a two-wav
traffic circulation oattern unless buildinas are confiaured in a "Main Street"
oattern that can efficientlv accommodate on-street oarkina. a one-wav
traffic flow. or other alternative circulation oattern
(d) The oreferred oarkina desian shall be gO-dearee oarkina stalls. with two
wav traffic.
(3) Loadina. Trash Recentac/e. and Deliverv Area Circulation and Access
(b) Develooments that include fuel
disoensina facilities shall delineate
the deliverv vehicle radius to safelv
deliver the fuel without conflictina with
the ooeration of the facilities. .
(c) On smaller sites. where seoarate
facilities mav not be feasible le.a..
aas station). a Circulation and Access
Plan must demonstrate that loadina
and unloadina of aoods and trash
receotacles mav be accomolished
without disruotina orimarv vehicular
access and circulation.
(4) Pedestrian Circulation and Access
(a) All sidewalks and oedestrian
walkwavs shall be a minimum of 6
A contintlotls network of on-site pedestrian walkwqys
shall be prollided to allow for dired a.-cess and
amnedions between on-site tlses, as well as connedions
to adjoinin.1!. sites.
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feet in width. Where sidewalks are adiacent to oarkina overhanas a
minimum of 8 feet is reauired.
(b) A continuous network of on-site oedestrian walkwavs shall be orovided to
allow for direct access and connections to and between the followina:
(i) The orimarv entrance or entrances to each commercial buildina on the
site. includina Dad site buildinas:
(ii) Anv sidewalks or walkwavs on adiacent orooerties that extend to the
boundaries shared with the commercial develooment:
(iii) Public sidewalk alona the oerimeter streets adiacent to the
commercial develooment:
(iv) Where oracticable and aoorooriate. adiacent land uses and
develooments. includina but not limited to adiacent residential
develooments. retail shoooina centers. office buildinas. or restaurants:
and.
(v) Where oracticable and aoorooriate. anv adiacent oublic Dark.
areenwav. or other oublic or civic use includina but not limited to:
schools. olaces of worshio. oublic recreational facilities. or
aovernment offices.
(c) On-site oedestrian walkwavs shall not "dead-end" without a loaical
connection.
(d) At each ooint that a desianated on-site oedestrian walkwav crosses a
oarkina lot. street. or drivewav. the walkwav shall be c1earlv visible to
oedestrians and motorists throuah the use of two or more of the followina
delineation methods:
(i) A chanae in Davina material or Davina color:
(ii) A chanae in Davina heiaht:
(iii) Decorative bollards:
(iv) A oainted crosswalk:
(v) Sianaae: or
(vi) A raised median walkwav buffered bv landscaoina.
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3. Pedestrian Amenities and Refuae Areas
a) Intent
1. To orovide oooortunities for outdoor oatio dinina. olazas. and other outdoor
aatherina soaces that encouraae oedestrian actiVitv within commercial
develooments.
2. To orovide oooortunities for oedestrians to seek refuae from the harsh desert
elements.
3. To orovide convenient "comfort stations" in lame commercial develooments.
b) Desion Standards
(1) Outdoor Gatherina SDaces
(a) The incorcoration of olazas.
Docket oarks. oatio dinina soaces.
and other outdoor aatherina
soaces is stronalv encouraaed for
all commercial develooment.
oarticularlv in lame. multi-buildina
develooments.
(b) Develooments that incorcorate
outdoor aatherina soaces shall be
eliaible for the followina incentives:
(i) For each 2.000 sauare feet of dedicated outdoor dinina soace. a 2-
foot reduction in the reauired oerimeter landscaoe buffer mav be
aranted:
(ii) For each 8.000 sauare feet of
dedicated olaza. oocket Dark
or similar outdoor aatherina
soace. a 5 foot reduction in
oerimeter landscaoe buffer
mav be aranted.
(c) Incentives shall be evaluated in
coniunction with oarkina lot
screenina alternatives to evaluate
eliaible level of credit. The
followina limitations shall aoolv:
(i) Cumulative credits shall not
exceed a 10-foot reduction in
the reauired oerimeter buffer or
reduce the buffer to less than
Attradiz1e otltdoor gathering spaces tlsed as focal points
jor ,'ommmial development-provide dining space,
seating, shade, and entertainment.
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50-oercent of the reauired buffer:
(ii) Reductions may not be aranted where the reduction in oerimeter
landscaoe buffer would occur adiacent to a seoarate residential area.
(d) Outdoor aatherina soaces shall be intearated as oart of the overall desian
of the center and shall be located within close oroximitv of anchor
tenants. transit stoos (if aoolicable t or attached to the buildina that they
are intended to serve.
(e) Sinale-tenant or in-line centers with a
limited site area shall incorcorate outdoor
aatherina soaces bv exoandina oedestrian
walkwavs alona the front or side of the
buildina. to the maximum extent
oracticable. A minimum of 4 feet in deoth
shall be dedicated for the outdoor aatherina
soace to maintain clear circulation for oass-
throuah oedestrian traffic.
(f) Outdoor aatherina soaces shall incorcorate
a variety of oedestrian-scaled features such
as:
(i) Bollards;
(ii) Tables and chairs:
(iii) Benches:
(iv) Seat walls and/or raised landscaoe
olanters:
(v) Shade trees:
Creative use of sidewalk in front of an
in-line IYJmmenial center to provide
protected outdoor dining space with
limited space.
(vi) "Comfort Station" (restroomst trash receotacles:
(vii)Pots or hanaina baskets filled with seasonal olant material:
(viii) Information kiosks or sianaae: and
(ix) Sculotures or other oublic art features.
(9) Shade structures (either freestandina or intearated with the buildina wall)
shall be intearated with outdoor aatherina soaces. oarticularlv those with
western or southern exoosures.
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(h) Outdoor aatherina soaces shall have direct access to the sidewalk and
oedestrian walkwav network.
(2) Pedestrian Refuae Areas
(a) To the maximum extent oracticable. orimarv oedestrian circulation routes
shall be anchored bv soecial desian features that establish them as
oedestrian refuae areas-or areas where oedestrians are ohvsicallv
seoarated from the flow of
vehicular traffic and/or are
orotected from the desert
elements. Aoorooriate desian
features mav include. but shall not.
be limited to the followina:
(i) Arcades. oorticos. shade trees
or other shade structures:
(ii) Pedestrian Haht features and
information kiosks.
(iii) Sollards,
(iv) Seat walls or benches:
(v) Landscaoe olanters. and
(vi) Other urban desian elements.
includina oubHc art.
(b) Desian features used to create
oedestrian refuae areas shall be
constructed of materials that are
similar in aualitv and consistent
with the overall architectural
character of the center.
4. Cart Storaae Areas
Major primal)' pedestrian drmlation routes dearlY
delineated through the use rif landsmping and shade
strul'tures.
a) Intent
1. To ensure that cart storaae areas are located and desianed so as to minimize
conflicts with orimarv drive aisles. oarkina areas. and oedestrian walkwavs.
2. To ensure that the aooearance of cart storaae areas is consistent with the
overall theme of the develooment in tenns of their materials. color. and desian
character.
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3. Shoooina cart corrals shall be distributed thouah-out the develooment to
orovide reasonable access for the customers.
b) Desion Standards
(1) Cart Storaae Areas
(a) Where retail tenants are orovidina shoooina carts for the customers. lona-
term shoooina cart storaae areas shall be orovided within or adiacent to
tenant soace and shall be located behind a decorative screenina wall that
is at least as hiah as the heiaht of the carts.
(b) Shoooina cart corrals that orovide short-term storaae shall be desianed
with durable materials and desian features that comolement the
architectural character of the center.
(c) Shoooina cart corrals and storaae areas shall be located so as not to
encroach uoon vehicular and oedestrian circulation oatterns.
