[CC 1995 §400.010; Ord. No. 106 Art. II, 10-24-1968; Ord. No. 438 §6, 1-11-2010; Ord. No. 448 §4, 12-13-2010; Ord. No. 459 §1, 6-13-2011]
For the purpose of this Title, 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"; the word "shall" is mandatory and not directory.
An ancillary building or structure, the use of 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.
An accessory structure must be operated and maintained under the same
ownership and use as the principal use or structure and must be a
permitted use in the zoning classification in which they are located.
An accessory structure must be subordinate in height, area, and purpose
to the main structure or use. For the purpose of this Subsection, "area" shall be defined as lot coverage. The accessory structure
may not be erected prior to the principal use or structure, nor located
in a required front yard.
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 story partly or wholly underground. A basement shall be
counted as a story for the purposes of height measurement where more
than one-half (½) of its height is above the average level
of the adjoining ground.
The area of a lot remaining after the minimum yard and area
requirements of this Title have been met.
Any structure having a roof supported by columns or walls
for the housing or enclosure of persons, animals or chattels. Where
dwellings are separated from each other by a division wall without
openings, each portion of such dwelling shall be deemed a separate
building. The word "building" includes the word "structure" and those structures on wheels or other supports
used for business, storage or living purposes.
The vertical distance measured from the adjoining curb level
(measured at each point of the lot boundaries, divided by two (2))
to the highest point of the building or structure, which is the top
of coping in the case of a flat roof, the deck line of a mansard roof,
and the topmost ridge of a gable, hip or gambrel roof; provided however,
that the Architectural Review Board may lower or increase the permitted
building height if topographical conditions justify an adjustment.
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A story having more than one-half (½) of its height
below grade. A cellar is not included in computing the number of stories
for the purpose of height measurement.
That person appointed by the Board of Alderpersons as the
City's planner or such other person designated to perform the duties
and responsibilities of the planner.
The "Planning and Zoning Commission" of the City of Crystal
Lake Park, Missouri.
An open unoccupied space, other than a yard, on the same
lot with a building and bounded on two (2) or more sides by such a
building.
A section or sections of the area of the City of Crystal
Lake Park, St. Louis County, Missouri, for which the regulations governing
the use of buildings and premises or in which the height and area
of buildings are uniform.
Any building, or portion thereof, which is designed or used
exclusively for family residential purposes.
A building designed for or occupied exclusively by one (1)
family.
Up to two (2) individuals or a married couple and the children
thereof and no more than two (2) other persons related directly to
the individuals or married couple by blood or marriage, occupying
a single housekeeping unit with single kitchen facilities, used on
a non-profit basis. A "family" may include not more
than one (1) additional person, not related to the family by blood
or marriage, provided that such additional person may be provided
with sleeping accommodations but not with kitchen facilities.
The portion of a dwelling, excluding cellar, basement, garage
or porches, used or designed to be used for the occupancy by individuals
or family as a single housekeeping unit.
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 end of the dead-end street.
A building capable of housing not more than three (3) motor-driven
vehicles, the property of and for the use of the occupants of the
lot on which the private garage is located, provided however, that
said vehicles shall not include contractors' equipment, gasoline trucks
and similar vehicles not ordinarily used incidental to domestic activities.
For buildings having walls adjoining one (1) street only, the
elevation of the sidewalk at the centers of all walls adjoining the
streets.
For buildings having walls adjoining more than one (1) street,
the average level of the finished surface of the ground adjacent to
the exterior walls of the building.
Any wall approximately parallel to and not more than five (5)
feet from a street line is to be considered as adjoining the street.
A facility which provides care, treatment or custody for
four (4) to nine (9) mentally retarded children under the age of sixteen
(16) years and affords the opportunity for utilization of community
educational, recreational and health facilities and which is licensed
as a group care home under Chapter 202, RSMo., 1969.
Any private residence licensed by the Division of Family
Services or Department of Mental Health to provide foster care to
one (1) or more but less than seven (7) children who are unrelated
to either foster parent by blood, marriage or adoption.
Any home in which eight (8) or fewer mentally or physically
handicapped persons reside and may include two (2) additional persons
acting as houseparents or guardians who need not be related to each
other or to any of the mentally or physically handicapped persons
residing in the home.
