For the purpose of this chapter, certain terms
or words used herein shall be interpreted or defined as follows:
A.Â
Words used in the present tense include the future
tense.
B.Â
The singular number includes the plural.
C.Â
The word "person" includes a corporation, as well
as a partnership, association or an individual.
D.Â
The term "shall" is always mandatory.
E.Â
The words "used" or "occupied" as applied to any land
or buildings shall be construed to include the words "intended," "arranged,"
or "designed" to be used or occupied.
F.Â
The word "building" includes the words "structure"
and "premises"; and the word "premises" includes the words "building
and land" and also includes the words "vacant land."
G.Â
The words "vacant land" shall include the word "premises."
As used in this chapter, the following terms shall have the
meanings indicated:
The actual cessation of a nonconforming use, coupled with
the intent not to put the premises again to the same use. Where there
is nonuse of a nonconforming use for a period of one year, the use
shall be deemed abandoned, unless proof is offered of the intent not
to abandon such nonconforming use.
A building subordinate to the main building on a lot and
used for a purpose customarily incidental to the uses of the main
building.
A use customarily incidental and subordinate to the principal
use or building and located on the same lot with such principal use
or building.
Any change in the supporting members of a building such as
bearing walls, columns, beams, or girders.
A building arranged, intended or designed to be occupied
by three or more families living independently of each other.
The total of areas taken on a horizontal plane at the main
grade level of the principal building and all accessory buildings,
exclusive of uncovered porches, terraces, and steps.
A dwelling unit sharing a common side or rear wall or walls
with another dwelling unit or units, or sharing a common space which
is bounded by the floor of one unit or units and the ceiling of a
unit or units below, provided that each such unit is intended to be
occupied by a single family living independently of the other families,
having a separate entrance or entrances, individual access to utility
service and intended to be held in single and separate ownership from
adjoining units.
[Added by L.L. No. 3-1987]
A building, land or premises where the business carried on
is the sale of gasoline, oil, accessories for motor vehicles, the
servicing or washing of motor vehicles and which includes only minor
repairs and adjustments.
That space of a building that is partly below grade which
has more than 1/2 of its height, measured from floor to ceiling, above
the established finished grade of the ground adjoining the building.
A basement shall be included as a story for the purpose of height
measurement.
[Amended 2-23-1962]
A territory or street, sometimes called a "square block,"
which is commonly used to designate that section of a square block,
so-called, fronting on a street between two intersecting streets.
Any dwelling in which more than three persons, either individually
or as families, are housed or lodged for hire with or without meals.
Any structure having a roof supported by columns or by walls
and intended for shelter, housing, or enclosure of persons, animals
or chattels. "Building or premises" shall mean and apply to both vacant
and improved real property.
The line of that face of the building nearest the front line
of the lot.
A story partly underground and having more than 1/2 of its
clear height below the average level of the adjoining ground. A cellar
shall not be considered a story for purposes of height measurement,
in determining the permissible number of stories.
An association of persons for social, fraternal or religious
purposes whose activities are confined to the members and their guests
and are not extended to the general public; including premises and
buildings for recreational or athletic purposes, whether or not the
facilities are extended to the general public.
[Amended 8-14-1969]
An open, unoccupied space bounded on two or more sides by
the exterior walls of a building or exterior walls and lot lines.
A court enclosed on not more than three sides by exterior
walls of a building or by exterior walls and lot lines on which walls
are allowable, with one side or end open to a street, driveway, alley
or yard.
The officially established grade of the curb in front of
the midpoint of the lot and, for the purpose of measuring the height
of any portion of a building, is the mean level of the curb along
the street frontage. Where no curb level exists, the grade will be
determined by the Official Map of the Village and/or the Village Engineer.
The mean distance from the street line of a lot to the rear
line measured at right angles to the street line.
A building designed or used exclusively as the living quarters
for one or more families.
A building used or designed as a residence for three or more
families living independently of each other and doing their own cooking
therein, including an apartment house or apartment hotels.
A detached building designed for or occupied exclusively
by one family. Domestic help living in shall, for the purpose of this
definition, be considered members of the family.[1]
A building designed for or occupied exclusively by two families
living independently of each other.
A dwelling or portion thereof providing complete living facilities
for one family.
The actual lawful use of the premises at the time the zoning
ordinance is adopted or at the time a permit has been issued, provided
work has been actually done thereon or a valid contract made for such
work within the intent of the permit and before the amendment of this
chapter, insofar as it affects the use allowed under the permit, or
the adoption of a new zoning ordinance.
Any number of individuals, related by blood, marriage or
adoption, living and cooking together on the premises as a single
housekeeping unit and may include domestic help living in or not more
than two paying lodgers or boarders.[2]
That part of a building or land which fronts on or is bounded
by a public street, place or walk.
A garage used for storage purposes only and having a capacity of not more than two automobiles in one- or two-family dwellings, or not more than one automobile per family housed in the building to which such garage is accessory, whichever is greater. Space therein may be used for not more than one commercial vehicle and space may be rented for not more than two vehicles of other than occupants of the building to which such garage is accessory. See § 625-36B for garages for apartment house or multiple dwellings.[3]
Any garage, other than a private garage, available to the
public, operated for gain, and which is used for storage, rental,
greasing, washing, servicing or adjusting of automobiles or other
motor vehicles.