5. Sianaae
a) lntent
1. To ensure that sianaae for multi-tenant. or chased commercial develooments
is consistent with the overall character of the develooment in terms of its
materials. desian features. and scale: and
2. To reduce the visual clutter created when numerous sians are olaced alona
arterial roadways.
b) Desion Standards
(a) A Planned Sian Proaram shall be reviewed and acceoted for all multi-
tenant commercial develooments orior to final aooroval. Sianaae Plans
shall orovide soecifications on sian:
(i) ~
(ii) Materials:
(iii) Heiaht: and
(iv) Location.
(b) On-site sians shall incorcorate desian elements that are consistent with
each other and with the overall architectural character of the
develooment. in terms of their materials. heiaht. and letterina stvle. to
reinforce the visual continuity of each center.
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6. LandscaDina
a) Intent
1. To visuallv soften and unifv the
aooearance of commercial develooments:
2. To define maior entrvwavs. circulation
(both vehicular and oedestrian) and
oarkina oattems to helD buffer less
intensive adiacent land uses: and
3. To intearate the maaed and colorful
landscaoe character of the Sonoran
Desert into the town's commercial
develooments.
b) Desion Standards
(1) General
(a) Alllandscaoe olans shall meet the
town's adooted landscaoe
reauirements as contained in the Land
Develooment Code in addition to the
standards contained in these
commercial develooment standards.
Where conflicts arise between the
two. this chaoter shall take
orecedence.
Landsmpe plans sbould integrate tbe mgged and coloiful
landsmpe cbaracter if tbe S onoran Desert.
(b) All trees and olants shall meet
Arizona Nurservmen's Association minimum auidelines as to calioer and
heiaht and the Town of Marana's aooroved olant list.
(c) Water conservation should be an imoortant criterion for olant material
selection. Low-water olants that reflect and enhance the imaae of
Sonoran Desert landscaoe shall be used.
(d) Alllandscaoed areas shall be irriaated usina an underaround drio
irriaation svstem. Alllandscaoina shall be irriaated from a secondarv.
non-ootable water source where available.
(e) Trees within landscaoed areas should be sited and soaced to avoid
conflicts with overhead liaht fixtures.
(f) Landscaoe olans shall be coordinated with above-and below-around
utilities to avoid irresolvable conflicts at the time of installation.
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(2) Interior Parkina Lot Landscaoina
(a) Parkina lots shall devote a minimum of 15 oercent of the aross oarkina
area includina alllandscaoed areas within 5-feet of the oerimeter of the
oarkina area.
(b) Landscaoe islands shall be a
minimum of 6 feet in order to
orotect olant materials from
car overhanas and
oedestrian traffic.
( c) Plant materials selected for
use at the oerimeter of
landscaoe islands shall be
limited to around covers or
other low-arowina soecies
that are caoable of
withstandina reaular foot
trafk
A minimum of 15 percent ~r parking lots with 30 or
more spam" shall be devoted to interior parking lot
lands.-aping.
(d) Alllandscaoe islands shall be
delineated usina a 6-inch vertical curb. The use of wheel stoos as a
means of orotectina landscaoe islands from vehicular contact and
oedestrian traffic is ineffective and shall not be oermitted as the sole
orotective device.
(3) Perimeter Landscaoina
acceotable desian uo to fiftv oercent
mav be located in the riaht-of-wav.
(b) The oerimeter of all oarkina lots
shall be screened from adiacent
streets. oedestrian circulation
svstems. oublic ooen soace. and
other adiacent uses throuah the use
of the reauired minimum landscaoe
buffer above. or throuah the use of
one of the followina in combination
with a reduced landscaoe buffer:
(i) A masonrv wall not less than 3 Y:z
feet in heiaht in combination with
a 15-foot landscaoe buffer:
Traditional perimeter landscape btiffer with
pedestrian walkwqy. Perimeter buffers mqy ve1J' in
width and treatment, depending upon jite conditions
and the type and quantify of outdoor gathering
spa.-es that are provided within the .-enter.
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(ii) A landscaoed berm contained within a 17-foot landscaoe buffer:
(iii) A formal hedae a minimum of 3 ~ feet in heiaht. consistina of a
double row of shrubs olanted 3 feet on center in a trianaular oattern
contained within a 17 -foot landscaoe buffer: or
(iv) A formal hedae a minimum of 3 ~ feet in heiaht. consistina of a
double row of shrubs olanted 3 feet on center in a trianaular oattern in
combination with a 10 foot landscaoe buffer and masonrY retainina
wall where a sianificant variation in arade exists.
(c) All buffers shall contain the followina minimum olant materials for each
1500 sauare feet or fraction thereof: Six 15-aallon trees. fifteen 1-aallon
shrubs and ten 1-aallon around cover olants
(d) Screen walls and landscaoina shall be sited so as not to block the siaht
lines of vehicular circulation routes as they enter. exit or oass throuah the
site.
(e) A minimum landscaoe buffer of 20 feet shall be orovided adiacent to the
Interstate Hiahwav10 riaht-of-wav. No reduction is allowed.
(4) Entrvwavs
(a) Commercial oroiects that are 10 acres or lamer in size shall incorcorate
orominent focal ooints at maior entrances to the center. Focal ooints
shall be created throuah the use of:
(i) Gatewav monuments.
(ii) Sculoture or other oubHc art elements.
(iii) Intense concentrations of vertical
landscaoe forms or seasonal color.
(iv) Distinctive landforms.
(v) Monument sianaae. or
(vi) Other features as aoorooriate to
define entrances as visual aatewavs
to the develooment.
(b) Commercial oroiects that are 15 acres or
lamer in size shall incorcerate a
landscaoed median at maior entrances to
seoarate inmess and emess lanes and to
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size shall incorporate 10ml points, such as this
Sl"ulpture and tree line, at mqjor entrances to the
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enhance the aooearance of the oroiect aatewav.
. (c) All entrvwav focal ooints and landscaoed medians shall be comoatible
with reauired site visibilitv trianales. as contained in the Land
Develooment Code.
7. Fencina and Walls
a) Intent
1. To oremote visuallv interestina and attractive streetscaoes alona the town's
arterials:
2. To encouraae creativitv in the desian offencina and walls:
3. To ensure that fencina and walls are consistent with the character of the
develooment thev serve:
4. To oroted views from Interstate-10.
b) Desion Standards
(1) General
(a) Colors. materials. and forms used for fences and walls shall comolement
the architectural character of the orimarv buildina or overall develooment.
(b) The maximum lenath of continuous. unbroken fence or wall Diane shall be
20 feet. Walls shall be articulated usina a combination of the followina to
break uo the lenath of lonaer soans:
(i) Decorative columns:
(ii) Diversitv in texture and/or materials:
(iii) Offsets:
(iv) Landscaoe Dockets: or
(v) Seroentine desian: or
(vi) Similar features.
(c) Screen walls located alona a orimarv street frontaae or that are visible
from Interstate-10 shall orovide a hiaher level of desian detail for visual
interest.
(d) The use of chain link fencina or exoosed cinder block walls is not
oermitted.
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B. Buildino Desion and Character
1. Architectural Character
a) Intent
1. To encouraae commercial develooment to
incoroorate desian features that are uniaue
to each center or develooment. vet that are
evocative of Marana's farmina and ranchina
heritaae or its Sonoran Desert context.
2. To achieve a unified aooearance for multi-
buildina or ohased commercial
develooments throuah the use of
comoatible materials. colors. and
architectural character as thev build out
over time;
3. To ensure buildina materials used for
commercial develooments are durable and
have low maintenance reauirements when
used in a desert environment.
b) Desion Standards
(1) Unified Theme
(a) The architectural desian of buildinas
within a commercial center. includina
freestandina oad buildinas. shall orovide
comolimentarv architectural stvles in terms
of the character. materials. texture. color.
and scale used on the buildinas.
Buildings within a commercial..enter shall be organized
around a l'Onsistmt ar..hite..tural theme in terms of the
tharai1er, materia/J', texture, t'olor, and smle uJ'ed on the
buildin.l!.s.
