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Except where specifically defined herein, all words used in this
chapter shall carry their customary meanings. Words used in the present
tense shall include the future. Words used in the singular number
include the plural, and words used in the plural number include the
singular, unless the context indicates the contrary.
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The word "shall" is always mandatory. The word "may" is permissive.
"Building" or "structure" includes any part thereof. The word "lot"
includes the word "plot" or "parcel." The word "person" includes an
individual person, a firm, a corporation, a copartnership, and any
other agency of voluntary action.
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The phrase "used for" includes "arranged for," "designed for," "intended
for," "maintained for," and "occupied for."
As used in this chapter, the following terms shall have the
meanings indicated:
The voluntary, absolute relinquishment, the giving up of
a known right to which one is entitled with the intention of permanently
terminating or parting with such right. Abandonment depends upon the
concurrence of two elements or factors: a) the intention to relinquish,
to permanently give up a known right to continue the nonconforming
use, and b) the cessation of such nonconforming use, an overt act
or failure to act, implying that the owner intends to permanently
cease from putting the premises to the nonconforming use, or such
other nonconforming use as may be permitted by this chapter; provided,
however, that the cessation of such nonconforming use for a period
of two years shall constitute an abandonment, unless such period has,
for good cause, been extended by the Zoning Board of Appeals.
A building detached from and subordinated to a main building
on the same lot used for purposes customarily incidental to those
of the main building.
A use customarily incidental and subordinated to the principal
use or building and located on the same lot with such principal use
or building.
The utilization of land and structures for the production,
preservation, nonindustrial processing, storage, and sale of agricultural
commodities raised directly on such land, including: crops, plants,
flowers, vines, trees, sod, shrubs, livestock, honey, Christmas trees,
compost, poultry, or dairy products.
An aircraft landing area maintained for the horizontal or
vertical landing and takeoff of aircraft with limited facilities for
the shelter, supply and repair of aircraft, dedicated solely for the
personal use of the owner of such property, used only for no more
than two aircraft owned by such person or that person's family, that
are single-engine aircraft with a seating capacity, including pilot's
seat, of four or less, and which landing area is used for no more
than 50 flights per year.
A piece of land that is maintained for the horizontal or
vertical landing and takeoff of aircraft used for receiving and discharging
passengers and/or cargo for personal or commercial use, that usually
has facilities for the shelter, supply and repair of aircraft, and
which landing area is used for more than 50 flights per year.
As applied to a building or structure, a change or rearrangement
in the structural parts or existing facilities of such building or
structure, or any enlargement thereof, whether by extension on any
side or by any increase in height, or the moving of such building
or structure from one location to another.
A commercially operated facility with various devices for
entertainment and booths for the sale of food and drink.
The total of areas taken on a horizontal plane at the main
grade level of the principal building and all accessory buildings
exclusive of patios, terraces and uncovered steps.
The authorization by the Zoning Board of Appeals for the
use of land in a manner which is not allowed by the dimensional or
physical requirements of the applicable zoning regulations.
Residences for the elderly that provide rooms, meals, personal
care, and supervision of self-administered medication. They may provide
other services such as recreational activities, financial services,
and transportation.
That space of building which is immediately below and wholly
or partly within the roof framing. An attic with a finished floor
shall be counted as 1/2 story in determining the permissible number
of stories.
A place where goods or livestock are offered for sale to
persons who bid on the object in competition with each other.
Two or more dilapidated motor vehicles no longer intended
or in condition for use on the public highway.
Any building, land area, or other premises, or portions thereof,
used for the servicing and repair of automobiles and including as
an accessory use the sale and installation of lubricants, tires, batteries,
and similar vehicle accessories.
The use of any area or portion of any lot or plot, whether
inside or outside a building for the temporary storage of automobiles
awaiting dismantling, or the dismantled parts of automobiles, or for
the dismantling, cutting, demolition and burning of automobiles.
Premises used primarily for the sale or dispensing of liquor
by the drink for on-site consumption and where food may be available
for consumption on the premises as accessory to the principal use.
A story below finished grade, having at least 1/2 of its
height measured from floor to ceiling, not less than four feet above
average finished grade. A basement shall be counted as one story determining
the height of a building in stories.
An owner-occupied dwelling in which overnight accommodations
are provided or offered for transient guests for compensation.
