[Ord. No. 330 §1(34), 7-12-1999]
A.
For
the purpose of this Chapter the following terms, phrases, words and
their derivations shall have the meanings given herein. Where not
defined herein, the language used in this Chapter shall have the common
and customary meaning
B.
When
not inconsistent with the text: words used in the present tense include
the future and vice versa; words used in the singular number include
the plural and vice versa; the word "shall" or "must" is always mandatory;
"may" is permissive; the word "building" includes "structure" or "any
portion of a building or structure"; the word "use" includes "building",
"year" means calendar year; the words "used" or "occupied" shall be
construed to be followed by the phrase "or intended", "arranged" or
"designed to be used or occupied". The term "used for" includes the
meanings "designed for", "intended for", "occupied for" and "maintained
for". The word "lot" shall include the words "plot", "piece" and "parcel".
C.
Wherever
in this Chapter any reference is made to any other Section or provision
of this Chapter, such reference shall be deemed to include the provision
or regulation to which reference is made.
[Ord. No. 330 §1, 7-12-1999; Ord. No. 557 §2, 8-4-2003]
Except as specifically defined herein, all words used in these
regulations have their customary dictionary definitions. For the purpose
of these regulations, certain words, terms or phrases used herein
are defined as follows:
To discontinue a use for more than one hundred eighty (180)
consecutive days.
A detached subordinate building or structure, the use of
which is customarily incidental to the principal use, located on the
same lot with the principal building or use. A building housing an
accessory use is considered an integral part of the principal building
when it has any part of a wall in common with the principal building
or is under an extension of the principal roof and designed as an
integral part of the principal building.
A use customarily incidental to the principal use of a building
site or to a building and located upon the same building site with
the accessory use.
Planting, cultivating, harvesting and storing grains, hay,
plants, or trees commonly grown in St. Charles or Warren County; raising
and feeding livestock or poultry, except feeding, fattening or finishing
livestock or poultry for hire or as a business venture separate and
district from crop raising which shall be classed as commercial agriculture.
A minimum of ten (10) acres of land shall constitute agriculture or
farming for the purposes of these regulations.
Any building or structure necessary or incidental to the
normal conduct of a farm, including but not limited to, the operator
residence, residence of hired personnel, barns, buildings and sheds
for housing livestock, poultry and farm machinery; buildings for the
storage or shelter of grain, hay and other crops; silos, mills and
water storage tanks.
All areas used for land aircraft.
A public secondary means of access of abutting property,
not intended for general traffic circulation.
An establishment where animals are admitted principally for
examination and treatment by a doctor of veterinary medicine, with
boarding facilities limited to that necessary for the treatment of
the sick animal and not including open kennels or runs.
Any structure or lot where three (3) or more dogs and/or
cats older than four (4) months of age and/or other animals for other
than agricultural purposes are boarded, bred and/or offered for sale,
not including stables.
A suite of rooms comprising a portion of a building (distinguished
from a mobile home) as an independent dwelling for one (1) family,
while the remaining portion of the building is another dwelling, or
other dwellings, or use other than dwelling, such as a business.
A request for a review of the Zoning Enforcement Officer's
interpretation of any provision of this Chapter or a request for a
variance.
The amount of land surface in a lot, plot or parcel.
The yard, lot area, lot width, lot coverage and space requirements
as set forth in a specific district.
A building attached to another building by a common wall
(such wall being a solid wall with or without windows and doors) and
a common roof with at least a horizontal dimension of six (6) feet.
A room, hall or building made part of a church, theater,
school, recreation or other building assigned to the gathering of
people as an audience to hear lectures, plays and other presentations.
See "MOTOR VEHICLE."
A building portion having part but not more than one-half
(½) its height above grade and used for storage, garage for
building occupant's use, janitor's or watchmen's quarters or other
utilities common for the rest of the building and which is not, as
defined herein, counted as a story unless subdivided and used for
dwelling purposes other than by a janitor or watchman employed on
the premises.
A private, owner occupied residence with not more than five
(5) guest rooms.
A permanent point of reference from which various measurements
may be made.
A parcel of land, intended to be used for urban purposes,
which is entirely surrounded by public streets, highways, railroad
rights-of-way, public walks, parks or green spaces, rural land or
drainage channels or a combination thereof.
