LABORATORY: | A place devoted to experimental study, such as testing and analyzing. Manufacturing of a product or products is not to be permitted. |
LAND DISTURBING ACTIVITY: | Any activity which results in a change in the existing soil cover, and includes clearing, grading, filling and excavation. |
LANDSCAPE DESIGN PROFESSIONAL: | A qualified person with the requisite education and experience to design and supervise a landscaping plan. The individual must have an in depth knowledge of native and drought tolerant plant materials and installation of irrigation systems. Design professionals may include, but are not limited to, landscape architects and certified nursery persons. |
LARGE SOIL ABSORPTION SYSTEM: | A subsurface sewage disposal system designed to receive two thousand five hundred (2,500) gallons of wastewater or more per day, including where the total wastewater flow from the entire proposed project exceeds two thousand five hundred (2,500) gallons per day, but the flow is separated into absorption modules (a subsurface sewage disposal system designed to serve 3 or more connections) which receive less than two thousand five hundred (2,500) gallons per day. |
LEGAL ACCESS: | See definition of Street. |
LIGHT INDUSTRIAL: | Research and development activities, the manufacturing, compounding, processing, packaging, storage, assembly and/or treatment of finished or semifinished products from previously prepared materials, which activities are conducted wholly within an enclosed building. Finished or semifinished products may be temporarily stored outdoors pending shipment. |
LITTORAL: | Of or on a shore. |
LIVESTOCK: | Cattle, horses, sheep, hogs or goats raised for home use or profit. |
LOADING SPACE, OFF STREET: | Space logically and conveniently located for bulk pick ups and deliveries, scaled to delivery vehicles, accessible to and expected to be used by such vehicles. All off street loading spaces shall be located totally outside of any street or alley right of way. |
LOCAL ROADS: | See definition of Street. |
LOT: | A platted piece of land which is part of a subdivision recorded in the book of plats in the office of the county recorder. |
LOT COVERAGE: | The percentage of the area of a lot which is occupied by all buildings or other covered structures. |
LOT LINE ADJUSTMENT: | A reconfiguration of property as set forth in subchapter 6.6 of this title. |
LOT MEASUREMENTS: | A. The depth of a lot, parcel, or tract shall be a measurement of the distance between the furthest two points along the boundary of the lot, parcel, or tract. |
B. The width of a lot, parcel or tract shall be calculated in feet by dividing the area of the lot, parcel or tract measured in square feet by the depth of the lot, parcel or tract, as measured according to the depth calculation instructions above. | |
LOT OF RECORD: | A lot which is part of a subdivision recorded in the office of the clerk, or a lot or parcel described by metes and bounds, the description of which has been so recorded. |
LOT SIZE: | The area contained within the boundaries lines of a Lot including Easements. |
LOT TYPES: | A. Corner Lot: A lot located at the intersection of two (2) or more streets. A lot abutting on a curved street or streets shall be considered a “corner lot” if straight lines drawn from the foremost points of the side lot lines to the foremost point of the lot meet at an interior angle of less than one hundred thirty five degrees (135o). |
B. Flag Lot: A lot so shaped and designed that the main building site area is set back from the street on which it fronts and includes an access strip connecting the main building site with the frontage street. | |
C. Interior Lot: A lot other than a corner lot with only one frontage on a street. | |
D. Through Lot: A lot other than a corner lot with frontage on more than one street. Through lots abutting two (2) streets may be referred to as double frontage lots. | |
E. Reversed Frontage Lot: A lot on which the frontage is at right angles or approximately right angles (interior angle less than 135 degrees) to the general pattern in the area. A “reversed frontage lot” may also be a corner lot, an interior lot or a through lot. (Ord. 558, 12-14-2016; amd. Ord. 606, 7-14-2020; Ord. 696, 7-12-2023) | |