The purpose of this section is to define words, terms, and phrases
contained within this Ordinance, unless otherwise specifically defined
elsewhere in this Ordinance. Words, terms, and phrases not defined
in this Ordinance shall be given their normal, ordinary, everyday
meaning. All words, terms, and phrases in this Ordinance are subject
to the interpretation of the city manager.
14A-6.1.1 Abutting:
Sharing all or a portion of a property
boundary line or border; touching.
14A-6.1.2 Accessory Building:
A subordinate building
or a portion of the main building located on the same lot as the main
building, the use of which is incidental to that of the dominant use
of the building or premises.
14A-6.1.3 Accessory Structure.
Any structural addition
to the recreational vehicle or site, including awnings, cabanas, carports,
garages, porches, storage cabinets, storage sheds, and similar appurtenant
structures.
14A-6.1.4 Accessory Use:
A use customarily incidental,
appropriate and subordinate to the principal use of land or buildings
and located upon the same lot therewith.
14A-6.1.5 Adjacent:
Lying near or close to, but not necessarily
touching.
14A-6.1.6 Administration Facilities:
Administrative and
clerical offices, public contact services, charitable institutions,
and incidental activities of federal, state, county, city, and other
governmental offices. Typical uses include city halls, post offices,
and field offices of federal and state agencies.
14A-6.1.7 Advertising Sign or Structure:
Any cloth, card,
paper, metal, glass, wooden, plastic, plaster, stone sign or other
sign, device or structure of any character whatsoever, including a
statuary, place for outdoor advertising purposes on the ground or
on any tree, wall, bush, rock, post, fence, building or structure.
The term “placed” shall include erecting, constructing,
posting, painting, printing, tacking, nailing, gluing, sticking, carving,
or otherwise fastening, affixing or making visible in any manner whatsoever.
The area of an advertising structure shall be determined as the area
of the largest cross-section of such structure. Neither directional,
warning nor other signs posted by public officials in the course of
their public duties nor merchandise or materials being offered for
sale shall be construed as advertising signs for the purpose of this
Ordinance.
14A-6.1.8 Alley:
A minor right-of-way, dedicated to public
use, which affords a secondary means of vehicular access to the back
or side of properties otherwise abutting a street, and which may be
used for public utility purposes.
14A-6.1.9 Animal Services:
Businesses engaged in the
treatment, care, or boarding of animals, and for which an outside
run may be present, provided that it conforms with the use standards
for animal services in this Ordinance. The uses typically include
veterinary hospitals, kennels and commercial stables.
14A-6.1.10 Automobile:
A self-propelled mechanical vehicle
designed for use on streets and highways for the conveyance of goods
and people, including but not limited to the following: passenger
cars, trucks, busses, motor scooters, and motorcycles.
14A-6.1.11 Automotive, marine and farm implements:
Businesses
engaged primarily in automotive, marine, and heavy equipment related
sales and/or services. This includes, but is not limited to, any one
or more of the following for automobiles, farm and implement equipment,
motorcycles, boats, and other motorized vehicles: show rooms, automotive
washing, commercial off-street parking (not an accessory to another
use), rentals, long-term vehicle storage, and repair services (not
an accessory to an automotive fuel and service station).
14A-6.1.12 Barndominium:
A structure with a steel or wood
frame, with sheet metal siding and roofing, used as a dwelling.
14A-6.1.13 Basement:
A story partly or wholly underground.
For purposes of height measurement, a basement shall be counted as
a story when more than one-half (1/2) of its height is above the average
level of the adjoining ground or when subdivided and used for commercial
or dwelling purposes by other than a janitor employed on the premises.
14A-6.1.14 Basic Industry:
All industrial uses including
those engaged in the basic processing and manufacturing of materials
or products predominantly from extracted or raw materials, or a use
engaged in the storage of, or manufacturing processes utilizing flammable
or explosive materials, or storage or manufacturing processes which
potentially involve hazardous or commonly recognized offensive conditions.
Typical uses include food processing and dehydrating; salvage yards;
rubber products; tire recapping; welding shops; shop forges; tool
and die shops; machine shops and metal products; manufacturing of
chemicals, acids, pharmaceuticals, fertilizers, and plastic products;
wood, paper, textile, and leather products; manufacturing and processing
of construction materials; and mineral extraction.
