Note: Prior history: Prior Code § 9-102 and
Ords. NS 926 and NS 988.
For the purpose of this title, certain terms used in this title
are defined as follows:
All the words used in the present tense shall include the future
tense; all words in the plural number shall include the singular number,
and all words in the singular number shall include the plural number,
unless the natural construction of the wording indicates otherwise.
The word "lot" includes the word "plot"; the word "building" includes
the word "structure" and the word "shall" is mandatory and not directory.
The word "county" as used in this title means Stanislaus County, California;
the words "board of supervisors" means the board of supervisors of
the county; the words "planning commission" means the planning commission
of the county; and the words "county boundary" means the boundary
of the county and/or the boundary of any incorporated municipality
within the county. The words "planning director" mean the director
of planning and community development of the county.
(Ord. CS 106 §1, 1984)
"Agriculture" means the tilling of the soil, the raising of
crops, horticulture, viticulture, small livestock farming, dairying,
aquaculture, or animal husbandry, including all uses customarily incidental
thereto but not including slaughterhouses, fertilizer yards, bone
yards or plants for the reduction of animal matter or any other industrial
use which is similarly objectionable because of noise, odor, smoke,
dust or fumes.
(Ord. CS 106 §1, 1984; Ord. CS 1020 § 1, 2007)
"Agricultural processing" means the act of changing an agricultural product (fruits, nuts and vegetables, but not including animals) from its natural state to a different form, such as grapes to wine, apples to juice or sauce, etc. Incidental activities such as packing, sizing, polishing, hulling and the like, shall not be considered to be agricultural processing for the purposes of Section 21.20.030(H).
(Ord. CS 424 §3, 1991)
"Agricultural service establishment" means a business engaging
in activities designed to aid production agriculture. Service does
not include the provision of tangible goods except those sold directly
to farmers and used specifically to aid in production of farm animals
or crops. Nor does service include any business which has the primary
function of manufacturing products.
(Ord. CS 106 §1, 1984; Ord. CS. 1020 § 2, 2007)
"Aircraft" means any contrivance used or designed for navigation
of, or flight in, the air (including helicopters and ultralights).
(Ord. CS 106 §1, 1984)
"Airport" means any area of land or water, including areas elevated
on a structure, which is used, or intended for use, for the landing
and take-off of aircraft. "Airport" also includes appurtenant areas
which are used, or intended for use, for airport buildings or other
airport facilities or rights-of-way, and all airport buildings and
facilities located thereon.
(Ord. CS 106 §1, 1984)
"Agricultural service airport" means an airport which is primarily
used by aircraft engaged in spraying, dusting, fertilizing and seeding
of agricultural land or crops.
(Ord. CS 106 §1, 1984)
"Private airport" means a privately owned airport for the personal
use of the tenant or owner of record not open to the general public
and not used for any crop dusting operations.
(Ord. CS 106 §1, 1984)
"Public airport" means a publicly or privately owned airport
open to the general public.
(Ord. CS 106 §1, 1984)
"Temporary agricultural service airport" means an airport which
is exclusively used by aircraft engaged in spraying, dusting, fertilizing
and seeding of agricultural lands or crops, five or less days per
year, having no permanent structures or appurtenances for aircraft
and no fixed-based aircraft.
(Ord. CS 106 §1, 1984)
"Alley" means any public thoroughfare, not exceeding thirty
feet in width for the use of pedestrians or vehicles which affords
only a secondary means of access to abutting property.
(Ord. CS 106 §1, 1984)
"Apartment" means a room or suite of two or more rooms which
is designed for, intended for or occupied by one family doing its
cooking therein.
(Ord. CS 106 §1, 1984)
See Junkyards.
(Ord. CS 106 §1, 1984)
"Boardinghouse" means a dwelling, other than a hotel or a residential
care home, wherein lodging and meals for five or more persons is provided
for compensation.