(b) Buildinas shall include features tvoical of Marana's farmina and ranchina
heritaae or desert context. such as. but not limited to:
(i) Architectural shade devices:
(ii) Low-sluna buildinas with a strona. horizontal orientation:
(Hi) Deeolv recessed windows:
(iv) Covered oorches or arcades:
(v) Shed roof forms: and
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(vi) The use of earthv materials. colors. and textures associated with the
reaion.
(vii) The use of architectural accent features and/or colors for visual
interest.
(c) The above standard is not
intended to oromote "cookie
cutter" commercial develooment
or the literal reDUcation of
Southwestern or ranch-stvle
architecture: rather. it is intended
to oromote a creative and modern
interoretation of vernacular
architectural elements that are
uniQue to each develooment and
to Marana.
All sides qf a building shall incorporate
an.hitectural detailing that is compatible with the
{ront fafade. Blank walls void ofan-llitectural
details (as found in the top example, above) or other
variation are prohibited.
(2) Four-sided Desian
(a) Althouah the front facade of a
buildina is exoected to be the
focal ooint in terms of level of
architectural character and features. all sides of a buildinas shall
incorcorate architectural detailinQ that has a character that is consistent
with the front facade. Blank walls void of architectural details or other
variation are orohibited.
(b) The backs or sides of buildinQs that are c1earlv visible from an arterial
roadwav or from Interstate HiQhwav 10 shall receive the most desian
emohasis in this reaard.
(3) Pad Site Buildinas
(a) Pad site buildinas shall incorcorate materials and colors that are similar to
and comoatible with those used on the orimarv buildinal s) in the
develooment or center.
(b) Themed restaurants. small retail
chains. and other similar tenants mav
be reauired to adiust some asoects of
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their "standard" architectural model in
order to meet the above standard.
(4) Parkina Structures
(a) Parkina structures shall be desianed
to incoroorate a comoarable level of
architectural detailina and aualitv of
materials as found on orimarv
buildinas on the site.
(b) To the maximum extent oracticable.
oarkina structures shall be "wraooed"
with active uses. such as retail
storefronts. at the street level. This is
oarticularlv imoortant where oarkina
structures are located adiacent to
maior oedestrian walkwavs. outdoor
aatherina soaces or other
oedestrian-oriented soaces. or alona
a oedestrian-oriented "main street"
within a lareer develooment.
2. Buildina Massina
Themed restaurants, small retail chains, and other
similar tenants shall be required to adjust some aspeds
of their "standard" architectural model in order to meet
the above standard.
a) Intent
1. To add character and visual interest to the blockv buildina forms tvoical of
commercial develooment: and
2. To break uo the visual mass of laree-format or "bia box" retail uses and
establish a more oedestrian-friendlv scale at the street level and at orimarv
entrances.
b) Desion Standards
(1) Buildina Massina
(a) The oerceived mass and scale
of commercial buildinas.
includina laree-format retail
uses. shall be reduced bv
incorooratina a series of smaller
desian elements that are
consistent with the center's
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architectural character. Desian elements mav include. but are not limited
to at least 4 of the followina:
(i) Variations in roof form and
oaraoet heiahts:
(ii) Pronounced recesses and
oroiections:
(iii) Wall DIane off-sets:
(iv) Distinct chanaes in texture
and color of wall surfaces:
(v) Ground level arcades and
second floor
aalleries/balconies:
The pen-eived mass and scale ~r commercial buildings,
induding large-format retail UJeJ, shall be reduced fry
incorporating a series 0/ smaller design elements that are
consistent with the ..enter's art"hitectural charader, as
illustrated ~y the use of awnings, varied roojforms and
heights, above.
(vi) Protected and recessed
entries: and
(vii)Vertical accents or focal
ooints.
(b) In-line commercial centers or buildina walls that exceed 100 feet in lenath
shall incorcorate a minimum of 4 of the followina elements to distinauish
the modulation of individual storefronts (where aoolicable) and break uo
the aooearance of lenathv wall soans:
(i) Distinct chanae in color:
(ii) Chanae in material or texture:
(iii) Chanae in DIane of the buildina wall that incorcorates offsets. reveals.
recesses. archwavs. and/or oroiections:
(iv) Deeo-set windows with mullions:
(v) Awninas or oedestrian canooies:
(vi) Ground level arcade: and/or
(vii)Window or door ooeninas.
(2) Primarv Buildina Entrances
(a) Primarv buildina entrances shall be desianed to be visuallv orominent and
to orovide shade for oedestrians. This obiective shall be accomolished
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throuah the use of a
combination of 2 or more of
the followina features at the
orimarv buildina entrance:
(i) A canoov. oortico.
archwav. arcade. or similar
overhana that orovides
architectural interest and
oedestrian orotection:
(ii) Peaked roof forms:
(iii) Raised corniced oaraoets
over the door:
Primary building entrantes shall be designed to be visual!y
prominent and to provide shade for pedestrians, using
feature!" sud; as this peaked ro~rform, and c'opered walkway.
(iv) Outdoor oedestrian features such as seat walls and landscaoina with
seasonal color or oermanent landscaoe olanters with intearated
benches: and/or
(v) Architectural detailina such as tile work and moldinas intearated into
the buildina structure.
(3) Multi-StaN Buildinas
(a) All multi-storv buildinas shall
incoroorate a recoanizable
base. middle. and too throuah
the use of chanaes in
material. architectural
accents. or other features.
Other methods for orovidina
architectural character mav be
used if aooroved bv the
Plannina Director.
All multi-story buildings shall incorporate a recognizable
base, middle, and top through the use 0/ thanges in materials,
arthitedural atmlts, or other ieatures.
(4) Buildina Transnarencv
(a) Laree format retail uses shall devote a minimum of ten oercent of the
lenath of the front facade to windows or transoarent entrances.
(b) Pad site buildinas shall devote a minimum of 40 oercent of the lenath of
the front facade to windows or transoarent entrances.
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(c) In-line commercial centers shall devote
a minimum of 50 oercent of the lenath
of each storefront module to windows
or transoarent entrances.
3. Exterior Buildina Materials and Colors
a) lntent
1. To avoid the aooearance of bland.
"cookie-cutter" commercial develooment:
2. To encouraae the creative incorooration
of a broad ranae of colors in commercial
develooment that reflect the rich. natural tones found in Marana's Sonoran
Desert context: and
3. To achieve a unified aooearance
for multi-buildina or ohased
commercial develooments
throuah the use of comoatible
materials and colors.
b) Desion Standards
(1) Permitted Materials
(a) Materials shall be of hiah aualitv
and croven durabilitv in the
harsh desert environment.
Permitted materials include:
(i) ~
(ii) Stone (natural or simulated):
Retail uses shall devote a percentage rf their frol1t fafade to
wil1dows or tral1sparel1t entram"es, based 011 their size al1d
wnfiguratiol1"
(iii) Intearallv-colored. solit face or around face concrete masonrv units
(eMU):
(iv) Traditional cement hardcoat stucco:
(v) Exterior Insulation and Finish Svstems (EIFS):
(vi) Standina seam metal roofs:
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(vii) Concrete and clav tile roofs:
(viii) Clear and tinted alass:
(ix) Mosaic tile:
(x) Wood (limited to architectural accents): and
(xi) Architectural metal.
(b) Additional materials mav be considered orovided th f
comoarable aualitv. durabilitv. and character. as de~~~~~e~ ~v town staff.
(2) Prohibited Materials
(a) The followina materials shall be
orohibited:
(i) ~n-textured or unarticulated
tllt-uo concrete oanels:
(ii) Pre-fabricated steel oanels(as
sole material):
(iii) Corruaated metal (Corten or
rust finish acceotable as an
accent element):
(iv) Asohalt shinale roofs: and
(v) Mirrored or otherwise hiahlv reflective alass.
