(a) The definitions in Texas Transportation Code ch. 541 are hereby adopted and apply to this article. The following words, terms and phrases, when used in this article, shall have the meanings ascribed to them in this subsection, except where the context clearly indicates a different meaning:
Front yard means an open, unoccupied space on a lot facing a street extending across the lot between the side lot lines and from the front of the main building to the front lot or street line. See illustration labeled "Typical Residential Lot" in subsection (b) of this section.
Paved surface means an area continuously surfaced by concrete, hot mix asphalt, brick or stone pavers or gravel.
Recreational vehicle or RV means any vehicular, portable structure designed for temporary or short-term occupancy. Such vehicles shall include self-propelled recreational vehicles, travel trailers, converted buses, tent trailers, motor homes, or similar devices used for temporary portable housing.
Side yard means the area between a property line and the side main building wall of a lot and extending from the front building wall to the rear building wall. See illustration labeled "Typical Residential Lot" in subsection (b) of this section.
Street yard means, with respect to a corner lot, the area of a lot lying between the property line adjacent to a street or right-of-way and the main building wall and extending from the main building wall to the street and the rear corner of the main building wall to the right-of-way. See illustration labeled "Corner Residential Lot" in subsection (b) of this section.
Truck-tractor means a motor vehicle designed or used primarily for pulling other vehicles and not constructed to carry a load other than a part of the weight of the vehicle being drawn.
Vehicle means a mechanical device, other than a device moved by human power by which persons or property can be transported. The term "vehicle" includes a motor vehicle, commercial motor vehicle, truck-tractor, trailer, or semitrailer but does not include self-propelled wheelchairs or mechanical devices while being used by handicapped individuals.
(b) Illustrations.
Typical Residential Lot
Corner Residential Lot
(Prior Code, § 18-128; Ord. of 3-27-2012; Ord. of 2-25-2014)