Specific Definitions. For the purpose of this Article,
the following words and terms as used are defined to be in the following.
ACCESSORY BUILDING OR USE
A subordinate building having a use customarily incident
to and located on the lot occupied by the main building; or a use
customarily incident to the main use of the property. A building housing
an accessory use is considered an integral part of the main building
when it has any part of a wall in common with the main building, or
is under an extension of the main roof and designated as an integral
part of the main building.
ALLEY
A minor way affording a secondary means for vehicular service
access to abutting properties and not intended for general traffic
circulation and which is used primarily for service access to the
back or side of properties.
APARTMENT
A suite of rooms or a room in an apartment house arranged,
intended, designed for or used as the place or residence of a single
family or group of individuals living together as a single housekeeping
unit.
APARTMENT HOUSE
A building arranged, intended, designed for or occupied by
more than two families.
BASEMENT
A story below the first story as defined under "story," counted
as a story for height regulations if subdivided and used for dwelling.
BED-AND-BREAKFAST
A building other than a hotel where lodging is provided and
offered to the public for compensation for not more than 20 individuals
and open to transient guests, in association with which there is used
only one (1) wall mounted sign, not exceeding eight (8) square feet
in size.
BILLBOARD
A sign, which directs attention to business, service or commercial
activity, offered elsewhere than on the same lot.
BOARD
The governing body of the City of Hallsville, the Board of
Aldermen.
BOARDING HOUSE
A building other than a hotel where, for compensation and
by previous arrangement, lodging and/or meals are provided for three
(3) or more persons.
BUILDING
Any structure designed or built for the support, enclosure,
shelter or protection of persons, animals, chattels or property of
any kind.
BUILDING, HEIGHT OF
1.
From the street curb level;
2.
From the established or mean street grade in case the curb has
not been constructed;
3.
From the average finished ground level of the portion of the
lot adjoining and within ten (10) feet of the building where it sets
back from the street line ten (10) feet or more; to the level of the
highest point of the roof beams of flat roofs or roofs inclining not
more than one (1) inch to the foot, and to the mean height level of
the top of the main plat and highest ridge for other roofs.
CITY
The City of Hallsville, Missouri, a municipal corporation
which territorially shall include all land within the corporate limits
of the City as such limits now exist or may, from time to time, be
extended or retracted.
CLINIC
A building arranged, intended, designed for, or used solely
as a place for the treatment and diagnosis of nonresident patients.
CURRENT REPLACEMENT VALUE
The greater of assessed valuation or actual replacement value,
as determined by a property appraiser certified by the American Institute
of Real Estate Appraisers, or other equally recognized association,
who appraise the property in question.
DISTRICT
A section or sections of the City of Hallsville for which
the zoning regulations governing the use of buildings and premises,
the height of buildings, the size of yards, and the intensity of use
are uniform.
DWELLING
A building or portion thereof, designated exclusively for
residential occupancy, including one-family, two-family, and multiple
dwellings, boarding and lodging houses, apartment houses, but not
hotels.
DWELLING, MULTIPLE
A dwelling or group of dwellings on one plot, each containing
separate living units for three (3) or more families, but which may
have joint services or facilities.
FAMILY
1.
An individual or married couple and the children thereof and
no more than two (2) other persons related directly to the individual
or married couple by blood or marriage, except that 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 separate kitchen
facilities; or
2.
A group of not more than four (4) persons not related by blood
or marriage, living together by joint agreement and occupying a single
housekeeping unit with single kitchen facilities on a non-profit cost-sharing
basis.
FILLING OR SERVICE STATION
Any building, structure or land used for the dispensing,
sale or offering for sale at retail of any automobile fuels, oils
or accessories, including lubrication of automobiles and replacement
or installation of minor parts and accessories, but not including
major repair work such as motor replacement, body and fender repair
or spray painting.
FLOODPLAIN
That area within the City subject to a one percent (1%) or
greater chance of flooding in any given year (as determined by either
Federal or State agencies).
