Definitions. Unless the context otherwise requires, the
following definitions shall be used in the interpretation of this
Chapter:
ACCESSORY BUILDING OR USE
Is one which:
1.
Is subordinate to and serves a principal building or principal
use; and
2.
Is subordinate in area, extent or purpose to the principal building
or principal use served; and
3.
Is customarily incidental to and contributes to the comfort,
convenience or necessity of occupants of the principal building or
principal use served; and
4.
Is located on the same zoning lot as the principal building
or principal use served with the single exception of such accessory
off-street parking facilities as are permitted to locate elsewhere
than on the same zoning lot with the building or use served.
ACCESSORY USE
Includes, but is not limited to, the following:
1.
A children's playhouse, garden house and private greenhouse;
2.
A garage, shed or building for domestic storage;
3.
Incinerators associated with residential use;
4.
Storage of merchandise normally carried in stock on the same
lot with any retail service or business use, unless such storage is
excluded by the district regulations;
5.
Storage of goods used in or produced by manufacturing activities,
on the same lot or parcel of ground with such activities, unless such
storage is excluded by the district regulations;
6.
A non-paying guest house or rooms for guests within an "accessory
building", provided such facilities are used for the occasional housing
of guests of the occupant of the principal building and not for permanent
occupancy by others as housekeeping units;
7.
Servants' quarters comprising part of an accessory garage and
solely for occupancy by a servant or household employee (and his or
her family) of the occupants of the principal dwelling;
8.
Off-street motor vehicle parking areas, and loading and unloading
facilities;
9.
Signs (other than advertising signs) as permitted and regulated
in each district incorporated in this Chapter;
11.
Public utility communication, electric, gas, water and sewer
lines, their supports and incidental equipment.
ACREAGE
Any tract or parcel of land having an area of one (1) acre
or more which has not been subdivided by metes and bounds or platted.
ADULT BOARDING FACILITY
Any premises which is utilized by its owner, operator or
manager to provide twenty-four (24) hour care to three (3) or more
residents, who are not related within the fourth degree of consanguinity
or affinity to the owner, operator or manager of the facility and
who are provided with shelter, board, storage and distribution of
medication and with protective oversight, including care during short-term
illness or recuperation.
ADULT DAY CARE FACILITY
Any premises which is utilized by its owner, operator or
manager to provide daytime (6:00 A.M. to 6:00 P.M.) care and supervision
to functionally impaired adults and which will be licensed by the
Missouri Division of Aging.
ADULT OR SEXUALLY-ORIENTED ESTABLISHMENTS
An adult arcade, adult bookstore, adult novelty store, adult
cabaret, adult entertainment establishment, massage parlor, escort
agency, nude or semi-nude model studio, or sexual encounter center.
When used in connection with the phrase "adult or sexually-oriented
establishments", the following words and phrases shall have the following
meanings ascribed to them:
1.
ADULT ARCADE: An establishment to which the
public is permitted or invited, wherein coin-operated or slug-operated
or electronically, electrically, or mechanically controlled still
or motion picture machines, projectors, or other image-producing devices
are regularly maintained to show images to five (5) or fewer persons
per machine at any one time, and where the images so displayed are
distinguished or characterized by their emphasis upon matters exhibiting
specified sexual activities or specified anatomical areas.
2.
ADULT BOOKSTORE: An establishment which, as
one (1) of its principal business activities, offers for sale or rental
or for any form of consideration books, films, video cassettes, DVDs,
any digital or electronic media or magazines and other periodicals
which are distinguished or characterized by their emphasis on matter
depicting, describing or relating to specified sexual activities or
specified anatomical areas, for sale, rental, or display to patrons
thereof, including, but not limited to, establishments having facilities
for the presentation of art entertainment for observation by or display
to patrons therein.
3.
ADULT CABARET: A nightclub, bar, restaurant
or similar establishment which regularly features live performances
involving adult entertainment.
4.
ADULT ENTERTAINMENT: Any adult-oriented motion
pictures, videos, live performance, display or dance or any type of
performance which regularly features entertainment which is distinguished
or characterized by actual or simulated performance of specified sexual
activities or exhibition and viewing of specified anatomical areas,
removal of articles of clothing or appearing unclothed.
5.
ADULT ENTERTAINMENT ESTABLISHMENT: Any premises
regularly used for the exhibition of any adult entertainment.
6.
ADULT NOVELTY STORE: An establishment which,
as one (1) of its principal business activities, offers for sale or
rental or for any consideration sex toys and/or instruments, devices
or paraphernalia which are designed for use or marketed primarily
for sadomasochistic use or abuse of the user or others.
7.
DISTINGUISHED OR CHARACTERIZED BY: The dominant
or principal theme of the object referenced. For instance, when the
phrase refers to films "which are distinguished or characterized by
the exhibition or display of specified sexual activities or specified
anatomical areas," the films so described are those whose dominant
or principal character and theme are the exhibition or display of
specified anatomical areas or specified sexual activities.
8.
ESCORT: A person who, for consideration, and
for another person, agrees or offers:
a.
To act as a companion, guide, or date; or
b.
To privately model lingerie; or
c.
To privately perform a striptease.
9.
ESCORT AGENCY: An establishment, business
association, or person that for a fee, tip, or other consideration
furnishes, offers to furnish, or advertises to furnish escorts as
one (1) of its primary business purposes.
10.
MASSAGE PARLOR: An establishment or place
primarily in the business of providing non-therapeutic massage services
which involve performance of specified sexual activities and/or the
touching or manipulation of specified anatomical areas. For purposes
of clarification, therapeutic massage services making use of the methods
of practice or the legitimate techniques of physicians, chiropractors,
physical therapists, massage therapists or athletic trainers licensed
or certified by the State of Missouri shall not be considered massage
parlors.
11.
NUDE, NUDITY OR A STATE OF NUDITY: The showing
of the human male or female genitals, pubic area, vulva, anus, or
anal cleft or cleavage with less than a fully opaque covering, the
showing of the female breast with less than a fully opaque covering
of any part of the nipple or areola, or the showing of the covered
male genitals in a discernibly turgid state.
12.
NUDE OR SEMI-NUDE MODEL STUDIO: A commercial
establishment which regularly features a person (or persons) who appears
nude or semi-nude and is provided to be observed, sketched, drawn,
painted, sculptured, or photographed by other persons who pay money
or any form of consideration, but shall not include a proprietary
school licensed by the State of Missouri or a college, junior college
or university supported entirely or in part by public taxation or
a private college or university which maintains and operates educational
programs in which credits are transferable to a college, junior college,
or university supported entirely or partly by taxation or in a structure
which has no sign visible from the exterior of the structure and no
other advertising that indicates a nude or semi-nude person is available
for viewing and where, in order to participate in a class, a student
must enroll at least three (3) days in advance of the class and where
no more than one (1) nude model is on the premises at any one time.
13.
PREMISES: The real property upon which the
adult or sexually-oriented establishment is located, and all appurtenances
thereto and buildings thereon, including, but not limited to, the
adult or sexually-oriented establishment, the grounds, private walkways,
and parking lots or parking garages or both.
14.
PRINCIPAL BUSINESS ACTIVITY: Exists where
the commercial establishment:
a.
Has a substantial portion of its displayed merchandise which
consists of such items; or
b.
Has a substantial portion of the wholesale value of its displayed
merchandise which consists of such items; or
c.
Has a substantial portion of the retail value of its displayed
merchandise which consists of such items; or
d.
Derives a substantial portion of its revenue from the sale or
rental, or for any form of consideration, of such items; or
e.
Maintains a substantial section of its interior business space
for the sale or rental of such items.
15.
REGULARLY: The consistent and repeated doing
of the act so described.
16.
SEMI-NUDE OR IN A SEMI-NUDE CONDITION: The
showing of the female breast below a horizontal line across the top
of the areola at its highest point and extended across the width of
the breast at such point or the showing of the male or female buttocks.
This definition shall include the entire lower portion of the human
female breast, but shall not include any portion of the cleavage of
the human female breast exhibited by a dress, blouse, shirt, leotard,
bathing suit, or similar other wearing apparel, provided the areola
is not exposed in whole or in part.
17.
SEXUAL ENCOUNTER CENTER: A business or commercial
establishment that, as one (1) of its principal business activities,
offers for any form of consideration a place where two (2) or more
persons may congregate, associate, or consort for the purpose of specified
sexual activities. The definition of sexual encounter center shall
not include an establishment where a medical practitioner, psychologist,
psychiatrist, or similar professional person licensed by the State
engages in medically approved and recognized sexual therapy.
18.
