Part 2 — Unified Development Ordinance Definitions
City of Andover Unified Development Manual

PROPORTION: Balanced relationship of the size of parts to each other and to the whole. PROTEST PETITION: A written statement signed by a certain percentage of affected property owners, expressing disapproval of a proposed amendment to change the zoning or allow a special use for a specific property. (See Zoning Regulations, Section 12-104 for protest petition.) PUBLIC IMPROVEMENT: Construction, repair, or renovation of facilities on public property and intended for public use. 1. Public improvements may include streets, alleys, sidewalks, crosswalks, parks, planting areas, on-street or off-street parking areas, water mains, fire hydrants, sanitary sewers, storm sewers, and drainage systems. 2. Public improvements may be constructed by a public authority, or by a developer. 3. Some public improvements may be constructed by a developer and then dedicated to a Governing Body, which must formally accept them before assuming responsibility for their operation and maintenance. PUBLIC NUISANCE: An act or omission that obstructs, damages, or inconveniences the rights of the community, not merely one person or a group of citizens. 1. A nuisance is a thing, condition, or conduct that endangers health and safety, unreasonably offends the senses, or has a detrimental affect on other properties. 2. A public nuisance is a criminal as opposed to a civil wrong, and a violator may be punished by a criminal sentence, a fine, or both, and may also be required to remove a nuisance or to pay the costs of removal. PUBLIC PARKING GARAGE: See PARKING GARAGE, PUBLIC.
PUBLIC WAY: Any street, alley, sidewalk, path, bridge or similar structure designed for pedestrian or vehicular travel, which is legally available for public use. QUEUING LANE: A paved area designed to accommodate vehicles waiting in line to use a drive-through facility or a drop-off/pick-up zone. RECREATIONAL OFF-HIGHWAY VEHICLE: A motor vehicle more than 50 but no more than 64 inches wide, with a dry weight of 2000 pounds or less, traveling on four or more nonhighway tires.
Photo: Recreational Off-Highway Vehicle (example)
  RECREATIONAL VEHICLE (RV): A motor vehicle or trailer, designed primarily as living quarters for recreational, camping, vacation or travel use, which has an electrical system that operates above 12 volts, provisions for plumbing and heating, and any other component or feature for which a standard is adopted by the state uniform standards code for mobile homes and recreational vehicles. 1. By statute, an RV body must be no more than 8 feet wide and no more than 40 feet long. (See K.S.A. 75-1212(f) .)
  Photos: Recreational Vehicles (examples)

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