Racetrack. An outdoor facility for sanctioned competition of racing vehicles (including cars, trucks, motorcycles, and other vehicles designed for racing purposes) or for horses or dogs, on a closed circuit. In addition to a racetrack, the facility may include spectator seating (bleacher-type stands), a paddock area for support crews and maintenance, racetrack operations offices, ticket sales offices, and spectator services.

Radio and Television Antenna Tower. A structure for the transmission of broadcasting of radio, TV, or radar signals.

Railroad Track. An area or facility connected with the operation of individual railroad tracks, including without limitation main (through) tracks, spur tracks, and areas associated with sidings, siding and switching equipment, crossing safety arms, and contiguous maintenance, switching, or storage sheds.

Recreation, Active. Activities that involve significant movement of people and or animals, such as games played on sports fields or travel along multi-use paths or trails.

Recreation, Passive. Activities that involve minimal movement of people and/or animals, such as wildlife observation, sitting, walking, and other leisurely pastimes.

Recreation and Entertainment. A land use category (containing individual land uses) that includes establishment providing recreation or entertainment activities to the general public or to their members. Accessory uses may include concessions, snack bars, parking, administrative offices, and maintenance facilities.

Recreational Vehicle. A vehicle, such as a motor home, travel trailer, truck/ camper combination or camper trailer that is designed for human habitation for recreational or emergency purposes and that may be moved on public highways without any special permit for long, wide or heavy loads. This term also includes a small transportable dwelling that does not meet the definition of a Tiny House.

Recreational Vehicle Park. An outdoor facility designed for overnight accommodation of human beings in motorized vehicles, rustic cabins and shelters, or trailers for recreation, education, naturalist, or vacation purposes. Office, retail and other commercial uses commonly established in such facilities and related parking structures shall be allowed as accessory appurtenances.

Recycling Collection Facility. The term recycling and collection facility includes the following:

Redevelopment. Any proposed replacement, expansion, addition, renovation, or major change of or to an existing building, structure, or aspect of development.

Redevelopment Plan. A detailed plan for how a site is developed for a use that is limited to lawfully existing buildings and structures.

Registered Neighborhood Group. A neighborhood organization, homeowners’ association, business association, or other non-profit group that has registered with the City of Aurora for purposes of receiving notices under or related to this UDO for proposed development within or near a defined area in which its members reside, and whose registration and contact information has been updated at least once within the previous calendar year.

Research and Development. A facility including research, synthesis, analysis, development and testing laboratories, including the fabrication, assembly, mixing and preparation of equipment and components incident or convenient or necessary to the conduct of such activities.

Restaurant. An establishment where full meals and beverages are prepared, served, and consumed, either on premises (inside or outside), taken out, or delivered, including full-service and limited service restaurants, cafeterias, snack, and nonalcoholic beverage bars. Restaurants may also include an accessory dance floor less than 220 square feet that does not operate after midnight. Drive-in or drive-through facilities are only permitted if shown as an accessory use in the zone district where the property is located in Table 3.2-1 (Permitted Use Table) and may require a conditional use approval. A restaurant may include the sale of alcoholic beverages or a brewing facility, subject to local licensing requirements for alcoholic beverages. If alcohol is served, the revenue from alcohol sales is smaller than the revenue from sales of food. In addition, if alcohol is served, the revenue from the alcohol sales is smaller than the revenue from sales of food for all periods during which the establishment is open after 9:00 pm during each calendar month.

Retail Liquor Store. A type of retail sales use that includes a business licensed by the state for the retail sale of alcoholic beverages in original packages for consumption off the premises, in which those sales are the primary goods being sold and generate the majority of the revenue generated by the business. The accessory sales of food or other items shall not result in the business being a general retail sales business if the above conditions are met.

Retail Sales. Establishments engaged in selling goods or merchandise to the general public for personal or household consumption and rendering services incidental to the sale of such goods. This use does not include any form of retail sales or other use listed separately in Table 3.2-1 (Permitted Use Table).

Retail Sales and Personal Services. A land use category (containing individual land uses) including establishments that sell products directly to the final consumer for whatever purpose but not specifically or exclusively for the purpose of resale, as well as establishments that provide services directly to the final consumer for the conduct or improvement of the consumer’s home or business or personal life.

Rezoning (or Rezone). A change to the zoning map that redesignates one or more lots, parcels, or sites, or parts thereof, from one zone district(s) to another zone district(s).

Riding Academy. An establishment or area for keeping horses or other domestic animals other than for the property owner’s personal use, for compensation, hire, boarding, riding, or show.

Right-Of-Way. An area of land dedicated to the public in fee simple title conveyed to the City for drainage, pedestrian, utility, street lighting, landscaping, roadway, or other purposes.

Riparian Corridor. An area adjacent to one or more rivers or streams that has a high density, diversity, and productivity of plant and animal species related to nearby upland areas.

Roadside Sales Stand. A temporary structure and/or use intended for the sales of products or wares, unenclosed and so designed and constructed that it can be easily moved.

Roadway. A right-of-way reserved for motor vehicles, bicycles, and other mobility devices that are street-legal to operate in Aurora. The term shall include public and private streets and alleys; and private Loop Lanes, Motor Courts, drive lanes, but shall not include driveways as defined in this UDO. The right-of-way in roadways may encompass crosswalks, parking lanes (for both motorized and non-motorized vehicles), or other elements to facilitate moving people and goods along or across them by both motorized and non-motorized means.

Rodeo Practice Arena. A facility designed and intended for the display of equestrian skills and the hosting of events including, but not limited to, show jumping, dressage, and similar events of other equestrian disciplines.

Rooming House. A residential building where meals or lodging are provided for compensation for two or more persons, not members of the family, and where occupancy is usually provided for periods of one month or more. The term includes a guesthouse or a lodging house, but not a motel, hotel, or bed and breakfast. (Ord. No. 2019-49 § 1, 08-19-2019)