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Section 2.09

Definitions O-P

Obscuring Screen: A visual barrier between adjacent areas or uses. The screen may consist of structures, such as a wall or fence, or living plant material.

Occupancy, Change Of: A discontinuance of an existing use and the substitution of a use of a similar or different kind or class, or the expansion of a use.
Occupied: Used in any manner at the time in question.
Office: A building or portion of a building wherein services are performed involving predominantly administrative, professional, or clerical operations.
Offset: The distance between the centerlines of driveways or streets across the street from one another.
Off-Street Parking Lot: A facility providing vehicular parking spaces along with adequate drives and aisles, for maneuvering, so as to provide access for entrance and exit for the parking of more than two (2) vehicles.
Open Front Store or Restaurant Window: A business establishment so developed that service to the patron may be extended beyond the walls of the structure, not requiring the patron to enter the structure, such as ice cream and yogurt restaurants serving to patrons through a walk-up window. The term "open front store" shall not include automobile repair establishments or automobile service stations. See also "Restaurant.”
Open Space: An area that is intended to provide light and air, and is designed for either environmental, scenic, or recreational purposes. Open space may include, lawns, decorative planting, walkways, gazebos, active and passive recreation areas, playgrounds, fountains, swimming pools, woodlands, wetlands and water courses. Open space shall not be deemed to include driveways, parking lots or other surfaces designed or intended for vehicular travel but may include a recreational clubhouse or recreation center.
Ordinary High Water Mark: The line between upland and bottomland which persists through successive changes in water levels below which the presence and action of the water is so common or recurrent that the character of the land is marked distinctly from the upland and is apparent in the soil itself, the configuration of the surface soil, and the vegetation.
Outdoor Display, Sales, or Storage: Outdoor display, sales, or storage that is accessory to a permitted commercial use or a business operated substantially outside of any building, including: retail sales of garden supplies and equipment (including but not limited to, trees, shrubbery, plants, flowers, seed, topsoil, trellises, and lawn furniture); sale of building and lumber supplies; automobiles, recreational vehicles, boats, mobile homes, garages, swimming pools, playground equipment, mowing equipment, farm implements, construction equipment and similar materials or equipment; rental and leasing establishments; and year-round flea markets farmer’s markets, roadside stands, and auctions.
Parapet Wall: An extension of a building wall above the roof which may serve to screen roof-mounted mechanical equipment.
Parcel or Tract: A continuous area of acreage of land which can be described as provided for in the Michigan Land Division Act.
Parking Lot, Off-Street: A facility providing vehicular parking spaces, along with adequate drives and aisles for maneuvering to provide access for entrance and exit for the parking of more than three (3) vehicles.
Parking Space: An area of definite length and width, said area shall be exclusive of drives, aisles or entrances giving access thereto, and which is accessible for the parking of permitted vehicles.

Pawnshop: Any business that loans money on deposit of personal property or deals in the purchase or possession of personal property on condition of selling the same back again to the pledger or depositor, or loads or advances money on personal property by taking chattel mortgage security theron, and takes or receives such personal property.
Performance Guarantee: A financial guarantee to ensure that all improvements, facilities, or work required by this Ordinance will be completed in compliance with the Ordinance, regulations and the approved plans and specifications of a development.
Person: Any individual, partnership, corporation, trust, firm, joint stock corporation, association or other organization; any governmental body including federal, state, county or local agencies.
Personal Services Establishment: A business providing personal services to patrons including but not limited to: small electronics and appliance repair shops; shoe repair; dressmakers and tailors; hair styling, piercing, and tanning salons; licensed massage and tattoo parlors; travel agencies; and decorating and upholstery shops.
Pet: A domesticated dog, cat, bird, gerbil, hamster, guinea pig, turtle, fish, rabbit, or other similar animal that is commonly available and customarily kept for pleasure or companionship.
Pet Boarding Facility: A facility for the daily observation and care of dogs, cats, or other household pets, but not including farm animals or livestock, which may provide ancillary services such as grooming and training, adoption and rescue, but not breeding. The facility may be operated for profit and may offer overnight stays but does not include the long-term raising of animals more commonly associated with a kennel.
Petitioner, Applicant or Developer: A person, as defined herein, who may hold any recorded or unrecorded ownership or leasehold interest in land. This definition shall be construed to include any agent of the person.
Planned Unit Development: A form of land development comprehensively planned as a single development which permits flexibility in building, siting, useable open spaces, and the preservation of significant natural features. A PUD may contain a mix of housing types and non-residential uses.
Planning Commission: The Village of Mayville Planning Commission, as duly created under the Michigan Planning Enabling Act, Act 33 of 2008.
Plat: A map or chart of a subdivision of land which has been approved with the Michigan Land Division Act, Michigan Public Act 288 of 1967, as amended.
Playscape: A set of playground equipment that is designed in an integrated pattern.
Pool or Billiard Hall: An establishment wherein the substantial or significant portion of all useable floor area is devoted to the use of pool or billiard tables. See “Recreation Facility (Indoor)”.
Ponds and Lakes: Natural or artificial impoundments that retain water year-round.
Primary Containment Facility: A tank, pit, container, pipe, or vessel for first containment of a hazardous substance.
Principal Building or Structure: A building or structure in which is conducted the primary use of the lot upon which it is situated.
Principal Use: The primary use to which the premises are devoted and the purpose for which the premises exist.

Public and Quasi-Public Institutional Buildings, Structures, and Uses: Buildings, structures, and uses of governmental agencies and nonprofit organizations including, but not limited to, office buildings, police stations, fire stations, municipal parking lots, post offices, libraries, museums, and community centers. Public Park: Any developed land intended for active recreational pursuits, within the jurisdiction and control of a governmental agency. Public Open Space: Any primarily undeveloped land, intended for passive recreational pursuits, within the jurisdiction and control of a governmental agency. Public Utility: Any person, firm or corporation, municipal department, board or commission duly authorized to furnish and furnishing under federal, state or municipal regulations to the public: gas, steam, electricity, sewage disposal, public water, telephone lines, cable television services, communication, telegraph, and construction and maintenance of streets.