For the purpose of this Title Three- Zoning Regulations, certain words and terms used herein are defined as follows:
(a) General terms: All words used in the present tense include the future tense; all words in the plural number include the singular number and all words in the singular include the plural number, unless the natural construction of the wording indicates otherwise. The word "lot" includes the word "plot"; the word "building" includes the word "structure" and the word "shall" is mandatory and not directory. The word "used" shall be deemed also to include "designed, intended or arranged to be used". Unless otherwise specified, all distances shall be measured horizontally. The word "City" means the City of Campbell; the term "Council or City Council" means the Council of the City of Campbell; the term "Planning Commission" means the Planning Commission of this City; the term "Board of Appeals" means the Board of Appeals of this City.
(b) “Alley” means a passage or way open to public travel which affords generally a secondary means of vehicular access to abutting lots and is not intended for general traffic circulation.
(c) “Building, accessory” means a subordinate building, the use of which is customarily incidental to that of the main building on the same lot.
(d) “Building, main” means a building in which is conducted the principal use of the lot on which it is situated.
(e) “Drive-in use” means any use where the predominant customer approach is by automobile such as gas station, frozen custard stand, etc.
(f) “Dwelling, cellar” means any building wherein the floor of rooms intended for human occupancy, other than game rooms and similar special rooms, is more than four feet below grade.
(g) “Dwelling, one-family” means a detached building containing one dwelling unit only.
(h) “Dwelling, two-family” means a detached building containing two dwelling units.
(i) “Dwelling, multiple” means a building or portion thereof containing three or more dwelling units.
(j) “Dwelling unit” means a building or portion thereof providing complete housekeeping facilities for one family. The term shall not include house trailers, cellar dwellings, or any accommodations of less than 450 square feet.
(k) “Family” means one or more persons, related by law, blood or marriage, occupying a dwelling unit and living as a single nonprofit housekeeping unit.
(l) “Floor area ratio” means the floor area of the building or buildings on a zoning lot, divided by the area of that zoning lot. A floor area of a building or buildings is the sum of the gross horizontal area of the several floors of all buildings on the lot, measured from the exterior faces of the exterior walls, or from the center line of walls supporting two buildings. Floor area shall include the area of basements when used for residential, commercial, or industrial purposes, but need not include a basement or portion of a basement used for storage or the housing of mechanical or central heating equipment, or the basement apartment of a custodian in a multi- family dwelling, except that portion of said custodian's dwelling unit which is in excess of fifty percent of the total basement floor area. In calculating floor area, the following need not be included:
(1) Attic space providing structural head room of less than seven feet six inches;
(2) Uncovered steps;
(3) Terrace, breezeways and open porches;
(Ord. 68-5938. Passed 1-3-68.)
(4) Automobile parking space in a basement or private garage, but not to exceed 800 square feet for a single family dwelling, 1,000 square feet for a two-family dwelling and 200 square feet per car required by the provisions of this Zoning Ordinance for any other use.
(Ord. 94-8830. Passed 10-19-94.)
(5) Accessory off-street loading berths, but not to exceed twice the space required by the provisions of this Zoning Ordinance.
(m) “Garage, private” means an accessory building or part of a main building used only for the storage of motor vehicles as an accessory use, when the storage space does not exceed that for the following number of vehicles:
(1) For any one-family dwelling three vehicles, not more than one of which may be a non-passenger vehicle.
(2) For any other dwelling, passenger vehicles equal in number to fifty percent of the number of dwelling units in the dwelling.
(n) “Garage, parking” means a building or part thereof, other than a private garage, used for the storage of motor vehicles for remuneration, or where any such vehicles are kept for hire.
(o) “Garage, repair” means a building or part thereof used for the repair of motor vehicles for remuneration, but not used for the dismantling or junking of cars.
(p) “Hospital”, unless otherwise specified, means sanitarium, sanatorium, preventium, clinic, rest home, nursing home, convalescent home, and any other place for the diagnosis, treatment, or other care of ailments, and shall be deemed to be limited to places for the diagnosis, treatment, or other care of human ailments.
(q) “Hotel” means any building or portion thereof containing fifteen or more rooms that are rented, or hired out to be occupied or which are occupied for sleeping purposes for compensation, whether the compensation be paid directly or indirectly.
