[CC 1991 §400.030; Ord. No. 119 Art. II §1, 4-30-1951]
For the purpose of this Chapter, certain terms and words are
hereby defined. Words used in the present tense shall include the
future; the singular number shall include the plural and the plural
the singular; the word "building" shall include the
word "structure" and the word "shall" is mandatory and not directory.
A portion of the main building or detached subordinate building
located on the same lot, the use of which is customarily incident
to that of the main building or to the use of the land. Where a substantial
part of the wall of an accessory building is a part of the wall of
the main building or where an accessory building is attached to the
main building in a substantial manner by a roof, such accessory building
shall be counted as part of the main building.
Living quarters within an accessory building located on the
same premises with the main building for the sole use of persons employed
on the premises; such quarters having no kitchen facilities and not
rented or otherwise used as a separate dwelling.
An open area, other than a street, used for the display,
sale or rental of new or used automobiles or trailers, and where no
repair work is done except minor incidental repair of automobiles
or trailers to be displayed, sold or rented on the premises.
The dismantling or wrecking of used motor vehicles or trailers
or the storage, sale or dumping of dismantled, partially dismantled,
obsolete or wrecked vehicles or their parts.
A story partly or wholly underground. A basement shall be
counted as a story for purposes of height measurement where more than
one-half (½) of its height is above the average level of the
adjoining ground.
The Board of Zoning Adjustment of the City of Pine Lawn.
A building, other than a hotel, where, for compensation,
meals or lodging and meals are provided for not more than twelve (12)
persons.
Any structure having a roof supported by columns or walls
for the housing or enclosure of persons, animals or chattels. Where
dwellings are separated from each other by a division wall without
openings, each portion of such dwelling shall be deemed a separate
building. The word "building" includes the word "structure" and those structures on wheels or other supports
used for business, storage or living purposes.
The vertical distance measured from the adjoining curb level
to the highest point of ceiling of the top story in the case of a
flat roof; to the deck lines of a mansard roof; and to mean height
level between eaves and ridge of a gable, hip or gambrel roof; provided
however, that where buildings are set back from the street line, the
height of the building may be measured from the average elevation
of the finished lot grade at the front of the building.
A story having more than one-half (½) of its height
below grade. A cellar is not included in computing the number of stories
for the purpose of height measurement.
An open unoccupied space, other than a yard, on the same
lot with a building and bounded by two (2) or more sides by such building.
A section or sections of the area of the City of Pine Lawn,
St. Louis County, Missouri, for which the regulations governing the
use of buildings and premises or the height and area of buildings
are uniform.
Any building or portion thereof which is designed or used
exclusively for residential purposes.
One (1) or more buildings, not more than two and one-half
(2½) stories in height, containing dwelling units and arranged
around two (2) or three (3) sides of a court which opens onto a street
or a place approved by the Commission, including one-family, two-family,
row or multiple dwellings.
A building or portion thereof designed for or occupied by
more than two (2) families.
A row of three (3) to six (6) attached one-family dwellings,
not more than two and one-half (2½) stories in height, nor
more than two (2) rooms deep.
A building designed for or occupied exclusively by one (1)
family.
A building designed for or occupied exclusively by two (2)
families.
A group of one (1) or more persons occupying a premises and
living as a single housekeeping unit, whether or not related to each
other by birth or marriage, as distinguished from a group occupying
a boarding house, lodging house or hotel as herein defined.
An area which is used for the growing of the usual farm products
such as vegetables, fruit trees and grain and for their packing or
storage on the area as well as for the raising thereon of the usual
farm poultry and farm animals, such as horses, cattle, sheep and swine,
as secondary to crop raising. The term "farm" shall
not include the commercial feeding of garbage or offal to swine or
other animals.
Any building or premises used for dispensing, sale or offering
for sale at retail of any automobile fuels or oils as limited in the
remainder of this Section. When the dispensing, sale or offering for
sale is incidental to the conduct of a public garage, the premises
are classified as a public garage. No tanks or receptacles used for
the storage of gasoline or automobile fuel shall be permitted as part
of a filling station or automobile service station unless it is located
below the surface of the ground or grade, except by special permit
of the Board of Aldermen of the City of Pine Lawn.
All the property on one (1) side of a street between two
(2) intersecting streets (crossing or terminating) measured along
the line of the street, or if the street is dead-ended, then all the
property abutting on one (1) side between an intersecting street and
the dead-end street.
An accessory building housing not to exceed four (4) motor-driven
vehicles, the property of and for the use of the occupants of the
lot on which the private garage is located.
Any building or premises (except those used as a private
or storage garage) used for equipping, repairing, hiring, selling
or storing motor-driven vehicles subject to the following limitations.
Tanks or receptacles used for the storage of gasoline or automobile
fuel shall be located below the surface of the ground or grade, except
by special permit of the Board of Aldermen of the City of Pine Lawn.
Any building or premises used for housing only of self-propelled
vehicles pursuant to previous arrangements and to transients, and
at which automobile fuels and oils are not sold, and motor-driven
vehicles are not equipped, repaired, hired or sold.
For buildings having walls adjoining one (1) street only, the
elevation of the sidewalk at the center of the wall adjoining the
street.
For buildings having walls adjoining more than one (1) street,
the average of the elevation of the sidewalk at the centers of all
walls adjoining the streets.
