[CC 1987 §705.010; Ord. No. 554 Art. 2, 1976; Ord. No. 741 §1, 4-10-2000]
For the purpose of this Chapter, certain terms and words are
hereby defined. Words used in the present tense shall include the
future; the singular number shall include the plural and the plural
the singular; the word "building" shall include the
word "structure" and the word "shall" is mandatory and not directory.
A subordinate building which is incidental to and customary
in connection with the principal building or use and which is located
on the same lot with such principal building or use.
A subordinate use which is incidental to and customary in
connection with the principal building or use and which is located
on the same lot with such principal building or use.
A way which affords only a secondary means of access to property
abutting thereon.
A room or suite of rooms intended, designed or used as a
residence by a single family.
A story having part but not more than one-half (½)
of its height below grade.
A sign which directs attention to a business, commodity,
service or entertainment conducted, sold or offered elsewhere than
upon the same lot.
Same as lodging house.
The width of the lot left to be built upon after the required
side yards are provided.
Any structure having a roof supported by columns or walls
built for the support, shelter or enclosure or persons, animals, chattels,
or property of any kind but not including any vehicle, trailer (with
or without wheels), nor any movable device such as furniture, machinery
or equipment.
The vertical distance from the grade to the highest point
of the coping of a flat roof, or the deck line of a mansard roof,
or to the mean height level between eaves and ridge for gable, hip
and gambrel roof.
That portion of a building below the first (1st) story and
having more than one-half (½) of its height below grade.
An establishment where patients are not lodged overnight
but are admitted for examination and treatment by a group of physicians
or dentists practicing medicine together.
A building or portion thereof or premises owned and operated
by a corporation, association, person or persons for a social, educational
or recreational purpose but not primarily for profit or to render
a service which is customarily carried on as a business.
Any building or portion thereof which is designed and used
exclusively for residential purposes.
A building designed for or occupied exclusively by one (1)
family.
A building designed for or occupied exclusively by two (2)
families living independently of each other.
A building designed for or occupied exclusively by more than
two (2) families living independently of each other.
One (1) or more rooms in a dwelling occupied or intended
to be occupied as separate living quarters by a single family as defined
herein.
One (1) or more persons related by blood, marriage or adoption
occupying a dwelling unit as an individual housekeeping organization.
A family may include not more than two (2) persons not related by
blood, marriage or adoption.
An area which is used for the growing of the usual farm products
such as vegetables, fruit, trees and grain and their storage on the
area, as well as the raising thereon of the usual farm poultry and
farm animals such as horses, cattle, sheep and swine. The term "farming" includes the operating of such an area for one
(1) or more of the above uses, including dairy farms with the necessary
uses for treating or storing the produce; provided however, that the
operation of such accessory uses shall be secondary to that of the
normal farming activities and, provided further, that farming does
not include the feeding of collected garbage or offal to swine or
other animals.
Any building or premises used for the sale, at retail, of
motor vehicle fuels, oils or accessories, or for servicing or lubricating
motor vehicles or installing or repairing parts and accessories but
not including the repairing or replacement of motors, bodies or fenders
of motor vehicles, or painting motor vehicles, and excluding commercial
garages.
The total number of square feet of floor space within the
exterior walls of a building, not including space in cellars or basements;
however, if the cellar or basement is used for business or commercial
purposes, it shall be counted as floor area in computing off-street
requirements.
All the property on one (1) side of a street between two
(2) intersecting streets (crossing or terminating) measured along
the line of the street, or if the street is dead-ended, then all of
the property abutting on one (1) side between an intersecting street
and the dead-end of the street.
Any building or premises' except those used as a private
or storage garage, used for equipping, repairing, hiring, selling
or storing motor-driven vehicles. The term repairing shall not include
the rebuilding, dismantling or storage of wrecked or junked vehicles.
A detached accessory building, or portion of the main building,
housing the automobiles of the occupants of the premises.
The average level of the finished surface of the ground adjacent
to the exterior walls of the building.
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. For the purposes of this Chapter, mentally
or physically handicapped persons shall not include individuals recovering
solely from alcohol and drug abuse.
Any occupation or profession carried on by a member of the
immediate family residing on the premises in connection with which
there is used no sign other than a name plate, or no display that
will indicate from the exterior that the building is being utilized
in whole or in part for any purpose other than that of a dwelling;
there is no commodity sold upon the premises; no person is employed
other than a member of the immediate family residing on the premises;
and no mechanical equipment is used except such as is permissible
for purely domestic household purposes.
