[CC 1986 §§ 42.001 to 42.145]
As used in this Chapter, the following terms shall have the meanings indicated:
ACCESSORY
The term applied to a building, structure or use which is clearly incidental or subordinate to, and customary in connection with, the principal building, structure or use, and which is located on the same lot with the principal building, structure or use. No residential building, tourist cabin or summer colony cottage shall be considered as accessory to any other residential building except as is expressly provided in this Chapter. Any accessory building or structure attached to a principal building or structure is deemed to be part of such principal building or structure in applying the bulk regulation to such building or structure.
AGRICULTURE
The principle use of land for agricultural purposes, including farming, dairying, pasturage, horticulture, floriculture, citriculture, and animal husbandry. The term "agricultural use" shall also include "residential use" and "rural-residential" use in relation to zoning districts.
AIRPORT
Any area of land or water which is used, or intended for use for the landing and taking off of aircraft, and any appurtenant areas which are used or intended for use for airport buildings or other airport facilities or rights-of-way, including all necessary taxiways, aircraft storage and tie-down areas, hangars and other necessary buildings and open spaces.
ALLEY
A public or private right-of-way primarily designed to serve as secondary access to the side or rear of those properties whose principal frontage is on some other street.
ALTERATIONS
As applied to a building structure, a change or rearrangement in the supporting members of a building or structure, or an enlargement whether by extending on a side or by increasing in height, or the moving of one location or position to another.
APARTMENT
A part of a building consisting of a room or suite of rooms intended, designed or used as a residence by an individual or a single family and located in a multiple-family dwelling.
APPLICANT
The owner or duly designated representative of land proposed to be subdivided, or for which a special permit, amendment, variance, or building permit has been requested. Consent shall be required from the legal owner of the premises.
AUTO LAUNDRY
A building, or portion thereof, containing facilities for washing more than two (2) automobiles, using production line methods with mechanical devices; or providing space, water, equipment or soap for the complete or partial hand-washing of such automobiles, whether by operator or by customer.
AUTOMOTIVE AND MACHINERY REPAIR SHOPS
A building used for the repair of motor vehicle or machinery; such repair shall be wholly within a completely enclosed building as provided in this Chapter.
BASEMENT
The portion of the building that is partly underground which has more than one-half (1/2) its interior height, measured from floor to finished ceiling, above the average finishing grade of the ground adjoining the building.
BLOCK
A tract of land bounded by streets, or by a combination of streets and public parks, cemeteries, railroads, rights-of-way, shoreline of waterways, or boundary lines of municipalities.
BOARDINGHOUSE
Any dwelling in which more than three (3) persons and less than ten (10) persons are housed or lodged for compensation, with or without meals.
BOARD OF ADJUSTMENT
The Board of Zoning Adjustment of the City of Edgerton, Missouri.
BUFFER AREA
Open and unobstructed ground area of a lot in addition to any required yards or road widenings around the perimeter of any lot where required. Parking is not allowed in a buffer area, except as provided in these regulations.
BUILDING
Any structure built for the support, shelter or enclosure of persons, animals, chattels, or movable property of any kind.
BUILDING HEIGHT
A vertical distance from the curb level, or its equivalent, opposite the center of the front of a building to the highest point of the underside of the ceiling beams, in the case of a flat roof; to the deck line of a mansard roof; and to the mean level of the underside of the rafters between the eaves and the ridge of a gable, hip or gambrel roof. Where no curb level has been established, the height of a building may be measured from the mean elevation of the finished lot grade at the front of the building.
BUILDING, PRINCIPAL
A building in which is conducted the main use of the lot on which said building is situated.
BULK
The size and shape of buildings, structures and non-building uses; and the physical relationship of their exterior walls or construction or their location to lot lines and other buildings or structures or other walls or construction of the same building or structure; and all open spaces required in connection with a building or structure.
BULK, NON-CONFORMING
That part of a building, structure or non-building use which does not conform to one (1) or more of the applicable bulk regulations of this Chapter.
