Definitions. The following words or terms shall have
the following meanings where used herein:
ACCESSORY BUILDING OR USE
A use or structure customarily incident and subordinate to
the principal use of land or buildings and located on the same lot
with such principal use or building.
ALTER
As applied to a building, means a change or rearrangement
of supporting members or exit facilities, or an enlargement, whether
by extending on a side or by increasing in height, or the moving from
one location or position to another.
BUILDING
Any structure having a roof supported by columns, piers or
walls, including lunch wagons, trailers or other structures on wheels,
or having other supports and any unroofed platform, terrace or porch.
BUILDING AREA
The area formed by the intersection of a horizontal plane
at average grade level and the vertical planes which coincide with
the exterior surface of the building. This area does not include uncovered
porches, terraces or steps, nor does "most projected area" include
roof overhangs.
BUILDING HEIGHT
The vertical distance measured from the average elevation
of the finished grade along the front of the building to the mean
elevation of the roof surface.
BUILDING LINE
A line formed by the intersection of a horizontal plane at
the average grade level and a vertical plane that coincides with the
exterior surface of the building on any side. All yard requirements
are measured to the "building line."
BUILDING PERMIT
A permit stating that the purpose for which a building or
land is to be used is in conformity with the uses permitted and all
other requirements under this chapter for the zone in which it is
located or is to be located.
CELLAR
A story partly underground and having more than 1/2 of its
clear height below the average level of the adjoining ground.
DWELLING, SINGLE-FAMILY
A building occupied or intended to be occupied exclusively
for residence purposes by one family or one housekeeping unit.
FAMILY
One or more persons who live together in one dwelling unit
and maintain a common nonprofit single housekeeping unit. It may consist
of a single person or of two or more persons, whether or not related
by blood, marriage or adoption. It may also include domestic servants
and gratuitous guests.
FIRST FLOOR AREA
Shall be measured by using the outside dimensions of the
residential portion of a building, excluding the area of an attached
garage. For a split-level or trilevel dwelling, the area shall be
considered to be the sum of the areas of the two adjoining residential
levels, excluding an attached garage.
GARAGE SALE
The display and/or sale of products, things, items or goods
presently located on a residential property or within a residential
dwelling or accessory structure. The things, items, goods or products
may be displayed and/or sold either outdoors or inside a building.
A garage sale does not include the sale of things, items, goods or
products brought onto the property for sale.
[Added 12-5-2012 by Ord. No. 19-2012]
JUNKYARD
Any area and/or structure used or intended to be used for
the conducting and operating of the business of selling, buying, storing
or trading in used or discarded metal, glass, paper, bags, cordate
or any use or disabled fixtures, vehicles or equipment of any kind.
LOT OR ZONING LOT
A piece, parcel or plot of land occupied or designed to be
occupied by a building and its accessory buildings, together with
such open spaces as are arranged and designed to be used in connection
with such buildings.
LOT DEPTH
A mean horizontal distance between the front and rear lot
lines, measured at right angles to the street in the general direction
of the lot side lines.
[Amended 12-1-1982 by Ord. No. 11-82]
LOT WIDTH
The horizontal distance between the side lot lines, measured
at right angles to the lot depth at the building line.
MOTELS OR TOURIST CAMPS
A building or group of buildings which contains living or
sleeping accommodations for transient occupancy and has individual
outside entrances to each unit.
NONCONFORMING BUILDING
A building or structure or portion thereof lawfully existing
at the time of enactment of this chapter which was designed, erected
or structurally altered for a use that does not conform to the use
regulations of the district in which it is located.
NONCONFORMING LOT
A lot or parcel which does not have a minimum width or depth
or contain the minimum area for the zone in which it is located or
the use to which it is being put.
NONCONFORMING USE
A use which lawfully occupied a building or land at the time
of enactment of this chapter and which does not conform to the use
regulations of the district in which it is located.
NUISANCE
An offensive, annoying, unpleasant or obnoxious thing or
practice; a cause or source of annoyance, especially a continuing
or repeated invasion or disturbance of another's rights, including
the actual or potential emanation of any physical characteristics
or activity or use across a property line which can be perceived by
or affect a human being of ordinary sensibility, or the generation
of an excessive or concentrated movement of people or things, such
as but not limited to:
(11)
Electronic or atomic radiation.
(13)
Noise or congregation of people, especially
at night.
(15)
Transportation of things by truck, rail or other
means.
(16)
Invasion of nonabutting street frontage by parking.
OPEN SPACE
Any unbuilt area intended to meet the side, rear or front
space requirements of this chapter.
OUTDOOR FURNACE
Any equipment, device, appliance or apparatus, or any part
thereof, which is a) installed, affixed or situated outdoors; b) wood-,
biomass- and/or pellet-fed; and c) utilized for the purpose of combustion
of fuel to produce heat or energy used as a component of a heating
system providing heat for any interior space or water source. This
term includes but is not limited to wood boilers.
[Added 12-5-2012 by Ord. No. 15-2012]
PRIVATE GARAGE
A detached accessory building or portion of a main building
for the parking of or temporary storage of automobiles of occupants
of the main building and wherein not more than one space is rented
to persons not residents of the lot or not more than one commercial
vehicle not to exceed two tons in net weight is parked or stored.
SIGN AND/OR ADVERTISING STRUCTURE
Every sign, billboard, ground sign, roof sign, sign painted
or printed on the exterior surface of a building or structure, illuminated
sign, temporary sign, awning, banner and canopy, and includes any
announcement, declaration, demonstration, display, illustration or
insignia used to advertise or promote the interests of any person
or product when the same is placed out of doors in view of the general
public.
STREET LINE
The line which separates the publicly owned or controlled
street right-of-way from the private property which abuts upon said
street as distinct from a sidewalk line, curbline or edge-of-pavement
line. In cases where title runs to the center of the street subject
to the public easement, the curbline shall be considered the "street
line."
STRUCTURE
Anything constructed or erected which requires permanent
location on the ground or attachment to something having such location.
TRAILER
A vehicle or residence on wheels (whether attached or removed),
skids or rollers without motive power, designed to be used for human
habitation or for carrying persons or property, including a trailer
coach or house trailer.
TRAILER CAMP
Land used or intended to be used by tents, trailers or movable
dwellings. Two or more trailers, whether parked or supported by foundations,
shall constitute a "trailer camp."
YARD, FRONT
An open space extending across the full width of the lot,
the depth of which is the minimum horizontal distance between the
nearest point on the street line and the nearest part of the main
or accessory building.
YARD MEASUREMENT
Front yards shall be measured from the street line as defined
in this chapter. On a lot which has frontage on two or more streets,
including corner lots, the building setback from each street shall
not be less than the required front yard setback in the zone district
in which said lot is located.
[Added 12-5-2012 by Ord. No. 14-2012]
YARD, REAR
An open space extending the full width of the lot between
the main building and the rear lot line. The depth of the required
"rear yard" shall be measured horizontally from the nearest part of
the main building toward the nearest point of the rear lot line.
YARD SALE
The outdoor display and/or sale of products, things, items
or goods presently located on a residential property or within a residential
dwelling or accessory structure. The display and/or sale is conducted
outdoors. A yard sale does not include the sale of things, items,
goods or products brought onto the property for sale.
[Added 12-5-2012 by Ord. No. 19-2012]
YARD, SIDE
An open space extending from the front yard to the rear yard
between the main building and the side lot line. The width of the
required "side yards" shall be measured horizontally from the nearest
point of the side lot line toward the nearest part of the main building.