[Ord. No. 5814 Art. 2a, 4-27-2004]
A. 
General. Unless a contrary intention clearly applies, the following words and phrases shall have the meanings given in the following definitions for the purposes of these regulations. Words and phrases which are not defined shall be given their usual meaning except where the context clearly indicates a different or specific meaning
B. 
Words used in the present tense shall include the future; the singular number shall include the plural and the plural of the singular; the word "premises" shall include the word "structure" and "building"; the word "shall" is mandatory and not directory; the words "used" or "occupied" include the words "intended", "designed" or "arranged to be occupied"; the word "lot" includes the words "plot" or "parcel"; and the word "person" includes a firm, association, organization, partnership, trust, company or corporation as well as an individual. Any word not herein defined shall be as defined in any recognized standard English dictionary.
C. 
Definitions.
ACCENT MATERIAL
Material covering twenty-five percent (25%) or less of the wall elevation.
ACCESSORY STRUCTURE
A structure detached from a principal building and customarily used with, and clearly incidental and subordinate to, the principal building or use. Ordinarily located on the same lot site or with such principal building.
ARTICULATION
The manner in which various features are arranged on a building elevation.
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AVERAGE SETBACK/ESTABLISHED BUILDING LINE
Where fifty percent (50%) or more of the frontage along any block face is improved with buildings that have observed a front yard line with a variation in depth of not more than ten (10) feet, the average of such front yard lines shall be the minimum setback observed in such block face in lieu of the required front yard setback. For example, when calculating the average setback for a block face with ten (10) homes, where nine (9) homes have a twenty-five (25) foot to thirty-five (35) foot setback and the remaining home has a forty (40) foot setback, the home with the forty (40) foot setback is not included in the calculation for the average.
BALCONY
An exterior floor projecting from the wall of an upper story, enclosed by a railing or balustrade, with an entrance from the building and supported by the structure without additional independent supports.
BERM
An earthen mound designed to provide visual interest, screen undesirable views, decrease noise or control or manage surface drainage.
BLOCK
The properties abutting both sides of a street and lying between the two (2) nearest intersecting or intercepting streets or nearest intersecting or intercepting street and railroad right-of-way, unsubdivided land, watercourse or City boundary.
BLOCK FACE
The properties abutting one (1) side of a street and lying between the two (2) nearest intersecting or intercepting streets or nearest intersecting or intercepting street and railroad right-of-way, unsubdivided land, watercourse or City boundary.
BUFFER
Open spaces, landscaped areas, fences, walls, berms or any combination thereof used to physically separate or screen one (1) use or property from another so as to visually shield or block noise, lights, buildings, other nuisances or provide privacy.
BUILDING FORM
The shape and structure of a building as distinguished from its substance or material.
BUILDING, HEIGHT OF
The vertical distance from the average existing grade of the site to the highest point of the coping of a flat roof or to the deck line of a mansard roof or to the mean height level between eaves and ridge of a gable, hip or gambrel roof. In the case of new construction and building additions, building height shall be measured from average existing grade prior to the commencement of any construction.
BUILDING MASS
The three-dimensional bulk of a building height, width and depth.
BUILDING SCALE
The size and proportion of a building relative to surrounding buildings and environs, adjacent streets and pedestrians.
CHARACTER
Those attributes, qualities and features that make up and distinguish a development project and give such project a sense of purpose, function, definition and uniqueness.
CONSUMER SERVICE OFFICES
Including collection services; commodity or security broker/dealer; consumer protection; currency exchange; employment agencies; employment services; financial institutions including banks, savings and loans, credit unions (with or without drive-in facilities); financial counseling; income tax preparation; insurance agencies/brokers/service offices; loan companies; labor unions; real estate offices; travel agencies.
DORMER
A window set upright in a sloping roof. Also used to refer to the roofed projection in which this window is set.
DRY CLEANING FACILITIES
With or without attendant services and/or a pickup station for outside dry cleaning service.
DWELLING
Any building or portion thereof which is designed and used exclusively for residential purposes.
DWELLING, MULTI-FAMILY
A building or portion thereof designed and used for occupancy by three (3) or more families each in a separate dwelling unit. A tri-plex, four-plex, town house (connected by a vertical party or common wall) or apartment.
DWELLING, SINGLE-FAMILY
A building designed and used for occupancy by one (1) family.
DWELLING, TOWNHOUSE
A type of multi-family dwelling in which individual dwelling units are attached by one (1) or more vertical party walls, with the habitable spaces of different dwelling units arranged on a side-by-side rather than a stacked configuration. Each individual dwelling unit has its own front and rear access to the outside.
[Ord. No. 6509, 11-28-2017]
DWELLING, TWO-FAMILY
A building containing two (2) separate dwelling units, either stacked or side-by-side (Duplex), connected by a common wall, designed and used for occupancy by two (2) families.
[Ord. No. 6509, 11-28-2017]
ELEVATION
The external faces of a building; also a mechanically accurate "head-on" drawing of any one (1) face (or elevation) of a building or object, without any allowance for the effect of the laws of perspective.
FACADE
Any side of a building that faces a street or other open space. The "front facade" is the front or principal face of a building.
FOOD AND BEVERAGE SERVICE
Including fast-food restaurants, family restaurants and eating and drinking establishments.
GABLE ROOF
A pitched roof with ridge and vertical ends.
GARAGE
a. 
An accessory building or portion of a main building primarily used for storage of motor vehicles. A garage is distinguished from a carport in that a garage is enclosed on three (3) sides, versus a carport which is open.
b. 