14A-6.1.15 Bed and Breakfast:
An establishment containing
5 or fewer sleeping rooms that rents sleeping rooms on a nightly basis
to guests, and that provides breakfast or brunch included in the price
of the accommodation. The owner lives on the premises.
14A-6.1.16 Billboard:
A single or double-faced outdoor
sign which advertises goods, products, or services that are not sold
or offered on the property where the sign is located, and which is
either: (a) larger than 200 square feet in size; or (b) is mounted
above the highest permitted building height for the zoning district
in which the sign is located.
14A-6.1.17 Boarding house:
Establishments renting more
than one sleeping room that is a part of the main house on the property
for a period of time exceeding 14 days. Meals may be a part of the
price of the accommodation or may be paid for separately. The owner
lives on the premises.
14A-6.1.18 Broadcast/Reception Equipment:
Antennas, towers
and satellite dishes used to broadcast and/or receive signals for
radio, television, radar, or other telecommunications for other than
personal use.
14A-6.1.19 Building Height:
The vertical distance from
the average line of the highest and lowest points of that portion
of the lot covered by the building to the highest point of coping
of a flat roof, or the deck line of a mansard roof or to the average
height of the highest gable of a pitch or hip roof.
14A-6.1.20 Building Official:
The official designated
by the city manager that is responsible for the inspection of electrical,
mechanical and plumbing associated with a property.
14A-6.1.21 Building, Main:
A building in which is conducted
the principal use of the lot on which it is situated. In a residential
district any dwelling shall be deemed to be a main building on the
lot on which it is situated.
14A-6.1.22 Building:
Any structure intended for shelter,
housing or enclosure for persons, animals, or chattel. When separated
by dividing walls without openings, each portion of such structure
so separated, shall be deemed a separate building.
14A-6.1.23 Camper:
A separate vehicle designed for human
habitation which can be attached and detached to or towed by a motor
vehicle.
14A-6.1.24 Cemetery:
Land used or intended to be used for burial of the dead. Crematoriums,
columbariums, mausoleums, and mortuaries are permitted when operated
in conjunction with and within the boundaries of the cemetery.
14A-6.1.25 Child Care Center:
Any place, home or institution
which receives three (3) or more children under the age of sixteen
(16) years, and not of common parentage, for care apart from their
natural parents, legal guardians or custodians, when received for
regular periods of time for compensation; provided, however, this
definition shall not include public and private schools organized,
operated, or approved under the laws of this State, custody of children
fixed by a court of competent jurisdiction, children related by blood
or marriage within the third degree to the custodial person, or to
churches or other religious or public institutions caring for children
within the institutional building while their parents or legal guardians
are attending services or meetings or classes or other church activities.
14A-6.1.26 City Manager:
The city manager of the City
of Smithville, Texas or the designee thereof.
14A-6.1.27 Code Official:
The official of the City designee
charged with the enforcement of the provisions of this article.
14A-6.1.28 Commercial Recreation:
Businesses engaged primarily
in the provision of facilities for sports, entertainment, or recreation
for participants or spectators indoors or outdoors. The facilities
may be open to the general public or restricted to registered members
or guests (excluding those uses defined as Public Recreation). Typical
uses include amusement arcades, bowling alleys, roller-skating rinks,
camping facilities, golf courses and driving ranges, amusement parks,
motor raceways, zoos and movie theaters.
14A-6.1.29 Commercial Vehicle:
A motor vehicle that is
used primarily to engage in commerce. This includes tractors and any
other farm related equipment.
14A-6.1.30 Commercial Use:
Any use specifically enumerated
under the regulations of a Commercial District, excluding any Residential
Use.
14A-6.1.31 Communications Services:
Businesses engaged
primarily in the recording and broadcasting of information or entertainment
and other services. Typical uses include radio and television studios,
as well as recording studios.
14A-6.1.32 Comprehensive Plan:
The comprehensive plan
for the long-range development of the city adopted by the city under
Chapter 213, Texas Local Government Code, as the same may be amended,
revised, replaced, restated, or otherwise modified from time to time.
14A-6.1.33 Condominium:
A condominium consists of multiple
units, each individually owned, on a single lot or property. It is
a multifamily residential complex, the units of which are individually
owned, each owner receiving a recordable deed to the individual unit
purchased.
