A. 
Usage. Except where specifically defined herein, all words and terms used in this chapter shall carry their customarily accepted meanings. Words used in the present tense include the future, and the plural includes the singular. The word "lot" includes the word "plot" or "parcel"; the word "buildings" includes the word "structure"; the word "shall" is intended to be mandatory; "occupied" or "used" shall be considered as though followed by the words "or intended, arranged or designed to be used or occupied"; the word "dwelling" includes the word "residence."
B. 
Definitions. The following words or terms shall have the following meanings where used herein:
ACCESSORY BUILDING OR USE
A use or structure customarily incident and subordinate to the principal use of land or buildings and located on the same lot with such principal use or building.
ALTER
As applied to a building, means a change or rearrangement of supporting members or exit facilities, or an enlargement, whether by extending on a side or by increasing in height, or the moving from one location or position to another.
BUILDING
Any structure having a roof supported by columns, piers or walls, including lunch wagons, trailers or other structures on wheels, or having other supports and any unroofed platform, terrace or porch.
BUILDING AREA
The area formed by the intersection of a horizontal plane at average grade level and the vertical planes which coincide with the exterior surface of the building. This area does not include uncovered porches, terraces or steps, nor does "most projected area" include roof overhangs.
BUILDING HEIGHT
The vertical distance measured from the average elevation of the finished grade along the front of the building to the mean elevation of the roof surface.
BUILDING LINE
A line formed by the intersection of a horizontal plane at the average grade level and a vertical plane that coincides with the exterior surface of the building on any side. All yard requirements are measured to the "building line."
BUILDING, MAIN OR PRINCIPAL
A building in which is conducted the main or principal use of the lot on which said building is located.
BUILDING PERMIT
A permit stating that the purpose for which a building or land is to be used is in conformity with the uses permitted and all other requirements under this chapter for the zone in which it is located or is to be located.
CELLAR
A story partly underground and having more than 1/2 of its clear height below the average level of the adjoining ground.
DWELLING, SINGLE-FAMILY
A building occupied or intended to be occupied exclusively for residence purposes by one family or one housekeeping unit.
FAMILY
One or more persons who live together in one dwelling unit and maintain a common nonprofit single housekeeping unit. It may consist of a single person or of two or more persons, whether or not related by blood, marriage or adoption. It may also include domestic servants and gratuitous guests.
FIRST FLOOR AREA
Shall be measured by using the outside dimensions of the residential portion of a building, excluding the area of an attached garage. For a split-level or trilevel dwelling, the area shall be considered to be the sum of the areas of the two adjoining residential levels, excluding an attached garage.
GARAGE SALE
The display and/or sale of products, things, items or goods presently located on a residential property or within a residential dwelling or accessory structure. The things, items, goods or products may be displayed and/or sold either outdoors or inside a building. A garage sale does not include the sale of things, items, goods or products brought onto the property for sale.
[Added 12-5-2012 by Ord. No. 19-2012]
JUNKYARD
Any area and/or structure used or intended to be used for the conducting and operating of the business of selling, buying, storing or trading in used or discarded metal, glass, paper, bags, cordate or any use or disabled fixtures, vehicles or equipment of any kind.
LOT OR ZONING LOT
A piece, parcel or plot of land occupied or designed to be occupied by a building and its accessory buildings, together with such open spaces as are arranged and designed to be used in connection with such buildings.
LOT DEPTH
A mean horizontal distance between the front and rear lot lines, measured at right angles to the street in the general direction of the lot side lines.
[Amended 12-1-1982 by Ord. No. 11-82]
LOT WIDTH
The horizontal distance between the side lot lines, measured at right angles to the lot depth at the building line.
MOTELS OR TOURIST CAMPS
A building or group of buildings which contains living or sleeping accommodations for transient occupancy and has individual outside entrances to each unit.
NONCONFORMING BUILDING
A building or structure or portion thereof lawfully existing at the time of enactment of this chapter which was designed, erected or structurally altered for a use that does not conform to the use regulations of the district in which it is located.
NONCONFORMING LOT
A lot or parcel which does not have a minimum width or depth or contain the minimum area for the zone in which it is located or the use to which it is being put.
