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Cleveland, OH Code of Ordinances
CITY OF CLEVELAND, OHIO CODE OF ORDINANCES
CHARTER OF THE CITY OF CLEVELAND
PART ONE: ADMINISTRATIVE CODE
PART TWO: HEALTH CODE
PART THREE: LAND USE CODE
PART IIIA: LAND USE CODE - PLANNING AND HOUSING
PART IIIB: LAND USE CODE - ZONING CODE
TITLE VII: ZONING CODE
CHAPTER 325 - DEFINITIONS
§ 325.01 Meaning of Words and Phrases
§ 325.02 Accessory Use or Building
§ 325.03 Accessory Parking Space
§ 325.04 Alley
§ 325.05 Apartment Hotel
§ 325.06 Apartment House
§ 325.07 Automobile Laundry - Repealed
§ 325.08 Auto Sales Lot - Repealed
§ 325.09 Auto Wrecking Yard
§ 325.092 Berm
§ 325.10 Building
§ 325.11 Building Line
§ 325.111 Car Wash
§ 325.12 Central Business District
§ 325.120 Construction and Demolition Debris Processing Facility
§ 325.121 Correctional Halfway House
§ 325.13 Court
§ 325.14 Court, Height
§ 325.15 Court, Inner
§ 325.16 Court, Length
§ 325.17 Court, Outer
§ 325.18 Court, Width
§ 325.181 Drip Line
§ 325.19 Dwelling House
§ 325.191 Dwelling, Single-Family Attached
§ 325.20 Dwelling Unit
§ 325.21 Exception, Special
§ 325.22 Family
§ 325.221 Fence - Repealed
§ 325.222 Fence Height - Repealed
§ 325.223 Fence Open - Repealed
§ 325.23 Floor Area
§ 325.24 Floor Area, Gross
§ 325.25 Front Yard
§ 325.26 Front Yard Line
§ 325.27 Garage, Community - Repealed
§ 325.28 Garage, Private - Repealed
§ 325.29 Garage, Public or Storage - Repealed
§ 325.30 Garage, Repair - Repealed
§ 325.31 Garage, Service - Repealed
§ 325.32 Grade Level
§ 325.33 Hand Laundry
§ 325.34 Height, Building
§ 325.35 Hotel
§ 325.36 Institutional H Occupancy Classification
§ 325.37 Interior Side Yard
§ 325.38 Junk
§ 325.39 Junk Car
§ 325.40 Junk Yard
§ 325.401 Kennels
§ 325.402 Light Assembly
§ 325.41 Lot
§ 325.42 Lot, Corner
§ 325.43 Lot Depth
§ 325.431 Lot, Interior
§ 325.44 Lot Line
§ 325.45 Lot, Side Line
§ 325.46 Lot Width
§ 325.47 Main Building
§ 325.471 Mental Health Center
§ 325.48 Motor Freight Depot or Trucking Terminal
§ 325.481 Motor Vehicle
§ 325.482 Motor Vehicle Maintenance
§ 325.483 Motor Vehicle Minor Repair
§ 325.484 Motor Vehicle Major Repair
§ 325.485 Motor Vehicle Sales Facility
§ 325.486 Motor Vehicle Service Station
§ 325.487 Motor Vehicle Service Garage
§ 325.488 Motor Vehicle Repair Garage
§ 325.49 Multiple Dwelling
§ 325.50 Multiple Dwelling, Class A
§ 325.51 Multiple Dwelling, Class B
§ 325.52 Nonconforming Use
§ 325.53 Nonconformity
§ 325.532 Opacity
§ 325.533 Open Sales Lot
§ 325.534 Parking Garage, Community
§ 325.535 Parking Garage, Private
§ 325.536 Parking Garage, Public
§ 325.54 Parkway
§ 325.55 Public Notice
§ 325.56 Rear Yard
§ 325.561 Recycling
§ 325.562 Recycling Facility
§ 325.57 Required Yard Lines
§ 325.570 Research Laboratory
§ 325.571 Residential Facility
§ 325.572 Rock Crushing
§ 325.58 Rooming House
§ 325.59 Row House
§ 325.60 Service Station - Repealed
§ 325.61 Setback Building Line
§ 325.62 Side Yard
§ 325.63 Side Street Yard
§ 325.64 Reserved
§ 325.65 Specific Building Line
§ 325.66 Street
§ 325.67 Street or Alley Line
§ 325.68 Street, Residence
§ 325.69 Street, Side
§ 325.70 Street, Width
§ 325.71 Structure
§ 325.72 Tourist Home
§ 325.721 Use, Accessory
§ 325.723 Use, Principal
§ 325.73 Used Car
§ 325.731 Valet Parking Area
§ 325.732 Wrecking Yard
§ 325.74 Variance
§ 325.741 Xeriscape
§ 325.75 Yard
§ 325.76 Skate Board Facility
§ 325.77 Temporary Use
CHAPTER 327 - ENFORCEMENT AND PENALTY
CHAPTER 329 - BOARD OF ZONING APPEALS
CHAPTER 331 - BUILDING ZONE MAPS
CHAPTER 333 - CHANGES AND AMENDMENTS
CHAPTER 334 - PLANNED UNIT DEVELOPMENT OVERLAY DISTRICT
CHAPTER 335 - USE DISTRICTS
CHAPTER 336 - URBAN GARDEN DISTRICT
CHAPTER 337 - RESIDENTIAL DISTRICTS
CHAPTER 338 - MANUFACTURED HOUSING PARK (MHP) DISTRICT
CHAPTER 339 - PARKING DISTRICTS
CHAPTER 340 - INSTITUTIONAL-RESEARCH (I-R) DISTRICTS
CHAPTER 341 - DESIGN REVIEW
CHAPTER 342 - OPEN SPACE AND RECREATION (OSR) DISTRICTS
CHAPTER 343 - BUSINESS DISTRICTS
CHAPTER 344 - MIDTOWN MIXED-USE DISTRICT
CHAPTER 345 - INDUSTRIAL DISTRICTS
CHAPTER 346 - LIVE-WORK OVERLAY DISTRICTS
CHAPTER 347 - SPECIFIC USES REGULATED
CHAPTER 348 - FORM DISTRICTS
CHAPTER 349 - OFF-STREET PARKING AND LOADING
CHAPTER 350 - SIGN REGULATIONS
CHAPTER 351 - RIPARIAN SETBACKS AND WETLANDS SETBACKS
CHAPTER 352 - LANDSCAPING, SCREENING, AND OUTDOOR PARKING LOT LIGHTING
CHAPTER 353 - HEIGHT REGULATIONS
CHAPTER 354 - WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION FACILITIES
CHAPTER 354A - WIND ENERGY FACILITIES
CHAPTER 355 - AREA REQUIREMENTS
CHAPTER 356 - CENTRAL BUSINESS DISTRICT (CBD)
CHAPTER 357 - YARDS AND COURTS
CHAPTER 358 - FENCE REGULATIONS
CHAPTER 359 - NONCONFORMING USES
TITLE VIIA: CLEVELAND NEIGHBORHOOD FORM-BASED CODE
PART IIIC: LAND USE CODE - HOUSING CODE
PART IIID: LAND USE CODE - FIRE PREVENTION CODE
