For the purposes of these regulations,
the terms used herein are defined as follows:
ACCESSORY BUILDING
Any building, the use of which is incidental to the principal
use of another and is located on the same lot as the principal building
or use.
ACCESSORY USE
A use incidental and subordinate to the principal use of
the premises.
ADULT BOOK AND VIDEO STORE
A legal business premise for the on-site sale or rent of
printed and visual materials for public consumption by persons eighteen
(18) years of age and older.
AGRICULTURE
The use of land or building(s) for such purposes as: farming,
dairying, pasturage, floriculture, viticulture and animal and poultry
husbandry and the necessary accessory uses for packing, treating or
storing the produce raised on the premises; provided however, that
the operation of such accessory uses shall be secondary to that of
normal agricultural activities and, further provided, that the above
uses shall not include the commercial feeding of garbage or offal
to swine or other animals.
ALLEY
A minor public thoroughfare which affords only a secondary
means of vehicular service access to the rear or side of abutting
properties otherwise abutting on a street and which is twenty (20)
feet or less in width.
APARTMENT
A room or a suite of rooms within an apartment house, provided
with separate cooking facilities and arranged, intended or designed
for a place of residence of a single-family or a group of individuals
living together as a single housekeeping unit.
BASEMENT
A story whose floor is more than twelve (12) inches but not
more than one-half (½) its clear height below the average level
of the adjoining ground. A basement, when used as a dwelling, shall
be counted as a story for purposes of minimum side yard determination.
BLOCK
A parcel of land usually bounded on all sides by streets
or other transportation routes such as railroad lines or by physical
barriers such as water bodies or public open space and not traversed
by a through street.
BOARDING, LODGING OR ROOMING HOUSE
A building or place where rooming, lodging or lodging and
boarding are provided (or which is equipped to regularly provide such
services) by pre-arrangement for definite periods and for compensation.
A boarding, lodging or rooming house may have accommodations for three
(3) or more persons, but not more than nine (9) persons. A boarding,
lodging or rooming house is distinguished from a hotel which is open
to transients and has accommodations for ten (10) or more persons.
BUILDING
Any structure used or intended for supporting or sheltering
any use or occupancy. For application of the Zoning Code, each portion
of a building which is completely separated from other portions by
fire walls complying with Section 907.0 of the BOCA Code shall be
considered as a separate building.
BUILDING, HEIGHT OF
The vertical distance measured from the average elevation
of the finished grade at the front of the building to:
1.
The highest point of flat roofs,
2.
The deck line of mansard roofs,
3.
The average height of the eaves and the ridge of gable, hip
and gambrel roofs.
CELLAR
A story having more than one-half (½) of its height
below grade. A cellar shall not be counted as a story for the purpose
of height regulation.
CHILD OR DAY CARE CENTER
Any place, home or institution which receives three (3) or
more children under the age of sixteen (16) years and not of common
parentage, for care apart from their natural parents, legal guardians
or custodians, when received for regular periods of time for compensation;
provided however, this definition shall not include public and private
schools organized, operated or approved under the laws of this State,
custody of children fixed by a court of competent jurisdiction, children
related by blood or marriage within the third degree of the custodian
person or to churches or other religious or public institutions caring
for children within the institutional building while their parents
or legal guardians are attending services or meetings or classes or
engaged in church activities.
CLUB
A building or portion thereof or premises owned or operated
by a corporation, association, person or persons intended to be used
by a selected membership not open to the general public for social,
educational or recreational purpose, but not primarily for profit
or to render a service which is customarily carried on as a business.
COMMERCIAL
Any business that has as its primary function the direct
sale of goods or services to the general public.
COMMISSION
Planning and Zoning Commission of the City of Pevely, Missouri.
COMPREHENSIVE PLAN
The plan or any portion thereof for the coordinated development
of the City of Pevely, Missouri, adopted by the Planning and Zoning
Commission of the City of Pevely, Missouri, pursuant to Chapter 89,
RSMo.
CONDOMINIUM
A single-dwelling structure intended to be occupied by a
number of single families and within which each single-family dwelling
unit is sold to the occupants as an individually subdivided parcel
of the entire structure. All condominium development shall comply
with the provisions of the planned residential development regulations
of the Pevely Zoning Code.
CONSTRUCTION PLAN
A drafted illustration, including engineering, architectural
and other information as necessary, depicting the characteristics
of buildings and related improvements proposed to be erected or otherwise
established on a parcel of land.
