[CC 1986 §§ 42.001 to 42.145]
As used in this Chapter, the following terms shall have the
meanings indicated:
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The Board of Zoning Adjustment of the City of Edgerton, Missouri.
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.
Any structure built for the support, shelter or enclosure
of persons, animals, chattels, or movable property of any kind.
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.
A building in which is conducted the main use of the lot
on which said building is situated.
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.
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.
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.
A story having more than one-half (1/2) of its interior height
below the average level of the adjoining ground.
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.
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.
The City Engineer or such professional engineer as shall
be appointed by the Board of Aldermen to administer these regulations.
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.
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.
That person designated to administer the health regulations
of the County.
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.
A local street with only one (1) outlet and having an appropriate
terminal for the safe and convenient reversal of traffic movement.
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.
Any person:
Who, having an interest in land, causes it directly or indirectly
to be used for residential development.
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.
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.
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."
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
A building, or portion thereof, used for occupancy by three
(3) or more families living independently of each other.
A building, or part thereof, containing complete housekeeping
facilities for only one (1) family.
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.
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.
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.
A detached or semidetached building containing two (2) dwelling
units and designed or occupied by two (2) families.
Authorization by a property owner for the use by another,
and for a specified purpose, of any designated part of his/her property.
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.
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.
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.
A group of persons living together as a single non-profit
housekeeping unit and consisting of either:
An unroofed barrier or unroofed enclosing structure, including
retaining walls.
The map or plan or record of a subdivision, and any accompanying
material, as described in the subdivision regulations.
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.
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.
The floor area of a building on any lot divided by the area
of the lot.
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.
Any street to be constructed by the developer or any existing
street in which development shall take place on both sides.
A building for the storage of motor vehicles.
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.
The slope of a road, street or other public way, specified
in percent.
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.
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:
The profession or other occupation shall be carried on wholly
within the main building.
Not more than one-half (1/2) of the floor area of the ground
floor of the principal building is so used.
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.
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.
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.
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.
A use or service which is unsuitable for direct association
with certain other uses because it is contradictory, incongruous,
or discordant.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
A lot situated at the intersection of two (2) streets, the
interior angle of such intersection not exceeding one hundred thirty-five
degrees (135°).
The horizontal distance measured along the full length of
a street line abutting the lot.
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.
A lot other than corner lot or a through lot.
A boundary line of a lot.
The line of a street on which a lot fronts or abuts.
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.
Any lot line not a front lot line or a rear lot line, including
a lot line of an offset portion of the lot.
A lot, other than a corner lot, having frontage on two (2)
streets.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The official State agency delegated with the control of water
pollution.
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.
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.
A parcel of ground within a mobile home park designed for
accommodation of one (1) mobile 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.
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.
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.
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.
Any land used to raise trees, shrubs, flowers and other plants
for sale or for transporting.
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.
Any matter or material that yields an odor which is offensive
in any way.
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.
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.
A community sewer system, including collection and treatment
facilities established by the developer to serve a new subdivision
in an outlying area.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Any existing street to which the parcel of land to be subdivided
abuts on only one (1) side.
The City Planning and Zoning Commission established in accordance
with Chapter 89, RSMo.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
A land surveyor properly licensed and registered in the State
of Missouri.
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.
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.
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.
A road or a portion of a street with only one (1) vehicular-traffic
outlet.
The distance between property lines measured at right angles
to the center line of the street.
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.
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.
A school for the teaching of technical skills, trades and
arts.
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
An opaque wall or barrier or uniformly painted fence at least
six (6) feet high.
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.
The designed normal seating capacity of the establishment.
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.
The distance between a building and the street line nearest
thereto.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
A sign with sign area of not over two (2) square feet, indicating
the direction or route to an establishment.
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.
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.
A sign illuminated with a light so shielded that no direct
rays therefrom are visible elsewhere than on the lot where such illumination
occurs.
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.
A natural body of mineral and organic constituents.
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:
On a plat approved by the City Planning and Zoning Commission
recorded in the office of the Recorder of Deeds.
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.
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.
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.
The right-of-way line of a street.
Any person who, having an interest in land, causes it, directly
or indirectly, to be divided into a subdivision; or
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
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
Any person who is directly or indirectly controlled by, or under
direct or indirect common control with any of the foregoing.
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.
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.
The official subdivision regulations of the City, together
with all amendments thereto, adopted pursuant to Chapter 89, RSMo.[1]
A pool operated for members and their guests, whether or
not operated for gain.
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.
A time period not to exceed two (2) years.
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.
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.
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.
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:
Devoted to outdoor recreational space, greenery, and service
space for household activities (such as clothes-drying) which are
normally carried on outdoors;
Not devoted to private roadways, open to vehicular transportation,
accessory off-street parking spaces or accessory off-street loading
berths;
Unobstructed except as permitted by Section 405.240 of this Chapter;
Accessible and available to all occupants of dwelling units
for whose use the space is required; and
Having a minimum dimension specified in this Chapter.
The term employed to refer to any purpose for which buildings
or other structures or land may be occupied.
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.
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.
A required yard extending along the full length of the front
line between the side lot lines.
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.
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).
The official zoning ordinance of the City together with any
and all amendments thereto, adopted pursuant to Chapter 89, RSMo.