NONCONFORMING USE
A use which lawfully occupied a building or land at the time of enactment of this chapter and which does not conform to the use regulations of the district in which it is located.
NUISANCE
An offensive, annoying, unpleasant or obnoxious thing or practice; a cause or source of annoyance, especially a continuing or repeated invasion or disturbance of another's rights, including the actual or potential emanation of any physical characteristics or activity or use across a property line which can be perceived by or affect a human being of ordinary sensibility, or the generation of an excessive or concentrated movement of people or things, such as but not limited to:
(1) 
Noise.
(2) 
Dust.
(3) 
Smoke.
(4) 
Fumes.
(5) 
Odor.
(6) 
Glare.
(7) 
Flashes.
(8) 
Vibration.
(9) 
Shock waves.
(10) 
Heat.
(11) 
Electronic or atomic radiation.
(12) 
Objectionable effluent.
(13) 
Noise or congregation of people, especially at night.
(14) 
Passenger traffic.
(15) 
Transportation of things by truck, rail or other means.
(16) 
Invasion of nonabutting street frontage by parking.
OPEN SPACE
Any unbuilt area intended to meet the side, rear or front space requirements of this chapter.
OUTDOOR FURNACE
Any equipment, device, appliance or apparatus, or any part thereof, which is a) installed, affixed or situated outdoors; b) wood-, biomass- and/or pellet-fed; and c) utilized for the purpose of combustion of fuel to produce heat or energy used as a component of a heating system providing heat for any interior space or water source. This term includes but is not limited to wood boilers.
[Added 12-5-2012 by Ord. No. 15-2012]
PRIVATE GARAGE
A detached accessory building or portion of a main building for the parking of or temporary storage of automobiles of occupants of the main building and wherein not more than one space is rented to persons not residents of the lot or not more than one commercial vehicle not to exceed two tons in net weight is parked or stored.
SIGN AND/OR ADVERTISING STRUCTURE
Every sign, billboard, ground sign, roof sign, sign painted or printed on the exterior surface of a building or structure, illuminated sign, temporary sign, awning, banner and canopy, and includes any announcement, declaration, demonstration, display, illustration or insignia used to advertise or promote the interests of any person or product when the same is placed out of doors in view of the general public.
STREET LINE
The line which separates the publicly owned or controlled street right-of-way from the private property which abuts upon said street as distinct from a sidewalk line, curbline or edge-of-pavement line. In cases where title runs to the center of the street subject to the public easement, the curbline shall be considered the "street line."
STRUCTURE
Anything constructed or erected which requires permanent location on the ground or attachment to something having such location.
TRAILER
A vehicle or residence on wheels (whether attached or removed), skids or rollers without motive power, designed to be used for human habitation or for carrying persons or property, including a trailer coach or house trailer.
TRAILER CAMP
Land used or intended to be used by tents, trailers or movable dwellings. Two or more trailers, whether parked or supported by foundations, shall constitute a "trailer camp."
YARD, FRONT
An open space extending across the full width of the lot, the depth of which is the minimum horizontal distance between the nearest point on the street line and the nearest part of the main or accessory building.
YARD MEASUREMENT
Front yards shall be measured from the street line as defined in this chapter. On a lot which has frontage on two or more streets, including corner lots, the building setback from each street shall not be less than the required front yard setback in the zone district in which said lot is located.
[Added 12-5-2012 by Ord. No. 14-2012]
YARD, REAR
An open space extending the full width of the lot between the main building and the rear lot line. The depth of the required "rear yard" shall be measured horizontally from the nearest part of the main building toward the nearest point of the rear lot line.
YARD SALE
The outdoor display and/or sale of products, things, items or goods presently located on a residential property or within a residential dwelling or accessory structure. The display and/or sale is conducted outdoors. A yard sale does not include the sale of things, items, goods or products brought onto the property for sale.
[Added 12-5-2012 by Ord. No. 19-2012]
YARD, SIDE
An open space extending from the front yard to the rear yard between the main building and the side lot line. The width of the required "side yards" shall be measured horizontally from the nearest point of the side lot line toward the nearest part of the main building.