The City of Foristell's official Board of Adjustment.
An apartment house providing its tenants services ordinarily
furnished by hotels, but not primarily available to the public, or
a hotel primarily intended to provide dwelling facilities for non-transient
persons.
The space remaining on a zoned lot after the minimum open
space requirements of this Chapter have been met.
An enclosed structure anchored to a permanent foundation
and having exterior walls and a roof designed for the shelter of persons,
animals or property.
A person or persons designated by the Board of Aldermen to
administer this Chapter.
The vertical distance measured from the highest point on
a building's roof to the highest of the following three (3) levels;
from the street curb level, from the established street grade level
in case the curb has not been constructed or from the average finished
ground level adjoining the building if it sets back from the street
line.
A building line limit fixed by setback requirements at a
specific distance from the front, rear and side boundaries of a lot,
beyond which a structure cannot lawfully extend.
An area of land whereupon camping trailers, campers and similar
vacation vehicles are housed on a temporary basis and used exclusively
by such camping vehicles.
A licensed rest home, nursing home, convalescent home, boarding
home for the aged or similar use established to render domiciliary
care for chronic or convalescent patients but not including hospitals,
clinics or facilities for the care of the feeble-minded or mental
patients, epileptics, alcoholics, senile psychotics, drug addicts,
sick or injured.
An establishment used for the purpose of a daycare center,
day nursery, nursery school, day school, kindergarten (not connected
with a school as defined herein) or similar use which constitutes
the normal care of adults and children. Child and/or adult care facilities
shall meet all requirements and specifications of the Division of
Health and other State of Missouri or local agencies having jurisdiction
over child and/or adult care facilities.
A building, together with its accessory buildings and uses,
where persons regularly assemble for religious worship and which building,
together with its accessory uses and buildings, is maintained and
controlled by a religious body organized to sustain public worship.
An establishment for the care, diagnosis and treatment of
sick, ailing, infirm and injured persons, by a group of licensed health
practitioners, but not providing board, room or overnight accommodations
on the premises, not including animal hospitals or clinics.
The taking of private property by a government unit for public
use when the owner will not relinquish it through sale or other means,
with compensation of fair market value paid to the owner.
A use of land or structure which is permitted in a district
on review as prescribed in the Section on administration and enforcement.
Certain uses of land providing accommodations consistent with or necessary
to the purpose intended for each district may differ in their general
characteristics from the principal permitted activities and in their
impact thereon.
The legal arrangement of individual ownership of each dwelling
unit in an apartment building or residential development while common
areas are owned, controlled and maintained through an organization
consisting of their individual owners.
The first (1st) placement of permanent construction of a
structure on a site, such as pouring slabs or footings or any excavation
work. Permanent construction includes land preparation, such as clearing,
grading and filling. For a structure without a basement or poured
footings, the "start of construction" includes the first (1st) grading
of the lot and/or the first (1st) pouring of any footings and/or pilings.
For mobile homes the "start of construction" means affixing the mobile
home to its permanent foundation. For any development the "start of
construction" means the start of grading and/or pouring of any footings
or slabs.
See "LOT, CORNER."
An open, unoccupied space, other than a yard. Bounded on
three (3) or more sides by exterior walls of a building, or by exterior
walls of a building and lot lines on which walls are allowable.
A short street having one (1) end open to traffic and terminated
at the other end by a vehicular turnaround.
The mean level of the curb in the front of the lot or, in
case of a corner lot, along the abutting street where the mean curb
level is highest.
Land occupancy area requirements and/or limitations.
An automobile, truck or other vehicle that cannot operate
under its own power or does not comply with State or City vehicle
laws or ordinances.
Any manmade change to improved or unimproved real estate,
including but not limited to buildings or other structures or mining,
dredging, filling, grading, paving, excavating or drilling operations.
A section or sections of the City specifically declared within
which the regulations governing the user of buildings and premises
are uniform.
A detached principal building designed for or used as a dwelling
exclusively by two (2) families or groups each living as an independent
housekeeping unit or a building, such as a duplex, containing two
(2) dwelling units.
Stationary building or portion thereof, designed exclusively
for permanent residential occupancy, including residential, buildings
or structures, boarding and lodging houses, apartment houses or apartment
hotels.