FRONTAGE
All the property on one 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 side between an intersecting street and the
dead end of the street.
GARAGE, PUBLIC
Any building or premises used for storage, sale, hiring,
care or repair of motor vehicles, which is operated for commercial
purposes.
GARAGE, STORAGE
Any building or premises, except those defined as private
or public garage, providing storage for motor vehicles with facilities
for washing but no other services.
GRADE
1.
For buildings having walls adjoining one street only, the elevation
of the sidewalk at the center of the wall adjoining the street.
2.
For buildings having walls adjoining more than one street, the
average of the elevation of the sidewalks at the centers of all walls
adjoining the streets.
3.
Any wall approximately parallel to and not more than five (5)
feet from a street line shall be considered as adjoining the street.
GROUP HOMES
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. A group home shall not be located within
an eight-hundred-foot radius of another such group home in any specific
single-family neighborhood.
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HOTEL
A building in which lodging, or boarding and lodging, are
provided and offered to the public for compensation and in which ingress
and egress to and from all rooms is made through an inside lobby or
office supervised by a person in charge at all hours. As such, it
is open to the public as opposed to a boarding house, a lodging house,
or an apartment, which are herein separately defined.
LAUNDROMAT
A business that provides home-type washing, drying or ironing
machines for hire to be used by the customer on the premises.
LOADING SPACE
A space within the main building or on the same lot, providing
for the standing, loading, or unloading of trucks, having a minimum
dimension of twelve (12) feet by forty (40) feet and a vertical clearance
of at least fourteen (14) feet.
LODGING HOUSE
A building other than a hotel where lodging only is provided
for three (3) or more but no more than 20 persons.
LOT
A parcel of land occupied or intended for occupancy by a
use permitted in this Article, including one main building together
with its accessory buildings, open spaces and parking spaces required
by this Article, and having its principal frontage upon a street or
upon an officially approved place.
LOT, CORNER
A lot abutting upon two (2) or more streets at their intersection.
A corner lot shall be deemed to front on that street on which it has
its least dimension, unless otherwise specified by the Superintendent
of Public Works or similar City Official.
LOT, DOUBLE FRONTAGE
A lot having a frontage on two non-intersecting streets as
distinguished from a corner lot.
LOT, FRONT OF
The front of a lot shall be considered to be that part of
a lot, which has access upon a public street, except for corner lots.
LOT LINES
The lines bounding a lot as defined herein.
LOT OF RECORD
A lot which is part of a subdivision, the map of which has
been recorded in the Office of the Recorder of Deeds of the County
of Boone or a parcel of land, the deed to which has been recorded
prior to the adoption of this Article.
MANUFACTURED HOME
A structure, transportable in one or more sections, which,
in the traveling mode, is eight (8) body feet or more in width or
forty (40) body feet or more in length, or, when erected on site,
is three hundred twenty (320) or more square feet, and which is built
on a permanent chassis and designed to be used as a dwelling with
or without a permanent foundation when connected to the required utilities,
and includes the plumbing, heating, air-conditioning, and electrical
systems contained therein. The term includes any structure that meets
all of the requirements of this definition except the size requirements
and with respect to which the manufacturer voluntarily files a certification
required by the United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development
and complies with the standards established under Title 42 of the
United States Code.
MANUFACTURED HOME, DOUBLE-WIDE
A manufactured home that is designed and manufactured in
a factory to function as a single complete self-contained unit by
the assembly, on a site, of two or more manufactured component pieces,
whether or not any additional site-built additions have been added
to the unit.
MANUFACTURED HOME PARK
A manufactured home park means any park, maintained or intended
for the purpose of supplying a location or accommodations for any
manufactured home, camper trailer, or home is parked, and shall include
all buildings used or intended for use as part of the equipment thereof,
whether a charge is made for the use of the trailer camp or manufactured
home park and its facilities or not.