Any commercial outdoor sign, advertising medium, structure
or device which advertises, directs or calls attention to any business,
article, substance, or service which is conducted, sold, or offered
elsewhere than upon the lot on which such sign is situated and which
is painted, printed, posted, or affixed to any building, billboard
structure, wall fence, railing, natural object or structure of any
kind on real property or upon the ground itself.
Any structure which is permanently affixed to the land, has
one or more floors and a roof, and is intended for the shelter, housing,
or enclosure of persons, animals or chattels.
See "accessory building."
A building surrounded by open space on the same lot.
The base line of a vertical plane, parallel to the street
line, and extending from one lot to another, beyond which no portion
of a building shall extend into the front yard. Side and rear lines
shall be determined in a comparative manner.
A group of two or more principal buildings and any buildings
accessory thereto, occupying a lot in one ownership and having any
yard in common.
See "height of building."
A building in which is conducted the principal use of the
lot on which it is located.
A building in which is conducted the main or principal use
of the lot on which said building is situated.
A building attached by a party wall to another building normally
of the same type on another lot, but having one side yard.
A term used to describe the size, volume, area and shape
of buildings and structures, and the physical relationship of their
exterior walls or their location to lot lines, other buildings and
structures, or other walls of the same buildings, and all open spaces
required in connection with a building, other structure, or tract
of land.
Any building or premises or portions thereof used for washing
automobiles.
A story partly underground and having 1/2 or more of its
clear height below the average level of the adjoining ground. A cellar
shall not be considered in determining the permissible number of stories.
A building or structure, or groups of buildings or structures,
that be designed and the construction are primarily intended for conducting
organized religious services, study of the religion and associated
accessory uses.
An organization catering exclusively to members and their
guests, or premises and buildings for recreational or athletic purposes,
which are not conducted primarily for gain, providing that there are
not conducted any vending stands, merchandising or commercial activities
except as required generally for the membership and purposes of such
club.
An operation housing a mill or machine for sawing logs that
is carried on for profit by the owner or lessee.
A vehicle adapted for or engaged in the carrying of merchandise.
A sign owned and maintained by the Town Board or by a group
of businessmen as approved by the Town Board and which sign contains
several directional signs for the purposes of directing persons to
business and community establishments within the community.
A restriction on the use of land, created in accordance with
the provisions of Article 49, Title 3, of the Environmental Conservation
Law or § 247 of General Municipal Law, for the purposes
of conservation of open space, agricultural land, and natural, cultural,
historic, and scenic resources.
Any space, whether inside or outside a building, used for
the storage or keeping of construction equipment, machinery, or vehicles,
or parts thereof, which are in active use by a construction contractor.
Any retail establishment offering for sale prepackaged food
products, household items, newspapers and magazines, and sandwiches
and other freshly prepared foods, such as salads, for off-site consumption.
Land area and buildings containing golf courses, recreational
facilities, a clubhouse and customary accessory uses, open only to
members and their guests.
That lot area or percentage of lot area covered by buildings
or structures, including accessory buildings and structures.
Establishments that document the social and religious structures
and intellectual and artistic manifestations that characterize a society
and include museums, art galleries, botanical and zoological gardens
and that have a natural, historic, educational or cultural interest.
Either:
A family day care: an establishment providing for the care,
supervision, and protection of children when provided in a private
residence occupied by the provider of the day care; or
A licensed child-care center: an establishment providing for
the care, supervision and protection of children when provided in
a licensed center that is regulated by the State of New York.
The division of a single structure or the grouping of buildings
which will constitute a convenient, effective shopping center designed
as a planned and harmonious unit.
The utilization of a lot or tract of land for two or more
uses.
In the following list, each district shall be deemed to be
more restricted than the district or districts which follow it: RAF,
MDR, NC, GC, IND, H.
See "kennel."
See "theater, outdoor drive-in."
A lot or land used primarily for the disposal by abandonment,
dumping, burial, burning or any other means and for whatever purposes
of garbage, sewage, trash, refuse, junk, discarded machinery, vehicles
or parts thereof, or waste material of any kind.
A building designed or used principally as the living quarters
for one or more persons or families. The terms "dwelling," "one-family
dwelling," "two-family dwelling," "multifamily dwelling," "multidwelling,"
or "dwelling group" shall not be deemed to include motel, hotel, rooming
house or other accommodations used for more or less transient occupancy.
(See "residence.")
A group of three or more, but not over nine, attached single-
or two-family dwellings with party walls between.
A dwelling containing three or more dwelling units and occupied
or designed for occupancy by three or more families living independently
of each other.
A building containing one dwelling unit only.