Any place for the treatment or care of human ailments, including
sanitarium, sanatorium, nursing, convalescent or rest home, or other
such place of treatment or care, but not including clinics or institutions
for contagious diseases, mental disorders, drug addiction, liquor
addiction or insanity, or other types of the cases which would necessitate
physical restraint.
An accessory use conducted in any residential dwelling which
is clearly incidental and secondary to the use of the dwelling, and
of which there is no indication from the exterior that the dwelling
is being used for any purpose other than a dwelling, shall be considered
an in home business.
An automobile, truck or other motor vehicle which cannot
operate under its own power and which will require major repairs before
being made usable, or which does not comply with State, County or
City laws or ordinances or licensing requirements.
Any lot or premises on which three (3) or more dogs or three
(3) or more cats, at least six (6) months of age, are kept.
The portion of a dwelling, excluding cellar, basement, garage
or porches, used or designed to be used for the occupancy by individuals
or family as a single housekeeping unit, which area is equipped with
heating, lighting and sanitation facilities in conformity with all
ordinances and Statutes of governmental entities regulating such items.
A parcel of land occupied or intended for occupancy by a
use permitted in this Title, including one (1) main building together
with its accessory buildings, the open spaces and parking spaces required
by this Title, having its principal frontage upon a street or upon
an officially approved place.
A lot abutting upon two (2) or more streets at their intersection.
The mean horizontal distance between the front and rear lot
lines.
A lot having a frontage on two (2) non-intersecting streets;
as distinguished from a corner lot.
The lines bounding a lot as defined herein.
Any highway designated a major highway on the official major
highway plan adopted by the St. Louis County Planning Commission and
any highway so designated by the Board of Aldermen of the City of
Crystal Lake Park.
Any building or land lawfully occupied by a use at the time
of passage of this Chapter (October 24, 1968) or amendment thereto
which does not conform after the passage of this Chapter (October
24, 1968) or amendments thereto with the use regulations of the district
in which it is situated.
A durable, dustproof, surfaced area, enclosed in the main
building, in an accessory building or unenclosed, sufficient in size
to store one (1) standing automobile, and if the space is unenclosed,
a durable dustproof surface area comprising an area of not less than
three hundred (300) square feet including the necessary driveway and
space between automobiles on the parking lots. The driveways connecting
a parking space with street or alley shall provide satisfactory ingress
and egress of automobiles and shall be designed to prevent all possible
traffic and fire hazards. Such area shall be paved with an asphalt
penetration surface, asphaltic concrete or Portland cement concrete
and shall have appropriate bumper guards when needed.
An association of persons, whether incorporated or unincorporated,
organized for some common purpose, but not including a group organized
solely or primarily to render a service customarily carried on as
a commercial enterprise, provided however, that the activities of
such association shall not be violations of any Federal, State or
County or municipal laws in effect.
Any structure or part of a structure not in excess of fifteen
(15) feet, other than a cellar, included between the surface of any
floor and the surface of the floor next above it, or if there be no
floor above it, then the space between the floor and the ceiling next
above it.
A space under a sloping roof which has the line of intersection
of roof decking and wall face not more than three (3) feet above the
top floor level, and in which space not more than two-thirds (⅔)
of the floor area is finished for occupancy.
All property dedicated or intended for public or private
street, highway, freeway or roadway purposes or subject to easements
therefor.
A dividing line between a lot, tract or parcel of land and
a contiguous street.
Any change in the supporting members of a building, such
as bearing walls or partitions, columns, beams or girders, or any
substantial change in the roof or in the exterior walls.
Anything constructed or erected, the use of which requires
permanent location on the ground or which is attached to something
having a permanent location on the ground including, but not limited
to, advertising signs, billboards, backstops for tennis courts and
pergolas, radio towers, memorials and ornamental structures. The word "structures" includes the word "building" in addition to the foregoing.
Any structure used, or capable of being used, for living,
sleeping, business or storage purposes, having no foundation other
than wheels, blocks, skids, jacks, horses or skirting and which is,
has been, or reasonably may be equipped with wheels or other devices
for transporting the structure from place to place whether by motive
power or other means. The term "trailer" shall include
camp car and house car. A permanent foundation shall not change its
character if the structure can be removed therefrom practically intact.
An open space on the same lot with a building, unoccupied
and unobstructed by any portion of a structure from the ground upward,
except as otherwise provided herein.