SEX TOY: Instruments, devices, or paraphernalia
which are designed for use or marketed primarily for stimulation of
the human genital organs.
19.
SPECIFIED ANATOMICAL AREAS: Less than completely
and opaquely covered:
d.
Female breasts below a point immediately above the top of the
areola; and
e.
Human male genitals in a discernibly turgid state, even if completely
opaquely covered.
20.
SPECIFIED SEXUAL ACTIVITIES:
a.
The fondling of another person's genitals, pubic region, anus,
or female breasts;
b.
Sex acts, normal or perverted, actual or simulated, including
intercourse, oral copulation, masturbation, or sodomy; or
c.
Excretory functions as part of, or in connection with, any of
the activities set forth in (a) or (b) above.
ALLEY
A public way, not more than thirty (30) feet wide, which
affords only a secondary means of access to abutting property.
ALTERNATIVE FINANCIAL SERVICE ESTABLISHMENT
Any establishment defined as a short-term loan establishment,
pawnbroker, precious metal and gem buying establishment or any other
similar business engaged in short-term lending. This excludes financial
institutions and establishments that are principally grocery stores,
convenience stores that are accessory to an automobile service station,
and liquor stores, which are registered as a money services business
under Code of Federal Regulations 31 CFR 103.41, and offer, as a convenience
to their customers, and accessory to the principal use, check cashing,
traveler's check, money order or money transfer services, when fees
or charges for check cashing services constitute a de minimus percentage
of gross receipts.
ANTIQUE/COLLECTIBLE SHOPS
Any premises used for the sale, purchase, or trading of articles
of which eighty percent (80%) or more are over fifty (50) years old
or have collectible value. Also includes the sale, purchase, or trading
of rare coins, stamps, and previously-owned games, books, videos and
other media. This use excludes precious metal and gem buying establishments,
thrift/consignment stores, and adult or sexually-oriented establishments.
APARTMENT
A room or suite of rooms in a multiple dwelling family structure
which is arranged, designed, used or intended to be used as a single
housekeeping unit. Complete kitchen facilities, permanently installed,
must always be included for each apartment.
ASSISTED LIVING FACILITY (ALF)
Any premises, other than a residential care facility (RCF),
intermediate care facility, or skilled nursing care facility, or as
designated as an RCF by the State of Missouri Department of Health
and Senior Services, that is utilized by its owner, operator, or manager
to provide twenty-four (24) hour care and services and protective
oversight to three (3) or more residents who are provided with shelter,
board, and who may need and are provided with the following:
1.
Assistance with any activities of daily living and any instrumental
activities of daily living pursuant to CSR 30-83.010 Definition of
Terms (Department of Health and Senior Services Division of Regulation
and Licensure);
2.
Storage, distribution or administration of medications; and
3.
Supervision of health care under the direction of a licensed
physician provided that such services are consistent with a social
model of care.
4.
The term "assisted living facility" does not include a facility
where all of the residents are related within the fourth degree of
consanguinity or affinity to the owner, operator, or manager of the
facility.
AUDITORIUM
A building or structure designed or intended for use for
the gathering of people as an audience to hear music, lectures, presentations,
plays, and spectator sports, expositions, live or amplified entertainment,
and other public gatherings. See Live or Amplified Entertainment.
AUTOMOBILE DETAILING
Washing and polishing of the exterior of automobiles, as
well as the interior and upholstery, but not including the cleaning
and degreasing of engines.
AUTOMOBILE REPAIR, MAJOR
Engine rebuilding or major reconditioning of worn or damaged
motor vehicles or trailers; collision service, including body, frame
or fender straightening or repair; and overall painting of vehicles.
AUTOMOBILE REPAIR, MINOR
Incidental repairs, replacement of parts, and motor service
to automobiles, but not including any operation specified under "AUTOMOBILE REPAIR — MAJOR".
AUTOMOBILE SERVICE STATION
A place where gasoline stored only in underground tanks,
kerosene, or lubricating oil or grease, for operation of automobiles,
are offered for sale directly to the public on the premises, and including
minor accessories and services for automobiles; but not including
major automobile repairs; and including hand washing of automobiles
where no mechanical devices are employed. When the dispensing, sale
or offering for sale of motor fuels or oil is incidental to the conduct
of a public garage, the premises shall be classified as a public garage.
Automobile service stations shall not include sale or storage of inoperative
motor vehicles or junk yards as defined herein.
AUTOMOBILE WRECKING YARD
Any place where two (2) or more motor vehicles not in running
condition, or parts thereof, are stored in the open and are not being
restored to operation, or any land, building or structure used for
wrecking or storing of such motor vehicle, or parts thereof, and including
any used farm vehicles or farm machinery, or parts thereof, stored
in the open and not being restored to operating condition; and including
the commercial salvaging of any other goods, articles or merchandise.
BANQUET HALL
An establishment which is rented by individuals or groups
to accommodate singular private functions including, but not limited
to, banquets, weddings, receptions, anniversaries, graduations, and
other similar celebrations; and fundraising activities including,
but not limited to, dances, trivia contests, bingo and other similar
games when sponsored by civic, charitable, or non-profit groups (i.e.
501(c) organizations). Such a use may or may not include:
1.
Kitchen facilities for the preparation or catering of food;
2.
The sale of alcoholic beverages for on-premises consumption,
only during scheduled events and not open to the general public; and
3.
Outdoor gardens or reception facilities.
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Banquet halls may not be utilized for the operation of an unlicensed
business or for any use not expressly permitted within the zoning
district in which it is located.
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BASEMENT
A story partly or wholly underground. Where more than one-half
(½) of its height is above the average elevation of the finished
lot grade at the front of the building, a basement shall be counted
as a story for purposes of height measurement.
BLOCK
A tract of land bounded by streets or, in lieu of a street
or streets, by public parks, cemeteries, railroad rights-of-way, bulkhead
lines or shore lines of waterways or a corporate boundary line of
the City.
BOARDING HOUSE
A building other than a hotel or restaurant where meals are
provided for compensation to four (4) or more persons, but not more
than twelve (12), who are not members of the keeper's family.
BOTTLE CLUB
Nightclubs not licensed to sell alcoholic beverages or nightclubs
duly licensed to sell alcoholic beverages operating beyond the hours
or days when such sale is authorized, but where members, guests, or
members of the public provide their own alcoholic beverages for on-premises
consumption, paying a fee or other consideration for admission or
membership in exchange for mixers or other beverages, ice, food, container,
and/or live or amplified entertainment furnished by the establishment.
See Live or Amplified Entertainment.
BREWPUB
A tavern or saloon licensed as a microbrewer per Chapter
600 of the Bridgeton Code of Ordinances where the product authorized by said license is sold for either consumption on premises by the glass or in hand-capped or sealed containers in quantities up to one-half (½) barrel or fifteen and one-half (15.5) gallons sold directly to the consumer. Wholesaling shall be permitted only where authorized within the zoning ordinance. The area used for brewing, including bottling and kegging, shall not exceed thirty percent (30%) of the total floor area of the commercial space. See Tavern or Saloon.
BUILDABLE AREA
The space remaining on a lot after the minimum open space
requirements of this Chapter have been complied with.
BUILDING
Any structure with substantial walls and roof securely affixed
to the land and entirely separated on all sides from any other structure
by space or by walls in which there are no communicating doors, windows
or openings; and which is designed or intended for the shelter, enclosure
or protection of persons, animals or moveable personal property. Any
structure with interior areas not normally accessible for human use,
such as gas holders, oil tanks, water tanks, grain elevators, coal
bunkers, oil cracking towers, and other similar structures, are not
considered as buildings.
BUILDING, COMPLETELY ENCLOSED
A building separated on all sides from the adjacent open
space, or from other buildings or other structures, by a permanent
roof and by exterior walls or party walls, pierced only by windows
and normal entrance or exit doors.
BUILDING HEIGHT
The vertical distance measured from the sidewalk level or
its equivalent established grade opposite the middle of the front
of the building to the highest point of the roof in the case of a
flat roof; to the deck line of a mansard roof; and to the mean height
level between eaves and ridge of a gable, hip or gambrel roof; provided
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.
BUILDING, NON-CONFORMING
Any building which does not conform to the regulations of
this Chapter prescribing the maximum floor area ratio, required yards,
coverage, height and setbacks, minimum required spacing between buildings
on a single lot, and minimum required usable open space for the district
in which such building is located.
BUILDING SETBACK LINE
A line parallel to the street line at a distance from it,
regulated by the front yard requirements set up in this Chapter.
BULK
The term used to describe the size and mutual relationships
of buildings and other structures as to size; height; coverage; shape;
location of exterior walls in relation to lot lines to the centerline
of streets; to other walls of the same building; and to other buildings
or structures; and to all open spaces relating to the building or
structure.