(3) Exterior Buildina and Roof Colors
(a) Bland. monotonous color scheme . . .
oalate shall be avoided. s comorlsed of variations on a beiae
(b) Each commercial develooment sh II' ., .
that reflects the rich ranae of col a f Inco~~orate a dl~t1nctlve color oalate
context. such as: ors oun_ In Marana s Sonoran Desert
(i) Earthv browns. seoias and tans:
(ii) Dark reds and maroons:
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(iii) Dark oranaes to oinks:
(iv) Dark areens:
(v) DeeD skv blues to arav-blues:
(vi) DeeD ouroles:
(vii)Ochres. vellow-browns: or
(viii) Variations of the above
colors that result from natural
weatherina or oxidation
orocesses (rusts. aravs. etc.),
(4) Metal Finishes
Commmial developments shO!~/d incorporate a broad
range of colors and materials that rfj7ed the rich nattlral
tones fotlnd in Marana s S onoran Desert context.
(a) The use of metals shall be limited
to oaints and coatinas within the
color ranae described above or
natural finishes which derive their character from weatherina and
oxidation.
(b) No briaht or hiahlv reflective metal finishes shall be allowed on anv
exterior buildina material or buildina element other than for accent
materials that enhance. but do not dominate the architectural character.
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TITLE 3
DEFINITIONS
General Usage
Definitions "A"
Definitions "B"
Definitions "C"
Definitions "0"
Definitions "E"
Definitions "F"
Definitions "G"
Definitions "H"
Definitions "I"
Definitions "J"
Definitions "K"
Definitions "L"
Definitions "M"
Definitions "N"
Definitions "0"
Definitions "P"
Definitions "Q"
Definitions "R"
Definitions "S"
Definitions "T"
Definitions "U"
Definitions "V"
Definitions "W"
Definitions "X" (Reserved)
Definitions "Y"
Definitions "Z" (Reserved)
03.00 General Usage
The definitions provided for in this article shall apply throughout these regulations, unless a
different meaning is clearly indicated by a context or the term is defined differently in any other
section.
The words, phrases, and terms shall be deemed to have the meaning ascribed to them in the
following paragraphs. When consistent with the context, words used in the present tense
include the future; words in the singular include the plural; and those in the plural include the
singular.
A. The word "Council" shall mean the Town Council of Marana.
B. The word "Building" includes the word "Structure".
C. The word "Shall" is mandatory and the word "May" is permissive.
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D. The word "Used" includes the words "arranged for, designed for, occupied or intended
to be occupied for".
E. The words "Building" or "Structure" include any part thereof.
F. A "Person" includes a corporation, a partnership, and an unincorporated association of
persons such as a club.
03.01 Definitions II A"
Abuttina: Two (2) adjoining properties having a common property line or boundary.
Accent Material-Material coverina twentv-five oercent or less of the wall elevation.
Access or Accessway: The place, means, or way by which pedestrians and vehicles shall
have safe and usable ingress and egress to a property.
Accessory Buildina: A subordinate building or portion of a main building on the same lot or
building site, incidental to that permitted in the main building, or to the land upon which the
main building is located.
Accessory Use: A use incidental or subordinate to the principal use of a lot or building and
devoted exclusively to the main use of the lot or building thereon.
Acre: 43,560 square feet.
Apiary: A place where bees are kept for their honey, generally consisting of a number of
hives.
Articulation-The manner in which various features are arranaed on a buildina elevation.
Aviary: Large cage or building specifically designed for keeping birds.
03.02
Definitions "B"
Berm-An earthen mound desianed to orovide visual interest. screen undesirable views,
decrease noise. and/or control or manaae surface drainaae.
Buffer-Ooen soaces. landscaoed areas. fences. walls. berms. or anv combination thereof.
used to ohvsicallv seoarate or screen one use or prooertv from another so as to visuallv shield
or block noise. liahts. buildinas. other nuisances. or orovide privacy.
Buildable Area: The lot area where a building can be placed after yard setbacks and
easements are deducted.
Builder: The builder is the purchaser of a development area, or portions of a development
area who will build or provide for building within their areas of ownership. The builder is
responsible for implementation of those facilities within each of the development areas, and
ancillary facilities within the spine infrastructure system.
Buildina: Any structure having a roof and walls built and maintained for the support, shelter,
or enclosure of persons, animals, chattel, or property of any kind including an apartment
house, hotel or dwelling, single or in combination.
Buildina Form-The shaDe and structure of a buildina as distinauished from its substance or
material.
Buildina Heiaht: The vertical distance between the finished floor elevation and the highest
point of the building, excluding chimneys, vents and antennae, provided the finished floor
elevation is no higher than 2' above any adjacent grade within 4' of the building.
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Buildinq, Main: A building within which is conducted the principal use permitted on the lot.
Buildina Mass-The three-dimensional bulk of a buildina-heiaht. width. and deoth.
Buildinq Setback: The distance a building must be set back from a specified point.
Buildina Scale-The size and orooortion of a buildina relative to surroundina buildinas and
environs. adiacent streets. and oedestrians.
Buildinq Site: The ground area of a building or buildings together with all open spaces
adjacent thereto.
Business or Commercial: The purchase, sale or other transaction involving the handling or
disposition, other than that included in the term "industry" as defined herein, of any article,
substance or commodity for profit or gain.
03.03 Definitions "C"
Camp. Farm Labor: A building or complex of buildings located on an operating farm that is
intended to house farm workers and/or their families on a seasonal basis.
Character-Those attributes. aualities. and features that make uo and distinauish a
develooment oroiect and aive such oroiect a sense of ouroose. function. definition. and
uniaueness.
Child Care Center: A facility providing compensated nonresidential care and supervision to
more than ten children. Also termed a day nursery.
Church: A building or group of buildings used primarily as a place of communion or worship.
"Church" includes convents, religious educational buildings and parish houses, but not
parochial schools.
Colonv: A controlled honey bee brood including a single queen bee, drones, and workers.
Commercial Center-A develooment containina one or more retail stores. restaurants.
hotels. motels. and similar businesses within a sinale buildina or multiole buildinas.
Commission: The Town of Marana Planning Commission.
Common Area: An area of common access designed to serve two or more separate dwelling
units which mayor may not be under separate ownership.
Condominium: A form of real estate structure ownership established through the subdivision
of real estate, portions of which are designated for separate ownership and the remainder of
which is designated for common ownership solely by the building owners of the separate
portions. Real estate is not a condominium unless the individual interests in the common
element are vested in the building unit owners.
Condominium Proiect: A plan or a project involving a building that is owned or offered for
sale, or is projected to be owned or offered for sale to two or more persons who will separately
own defined dwelling unit space, together with an undivided interest in common areas or
facilities of the property. The term shall also refer to the entire real property when so indicated
by the context of this code.
County: Pima County, Arizona.
Crop. Aqricultural: The growing of crops in the soil in the customary manner in the open;
including the processing, wholesaling, and retailing of such grown agricultural products when
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such activities are performed on the premises on which the crops are raised. The term does
not include the raising of livestock.
Cul-de-sac: A local street with only one outlet and having an appropriate terminal for the safe
and convenient reversal of traffic movement.
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Definitions "0"
Dairy farm: Area where dairy animals are kept for milking and from which a part or all of the
milk is sold, offered for sale or supplied for human consumption, and includes all buildings,
yards and premises occupied or used in connection with the production of milk.
Density: The number of dwelling units that may be constructed per a unit of measure of land
area. Usually expressed using the acre as the unit of measure.
Developer: Any person, including a governmental agency, undertaking any development as
defined in these regulations.
Development Code: The zoning code of the Town of Marana and overlay regulations
including those which might deal with floodplains, hillside or slope protection, and related
regulations; subdivision regulations, sign regulations, and all other land use regulations
contained within this division of the Town of Marana Municipal Code.
Driveway: A private method of vehicular access contained fully within a lot.
Drouaht Tolerant Veaetation: Low water use plants, which after established, survive within the
Sonoran Desert climate with little or no supplemental watering.
Duplex: A residential building containing two dwelling units.
Dwellina: A building or portion thereof, designed and used exclusively for residential
occupancy, including one-family, two-family, and multiple dwellings, but not including hotels,
boarding or lodging houses.