CAMP
Any lot, including its area of land or water, or land and water, on which are located two (2) or more cabins, tents, shelters, houseboats, or other accommodations of the design or character suitable for seasonal or other more or less temporary living purposes, primarily for children, but not including a day camp, trailer camp, rooming house, tourist home, hotel, summer colony, hospital, place of detention, school of general instruction or nursery school.
CELLAR
A story having more than one-half (1/2) of its interior height below the average level of the adjoining ground.
CEMETERY
Land used for the burial of the dead, and dedicated for cemetery purposes, including columbaria, crematories, mausoleums, and mortuaries when operated in conjunction with and within the boundaries of such cemetery.
CENTRAL WATER SYSTEM
A private water company formed by the developer to serve a new community development in an outlying area. It includes water treatment and distribution facilities.
CITY ENGINEER
The City Engineer or such professional engineer as shall be appointed by the Board of Aldermen to administer these regulations.
COLLECTOR ROADS
A road intended to move traffic from local roads to secondary arterials. A collector road serves a neighborhood or large subdivision and should be designed so that no residential properties face onto it.
CONSTRUCTION PLAN
The maps or drawings accompanying a subdivision plat and showing the specific location and design of improvements to be installed in the subdivision in accordance with the requirements of the Planning and Zoning Commission as a condition of the approval of said plat.
COUNTY HEALTH OFFICER
That person designated to administer the health regulations of the County.
COURT
An unobstructed open area bounded on three (3) or more sides by the walls of a building or buildings. An outer court extends to a street or yard, and an inner court does not.
CUL-DE-SAC
A local street with only one (1) outlet and having an appropriate terminal for the safe and convenient reversal of traffic movement.
DAY CAMP
Any plot of land, including any building or structure thereon, if any, used for any assembly of persons for what is commonly known as "day camp" purposes, including any area of land or water, or both, on which are located facilities, accommodations, buildings and/or structures of a design or character suitable for seasonal and/or recreational purposes, primarily for children, but not including any nursery school unless the bulk requirements for a day camp are met by said nursery school, nor including any living quarters except for one (1) principal one-family residence on the plot.
DEVELOPER, RESIDENTIAL
Any person:
1. 
Who, having an interest in land, causes it directly or indirectly to be used for residential development.
2. 
Who, directly or indirectly, sells, leases or develops or offers to sell, lease or develop, or advertises for sale, lease or development any lot, parcel site, unit or interest for a residential development use.
3. 
Who engages directly or indirectly or through an agent in the business or occupation of selling, leasing, developing, or offering for sale, lease or development, a residential development use or any lot, parcel site unit or interest for a residential development use.
4. 
Who is directly or indirectly controlled by, or under direct or indirect common control with, any of the foregoing shall be deemed to be engaged in "development use, residential."
DEVELOPMENT AGENT
Any person who represents, or acts for or on behalf of a residential developer, in selling, leasing, or developing, or offering to sell, lease or develop any interest, lot, parcel, site or unit for residential development use, except an attorney-at-law whose representation of another person consists solely of rendering legal services.
DOG KENNEL
A structure used for the harboring of more than two (2) dogs for a fee, or a structure where more than five (5) adult dogs are kept.
DRIVE-IN ESTABLISHMENT
A place of business being operated for the sale and purchase at retail of food and other goods, services or entertainment, which is laid out and equipped so as to allow its patrons to be served or accommodated while remaining in their automobiles, or which allows the consumption of any food or beverage in automobiles on the premises or elsewhere on the premises both inside and outside any completely enclosed structures. The term "drive-in establishment" shall include, but is not limited to: automobile service stations; auto laundries; drive-in restaurants, diners, grills, luncheonettes, sandwich stands, snack shops, soda fountains, or short-order cages; banks; and drive-in theaters.
DRIVEWAY
The space specifically designated and reserved on the site for the movement of vehicles from one site to another or from a site to a public street.
DUSTLESS SURFACE
Adequately covered with screenings, stone gravel, concrete or bituminous products and adequately treated with a dust-inhibiting substance and maintained in good condition at all times, or any other surface specified by the Planning and Zoning Commission upon site-plan approval.
DWELLING
Any building or part thereof, including industrialized, modular and prefabricated construction, other than a mobile home dwelling, which is not designed presently or in the future for transportation on its own wheels, and which is permanently affixed to a foundation imbedded in the soil.
