1101.02 ACCESSORY USE OR BUILDING.

   "Accessory Use" or "Accessory Building" means a permitted subordinate use or building which is located on the same lot with and incident to the main use or main building and which is subordinate in area, extent, and purpose to the main use or building served.

(Ord. 2018-94.  Passed 10-21-19.)

1101.03 APARTMENT.

   "Apartment" means a suite of rooms in a Multi-Family Dwelling (hereinafter defined)  which is occupied as a residence and which is arranged to share either common walls, floor, land, or hallways with other such residences.

(Ord. 2018-94.  Passed 10-21-19.)

1101.04 AREAS (BUILDING COVERAGE, DWELLING UNIT, FLOOR, LOT).

   (a)   "Building Ground Coverage" or "Building Area" means the horizontal area of ground covered by a building and is measured from the vertical projections of the outermost wall surfaces of the building and generally expressed in square feet or as a percentage of the total lot area.

   (b)   "Dwelling Unit Area" means the horizontal area of usable and habitable space available exclusively to the occupant within a dwelling unit and is measured from the interior wall faces of the dwelling unit.

   (c)   "Gross Floor Area" means the floor area within the perimeter of the outside walls of the building under consideration, without deduction for fire stairways, elevators, closets, or thickness of exterior walls, expressed in square feet.

   (d)   "Lot Area" (site area) means the total horizontal area within a lot boundary line, expressed in square feet or acres.

(Ord. 2018-94.  Passed 10-21-19.)

1101.05 BASEMENT.

   "Basement" means a portion of a building partially or entirely underground whose ceiling, or underpart of the floor above, is four feet (4') or less above the average finished grade elevation.  "Sub-Basement" means any story which is below a basement level and is entirely below grade.

(Ord. 2018-94.  Passed 10-21-19.)

1101.06 BUFFER AREA.

   "Buffer Area" means an area of land, together with landscaping, fencing, walls and/or hedges required by this Code and approved by Commission and/or Council, which may be required to separate uses or zoning districts to eliminate or minimize conflicts between them.

(Ord. 2018-94.  Passed 10-21-19.)

1101.07 BUILDING.

   "Building" means a structure permanently built and affixed to the land which is maintained or intended for the shelter or enclosure of persons, animals or property of any kind.  The term shall be used synonymously with "structure", unless specific structures are noted, and shall be construed as if followed by the words "or part or parts thereof".  "Structure" means that which is constructed on or under the ground or connected thereto and includes, but is not limited to, buildings, barriers, bridges, bulkheads, bunkers, chimneys, fences, garages, outdoor seating facilities, platforms, pools, poles, tanks, tents, towers, sheds, signs, walls, and the like.

(Ord. 2018-94.  Passed 10-21-19.)

1101.08 BUILDING HEIGHT.

   "Building Height" means the vertical distance from the finished grade at the centerline, six feet (6') perpendicular to the front, to the top of the highest roof beams of a flat roof or to the mean level of the highest gable or slope of a hip roof. When a building faces on more than one street, Commission shall determine the front. The finished grade may not be less than the average finished grade across the width of the lot measured at the front building line.

(Ord. 2018-94.  Passed 10-21-19.)