A building in which lodging is provided and offered to the
public for compensation, and which is open to transient guests, in
contradistinction to a boarding house or lodging house as herein defined.
A building occupied by a non-profit corporation or a non-profit
establishment for public use.
An establishment where dogs or other pets are boarded for
compensation or bred or raised on a commercial scale.
A business that provides home-type washing, drying or ironing
machines for hire to be used by customers on the premises.
A space within the main building or on the same lot providing
for the standing, loading or unloading of trucks having a minimum
width of twelve (12) feet, a minimum depth of forty-five (45) feet,
and a vertical clearance of at least fourteen and one-half (14½)
feet, and connected with a street or road serving the premises.
A building or place where lodging and boarding is provided
(or which is equipped regularly to provide lodging and boarding by
prearrangement for definite periods) for compensation for three (3)
or more but not exceeding twelve (12) individuals. Such lodging house
or boarding houses shall not be open to transient guests in contradistinction
to a hotel as is herein defined.
A parcel of land occupied or intended for occupancy by a
use permitted in this Chapter, including one (1) main building together
with its accessory buildings, open spaces and parking spaces required
by this Chapter, and having its principal frontage upon a street.
A lot abutting upon two (2) or more streets at their intersection.
The mean horizontal distance between the front and rear lot
lines.
A lot having frontage on two (2) streets which do not intersect
at the lot.
A lot or parcel of land, the plat or deed of which has been
recorded in the office of the County Recorder of Pemiscot County,
Missouri, prior to the adoption of this Chapter.
Any building or group of buildings containing guest rooms
or dwelling units, some or all of which have a separate entrance leading
directly from the outside of the building with garage or parking space
conveniently located on the lot and designed, used or intended wholly
or in part for the accommodation of automobile transients.
Any building or land lawfully occupied by a use at the time
of passage of this Chapter or amendment thereto which does not conform
after the passage of this Chapter or amendment thereto with the use
regulation of the district in which it is situated.
An area, enclosed or unenclosed, having an area of not less
than one hundred eighty (180) square feet exclusive of driveways suitable
and permanently reserved for the temporary storage of one (1) automobile
and connected with a street or alley by a surfaced driveway which
affords ingress and egress for automobiles.
An area, improved with concrete, brick or other hard surface,
adjacent to a dwelling and used by occupants of the dwelling for leisure
time activities but not used for vehicle parking or storage.
An identification, description, illustration or device which
is affixed to or represented directly or indirectly upon a building,
structure or land and which directs attention to a product, place,
activity, persons, institution or business. A non-flashing sign is
one which has no moving parts and, if lighted, the light is maintained
constant in color and intensity at all times when in use.
That portion of a building, other than a cellar, included
between the surface of any floor and the surface of the floor next
above it or, if there be no floor above it, then the space between
the floor and the ceiling next above it.
A space under a sloping roof which has the line of intersection
of roof decking and wall face not more than three (3) feet above the
top floor level and in which space not more than sixty percent (60%)
of the floor area is finished off for use. A half story may be used
for occupancy only in conjunction with and by the occupancy of the
floor immediately below.
A public way which affords the principal means of access
to abutting property.
Anything constructed or erected, the use of which requires
permanent location on the ground or attached to something having a
permanent location on the ground and including, but not limiting,
the generality of the foregoing, advertising signs, billboards, backstops
for tennis courts, and pergolas.
Any change, except those required by law or ordinance, that
would prolong the life of the supporting members of a building or
structure such as bearing walls, columns, beams or girders, not including
openings in bearing walls as permitted by other ordinances.
A vehicle, other than a motor vehicle, designed or intended
for use for dwelling, business or storage purposes which has no foundation
other than wheels, blocks, skids, jacks, horses or skirting and which
has been, or reasonably may be, equipped with wheels or other devices
for moving it from place to place by motive power.
An area where one (1) or more trailers can be or are intended
to be parked and designed or intended to be used as living facilities
for one (1) or more families.
An open space on the same lot with a building unoccupied
and unobstructed by any portion of the structure from the ground upward,
except as otherwise provided in this Chapter.
A yard across the full width of the lot extending from the
front line of the main building to the front line of the lot.
A yard extending the full width of the lot from the rear
of a main building to the rear lot line.
A yard between the main building and the side line of the
lot and extending from the front yard line to the rear yard line.