Dwellina, Sinale Family: A building designed for occupancy by one family as a residence and
contains only one kitchen.
Dwellina. Multiple-Family: A residential building containing two or more dwelling units, each
designed for occupancy by an individual or one family as a residence.
03.05
Definitions "E"
Easements: A space on a lot or parcel of land defined on a subdivision map, in a deed
restriction, or separate document, reserved for and/or used for public utilities, ingress and
egress, drainage or other special purposes.
Enterprise: An individual or organization engaged in a single type of business or
governmental activity as classified and defined by the United States Standard Industrial
Classification Manual at the two-digit level.
03.06 Definitions "F"
Facade--Anv side of a buildina that faces a street or other open space. The "front facade" is
the front or principal face of a buildina.
Family: One or more individuals occupying a dwelling unit and living as a single
housekeeping unit.
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Feedlot: Any fenced area used commercially for the express purpose of fattening livestock for
slaughter or sale.
Final Plat: A map of all or part of a subdivision essentially conforming to an approved
preliminary plat, and prepared in accordance with the provisions of the Town of Marana
subdivision regulations.
Flood: A temporary rise in flow or stage of any stream, watercourse or lake that may result in
water overtopping its banks and inundating adjacent areas.
Floodolain: Areas of land adjoining or near the channel of a watercourse which has been or
may be hereafter covered by flood water, and which functions as a temporary channel or
reservoir for overbank flow.
Floodolain Board: The Town Council of Marana.
Floodwav: A delineated area, as determined by a hydraulic analysis approved by the Town of
Marana Engineer, where the hypothetical encroachment into the floodplain will allow passage
of the regulatory flood without increasing the flood height more than one foot. Additional
hydraulic criteria that will be applied to determine the boundaries of the floodway are: 1 ).
equal flow conveyance removal will be assumed from each side of the floodplain, and 2). the
exact boundary of the floodway will be selected so that its alignment will ultimately be
streamlined in relation to upstream and downstream developments.
Floor Area Ratio (FAR): A ratio expressing the amount of square feet of floor area permitted
for every square foot of land area within a site. The FAR is usually expressed as a single
number.
Fowl: A bird of a type that is used to produce meat or eggs, including, but not limited to,
chickens, ducks, turkeys, and peacocks.
Frontaoe: All property fronting on one (1) side of a street between a street and a right-of-way,
or between intersecting or intercepting streets, or to the end of a dead-end street. An
intercepting street shall determine the boundary of the frontage on the side of the street that it
intercepts.
03.07 Definitions "G"
Garaoe. Private: An accessory building or portion of the main building, designed or used for
the shelter or storage of self propelled vehicles owned or operated by the occupants of the
main building.
Gasoline Service Stations: A retail establishment primarily engaged in selling petroleum
products, but not including auto repair shops, body and fender works, similar repairing and
painting uses, or mechanical or stream wash racks.
General Plan: The Town of Marana General Plan.
Gross Floor Area: The sum of the areas of all horizontal surfaces of a building, measured
from outside surface to outside surface.
Grade: The average of the finished ground level at the center of all of the exterior walls of a
building. In case the front wall is parallel to and within five (5) feet of a sidewalk, the grade
shall be measured at the sidewalk at the centerline of the front of the lot.
Guest House: Living quarters for guests, relatives, or servants on the premises in an
accessory building or attached to the principal residence.
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Definitions "H"
Hive: A movable-frame receptacle used for keeping bees which may consist of one or more
frames on a single box stand.
Home Child Care Center: Any single residence dwelling in which child care is regularly
provided for compensation for five (5) or more, but not more than ten (10) children not related
to the proprietor. The proposed child care center shall meet all requirements for certification
by the State Department of Health.
Home Occupation: Any activity carried out for gain by a resident, conducted as an accessory
use in the resident's dwelling unit. A home occupation shall not exceed 25% of the gross floor
area of a dwelling, shall not involve persons who are not permanent residents of the residence
unless approved through the Conditional Use Permit procedure as provided in Section 10.10.
A home occupation shall not display on-site advertising or identification signs or have external
evidence of the conduct of the home occupation, shall maintain the required residential off-
street parking, shall not create off-street or on-street parking, vehicular or pedestrian traffic
which is greater than that normally associated with a solely residential use of the premises on
which the home occupation is conducted and shall not create conditions that are a nuisance to
neighboring properties. Equipment which is visible from off-site or which creates audible
interference in radio and television receivers or causes fluctuations in line voltage outside the
dwelling using it is prohibited.
Hospital: Any building or portion thereof used for the accommodation and medical care of
sick, injured or infirm persons and including sanitariums, institutions for the cure of chronic
drug addicts and mental patients.
Hotel: A building containing six or more guest rooms, in which lodging is provided and offered
to the public for compensation and which is open to transient guests, together with
commercial accessory uses operated primarily for the convenience of the guests thereof.
Household pets: Any animal commonly accepted as a domesticated pet and housed within
the primary residential structure.
03.09
Definitions "I"
Improvement: Any man-made immovable item which becomes part of, places upon, or is
affixed to real estate. Improvements are typically required to be installed as a condition of
approval or acceptance of a development. They may include, but are not limited to, roads,
water facilities, easements, traffic control devices, utility lines, and other similar facilities.
Industrv: The manufacture, fabrication, processing, reduction or destruction of any article,
substance or commodity, or any other treatment thereof in such a manner as to change the
form, character, or appearance thereof.
Inaress: Access or entry.
In-line commercial center-Multiole retail stores oraanized in an in-line fashion. Individual
stores within the center are attached. sharine one or more side walls but have seoarate
entrances. In-line centers tvoicallv share a sine Ie oarkine area that is located at the front or
front and side of the center.
Intervenina propertv: Property located between an existing public right-of-way or existing
public utility easement and the land within a subdivision or other large scale development.
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Junk (Salvaae) Yard: A place where scrap, waste, discarded or salvaged materials are
bought, sold, exchanged, baled, packed, disassembled, handled, or stored in the open,
including, but not limited to, automobile wrecking yards, used lumber yards, and places or
yards for the storage of salvaged house wrecking and structural steel materials, and
equipment. This excepts farming operations, or where such activities are conducted entirely
within a completely enclosed building and where salvaged materials are kept incidental to
manufacturing or other industrial or agricultural operations conducted on the premises.
03.11 Definitions "K"
Kennel: Any enclosure, premises, building, structure, lot or area where dogs, cats, or other
animals are kept, raised, sold, boarded, bred, shown, treated or groomed for economic gain.
03.12 Definitions "L"
Landscaoina: Making an area attractive through the use and arrangement of living
vegetation, such as trees, bushes, and groundcovers, together with inert materials such as
wood, rocks, brick, and decomposed granite.
Land Solits: The division of improved or unimproved land whose area is two and one-half
acres or less into two or three tracts or parcels of land for the purpose of sale or lease.
Land Use: A description of how land is occupied or utilized.
Laroe Format Retail-A larae format retail store contains 100.000 sauare feet or more (aross
floor area).
Laroe livestock: Includes cattle, horses, oxen, donkeys, mules, llamas, and other similar
animals.
Larae Scale Develooment: For zones A-F, any planned unit development, condominium
project, mobile home park, recreational vehicle park, planned shopping center, planned
industrial park, group dwelling, apartment building complex, or farm labor camp located on a
lot or parcel of land that is larger than 2.5 acres and which is planned and developed as a
single entity or which contains land or facilities that are held as common properties.
Livestock Auction Yard: A parcel of land and accompanying buildings used for the sale by
auction of livestock offered on consignment.
Local Street: A street whose purpose is to provide access to property, provide vehicular
linkage within a residential or nonresidential neighborhood, but not necessarily through
movements.
Lot: A tract of land bounded on all sides by property lines, of sufficient size to meet minimum
zoning requirements, of use, coverage, area, setbacks, and other areas as required by these
regulations with legal access to a public street.
Lot Area: The total land area, measured in a horizontal plane, included within the lot property
lin3s.
