BED AND BREAKFAST: | A detached single-family residential structure, occupied and operated by the owner or a resident manager, where five (5) or fewer rooms are available for rent for a period not to exceed two (2) weeks per guest, and where meals are served from a central kitchen only to overnight guests. |
BEDROOM: | Any room principally used, intended, or designed to be used for sleeping. |
BLANK WALL: | Any wall or portion of a wall that has a surface area of four hundred (400) square feet of vertical surface without a window or door, or any ground level wall surface or section of a wall over four feet (4') in height at ground level that is longer than fifteen feet (15') as measured horizontally without having a ground level window or door lying wholly or in part within that fifteen foot (15') section. |
BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS (BOARD): | The elected local legislative body. |
BOAT: | Anything that can be used as transportation on the water, with the exception of inner tubes and inflatables. |
BOAT STORAGE: | An area used for the commercial storage of boats and related equipment. Also includes services incidental and subordinate to the storage of boats. |
BOUNDARY LINE ADJUSTMENT: | A change in location of the property line between two (2) or more existing adjacent parcels, where the land taken from one parcel is added to an adjacent parcel. Further defined as a combining of one or more parcels to create fewer parcels and where no greater number of parcels than originally existed is thereby created. No boundary adjusted parcel may be reduced below the minimum parcel size for the zoning district in which the parcel is located, except that if a parcel is already below the minimum parcel size, the boundary line adjustment shall not create any parcels that are smaller than the smallest original parcel in the subject configuration. |
BUILDING HEIGHT: | The vertical distance from the average elevation of the finished grade to the highest point of the coping of a flat roof, or to the deck line of a mansard roof, or the average height of the highest gable of a pitch or hip roof, excepting chimneys and steeples. |
BUILDING SITE: | Any lot, tract, parcel or subdivision of land, whether public or private, upon which a building is placed or is to be placed. |
BULK, BULK REGULATIONS: | The size of buildings or structures and their relationship to other structures and features, including, lot area, open space, yards, lot coverage, height, impervious surface ratios and floor area ratios. |
(Ord. 558, 12-14-2016; amd. Ord. 606, 7-14-2020; Ord. 707, 3-13-2024)