DWELLING, MULTIPLE-FAMILY
A building, or portion thereof, used for occupancy by three (3) or more families living independently of each other.
DWELLING, SINGLE-FAMILY
1. 
A building, or part thereof, containing complete housekeeping facilities for only one (1) family.
2. 
For the purpose of any zoning law, ordinance or code, the classification "single-family dwelling" or "single-family residence" shall include 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. In the case of any such residential home for mentally or physically handicapped persons, the local zoning authority may require that the exterior appearance of the home and property be in reasonable conformance with the general neighborhood standards. Further, the local zoning authority may establish reasonable standards regarding the density of such individual homes in any specific single-family dwelling neighborhood.
3. 
Should a single-family dwelling or single-family residence as defined in Subsection (2) of this definition cease to operate for the purpose as set forth in Subsection (2) of this definition, any other use of such home, other than allowed by local zoning restrictions, must be approved by the local zoning authority.
4. 
For purposes of any zoning law, ordinance or code, the classification of "single-family dwelling" or "single-family residence" shall include any private residence licensed by the Children's Division 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. Nothing in this Subsection shall be construed to relieve the Children's Division, the Department of Mental Health or any other person, firm or corporation occupying or utilizing any single-family dwelling or single-family residence for the purposes specified in this Subsection from compliance with any ordinance or regulation relating to occupancy permits except as to number and relationship of occupants or from compliance with any building or safety code applicable to actual use of such single-family dwelling or single-family residence.
DWELLING, TWO-FAMILY
A detached or semidetached building containing two (2) dwelling units and designed or occupied by two (2) families.
EASEMENT
Authorization by a property owner for the use by another, and for a specified purpose, of any designated part of his/her property.
EFFICIENCY UNIT
A dwelling unit consisting of one (1) principal room exclusive of bathroom, kitchen, hallway, closets, or dining alcove directly off the principal room, providing such dining alcove does not exceed one hundred twenty-five (125) square feet in area.
ESTABLISHED SETBACK
The average setback on each street on which a lot fronts, within the same district and within three hundred (300) feet on each side of such lot along the same side of the street, but not beyond any intersecting street, established by three (3) or more buildings.
EXCAVATION
The removal or extraction of any stone, sand, gravel, loam, topsoil, or other earth or earth product from a lot or parcel of land, except where such removal is for the purpose of grading a lot upon which a building is to be erected, or a roadway to be built.
FAMILY
A group of persons living together as a single non-profit housekeeping unit and consisting of either:
1. 
One (1) or more persons related by blood, marriage, or adoption.
2. 
Not more than four (4) persons not necessarily related by blood, marriage or adoption.
FENCE
An unroofed barrier or unroofed enclosing structure, including retaining walls.
FINAL PLAT
The map or plan or record of a subdivision, and any accompanying material, as described in the subdivision regulations.
FLEXIBLE ZONING
Zoning which permits uses of land and density of buildings and structures different from those which are allowed as of right within the zoning district in which the land is situated.
FLOOR AREA
The sum of the gross horizontal areas of the several stories of the building measured from the exterior faces of the exterior walls or from the center line of party walls. Included shall be any basement floor, interior balconies and mezzanines, elevator shafts and stairwells and enclosed porches. The floor area of accessory uses and of accessory buildings on the same lot shall be included.
FLOOR AREA RATIO
The floor area of a building on any lot divided by the area of the lot.
FRONTAGE
That side of a lot abutting on a street or way and ordinarily regarded as the front of the lot, but it shall not be considered as the ordinary side of a corner lot.
FRONTAGE STREET
Any street to be constructed by the developer or any existing street in which development shall take place on both sides.
GARAGE
A building for the storage of motor vehicles.
GASOLINE SERVICE STATION
Any use of land, including any building or structures thereon, that is used for the supply of gasoline or other fuel for the propulsion of vehicles, including any area, building or structure used for polishing, greasing, washing, spraying, cleaning, or servicing, or repairing of motor vehicles.
GRADE
The slope of a road, street or other public way, specified in percent.