A dwelling occupied exclusively for residence purpose by
one or two families and having not more than four boarders, roomers,
or lodgers in one or both housekeeping units.
A building containing two dwelling units.
A building or portion thereof providing complete housekeeping
facilities for one family.
The removal of soil, gravel, sand or dirt for purposes unrelated
to excavation for construction where the extractive operation is conducted.
A family consists of a) one person, or two or more persons
related by blood, marriage or adoption, or b) not more than five persons
not necessarily related by blood, marriage or adoption, and in addition
any domestic servants or gratuitous guests, who live together in a
single dwelling unit and maintain a common household.
The elevation at which the finished surface of the surrounding
lot intersects the walls or supports of a building or other structure.
If the line of intersection is not reasonably horizontal, the finished
grade in computing height of buildings and other structures or for
other purposes shall be the average elevation of all finished grade
elevation around the periphery of the building, except that this average
shall not exceed 1/2 of the floor-to-ceiling height.
The total of the gross horizontal areas of the several floors
of a building, measured from the exterior walls or from the center
line of wall separating two buildings. In particular, the floor area
of a building or buildings shall include:
Basement space.
Elevator shafts and stairwells at each floor.
Floor space for mechanical equipment, with structural headroom
of seven feet and six inches or more
Penthouses.
Attic space (whether or not floor has actually been laid), provided
that structural headroom of seven feet and six inches or more exists.
Interior balconies and mezzanines.
Enclosed porches.
Accessory uses, not including space for accessory off-street
parking.
However, the floor area of a building shall not include:
Cellar space, except that cellar space used for retailing shall
be included for the purposes of calculating requirements for accessory
off-street parking space and accessory off-street loading berths.
Elevator and stair bulkheads, accessory water tanks, and cooling
towers.
Floor space used for mechanical equipment, with structural headroom
of less than seven feet and six inches.
Attic space, whether or not a floor has actually been laid,
providing that structural headroom of less than seven feet and six
inches exists.
Uncovered steps; exterior fire escapes.
Terraces, breezeways, open porches, and outside balconies and
open spaces.
Accessory off-street parking spaces.
Accessory off-street loading berths.
The sum of the gross horizontal areas of the several floors
of a building or structure from the exterior face of exterior walls,
or from the center line of a wall separating two buildings, but excluding
any space where the floor-to-ceiling height is less than six feet.
The ratio between the total floor space of the building or
buildings and the total lot area.
Any management, including logging, of a forest, woodland
or plantation, including the construction, alteration, or maintenance
of wood roads, skidways, landing, fences, and forest drainage systems.
The length of the lot line which abuts upon a street or highway
right-of-way boundary.
Any structure or tank specifically used for the storage of
petroleum products.
A building used for the preparation of the deceased for burial
and the rituals connected therewith before burial or cremation.
An enclosed space for the storage of one or more motor vehicles,
provided that no business, occupation or service is conducted for
profit therein and that space therein for more than one car is not
leased to a nonresident of the premises.
Any garage other than a private garage, available to the
public, operated for gain, and which is used for storage, repair,
rental, greasing, washing, servicing, adjusting, or equipping of automobiles
or other motor vehicles.
An area of land, including structures thereon, or any building
or part thereof, used primarily for the sale and direct delivery to
the motor vehicle of gasoline or any other motor vehicle fuel or oil
and other lubricating substances and may also be used for sale of
motor vehicles accessories, and/or facilities for lubricating, washing
(without mechanical equipment) or otherwise servicing motor vehicles,
but not including auto body work, welding, or painting.
A tract of land laid out for at least nine holes for playing
the game of golf and improved with tees, greens, fairways, and hazards
and that may include a clubhouse and shelter.
Any building or structure used as a conservatory for the
growing and protection of flowers and plants and for the propagation
and culture thereof.
The vertical distance measured from the average finished
grade along the wall of the building (or adjacent to the side of the
structure) to the highest point of such building or structure.
An occupation or business activity resulting in a product or service for financial gain, conducted wholly or partly in a dwelling unit or accessory building as an accessory use by the residents thereof, which is clearly secondary to the use of the dwelling for living purposes and does not change the character thereof or have any exterior evidence of such secondary use other than a sign. (See also Town of Berne Code, Chapter 190, Zoning, Article VI, Special Uses, § 190-34, Home occupation.)
[Amended 7-14-2021 by L.L. No. 3-2021]
A home occupation where customers, clients or sales representatives
or other individuals, for the purpose of conducting business, are
allowed to enter the premises, or where there are three or more on-site
employees in addition to the owners or tenants of the property.