The elevation of the center line of the street as officially
established by the Village authorities.
The natural surface of the ground or surface of the ground
after completion of any change in contour.
[Added 2-23-1962]
The area included within surrounding walls of a building.
The vertical distance measured from the base floodplain plus
two feet to the highest point of the building.
[Amended 2-23-1962; by L.L.
No. 2-1991; 2-21-2013 by L.L. No. 1-2013]
A building containing rooms intended or designed to be used
or which are used, rented or hired out to be occupied or which are
occupied for sleeping purposes by guests and where only a general
kitchen and dining room are provided within the building or in an
accessory building. It may include newsstands and other accessory
services primarily for serving its occupants and only incidentally
the public.
That branch of trade employing capital and labor in a business
for money making as distinguished from a profession.
An establishment where the public may wash and/or iron its
clothes or textiles by hand or machine of home automatic type furnished
by the establishment and operated for gain.
A building where laundry work is performed for the public
by employees of the establishment for the purpose of gain, and in
which the washing and ironing of clothes and other textiles is accomplished
by hand or machine, or by both.
The manufacture of articles or the assembling of finished
or unfinished manufactured parts by hand or machine, or both, as distinguished
from heavy industry. Repairing is intended to be included within the
meaning of light manufacturing, except that the repairing of shoes,
leather goods and wearing apparel shall not come within the definition
of light manufacturing.
The dividing line between the street and the lot.
A portion or parcel of land considered as a unit, devoted
to a certain use or occupied by a building that is united by a common
interest, or use, and the customary accessories and open spaces belonging
to same.
A parcel of land at the junction of and fronting on two or
more intersecting streets.
A lot other than a corner lot.
Any line dividing one lot from another.
An interior lot having frontage on two parallel or approximately
parallel streets.
The mean width measured at right angles to its depth.
All repairs other than those listed as minor repairs.
Synonymous and mean work upon raw materials or upon finished
or unfinished parts into a finished product; the assembling of parts
into a finished product.
The average height of the sea at Sandy Hook, New Jersey,
all stages of the tide being considered as determined by the U.S.
Coast Geodetic Survey.
[Amended 2-23-1962]
To fix and repair tires; install or repair distributor
points; clean, adjust and reinstall spark plugs; renew and install
new ignition wiring; replace hose connections, whether connected with
windshield wipers or circulation systems; repair or replace gasoline
strainers or oil filters; adjust brakes; renew and replace all headlights,
other light bulbs, the accessories thereto, and switches; repair or
replace fuel pumps; repair or replace coils; renew, recharge and replace
batteries; repair ammeters; and such other removal, replacement and
adjustment, and repairs similar in nature or character to the above.
All other work not included in the above will
be regarded and deemed to be major repairs.
A building or portion of a building arranged, intended or
designed to be used for making repairs to motor vehicles.
A structure or land lawfully occupied by a use that does
not conform to the regulations of the district in which it is situated.
Ground or land upon which motor vehicles are transiently
placed and does not include the grounds of a private house, hotel,
residential hotel, apartment or multiple dwelling or garden-type apartment.
The area required for parking one automobile, which in this
chapter is held to be an area eight feet wide and 20 feet long, exclusive
of passageways for ingress or egress.
What is generally known and designated as a porch, veranda,
gallery, terrace, piazzo, portico or a substantially similar common
projection from any wall of a building and not more than one story
in height, without excavation below the same.
A roof having a pitch of not more than 1/4 inch per foot.
All one- and two-family dwellings shall have a roof other than a flat
roof.
[Amended 11-19-1959]
A roof having a pitch of more than 1/4 inch per foot.
Any movable board or contrivance upon which an advertisement
appears. This shall not include the use of a name or emblem upon the
building nor shall it include the usual board notices in or about
church property.
Premises arranged for or capable of use for living purposes.
A place in the open where articles are displayed for the
purpose of sale or promotion of sales or of samples or merchandise
to be sold, whether contained upon boxes, crates, or a framework of
temporary or permanent character. Such display in a store or building
within 10 feet of an open show window facing the street is hereby
defined also as a stand or vendor's stand.
That portion of a building which is between one floor level
and the next higher floor level or the roof. A basement shall be deemed
to be a story. An attic shall be deemed to be a story if finished
and used as living accommodations for one or more persons.
[Amended 2-23-1962]
A combination of materials, other than a building, to form
a construction that is safe and stable and includes, among other things,
stadiums, platforms, towers, sheds, storage, bins, fences and display
signs.
The main wall of a building fronting on the street, excluding
a porch, front bay windows, vestibules and chimneys.
An open, unoccupied space on the same lot with a main building,
extending the full width of the lot and situated between the street
line and the front line of the building projected to the side lines
of the lot. The depth of the front yard shall be measured between
the front line of the building and the street line. Covered porches,
whether enclosed or unenclosed, shall be considered as part of the
main building and shall not project into a required front yard.
An open, unoccupied space on the same lot with a main building,
extending the full width of the lot and situated between the rear
line of the lot 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 line of the lot, or the center line of the alley
if there is an alley, and the rear line of the building.
An open, unoccupied space on the same lot between the building
and side lot line and extending through from the front building line
to the rear yard and, where no rear yard is required, to the rear
line of the lot. A court on the lot line is also defined as a side
yard.