14A-6.1.34 Conex:
A steel or metal shipping container
originally designed to be used for intermodal shipping. It includes
but is not limited to cargo or freight containers, ISO containers,
and Conex boxes.
14A-6.1.35 Controlling Interest:
A person or developer
who controls at least fifty-one percent (51%) of ownership.
14A-6.1.36 Convalescent, Rest or Nursing Home:
A health
facility where persons are housed and furnished with meals and continuing
nursing care for compensation.
14A-6.1.37 Country Inn:
An establishment containing more
than 5 sleeping rooms and that rents sleeping rooms on a nightly basis
to guests and that provides one or more meals included in the price
of the accommodation. Owner may or may not live on the premises and
usually has employees who help with food service and housekeeping.
Country Inns shall be located on lots that are at least 21,000 square
feet in area.
14A-6.1.38 Coverage:
The lot area covered by all buildings
located thereon, including the area covered by all overhanging roofs.
14A-6.1.39 Cultural Facilities:
Facilities and uses engaged
in preserving and exhibiting objects of community and cultural interest
in one or more of the arts and sciences. Typical uses include libraries,
exhibition grounds, museums, and auditoriums or similar registered
non-profit organizational uses.
14A-6.1.40 Dental Clinic or Medical Clinic:
A facility
for the examination and treatment of ill and afflicted human out-patients
provided that patients are not kept overnight except under emergency
conditions.
14A-6.1.41 Disposal plant:
Facilities for the disposal
of trash, garbage, waste and refuse, including but not limited to
landfills, sewage treatment plants, sewage lagoons, and composting
plants.
14A-6.1.42 District:
Any section or sections of the city
for which the regulations governing the use of land and the use, density,
bulk, height and coverage of buildings and other structures are uniform
for each class or kind of building therein.
14A-6.1.43 District, Residential.
Any district listed
under Section 2.1.1, a PDD with a base zoning district listed under
Section 2.1.1, and the PD-Z Zero Lot Line District.
14A-6.1.44 District, Commercial.
Any district listed under
Section 2.1.2 and a PDD with a base zoning district listed under Section
2.1.2.
14A-6.1.45 Dwelling Unit:
That portion or all of a dwelling
that is designed for or used as living quarters by one (1) family.
14A-6.1.46 Dwelling, Duplex or Two-Family:
A detached
dwelling containing two (2) dwelling units.
14A-6.1.47 Dwelling, Multiple Family:
“Multiple
family” and “multi-family” both mean a detached
dwelling containing three (3) or more dwelling units, including a
residential condominium created under Chapter 82, Texas Property Code,
but not including a hotel or motel.
14A-6.1.48 Dwelling, Single-Family:
A detached dwelling
comprising one dwelling unit designed to be occupied by one (1) family.
14A-6.1.49 Dwelling:
Any building designed for or used
as living quarters by one (1) or more families.
14A-6.1.50 Educational Facilities:
Public and private
primary, secondary, and post-secondary educational facilities offering
instruction in the branches of learning and study required to be taught
by the public schools of the State of Texas. This category does not
include private trade, technical, business, or professional schools.
14A-6.1.51 Family:
One (1) or more persons related by
blood, marriage or adoption, or a group of not to exceed five (5)
persons not all related by blood or marriage.
14A-6.1.52 Garage Apartment:
A dwelling unit for one (1)
family that shares at least one (1) common wall with or is above a
private garage.
14A-6.1.53 Garage Parking:
Any building, or portion thereof,
used for the storage of four (4) or more automobiles in which any
servicing which may be provided is incidental to the primary use for
storage purposes, and where repair facilities are not provided.
14A-6.1.54 Garage, Private:
An accessory building or a
part of a main building, enclosed on all sides, which is used for
storage of automobiles and used solely by the occupants and their
guests.
14A-6.1.55 Garage, Repair:
A building in which are provided
facilities for the care, servicing, repair or equipping of automobiles.
14A-6.1.56 Gasoline Service or Filling Station:
Any area
of land, including structures thereon, that is used for the retail
sale of gasoline or oil fuels, or other automobile accessories, and
incidental services including facilities for lubricating, hand washing
and cleaning, or otherwise servicing automobiles, but not including
painting, major repair or automatic washing or the sale of butane
or propane fuels.