CELLAR
A story having more than one-half (½) of its height
below the curb level or below the highest level of the adjoining ground.
A cellar shall not be counted as a story for the purpose of height
measurement.
CHILD CARE
Family-like care provided in a single-family dwelling occupied
by the child care provider as a permanent residence, to from one (1)
through four (4) children not related to the child care provider,
for any part of a twenty-four (24) hour day for compensation or otherwise.
CHILDREN'S HOME
Buildings and facilities or premises utilized by its owner
or operator to provide residential, educational, recreational, counseling,
pregnancy and other crisis services to children, adolescents and young
adults and their families and educational and training programs related
thereto.
CLINIC, MEDICAL OR DENTAL
A facility operated by one or more physicians, dentists,
psychiatrists, psychologists, optometrists, ophthalmologists, chiropractors,
rehabilitation therapists, or other licensed practitioners of the
healing arts for the examination and treatment of persons solely on
an outpatient basis, including diagnostic services, blood donation
stations, infusion centers, surgery centers, and urgent care facilities.
[Ord. No. 15-19 §1, 6-17-2015]
CLINIC OR MEDICAL HEALTH CENTER
An establishment where patients are not lodged overnight
but are admitted for special study and treatment by two (2) or more
licensed physicians or dentists and their professional associates
practicing medicine together. The term does not include a place for
the treatment of animals.
CLUB OR LODGE, PRIVATE
Buildings and facilities or premises owned or operated by
a corporation, association, fraternal organizations, labor unions
and similar organizations; political organizations; professional membership
organizations; other membership organizations, person or persons for
a social, educational or recreational purpose but not primarily for
profit and not primarily to render a service which is customarily
carried on as a business.
COLLEGE/UNIVERSITY
An institution for post-secondary education, public or private,
offering courses in general, technical, trade or religious education
and not operated for profit.
COMMUNITY CENTER OR YOUTH CENTER
A place, structure, area, or other facility used for and
providing religious, fraternal, social, or recreational programs generally
open to the public and designed to accommodate and serve significant
segments of the community. Community or youth centers are operated
by either a public agency or by private civic, charitable, or non-profit
groups (i.e. 501(c) organizations).
COMPREHENSIVE MARIJUANA FACILITY
A comprehensive marijuana cultivation facility, comprehensive
marijuana dispensary facility, or a comprehensive marijuana-infused
products manufacturing facility.
[Ord. No. 23-21, 5-17-2023]
COMPREHENSIVE MARIJUANA CULTIVATION FACILITY
A facility licensed by the State of Missouri to acquire,
cultivate, process, package, store on-site or off-site, transport
to or from, and sell marijuana, marijuana seeds, marijuana vegetative
cuttings (also known as clones) to a medical marijuana facility, comprehensive
marijuana facility, or marijuana testing facility. A comprehensive
marijuana cultivation facility need not segregate or account for its
marijuana products as either non-medical marijuana or medical marijuana.
A comprehensive marijuana cultivation facility's authority to process
marijuana shall include the creation of prerolls but shall not include
the manufacture of marijuana-infused products.
[Ord. No. 23-21, 5-17-2023]
COMPREHENSIVE MARIJUANA DISPENSARY FACILITY
A facility licensed by the State of Missouri to acquire,
process, package, store on-site or off-site, sell, transport to or
from, and deliver marijuana, marijuana seeds, marijuana vegetative
cuttings (also known as clones), marijuana-infused products, and drug
paraphernalia used to administer marijuana as provided for in this
Chapter to a qualifying patient or primary caregiver, as those terms
are defined in this Chapter, or to a consumer, anywhere on the licensed
property or to any address as directed by the patient, primary caregiver,
or consumer and consistent with the limitations of this Chapter and
as otherwise allowed by law, to a comprehensive marijuana facility,
a marijuana testing facility, or a medical marijuana facility. Comprehensive
marijuana dispensary facilities may receive transaction orders at
the comprehensive marijuana dispensary facility directly from the
consumer in person, by phone, or via the Internet, including from
a third party. A comprehensive marijuana dispensary facility need
not segregate or account for its marijuana products as either non-medical
marijuana or medical marijuana but shall collect all appropriate tangible
personal property sales tax for each sale, as set forth in any applicable
State Statutes and provided for by the Bridgeton Municipal Code and
any other general or local law. A comprehensive marijuana dispensary
facility's authority to process marijuana shall include the creation
of prerolls.
[Ord. No. 23-21, 5-17-2023]
COMPREHENSIVE MARIJUANA-INFUSED PRODUCTS MANUFACTURING FACILITY
A facility licensed by the State of Missouri to acquire,
process, package, store, manufacture, transport to or from a medical
marijuana facility, comprehensive marijuana facility, or marijuana
testing facility, and sell marijuana-infused products, prerolls, and
infused prerolls to a marijuana dispensary facility, a marijuana testing
facility, or another marijuana-infused products manufacturing facility.
A comprehensive marijuana-infused products manufacturing facility
need not segregate or account for its marijuana products as either
non-medical marijuana or medical marijuana.
[Ord. No. 23-21, 5-17-2023]
CONDOMINIUM PROPERTY
Any tract of land which shall have been planned for development
with common elements or facilities maintained for the benefit of the
inhabitants or their guests in addition to the dwelling units contained
or located on the tract, which tract shall have been declared, planned,
recorded and approved for development as condominium property under
Section 448.010, RSMo., so that dwelling units and a percentage of
ownership in the common elements appertaining to such units may be
sold and conveyed, leased, mortgaged or otherwise dealt with as interests
in real estate to separate owners without subdivision of said interests.
CONSUMER
A person who is at least twenty-one (21) years of age.
[Ord. No. 23-21, 5-17-2023]
COURT OR COURTYARD
An open space which may or may not have direct street access
and around which is arranged a single building or group of related
buildings.
CURB LEVEL
The level of the established curb in front of the building
measured at the center of such front. Where a building faces on more
than one (1) street, the "curb level" shall be the average of the
levels of the curbs at the center of the front of each street. Where
no curb elevation has been established, the mean level of the land
immediately adjacent to the building shall be considered the "curb
level".
DANCE HALL
An establishment in which at least one thousand (1,000) square
feet or more than ten percent (10%) of the total floor area, whichever
is less, is designed or used as a dance floor, or where an admission
fee is directly collected or some other form of compensation is obtained
for dancing. Accompanying music may be produced by live performance
or recorded media and may include a disc jockey. A dance hall shall
not include dance academies, schools, or studios where dancing is
permitted only by students and instructors engaged in dancing instruction,
nor shall this include public or private schools, which host dances
solely for students or adult-supervised youth organizations, or other
governmental facilities that host dances.
DAY CARE CENTER
A facility, other than a dwelling, where care is provided
for children for any part of the twenty-four (24) hour day, for compensation
or otherwise.
DAY CARE CENTER, RELIGIOUS INSTITUTION
A facility, other than a dwelling, where care is provided
for children for any part of the twenty-four (24) hour day, for compensation
or otherwise, and operated by a non-profit religious organization
on the same property where religious activity is conducted.
DAY CARE HOME
A single-family dwelling, occupied as a permanent residence
by the day care provider, in which family-like care is given to from
five (5) through ten (10) children, not related to the day care provider,
for any part of the twenty-four (24) hour day, for compensation or
otherwise.
DHSS
Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services, or its
successor agency.
[Ord. No. 19-12, 8-7-2019]
DINING ROOM
A banquet hall located within and accessory to a hotel or
motel. See Banquet Hall.
DISTRICT
Any section of the City of Bridgeton within which the zoning
regulations are uniform.
DRIVE-IN
A term used to describe an establishment designed or operated
to serve a patron while seated in an automobile parked in an off-street
parking space or to serve a patron at a window without providing inside
seating facilities.
DWELLING
A building or portion thereof, but not including a house
trailer or mobile home, designed or used exclusively for residential
occupancy, including single-family dwelling units, two-family dwelling
units and multiple-family dwelling units, but not including hotels,
boarding or lodging houses or lodging establishments.
[Ord. No. 20-18, 9-2-2020]
DWELLING, MULTIPLE-FAMILY
A building or portion thereof designed or altered for occupancy
by three (3) or more families living independently of each other.
DWELLING, ROW (PARTY-WALL)
A row of two (2) to eight (8) attached, single-family party-wall
dwellings not more than two and one-half (2½) stories in height
nor more than two (2) rooms in depth measured from the building line.
DWELLING, SINGLE-FAMILY
A building designed exclusively for use and occupancy by
one (1) family and entirely separated from other dwellings by space.