For buildings having no wall adjoining the street, the average
level of the finished surface of the ground adjacent to the exterior
walls of the building.
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Any wall approximately parallel to and not more than five (5)
feet from a street line is to be considered as adjoining the street.
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Any home in which eight (8) or fewer unrelated mentally or
physically handicapped persons reside, and may include two (2) additional
persons acting as houseparents or guardians who need not be related
to each other or to any of the mentally or physically handicapped
persons residing in the home.
Any occupation or profession carried on by a member of the
immediate family residing on the premises in connection with which
there is used no sign other than a nameplate not more than one (1)
square foot in area that will indicate from the exterior that the
building is being utilized in whole or in part for any purpose other
than that of a dwelling; there is no commodity sold upon the premises;
no person is employed other than a member of the immediate family
residing on the premises; and no mechanical equipment is used except
such as is permissible for purely domestic or household purposes.
A building in which lodging or lodging and meals are provided
and offered to the public for compensation, which is open to transient
guests or which will accommodate more than twelve (12) persons for
lodging and meals whether transient or not.
A parcel of land occupied or intended for occupancy by a
use permitted in this Chapter, including one (1) main building together
with its accessory buildings, the open spaces and parking spaces required
by this Chapter and having its principal frontage upon a street or
upon an officially approved place.
A lot abutting upon two (2) or more streets at their intersection.
The mean horizontal distance between the front and rear lot
lines.
A lot having a frontage on two (2) non-intersecting streets
as distinguished from a corner lot.
A lot which is a part of a subdivision, the plat of which
has been recorded in the office of the Recorder of Deeds of St. Louis
County, Missouri, after proper approval; or a parcel of land, the
deed to which was recorded in the office of the Recorder of Deeds
prior to April 30, 1951.
An area containing one (1) or more permanent structures designed
for temporary living facilities and intended primarily for transients,
whether or not providing garages for automobiles, and not to accommodate
tents or trailers or include a seasonal resort area or summer homes.
Any building or land lawfully occupied by a use at the time
of passage of this Chapter or amendment thereto which does not conform
after the passage of this Chapter or amendments thereto with the use
regulations of the district in which it is situated.
A durably surfaced area, enclosed in the main building, in
an accessory building, or unenclosed, sufficient in size to store
one (1) standard automobile, and if the space is unenclosed, comprising
an area of not less than two hundred (200) square feet, exclusive
of a durably surfaced driveway connecting the parking space with a
street or alley and permitted satisfactory ingress and egress of an
automobile and designed to prevent possible fire hazard.
A stable with capacity for not more than two (2) horses,
provided however, that the capacity of a private stable may be increased
if the premises whereon such stable is located contains an area of
not less than one (1) acre for each horse accommodated.
Any structure or part of a structure not in excess of fifteen
(15) feet, other than a cellar, included between the surface of any
floor and the surface of the floor next above it or, if there be no
floor above it, then the space between the floor and the ceiling next
above it.
A space under a sloping roof which has the line of intersection
of roof decking and wall face not more than three (3) feet above the
top floor level and in which space not more than two-thirds (⅔)
of the floor area is finished off for use.
All property dedicated or intended for a public or private
street, highway, freeway or roadway purposes or subject to easements
therefor.
A dividing line between a lot, tract or parcel of land and
a contiguous street.
Any change in the supporting members of a building, such
as bearing walls or partitions, columns, beams or girders, or any
substantial change in the roof or in the exterior walls.
Anything constructed or erected, the use of which requires
permanent location on the ground or attached to something having a
permanent location on the ground including, but without limiting the
generality of the foregoing, advertising signs, billboards, backstops
for tennis courts and pergolas, radio towers, memorials and ornamental
structures. The word "structures" includes the word "building" in addition to the foregoing.
An area containing one (1) or more structures designed or
intended to be used as temporary living facilities of two (2) or more
families and intended primarily for automobile transients or other
tourists.
Any structure used or capable of being used for living, sleeping,
business or storage purposes, having no foundation other than wheels,
blocks, skids, jacks, horses or skirting, and which is, has been or
reasonably may be equipped with wheels or other devices for transporting
the structure from place to place whether by motive power or other
means. The term "trailer" shall include camp car
and house car. A permanent foundation shall not change its character
if the structure can be removed therefrom practically intact.
An area used for the parking of two (2) or more tents or
trailers designed or intended to be used as living facilities for
two (2) or more families and intended primarily for automobile transients
and not to be used for business or storage trailers.
An open space on the same lot with a building, unoccupied
and unobstructed by any portion of a structure from the ground upward,
except as otherwise provided herein. In measuring a yard for the purpose
of determining the width of a side yard, the depth of the front yard
or the depth of a rear yard, the mean horizontal distance between
the lot line and the main building shall be used.
A yard extending across the front of a lot between the side
yard lines and being the minimum horizontal distance between the street
line and the main building or any projection thereof other than the
projection of the usual steps or entrance way.
A yard extending across the rear of a lot measured between
the side lot lines and being the minimum horizontal distance between
the rear lot line and the rear of the main building or any projections
other than steps, unenclosed balconies or unenclosed porches. On corner
lots the rear yard shall be considered as parallel to the street upon
which the lot has its least dimension. On both corner lots and interior
lots the rear yard shall in all cases be at the opposite end of the
lot from the front yard.
A yard between the main building and the side line of the
lot and extending from the front lot line to the rear lot line.