MANUFACTURED HOME, SINGLE-WIDE
A manufactured home that is designed and manufactured in
a factory to function as a single complete self-contained unit without
any additional components or construction, whether or not any site-built
addition or additional auxiliary components have been added to the
structure.
MOTEL
A group of attached or detached buildings containing individual
sleeping or living units, designed for or used temporarily by automobile
tourist or transients, with garage attached or parking space conveniently
located to each unit, including auto courts, motor lodges or tourist
courts.
NONCONFORMING USE, BUILDING OR YARD
A use, building or yard, which complied with the ordinances
of the City at the time of said use, building or yard was established
or constructed, but which does not conform to the regulations of the
zoning district in which it is currently located.
NURSING HOME
A home for the aged or infirm in which three or more persons
not of the immediate family are received, and kept and provided with
food, or shelter and care, for compensation, but not including hospitals,
clinics, or similar institutions devoted primarily to the diagnosis,
treatment or care of the sick or injured.
PARKING AREA OR LOT
An open, unoccupied space used or required for use for parking
of vehicles exclusively and in which no gasoline or vehicular accessories
are sold or no other business is conducted and no fees are charged.
PARKING SPACE
A surfaced area, enclosed in the main building or in an accessory
building, or unenclosed, having an area of not less than two hundred
(200) square feet, exclusive of driveways, permanently reserved for
the temporary storage of one automobile and connected with a street
or alley by a surfaced driveway which affords satisfactory ingress
and egress for automobiles.
PLACE
An open unoccupied space, a minimum of fifty (50) feet in
width, other than a street or alley, permanently established or dedicated
as the principal means of access to property abutting thereon.
PORTABLE BUILDING
A structure constructed off-site and transported to any premises within the City by means of a truck or trailer; or one built from a premanufactured kit and placed on skids. Portable buildings may enclose no more than one-hundred sixty (160) square feet of floor space, and do not have interior finish, electrical service or plumbing fixtures. Portable buildings must comply with the minimum yard requirements set forth in Section
400.480.
STORAGE LOT
An open surfaced area used exclusively for the temporary
storage of motor vehicles and with fees charged, but no vehicles may
be equipped, rented or sold.
STORY
That part of a building included between the surface of one (1) floor and the surface of the floor next above, or if there be no floor above, that part of the building which is above the surface of the highest floor thereof. A top-story attic is a half story when the main line of the eaves is not above the middle of the interior height of such story. The first story is the highest story having its interior floor surface not more than four (4) feet above the curb level established or mean street grade, or average ground level, as mentioned in Section
400.490, Height Requirements.
STREET
A dedicated and accepted thoroughfare for public use which
affords principal means of access, directly or indirectly, to abutting
properties.
STREET LINE
The dividing line between the street and the abutting property.
STRUCTURAL ALTERATION
Any change in the supporting members of a building, such
as bearing walls or partitions, columns in the exterior walls, excepting
such repair or replacement as may be required for safety of the building,
but not including opening in bearing walls as permitted by existing
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 permanent location on the ground, including but without limiting
the general inclusiveness of the foregoing, advertising signs, billboards,
backstops for tennis courts and pergolas.
YARD
An open space at grade between a building and the adjoining
lot lines, unoccupied and unobstructed by any portion of a structure
from the ground upward, except as otherwise provided herein. In measuring
a yard for the purpose of determining the width of a side yard, the
depth of a front yard or the depth of the rear yard, 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 street or place line and the
main building or any projections thereof other than the projections
of the usual uncovered steps, uncovered balconies, or uncovered porch.
On corner lots, the front yard shall be considered as being 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 thereof other than the projections
of uncovered steps, unenclosed balconies or unenclosed porches. On
all lots, the rear yard shall be in the rear of 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 rear
yard, and being the minimum horizontal distance between a side lot
line and the side of the main building or any projections thereof.
ZONING MAP
The Official Zoning Map of the City of Hallsville, Missouri.
Such Map shall be located in the office of the City Clerk.