14A-6.1.57 General Retail:
Establishments serving a large
market area and engaged primarily in the rental or sale of retail
goods and services commonly purchased by the general public, excluding
those commercial uses classified more specifically in other commercial
sections. Typical uses include the sale of appliances; air conditioning,
plumbing, electrical and heating equipment and service; antiques;
auction houses (except livestock); automotive fuel and service; auto
parts; bicycle sales and service; business, trade or technical schools;
cafes, delicatessens, restaurants, and caterers; carpet and rug cleaners;
department stores; feed and fertilizer; furniture and upholstery;
pets and supplies; home improvement and building materials; hotels
and motels; gun shops; greenhouses and plant nurseries; pet stores;
radio and television sales and service; supermarkets; and variety
stores. Pawn brokerages and sexually oriented businesses are excluded
from general retail.
14A-6.1.58 Government Sign:
A sign erected and maintained
on a site pursuant to and in discharge of any governmental functions,
or required by law, ordinance or other governmental regulation.
14A-6.1.59 Group Residential:
A dwelling unit designed,
arranged, or used for occupancy by more than 6 persons, not defined
as a family, on a weekly or longer basis. Typical uses include fraternity
or sorority houses, dormitories, residence halls, and boarding houses.
14A-6.1.60 Guest House/Studio:
Living quarters within
a detached accessory building, which is built to residential building
code requirements and which is located on the same lot or parcel of
land as the primary structure and used exclusively for the housing
of members of the family occupying the main building or their non-paying
guests.
14A-6.1.61 Home-based Business:
Any home-based business
carried on solely by the inhabitants of a dwelling which is clearly
incidental and secondary to the use of the dwelling for dwelling purposes,
which does not change the character thereof, but which is conducted
entirely within the main or accessory buildings; provided that no
trading in merchandise is carried on and in connection with which
there is no display of merchandise or advertising sign other than
one (1) nonilluminated nameplate not more than four (4) square feet
in area attached to the main or accessory building, and no mechanical
equipment is used except such as is customary for purely domestic
or household purposes. A beauty or barber shop, tea room or restaurant,
rest home or clinic, doctor’s or dentist’s office, child
care center, tourist home, or cabinet, metal or auto repair shop shall
not be deemed a home occupation.
14A-6.1.62 Hospital:
An institution providing health services
primarily for human in-patient medical or surgical care for the sick
or injured and including related facilities such as laboratories,
out-patient departments, training facilities, central services facilities,
and staff offices which are an integral part of the facilities.
14A-6.1.63 Hotel/motel:
An establishment renting sleeping
rooms on a nightly basis. Generally, the number of rooms is over 10
and, generally, each room is provided with a separate complete bathroom
facility (tub or shower, lavatory and toilet). Meals are usually not
a part of the price of the accommodation.
14A-6.1.64 HUD-code Manufactured Home, Manufactured Home, or Manufactured Housing:
a structure constructed on or after June 15, 1976,
according to the rules of the United States Department of Housing
and Urban Development, transportable in one or more sections, which,
in the traveling mode, is eight body feet or more in width or 40 body
feet or more in length or, when erected on site, is 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. The term does not include a recreational vehicle
as defined by 24 C.F.R. § 3282.8(g).
14A-6.1.65 Industrialized Housing:
A structure defined
as “industrialized housing” under Chapter 1202, Texas
Occupations Code. Industrialized housing is commonly also known as
a modular home.
14A-6.1.66 Industrialized Building:
A structure defined
as an “industrialized building” under Chapter 1202, Texas
Occupations Code.
14A-6.1.67 Kennel:
Any lot or premises on which are kept
four (4) or more dogs, more than six (6) months of age in exchange
for payment or other consideration.
14A-6.1.68 Key Lot:
A lot having frontage on two (2) intersecting
streets, such lot abutting that intersection, and having abutting
lots on both streets fronting on those streets.
14A-6.1.69 Licensee or Agent:
A person who may or may
not own the RV Park but is person responsible for the day to day operations
including records and license of the park.
14A-6.1.70 Light Manufacturing:
Uses engaged primarily
in the processing, fabrication, assembly, treatment, and packaging
of finished products and parts, including the incidental storage and
distribution of such products. Typical uses include printing and publishing
facilities, and research and development facilities. Basic Industry
uses are excluded.
