As used in this chapter, the following terms
shall have the meanings indicated:
Any building except the principal building on a lot. In the
case of a house and detached garage on a lot, the accessory building
is the garage.
A street or thoroughfare less than 21 feet wide and affording
only secondary access to abutting properties.
A public street or highway intended to be used primarily
for fast or heavy through traffic. Arterial streets and highways shall
include freeways and expressways as well as arterial streets, highways
and parkways.
A story partly underground.
A building other than a hotel where meals or lodging and
meals are provided for compensation for three or more persons not
members of the owner's family.
Any structure used, designed or intended for the protection,
shelter, enclosure or support of persons, animals or property.
Total ground coverage in square feet of all buildings and
structures, including garages, carports, and other attached or accessory
structures.
The vertical distance from the top of the building roof to
the average elevation at the front property line.
A use of land which, while appropriate for inclusion within
a given district, possesses a high likelihood of creating problems
with regard to nearby parcels of land or the occupants thereof and
which is therefore permitted only subject to the fulfillment of conditions
which effectively ensure that no such problems will be created.
The number of living units per acre allowable under a schedule
of district regulations.
A place of business in which patrons can be served while
remaining in their automobiles.
A building or portion thereof designed for, and occupied
by, three or more families.
A detached building designed for, or occupied exclusively
by, one family.
A detached or semidetached building designed for, or occupied
exclusively by, two families.
Public or private enclosures designed to protect people from
flood, windstorm, fire, riots, or invasions and from aerial, radiological,
biological or chemical warfare.
Services provided by public and private utilities necessary
for the exercise of the principal use or service of the principal
structure. These services include underground, surface or overhead
gas, electricity, steam, water, sanitary sewerage, stormwater drainage,
and communication systems and accessories thereto, such as poles,
towers, wires, mains, drains, vaults, culverts, laterals, sewers,
pipes, catch basins, water storage tanks, conduits, cables, fire alarm
boxes, police call boxes, traffic signals, pumps, lift stations, and
hydrants, but does not include buildings.
A divided arterial street or highway, either with full or
partial control of access, and with or without grade-separated intersections.
A group of persons related by blood or marriage and living
together as a single housekeeping entity.
The land adjacent to a body of water which is subject to
periodic overflow therefrom.
The channel of a stream and such adjacent portions of the
floodplain as are required to accommodate flood flows.
The area within the exterior walls of a building which is
usable as living quarters.
An expressway with full control of access and with fully
grade-separated intersections.
The smallest dimension of a lot abutting a public street
measured along the street line.
Any accessory building or space for the storage only of not
more than two motor vehicles per dwelling unit.
Any building or premises, other than a private or storage
garage, where motor vehicles are equipped, repaired, serviced, hired,
sold or stored.
Any building or premises used for storage only of motor vehicles.
A gainful occupation conducted by a homeowner in his place
of residence. All home occupations are conditional uses in any residential
zoning district and shall be permitted only on the basis that their
conduct does not interfere with the peaceful and quiet enjoyment,
comfort, health, safety and general welfare of the neighborhood in
which the occupation is located.[1]
A building in which lodging, with or without meals, is offered
to transient guests for compensation and in which there are more than
five sleeping rooms with no cooking facilities in any individual room
or apartment.
The body of persons who live together in one dwelling unit
as a single housekeeping unit.
A grade-separated highway intersection with one or more turning
lanes for travel between intersecting roads or highways.
A completely off-street space or berth on a lot for the loading
or unloading of freight carriers, having adequate ingress and egress
to a public street or alley.
A building other than a hotel where lodging only is provided
for compensation for not more than 12 persons not members of the owner's
family.
A parcel of land described in a recorded plat or deed.
A lot abutting on two or more streets at their intersection.
The mean horizontal distance between the front and rear lot
lines.
The peripheral boundaries of a parcel of land and the total
area lying within such boundaries.
The width of a parcel of land measured at the rear of the
specified street yard.
Any small, movable accessory structure or construction, such
as birdhouses, tool houses, pet houses, play equipment, arbors and
walls and fences under four feet in height.
A structure which is, or was as originally constructed, designed
to be transported by any motor vehicle upon a public highway and is
designed, equipped and used primarily for sleeping, eating and living
quarters, or is intended to be so used, and includes any additions,
attachments, annexes, foundations and appurtenances.