Lot. Corner: A lot located at the intersection of two (2) or more streets.
Lot Coveraae: The area of a site occupied by buildings, storage areas, and areas allocated to
vehicular parking, maneuvering, and service.
Lot Deoth: The horizontal distance between the front and rear lot lines.
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Lot Frontaae: The length of the lot line abutting a street.
Lot Improvement: Any building, structure, place, work of art, or other object or improvement
of the land on which they are situated constituting a physical betterment of real property, or
any part of such betterment.
Lot. Interior: A lot other than a corner or key lot.
Lot. Key: Any lot where the side lot line abuts the rear lot line of other lots.
Lot. Larae: For zones A-F, any lot occupying 25 acres or more.
Lot Line: A line of record bounding a lot.
Lot Line. Common: Any side or rear property line which adjoins or abuts another side or rear
property line, not including side or rear property lines abutting a street or alley.
Lot Line. Front: The lot line separating a lot from a street.
Lot Line. Rear:
1. The lot line which is opposite and most distant from the front lot line.
2. The rear lot line of an irregular, triangular or gore lot shall, for the purpose of this code,
be a line entirely within the lot at least ten feet along and parallel to and most distant
from the front lot line.
Lot Line. Side:
1. Any lot line not a front lot line or a rear lot line.
2. A side lot line separating a lot from a street is a street lot line.
3. A side lot line separating a lot from another lot is an interior side lot line.
Lot. Medium Size: For zones A-F, any lot occupying more than 2.5 acres but less than 25
acres.
Lot. Small: For zones A-F, any lot occupying 2.5 acres or less.
Lot Width: The mean horizontal width of the lot measured at right angles to the lot depth.
03.13 Definitions "M"
Maior Street: A street so designated on the adopted Marana Transportation Plan.
Manufactured Home: A single-family dwelling structure transportable in one or more sections
manufactured after June 15, 1976, to standards established by the U.S. Department of
Housing and Urban Development. The structure is built on a permanent chassis and
designed to be used as a dwelling, with or without a permanent foundation, when connected
to the required utilities.
Manufactured Home Park: A residential use in which more than two manufactured home
spaces are located on a single site area. The spaces may be leased, rented or sold. If the
individual spaces are sold, the remainder of the use must be in the common ownership of all
unit owners.
Maximum Extent Practicable-Under the circumstances. reasonable efforts have been
undertaken to comolv with the reQulation or reQuirement. that the cost of additional
comoliance measures clearlv outweiQh the ootential benefits to the oublic or would
.
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unreasonablv burden the orooosed oroiect. and reasonable steos have been undertaken to
minimize anv ootential harm or adverse imoacts resultina from the noncomoliance.
Model Home: A dwelling unit used initially for display purposes which typified the type of units
that will be constructed in the subdivision.
Motel: A facility offering transient lodging accommodations of six or more rental units. A
majority of all rental units have direct access to the outside without the necessity of passing
through the main lobby of the building. Guests are generally traveling by automobile and
parking is located convenient to each unit. .
Multiple Family Structure: A building, located on one lot, containing two or more dwelling
units. Also known as multifamily structure.
03.14
Definitions "N"
Native Veaetation: Plants indigenous to an area.
Natural Features-"Natural features" include but are not limited to flood olains and surface
drainaae channels. washes. stream corridors and other bodies of water. steeo slooes.
orominent ridaes. bluffs. or vallevs, and existina trees and veaetation.
Nearby Land: For zones A-F, land lying within one-quarter of a mile of a small lot, within one-
half mile of a medium size lot, and within one mile of a large lot.
Nonconformina: A parcel or land, or a building or structure, or portion thereof, or a use which
does not conform to the provisions of this Development Code, and which existed prior to the
effective date thereof.
Nuisance: Annoying, unpleasant or obnoxious and out of character with the neighboring area.
Nursery:
1.
2.
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A place where young trees or other plants are raised for transplanting or for sale.
Does not include commercial fertilizer yard or processing plant.
Definitions "0"
Off-Site: Any premises not located within the area of the property to be subdivided or
developed whether or not in the same ownership of the applicant to subdivision or
development approval.
Off-Street Parkina: Parking of motor vehicles that is not located on a street, or public way.
On-Site: Of or pertaining to a space within the boundaries of a subdivision lot or parcel.
Open Space: Any area to be kept in open uses including active and passive recreational
lands, desert, floodways, floodplains, parks, and greenbelts.
Orient-To brina in relation to. or adiust to. the surroundinas. situation. or environment: to
olace with the most imoortant Darts le.a.. the orimarv buildina entrance and the desianated
"front" of a buildina) facina in certain directions: or to set or arranae in a determinate oosition.
as in "to orient a buildina."
03.16
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Pad Site BuildinG- Tvoicallv used in the context of retail shoooina center develooment. a
buildina or buildina site that is ohvsicallv seoarate from the orincioal or orimarv buildina and
reserved for free-standina commercial uses. each such use tvoicallv containina no more than
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15.000 sauare feet of DrOSS floor area. Tvpical pad site uses include. bv wav of illustration
onlv. free-standina restaurants. banks. and auto services.
Parcel of Land: Any quantity of land capable of being described with such definiteness that its
location and boundaries may be established, which is designated by its owner or developer as
land to be used or developed as a unit. Parcel includes an easement supporting or related to
a primary parcel, and a condominium unit.
Parkina Lot: Any area of a site or structure used as a parking area for more than four (4)
motor vehicles.
Parkina Space. Standard: A space not less than twenty (20) feet in length and not less than
nine (9) feet in width for the parking of a motor vehicle, exclusive of driveways and ramps.
Permitted Use: A land use allowed as a property right within a zoning category subject only to
the requirements listed for that use.
Phase: A portion of a development project scheduled for construction and occupancy as an
entity apart from other phases of the development.
Plannina Administrator: The Town of Marana Planning Administrator.
Plat: A map of a subdivision.
Preliminarv Plat: A preliminary map, including supporting data, indicating a proposed
subdivision design prepared in accordance with the provisions of the Town of Marana
subdivision regulations.
Premises: A zoned lot, together with the buildings and other structures located thereon.
Primary Arterial: A road intended to move traffic to and from such major attractions as
villages, regional shopping centers, colleges and/or universities, major industrial areas and
similar traffic generators within Marana and/or as a route for traffic between communities or
large areas.
Primarv or PrinciDal Buildina- The buildina or structure on a commercial development site
used to accommodate the maioritv of the princioal permitted usef s). When there are multiple
buildinas on a commercial development site. such as in a shoppina center. the primarv or
principal buildina shall be the one containina the areatest amount of DrOSS floor area.
Buildinas sited on pad sites or free-standina kiosk/ATM machines cannot be "primarv" or
"principal" buildinas.
Primarv Material-Material coverina seventv-five percent or more of the wall elevation or the
individual material that constitutes the maioritv.
Principal Structure: A structure in which the principal use of the lot is conducted.
Principal Use: The primary or predominant use of any lot.
Public Improvement: Any drainage ditch, roadway, parkway, sidewalk, pedestrian way, tree,
lawn, off-street parking area, lot improvement or other facility for which the Town of Marana
may ultimately assume the responsibility for maintenance and operation.
03.17 Definitions "Q"
Quasi-Public Land Use: Use of the land by private, not-for-profit institutions or organizations
for purposes which may, in fact, be public uses, or which may be restricted to a particular
group, but which generally involve the use of the land or the facility located thereon by a large
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number of people; including but not limited to churches, private schools, not-for-profit social
organizations, hospitals, welfare organizations, or non-profit medical centers.
03.18 Definitions "R"
RAC: The permitted number of residences per gross acre (43,560 square feet of land area).
Ratite: Members of the group ratitae; large flightless birds, including emus and ostriches.
Recorded Plat A final plat bearing all of the certificates of approval required by Arizona
Revised Statutes, and by the Town of Marana subdivision regulations, and recorded by the
Pima County Recorder.