A detached principal building containing (1) dwelling unit
designed for or used exclusively by one (1) family as an independent
housekeeping unit. A single-family dwelling shall include, but not
be limited to, any home in which eight (8) or fewer unrelated mentally
and physically handicapped persons reside, and may include two (2)
additional persons acting as house parents or guardians who need not
be related to each other or to any of the other residents of the dwelling
unit. 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.
A grant by the property owner to the public, a corporation
or persons of the use of a strip of land for specific purposes.
One (1) or more persons related by blood, adoption or marriage,
or by employment as domestic servants, living together and occupying
a single housekeeping unit with single kitchen facilities, or a group
of not more than five (5) (excluding servants) living together by
joint agreement and occupying a single housekeeping unit with kitchen
facilities, on a non-profit cost-sharing basis.
All property on the side of the street between two (2) intersecting
streets (crossing or terminating), measured along a line of the street
or, if the street is dead ended, all the property abutting one (1)
side between an intersecting street and the dead end of the street.
An accessory building designed to accommodate up to four
(4) vehicles and the property of the occupants of the lots on which
the private garage is located, provided however, that said vehicles
shall not include contractor's equipment, gasoline trucks and similar
commercial vehicles not ordinarily used incidental to domestic activities.
A building or portion thereof designed or used for the storage,
sale, hiring, care or incidental repair of motor vehicles and operated
for commercial purposes, except no salvage of automobiles, trucks,
tractors or similar automotive equipment for parts or other uses is
permitted under this definition.
A building or portion thereof designed or used exclusively
for prearranged term storage of four (4) or more motor vehicles, not
daily, with no motor vehicles being repaired, equipped, hired or sold.
Putrescible animal or vegetable wastes resulting from food
handling, preparation, cooking, servicing or consumption.
For buildings having walls adjoining one (1) street only, the
sidewalk elevation at the center of the wall adjoining the street.
For buildings having walls adjoining more than one (1) street,
the average sidewalk elevation at the centers of all walls adjoining
the streets.
For buildings having no wall adjoining the street, the average
level of the finished ground surface adjacent to the building's exterior
walls.
Any wall approximately parallel to or not more than five (5)
feet from a street line shall be considered adjoining the street.
Where no sidewalk exists, the grade shall be established by the Building
Inspector.
The distance above the average finished ground elevation
at the perimeter of the structure being measured.
Historic sites as designated in the National Register of
Historic Places, or sites that local historic and preservation organizations
have certified as historic, that are preserved and maintained for
viewing by the public. This use shall include accessory uses operated
in conjunction with and on the same property as the historic site,
such as museums, souvenir shops, restaurants, picnic areas and historical
displays and reenactments.
A occupation for gain or support conducted only by members
of a family residing in a dwelling and conducted entirely within the
dwelling provided that no article is sold or offered for sale except
such as may be produced by members of the family residing in the dwelling
and further provided that the occupation is incidental to the residential
use of the premises and does not utilize more than twenty-five percent
(25%) of the floor area of the dwelling. "Home Occupations" shall
include, in general, personal services such as are furnished by a
physician, dentist, musician, artist, cosmetologist or seamstress
when performed by the person occupying the building as his/her private
dwelling, and not including employment of any additional persons in
the performance of such services.
Any institution receiving inpatients, or a public institution
receiving outpatients and authorized under Missouri law to render
medical, surgical and/or obstetrical care, including a sanatorium
for the treatment and care of mental patients, epileptics, alcoholics,
psychotics or drug addicts, but not including office facilities for
the private practice of medicine or dentistry.
A building containing individual guest rooms or suites of
rooms, providing lodging with or without meals to the transient public
for compensation, with ingress to and egress from all rooms through
an inside lobby or office supervised by a person in charge at all
hours, as distinguished from a boarding or lodging house or apartment
herein separately defined.
Use of land for indoor and/or outdoor storage, keeping, abandonment,
sale or resale of junk including scrap metal, automobile parts, rags,
paper and other scrap materials, used lumber, salvaged house wrecking
and structural steel materials and equipment, or for the dismantling,
demolition or abandonment of automobiles, other vehicles, machinery
or parts thereof.
A Comprehensive Plan indicating the general requirements
for the various functional elements to develop land and to subdivide
it.
