Hardscape means nonplant landscape materials, including pathways, decorative pavers, benches, drinking fountains, arbors, pergolas, playgrounds, plazas, and similar amenities.

Hearing, initial means a quasi-judicial public hearing authorized and conducted by the Hearings Body to determine if a Type III land use permit request shall be granted or denied.

Hearings body means the Hearings Officer, Planning Commission, or City Council of the City of Bend.

Hearings Officer means a planning and zoning hearings officer appointed or designated by the City Council or, in the absence of such appointed hearings officer, the Planning Commission.

Highest shade producing point means the highest shade producing point of a structure two hours before the solar zenith on December 21.

Hive means any Langstroth type structure with movable frames intended for the housing of a bee colony. A hive typically consists of a cover, honey supers, brood chambers and a bottom board.

Home business means a small revenue-producing use operated within a primary dwelling unit or in an approved accessory structure or accessory dwelling unit, which is clearly incidental and secondary to the use of the dwelling unit. See BDC 3.6.200(N), Home Business.

Hospital means any institution, place, building, or agency which maintains and operates organized facilities for two or more persons for the diagnosis, care and treatment of human illness, including convalescence and care during and after pregnancy, or which maintains and operates organized facilities for any such purpose, and to which persons may be admitted for overnight stay or for a longer period.

Hostel means a shared-room (“dormitory”) accommodation that accepts individual travelers or groups for short-term stays, and that provides common areas and communal facilities. Travelers independently book individual beds in a shared room as opposed to booking entire rooms; however, some hostels may provide private rooms as well.

Human-scale design/development means site and building design elements that are dimensionally related to pedestrians, such as: small building spaces with individual entrances (e.g., as is typical of commercial and main street developments); larger buildings that have articulation and detailing to break up large masses; narrower streets with tree canopies; smaller parking areas or parking areas broken up into small components with landscaping; and pedestrian amenities, such as sidewalks, plazas, outdoor seating, lighting, weather protection (e.g., awnings or canopies), and similar features. These features are all generally smaller in scale than those that are primarily intended to accommodate automobile traffic.

Hydroelectric facility means all aspects of any project or development necessary for or related to the generation of hydroelectric energy, including, but not limited to, conduits, dams, diversions, fish ladders and screens, generators, impoundments, penstocks, turbines, transmission facilities, and related buildings, structures, storage areas, access roads, parking areas, and surrounding and adjacent lands which are necessary for or related to the facility.