HIGHWAY, LIMITED ACCESS
A freeway, or expressway providing a trafficway for through traffic, in respect to which owners or occupants of abutting property or lands and other persons have no legal right of access to or from the same, except at such points and in such manner as may be determined by the public authority having jurisdiction over such trafficway.
HOME OCCUPATION
A profession or other occupation not otherwise permitted in the district, which is conducted as an accessory use on a residential plot by one (1) or more members of the family residing on the premises, and which in residential districts conforms to the following additional restrictions:
1. 
The profession or other occupation shall be carried on wholly within the main building.
2. 
Not more than one-half (1/2) of the floor area of the ground floor of the principal building is so used.
3. 
There shall be no exterior display or exterior sign except as permitted in Use Table, Column 5, for Residential Districts, no exterior indication of such home occupation or variation from the residential character of the principal building.
4. 
Not more than one (1) person other than members of the family shall be occupied in connection with such home occupation at the same time.
5. 
In particular, a home occupation includes, but is not limited to: art studio; dressmaking; teacher, with musical or dancing instruction limited to a single pupil at a time; contractor's office; professional office or studio of a physician, dentist, author, artist, musician, lawyer, engineer, architect, city planner, realtor, accountant, or similar use.
HOTEL OR MOTEL
A building which has living and sleeping accommodations for hire for ten (10) or more persons, which is open for year-round occupancy, and shall include similar establishments designated as auto courts, tourist cabins.
INCOMPATIBLE USE
A use or service which is unsuitable for direct association with certain other uses because it is contradictory, incongruous, or discordant.
INDIVIDUAL SEWAGE DISPOSAL SYSTEM
A septic tank, seepage tile sewage disposal system or any other sewage treatment device approved by the County Health Officer, the Missouri State Water Pollution Board and the City Engineer.
INDUSTRIAL PARK
A special or exclusive type of planned industrial area designed and equipped to accommodate a community of industries, providing them with all necessary facilities and services in attractive surroundings among compatible neighbors. Industrial parks may be promoted or sponsored by private developers, community organizations, or government organizations.
JUNKYARD
An area of land with or without buildings, used for or occupied by a deposit, collection or storage, outside a completely enclosed building, or used or discarded materials such as wastepaper, rags or scrap material, or used building materials, house furnishings, machinery vehicles or parts thereof with or without the dismantling, processing, salvage, sale or other use or disposition of the same. A deposit or the storage on a lot of two (2) or more wrecked or broken-down vehicles or parts of two (2) or more such vehicles for one (1) week or more in a residential district, or for three (3) weeks or more in any other district.
LOCAL ROAD
A road intended to provide access to other roads from individual properties and to provide right-of-way beneath it for sewer, water and storm drainage pipes.
LOT
A tract, plot or portion of a subdivision or other parcel of land intended as a unit for the purpose, whether immediate or future, of transfer of ownership or for building development.
LOT, CORNER
A lot situated at the intersection of two (2) streets, the interior angle of such intersection not exceeding one hundred thirty-five degrees (135°).
LOT FRONTAGE
The horizontal distance measured along the full length of a street line abutting the lot.
LOT IMPROVEMENT
Any building, structure, place, work of art, or other object or improvement of the land on which they are situated constituting a physical betterment of real property, or any part of such betterment.
LOT, INTERIOR
A lot other than corner lot or a through lot.
LOT LINE
A boundary line of a lot.
LOT LINE, FRONT
The line of a street on which a lot fronts or abuts.
LOT LINE, REAR
Any lot line, other than a street line, which is parallel to the front lot line or within forty-five degrees (45°) of being parallel to the front lot line. Where two (2) or more lot lines meet, the foregoing designation which has the smallest acute angle, or the center of which is farther from the center of the front line, shall be designated the rear lot line, and the other lot line shall be designated a side lot line.
LOT LINE, SIDE
Any lot line not a front lot line or a rear lot line, including a lot line of an offset portion of the lot.
LOT, THROUGH
A lot, other than a corner lot, having frontage on two (2) streets.
LOT, WIDTH
1. 