DWELLING, TWO-FAMILY
A building designed or altered to provide dwelling units
for occupancy by two (2) families living independently of each other.
DWELLING UNIT
One (1) or more rooms in a residential structure or apartment
hotel designed for occupancy by one (1) family or other group of persons
not exceeding five (5) living together as a household or by a person
living alone.
EASEMENT
The right of a person, government agency or public utility
company to use public or private land owned by another for a specific
purpose.
EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTION
Public schools, providing primary and secondary education,
or private schools having a curriculum equivalent to a public elementary,
middle, or high* school and having no rooms regularly used for housing
or sleeping purposes.
ELECTRONIC GAME ROOM
Any establishment having five (5) or more amusement games
of any description, including pinball amusement games, computer amusement
games, video amusement games, and electronic amusement games, for
the public amusement, patronage or recreation. Such amusement games
shall not include video games or other entertaining display, such
as, but not limited to, computer terminals, not dependent upon skill
or dexterity that are offered in connection with the sale of a product
or service if the product or service being promoted is only ancillary
and incidental to the game or amusement device; and whereby prizes
of cash value, not including replays or novelties of de minimus value
are awarded to players, including, but not limited to, those devices
known as "sweepstakes".
EXTENDED STAY LODGING ESTABLISHMENT
A lodging establishment where any of the guest rooms are
rented to semi-permanent guests. It is the intent of this Chapter
that extended stay lodging establishments shall only be permitted
uses or permitted uses with special use permits in those districts
where this Chapter specifically lists "extended stay lodging establishment"
as a permitted use or permitted use with a special use permit. In
those districts where this Chapter only states that "lodging establishments"
are permitted uses or permitted uses with a special use permit, extended
stay lodging establishments are not permitted.
[Ord. No. 13-38 §2, 9-4-2013]
FAMILY
An individual or two (2) or more persons related by blood
or marriage or adoption or a group of not more than three (3) persons
who need not be related by blood or marriage or adoption living together
and subsisting in common as a single non-profit housekeeping unit
utilizing only one (1) kitchen.
FARM
An area which is used for the growing of the usual farm products,
such as vegetables, fruit trees and grain, and for the packing or
storage of the products produced on the premises 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, subject
to distance limitations from residential property and not including
the commercial feeding of garbage or offal to swine or other animals,
the commercial feeding of animals on open lots where no feed is raised
on the premises, or the commercial feeding of poultry broilers, or
laboratory animals.
FENCE, CLOSED
A structure forming a physical barrier which is so constructed
that less than fifty percent (50%) of the vertical surface is open
to permit the transmission of light, air and vision through such surface
in a horizontal plane.
FENCE, OPEN
A structure forming a physical barrier which is so constructed
that no less than fifty percent (50%) of the vertical surface is open
to permit the transmission of light, air and vision through such surface
in a horizontal plane.
FINANCIAL INSTITUTION
Any business or use of property as a full service bank, credit
union or savings and loan association, including any accessory drive
through. Such institutions shall be licensed or hold a certificate
of registration from the appropriate State agency. This definition
shall not include short-term loan establishments as defined herein.
FOOD BANK
A facility operated by a public or not-for-profit entity
for the sourcing, collecting, sorting, cataloging, and warehousing
of unprepared packaged and fresh food items to be distributed to the
general public via off-site third-party entities such as food pantries.
Such facilities may also handle clothing in a similar manner and are
not open to the general public.
[Ord. No. 15-19 §1, 6-17-2015]
FOOD PANTRY (FOOD SHELF)
A facility operated by a public or not-for-profit entity
that directly distributes unprepared packaged and fresh food items
to the public on a charitable basis. Such facilities may also distribute
clothing to the general public in such manner.
[Ord. No. 15-19 §1, 6-17-2015]
FRATERNAL ORGANIZATION OR LODGE HALL
Buildings and facilities or premises owned or operated by
a corporation, association, fraternal organizations, labor unions
and similar organizations; political organizations; professional membership
organizations; other membership organizations, person or persons for
a social, educational or recreational purpose, but not primarily for
profit and not primarily to render a service which is customarily
carried on as a business.
FUEL BULK STATION
A place where crude petroleum, gasoline, naphtha, benzine,
benzol, kerosene or other flammable liquid which has a flash point
at or below two hundred degrees Fahrenheit (200° F) (closed cup
tester) is stored for wholesale purposes, where the aggregate capacity
of all storage tanks is more than six thousand (6,000) gallons, regardless
of whether the fuel is stored above ground, underground or in mobile
tank cars or trucks.
GARAGE, PRIVATE
An accessory building housing motor-driven vehicles which
are the property of and for the private use of the occupants of the
lot on which the private garage is located. Not more than one (1)
of the vehicles may be a commercial vehicle of not more than one and
one-half (1½) tons capacity.
GARAGE, PUBLIC
Any building or premises used for equipping, repairing, hiring,
selling or storing motor-driven vehicles.
GIFT SHOP, NOTIONS OR SUNDRIES STORE
An establishment that sells a wide variety of relatively small and inexpensive items, exclusive of items identified as drug paraphernalia or illegal smoking products in Chapter
205 of the Municipal Code.
GOLF COURSE
Building and facilities or premises occupying an area of
not less than forty-five (45) acres for recreational purposes related
to golf and shall include such incidental accessory uses and structures
as dining room facilities, sale of liquor by the drink, and sale of
golf equipment and supplies. The length of a golf course shall be
a minimum of two thousand (2,000) linear yards for nine (9) holes,
as defined by the U.S. Golf Association.
GROUP HOME
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 as defined in Section 89.020, RSMo.
[Ord. No. 15-29 §2, 11-4-2015]
GUEST ROOM
Any room or unit in a lodging establishment where sleeping
accommodations are regularly furnished to the public.
[Ord. No. 13-38 §2, 9-4-2013]
HOME OCCUPATION
An occupation conducted in a dwelling unit provided that:
1.
No persons other than members of the family residing on the
premises shall be engaged in such occupation.
2.
The use of the dwelling unit for the home occupation shall be
clearly incidental and subordinate to its use for residential purposes;
and not more than one (1) room having an area of not more than twenty-five
percent (25%) of the total square footage of the structure shall be
used in the conduct of the home occupation.
3.
There shall be no change in the outside appearance of the building
or premises or other visible evidence of the conduct of such home
occupation other than one (1) non-lighted sign of a type or kind normally
found in that area indicating the name and address of the resident.
No equipment or materials relating to a home occupation shall be stored
outside.
4.
No home occupation shall be conducted in any accessory building.
5.
There shall be no sales of merchandise to customers coming to
the premises in connection with such home occupation.
6.
No traffic shall be generated by such home occupation in greater
volumes than would normally be expected from a purely residential
use of the home containing the home occupation, and any need for parking
generated by the conduct of such home occupation shall be met off
the street on a dust-free parking area, no larger than would normally
be expected for a purely residential use.
7.
No equipment or process shall be used in such home occupation
which creates noise, vibration, glare, fumes, odors or electrical
interference detectable to the normal senses off the premises if the
occupation is conducted in other than a single-family residence or
outside the dwelling unit if conducted in other than a single-family
residence. In the case of electrical interference, no equipment or
process shall be used which creates visual or audible interference
in any radio or television receivers off the premises or causes fluctuations
in line voltage off the premises.
8.
A home occupation shall not be interpreted to include barbershops,
beauty shops, restaurants, or offices of physicians or dentists, but
shall include child care.
9.
For any new home occupation for which a business license is
granted on or after April 15, 2011, no vehicle that contains signage
associated with a home occupation may be parked or stored outside
in a residential neighborhood unless legally parked or stored behind
the building line.
HOMELESS EMERGENCY CENTER (OVERNIGHT SHELTER)
A facility providing, without charge, single-night, temporary
shelter, with or without meals, storage for personal items, showers,
laundry, bathrooms, snacks, and other similar services for up to five
(5) people, with no ordinary or regular home or residence address.
Such shelters shall not provide shelter on a regular basis and shall
not continually provide shelter for the same individuals. Homeless
emergency centers shall operate no more than three (3) nights per
month for a total of thirty-six (36) days per calendar year. A homeless
emergency center shall be used only as an accessory use to religious
institutions (as defined herein) or not-for-profit agency, where either
has been established for a period of at least twelve (12) consecutive
months, and where specifically permitted in this Code, and shall meet
the following requirements:
[Ord. No. 15-19 §1, 6-17-2015]
1.
Any homeless emergency center shall comply fully with the requirements
of applicable State, County, and City codes, ordinances, and regulations;
and
2.
