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 shall include the future.
The singular number includes the plural, and the plural the singular.
B.Â
The word "person" includes a corporation as well as an
individual.
C.Â
The word "building" includes the word "plot" or "parcel."
D.Â
The word "used" or "occupied" as applied to any land
or building shall be construed to include the words "built, arranged or designed
to be used or occupied."
As used in this chapter, the following terms shall have the meanings
indicated:
A building subordinate to the main building on a lot and used for
purposes customarily incidental to those 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.
A service way which affords a secondary public means of vehicular
access to abutting property.
The total ground area of a principal building and accessory buildings,
exclusive of uncovered porches, parapets, steps and terraces.
A space of full story height partly below street grade and having
at least half of its clear floor-to-ceiling height above the average street
grade and which is not designed or used primarily for year-round living accommodations.
Any dwelling in which more than three persons, either individually
or as families, are housed or lodged, except those engaged in farm work, for
hire with or without meals.
Any roofed structure intended for the shelter, housing or enclosure
of persons, animals or property. When a building is divided into separate
parts extending from the ground up, each part so divided is deemed a separate
building.
The sum of the gross horizontal area of the several floors of a building
and its accessory buildings on the same lot, including basement areas devoted
to residential use and the area of bays, dormers, roofed porches and roofed
terraces. All dimensions shall be measured between exterior faces of walls.
Vertical distance measured from curb or street grade to the highest
level of a flat or mansard roof, or to the average height of a pitched, gabled,
hip or gambrel roof, excluding bulkheads, penthouses and similar constructions
enclosing equipment or stairs, provided that they are less than 12 feet in
height and do not occupy more than 30% of the area of the roof upon which
they are located.
A line established by law or by agreement, usually parallel with
a property line, beyond which a structure may not extend.
That space of a building which has more than half of its height,
measured from floor to ceiling, below the average street grade.
A building or group of buildings, designed for year-round occupancy
by more than two families, including apartment houses and group houses, but
excluding hotels and rooming houses.
A detached building, other than a trailer or other temporary structure,
designed for exclusive year-round occupancy by one family only.
A detached building, other than a trailer or other temporary structure,
designed for exclusive year-round occupancy by two families living independently
of each other.
One or more rooms with provision for living, sanitary and sleeping
facilities arranged for the use of one family.
Any number of persons of recognized family relationship maintaining
a common household, including domestic help.
A parcel or tract of land which is used for the production or raising
of agricultural products, except where such production is an accessory and
noncommercial garden to a principal residential use on the same lot.
A roofed space for the storage of one or more motor vehicles, provided
that no business, occupation or service is conducted for profit therein nor
space therein for more than one car is leased to a nonresident of the premises.
A building or part thereof used for the storage, hiring, selling,
greasing, washing, servicing or repair of motor-driven vehicles, operated
for gain.
Any area of land, including structures thereon, that is used or designed
to be used for the sale of gasoline or oil or other motor vehicle fuel and
which may include facilities for lubricating, washing, cleaning or otherwise
servicing motor vehicles, but not including the painting or major repair thereof.
The term "gasoline station" shall be deemed to include a filling station and
service station.
An occupation or profession which is customarily carried on in a dwelling
unit or in a building or other structure accessory to a dwelling unit; and
is carried on by a member of the family residing in the dwelling unit; and
is clearly incidental and secondary to the use of the dwelling unit for residential
purposes; and which conforms to the following additional conditions:
The occupation or profession shall be carried on wholly within the principal
building or within a building or other structure accessory thereto.
Not more than one person outside the family shall be employed in the
home occupation.
There shall be no exterior display, nor any exterior sign (except nameplate),
no exterior storage of materials and no other exterior indication of the home
occupation or variation from the residential character of the principal building.
No offensive noise, vibration, smoke, dust, odors, heat or glare shall
be produced.
A home occupation includes, but is not limited to art studio; dressmaking;
barbershop or beauty parlor; professional office of a physician, dentist,
lawyer, engineer, architect, accountant; or musical instruction limited to
a single pupil at a time.
A building or structure for the diagnosis and medical or surgical
care of human sickness or injuries.
A building or structure for the diagnosis and medical or surgical
care of sick or injured animals.
A building or group of buildings where transient guests are lodged
for hire, including motels, but excluding rooming houses.
Any yard, covered or uncovered, space or place in the city used for
the purpose of sale, purchase, storage or exchange of rags, old metals, old
bottles, old glassware, old tinware, old paper, old lumber, old plumbing fixtures,
material from dismantled buildings, dismantled old automobiles or parts thereof,
motor vehicle junk or any other old material commonly called "junk." "Junkyard,"
however, shall not be deemed to include a yard, space or place used for the
storage of old material to be used for manufacturing purposes by the person
storing the same.[1]
Any place of storage or deposit, whether in connection with another
business or not, where two or more unregistered, old or secondhand motor vehicles,
no longer intended or in condition for legal use on the public highways, are
held, whether for the purpose of resale of used parts therefrom, for the purpose
of reclaiming for use some or all of the materials therein, whether metal,
glass, fabric or otherwise, for the purpose of disposal of the same or for
any other purposes. Such term shall include any place of storage or deposit
for any such purposes of used parts or waste materials from motor vehicles
which, taken together, equal in bulk two or more such vehicles; provided,
however, that the term "junkyard" shall not be construed to mean an establishment
having facilities for processing iron, steel or nonferrous scrap and whose
principal produce is scrap iron, steel or nonferrous scrap for sale for remelting
purposes only.