A business providing home-type washing, drying and ironing
machines for hire to be used by the customers on the premises.
A business providing washing, drying and ironing services
operated by the employees on the premises.
An off-street space or berth for single-unit truck deliveries
or for semi-trailer deliveries, on the same lot with a building or
contiguous to a group of buildings, for temporarily parking a commercial
vehicle while loading or unloading merchandise or materials and which
abuts a street, alley or other appropriate means of access.
A portion of land (whether of a platted subdivision or otherwise)
defined by meets, bounds or boundary lines in a recorded deed or on
a recorded plat, occupied or intended to be occupied by a building
or use and its accessories, together with such yards as are required
under the provisions of this Chapter, having not less than the minimum
area, width and depth required by this Chapter for a lot in the district
in which such land is situated, and having its principal frontage
on a street or on such other means of access as permitted in accordance
with the provisions of this Chapter. The minimum area of a lot as
defined herein must be an integral unit of land under unified ownership
in few or in continuancy, or under legal control tantamount to such
ownership, which ownership or control must continue for the existence
of the building permitted to be situated on the lot.
The total square footage or acreage within the property lines
of a lot, excluding public streets and alleys, subject to the district
requirements herein.
A lot abutting two (2) or more streets at their intersection
or two (2) parts of the same street, such streets or parts of the
same street forming an interior angle of less than one hundred thirty-five
degrees (135°), the point of intersection of the street lines
being the "corner".
The mean horizontal distance between the front and rear lot
lines, as measured in general direction of the side 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.
The boundary between a lot and the street it fronts.
The boundary line opposite and most distant from the front
street line, except in the case of uncertainty the Zoning Enforcement
Officer shall determine the rear line on irregular lots.
Any lot boundary line not a front or a rear line thereof.
A side line may be a party lot line, a line bordering on an alley
or a side street line.
The horizontal distance between side lines, measured at the
front building line.
A factory-built structure or structures that are equipped
with its or their own running gear ( axles, wheels, hitch and tongue)
are readily movable as a unit or units. When equipped with the necessary
service connections they may be used as dwelling unit or units with
or without a permanent foundation. The phrase "without permanent foundation"
indicates that the support system is constructed with the intent that
the manufactured home placed thereon may be moved from time to time
at the convenience of the owner.
A single-family dwelling unit having the following characteristics:
Designed for long-term occupancy containing sleeping accommodations,
flush toilet, tub or shower bath and kitchen facilities, with plumbing
and electrical service connections provided for attachment to outside
systems.
Designed to be transported after fabrication on its own wheels,
other trailers or detachable wheels.
Arrives at site where it is supposed to be occupied as a dwelling
unit, available complete with major appliances and furniture and ready
for occupancy except for minor and incidental unpacking and assembly
operations, location on foundation supports and connection to utilities.
Having been designed and constructed as a mobile home, the lack
of mobility, for whatsoever cause, does not render the structure not
a mobile home. Mobility or portability is not germane, that is, when
portability is removed from a mobile home by causing it to rest in
whole on a permanent foundation, it remains a mobile home. The transformer
brought about by the act of causing the mobile home to rest in whole
on a permanent foundation is the act of to transform the mobile home
from that which is personal property to that which is real property.
Any mobile home that is built and certified to have been built
according to City of Foristell Building Codes (B.O.C.A.) shall be
considered a modular home and may be treated as a mobile or modular
home. If a dwelling is not built or certified to have been built according
to City of Foristell Building Codes (B.O.C.A.), it shall be considered
a mobile or manufactured home.
Any area, tract, site or plot of ground within a mobile home
community or mobile home park designed to accommodate one (1) mobile
home as herein defined and the accessory uses thereto.
Any place, area or tract of land maintained, offered or used
for the parking of two (2) or more mobile homes used or intended to
be used for living or sleeping purposes.
A completely assembled and erected building designed and
constructed in a factory for permanent occupancy, composed of two
(2) or more prefabricated modules arranged and united together at
the building site into one (1) integral structure, having need of
a permanent foundation. The building once arranged and joined as one
(1) integral structure shall be virtually incapable of being separated
again into the component module parts for repeated transport to subsequent
locations. It shall meet City of Foristell Building Codes (B.O.C.A.)
and be considered real property. The term shall include buildings
designed and intended for dwelling, business, educational or industrial
uses; the term shall exclude "double wide mobile homes" which in brevity
are by design and construction movable or portable vehicular structures
having no need of a permanent foundation and are capable of being
separated again for repeated towing.