[Amended 7-14-2021 by L.L. No. 3-2021]
A home occupation where no customers, clients or sales representatives
are allowed to enter the premises and where there are no more than
two on-site employees in addition to the owners or tenants of the
property.
[Amended 7-14-2021 by L.L. No. 3-2021]
Unless otherwise specified, the term "hospital" shall be
deemed to include sanitarium, sanatorium, preventorium, clinic, rest
home, nursing home, convalescent home or any other place for diagnosis,
treatment or other care of ailments and shall be deemed to be limited
to places for the diagnosis, treatment or other care of human ailments.
A building, or any part thereof, which contains living and
sleeping accommodations for transient occupancy, has common exterior
entrance or entrances and which may contain one or more dining rooms.
A single-family or individual dwelling designed for transportation
after fabrication, on streets and highways on its own wheels or on
a flatbed or other trailer, to a site where it is to be occupied as
a dwelling complete and ready for occupancy, except for minor and
incidental unpacking and assembly operations, with a permanent foundation
and connection to utilities.
A lot, land or structure, or part thereof, used for the collecting,
storage or sale of waste paper, rags, scrap metal, building material
or discarded material or for the collecting, dismantling, storage
or salvaging of machinery, vehicles not in running condition or for
the sale of parts thereof. Any premises on which there is outside
storage of two or more vehicles not in running condition for one month
or more shall be deemed to be a junkyard.
Any place at which there are kept five or more dogs more
than six months of age, or any number of dogs for the primary purpose
of sale, or any place kept for the boarding, care or breeding of dogs
for which a fee is charged or paid.
The dividing line between the street or highway and the abutting
real properties.
A defined portion or parcel of land considered as a unit,
devoted to a specific use or occupied by a building or group of buildings
that are united by a common interest, use or ownership, and the customary
accessories and open spaces belonging to the same.
A lot situated at the junction of and adjacent to two or
more intersecting streets when the interior angle of intersection
does not exceed 135°.
See "coverage."
The mean distance from the front street line of a lot to
its rear line.
A lot line which is coincident with a street line.
The lines bounding a lot as defined herein.
A lot which faces on two streets at opposite ends of the
lot and which is not a corner lot.
The horizontal distance between the side lot lines measured
at right angles to the lot depths at a point midway between the front
and rear lot lines; or the width of a lot measured along the rear
line of the required front yard.
Structures built in the factory and transported to the site,
including panelized homes, modular homes and precut homes, are not
transportable after installation and do not have a permanent axle.
A building or group of buildings whether attached or detached
containing for hire individual living and sleeping accommodations
each of which is considered a unit, each of which is provided with
a separate exterior entrance and a parking space, and is offered for
rental and use principally by motor vehicle travelers. The term "motel"
includes but is not limited to every type of similar establishment
know variously as an "auto court," "motor hotel," "motor court," "motor
inn," "motor lodge," "tourist court," "tourist cabins" and "roadside
hotel."
That part of a building, other structure or tract of land
which does not conform to one or more of the applicable bulk regulations
of this chapter or any amendment thereof.
Any use of a building, other structure, or tract of land
which does not conform to the use regulations for the district in
which such is located, either at the effective date of this chapter
or subsequent thereto.
Any place used as a garden for the open cultivation and growing
of trees, shrubs and other plants, including the replanting of said
plants grown at places other than the nursery.
Any place, however designated, operated for the purpose of
providing daytime care or instruction for two or more children from
two years to five years of age inclusive, and operated on a regular
basis, including kindergartens, day nurseries, and day-care centers.
A building with sleeping rooms where persons are housed or
lodged and furnished with meals and nursing care for hire.
A structure the principal use of which shall be the accommodation
of offices for administrative, governmental, public utility, professional
or sales activity and which may also include retail stores, shops,
restaurants and cafes.
Any permanently preserved space or area of land not developed
with residential, industrial or commercial structures, characterized
by natural scenic beauty or whose existing openness, natural conditions,
or permanent state of use maintains or enhances the conservation of
natural or scenic resources, including agricultural lands.
An off-street, ground-level, open area, usually improved,
for the temporary storage of motor vehicles.
An off-street space available for the parking of one motor
vehicle and having an area of not less than 200 square feet exclusive
of passageways and driveways appurtenant thereto and giving access
thereto, and having direct access to a street, highway or alley.
An individual, partnership, corporation or association.