(Ord. CS 106 §1, 1984)
"Building" means any structure having a roof supported by columns
or by walls and intended for the shelter, housing or enclosure of
any person, animal or chattel. When any portion thereof is completely
separated from every other portion thereof by a masonry division or
fire wall without any window, door or any other opening therein, which
wall extends from the ground to the upper surface of the roof at every
point, then each such portion shall be deemed to be a separate building.
(Ord. CS 106 §1, 1984)
"Accessory building" means a subordinate building, the use of
which is incidental to, and reasonably related to, a main building
on the same lot or to the primary use of the property. Signs and fences
are not to be considered as accessory buildings. A "detached" accessory
building shall be one that does not have a common wall with the main
building on the same lot.
(Ord. CS 106 §1, 1984)
"Main building" means a building in which is conducted the principal
use of the lot upon which it is situated. In any "R" district, any
dwelling shall be deemed to be a main building upon the lot upon which
the same is situated.
(Ord. CS 106 §1, 1984)
"Business or commerce" means the purchase, sale or other transaction
involving the handling or disposition (other than is included in the
term "industry" as defined in this chapter) of any article, substance
or commodity for profit or livelihood, including, in addition, office
buildings, offices, shops for the sale of personal services, garages,
outdoor advertising signs and outdoor advertising structures, automobile
camps, automobile courts, and recreational and amusement enterprises
conducted for profit, but not including junkyards.
(Ord. CS 106 §1, 1984)
"Campground" means land or premises used or intended to be used,
let or rented for occupancy by campers traveling by automobiles or
otherwise, or for temporary occupancy by or of trailers, recreational
vehicles (RVs), or movable sleeping quarters of any kind.
(Ord. CS 106 §1, 1984)
"Carnival" means a traveling or itinerant commercial amusement
enterprise consisting of sideshows, vaudeville, games, merry-go-rounds
or other mechanical amusement devices temporarily located within the
county. A carnival shall not be construed to include or mean a festival
or amusement.
(Ord. CS 106 §1, 1984)
"Carport" means an accessible and usable covered space of not
less than nine feet by nineteen feet that is open on at least two
sides and can be used for the parking of automobiles off the street.
The edge of the roof line shall be considered the vehicle opening
for the purposes of determining setback.
(Ord. CS 106 §1, 1984)
"Circus" means a traveling or itinerant commercial amusement
enterprise utilizing an enclosure of any kind, but usually circular
or rectangular, partially surrounded by seats, used for exhibitions
of horsemanship, acrobatic performances, acts of clowns, feats of
animal training or the like, temporarily located within the county.
(Ord. CS 106 §1, 1984)
"Commercial cannabis activity" means the commercial cultivation, possession, manufacturing, processing, storing, laboratory testing, labeling, transporting, distribution, or sale of medicinal or non-medicinal cannabis or a medicinal or non-medicinal cannabis product. For the purposes of this title, "commercial cannabis activity" does not include the activities defined in Section 11362.1 and Section 11362.2 of the California Health and Safety Code. All commercial cannabis activities shall be operated in compliance with all the requirements of Chapter 6.78 of the Stanislaus County Code.
(Ord. CS 1205 §2, 2017)
"Confined animal facility" means a confined animal facility
as defined by state or federal statute and regulations adopted by
the Regional Water Quality Control Board.
(Ord. CS 861 §1, 2003)
"Day care center" means a dwelling or building or structure
in which persons not of the immediate family are provided with care
for compensation for a portion of the day not exceeding twelve hours
in any twenty-four-hour period. A day care center shall not include
twenty-four-hour care and shelter. Any child day care facility other
than a family day care home is a day care center, including infant
centers, preschools, and extended day care facilities.
(Ord. CS 106 §1, 1984; Ord. 663 §1, 1998)
"Density bonus" means a density increase of at least twenty-five percent over the otherwise allowable residential density under the applicable zoning district, in accordance with Chapter 21.82 Density Bonus.