Any homeless emergency center shall be contained within the
structure of, and operated by, a not-for-profit corporation or charitable
organization. In no case shall such facility be located in a lodging
establishment as defined herein.
HOMELESS SERVICE CENTER
A private not-for-profit, public, or quasi-public facility
to provide temporary counseling, case management, medical assessment
and referral, health outreach, computer center, social service information
and referral, job search assistance, veteran's administration counseling,
and other similar services to homeless persons.
[Ord. No. 15-19 § 1, 6-17-2015]
HOMELESS SUPPORT CENTER (DAY SHELTER)
A private not-for-profit, public, or quasi-public facility,
other than a food pantry or food banks, to provide temporary daytime
shelter, common room, telephone, mail, computers, showers, laundry,
bathrooms, snacks, appointment assistance, and other similar services
to homeless persons.
[Ord. No. 15-19 § 1, 6-17-2015]
HOSPITAL OR SANITARIUM
An institution devoted primarily to the maintenance and operation
of facilities for the diagnosis, treatment or care for not less than
twenty-four (24) hours in any week of three (3) or more unrelated
individuals suffering from illness, disease, injury, deformity or
other abnormal physical conditions and which may include related facilities
such as laboratories, out-patient departments, training facilities,
central service facilities, and staff offices; provided that such
related facility must be incidental and subordinate to the main use
and must be an integral part of the hospital operations. The term "hospital", as used in this Chapter, does not apply to institutions
operating solely for treatment of insane persons, drug addicts, liquor
addicts or other types of cases necessitating restraint of patients,
and the term "hospital" shall not include convalescent,
nursing shelter or boarding homes as defined in Chapter 198, RSMo.
INDOOR THEATER
An establishment that is primarily utilized for showing motion
pictures, or for dramatic, dance, musical, or other live or amplified
entertainment and associated rehearsals. Such establishments shall
have stationary or fixed seating for all patrons and may include related
services such as light snack food and beverage sales and other related
concessions. See Live or Amplified Entertainment.
INFLATABLE DEVICE
Objects or mechanisms used to attract attention, advertise,
promote, market, or display goods and/or services, which are inflated
with air or gas, or equipped with a portable blower motor that provides
a constant flow of air into the device in the likeness of an animate
or inanimate object or cartoon figure, including but not limited to
tethered balloons, blimps, dirigibles, or similar lighter-than-air
objects and recreational devices such as inflatable slides and bounce-houses.
[Ord. No. 13-29 §1, 8-7-2013]
INFUSED PREROLL
A consumable or smokable marijuana product, generally consisting
of: (1) a wrap or paper; (2) dried flower, buds, and/or plant material;
and (3) a concentrate, oil or other type of marijuana extract, either
within or on the surface of the product. Infused prerolls may or may
not include a filter or crutch at the base of the product.
[Ord. No. 23-21, 5-17-2023]
INTERMEDIATE CARE FACILITY
Any premises, other than a residential care facility, assisted
living facility, or skilled nursing facility, which is utilized by
its owner, operator, or manager to provide twenty-four (24) hour accommodation,
board, personal care, and basic health and nursing care services under
the daily supervision of a licensed nurse and under the direction
of a licensed physician to three (3) or more residents dependent for
care and supervision and who are not related within the fourth degree
of consanguinity or affinity to the owner, operator or manager of
the facility.
JEWELRY STORE
A business primarily engaged in the on-premise retail sale
of new jewelry and watches, and may include the retail sale of clocks.
Accessory to the primary use of the sale of new material may be the
sale of used jewelry from estate sales or reconstituted precious metals
and gems/stones purchased and handcrafted by the business into jewelry
forms. Such establishments may also provide repair and lapidary services.
JUNK YARD
The use of more than two hundred (200) square feet of any
lot where waste, scrap, metal, paper, rags or similar materials are
bought, sold, exchanged, stored, baled, packed, disassembled or handled,
including auto and building wrecking yards, but excluding similar
uses taking place entirely within a completely enclosed building.
LIMOUSINE
Any motor vehicle, other than a taxi, offered to the public
by a public limousine business for the purpose of carrying or transporting
passengers for a fixed charge or fee, or an hourly rate.
LIMOUSINE SERVICE
The business of offering the public motor vehicles for carrying
or transportation of passengers between airports and points within
the City for a fixed charge or fee, or offering a vehicle with driver
for a fixed charge or fee, or offering a vehicle with driver for transportation
of passengers at an hourly rate.
LINE OF BUILDING (FOR MEASURING YARDS)
A line parallel to the nearest lot line drawn through the
point of a building or group of buildings nearest to such lot line,
exclusive of such features specified as being permitted to extend
into a yard.
LIVE OR AMPLIFIED ENTERTAINMENT
Performances including, but not limited to, those by musicians,
singers, disc jockeys, dancers, acrobats, magicians, dramatists, and
speakers; as well as entertainment-related activities that involve
patrons such as karaoke. Jukeboxes, piped background music, and individual
serenading acoustic musicians at restaurants, taverns or saloons,
and at tea rooms and coffee houses shall not be considered live or
amplified entertainment for purposes of this Section provided such
performances are not audible off-premises.
LOADING AREA
One (1) or more loading spaces, together with necessary maneuvering
space, and aisles and driveways.
LOADING SPACE
An area of land not a part of a street right-of-way and/or
the area of a building used principally for the loading and unloading
of materials or merchandise from a single motor vehicle and/or trailer,
provided such trailer is not utilized for living or sleeping.
[Ord. No. 14-25 §X, 9-3-2014 §1]
LODGING ESTABLISHMENT
Any building, group of buildings, structure, facility, place,
or places of business where five (5) or more guest rooms are provided,
which is owned, maintained, or operated by any person and which is
kept, used, maintained, advertised or held out to the public for hire
and which can be construed to be a hotel, motel, motor hotel, tourist
court, resort, bunkhouse, dormitory, or other similar place by whatever
name called, and includes all such accommodations operated for hire
as lodging establishments.
[Ord. No. 13-38 §2, 9-4-2013; Ord. No. 20-18, 9-2-2020]
LODGING OR ROOMING HOUSE
A building with not more than five (5) guest rooms where
lodging is provided for compensation pursuant to previous arrangement,
but not open to overnight guests.
LONG-TERM CARE FACILITY
A facility that is licensed either solely or in combination
as a skilled nursing facility, an intermediate care facility, a residential
care facility, or assisted living facility.
LOT
Land occupied or intended for occupancy by a use permitted
in these regulations including one (1) main building, together with
its accessory buildings and the yards, loading, and parking spaces
required herein and having its principal frontage upon a street or
upon an officially approved place.
LOT AREA
The total horizontal area within the lot lines of the lot.
LOT, CORNER
A parcel of land situated at the intersection of two (2)
or more streets or adjoining a curved street at the end of the block.
LOT COVERAGE
The area of the lot occupied by the ground floor of all buildings,
main and accessory, measured from the exterior faces of exterior walls,
or from the exterior faces of supporting exterior columns for any
portion of the ground floor not enclosed by exterior walls, or from
the centerline of walls separating two (2) buildings.
LOT DEPTH
The horizontal distance between the front and rear lot lines
measured in the mean direction of the side lot lines.
LOT FRONTAGE
The front of a lot shall be that boundary of a lot along
a public street; for a corner lot, the owner may elect either street
line as the front lot line.
LOT LINE, REAR
The rear lot line is the lot line or lot lines most nearly
parallel to and most remote from the front lot line. Lot lines other
than front or rear lot lines are side lot lines.
LOT OF RECORD
A parcel of land shown on a recorded plat or on the official
map of the County or any parcel of land described by a legally recorded
deed.
LOT, THROUGH
A lot having frontage on two (2) parallel or approximately
parallel streets with access to both streets, and which is not a corner
lot.
LOT WIDTH
The horizontal distance between the side lot lines measured
at right angles to the lot depth at the established front building
lines.
MARIJUANA ACCESSORIES
Any equipment, product, material, or combination of equipment,
products, or materials, which is specifically designed for use in
planting, propagating, cultivating, growing, harvesting, manufacturing,
compounding, converting, producing, processing, preparing, testing,
analyzing, packaging, repackaging, storing, containing, ingesting,
inhaling, or otherwise introducing marijuana into the human body.
[Ord. No. 23-21, 5-17-2023]
MARIJUANA or MARIHUANA
Cannabis indica, Cannabis sativa, and Cannabis ruderalis,
hybrids of such species, and any other strains commonly understood
within the scientific community to constitute marijuana, as well as
resin extracted from the marijuana plant and marijuana-infused products.