In R1 and R2 districts, the distance between side lot lines measured along a line parallel to the front lot line (or where the front lot line is not a single line, to a straight line connecting the end points of the front lot line) drawn through the point of the principal building nearest the street.
2. 
In all other districts, the width of the lot at a distance from the front lot line equal to the depth of the required front yard.
MAJOR SUBDIVISION
All subdivisions not classified as minor subdivisions, including but not limited to subdivision of four (4) or more lots, or any size subdivision requiring any new street or extension of public facilities, or the creation of any public improvements.
MINOR SUBDIVISION
Any subdivision containing not more than three (3) lots fronting on an existing street, not involving any new street or road or the extension of municipal facilities, or the creation of any public improvements and not adversely affecting the development of the remainder of the parcel or adjoining property and not in conflict with any provision or portion of these regulations.
MISSOURI WATER POLLUTION BOARD
The official State agency delegated with the control of water pollution.
MOBILE HOME DWELLING
Any vehicle, trailer or similar portable structure mounted or designed for mounting on wheels, used or intended for use for single-family purposes only, including structural additions, except parked or unoccupied camping-type trailers. Any such vehicle, trailer or structure shall be deemed to be a mobile home whether or not resting upon a temporary or permanent foundation. A mobile home dwelling shall be located solely in an authorized mobile home park by special permit of the Board of Adjustment, except single mobiles as provided in the zoning ordinance for agricultural and temporary construction purposes.
MOBILE HOME PARK
A parcel where two (2) or more mobile home dwellings are parked, or which is held out or used for the purposes of supplying to the public, parking spaces for two (2) or more mobile homes, and shall include all buildings, structures, land uses and equipment utilized for such park. The term "mobile home park" shall also include a mobile home subdivision in which the lots are sold to individual purchasers, designed and intended for single-family residential uses.
MOBILE HOME SITE
A parcel of ground within a mobile home park designed for accommodation of one (1) mobile home.
MODEL HOME
A dwelling unit used initially for display purposes which typifies the type of units that will be constructed in the subdivision. Such dwelling units may be erected, at the discretion of the Planning and Zoning Commission, by permitting a portion of a major subdivision involving no more than two (2) lots to be created according to the procedures for minor subdivisions as outlined in the subdivision regulations.
NON-BUILDING USE
A principal use of land to which the buildings on the lot, if any, are necessary, such as a trailer camp, junkyard, public parking lot or an open storage yard for materials or equipment.
NON-RESIDENTIAL SUBDIVISION
A subdivision whose intended use is other than residential, such as commercial or industrial. Such subdivision shall comply with the applicable provisions of these regulations.
NOXIOUS MATTER
Material which is capable of causing injury to living organisms by chemical reaction or is capable of causing detrimental effects upon the physical or economic well-being of individuals.
NURSERY
Any land used to raise trees, shrubs, flowers and other plants for sale or for transporting.
NURSERY SCHOOL
Any private school or child-care center accredited by the State of Missouri, designed to provide daytime care or instruction for two (2) or more children from two (2) to six (6) years of age, inclusive, operated at least five (5) days per week and seven (7) months per year. No nursery school shall be operated during the months of July and August unless it meets with the requirements of a day camp as specified in this Chapter, except for any school operated with a number of children no greater than the average attendance throughout the regular school year and without use of an outdoor swimming facility or pool.
ODOROUS MATTER
Any matter or material that yields an odor which is offensive in any way.
OFF-SITE
Any premises not located within the area of the property to be subdivided whether or not in the same ownership of the application for subdivision approval.
OWNER
Any person, group of persons, firm or firms, corporation or corporations, or any other legal entity having legal title to or sufficient proprietary interest in a parcel of land.
PACKAGE SEWER TREATMENT PLANT
A community sewer system, including collection and treatment facilities established by the developer to serve a new subdivision in an outlying area.
PARKING GARAGE
A building used for the storage of motor vehicles, which may contain space rented to the general public by the hour, day, week, month or year, and including the accessory sale of gasoline and motor oil if wholly within a completely enclosed building.
PARKING LOT
Any lot used for the storage of motor vehicles which may contain space rented to the general public by the hour, day, week, month or year.