(Ord. CS 106 §1, 1984; Ord. CS 1169 §2, 2015)
"District" means a portion of the unincorporated territory of
the county within which certain uses of land, premises and buildings
are permitted and certain other uses of land, premises and buildings
are not permitted and within which certain yards and open spaces are
required and certain building site areas are established and certain
height limits are specified for buildings, all as set forth and specified
in this title.
(Ord. CS 106 §1, 1984)
"Accessory dwelling," "ADU," or "accessory dwelling unit" means
a building which provides independent living facilities for one or
more persons on the same parcel on which one or more dwelling units
are located. An accessory dwelling unit (ADU) shall include independent
living, sleeping, eating, cooking, and bathing facilities and may
be detached from, within, or attached to a dwelling unit.
(Ord. CS 1290 §3, 2021)
"Junior accessory dwelling," "JADU," or "junior accessory dwelling
unit" means an accessory dwelling (ADU) that is no more than five
hundred square feet in size and contained entirely within an existing
dwelling unit, which includes cooking facilities that provides equal
to or greater accommodations as an efficiency kitchen and may include
independent bathroom and bathing facilities, or may share bathroom
facilities with a dwelling unit.
(Ord. CS 1290 §4, 2021)
"Single-family dwelling" means a detached building designed
for and occupied exclusively by one family. Single-family dwelling
shall include a dwelling that is utilized for the purposes of providing
transitional housing or supportive housing as defined in this chapter.
(Ord. CS 106 §1, 1984; Ord. CS 1169 §3, 2015)
"Two-family dwelling (duplex)" means a detached building designed
for and occupied exclusively by two families living independently
of each other. Two-family dwelling (duplex) shall include a dwelling
that is utilized for the purposes of providing transitional housing
or supportive housing as defined in this chapter.
(Ord. CS 106 §1, 1984; Ord. CS 1169 §4, 2015)
"Multiple dwelling" means a building or portion thereof used
and designed as a residence for three or more families living independently
of each other, and doing their own cooking in the building. Multiple-family
dwelling shall include a dwelling that is utilized for the purposes
of providing transitional housing or supportive housing as defined
in this chapter.
(Ord. CS 106 §1, 1984; Ord. CS 1169 §5, 2015)
"Group dwelling" means a group of two or more detached or semidetached
single-family, two-family or multiple dwellings occupying a parcel
of land in one ownership.
(Ord. CS 106 §1, 1984)
"Efficiency kitchen" means a cooking facility which includes
all of the following: a sink with a maximum waste line diameter of
one and one-half inches; a cooking facility with appliances that do
not require electrical service greater than one hundred twenty volts,
or natural or propane gas; and a food preparation counter and storage
cabinets.
(Ord. CS 1290 §5, 2021)
"Emergency shelter" means housing with minimal supportive services
for homeless persons that is limited to occupancy of six months or
less by a homeless person. No individual or household may be denied
emergency shelter because of an inability to pay. This definition
is established pursuant to the provisions of California Health and
Safety Code Section 50801(e). This does not include temporary emergency
shelters whose purpose is to intermittently house individuals who
have lost their housing due to a community-wide disaster as defined
in Section 8680 of the California Government Code (the California
Disaster Assistance Act).
(Ord. CS 1169 §6, 2015)
"Family" means one or more persons occupying a premises and
living as a single, nonprofit housekeeping unit, as distinguished
from a group occupying a hotel, club, fraternity or sorority house.
(Ord. CS 106 §1, 1984)
"Family day care" means a home that regularly provides care,
protection, and supervision for fourteen or fewer children, in the
provider's own home, for periods of less than twenty-four hours per
day, while the parents or guardians are away, and is either a large
family day care home or a small family day care home.
A.
"Large
family day care home" means a home that provides family day care for
seven to fourteen children, inclusive, including children under the
age of ten years who reside at the home, as set forth in California
Health and Safety Code Section 1597.465 and as defined in regulations.
B.
"Small
family day care home" means a home that provides family day care for
eight or fewer children, including children under the age of ten years
who reside at the home, as set forth in California Health and Safety
Code Section 1597.44 and as defined in regulations.