A structure used for the harboring for hire or breeding of four or
more dogs or cats more than six months old.
A business premises equipped with individual clothes washing or cleaning
machines for use by retail customers, exclusive of laundry facilities provided
in an apartment, fraternity, sorority, residential hotel or club.
A parcel of land considered as a unit, occupied or capable of being
occupied by a building or use and accessory buildings or uses or by a group
of buildings united by a common use or interest; and including such open spaces
as are required by this chapter, and having its principal frontage on a public
street or an officially approved place.
The total horizontal area included within lot lines. No part of the
area within a public right-of-way may be included in the computation of lot
area.
A lot located at the intersection of and fronting on two or more
intersecting streets, and having an interior angle at the corner of intersection
of less than 135°.
The mean horizontal distance between the front and rear lot lines,
measured in the general direction of the side lot lines.
A lot other than a corner lot.
A lot having frontage on two approximately parallel or converging
streets other than a corner lot.
The distance between side lot lines measured parallel to the front
lot line at a distance from the front lot line equal to the front yard specified
for the district.
A movable single dwelling unit equipped with a chassis designed for
and providing housekeeping facilities for year-round occupancy, including
plumbing, heating, electrical, cooking and refrigeration systems and equipment.
A parcel of land which has been planned and improved for the placement
of two or more mobile homes for nontransient use.
A building or group of buildings, whether detached or in connected
units, used as individual sleeping units designed primarily for transient
automobile travelers and providing for accessory off-street parking facilities.
A structure or land lawfully occupied by a use that does not conform
with the regulations of the district in which it is located.
A building used for the accommodation and care of persons with, or
recuperating from, illness or incapacity, where nursing services are furnished,
or for the accommodation and care of persons of advanced age.
The area required for parking one automobile which, in this chapter,
is held to be an area at least nine feet wide and 20 feet long, exclusive
of passageways and driveways thereto.
Any device affixed to or painted or represented directly or indirectly
upon a building, structure or land and which directs attention to an object,
product, place, activity, person, institution, organization or business, but
not including any flag, badge or insignia of any government or government
agency, school or religious group, or of any civic, charitable, religious,
patriotic, fraternal or similar organization, nor any official traffic control
device. Each display surface shall be considered to be a sign.
A sign which directs attention to a business, commodity, service
or entertainment sold or offered elsewhere than upon the premises where such
sign is located or to which it is affixed, only incidentally on the premises,
if at all.
A sign which directs attention to a business or profession conducted
or a commodity, service or entertainment sold or offered upon the premises
where such sign is located, or to which it is affixed. A "For Sale" or "To
Let" sign relating to the lot on which it is displayed shall be deemed to
be a business sign.
Any illuminated sign on which the artificial light is not maintained
stationary or constant in intensity and color when such sign is in use. For
the purpose of this chapter any revolving, illuminated sign shall be considered
a flashing sign.
An accessory building in which horses are kept for private use and
not for hire or sale.
A principal or accessory building in which horses are kept for remuneration,
hire or sale.
That portion of a building included between the surface of any floor
and the surface of the floor next above it, or if there be no floor above
it, then the space between any floor and the ceiling next above it.
That part of a building between a pitched roof and the uppermost
full story, and having a floor area at least half as large as the floor below.
Space with less than five feet clear headroom shall not be considered as floor
area.
A public or private way which affords the principal means of access
to abutting property.
Any change in the supporting members of a building.
Anything constructed or erected the use of which requires location
on the ground or attachment to something having location on the ground.
An open lot or part thereof, with its appurtenant structures and
facilities, devoted primarily to the showing of motion pictures or theatrical
productions on a paid admission basis.
A dwelling where transient guests are lodged for hire.
A mobile unit designed for camping, recreational travel or vacation
use which is equipped with a chassis and provides partial housekeeping facilities
such as plumbing, heating, electrical, cooking or refrigeration systems or
equipment.
An area occupied or designed for occupancy by two or more trailers.
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 main building projected to the side lines of the lot.
A space on the same lot with a main building, open and unoccupied
except for accessory buildings, extending the full width of the lot and situated
between the rear line of the main building projected to the side lines of
the lot and the rear line of the lot.
An open unoccupied space on the same lot with a main building, situated
between the side line of the main building and the adjacent side line of the
lot and extending from the front yard to the rear yard.