14A-6.1.71 Limited Retail:
Establishments engaged primarily
in the rental or retail sale of goods and services for personal consumption
or improvement or household use, except those items specifically defined
under General Retail, generally serving a neighborhood, local area,
or portion of the city. Typical uses include antique and furniture
stores; appliance retail and repair shops; art supply, craft, and
hobby shops (without an outside garage); bakery with local sales and
distribution; barber and beauty shops; book or stationery stores;
cafes, delicatessens, restaurants, and caterers; camera stores; convenience
stores, including those with self-service automotive fueling stations;
dressmakers and tailors; dry cleaners and laundries; fabric shops;
florists; frozen food lockers; garden shops; hardware and paint stores;
health or athletic clubs; jewelers; optical shops; photo, artistic,
dance, and music studios and galleries; pharmacies and soda fountains;
travel agencies; printing and copying shops; and bed and breakfasts.
Pawn brokerages and sexually oriented businesses are excluded from
limited retail.
14A-6.1.73 Lot, Area:
The total area measured on a horizontal
plane, included within lot lines.
14A-6.1.74 Lot, Corner:
A lot abutting two or more streets
at the intersection of such streets.
14A-6.1.75 Lot, Depth:
The mean horizontal distance between
the front and rear lot lines.
14A-6.1.76 Lot, Frontage:
That dimension of a lot or portion
of a lot abutting on a street, excluding the side dimension of a corner
lot.
14A-6.1.77 Lot, Interior:
A lot other than a corner lot.
14A-6.1.78 Lot:
A single, legally created parcel of land
intended as a unit for transfer of ownership or for development and
having frontage on a public street. The term “lot” includes
the terms “plot,” “parcel,” “tract”
and similar terms.
14A-6.1.79 Manufactured Home Park or MH Park:
Land zoned
MH for which the city has issued a license pursuant to Section 4.1
of this Ordinance and which is in compliance with all of said Section
4.1.
14A-6.1.80 Medical Services:
Establishments providing
consultation, diagnosis, therapeutic, preventative, or corrective
personal treatment by doctors, dentists, medical and dental laboratories,
and similar practitioners of medical and healing arts and licensed
for such practice by the State of Texas. Typical uses include clinics,
convalescent homes, hospitals, laboratories, veterinary clinics (without
any outside facilities), and sanitariums. Uses include dental clinics,
medical clinics, and funeral services.
14A-6.1.81 Mixed Use:
A mix of residential, office, retail,
industrial, community facilities, and commercial uses, or any combination
thereof, within the same building or lot.
14A-6.1.82 Mobile Home:
A structure that was built before
June 15, 1976, transportable in one or more sections, which, in 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 320 or more square
feet, and which is built on permanent chassis 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.
14A-6.1.83 Motor Home:
A self-contained vehicle designed
for human habitation with its own motive power and with a passageway
from the body of the home to the driver and front passenger seats.
14A-6.1.84 Motor Vehicle:
A self-propelled device in,
upon or by which any person or property is or may be transported.
14A-6.1.85 Multi-Tenant Sign:
An on-premise pole sign
that advertises three or more occupancies on the same premises.
14A-6.1.86 Neighboring Resident:
A person or persons whose
primary place of residence is within 200 feet of the property in question.
Measurement shall be from property line to property line.
14A-6.1.87 Office:
Establishments engaged primarily in
services including, but not limited to, the fields of accounting and
finance, architecture, banking and investment, design, engineering,
employment, insurance, law, management, planning and development,
and real estate. Uses may also include individual medical and dental
offices.
14A-6.1.88 Parking Space:
A permanently surfaced area,
enclosed or unenclosed, sufficient in size to store one (1) automobile
together with a permanently surfaced driveway connecting the parking
space with a street or alley and permitting ingress or egress of an
automobile parking space with a street or alley and permitting ingress
or egress of an automobile.
14A-6.1.89 Pawn Brokerages:
Establishments engaged in
the sale of goods traded as security for personal loans that are repaid
by the borrower through a repurchase agreement or by a third party
through the purchase of the goods.
14A-6.1.90 Public Health Center:
A facility primarily
utilized by a health unit for providing public health services including
related facilities such as laboratories, clinics and administrative
offices operated in connection therewith.
14A-6.1.91 Public Recreation Facility:
Publicly owned
and operated parks, recreation areas, playgrounds, swimming pools,
and open spaces available for use by the general public without requirement
of membership or affiliation.