(Ord. CS 106 §1, 1984; Ord. CS 663 §2, 1998)
"Farm labor camp" means any living quarters, dwelling, boardinghouse,
tent, bunkhouse, camper, mobile home or other housing accommodation,
maintained by an employer for five or more employees in connection
with any agricultural work or place where agricultural work is being
performed.
(Ord. CS 106 §1, 1984)
"Garage" means an accessible and usable covered space of not
less than nine feet by nineteen feet for the parking of automobiles
off the street.
(Ord. CS 106 §1, 1984)
"Public garage" means any premises, used for the storage or
care of self-propelled vehicles or where any such vehicles are equipped
for operation or repair, or kept for remuneration, hire or sale.
(Ord. CS 106 §1, 1984)
"Garage sales, yard sales, moving sales, patio sales and similar
uses" means the retail sales of used or secondhand goods or merchandise
in connection with a lawfully existing dwelling unit on property within
any zoning district, provided that:
A.
No
such sale shall be conducted upon the same premises for more than
three consecutive days nor on more than two separate occasions within
any one calendar year;
B.
No
such sale shall result in the use of more than two unlighted signs
not exceeding three square feet each in area. The signs to be displayed
only on private property with the consent of the owner thereof and
only during such times as the garage sale is actually being conducted.
This definition includes similar sales commonly referred to as patio
sales, yard sales, etc.
(Ord. CS 106 §1, 1984)
"Height of building" means the vertical distance from the grade
to the highest point of the coping of a flat roof or to the deck line
of a mansard roof or to the average height of the highest gable of
a pitch or hip roof.
(Ord. CS 106 §1, 1984)
"Home occupation" means a use conducted in a dwelling unit or accessory building which is clearly incidental and subordinate to the use of the dwelling for residential purposes. Such use shall not be considered to be incidental and subordinate unless all of the criteria outlined in Chapter 21.94 are met.
(Ord. CS 106 §1, 1984)
"Industry" means the manufacture, fabrication, reduction or
destruction of any article, substance or commodity or any other treatment
thereof in such a manner as to change the form or character thereof.
(Ord. CS 106 §1, 1984)
"Junk" means and includes, but is not limited to, surplus materials,
secondhand material, any damaged, discarded, obsolete, salvaged, scrapped,
worn out, wrecked or dismantled object, thing or material composed
in whole or part of asphalt, brick, carbon, cement, plastic or other
synthetic substance, fibre, glass, metal, paper, plaster, plaster
of Paris, rubber, wool, terra cotta, cotton, cloth, canvas, organic
material or other substance requiring reconditioning or rebuilding
in order to be used for its original purpose.
(Ord. CS 471, 1991)
"Junkyard" means the use of more than two hundred square feet
of the area of any parcel, lot, or contiguous lots or parcels for
the storage or keeping of junk, or for the dismantling or wrecking
of automobiles or other vehicles or machinery.
(Ord. CS 106 §1, 1984; Ord. CS 471, 1991)
"Kennel" means a place where five or more dogs or cats over
four months of age are kept for commercial or noncommercial purposes.
(Ord. CS 106 §1, 1984)
"Living space" means the heated or cooled (conditioned) space
within a building utilized for living, sleeping, eating, cooking,
or bathing. Square footage of a living space shall be measured from
the outside surface of exterior walls and shall not include unconditioned
space such as a garage, basement, attic, or utility closet.
(Ord. CS 1290 §7, 2021)
"Lot" means land occupied or to be occupied by a building and
its accessory buildings, or by a dwelling group and its accessory
buildings, together with such open spaces as are required under the
provisions of this title, having not less than the minimum area required
by this title for a building site in the district in which the lot
is situated, and having the principal frontage on a street.
(Ord. CS 106 §1, 1984)
"Corner lot" means a lot situated at the intersection of two
or more streets, or bounded on two or more adjacent sides by street
lines.
(Ord. CS 106 §1, 1984)
"Interior lot" means a lot other than a corner lot.