Recreational Vehicle (R V. ): A unit, designed to provide temporary living quarters, built into as
an integral part of or attached to a self-propelled motor vehicle chassis or to be towed by a
motor vehicle. The unit contains permanently installed independent life support systems
which provide at least four of the following facilities: cooling, refrigeration or ice box, self-
contained toilet, heating and/or air conditioning, a potable water supply system including a
faucet and sink, separate 110-125 volt electrical power supply and/or LP gas supply.
Recreation Vehicle Park: A parcel of land under single or common ownership where two or
more spaces are leased, rented or sold for occupancy of an RV. A fee mayor may not be
charged for the use of the individual space.
Recreational Vehicle Soace: An area within the RV. Park for the placement of an RV. unit, in
addition to any exclusive use area adjacent to the unit set aside for the occupants of the RV.,
such as patio or parking space.
RedeveloDment-Develooment on a tract of land with existina structures where all or most of
the existina structures would be razed and a new structure or structures built.
Reoistered Enoineer: An engineer properly licensed and registered in the State of Arizona.
Reaistered Land Surveyor: A land surveyor properly licensed and registered in the State of
Arizona.
Reaulatory Flood: The park discharge of the 100-year flood. It is representative of large
floods known to have occurred generally in the same region and reasonably characteristic of
what can be expected to occur on a particular stream or watercourse. The regulatory flood
generally has an average frequency or recurrence interval of 100 years. Each year there is a
one percent chance that an equal or greater flood will occur at that site.
Reoulatory Flood Elevation: The water surface elevation of the regulatory flood for
watercourses where supercritical velocities are encountered. The critical depth will be used
for determining the regulatory flood elevation.
Reaulatorv Floodolain: That portion of the natural floodplain that would be inundated by the
regulatory flood.
Research Laboratory:
1. An administrative, engineering, specific research, design or experimentation facility.
2. Shall include research on such things as electronic components, optical equipment,
etc.
Restaurant An eating establishment where meals may be bought and eaten, also allowing
the sale of alcoholic beverages.
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Ridinq Arena/Rodeo Grounds. Private: An enclosed area used for the purpose of riding and
training horses or other livestock for private enjoyment.
Ridinq Arena/Rodeo Grounds. Public: An enclosed area used for the purpose of riding,
training, or showing horses or other livestock, or for the purpose of competition involving those
animals.
Riqht-Of-Wav: A strip of land occupied or intent to be occupied by a street, crosswalk,
railroad, road, electric transmission line, oil or gas pipeline, water main, sanitary or storm
sewer main, or for another special use. The usage of the term "right-of-way" for land platting
purposes shall mean that every right-of-way hereafter established and shown on a final plat is
to be separate and distinct from the lots or parcels adjoining such right-of-way, and not
included within the dimensions or areas of such lots or parcels. Rights-of-way intended for
streets, crosswalks, water mains, sanitary sewers, storm drainages, or any other use involving
maintenance by a public agency shall be dedicated to public use by the maker of the plat on
which such right-of-way is established.
Rodent: Any member of the order rodentia, such as, but not limited to: mice, rabbits, and
hares.
Roof: The outside top covering of a building.
03.19 Definitions "S"
Sale or Lease: Any immediate or future transfer or 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.
Screen: A barrier that functions to shield, protect or conceal.
Setback: A distance from a set point.
Siqnificant Chanqe in Land Use: For zones A-F, any change in land use that will: (1) more
than double the household or enterprise density of the land in question within one year; or (2)
change the nature of the activity on the land from residential (including renter occupied
housing) to non-residential; or (3) change the nature of any business, industrial, or quasi-
public use of the land (including agriculture use) to any use that would fall in a different
Standard Industrial Classification at the major group level, except where such other use is
already in existence on land immediately adjacent to the site of the proposed change; or (4)
be reasonably expected to more than double the use of nearby streets or other public facilities
within one year. Notwithstanding, however, for small lots that have been vacant, upon which
there have been no building or buildings, a change in land use from vacant to any use similar
to one or more existing land uses on immediately adjacent lots shall be deemed not
significant. A similar and competing business enterprise shall not be considered to be
antagonistic to any existing business enterprise for the purposes of this Code.
Similar Land Use: For zones A-F, land use of the same or lesser density of households, if
residential, or if non-residential use of the land by an activity classified as within the same two-
digit Standard Industrial Classification Code as enumerated by the United States Standard
Industrial Classification Manual.
Sinqle Familv Dwellinq, Attached: A dwelling unit attached to one or more dwelling units by
structural elements common to the attached units with each dwelling unit located on its own
individual lot. The structural elements include common wall construction, roof, or other similar
improvement. Elements like trusses, beams, and patio walls are not included.
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Sinole Familv Dwellino, Detached: A dwelling unit which is not attached to any other swelling
unit by any structural elements and located on its own separate lot.
Sion: Includes all outdoor advertising on any card, cloth, paper, plastic, metal, painted glass,
wood or stone, and any and all devices, structural or otherwise, lighted or unlighted, painted or
not painted, attached to, made a part of, or placed in the window of, or in the front, rear, sides
or top of any structure or on any land or any tree, wall, bush, rock, post, fence, building or
structure and visible from any public or private street, way, thoroughfare, alley or walk, which
device announces or directs attention to the name or nature of a business, occupant of a
structure, building or land or the nature or type of goods, services or projects, produced, sold,
stored, furnished or available at the location or at any other location, including signs
specifically for the sale of real property.
Site: The land area designated for a development project, exclusive of any abutting public
right-of-way. The land area can be a portion of a lot, a single lot, or can consist of more than
one lot.
Small livestock: Includes sheep, goats, miniature horses and other similar animals.
Specific Plan: A precise plan for a specific piece of property, or properties, typically under
single ownership, which contains all the elements as specified within these regulations, and
which has been adopted by the Town Mayor and Council, and which may supersede these
land use regulations as they might otherwise apply to the specified property.
Stables. Public: Structures where animals are kept for sale or hire; breeding, boarding, and or
training.
Stables. Private: Structures where animals are kept for private use.
Standards-Mandatorv reaulations. Standards are indicated bv use of the terms "shall" and
"must."
Stockyard: A penned enclosure, or structure, where small or large livestock are maintained
temporarily for the purpose of slaughtering, marketing or shipping.
StOry: A space in a building between the surface of any floor and the surface of the floor next
above, or if there is no floor above, then the space between such floor and the ceiling or roof
above.
Street: Any existing or proposed street, avenue, boulevard, road, land, parkway, place,
bridge, viaduct or easement for public vehicular access or a street shown in a plat heretofore
approved pursuant to the Town of Marana, Pima County, State of Arizona or other
governmental unit regulations, or a street on a plat duly filed and recorded in the Pima County
Recorders office which has been approved by a unit of government. A street includes all land
within the street right-of-way whether improved or unimproved, and includes such
improvements as pavement, shoulders, curbs, gutters, sidewalks, parking space, bridges and
viaducts.
Street. Arterial: A street which serves or is intended to serve as a major way by which traffic
may be conveyed between the Town of Marana and other communities as well as between
major population or activity concentrations within the Town of Marana. Arterial Streets are
designated in the Transportation Plan element of the Town General Plan, and are generally
one-mile apart on Section lines.
Street Center Line: The centerline or monument line of a street or road right-of-way as
established by an official survey.
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Street, Collector: A street which is supplementary to an arterial street and serves, or is
intended to serve, to convey traffic between neighborhoods or similar areas within Town.
Collector Streets are typically at half-mile points within a Section.
Streets. Minor: Any dedicated street serving as the principal means of access to property
which is not shown on the Town Transportation Plan as an Arterial or Collector street.
Street Riaht-Of-Wav Width: The distance between property lines measured at right angles to
the center line of the street.
Structure: Anything constructed or built, any edifice or building of any kind, or any piece of
work artificially built up or composed or put together in some definite manner, which requires
location on the ground.