14A-6.1.92 Public Safety Facility:
Facilities for the
conduct of public safety and emergency services, including police
and fire protection, emergency medical and ambulance services, and
city and county jails.
14A-6.1.93 Public Use Phone:
A phone used by registrants
of the RV Park for emergency purposes.
14A-6.1.94 Recreational Vehicle or RV:
Any licensed camp trailer, travel trailer, motor home or fifth wheel designed to provide temporary living quarters for recreational camping or travel use, constructed with integral wheels to make it mobile and/or towable by motor vehicle. (Reference Chapter
12 - “Traffic and Vehicle” Ordinance, City of Smithville).
14A-6.1.95 Recreational Vehicle Park or RV Park:
Any lot,
tract, or parcel of land upon which accommodation is provided for
two or more recreational vehicles used as living or sleeping quarters
by the day, week, or month, whether a charge is or is not made. A
recreational vehicle park is a unified development of recreational
vehicle spaces provided for recreational vehicle use with or without
community facilities and permitted permanent buildings.
14A-6.1.96 Recreational Vehicle Site or RV Site:
That
part of a lot or area in a recreational vehicle park or RV Park that
has been reserved for the placement of one recreational vehicle or
RV.
14A-6.1.97 Religious Facility:
A use located in a permanent
building and providing regular organized religious worship and religious
education incidental thereto, but excluding private primary and secondary
educational facilities, recreational facilities, and day care services.
Typical uses include churches, synagogues, and religious worship centers.
A property tax exemption obtained pursuant to the Property Tax Code
of the State of Texas shall constitute prima facie evidence of religious
use.
14A-6.1.98 Research and Development Facility:
Uses that
engage in scientific research, laboratory testing, and product development.
14A-6.1.99 Residential Use:
Any dwelling, provided that
the term, “Residential Use,” does not include bed and
breakfast, boarding house, country inn and hotel/motel uses.
14A-6.1.100 Rooming House:
A building where lodging only
is provided for compensation to three (3) or more, but not exceeding
twenty (20) persons. A building which has accommodations for more
than twenty (20) persons shall be defined as a hotel under the terms
of this Ordinance.
14A-6.1.101 Sanitarium:
An institution providing health
facilities for inpatient medical treatment or treatment and recuperation
making use of natural therapeutic agents.
14A-6.1.102 Self-Service Laundry or Dry-Cleaning Establishment:
Any attended or unattended place, building or portion thereof,
available to the general public for the purpose of washing, drying,
extracting moisture from or dry-cleaning wearing apparel, cloth, fabrics,
and textiles of any kind by means of a mechanical appliance which
is operated primarily by the customer.
14A-6.1.103 Service Maintenance Facility:
Facilities and
structures relating to the provision and maintenance of various services
to local residents by a public, semi-public, or private entity. Services
may include, but shall not be limited to, animal control, solid waste
disposal, and utilities such as water, wastewater, natural gas, electricity,
telephone, and cable communications.
14A-6.1.104 Stable, Private:
A stable with a capacity for
not more than two (2) horses or mules.
14A-6.1.105 Stable, Public:
A stable, other than a private
stable, with a capacity for more than two (2) horses or mules.
14A-6.1.106 Standard Masonry Construction:
Having at least
seventy-five (75) percent of the exterior walls of a building constructed
of brick, stone, or other masonry construction.
14A-6.1.107 Story, Half:
A space under a sloping roof which
has the line of intersection of roof decking and wall face not more
than three (3) feet above the top floor level, and in which space
not more than two-thirds (2/3) of the floor area is finished off for
use. A half story containing independent apartment or living quarters
shall be counted as a full story.
14A-6.1.108 Story:
That portion of a building, other than
a basement, included between the surface of a floor and the surface
of a floor next above it, or if there is no floor above it, then the
space between the floor and the ceiling next above it.
14A-6.1.109 Street, Intersecting:
Any street which joins
another street at an angle, whether or not it crosses the other.
14A-6.1.110 Street:
Any public or private thoroughfare
which affords the principal means of access to abutting property.
14A-6.1.111 Structural Alterations:
Any change in the supporting
members of a building, such as bearing walls or partitions, beams,
columns, or girders, or any substantial change in the roof or in the
exterior walls.
14A-6.1.112 Structure:
Anything constructed or erected,
the use of which requires location on the ground or which is attached
to something having a location on the ground.