CUL-DE-SAC
A local street having only one (1) outlet and having an appropriate
terminal for the safe and convenient reversal of traffic movement.
DESIGN
The arrangement of land for easements, lots and rights-of-way,
including materials, alignment, grade and width of these elements.
DEVELOPER
A person, firm or corporation by whom a tract of land will
be subdivided and improved pursuant to the requirements of the subdivision
regulations. Consent will be required of the legal owner of the premises.
DISPLAY AREA
A space arranged, intended or designed for the demonstration,
exhibition, presentation or otherwise showing of commodities or other
items to the general public.
DISTRICT, ZONING
A section or sections of the City of Pevely for which the
regulations governing the use of buildings and premises, the height
of buildings, the size of yards and the intensity of the use are uniform.
DWELLING
Any building or portion thereof which is designed and used
exclusively for residential purposes.
DWELLING, MULTI-FAMILY
A building or portion thereof, excluding condominiums, arranged,
intended or designed for the exclusive occupancy by more than two
(2) families.
DWELLING, SINGLE-FAMILY
A detached building arranged, intended or designed for the
exclusive occupancy by one (1) family.
DWELLING, TWO-FAMILY
A building arranged, intended or designed for the exclusive
occupancy by two (2) families.
EASEMENT
A grant by a property owner to the public, a corporation
or a person of the use of land for a specific purpose.
ENGINEER
A person licensed as a professional engineer by the State
of Missouri.
ESCROW AGENT
A title company, bank, savings and loan association, trust
company or any other agency or person approved by the Pevely Board
of Aldermen to act as escrow agent under the provisions of the Zoning
Code.
FABRICATING
The process of producing a product or products from a manufactured
item or items through general assembly operations. Fabricating does
not include the making of products from raw material(s).
FAMILY
Either of the following groups of persons occupying a dwelling
unit as an individual housekeeping unit:
1.
One (1) or more persons related by blood, marriage or adoption
and not more than two (2) other persons not related by blood, marriage
or adoption;
2.
Not more than three (3) persons (excluding servants) not related
by blood, marriage or adoption and living together as a single housekeeping
organization in a dwelling unit.
FLOOD HAZARD AREA
All land subject to period inundation from overflow of natural
waterways when subjected to the maximum possible runoff from three
(3) inches of rain per hour as calculated by accepted engineering
methods.
FLOOR AREA
The total number of square feet of floor space within the
exterior walls of a building, not including space in cellars, basements,
porches, carports or garages. However, if the cellar or basement is
used for business or commercial purposes, it shall be counted as floor
area in computing off-street parking requirements.
GARAGE, COMMERCIAL OR PUBLIC
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
an automotive repair shop for the rebuilding, dismantling or storage
of wrecked or junked vehicles.
GARAGE, PRIVATE
A detached accessory building, or portion of the main building,
housing the automobiles of the occupants of the premises, provided
that no business, occupation or service is conducted for profit therein
nor space therein for more than one (1) car is leased to a non-resident
of the premises.
GRADE
The average level of the finished surface of the ground adjacent
to the exterior walls of the building, except when any wall approximately
parallels and is not more than five (5) feet from a street line, then
the elevation of the street at the center of the wall adjoining the
street shall be grade.
HILLSIDE AREA
An area with an average slope of twenty percent (20%) or
more and a cross slope from twenty percent (20%) to forty percent
(40%).
HILLSIDE STREET
A street in which the cross slope of the existing ground
exceeds fifteen percent (15%) or the centerline slope exceeds fifteen
percent (15%).
HOME OCCUPATION
Any occupation or activity which is clearly incidental and
secondary to the use of the premises for dwelling purposes and which
is carried on wholly within the main building or accessory building
by a member of the family residing on the premises, provided that
no person not a resident on the premises is employed, no stock in
trade is kept or commodities sold, no internal or external alterations
or special construction of the premises are involved, no equipment
shall be used which creates offensive noise, vibration, sound, smoke,
dust, odors, heat, glare, x-ray or electrical disturbance to radio
or television instruments, no generation of substantial volumes of
vehicular or pedestrian traffic or parking demand is created and in
connection with which there is no advertising sign displayed other
than a nameplate not exceeding two (2) square feet in area and there
is no other exterior indication that the building is being used for
any other purpose other than a dwelling. When within the above requirements
permitted, home occupations include, but are not limited to, the following:
2.