A yard extending across the front of a lot between the side lot lines and being the minimum horizontal distance between the street right-of-way line and the main building or any projection thereof, other than the projection of the usual steps or entrance way. The front yards of lots fronting on major highways, however, shall be determined by measurement from the centerline of the major highway right-of-way as designated in Section 410.020 Subsection (B).
A yard extending across the rear of a lot measured between
the side lot lines and being the minimum horizontal distance between
the rear lot line and the rear of the main building or any projections.
On corner lots the rear yard shall be considered as parallel to the
street upon which the lot has its least dimension. On both corner
lots and interior lots the rear yard shall be at the opposite end
of the lot from the front yard.
A yard between the main building and the side line of the
lot and extending from the front lot line to the rear lot line, measured
as the mean horizontal distance between the lot line and the main
buildings.
[CC 1995 §400.020; Ord. No. 106 Art. III, 10-24-1968; Ord. No. 128 §1, 5-7-1973]
A.
Buildings.
1.
No building shall be erected, converted, enlarged, reconstructed
or structurally altered, nor shall any existing building or land be
used for any purpose other than as is permitted in the district in
which such building or land is located.
2.
No building shall be erected, converted, enlarged, reconstructed
or structurally altered to exceed the height limit herein established
for the district in which such building is located.
3.
No building shall be erected, converted, enlarged, reconstructed
or structurally altered except in conformity with the area regulations
of the district in which such building is located.
4.
The minimum yards and open spaces, including lot area per family
requirement, for each and every building existing as of October 24,
1968, shall not be encroached upon or considered as yard or open space
requirement for any other building.
5.
Every building hereafter erected or structurally altered shall be
located on a lot as herein defined and in no case shall there be more
than one (1) main building on one (1) lot.
6.
No land dedicated for roadway purposes, either in a public or private
street or place, shall be used as a yard or as any part of the required
lot area prescribed by this Title.
7.
No junker shall be parked or allowed to remain in the City where
visible from the adjacent streets or adjoining lots. No trailer shall
be parked or allowed to remain in the City for over a one (1) week
period where visible from the adjacent streets or adjoining lots,
unless a written permit is issued by the Building Commissioner extending
the above mentioned period.
8.
Every dwelling hereafter erected shall be located on the lot such
that a parking area or garage or carport or a combination of parking
area, garage or carport sufficient for the parking of two (2) automobiles
is provided.
B.
Vacations. Whenever any street, alley or other public way
is vacated by official action of the County Council of St. Louis County
with the approval of the Board of Aldermen, the zoning districts adjoining
each side of such street, alley or public way shall be automatically
extended to the center of such vacation and all area included in the
vacation shall then and thenceforth be subject to all regulations
of the extended districts.
C.
Annexation. All territory which may hereafter be annexed
to the City of Crystal Lake Park shall automatically be classed as
lying and be in the Residence District "A" until such classification
shall have been changed by an amendment to this Zoning Code as provided
by law.
[CC 1995 §400.030; Ord. No. 106 Art. III, 10-24-1968]
A.
In
order to regulate and limit the height, dimensions and size of buildings
erected or altered, to limit the intensity of lot area and to regulate
and determine the area of yards, courts and other open spaces within
and surrounding such buildings, the City of Crystal Lake Park shall
be divided into four (4) districts, to wit:
B.
Uses. Each said district shall conform to the uses and regulations
as set forth in this Title.
[CC 1995 §400.040]
Wherever the regulations made under authority of this Title
require a greater width or size of yards, courts or other open spaces,
or require a lower height of building or less number of stories, or
require a greater percentage of lot to be left unoccupied, or impose
other higher standards than are required in any other Statute or local
ordinance or regulation, the provisions of the regulations made under
authority of this Title shall govern. Wherever the provisions of any
other Statute or local ordinance or regulation require a greater width
or size of yards, courts or other open spaces, or require a lower
height of building or a less number of stories, or require a greater
percentage of lot to be left unoccupied, or impose other higher standards
than are required by the regulations made under authority of this
Title, the provisions of such ordinance or regulation shall govern.
[Ord. No. 573, 3-5-2018]
"Short-term residential rental" means the letting
or renting, or offering for let or rent, a dwelling unit, or a portion
thereof, for a fee to one (1) or more guests for a period of sixty
(60) consecutive calendar days or less. Short-term residential rentals
are a use prohibited throughout all zoning districts of the City.