"Marijuana" or "Marihuana" does not include industrial hemp as defined
by Missouri Statute, or commodities or products manufactured from
industrial hemp.
[Ord. No. 19-12, 8-7-2019; Ord.
No. 23-21, 5-17-2023]
MARIJUANA FACILITY
A comprehensive marijuana cultivation facility, comprehensive
marijuana dispensary facility, marijuana testing facility, comprehensive
marijuana-infused products manufacturing facility, or any other type
of marijuana-related facility or business licensed or certified by
the State of Missouri but shall not include a medical facility (as
defined in the State Medical Marijuana Regulations).
[Ord. No. 23-21, 5-17-2023]
MARIJUANA-INFUSED PRODUCTS
Products that are infused, dipped, coated, sprayed, or mixed
with marijuana or an extract thereof, including, but not limited to,
products that are able to be vaporized or smoked, edible products,
ingestible products, topical products, suppositories, and infused
prerolls.
[Ord. No. 19-12, 8-7-2019; Ord.
No. 23-21, 5-17-2023]
MARIJUANA TESTING FACILITY
A facility certified by DHSS, to acquire, test, certify,
and transport marijuana, including those originally licensed as a
medical marijuana testing facility.
[Ord. No. 19-12, 8-7-2019; Ord.
No. 23-21, 5-17-2023]
MARINA
A place for docking ten (10) or more pleasure boats or providing
services to pleasure boats and the occupants thereof, including minor
servicing and repair to boats while in the water, sale of fuel and
supplies, and provision of lodging, food, beverages, and entertainment
as accessory uses. A yacht club shall be considered as a marina, but
a hotel, motel or similar use, where docking of boats and provision
of services thereto is incidental to other activities, shall not be
considered a marina, nor shall boat docks accessory to a multiple
dwelling where no boat-related services are rendered.
MEDICAL MARIJUANA CULTIVATION FACILITY
A facility licensed by the State of Missouri, to acquire,
cultivate, process, package, store on-site or off-site, transport
to or from, and sell marijuana, marijuana seeds, and marijuana vegetative
cuttings (also known as clones), to a medical marijuana dispensary
facility, marijuana testing facility, medical marijuana cultivation
facility or to a medical marijuana-infused products manufacturing
facility. A medical marijuana cultivation facility's authority to
process marijuana shall include the production and sale of prerolls
but shall not include the manufacture of marijuana-infused products.
[Ord. No. 19-12, 8-7-2019; Ord.
No. 23-21, 5-17-2023]
MEDICAL MARIJUANA DISPENSARY FACILITY
A facility Licensed by the State of Missouri to acquire,
process, package, store on-site or off-site, sell, transport to or
from, and deliver marijuana, marijuana seeds, marijuana vegetative
cuttings (also known as clones), marijuana-infused products, and drug
paraphernalia used to administer marijuana as provided for in the
State Medical Marijuana Regulations to a qualifying patient, a primary
caregiver, anywhere on the licensed property or to any address as
directed by the patient or primary caregiver, so long as the address
is a location allowing for the legal possession of marijuana, another
medical marijuana dispensary facility, a marijuana testing facility,
a medical marijuana cultivation facility, or a medical marijuana-infused
products manufacturing facility. Medical marijuana dispensary facilities
may receive transaction orders at the medical marijuana dispensary
facility in person, by phone, or via the Internet, including from
a third party. A medical marijuana dispensary facility's authority
to process marijuana shall include the production and sale of prerolls
but shall not include the manufacture of marijuana-infused products.
[Ord. No. 19-12, 8-7-2019; Ord.
No. 23-21, 5-17-2023]
MEDICAL MARIJUANA FACILITY
Any facility that is regulated by the State to acquire, certify,
cultivate, deliver, dispense, manufacture, process, sell, store, test,
transport or warehouse medical marijuana including a medical marijuana
cultivation facility, a medical marijuana dispensary facility, and
a medical marijuana-infused product manufacturing facility.
[Ord. No. 19-12, 8-7-2019; Ord.
No. 23-21, 5-17-2023]
MEDICAL MARIJUANA-INFUSED PRODUCTS MANUFACTURING FACILITY
A facility licensed by the State of Missouri, to acquire,
process, package, store on-site or off-site, manufacture, transport
to or from, and sell marijuana-infused products to a medical marijuana
dispensary facility, a marijuana testing facility, a medical marijuana
cultivation facility, or to another medical marijuana-infused products
manufacturing facility.
[Ord. No. 19-12, 8-7-2019; Ord.
No. 23-21, 5-17-2023]
MEETING ROOM OR CONFERENCE ROOM
A room within a hotel or motel which is rented by individuals
or groups for singular events such as business conferences, seminars,
and meetings. Meeting or conference rooms may include movable barriers
that partition large rooms into several smaller rooms.
MICROBREWERY RESTAURANT
A restaurant licensed as a microbrewer per Chapter
600 of the Bridgeton Code of Ordinances where the product authorized by said license is sold for either consumption on premises by the glass or in hand-capped or sealed containers in quantities up to one-half (½) barrel or fifteen and one-half (15.5) gallons sold directly to the consumer. Wholesaling shall be permitted only where authorized within the zoning ordinance. The area used for brewing, including bottling and kegging, shall not exceed thirty percent (30%) of the total floor area of the commercial space. See Restaurant.
MOBILE FOOD VENDOR
As used in the Bridgeton Zoning Ordinance, "Mobile Food Vendor" shall have the meaning set forth in the Mobile Food Vendors Code (Chapter
685 of this Code), provided that, for purposes of the Bridgeton Zoning Ordinance, "Mobile Food Vendor" shall not include solicitation of the sale of ice cream products and other frozen dessert products, which solicitation is governed by Section
640.070 of this Code.
MOBILE HOME
Any portable structure or vehicle of fire-resistant construction,
designed for highway transport and to permit occupancy thereof for
dwelling or sleeping purposes, including individual flush toilet,
bath, cooking and refrigeration facilities.
MOBILE HOME PARK OR TRAILER PARK
An area where one (1) or more mobile homes or trailers can
be and are intended to be parked, designed or intended to be used
as temporary or permanent living facilities for one (1) or more families.
NIGHTCLUB OR DISCOTHEQUE
An establishment whose primary activities are the sale of
alcoholic beverages to be consumed on the premises, the provision
of live or amplified entertainment, and dancing by patrons. See Live
or Amplified Entertainment.
NON-CONFORMING USE
Any use of any building, structure or land lawfully established,
or any building, structure or land occupied by a use lawfully established,
which use does not conform after the passage of this Chapter, or amendments
hereto, with the use regulations of the district in which such use
is located.
NURSERY SCHOOL
A school operated by a person or organization which is conducted
primarily for education of children two (2) years through five (5)
years of age for no more than four (4) hours per child per day.
OCTAVE BAND
A means of dividing the range of sound frequencies into octaves
in order to classify sound according to pitch.
ORDINANCE
Reference to "ordinance" herein shall be construed as the
Zoning Ordinance.
PARKING FACILITY
One (1) or more parking spaces together with necessary aisles
and driveways.
PARKING SPACE
An area of land, not a part of a street right-of-way, and/or
the area of a building used principally for the standing of a single
motor vehicle otherwise than temporarily while actually engaged in
loading or unloading merchandise or passengers, exclusive of a commercial
driveway or drive aisle connecting the parking space with a street
or alley and permitting satisfactory ingress and egress of an automobile.
PLANNING COMMISSION
The City of Bridgeton Planning Commission, also known as
the Planning and Zoning Commission.
PORCH
A roofed-over structure projecting out from the wall or walls
of a main structure and commonly open to the weather in part.
PRECIOUS METAL AND GEM BUYING ESTABLISHMENT
An establishment that purchases secondhand precious metals
or gems from the public at large for cash value with no certain or
implied contractual period within which the seller may purchase the
precious metal or gem back for the amount of the sale plus a fee.
This use excludes establishments that are principally jewelry stores,
pawnshops, antique/collectible shops and thrift/consignment stores.
PREROLL
A consumable or smokable marijuana product, generally consisting
of: (1) a wrap or paper; and (2) dried flower, buds, and/or plant
material. Prerolls may or may not include a filter or crutch at the
base of the product.
[Ord. No. 23-21, 5-17-2023]
PRIMARY CAREGIVER
An individual twenty-one (21) years of age or older who has
significant responsibility for managing the well-being of a Qualifying
Patient and who is designated as such on the Primary Caregiver's application
for an identification card under the State Medical Marijuana Regulations
or in other written notification to DHSS.