Subdivider: A person, firm, corporation, partnership, association, syndicate, trust or other
legal entity that files application and initiates proceedings for the subdivision of land in
accordance with the provisions of State law or Town of Marana regulations. An individual
serving as agent for such legal entity is not a subdivider.
Subdivision: Improved or unimproved land or lands divided for the purpose of financing, sale
or lease, whether immediate or future, into four or more lots, tracts or parcels of land, or, if a
new street is involved, any such property which is divided into two or more lots, tracts, or
parcels of land, or any such property, the boundaries of which have been fixed by a recorded
plat, which is divided into more than two parts. "Subdivision" also includes any condominium,
cooperative, community apartment, townhouse or similar project containing four or more
parcels, in which an undivided interest in the land is coupled with the right of exclusive
occupancy of any unit located thereon, but plats of such projects need not show the buildings
or the manner in which the buildings or airspace above the property shown on the plat are to
be divided.
"Subdivision" does not include the following:
1. The sale or exchange of parcels of land to or between adjoining property
owners if such sale or exchange does not create additional lots.
2. The partitioning of land in accordance with other statutes of the State of
Arizona regulating the partitioning of land held in common ownership.
3. The leasing of apartments, offices, stores or similar space within a building or
trailer park, not to mineral, oil or gas leases.
Subdivision Desian: Street alignment, grades and widths, alignment and widths ofeasements
and rights-of-way for drainage and sanitary sewers and the arrangement and orientation of
lots as set forth in the Town of Marana Subdivision regulations or design manuals, or both.
Subdivision Improvement: The required installations, pursuant to the Town of Marana
subdivision regulations, including grading, sewer and water utilities, streets, easements, traffic
control devices as a condition to the approval and acceptance of the final plat thereof.
Swine: Any hoofed animal of the porcine species, such as a pig.
03.20 Definitions "T"
Temporary Use: Any use allowed for a specified period of time. A use not of a permanent
nature.
Town: The Town of Marana, Arizona.
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Town Board of Adiustment: The Town Council of Marana, convened as the Board of
Adjustment.
Town Council: The Town Council of Marana.
Town Enoineer: The Town Engineer of Marana.
Townhouse: A single-family dwelling, attached, in which each unit has its own separate front
entrance, and no unit is located over another unit.
Transportation Corridor: Land that is occupied by transportation facilities, including airports,
railroads, roads, irrigation canals, or public utility line, or which is immediately adjacent to such
facilities, and which has been designated for the purpose of accommodating such modes of
transportation and related uses.
03.21 Definitions "U"
Use: The purpose for which land or a building is arranged designed or intended, for which
either land or building is or may be occupied or maintained.
Utilities: Services such as natural gas, electricity, water, telephone, and cable television.
03.22 Definitions "V"
Variance: An exception to the provisions of these regulations.
Veterinary Clinic Or Animal Hospital. Laroe: Any establishment maintained and operated by a
licensed veterinarian for the diagnosis and treatment of diseases and injuries of animals
including large and small livestock.
Veterinary Clinic Or Animal Hospital. Small: Any establishment maintained and operated by a
licensed veterinarian for the diagnosis and treatment of diseases and injuries of animals
including domestic pets.
Vicinitv Plan: A map showing the relationship of a project or lot to adjacent streets, lots, and
structures.
03.23 Definitions "W"
Walls: An upright opaque structure of wood, stone, brick, etc., serving to enclose, divide,
support, protect, or screen.
03.24
03.25
Definitions "X" (Reserved)
Definitions "Y"
Yard: Any open space other than a court on the same lot with a building or dwelling group
which open space is unoccupied and unobstructed from the ground upward to the sky except
for the projecting and/or accessory buildings permitted by these regulations.
03.26 Definitions "Z" (Reserved)
Title 3 - Definitions
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(Revised: OJ/Ol)
Ord. 2001.Q7.
TO\'V'N OF lvL:\RANA, ARIZONA
LAND DEVELOPMENT CODE
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Title 3 - Definitions
Page 16of16
Ord. 2001-01
AFFIDAVIT OF PUBLICATION
STATE OF ARIZONA
COUNTY OF PIMA
ss.
Audrey Smith, being first duly sworn, deposes and says that (s)he is the Legal
Advertising Manager of THE DAILY TERRITORIAL, a daily newspaper printed and
published in the County of Pima, State of Arizona, and of general circulation in the City of
Tucson, County of Pima, State of Arizona and elsewhere, and the hereto attached:
PUBLIC NOTICE
MARANA ORDINANCE NO. 2007.07
LAND DEVELOPMENT; ADOPTING COMMERCIAL DESIGN
STANDARDS
was printed and published correctly in the regular and entire issue of said THE DAILY
TERRITORIAL for 4 issues; that was first made on the 27th day of March 2007
and the last publication thereof was made on the 30th day of March 2007;
that said publication was made on each of the following dates, to-wit:
03/27/07
03/28/07
03/29/07
03/30/07
at the Request of:
Town of Marana, Clerk's Office
NotD:"V ["'ui:nc:~. It.,"'.z::,(iJ
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PUBLIC NOTICE
MARANA ORDINANCE NO. 2007.07
RELATING TO LAND DEVELOPMENT;
ADOPTING COMMERCIAL DESIGN
STANDARDS TITLE 8; AND AMEND-
ING TITLE 3, DEFINITIONS OF THE
LAND DEVELOPMENT CODE
WHEREAS, the Marana Land Develop-
ment Code (the "Code") was adopted
by the Mayor and Council of the Town
of Marana on May 14, 1984 by Ordi-
nance No. 84.04; and
WHEREAS, the Mayor and Council
have amended the Code from time to
time; and
WHEREAS, the Code contains Title 8
General Development Regulations,
which regulate the development of land
in the Town of Marana; and Title 3,
Definitions; and
WHEREAS, the Marana Planning Com-
mission held a public hearing on a re-
quest to amend Title 8 and Title 3 of the
Code on July 26, 2006 to consider com-
ments from Town staff and the public on
the proposed amendments; and
WHEREAS, the Town Council held a
public hearing on a request to amend
Title 8 and Title 3 of the Code on March
20, 2007; and
WHEREAS, the Mayor and Council find
that approval of the proposed amend-
ments is in the best interest of the resi-
dents and businesses of the Town of
Marana.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED
by the Mayor and Council of the Town
of Marana, as follows:
SECTION 1. Title 8, General Develop-
ment Regulations, of the Town of
Marana Land Development Code is
hereby amended by adding Section
08.07.01 through 08.07.03, three copies
of which are on file in the office of the
Town Clerk of the Town of Marana, Ari-
zona, having been made a public record
by and attached as Exhibit A to Resolu-
tion No. 2007-42; and Title 3, Defini-
tions, of the Town of Marana Land De-
velopment Code, is hereby amended by
incorporating the definitions contained
in Section 08.07.04, three copies of
which are on file in the office of the
Town Clerk of the Town of Marana, Ari-
zona, having been made a public record
by and attached as Exhibit B to Resolu-
tion No. 2007-42.
SECTION 2. The adoption of this ordi-
nance shall have the effect of invalidat-
ing that portion of all previous versions
of the Land Development Code.
SECTION 3. In the event that any pro-
vision, or any portion of any provision,
of this ordinance or application thereof,
is held invalid, illegal, or unenforceable,
such invalidity. illegality, or un enforce-
ability shall have no effect on the re-
maining portion of any provision or any
other provision, or their application,
which can be given effect without the in-
valid provision or application and to this
end the provision of this ordinance shall
be deemed to be severable.
SECTION 4. This ordinance shall be
effective on the thirty-first day aller its
adoption.
PASSED AND ADOPTED by the Town
Council, Town of Marana, Arizona, this
20th day of March, 2007.
_Mayor Date
ATTEST:
Jocelyn C. Bronson, Town Clerk
APPROVED AS TO FORM:
Frank Cassidy, Town Attorney
PUBLISH, The Dally Territorial
March 27, 28, 29, 30, 2007
pn'2007-ll7 l.m
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