One (1) or more buildings containing attached, semi-attached
or detached sleeping or living units to accommodate transient guests
for compensation and not customarily including individual cooking
or kitchen facilities, said units having convenient access to off-street
parking spaces for the exclusive use of guests or occupants; not to
include tourists' homes.
An open off-street area used for the display and sale of
new or used automobiles, trucks, vans, boats, vacation vehicles and
trailers, where no repair work is done except of a minor and incidental
nature to only those vehicles, boats and trailers being sold.
Any place where two (2) or more farm or motor vehicles or
farm machinery, not in running condition, or part thereof, are stored
in the open and are not being restored to operation, or any land,
building or structure used for wrecking, salvaging and storing such
motor vehicles or parts thereof, including the commercial salvaging
of any other goods, articles or merchandise.
The smallest subarea in City planning, being a residential
area with common public facilities and social institutions within
walking distance.
The lawful use of land or a building, or a portion thereof,
which use does not conform with the use regulations of the district
in which it is located and which use existed at the time of the adoption
of this Chapter (July 12, 1999).
An office for the practice of professions, such as the offices
of physicians, dentists, attorneys-at-law, architects, engineers,
artists, musicians, teachers, accountants and others who through training
are qualified to perform services of a professional or executive nature,
or the offices of a government agency, with no storage, sale or display
of merchandise on the premises. These offices shall also include real
estate agents, insurance agents, financial brokers and others who
through training are qualified to perform services of an executive
nature.
Land dedicated or reserved for general use by the public,
including parks, forest and wildlife preserves, recreation areas,
school sites, community or public building sites, waterways, streets
and other lands.
An open, hard-surfaced area other than a street or public
way designed, arranged and made available to the occupants of the
building or buildings for which the parking area is developed and
is accessory for the storage of private passenger motor vehicles only.
An open, paved area, other than a street or other public
way, used for parking motor vehicles and available to the public whether
for a fee or as an accommodation to clients or customers.
Space within a public or private parking area of not less
than two hundred forty (240) square feet, exclusive of access drives,
aisles, ramps, columns or office and work areas, for the storage of
passenger or commercial motor vehicles and connected with a street
or alley by a paved driveway which affords satisfactory ingress and
egress for such vehicles.
Surfaced with asphaltic or concrete pavement material of
a thickness sufficient to withstand the highest use loading.
A below grade formation, or a substructure formation below
the tier of beams nearest the grade, consisting of materials, such
as concrete, mortared concrete block or mortared brick, used to transmit
the loads of a structure to firm substrata, which formation shall
include but not be limited to cellars, basements, crawl spaces, floating
concrete mats with frost walls, piers and/or pilings extending into
the ground below the frost line or to solid rock.
A land use which is permitted by right in a district subject
only to the requirements of these regulations.
A residential, commercial or industrial development on a
parcel of land consisting of two (2) or more buildings having any
yard, court, parking or loading space in common.
A land area, at least five (5) acres in size, having, by
design, individual building site and common property for open space
and is organized to operate as a unit, without necessary participation
of other units and building sites, the ownership of common property
and building sites being either public or private, common or individual,
according to a submitted plan.
The City of Foristell's official planning and zoning entity.
A map, plan or layout of a City, township, section or subdivision
indicating the location and boundaries of individual properties and
other such details as may be required for review.
A completely assembled and erected building or structure
designed and constructed for permanent occupancy, of which fifty percent
(50%) or greater of the structural parts consist of individual prefabricated
structural units (such as beam, girder plant, strut, column or truss)
and prefabricated building subassemblies (such as assembled section
of wall, ceiling, floor or roof which may be of closed or open construction)
that are transported from the place of manufacture to the building
site to be incorporated into the building by field erection of such
structural units and building subassemblies, having a need of a perimeter
formation permanent foundation. The term shall include buildings designed
and intended to be used for dwelling, business, educational or industrial
use occupancy.