[Ord. No. 19-12, 8-7-2019]
PUBLIC UTILITY
Any person, firm, corporation or municipal department duly
authorized to furnish under public regulation to the public, electricity,
gas, steam, telephone, telegraph, transportation, water or sewage
disposal.
QUALIFYING PATIENT
An individual diagnosed with at least one (1) qualifying
medical condition (as defined in the State Medical Marijuana Regulations).
[Ord. No. 19-12, 8-7-2019; Ord.
No. 23-21, 5-17-2023]
RELIGIOUS INSTITUTION
A building used for public worship by a congregation, excluding
buildings used exclusively for residential, educational, recreational
or other uses not normally associated with worship. Includes churches,
chapels, cathedrals, temples and similar designations. Permitted accessory
uses may include homeless emergency centers and food pantries (both
as defined herein), provided such accessory uses satisfy the aforementioned
building use requirements.
[Ord. No. 15-19 §2, 6-17-2015]
RESIDENTIAL CARE FACILITY (RCF)
Any premises, other than an assisted living facility, intermediate
care facility, or skilled nursing facility, which is utilized by its
owner, operator, or manager to provide twenty-four (24) hour care
to three (3) or more residents who are not related within the fourth
degree of consanguinity or affinity to the owner, operator, or manager
of the facility and who need or are provided with shelter, board,
and with protective oversight, which may include storage and distribution
or administration of medications and care during short-term illness
or recuperation, or as designated as an RCF by the State of Missouri
Department of Health and Senior Services.
RESTAURANT
An establishment where food and/or beverages are prepared,
served, and consumed, and whose principal method of operation includes
one (1) or both of the following characteristics:
1.
Customers are normally provided with an individual menu and
served their food and beverages by a restaurant employee at the same
table or counter where the items are consumed; or
2.
A cafeteria-type operation where food and beverages generally
are consumed within the restaurant building.
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At least fifty percent (50%) of the gross income of a restaurant
must be derived from the sale of prepared meals or food consumed on-premises
or which has an annual gross income of at least two hundred thousand
dollars ($200,000.00) from the sale of prepared meals or food consumed
on-premises.
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RESTAURANT, FAST-FOOD
A restaurant where food and beverages are primarily served
to customers in disposable containers or disposable dishes and where
customers order and are served in whole or in part at a service counter;
and a restaurant where customers are served at a drive-thru or a walk-up
window or in vehicles.
RINGLEMANN NUMBER
The number of the area on the Ringlemann Chart that coincides
most nearly with the visual density of emission.
SEMI-PERMANENT GUEST
Any person occupying a guest room or combination of guest
rooms in a lodging establishment under any concession, permit, right
of access, license, rental or other agreement for living and sleeping
purposes for a period:
[Ord. No. 13-38 §2, 9-4-2013]
1.
In excess of:
a.
Thirty-one (31) consecutive days; or
b.
Thirty-one (31) nonconsecutive days within any ninety-day period;
and
2.
Not exceeding six (6) months.
SHORT-TERM LOAN ESTABLISHMENT
Any of the following:
1.
A business providing, as a primary or substantial portion of
its business, unsecured loans of five hundred dollars ($500.00) or
less, which is licensed by the appropriate State agency pursuant to
Section 408.500 et seq., RSMo., as such Section may be amended from
time to time (or is required by law to be licensed pursuant to Section
408.500 et seq., RSMo., in order to lawfully operate its business),
but which is not licensed by the appropriate State or Federal agency
as a bank, credit union or savings and loan association.
2.
A business engaged in check cashing operations for a fee as
a primary or substantial element of its business and which is not
licensed by the appropriate State or Federal agency as a bank, credit
union or savings and loan association.
3.
A business providing, as a primary or substantial portion of
its business, consumer credit loans as defined in Section 367.100
et seq., RSMo., as such Section may be amended from time to time,
which holds a certificate of registration from the appropriate State
agency pursuant to Section 367.100 et seq., RSMo., as such Section
may be amended from time to time (or is required by law to hold a
certificate of registration pursuant to Section 367.100 et seq., RSMo.,
in order to lawfully operate its business), but which is not licensed
by the appropriate State or Federal agency as a bank, credit union
or savings and loan association.
4.
A title loan office, as defined in Section 367.500 et seq.,
RSMo., as such Section may be amended from time to time, which is
licensed by the appropriate State agency pursuant to Section 367.500
et seq., RSMo., as such Section may be amended from time to time (or
is required by law to be licensed pursuant to Section 367.500 et seq.,
RSMo., in order to lawfully operate its business), but which is not
licensed by the appropriate State or Federal agency as a bank, credit
union or savings and loan association.
SHORT-TERM RENTAL
The letting or offering for let of a dwelling or a portion
thereof to one (1) or more transient guests for a period of thirty
(30) consecutive calendar days or less.
[Ord. No. 20-18, 9-2-2020]
SKILLED NURSING FACILITY
Any premises, other than a residential care facility, assisted
living facility, or an intermediate care facility, which is utilized
by its owner, operator, or manager to provide for twenty-four (24)
hour accommodation, board and skilled nursing care and treatment services
to at least three (3) residents who are not related within the fourth
degree of consanguinity or affinity to the owner, operator, or manager
of the facility. Skilled nursing care and treatment services are those
services commonly performed by or under the supervision of a registered
professional nurse for individuals requiring twenty-four (24) hours
a day care by licensed nursing personnel including acts of observation,
care, and counsel of the aged, ill, injured, or infirm, the administration
of medications and treatments as prescribed by a licensed physician
or dentist, and other nursing functions requiring substantial specialized
judgment and skill.
SMOKE UNITS
Represent the number obtained by multiplying the smoke density
in Ringlemann numbers by the time of emission in minutes. For the
purpose of this chart, Ringlemann density reading is made at least
once every minute during the period of observation; each reading is
then multiplied by the time in minutes during which it is observed;
and the various products are added together to give the total number
of "smoke units" observed during the total period under observation.
SODA FOUNTAIN OR CANDY SHOP
An establishment engaged in the preparation and/or retail
sale of beverages, ice cream or frozen treats, and candy or confections
excluding liquor, beer, or other alcoholic beverages. Such beverages
and foods may be consumed on- or off-premises. Soda fountains may
provide customer service at a drive-thru or a walk-up window or in
vehicles.
SPECIAL EVENT
Activities defined herein as either a "civic event" or a
"sales and promotional event," as follows:
[Ord. No. 13-29 §1, 8-7-2013]
1.
CIVIC EVENTA special event consisting of an outdoor activity sponsored by a nonprofit organization or public agency, including, but not limited to, carnivals, festivals, community breakfasts/lunches/dinners, concerts, charity runs/walks, parades, neighborhood fairs, and collection drives involving such activities as bake, craft, or rummage sales and bazaars, car washes, and seasonal tree, pumpkin, or plant sales.
2.
SALES AND PROMOTIONAL EVENTA special event consisting of an outdoor activity conducted by a commercial, for-profit user in connection with an established use, on the lot occupied by such use, that is limited to the display and sale of merchandise, but may also include accessory activities, such as product demonstrations or giveaways, raffles, games, and the provision or sale of food by a mobile food vendor (as defined in Chapter
685 of the Code).
SPECIAL EVENT SIGN
A sign posted to advertise or draw attention to a special
event and defined herein as either a banner sign or freestanding sign,
as follows:
[Ord. No. 13-29 §1, 8-7-2013]
1.
BANNER SIGNA special event sign constructed of cloth, bunting, plastic, paper, or similar material used for advertising purposes attached to or pinned on or from a building wall, retaining wall, or fence.
2.
FREESTANDING SIGNA special event sign supported by one (1) or more uprights, posts, or braces affixed in the ground and not attached to any part of a building. Such signs may be double-faced (i.e., parallel opposing). Banners may qualify as freestanding signs, provided that they are braced by a frame or similar support structure as determined by the Zoning Officer.
SPECIAL USE
Any use of land or buildings, or both, described and permitted
under the special use provisions of this Chapter.
STATE ADULT-USE MARIJUANA REGULATIONS
The rules and regulations promulgated by DHSS for the regulation
and control of the cultivation, manufacture, dispensing and sale of
marijuana for adult use pursuant to Article 14, Section 2, of the
Missouri Constitution.
[Ord. No. 23-21, 5-17-2023]
STATE MARIJUANA REGULATIONS
The rules and regulations promulgated by DHSS for the regulation
and control of the cultivation, manufacture, dispensing and sale of
marijuana for medical and/or adult use.
[Ord. No. 23-21, 5-17-2023]
STATE MEDICAL MARIJUANA REGULATIONS
The rules and regulations promulgated by DHSS for the regulation
and control of the cultivation, manufacture, dispensing and sale of
marijuana for medical use pursuant to Article 14, Section 1, of the
Missouri Constitution.