Establishments primarily engaged in providing services involving
the care of a person or his or her personal goods or apparel. Personal
services include, but are not limited to, laundry, diaper service,
beauty shops, barbershops, shoe repair, funeral services, and domestic
services.
A lot together with all the buildings and uses thereon.
A private driveway/road serving one lot (dwelling unit) with
a minimum twelve-foot-wide shale, gravel or paved travel way and a
minimum eighteen-foot-wide cleared right-of-way.
A privately owned road held in common ownership by a homeowners' association serving two to nine lots (dwelling units), with a minimum twenty-foot-wide gravel or pavement travel way and a fifty-foot-wide right-of-way, 24 feet of which is cleared, and approved in accordance with Article V, § 190-17E, Driveway and road standards, herein.
A privately owned road held in common ownership by a homeowners' association serving 10 or more lots (dwelling units), with a minimum twenty-four-foot-wide asphalt or pavement travel way and a fifty-foot-wide right-of-way, 30 feet of which is cleared, and approved in accordance with Article V, § 190-17E, Driveway and road standards, herein.
A place designed and equipped for the conduct of sports and
leisure time activities.
A recreational building operated as a business and open to
the public for a fee.
A recreation facility provided as an accessory use on the
same lot as the principal permitted use and designed to be used primarily
by the occupants of the principal use and their guests.
A recreational facility operated by a nonprofit organization
and open only to bona fide members and guests of such nonprofit organization.
A trailer of the type commonly known as a "camping trailer"
or "travel trailer" and including only such camping or travel trailers
as are not designed as regular places of residence and which are capable
of being towed behind an ordinary automobile or are self propelled.
Any site, lot, field or tract of ground where two or more
recreational trailers are parked or located.
A building or any part of a building which contains living
and sleeping accommodations for permanent occupancy. "Residence,"
therefore, includes all one-family, multifamily, boardinghouses, and
fraternity and sorority houses. However, "residence" shall not include
the following:
An establishment where food and/or nonalcoholic beverages
are sold in a form ready for consumption, where all or a significant
portion of the consumption takes place or is designed to take place
outside the confines of the restaurant, and where ordering and pickup
of food may take place from an automobile.
An establishment designed specifically for the preparation
and sale of food and drink and where it is served and consumed primarily
within the principal building. Sale of alcoholic beverages may be
available for consumption on the premises as accessory to the principal
use of sale of food.
Establishments engaged in selling goods or merchandise to
the general public for personal or household consumption and rendering
services incidental to the sale of such goods.
Any establishment where horses are kept for riding, driving
or stabling for compensation.
The property of a circulatory facility. (See "street width".)
A light structure with a roof, either attached to the ground
or movable, intended for the sale of local produce to the general
public.
A detached dwelling not used or intended for permanent residence
and not occupied for more than six months in each year.
A dwelling unit intended for occupancy only during certain seasons
of the year, principally for recreational use by the owner, including
beach cottages, hunting cabins, vacation cottages, summer cottages
and vacation lodges.
An establishment providing washing, drying, or dry-cleaning
machines on the premises for rental use to the general public.
Multifamily housing designed for the elderly. Can include
congregate residences, continuing care retirement communities, and
assisted living centers.
The distance in feet from the street to the principal building
on a lot.
A lot occupied by more than one commercial use unit, attached
or detached, providing retail or office and business services in excess
of 10,000 square feet gross leasable area.
Any structure, or part thereof, or any device attached to
a structure or printed or represented on a structure which shall display
or include any lettering, wording, model, drawing, picture, banner,
flag, insignia, device, marking, or representation used as or which
is in the nature of an announcement, direction or advertisement. "Sign"
includes a billboard, neon tube, fluorescent tube, or other artificial
light or string of lights, outlining or hung upon any part of a building
or lot for the purpose mentioned above, but does not include the flag
or insignia of any nation or of any governmental agency of any political,
educational, charitable, philanthropic, civic, professional, religious
or similar organization, campaign, drive movement, or event which
is temporary in nature.
Means a sign which directs attention to a business, commodity,
service or entertainment conducted, sold, or offered elsewhere than
on the premises and only incidentally on the premises if at all.
The area within the shortest lines that can be drawn around
the outside perimeter of a sign, including all decorations and lights,
but excluding the supports if they are not used for advertising purposes.
All faces of the sign shall be counted in computing the area. Any
neon tube, string of lights, or similar device shall be deemed to
have minimum dimensions of one foot.