The main purpose for which a lot or the principal building
thereon is designed, arranged or intended and for which it is or may
be used, occupied or maintained in accordance with the provisions
of these regulations.
That which can be owned, either by an individual or by a
group in common.
A hearing that has been publicized and advertised, by newspaper
or mailed and posted notices, to the residents of the City of Foristell
and any other interested individuals and parties and surrounding landowners
as prescribed in the regulations of this Chapter, of proposed changes
of the Zoning Map and the Planning and Zoning Code of the City of
Foristell.
Any publicly owned open area, including, but not limited
to parks, playgrounds, forest preserves, beaches, waterways, parkways
and streets.
Erecting, constructing, altering or maintaining by public
utilities or municipal departments, underground or overhead gas, electrical,
steam, water, sewer, transmission or distribution systems, collection,
communication, supply or disposal systems, including poles, wire,
mains, drains, sewers, pipes, conduits, cables, fire alarm and Police
call boxes, traffic signals, hydrants and other similar equipment
and accessories in connection therewith reasonably necessary to furnish
adequate service or for the public health, safety or general welfare,
also includes necessary buildings.
Buildings, structures and uses of land owned, operated and
maintained by a government unit or government agency, including but
not restricted to public schools, fire stations, recreation sites
and facilities and water and sewer treatment facilities.
Not only the land itself, whether laid out in town or City
lots, or otherwise, with all things contained therein, but also buildings,
structures, of whatsoever kind, thereon. Including therein is any
vehicle or similar portable structure used or so constructed as to
permit its being used as a dwelling place for one (1) or more persons,
if such structure is resting in whole on a permanent foundation.
See "DWELLING."
An eating establishment located within a residence where
public dining is by reservation, no off-street parking is require
and the establishment is owned and managed by the residents.
A building or portion thereof used or designed for on-premises
food and beverage for compensation, not including drive-in restaurant.
A restaurant where foods and beverages are customarily served
or dispensed for consumption outside the enclosed structure.
The area of a vehicular way or other strip of land reserved
for public use whether established by prescription, easement, dedication,
gift, purchase, eminent domain or other legal means.
Any street, highway, avenue, marginal access street, bridge,
viaduct or segment thereof.
An unsubdivided portion of a dwelling unit interior, excluding
bathrooms, kitchens, closets, hallways and service porches.
A building, premises or portion thereof having pumps and
storage tanks and used for the retail sale of gasoline, oil or other
fuel, automotive parts, supplies or accessories for motor vehicles
and which may include, as an incidental use, only facilities for polishing,
greasing, washing or otherwise cleaning or light servicing of motor
vehicles, but not including junk and/or motor vehicle wrecking facilities.
The distance in linear feet measured on a horizontal plane
from any lot line to a building or structure on the lot.
A combination of the waterborne human wastes from residences,
business buildings, institutions and industrial establishment.
Is always mandatory.
A planned group of stores, the large primary stores flanking
the smaller secondary store and shops to create a balanced pedestrian
flow, providing convenient customer parking, with accommodations made
for, but not limited to off-street loading, landscaping, storm water
runoff, lighting, signage, cleanliness, designated fire lanes, internal
traffic circulation and access to off-site thoroughfares, conforming
to all appropriate Codes and ordinances.
Any words, numerals, figures, devices, designs or trademarks
by which information is made known, such as are used to identify a
building, structure or object, or designate or mention an individual
profession, firm, business or commodity. Signs must follow regulations
and restrictions set forth in the sign ordinance.
A plan showing uses and structures proposed for a selected
parcel, including lot lines, streets, building sites, reserved open
spaces, buildings, major landscape features, either natural or manmade,
and proposed utilities locations.
An accessory building for keeping horses, ponies, mules or
cows owned. Private stables are owned by the occupants of the premises
and the animals are not kept for remuneration, hire or sale. Public
and riding stables are structures where animals are kept for remuneration,
hire or sale. The owner may or may not own any of the animals.
That portion of a building included between the surface of
any floor and the surface of the floor next above it, or if no floor
is above it, then the space between any floor and the ceiling next
above it.
Any public or private right-of-way which affords the primary
means of access to abutting property.
A minor street which collects traffic from other minor street
and serves as the most direct route to a major street or community
facility.
A dividing line between a lot, tract or parcel of land and
a contiguous street.