(r) “Junk yard” means the use of more than 200 square feet of the area of any lot, whether inside or outside a building, or the use of any portion of that half of any lot that joins any street, for the storage, keeping, or abandonment of junk, including scrap metals, or other scrap materials, or for the dismantling, demolition, or abandonment of automobiles or other vehicles or machinery or parts thereof.
(s) “Interior lot lines” means side lot lines between two lots (as opposed to lot line on a corner lot).
(t) “Lot” means land occupied or to be occupied by a building and its accessory buildings, or by a dwelling group and its accessory buildings, together with such open spaces as are required under the provisions of this Zoning Ordinance having not less than the minimum area and width required by this Zoning Ordinance for a lot in the district in which such land is situated, and having its principal frontage on a street or on such other means of access as may be determined in accordance with the provisions of law to be adequate as a condition of the issuance of a building permit for a building on such land.
(u) “Lot area” means the total horizontal area included within lot lines.
(v) “Lot, corner” means a lot at the junction of and abutting on two or more intersecting streets when the interior angle of intersection does not exceed 135 degrees.
(w) “Lot, depth” means the mean horizontal distance between the front and rear lot lines, measured in the general direction of the side lot lines.
(x) “Lot line, rear” means the lot line which is generally opposite the front lot line; if the rear lot line is less than ten feet in length, or if the lot comes to a point at the rear, the rear lot line shall be deemed to be a line parallel to the front lot line not less than ten feet long, lying wholly within the lot and farthest from the front lot line.
(y) “Lot width” means the mean width of a lot measured at right angles to its depth at the building line.
(z) “Marquee” means roof suspended or cantilevered over a sidewalk to protect a building entrance, but not exceeding the full width of the structure.
(aa) “Rooming house” means any building or portion thereof containing more than four and less than fifteen rooms that are used, rented, or hired out to be occupied or which are occupied for sleeping purposes by more than four and less than fifteen guests for compensation, whether the compensation be paid directly or indirectly. The term "rooming house" shall be deemed to include lodging house and boarding house, but not tourist house, motel or outside court.
(bb) “Service station” means any area of land, including structures thereon, that is used for the sale of gasoline or other motor vehicle fuel and oil and other lubricating substance, including any sale of motor vehicle accessories, and which may or may not include facilities for lubricating, washing, or otherwise servicing motor vehicles, but not including the painting thereof by any means.
(cc) “Sidewalk canopy” means a continuous cover or roof suspended or cantilevered over a sidewalk and extending the full width of a building or buildings.
(dd) “Sign” means any device for visual communication that is used for the purpose of bringing the subject thereof to the attention of the public but not including any flag, badge, or insignia of any government or governmental agency, or of any civic, charitable, religious, patriotic, fraternal or similar organization.
(ee) “Street” means a public or private thoroughfare, however designed, which affords the principal means of access to abutting property.
(ff) “Structural alteration” means any change in the supporting members of a building.
(gg) “Tourist home” means a dwelling in which sleeping accommodations in less than five rooms are provided for or offered for transient guests for compensation.
(hh) “Use” means the specific purpose for which land or a building is designed, arranged, intended, or for which it is or may be occupied or maintained. The term "permitted use,” or its equivalent shall not be deemed to include any nonconforming use.
(ii) “Use, accessory” means a use which is customarily incidental and subordinate to the principal use of a lot or a building and located on the same lot therewith.
(jj) “Use: non-conforming” means use of a building or of land that does not conform to the regulations as to use for the district in which it is situated.
(kk) “Yard” means an open space of uniform width or depth on the same lot with a building or a group of buildings, which open space lies between the building or group of buildings and the nearest lot line and is unoccupied and unobstructed from the ground upward, except for the certain features specified in this Zoning Ordinance. In measuring a yard, as hereinafter provided, the line of a building shall be deemed to mean a line parallel to the nearest lot line, drawn through the point of a building or the point of a group of buildings nearest to such lot line, exclusive of the respective features specified in Section 1145.01 as not to be considered in measuring yard dimensions or as being permitted to extend into any front, side or rear yard, respectively, and the measurement shall be taken at right angles from the line of the building to the nearest lot line.
(Ord. 68-5938. Passed 1-3-68.)