Means a sign which directs attention to a business or profession
conducted on the premises. A "For Sale" sign or a "To Let" sign relating
to the property on which it is displayed shall be deemed a "business
sign."
A sign which incorporates any artificial lighting as an inherent
part or feature or which depends for its illumination on transparent
or translucent material or electricity or radioactivity or gaseous
material or substance.
An illuminated sign on which the artificial lighting is not
maintained stationary or constant in intensity and color at all times
while in use.
Means a "sign" designed to give forth any artificial light
or designed to reflect such light deriving from any source which is
intended to cause such light or reflection.
A sign illuminated with an artificial light which is separated
from or is not an intrinsic part of the sign itself.
Any three-dimensional sign which is built so as to physically
represent the object advertised.
Possession of land under single or unified control, whether
by sole, joint, common or other ownership, or by a lease having a
term of not less than 30 years, regardless of any division of such
land into parcels for the purpose of financing.
That part of a building comprised between a floor and the
floor or roof next above it. (See "attic," "basement," and "cellar.")
That portion of a building situated above a full story and
having at least two opposite exterior walls meeting a sloping roof
at a level not higher above the floor than a distance equal to 1/2
the floor-to-ceiling height of the story below.
An existing public way which affords principal means of access
to abutting properties and is suitably improved; or a proposed way
shown on a plat approved by all appropriate official agencies.
The width of the right-of-way or the distance between property
lines on opposite sides of a street.
A static construction of building materials, including buildings,
stadiums, platforms, towers, sheds, display stands, storage bins,
signs, reviewing stands, gasoline pumps, mobile dwellings, whether
mobile or stationary at the time, and the like.
The workshop of an artist, sculptor, photographer, or craftsperson.
Any outdoor water pool intended for bathing or swimming purposes
made of concrete, masonry, metal or other impervious material maintained
in a residential district which will cause the retaining of water
to a greater depth than 18 inches and having a plane surface area
of water greater than 100 square feet.
Any structure greater than 35 feet in height, which is capable
of receiving and/or transmitting signals for the purpose of communication,
unless said structure is utilized by the occupant of the property
on which the structure is or will be located for the purpose of sending
or receiving personal communications only or unless otherwise provided
herein.
A building or part of a building devoted to showing moving
pictures or stage productions on a paid admission basis.
An open lot or part thereof, with its appurtenant facilities,
devoted primarily to the showing of moving pictures or theatrical
productions, on a paid admission basis, to patrons seated in automobiles
or in outdoor seats.
The surface layer of the soil containing more or less organic
matter, to a depth usually plowed in cultivation.
A building consisting of a series of one-family attached
dwelling units having common party walls between each dwelling unit.
See "house trailer/mobile home."
Any site, lot, field, or tract of ground where two or more
trailers are parked or located and for which a fee or rent is charged.
Any site, lot, field, or tract of land where house trailers/mobile
homes or recreational trailers are stored, or parked for inspection
or sale.
An educational institution authorized by the state to award
baccalaureate or higher degrees.
Any place outside a building where two or more motor vehicles
in operating condition are offered for sale or are displayed.
The authorization by the Zoning Board of Appeals for the
use of land for a purpose which is otherwise not allowed or is prohibited
by the applicable zoning regulations.
A structure used for the generation, transmission, and or
distribution of electricity, gas, steam, communications, and water;
the collection and treatment of sewage and solid waste.
Any area of land on which are located two or more cabins,
cottages or a hotel or group of buildings, containing living and sleeping
accommodations hired out for compensation, which has a public lobby
serving the guest, and may contain one or more dining rooms and recreation
facilities of a design and character suitable for seasonal or more
or less temporary living purposes, regardless of whether such structure
or other accommodations actually are occupied seasonally or otherwise.
A place where animals are given medical care and the boarding
of animals is limited to short-term care incidental to the hospital
use.
A thoroughfare, however designated, permanently established
for passage of persons or vehicles.
A yard extending along the full length of the yard lot line
between the side lot lines.
A yard extending along the full length of the rear lot line,
between the side lot lines.
That portion of the open area of a lot extending open and
unobstructed from the ground upward, along a lot line for a depth
or width as specified by the bulk regulations of the district in which
the lot is located. No part of such yard shall be included as part
of a yard or other open space similarly required for buildings on
another lot.
A yard situated between the building and the side line of
a lot and extending from the front yard rear line (or from the front
lot line, if there is no required front yard) to the rear front line
(or rear lot line if there is no required rear yard).