Baby sitting, limited to four (4) children at one time, subject
to State regulation.
3.
Dressmaking or tailoring.
4.
Homecrafts, provided that no machinery or equipment be used
other than that customarily found in a home.
5.
Office of a physician or dentist for consultation or emergency
treatment, but not for general professional practice or normal treatment
of patients.
6.
Professional office of a real estate agency, insurance agency,
engineer, attorney or similar occupation.
8.
Teaching, including music instruction, limited to not more than
two (2) pupils at one time.
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Permitted home occupation shall not be interpreted to include:
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Barbershops,
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Beauty shops,
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Child or day care centers,
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Nursery schools,
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Auto repairing,
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Antique shops,
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Sign painting,
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Restaurants,
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Plumbing and electrical appliance shops,
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Stables,
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Kennels,
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Animal hospitals,
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Any other light manufacturing or assembling operations.
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HOSPITAL
An institution licensed by the State of Missouri and providing
health services primarily for in-patient medical or surgical care
of the sick or injured and including related facilities such as laboratories,
out-patient departments, training facilities, central service facilities
and staff offices which are an integral part of the facility, provided
such institution is operated by or treatment is given under direct
supervision of a licensed physician.
IMPROVEMENT
Refers only to such street work and utilities (including
water, sewer, electric, gas and stormwater) to be installed by the
subdivider on land to be used for public or private streets and easements.
IMPROVEMENT PLANS
The engineering plans showing types of materials and construction
details for the physical structures and facilities to be installed
both within or in conjunction with the plat.
INDUSTRIAL PARK
An industrial park is a tract of land, the control and administration
of which are vested in a single body, suitable for industrial use
because of location, topography, proper zoning, availability of utilities
and accessibility to transportation. The uses permitted are regulated
by protective minimum restrictions including size of site, parking
and loading regulations and building setback lines from front, side
and rear yards.
INDUSTRY or INDUSTRIAL
The terms "industry" and "industrial", as used in the Zoning Code, are restricted to establishments primarily
involved in product manufacturing and processing, heavy equipment
uses and warehousing. It does not include retail.
JUNK YARD
A lot, land or structure or part thereof used primarily for
the collecting, storage and/or sale of waste paper, rags, scrap metal
or discarded material or for the collecting, dismantling, storage
and salvaging of vehicles or machinery not in running condition and
for the sale of parts thereof.
KENNEL
Any lot on which four (4) or more dogs and/or cats at least
four (4) months of age are kept.
LOADING AREA
An off-street space constructed with four (4) inches of concrete or with comparable all-weather dustless material used for the loading and unloading of vehicles, except passenger vehicles in connection with the use of the property on which such space is located. Each such designated space shall comply with the dimensional requirements set forth in Section
405.160(D) of the Zoning Code (Off-Street Parking and Loading Requirements) of this Code and in accordance with the requirements of specific uses set forth in Chapter
405, Article
VII of this Code.
LOT
A parcel of land occupied or intended for occupancy by a
use permitted in the Zoning Code, including one (1) main building
together with its accessory building, open spaces and parking spaces
required by the Zoning Code and having its principal frontage upon
a street or upon an officially approved place.
LOT AREA
The total horizontal area within the boundaries of a lot,
exclusive of any land designated for roadway purposes.
LOT, CORNER
A lot abutting upon two (2) or more streets at their intersection.
LOT COVERAGE
That percentage of a lot which, when viewed from above, would
be covered by a structure or structures, on any part thereof, excluding
roof eaves.
LOT, DEPTH OF
The mean (average) horizontal distance between the front
and the rear lot lines.
LOT, DOUBLE FRONTAGE
A lot having a frontage on two (2) non-intersecting streets
as distinguished from a corner lot.
LOT OF RECORD
A lot which is part of a subdivision, the map of which has
been recorded in the office of the County Recorder of Jefferson County,
Missouri, or a lot or parcel of land, the deed of which has been recorded
in the office of the Recorder of Deeds of Jefferson County, Missouri,
prior to the adoption of the Zoning Code.
MANUFACTURING
The process of producing a product or products from raw materials
or the substantial construction of a product or products from manufactured
items such as in automobile manufacturing.
MOBILE HOME
A factory-built structure or structures more than eight (8)
body feet in width and thirty-two (32) feet or more in length used
as a residential unit and which has been, or reasonably may be, equipped
with wheels or other devices for transporting the structure or structures
from place to place.