PARKING SPACE
A surfaced area, enclosed in the main building or in an accessory building or unenclosed, having an area of not less than one hundred seventy (170) square feet except as otherwise provided in this Chapter, exclusive of driveways, permanently reserved for the temporary storage of one (1) automobile and connected with a street or alley by a surfaced driveway which affords satisfactory ingress or egress for automobiles.
PERFORMANCE STANDARD
A criterion established to control noise, odor, smoke, toxic or noxious matter, vibration, fire and explosion hazards, and glare or heat generated or inherent in uses of land or buildings.
PERIMETER STREET
Any existing street to which the parcel of land to be subdivided abuts on only one (1) side.
PLANNING AND ZONING COMMISSION
The City Planning and Zoning Commission established in accordance with Chapter 89, RSMo.
PRELIMINARY PLAT
The preliminary drawing or drawings, described in the subdivision regulations, indicating the proposed manner or layout of the subdivision to be submitted to the Planning and Zoning Commission for its approval.
PRIMARY ARTERIAL
A road intended to move through traffic to and from such major attractors as central business districts, regional shopping centers, colleges and/or universities, military installations, major industrial areas and similar traffic generators within the County; and/or as a route for traffic between communities or large areas.
PUBLIC BUILDING
Any building held, used, or controlled exclusively for public purposes by any department or branch of government, State, County or municipal, without reference to the ownership of the building or of the realty upon which it is situated.
PUBLIC IMPROVEMENT
Any drainage ditch, roadway, parkway, sidewalk, tree, lawn, off-street parking lot improvement or other facility for which the City may ultimately assume the responsibility for maintenance and operation or which may affect an improvement for which City responsibility is established.
RAILROAD RIGHT-OF-WAY
A strip of land with tracks and auxiliary facilities for track operation, but not including freight depots or stations, loading platforms, train sheds, warehouses, car or locomotive ships, or car yards.
REGISTERED LAND SURVEYOR
A land surveyor properly licensed and registered in the State of Missouri.
RESERVOIR
A natural or artificial lake or pond for the collection or storage of water, approved by the Board of Health and all water and power control commissions. Reservoir does not include water tank or water or cooling tower.
RESUBDIVISION
A change in a map of an approved or recorded subdivision plat if such change affects any street layout shown on such map, or area reserved thereon for public use, or any lot line; or if it affects any map or plan legally recorded prior to the adoption of any regulations controlling subdivisions.
RIGHT-OF-WAY
A strip of land occupied by a street, crosswalk, railroad, road, electric transmission line, oil or gas pipeline, water main, sanitary or storm sewer main, or for another special use. The usage of the term "right-of-way" for land platting purposes shall mean that every right-of-way hereafter established and shown on a final plat is to be separate and distinct from the lots or parcels adjoining such right-of-way, and not included within the dimensions or areas of such lots or parcels. Rights-of-way intended for streets, crosswalks, water mains, sanitary sewers, storm drains, or any other use involving maintenance by a public agency shall be dedicated to public use by the maker of the plat on which such right-of-way is established.
ROAD, DEAD-END
A road or a portion of a street with only one (1) vehicular-traffic outlet.
ROAD RIGHT-OF-WAY WIDTH
The distance between property lines measured at right angles to the center line of the street.
SAME OWNERSHIP
Ownership by the same person, corporation, firm, entity, partnership or unincorporated association; or ownership by different corporations, firms, partnerships, entities or unincorporated associations, in which a stockholder, partner or associate or a member of his/her family owns a substantial interest in each corporation, firm, partnership, entity or unincorporated association.
SCHOOL OF GENERAL INSTRUCTION
Any public or private elementary, junior high, high school, college, university or postgraduate school, offering courses in general instruction at least five (5) days per week and seven (7) months per year.
SCHOOL OF SPECIAL INSTRUCTION
A school for the teaching of technical skills, trades and arts.
SCREENING
1. 
A strip of at least ten (10) feet wide, densely planted (or having equivalent natural growth) with shrubs or trees at least four (4) feet high at the time of planting of a type that will form a year-round dense screen at least six (6) feet high; or
2. 
An opaque wall or barrier or uniformly painted fence at least six (6) feet high.
3. 