(Ord. CS 106 §1, 1984)
"Lot area" means the total horizontal area included within lot
lines. The area shall be the net acreage unless otherwise specified.
(Ord. CS 106 §1, 1984)
"Lot depth" means the average distance from the street line
of the lot to its rear line measured in the general direction of the
side lines of the lot.
(Ord. CS 106 §1, 1984)
"Lot frontage" means that portion of a lot abutting a public
street.
(Ord. CS 106 §1, 1984)
"Lot lines" means the lines bounding a lot as defined in this
chapter.
(Ord. CS 106 §1, 1984)
"Lot width" means the distance between the side lines of a lot
measured at the building setback line.
(Ord. CS 106 §1, 1984)
"Rear lot line" means that line of a lot which is generally
opposite the lot line along the frontage of the lot. In cases in which
this definition is not applicable, the planning commission shall designate
the rear lot line.
(Ord. CS 106 §1, 1984)
"Mobile home park" means a lot or parcel of land which is used
exclusively for the parking thereon of ten or more mobile homes for
a rental charge, or for rent or lease of mobile homes, and for appurtenant
facilities for the exclusive use of the occupants such as laundry,
restrooms, recreation and storage facilities, and mobile home or office
facility for the owner or manager. For mobile home parks of twenty-five
spaces or more, there may be maintained a dwelling for the owner or
manager. This definition is for zoning purposes only and shall not
be construed to affect the definition of mobile home parks in the
State Mobile Home Parks Act (Health and Safety Code, Section 18200,
et seq.) or to affect enforcement of the provisions of the Act.
(Ord. CS 106 §1, 1984)
"Mobile home" means a structure that meets the definition of
a manufactured home as defined by Section 18007 the California Health
and Safety Code.
(Ord. CS 106 §1, 1984; Ord. CS 1290 §8, 2021)
"Monument" means anything constructed, erected, shaped or placed
in remembrance of a person or event; excluding anything which draws
attention, whether intended or not intended, to a commercial enterprise.
(Ord. 449 §2, 1991)
"Motel" means a building or buildings containing guest rooms
or apartments with automobile storage space serving such rooms or
apartments provided in connection therewith, which group designed,
intended or used primarily for the accommodation of automobile travelers;
including groups designed as auto cabins, motor lodges, and by similar
designations.
(Ord. CS 106 §1, 1984)
"Nonconforming use" means a building or land occupied by a use
that does not conform to the regulations for the district in which
it is situated.
(Ord. CS 106 §1, 1984)
"Outdoor advertising sign" means any card, cloth, paper, metal,
painted glass, wooden, plaster, stone, or other sign of any kind or
character whatsoever, placed for outdoor advertising purposes on the
ground or on any tree, wall, bush, rock, post, fence, building, structure
or thing whatsoever. The term "placed" as used in the definitions
of "outdoor advertising structure" shall include erecting, constructing,
posting, painting, printing, tacking, nailing, gluing, sticking, carving,
or otherwise fastening, affixing, or making visible in any manner
whatsoever.
(Ord. CS 106 §1, 1984)
"Outdoor advertising structure" means any structure of any kind
or character erected or maintained for outdoor advertising purposes,
upon which any outdoor advertising sign may be placed, including outdoor
advertising statuary.
(Ord. CS 106 §1, 1984)
"Parcel" means any lot or portion of land which has been legally
separated from another parcel or portion of land in accordance with
the California Subdivision Map Act.
(Ord. CS 1290 §9, 2021)
"Parking space" means an accessory and usable space on a building
site with access for the parking of automobiles that shall be of a
size at least as large as required in the county improvement specifications
as adopted by the board of supervisors from time to time.
(Ord. CS 106 §1, 1984)
"Planned street line" means the street line of any street, road
or highway at its ultimate width as defined or delineated within the
circulation element of the county general plan.
(Ord. CS 106 §1, 1984)
"Production agriculture" means agriculture for the purpose of
producing any and all plant and animal commodities for commercial
purposes.