A parcel of land designed for the placement of a single mobile
home and for the exclusive use of its occupants.
A parcel of land under single ownership designed, maintained,
intended or used for the purpose of providing a location and accommodations
for two or more mobile homes, including all buildings used or intended
for use as part of the equipment thereof, whether or not a charge
is made for the use of the mobile home park or its facilities, except
that a mobile home subdivision shall not be deemed a mobile home park.
A parcel of land subdivided into lots, with each lot individually
owned and utilized as the site for placement of a single mobile home
and its facilities.
A series of attached, semiattached, or detached sleeping
units for the accommodation of transient guests.
A building or premises lawfully used, occupied, or erected
at the time of the passage of this chapter or amendments thereto which
does not conform to the regulations of this chapter with respect to
frontage, width, height, area, yard, parking, loading, or distance
requirements.
The use or occupancy of a building or premises which is lawful
at the time of the enactment of this chapter or amendments thereto
but which use or occupancy does not conform to the provisions of this
chapter or any amendments thereto.
The building of primary importance on a parcel of land, in
contrast to those which are accessory or of secondary importance.
A building other than a hotel where lodging only is provided
for compensation for three or more persons not members of the owner's
family.
An area consisting of buildings, structures or premises where
junk, waste, discarded or salvage materials are bought, sold, exchanged,
stored, baled, packed, disassembled or handled, including automobile
wrecking yards, house wrecking and structural steel materials and
equipment yards, but not including the purchase or storage of used
furniture and household equipment or used cars in operable condition.[2]
A structure housing toilet, washing, and bathing facilities
and such other facilities as may be required by this chapter.
The minimum horizontal distance between the lot line and
the nearest point of a building or any projection thereof, excluding
uncovered steps.
A structure or device on which advertising is displayed,
or by which attention is directed to advertising on the same or any
other structure, by any means visible to the eye.
That portion of a building included between the surface of
a floor and the surface of the floor next above it or the space between
the floor and the ceiling next above it, if there is no floor above
it. A basement or cellar having 1/2 or more of its height above grade
is a story for purposes of height regulation.
The space under any roof, except a flat roof, the wall plates
of which on at least two opposite exterior walls are not more than
four feet above the floor of such story.
All property dedicated or intended for public or private
street purposes or subject to public easements 21 feet or more in
width.
The dividing line between a lot, tract or parcel of land
and an abutting street.
Any change in the supporting members of a structure, such
as foundations, bearing walls, columns, beams, or girders, or any
substantial change in the roof structure or in the exterior or interior
walls.
Anything constructed or erected having location on the ground.
A removable structure not designed for human occupancy nor
for the protection of goods or chattels and not forming an enclosure.
A tract of land of at least one acre upon which two or more
camp cottages are located or where temporary accommodations are provided
for two or more travel trailers or house cars, open to the public
either free or for a fee.
A parcel of land in a travel trailer parking area for the
placement of a single trailer and the exclusive use of its occupants.
A vehicular, portable unit designed as a temporary living
unit for travel, recreation and vacation which may take one of the
following forms, or a similar form:
A parcel of land in which two or more spaces are occupied,
or intended for occupancy, by travel trailers for transient dwelling
purposes.
An existing or proposed connecting roadway between two arterial
streets or between an arterial street and any other street. Turning
lanes include grade-separated interchange ramps.
A departure from the terms of this chapter where it is shown
that unique physical circumstances applying to a land parcel causes
a hardship to the owner and that the condition permitted by the departure
still will be in fundamental harmony with surrounding uses.
An unoccupied triangular space at the corner of a corner
lot which is bounded by the street lines and a setback line connecting
points determined by measurement center from the corner of each street
center line.
The shortest straight line at the waterfront end of a stream
lot that lies wholly within the lot, provided that not less than 75%
of the length of such water line shall be on, or on the landward side
of, the normal high-water mark of such stream.
An open space on the same lot with a building, unoccupied
and unobstructed from the ground upward except as otherwise provided
herein.
A yard extending the full width of the lot between the front
lot line and the nearest part of the principal building, excluding
uncovered steps.
A yard extending the full width of the lot between the rear
lot line and the nearest part of the principal building, excluding
only such projections as are permitted herein.
A yard extending from the front yard, or from the lot line
where no front yard is required, to the rear yard between the side
lot line and the nearest part of the principal building.