Either Subsection (1) or (2) of this definition shall be maintained in good condition at all times, and may have normal entrances and exits, but shall have no signs affixed to or hung in relation to the outside thereof except the following: for each entrance, one (1) directional arrow with the name of the establishment with "For Patrons Only" or like limitation, not over two (2) square feet in area, which shall be non-illuminated. Where required in the district regulations, a screen shall be installed along or within the lines of a lot as a protection to adjoining or nearby properties.
SEATS
The designed normal seating capacity of the establishment.
SECONDARY ARTERIAL
A road intended to collect and distribute traffic in a manner similar to primary arterials, except that these roads service minor traffic generating areas such as community-commercial areas, primary and secondary educational plants, hospitals, major recreational areas, churches and offices and/or designed to carry traffic from collector streets to the system of primary arterials.
SETBACK
The distance between a building and the street line nearest thereto.
SIGN
Any structure, or part thereof, attached to a building or painted or represented thereon, which shall display or include any letter, word, model, flag, insignia, device or representation which is in the nature of, or which is issued as, an announcement, direction or advertisement, for commercial purposes or otherwise. A sign includes a billboard, also a neon tube, string of lights or similar device outlining or hung upon any part of a building or lot, but does not include the flag or insignia of any nation or group of nations, or of any governmental agency or of any political, educational, charitable, philanthropic, civic, professional, religious or like campaign, drive, movement or event.
SIGN, ADVERTISING
A sign, including the type commonly known as a "billboard," which directs attention to a business, commodity, service, entertainment or attraction conducted, sold, offered or existing elsewhere than upon the same lot where such sign is displayed; or not for the principal use of such lot.
SIGN, ANNOUNCEMENT
Any sign used to announce the use of the lot or direction or location of buildings and structures on the lot for an office, home occupation, religious, charitable or other institutional use. An announcement sign may be indirectly illuminated.
SIGN, AREA
The area within the shortest line that can be drawn around the outside perimeter of the face of a sign, including all decoration but excluding supports, if any, unless the same are illuminated. In computing total sign area, the area of the faces of all signs shall be counted.
SIGN, BUSINESS
A sign which directs attention to a business, commodity, service, entertainment or attraction conducted, sold or offered upon the same lot where such sign is displayed. A "For Sale" or "To Let" sign related to the lot on which it is displayed shall be deemed to be a business sign.
SIGN, DIRECTIONAL
A sign with sign area of not over two (2) square feet, indicating the direction or route to an establishment.
SIGN, DIRECTLY ILLUMINATED
Any sign designed to give forth any artificial light directly (or through any transparent or translucent material) from a visible source of light connected with such sign.
SIGN, FLASHING
Any directly or indirectly illuminated sign on which the artificial light is not maintained stationary and constant in intensity and color at all times when in use.
SIGN, INDIRECTLY ILLUMINATED
A sign illuminated with a light so shielded that no direct rays therefrom are visible elsewhere than on the lot where such illumination occurs.
SKETCH PLAT
A sketch preparatory to the preparation of the preliminary plat (or subdivision plat in the case of minor subdivisions) to enable the subdivider to save time and expense in reaching general agreement with the Planning and Zoning Commission as to the form of the plat and the objectives of the subdivision regulations.
SOIL
A natural body of mineral and organic constituents.
STREET
An existing or proposed State, County or City highway, road, street or right-of-way, or a street, highway, right-of-way or road shown:
1. 
On a plat approved by the City Planning and Zoning Commission recorded in the office of the Recorder of Deeds.
2. 
On a plat duly filed and recorded in the office of Recorder of Deeds prior to the grant to the Planning and Zoning Commission of the power to approve plats, providing such street, highway, right-of-way or road shall have been suitably improved to the satisfaction of the Board of Adjustment.
3. 
Nothing herein contained shall preserve any proposed street, highway, right-of-way or road shown on a plat, whether or not filed or recorded which plat is invalidated by amendment of the zoning ordinance or subdivision regulations.
STREET CENTER LINE
A line, equidistant from each street line of a street, or, if no street line is established, the center line of the existing pavement, or, if the street is unpaved, the center line of the existing traveled way.