For the purposes of determining impervious coverage, a front entry garage is deemed to include any garage having its vehicular access in the front third of the structure. A side entry garage is deemed to include any garage having its vehicular access in the middle third of the structure. A rear entry garage is deemed to include any garage having its vehicular access in the rear third of the structure. In situations where more than one (1) garage or garage entrances (vehicular access) are proposed, the impervious coverage limitation shall be determined on the basis of whichever garage vehicular access orientation allows the least amount of impervious coverage.
GENERAL RETAIL ESTABLISHMENT
Including generally the sale of items such as antiques; appliance repair; art; art supplies; bakeries and confectioneries (non-manufacturing); bicycles; books; camera and photographic supplies; china and glassware; clothing; coin and stamp; crafts/needlework; direct selling; discount/mass merchandising; drapery/curtain/window coverings; fabrics and sewing accessories; film/video rentals; floor coverings; furniture; furriers and fur apparel; garden supply, greenhouses, nurseries, truck gardens and orchards; gifts/novelty/souvenirs jewelry; hardware; household appliances; key and lock; laundry/dry cleaning (pickup station only); leather/luggage/suitcases; lighting and electrical supplies; linens/sheets/towels; lumber, building supplies and sales display and show rooms for any building product (including millwork, cabinets, plumbing, glass and mirror, fencing, swimming pools/spas/hot tubs, etc.); mail order; merchandise vending; musical instruments; optical shops; newspapers and magazines; retail florist; paint and wall coverings; pet shops; pharmacy/drug; printing/copy; photographic studios; pool and patio furniture; records/audio/stereo/TV; school and office supplies; secondhand and resale; shoes; shoe repair; small electrical appliance; specialty; stationery; tailoring and dressmaking; tobacco; tool and appliance rentals; toys; upholstery and/or drapery services; wholesale florists.
GOVERNMENTAL
Including Federal, State, County, township and municipal buildings of all types and facilities used by public or quasi-public agencies that serve or assist the public or provide an accepted public purpose.
GUIDELINES
Advisory regulations. Guidelines are indicated by use of the terms "may" and "should".
HIP ROOF
A roof with sloped ends instead of vertical ends.
IMPERVIOUS COVERAGE
That area within a lot that is covered by impervious materials.
IMPERVIOUS MATERIAL
A surface that has been compacted or covered with a layer of material so that it is highly resistant to infiltration by water. It includes, but is not limited to, surfaces such as compacted sand, limerock or clay, asphalt concrete, driveways, retaining walls, stairwells, stairways, walkways, decks and patios at grade level, pools and other water features and other similar structures. For the purposes of calculating impervious coverage, pools shall only count at fifty percent (50%) of the actual pool size.
INFILL
Development on a vacant or substantially vacant tract of land surrounded by existing development.
MAXIMUM EXTENT FEASIBLE
No feasible and prudent alternative exists and all possible efforts to comply with the regulation or minimize potential harm or adverse impacts have been undertaken. Economic considerations shall not be the overriding factor in determining "maximum extent feasible".
MAXIMUM EXTENT PRACTICABLE
Under the circumstances, reasonable efforts have been undertaken to comply with the regulation or requirement, that the cost of additional compliance measures clearly outweigh the potential benefits to the public or would unreasonably burden the proposed project and reasonable steps have been undertaken to minimize any potential harm or adverse impacts resulting from the non-compliance.
MULLION
The large vertical division of a window opening. In grouped windows, it is the member that separates the sash of each unit. An upright strip between the panes of glass of a tall window.
MUNTIN
The small members that divide the glass in a window frame. A vertical dividing bar in a divided window, a strip separating panes of glass in a sash.
ORIENT
To bring in relation to or adjust to the surroundings, situation or environment; to place with the most important parts (e.g., the primary building entrance and the designated "front" of a building) facing in certain directions; or to set or arrange in a determinate position, as in "to orient a building".
OVERLAY ZONE
A district in which additional requirements act to supersede or supplement, as applicable, the regulations of the base zoning district.
PORCH
Any gallery, veranda, terrace, piazza, portico or similar projection from the main wall of a building (other than a carport) covered by a roof and having no side enclosures with the exception of screens or handrails not more than thirty-six (36) inches in height.
PRIMARY MATERIAL
Material covering seventy-five percent (75%) or more of the wall elevation.
PUBLIC PARKING (AS USED IN TRIGGERING PLANNED UNIT DEVELOPMENT DISTRICTS)
Parking provided in excess of what is required. Additionally, in order to qualify as public parking, this excess parking must be readily accessible to the general public. The amount of excess parking spaces provided in order to be deemed public parking must be substantially greater than the parking spaces required for the use(s) as required by the Plan Commission.
REDEVELOPMENT
Development on a tract of land with existing structures where all or most of the existing structures would be razed and a new structure or structures built.
SETBACK
The required minimum horizontal distance between the building line and the related front, side and rear property lines.
STANDARDS
Mandatory regulations. Standards are indicated by use of the terms "shall" and "must".
STEEP SLOPES
Any portion of a development site where the natural grade of the land has a slope of thirty percent (30%) or greater.
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STEPBACK
The required minimum horizontal distance between the building line of an upper story and the related front, side and rear property lines.
[Ord. No. 6734, 1-11-2022]
TRANSOM
A horizontal cross bar in a window, over a door or between the door and window above it. Also refers to a window above a door or other window built and often hinged to a transom.
TREE LAWN
The landscaped area between the street and the sidewalk.
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Editor's Note: The former definition of Attached Single-Family Developments, which immediately followed, was repealed 11-28-2017 by Ord. No. 6509.
[2]
Editor's Note: The former definition of Town Home Dwelling, which immediately followed, was repealed 11-28-2017 by Ord. No. 6509. See now the definition of Dwelling, Townhouse.