14A-6.1.113 Temporary Construction Building:
An office,
shed or other temporary structure that is incidental to a construction
project. Temporary construction buildings do not contain sleeping
or cooking accommodations.
14A-6.1.114 Tiny house:
A single family dwelling that is
400 square feet or less in floor area, excluding lofts, provided that
the definition does not include a garage apartment.
14A-6.1.115 Tourist Court:
An area containing one (1) or
more buildings designed or intended to be used as temporary sleeping
facilities of one (1) or more transients and intended primarily for
automobile transients.
14A-6.1.116 Tourist Home:
A dwelling occupied as a permanent
residence by an owner or renter in which sleeping accommodations in
not more than four (4) rooms are provided or offered for transient
guests for compensation.
14A-6.1.117 Townhouse:
A townhouse is a type of multifamily
residence with between two (2) and six (6) dwelling units, with each
unit extending from the ground to the roof and where each unit joined
to other residential units on either side by a common wall, and with
each unit has its own outside access.
14A-6.1.118 Trailer:
A vehicle without motive power designed
for carrying persons, animals, or property on its own structure and
to be drawn by a vehicle with motive power. The term shall include,
but not be limited to, semi-trailer and utility trailer.
14A-6.1.119 Trailer Court or Mobile Home Park:
A parcel
of land which has been designed or improved or intended to be used
or rented for occupancy by one (1) or more trailer houses or mobile
homes.
14A-6.1.120 Trailer or Mobile Home Space:
A plot of ground
within a trailer court designed for the accommodation of one (1) mobile
home.
14A-6.1.121 Trailer, Hauling:
A vehicle to be pulled behind
an automobile or truck which is designed for hauling animals, produce,
goods or commodities, including boats.
14A-6.1.122 Trailer, Travel or Camping:
A portable or mobile
living unit used for temporary human occupancy away from the place
of residence of the occupants, and not constituting the principal
place of residence of the occupants, and not exceeding thirty-eight
(38) feet in total length and eight (8) feet in width.
14A-6.1.123 Transportation Facility:
A facility for the
loading, unloading, and interchange of passengers and incidental baggage,
freight, and package express between modes of transportation, including
bus depots, railroad stations, airport terminals and mass transit
facilities.
14A-6.1.124 Trees, Park:
Trees, shrubs, bushes and all
other woody vegetation in public parks having individual names, and
all areas owned by the city, or to which the public has free access
as a park.
14A-6.1.125 Trees, Street:
Trees, shrubs, bushes, and all
other woody vegetation on land lying between property lines on either
side of all streets, avenues, or ways within the city.
14A-6.1.126 Warehousing & Distribution Facility:
Uses
engaged primarily in the handling, warehousing and distribution of
materials and equipment, other than live animals or plants, either
in enclosed structures or open-air fenced-in areas. Typical uses include
monument or stone yards, wholesale and retail distribution centers,
self-service storage facilities, and moving and storage firms.
14A-6.1.127 Yard, Front:
The front yard shall be defined
as the yard fronting the name street.
14A-6.1.128 Yard, Rear:
A yard extending across the rear
of a lot measured between the lot lines and being the minimum horizontal
distance between the rear lot line and the rear of the outside wall
of the main building. On both corner lots and interior lots, the rear
yard shall in all cases be at the opposite end of the lot from the
front yard.
14A-6.1.129 Yard, Side:
A yard between the building and
the side line of the lot and extending from the front lot line to
the rear lot line and the outside wall of the side of the main building.
14A-6.1.130 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 where otherwise specifically
provided in this Ordinance that the building or structure may be located
in a portion of a yard required for a main building. In measuring
a yard for the purpose of determining the width of the side yard,
the depth of a front yard or the depth of a rear yard, the depth of
a front yard or the depth of a rear yard, the shortest horizontal
distance between the lot line and the main building shall be used.
14A-6.1.131 Zoning District Map:
The zoning district map
of the city adopted as part of this Ordinance pursuant to Section
1.12.1 of this Ordinance, as the same may be amended, revised, replaced,
or otherwise modified from time to time.
(Ordinance 2018-555 adopted 10/16/18)
(Ordinance 2018-555 adopted 10/16/18)
(Ordinance 2018-555 adopted 10/16/18; Ordinance 2021-601 adopted 1/11/21; Ordinance
2022-614 adopted 1/10/22)