MOBILE HOME PARK
An area or plot of ground upon which four (4) or more trailers
or mobile homes, occupied for dwelling or sleeping purposes, are located
or intended to be located, regardless of whether or not a charge is
made for such accommodation.
MODEL HOME
A prototype residential structure of more or less permanent
construction on a parcel of land, arranged, intended or designed for
the purpose of displaying the type, quality and other characteristics
of the typical residential structures planned to be constructed or
sold in the vicinity.
MODULAR STRUCTURE
A factory-fabricated, transportable building unit designed
to be used by itself or to be incorporated with similar units at a
building site into a modular structure to be used for residential,
commercial, educational or industrial purposes that is indistinguishable
in appearance from conventionally built structures. For this Chapter,
modular home units are considered as permissible single-family dwellings
in appropriate districts.
MOTEL, MOTOR COURT, MOTOR LODGE or TOURIST COURT
Any building or group of buildings containing guest rooms
or dwelling units with garage or parking space conveniently located
on the lot and designed, used or intended wholly or in part for the
accommodation of transients in automobiles.
NET AREA
The entire area within the boundary lines of the site, less
the area of any street right-of-way.
NON-CONFORMING USE
Any building, structure or use of land existing at the time
of enactment of the Zoning Code or amendment thereto, which does not
conform to the regulations of the district or zone in which it is
situated.
NON-RESIDENTIAL
A parcel of land or building designed, arranged or intended
for use for purposes other than personal habitation.
NURSING, REST OR CONVALESCENT HOME
A home for the aged or infirm licensed by the State of Missouri
in which three (3) or more persons not of the immediate family are
received, kept or provided with food, shelter or care for compensation;
but not including hospitals, clinics or similar institutions devoted
primarily to the diagnosis, treatment or care of the sick or injured.
OFFICE
A place where business or services for others is transacted
and not a place where chattel or goods, wares or merchandise are commonly
created, exchanged or sold.
PARKING AREA
An open, unoccupied space used or required for use exclusively
for the parking of vehicles and in which no gasoline or vehicular
accessories may be sold, nor other business conducted, nor fees charged.
PARKING BAY
An area set aside, either on an individual lot or on any
other portion of a subdivision, which is reserved for vehicular parking.
PARKING LANE
An auxiliary lane of a roadway used primarily for vehicular
parking.
PARKING LOT
An open, surfaced area used exclusively for the temporary
storage of motor vehicles and within which motor fuels and oils may
be sold and fees charge, but no vehicles may be equipped, repaired,
rented or sold.
PARKING SPACE, OFF-STREET
An area, enclosed or unenclosed, sufficient to store one
(1) automobile, together with a driveway connecting the parking space
with a street, road or alley and permitting ingress and egress of
an automobile. An off-street parking space shall have minimum dimensions
of nine (9) feet by twenty (20) feet, exclusive of driveways.
PATIO HOUSES
A group of basically "L" shaped, single-family dwellings,
which more or less enclose a private courtyard or patio and within
which each single-family unit is located on an individual subdivided
lot.
PERSON
Any individual, firm, association, partnership or corporation.
PERSONAL STORAGE SHED
A building in any district, subordinate to the principal
building, used for the purpose of containing possessions of the occupants
of the principal building.
PLACE
An open, unoccupied space or a public or private thoroughfare,
other than a street or alley, permanently reserved as the principal
means of access to abutting property.
PLAT
A map, plan or layout of a City, township, section or subdivision
indicating the location and boundaries of individual properties.
PORCH
A covered entrance to a building, usually with a separate
roof, that may or may not be enclosed or a roofed, open gallery attached
to the exterior of the building.
PREMISES
A lot, together with all buildings and structures thereon.
PUBLIC BUILDING OR FACILITY
A building or facility owned or operated by a general unit
of local, State or Federal Government; or a building or facility under
the laws of the State of Missouri; or a building or facility operated
or used by a non-profit organization and open to general use by the
public.
RECREATION OR PLAYGROUND CENTER
A usable parcel of land suitable drained, free of stagnant
pools of water, with sufficient soil to support the growth of plant
material and containing a variety of recreational facilities.
RECYCLING CENTER
A facility or premise used for the collection of items, discarded
by households, which are to be processed for reuse.
RETIREMENT COMMUNITY
A development designed, arranged or intended to provide residences
and related facilities to accommodate the life style and needs of
older adult households.