[Ord. No. 19-12, 8-7-2019; Ord.
No. 23-21, 5-17-2023]
STORY
That portion of a building 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. Any portion of a story exceeding fourteen (14) feet
in height shall be considered as an additional story for each fourteen
(14) feet or fraction thereof.
STORY, HALF
A half story is that portion of a building under a gable,
hip or mansard roof, the wall plates of which, on at least two (2)
opposite exterior walls, are not more than four and one-half (4½)
feet above the finished floor of such story. In the case of single-family
dwellings, two-family dwellings, and multiple-family dwellings less
than three (3) stories in height, a half story in a sloping roof shall
not be counted as a story for the purpose of this Chapter, except
in the case where independent apartments or living quarters occupy
the half story when it shall be counted as a full story. In the case
of multiple-family dwellings, three (3) or more stories in height,
a half story shall be counted as a story.
STREET
A public way other than an alley.
STREET LINE
A line separating an abutting lot, piece or parcel from a
street.
STRUCTURAL ALTERATIONS
Any change, except those required by law or ordinance, which
would prolong the life or change the shape or size of any portion
of a building or structure or of the supporting members of a building
or structure, such as bearing walls, columns, beams, arches, floor
or roof joists or girders.
STRUCTURE
Any thing constructed or erected which requires location
on the ground or is attached to something having location on the ground.
TATTOO/PIERCING/BODY MODIFICATION ESTABLISHMENTS
An establishment where the principal or accessory business
activity includes one (1) or more of the following activities:
1.
The creation of an indelible or semi-permanent mark, figure,
word, or graphic illustration upon a human body by the insertion of
pigment on or under the skin or by the raising of scars; or
2.
The penetration of the skin to make, generally permanent in
nature, a hole for the purpose of allowing the insertion of earrings,
jewelry, or similar objects into the body.
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The use of a mechanized, pre-sterilized ear-piercing system
that penetrates the outer perimeter or lobe of the ear or both;
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The creation of body illustrations and permanent cosmetics when
accessory to a permitted medical office; and
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The application of pigment or a decal to the outer surface of
the skin, which remains approximately three (3) to five (5) days until
such time as the image fades or is washed away.
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TAVERN OR SALOON
An establishment whose primary activity is the sale of alcoholic
beverages to be consumed on the premises. Taverns or saloons include
bars, private clubs and similar facilities serving alcoholic beverages.
TEA ROOM OR COFFEE HOUSE
An establishment where tea, coffee, other beverages, and
light snack foods, such as baked goods, soups and sandwiches, are
prepared and served in either disposable or non-disposable containers.
Such beverages and foods may be consumed on- or off-premises. Tea
rooms and coffee houses may provide customer service at a drive-thru
or a walk-up window or in vehicles.
TERRACE, OPEN
A level and rather narrow plane or platform which, for the
purpose of this Chapter, is located adjacent to one (1) or more faces
of the principal structure and which is constructed not more than
four (4) feet in height above the average level of the adjoining ground.
THRIFT/CONSIGNMENT DROP-OFF CENTER
An establishment open to the general public wherein one (1)
or more types of secondhand domestic articles are purchased or accepted
for donation, but not sold, such as clothing, shoes, furniture and
other assorted items, the value of which is only a fraction of the
original cost, for which price guides are not available, and which
normally have no collectible or antique value. This classification
does not include the purchase, acceptance, or storage of secondhand
motor vehicles, trailers, boats, construction equipment, parts, accessories,
or similar items.
[Ord. No. 15-19 §3, 6-17-2015]
THRIFT/CONSIGNMENT STORE
An establishment open to the general public wherein one (1)
or more types of secondhand domestic articles are sold, such as clothing,
shoes, furniture and other assorted items, the value of which is only
a fraction of the original cost, for which price guides are not available,
and which normally have no collectible or antique value. Accessory
to sales, such establishments may purchase and/or accept the donation
of the aforementioned secondhand domestic articles. This classification
does not include the sales, acceptance, or storage of secondhand motor
vehicles, trailers, boats, construction equipment, parts, accessories,
or similar items. This classification does not apply to businesses
which sell primarily new goods, and which occasionally sell secondhand
articles as a result of trade-ins or unclaimed merchandise.
[Ord. No. 15-19 §2, 6-17-2015]
TOBACCO ACCESSORY SHOP
A specialty retail establishment that has, as a substantial or significant portion of its stock in trade, smoking-related accessories, such as pipes, pipe cleaners, lighters, butane, flints, pocket knives, and cigar nippers, exclusive of items identified as drug paraphernalia or illegal smoking products in Chapter
205 of the Municipal Code.
TOBACCO SHOP
A specialty retail establishment that has no substantial
or significant portion of its stock in trade in anything other than
tobacco products. The consumption of purchased tobacco products on
the grounds of the establishment shall be as permitted by the St.
Louis County Department of Health.
TRADE OR BUSINESS SCHOOL/COLLEGE
Use providing education or training in business, commerce,
health, technical, mechanical, language, or other similar activity
or occupational pursuit, and not otherwise defined as an "educational
institution", either primary and secondary, or college/university,
or as a "home occupation".
TRAILER
A vehicle without motor power used or adaptable for living,
sleeping, business or storage purposes, having no foundation other
than wheels, blocks, skids, jacks, horses or skirting, which does
not meet Building Code requirements and has been or reasonably may
be equipped with wheel or other devices for transporting the structure
from place to place. The term "trailer" shall include "camp car" and "house car". A permanent
foundation shall not change its character unless the entire structure
is erected in accordance with the City Building Code.
TRAILER CAMP
Any premises occupied or designed to accommodate one (1)
or more families living in an automobile house trailer or mobile home,
or the parking of one (1) or more trailers for business or storage
purposes.
TRANSIENT GUESTS
Any person who occupies any dwelling unit, room or accommodation
under any concession, permit, right of access, license, rental or
other agreement for living and sleeping purposes for a period of thirty
(30) consecutive calendar days or less.
[Ord. No. 20-18, 9-2-2020]
TRUCK TERMINAL
An area where freight brought by truck is stored for routing
or reshipment or in which semi-trailers, including tractor and/or
trailer units and other trucks, are parked or stored. The area used
for storage, routing and/or transfer of any designated or potentially
toxic or hazardous waste as defined by Building and/or Fire Codes
shall meet requirements of those Codes during the handling of these
materials.
USE
The purpose for which land or a building thereon is designed,
arranged or intended, or for which it is occupied or maintained, let
or leased.
VARIETY STORE
A retail store that sells inexpensive items, often with a single price for all items in the store. Typical merchandise includes cleaning supplies, toys, household goods and gardening equipment, exclusive of items identified as drug paraphernalia or illegal smoking products in Chapter
205 of the Municipal Code. A variety store may include a counter for the sale of hot and cold prepared foods.
WAREHOUSE
A building used primarily for the storage of goods and materials.
The storage of any designated or potentially toxic or hazardous waste
as defined by Building and/or Fire Codes shall meet requirements of
those Codes.
WAREHOUSING AND DISTRIBUTION
A use engaged in storage, wholesale and distribution of manufactured
products, supplies and equipment. The storage of any designated or
potentially toxic or hazardous waste as defined by Building and/or
Fire Codes shall meet requirements of those Codes.
WINERY
One (1) or more buildings used for the processing of wine
and juice-making material, sale of wine and wine-related products,
and related wine producing activities. All wine offered for sale at
a winery shall be produced under a State of Missouri domestic license.
Retail activities of a winery may include, but are not limited to,
a tasting room, gift shop, reception area or meeting space, special
events planning, and the sale of natural table grapes, unfermented
grape juice, wine, and re-packaged food and gift items. Seventy-five
percent (75%) of the wine sold on site shall be produced from grapes
either grown on the premises or the State of Missouri.
YARD
An open space on the same lot with a principal building or
group of buildings, which is unoccupied and unobstructed from its
lowest level upward, except as otherwise permitted in this Chapter,
and which extends along a lot line and at right angles thereto to
a depth or width specified in the yard regulation for the district
in which the lot is located.
YARD, FRONT
A yard extending across the full width of the lot and lying
between the front line of the lot and the nearest line of a building.
YARD, REAR
A yard extending across the full width of the lot and lying
between the rear line of the lot and the nearest line of the principal
building.
YARD, SIDE
That part of the yard lying between the nearest line of the
principal building and a side lot line and extending from the required
front yard (or from the front lot line, if there is no required front
yard) to the required rear yard.
ZONING MAPS
The map or maps incorporated into this Chapter as a part
hereof.