(Ord. CS 1020 §3, 2007)
"Racing homing pigeons" means a pigeon trained to return home
from a distance and which is identified by a nonremovable seamless
band issued by a nationally recognized racing homing pigeon association.
(Ord. CS 106 §1, 1984)
"Recreational vehicle" means any vehicle as defined by Section
18010 of the California Health and Safety Code. The use of a recreational
vehicles for human habitation shall not be permitted in any zoning
district.
(Ord. CS 1290 §10, 2021)
"Residential care home" means a dwelling or building, or structure
in which seven or more persons not of the immediate family are provided
with food, shelter and care for compensation, but not including hospitals,
clinics or similar institutions devoted primarily to diagnosis and
treatment of disease or injury.
(Ord. CS 106 §1, 1984)
An establishment engaged in selling goods to the ultimate consumer.
The allowed area of a retail store shall include both the interior
space within the structure and any outdoor area use to display or
store goods for sale.
(Ord. CS 896 §1, 2004)
"Rooming house" means a dwelling, building or structure (other
than a residential care home) occupied by five or more persons who
have agreed to pay a specific rent for a specific space as distinguished
from guests subject to innkeepers liability.
(Ord. CS 106 §1, 1984)
"Small livestock farming" means the raising or keeping of more than a combined total of twelve chicken hens, turkeys or twelve pigeons (other than defined in Section 21.12.500) or twelve similar fowl or twelve rabbits or twelve similar animals, or four permanent standard beehives. "Small livestock farming" as used in this title shall not allow for the keeping, in any quantity, of roosters, quacking duck, geese, guinea fowl, peafowl, worms (except for personal use), or any other small domestic animal determined by the planning director to have the potential to cause a nuisance. The keeping of animals in quantities less than described above is permitted in any district.
(Ord. CS 106 §1, 1984; Ord. CS 1202 §1, 2017)
"Small wind energy system" means a wind energy conversion system
consisting of a wind turbine, a tower, and associated control or conversion
electronics, which has a rated capacity that does not exceed the allowable
rated capacity under the Emerging Renewables Fund of the Renewables
Investment Plan administered by the California Energy Commission and
which will be used primarily to reduce onsite consumption of utility
power. "Tower height," as it pertains to such systems, means the height
above grade of the fixed portion of the tower, excluding the wind
turbine.
(Ord. CS 798 §2, 2002)
"Private stable" means an accessory building or space where
horses are kept for the private use of the owner and guests.
(Ord. CS 106 §1, 1984)
"Public stable" means a building other than a private stable
for the commercial rental, training, or boarding of horses.
(Ord. CS 106 §1, 1984)
"Street" means a public or private thoroughfare which affords
the principal means of access to abutting property including avenue,
place, way, drive, lane, boulevard, highway, road and any other thoroughfare
except an alley as defined in this chapter.
(Ord. CS 106 §1, 1984)
"Street line" means the boundary between a parcel and the abutting
street.
(Ord. CS 106 §1, 1984)
"Structural alterations" means any change in the supporting
member of a building, such as bearing walls, columns, beams, or girders.
(Ord. CS 106 §1, 1984)
"Structure" means anything constructed or erected, the use of
which required location on the ground or attachment to something having
location on the ground; including, but not limited to, buildings,
fences, walls, and free-standing signs.
(Ord. CS 106 §1, 1984)
"Supportive housing" means housing with no limit on length of
stay that is occupied by the target population, as defined in California
Government Code Section 65582(g), and that is linked to on- or off-site
services that assist the supportive housing resident in retaining
the housing, improving his or her health status, and maximizing his
or her ability to live and, when possible, work in the community.
This definition is established pursuant to the provisions of California
Health and Safety Code Section 50675.14(b)(2) and California Government
Code Section 65582(f).
(Ord. CS 1169 §7, 2015)
"Surface mining" means processes for the commercial removal
of minerals from the surface of the earth.