ROADBED
The graded portion of a street upon which the base course,
surface course, shoulders and median are constructed.
ROADWAY
The portion of a street, including shoulders, for vehicular
usage.
SCREENING (FENCING AND BUFFER)
Landscaping or other form of barrier used to separate or
shield one type of development from a physical, visual or other form
of nuisance from another.
SETBACK LINE
The line parallel to the front, side or rear lot line establishing
the minimum space to be provided as the front, side or rear yard.
SHOPPING CENTER
A group of architecturally unified commercial establishments
built on a site which is planned, developed, owned and managed as
an operating unit related in its location, size and type of shops
to the trade area that the unit serves. The unit provides on-site
parking in definite relationship to the types and total size of the
stores.
SIGN
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, person, institution or business or which provides general
information.
SIGN, DIRECTIONAL
A non-electrical structure or device, not exceeding four
(4) square feet in area, which provides instruction or direction and
is located entirely on the property to which it pertains to identify
rest rooms, public telephones, walkways, parking lot entrances and
exits and features of a similar nature.
SIGN, CHURCH
A structure or device, including a bulletin board, attached
to the exterior of the church or located elsewhere on church premises
and used to indicate the services and/or other activities of the church
and including the name of the church, if desired. If lighted, the
sign must be illuminated from within and shall be non-flashing.
SIGN, GOVERNMENTAL
A structure or device, including a traffic or other similar
regulatory device, directional sign, legal notice, warning at railroad
crossing and any other instructional or regulatory sign having to
do with health, hazards, parking, swimming, dumping and similar public
activities.
SIGN, NOT-FOR-PROFIT
A structure or device located on the premises of an institution
not engaged in gainful business enterprise and designed or intended
to convey information about the not-for-profit activity, including
the name of the institution, if desired. If lighted, it must be illuminated
from within and shall be non-flashing.
SIGN, TEMPORARY
A device conveying information about an event or activity
for a limited period of time or serving for a specified time interval
as a preliminary or replacement device for a permanent sign. Examples
of temporary signs are realtors' signs, political signs, garage and
basement sale signs and portable devices, including the wheel-equipped
"reader board" variety.
SLOPE
The degree of natural inclination of the existing ground
which is used as the basis for determining the hillsides.
STORY
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 is no floor above it, then the space between
the floor and the ceiling next above it.
STORY, HALF
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.
STREET
A general term denoting a public or private way for the purpose
of vehicular travel. The term includes all facilities which normally
occur within the right-of-way; it shall also include such other designation
for a street as: a highway, thoroughfare, parkway, throughway, road
pike, avenue, boulevard, land, place, drive, court or as otherwise
designated, but excluding an alley or a way for pedestrian use only.
STREET, COLLECTOR
A street which carries or is proposed to carry intermediate
volumes of traffic from minor streets to major streets and which may
or may not be continuous.
STREET LINE
A dividing line between a lot, tract or parcel of land and
a contiguous street.
STREET, MAJOR
A street designed or utilized primarily for high vehicular
speeds for heavy volumes of traffic on a continuous route, with intersections
at grade and which may have direct access to abutting properties and
on which geometric design and traffic control measures are used to
expedite the safe movement of through traffic.
STREET, MINOR
A street used primarily for access to abutting properties,
providing for minimum speeds and traffic volumes.
STRUCTURAL ALTERATION
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, excepting
such repair or replacement as may be required for the safety of the
building, but not including an opening in bearing walls as permitted
by existing codes and ordinances.
STRUCTURE
Anything constructed or erected, the use of which requires
more or less permanent location on the ground or attached to something
having a more or less permanent location on the ground and including,
but not limiting, the generality of the foregoing, advertising signs,
billboards, backstops for tennis courts and pergolas (projecting roofs).
SUBDIVIDER
Any person(s) who:
1.
Having an interest in land, causes it, directly or indirectly,
to be divided into a subdivision, or who
2.
Directly or indirectly, sells, leases or develops or offers
to sell, lease or develop or advertises for sale, lease or development
any interest, lot, parcel, site, unit or plat in a subdivision, or
who
3.
Engages directly or through an agent in the business of selling,
leasing, developing or offering for sale, lease or development a subdivision
or any interest, lot, parcel, site, unit or plat in a subdivision,
and who
4.
Is directly or indirectly controlled by or under direct or indirect
common control with any of the foregoing.