STREET LINE
The right-of-way line of a street.
SUBDIVIDER
1. 
Any person who, having an interest in land, causes it, directly or indirectly, to be divided into a subdivision; or
2. 
Any person who, 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, or unit in a subdivision; or
3. 
Any person who 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, or unit in a subdivision; and
4. 
Any person who is directly or indirectly controlled by, or under direct or indirect common control with any of the foregoing.
SUBDIVISION
Any land, vacant or improved, which is divided or proposed to be divided into two (2) or more lots, parcels, sites, units, plots or interests for the purpose of offer, sale, lease or development, either on the installment plan or upon any and all other plans, terms and conditions, including resubdivision. Subdivision includes the division or development of residential and non-residential zoned land, whether by deed, metes and bounds description, map, plat or other recorded instrument.
SUBDIVISION PLAT
The final map or drawing, described in the subdivision regulations, on which the plan of subdivision is presented to the Planning and Zoning Commission for approval and which, if approved, may be submitted to the Recorder of Deeds for filing.
SUBDIVISION REGULATIONS
The official subdivision regulations of the City, together with all amendments thereto, adopted pursuant to Chapter 89, RSMo.[1]
SWIMMING CLUB
A pool operated for members and their guests, whether or not operated for gain.
SWIMMING POOL, PRIVATE
A pool which is an accessory use to a residence and for the exclusive use of the occupants of the residential building and their guests.
TEMPORARY
A time period not to exceed two (2) years.
TOURIST HOME
A dwelling unit in which sleeping accommodations for more than two (2) and less than ten (10) persons are hired out for transient occupancy, primarily for overnight use by automobile travelers.
TOWNHOUSE
A single-family dwelling constructed as part of a series of dwellings, all of which are either attached to the adjacent dwelling or dwellings by party walls or are located immediately adjacent thereto with no visible separation between walls or roofs.
TRAVEL TRAILER
A portable vehicular unit designed and intended to be used for temporary short-term occupancy and for frequent and extensive travel use, including, but not limited to, travel trailers, campers, motor homes, converted buses and other similar units, whether they are self-propelled, pulled or can be hauled.
USABLE OPEN SPACE
That part of the ground area or lot for a multifamily residence, a one-family attached residence or a residence in a building which also contains non-residential uses, which is:
1. 
Devoted to outdoor recreational space, greenery, and service space for household activities (such as clothes-drying) which are normally carried on outdoors;
2. 
Not devoted to private roadways, open to vehicular transportation, accessory off-street parking spaces or accessory off-street loading berths;
3. 
Unobstructed except as permitted by Section 405.240 of this Chapter;
4. 
Accessible and available to all occupants of dwelling units for whose use the space is required; and
5. 
Having a minimum dimension specified in this Chapter.
USE
The term employed to refer to any purpose for which buildings or other structures or land may be occupied.
USE, NON-CONFORMING
A use of a building or land, or both, which was lawfully established but which does not conform to the use regulations for the district in which it is located. It may or may not involve any principal building. Any use which is permitted in a district by special permit shall be considered a conforming use, subject to all conditions applicable thereto.
YARD REQUIRED
Open and unobstructed ground area of the lot extending inward from a lot line the distance specified in the regulations for the district in which the lot is located. Where a buffer area is required, the buffer area shall be deemed to commence at the lot line and the yard requirement shall be deemed to commence from the interior line of the buffer area.
YARD REQUIRED, FRONT
A required yard extending along the full length of the front line between the side lot lines.
YARD REQUIRED, REAR
A required yard extending the full width of the lot and situated between the rear lot line and the rear line of the building projected to the side lines of the lot. The depth of the rear yard shall be measured between the rear lot line and the rear line of the principal building located on the lot.
YARD REQUIRED, SIDE
A required yard extending along a side lot line from the required front yard (or from the front lot line if there is no required front yard) to the required rear yard (or to the rear lot line if there is no required rear yard).
ZONING ORDINANCE
The official zoning ordinance of the City together with any and all amendments thereto, adopted pursuant to Chapter 89, RSMo.
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Editor's Note: See Ch. 410, Subdivision Regulations.