(Ord. CS 106 §1, 1984)
"Swimming pool" or "pool" means any structure intended for swimming
or recreational bathing that contains water over eighteen inches deep.
"Swimming pool" includes in-ground and aboveground structures and
includes, but is not limited to, hot tubs, spas, portable spas, and
non-portable wading pools.
(Ord. CS 778 §2, 2001)
"Tasting room" means a facility in which agricultural products
grown or processed on the premises may be tasted and sold. A restaurant,
where complete meals are served and consumed, shall not be considered
to be a tasting room.
(Ord. CS 424 §4, 1991)
"Transitional housing" and "transitional housing development"
means buildings configured as rental housing developments, but operated
under program requirements that call for the termination of assistance
and recirculation of the assisted unit to another eligible program
recipient at some predetermined future point in time, which shall
be no less than six months from the beginning of assistance. This
definition is established pursuant to the provisions of California
Health and Safety Code Section 50675.2(h) and California Government
Code Section 65582(h).
(Ord. CS 1169 §8, 2015)
"Use" means the purpose for which land or a building is designed,
arranged, or intended or for which it is or may be occupied or maintained.
(Ord. CS 106 §1, 1984)
"Accessory use" means a use incidental and accessory to the
principal use of a lot or a building located on the same lot as the
accessory use. Any agricultural use in any R-A district shall be deemed
to be an accessory use to the use of the property for residential
purposes.
(Ord. CS 106 §1, 1984)
"Vehicle storage yard" means any location consisting of parcel(s)
or lot(s) where three or more vehicles (as defined by Section 670
CVC), or vessels (as defined by Section 651 of the Harbors and Navigation
Code), or combinations of both, which are disabled, under repair or
restoration, and/or vehicles or vessels which are not currently registered
with the State Department of Motor Vehicles are stored. For purposes
of this section, a vessel and a trailer designed to carry a vessel
that are used together as one unit shall count as one vehicle or one
vessel.
(Ord. CS 471, 1991; Ord. CS 759 §1, 2001)
Establishments engaged in selling merchandise to retailers;
to commercial, industrial, farm, or professional business users; or
to other wholesalers; or acting as agents or brokers in buying merchandise
for selling merchandise to such persons or companies. Includes such
establishments as: agents, merchandise or commodity brokers, commission
merchants, assemblers, merchant wholesalers stores primarily selling
electrical, plumbing, heating and air conditioning and equipment.
(Ord. CS 896 §2, 2004)
Stores that emphasize the packing and sale of products in large
quantities or volumes, some at discounted prices, where products are
typically displayed in their original shipping containers. Sites and
buildings are usually large and industrial in character. Patrons may
be required to pay membership fees.
(Ord. CS 896 §2, 2004)
"Yard" means an open space other than a court on the same lot with a building, which open space is unoccupied and unobstructed from the ground upward. In measuring a yard, as provided in this title, the line of a building shall be deemed to mean a line parallel to the nearest lot line drawn through the point of a building or the point of a dwelling group nearest to such lot line, exclusive of the respective architectural features enumerated in Chapter 21.08 as not to be considered in measuring yard dimensions or being permitted to extend into any front side, or rear yard, respectively, and the measurement shall be taken from the line of the building to the nearest lot line; provided however, that if any official plan line has been established for the street on which the lot faces or if any future width line is specified therefor by the provisions of this title, then the measurement shall be taken from the official plan line or the future width line to the nearest line of the building.
(Ord. CS 106 §1, 1984)
"Front yard" means a yard extending across the front of the
lot between the inner side yard lines and lying between the front
line of the lot and the nearest line of the building.
(Ord. CS 106 §1, 1984)
"Rear yard" means a yard extending across the full width of
the lot and lying between the rear line of the lot and the nearest
line of the building.
(Ord. CS 106 §1, 1984)
"Side yard" means a yard between the side line of the lot and
the nearest line of the building and extending from the front line
of the lot to the rear yard.
(Ord. CS 106 §1, 1984)