SUBDIVISION
The division of land into two (2) or more lots or parcels
for the purpose of either immediate or future sale, rental or building
development. Excluded from this definition is: A minor subdivision
as defined below; the division of land for agricultural purposes;
the division of land for cemetery usage; division and distribution
of land pursuant to law or court order; and the conveyance of any
tract of land constituting either one-half (½), one-fourth
(¼), one-eight (⅛) or one-sixteenth (1/16) section of
land as defined in Sections 60.210, 60.220, 60.230, 60.240, RSMo.
The term "subdivision" shall also include all resubdivisions
of land or lots.
SUBDIVISION, MAJOR
All subdivisions not classified as minor subdivisions, including,
but not limited to, subdivisions of four (4) or more lots or any size
subdivision requiring any new street or extension of municipal facilities
or the creation of any improvements.
SUBDIVISION, MINOR
A division of land into two (2) but not more than four (4)
lots, which does not include any new streets, improvements, easements
or right-of-way; a division of land in which each parcel is five (5)
acres or more in area and which does not include any new streets,
improvements, easements, rights-of-way or other provisions for public
areas and facilities; the division of land held by a bona fide partnership
in existence for two (2) or more years upon dissolution thereof; a
division of land among the immediate members of a family for personal
use which does not include any new streets, improvements, easements
or rights-of-way.
SURETY COMPANY
A business licensed to provide insurance or bonds which a
developer may purchase to ensure the completion of his/her development
and improvements as planned and represented to the Pevely City Planning
and Zoning Commission.
TITLE COMPANY
A business licensed to provide legal assistance in the conveyance
of property through such activities as deed and title research and
certification.
TOURIST OR TRAILER CAMP
An area where one (1) or more tents or auto trailers can
be or are intended to be parked, designed or intended to be used as
temporary living facilities for one (1) or more families and intended
primarily for automobile transients.
TOWN HOUSE
One (1) of a series of three (3) or more attached single-family
dwellings, two (2) or three (3) stories in height, which are separated
horizontally from one another by solid partition walls extending from
basement to roof without openings and which fronts on a public street
or other approved place and has both a front and a rear yard.
TOWN HOUSE APARTMENT
One (1) or a series of three (3) or more attached dwellings,
two (2) or three (3) stories in height, for single-family occupancy
which are separated from one another by partition walls extending
from basement to roof without openings, but which are not located
or sited on individual subdivided lots.
TRAILER
Any vehicle or structure designed and constructed in such
a manner as to permit occupancy thereof for living, sleeping, business
or storage purposes and so designed that it may be mounted on wheels
and used as a conveyance on a street, propelled or drawn by its own
power or other motive power, excepting a device used exclusively on
stationary rails or tracks.
TRAVELED WAY
That portion of a street used for the movement of vehicles,
exclusive of shoulders and auxiliary lanes.
UNIT
An area within a trailer or mobile home park, court or camp
of not less than five thousand (5,000) square feet of unoccupied space
designated for the exclusive use of not more than one (1) automobile
and one (1) trailer or mobile home.
USE
The purpose for which land or a building is arranged, designed
or intended or for which either land or a building is or may be occupied
or maintained.
VARIANCE
A modification of the specific requirements of the Zoning
Code granted by the Board in accordance with the terms of this Code.
Such modifications shall not include authorizing a use not among the
uses specified by this the Zoning Code as permitted in the district
in which such property is located.
VESTIBULE or LOBBY
A passage, hall or room between the outer door and interior
of a building.
YARD
An open space on the same lot with a building unoccupied
and unobstructed from the ground up, except for any accessory buildings
or projections as are permitted on the lot. In measuring required
yard widths and depths, the minimum horizontal distance between the
lot line and the main building shall be used.
YARD, FRONT
A yard extending across the front of a lot and being the
minimum horizontal distance between the front lot line and the main
building or any projections thereof other than the projections of
the usually uncovered porch. On corner lots the front yard shall be
considered as parallel to the street upon which the lot has its least
dimension.
YARD, REAR
A yard extending across the rear of a lot and being the required
minimum horizontal distance between the rear lot line and the rear
of the main building or any projections thereto other than the projections
of uncovered steps, unenclosed balconies or unenclosed porches. On
all lots the rear yard shall be at the opposite end of the lot from
the front yard.
YARD, SIDE
A yard between the main building and the side line of the
lot and extending from the required front yard to the required back
yard and being the minimum horizontal distance between the side lot
line and the side of the main buildings or any projections thereto.