An arterial street which is designated on the Major Street
Plan or Comprehensive Plan.
Anything constructed, altered, repaired or erected which
requires location on a parcel of ground or attached to something having
location on the ground; provided however, that utility poles, fences
and walls (other than building walls) shall not be considered to be
structures. Also, that which is the result of any construction, or
any production or piece of work built up or composed of parts joined
together in a definite manner; that which is built or constructed.
A use or building established for a delineated time span
in connection with a specific purpose such as a construction project
or real estate development, not to include facilities for sleeping
or cooking.
A building or part of a building devoted primarily to the
showing of motion pictures or theatrical productions on a paid admission
basis.
An open lot or part thereof with its appurtenant facilities
devoted primarily to the showing of motion pictures or theatrical
productions on a paid admission basis to patrons seated in vehicles
or outdoor seats.
A map showing all principal physical features of an area,
including elevation.
A vehicle, other than a motor vehicle, designed or intended
for temporary office space and/or storage, but not dwelling purposes,
whether or not such vehicle is attached to or resting on the ground
or something having a location on the ground, and is parked on the
building site where construction work is occurring and requires a
permit prior to its placement.
A vehicle, other than a motor vehicle, designed or intended
for general hauling, whether or not such vehicle is attached to or
resting on the ground or something having a location on the ground,
not to be used for living quarters.
Industrial type transportation facilities to include airports,
bus terminals, flight strips and heliports, railroad terminals and
truck terminals.
The use of property is the purpose or activity for which
the land or building thereon is designed, arranged or intended or
for which it is occupied or maintained.
Publicly or privately owned, operated and maintained facilities
requiring licensing and monitoring beyond local levels and more selectively
in their location within the community, such as water and sewage plants
and outfall sewers, radio and television transmitter towers, electrical
substations and telephone exchanges, power generating plants and water
towers.
All vehicles used or constructed for use as conveyances upon
public streets and highways and duly licensable as such, and constructed
for human occupancy as dwellings or sleeping places for one (1) or
more persons, provided further this definition shall refer and include
all portable contrivances used or intended to be used generally for
temporary living and/or sleeping quarters and capable of being moved
by its own power, towed or transported by another vehicle, including
camping trailers of any sort and pickup campers; however such vehicles
may not be connected to utilities at the owner's property site or
used as living quarters.
Relief from or variation of the provision of these regulations,
other than use regulations, and as applied to a specific piece of
property, as distinct from rezoning, as further set out hereinafter
in the powers and duties of the Board of Adjustment. A modification
or variation of the provisions of this Chapter as applied to a specific
piece of property.
A building or portion of a building arranged, intended or
designed to be used for making repairs to motor vehicles.
The open space at grade remaining between the lot lines adjoining
such space and the principal building or building lines on such a
lot, unoccupied and unobstructed by any portion of a structure from
the ground upward, except as otherwise provided.
A yard extending between side lot lines and across the front
of a lot and being the minimum horizontal distance between the street
or lot line and the principal building or any projections thereof
other than the projections of the usual uncovered steps, balconies
or porches. On corner lots, the front yard shall be considered as
parallel to the street the front door faces.
A yard extending between side lot lines and across the rear
of the lot and being the require minimum horizontal distance between
the rear lot line and the rear of the principal building or any projections
thereof other than the projections of uncovered steps, unenclosed
balconies or porches; the rear yard being opposite the front yard.
A yard between the principal building and the side line of
the lot, and extending from the required front yard to the required
rear yard, being the minimum horizontal distance between a side lot
line and the side of the principal building or any projection thereof.
If no front yard is provided, the front boundary of the side yard
shall be the front line of the building site and if no rear yard is
provided, the rear boundary of the side yard shall be the rear line
of the building site.
A unified set of regulations and maps establishing use groups
by district designations and controlling the placement, height, bulk,
coverage and performance and other standards for use of land and structures
within each district.
A change or revision of the ordinance or map.
An official request for reconsideration filed with the Planning
and Zoning Board after an application to the Zoning Enforcement Officer
for a zoning permit has been denied for non-compliance with the requirements
of the Chapter.
The City of Foristell's divisions regulating land use and
density.
The City of Foristell's Official Zoning Map and all amendments
thereto located in the office of the City Clerk.