PART IIIE: LAND USE CODE - BUILDING CODE
PART FOUR: TRAFFIC CODE
PART FIVE: MUNICIPAL UTILITIES AND SERVICES CODE
PART SIX: OFFENSES AND BUSINESS ACTIVITIES CODE
TITLE VIIA: CLEVELAND NEIGHBORHOOD FORM-BASED CODE
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§ 325.12 Central Business District
   "Central Business District" (CBD) means the area bounded as follows: Beginning at the intersection of the center lines of West 10th Street and the Cleveland Memorial Shoreway; thence northeasterly along said center line of the Cleveland Memorial Shoreway to its intersection with the center line of West 3rd Street; thence northwesterly along said center line of West 3rd Street to its intersection with the Harbor line of Lake Erie; thence northeasterly along said Harbor line of Lake Erie to its intersection with the northwesterly prolongation of the center line of East 12th Street; thence southeasterly along said northwesterly prolongation and along said center line of East 12th Street to its intersection with said center line of the Cleveland Memorial Shoreway; thence northeasterly along said center line of the Cleveland Memorial Shoreway to its intersection with the center line of the Inner Belt Freeway as established by Ordinance 1845-47, effective October 22, 1947; thence southerly and southwesterly along said center line of the Inner Belt Freeway to its intersection with the center line of Broadway; thence northwesterly along said center line of Broadway to its intersection with the center line of Carnegie Avenue, S.E.; thence southwesterly along said center line of Carnegie Avenue S.E. to its intersection with the center line of Ontario Street; thence northwesterly along said center line of Ontario Street to its intersection with the center line of Huron Road, N.W.; thence northwesterly along said center line of Huron Road N.W. to its intersection with the center line of Superior Avenue N.W.; thence westerly along said center line of Superior Avenue, N.W. to its intersection with the center line of Old River Road; thence northwesterly along said center line of Old River Road to its intersection with the center line of St. Clair Avenue; thence westerly along said center line of St. Clair Avenue and its prolongation to the center line of the Cuyahoga River; thence northwesterly along said Cuyahoga River center line to its intersection with the center line of the Cleveland Memorial Shoreway; thence easterly along said center line of the Cleveland Memorial Shoreway to the place of beginning, and as outlined on the map hereto attached be and the same is now defined as the Central Business District.
(Ord. No. 76-18. Passed 4-2-18, eff. 4-3-18)
§ 325.120 Construction and Demolition Debris Processing Facility
   "Construction and Demolition Debris ("C&DD") Processing Facility" means any site, location, tract of land, installation, or building that is used or intended to be used primarily for the purpose of processing, transferring, or recycling C&DD that was generated off the premises of the facility.
   For purposes of this definition:
   "Transferring" means the receipt or storage of C&DD, or the movement of C&DD from vehicles or containers to a working surface and into other vehicles or containers, for the purposes of transporting the debris to a solid waste landfill facility, a C&DD landfill facility, or a C&DD processing facility.
   "Processing" means the temporary receipt or storage of C&DD, or the movement of C&DD from vehicles or containers to a working surface, for purposes of separating the debris into individual types of materials as a commodity for use in a beneficial manner that does not constitute disposal.
   "Processing facility" does not include:
      (a)   A facility that is operating or is licensed under Ohio law as a solid waste transfer facility or solid waste landfill facility or C&DD landfill facility;
      (b)   Any facility that consists solely of portable containers that have an aggregate volume of fifty (50) cubic yards or less;
      (c)   A site where "clean hard fill", which consists solely of reinforced or non-reinforced concrete, asphalt concrete, brick, block, tile or stone, is stored for no more than six (6) months on a permitted construction site from which it was generated during an active permitted construction, for use on that site, in legitimate fill operations for permitted construction purposes or to bring the site up to a consistent grade, if stored, managed and used in accordance with the Building Code at Chapter 345 and Chapter 3126 of these Codified Ordinances;
      (d)   A site where "clean hard fill," which consists solely of reinforced or non-reinforced concrete, asphalt concrete, brick, block, tile or stone, is stored for no more than six (6) months on a permitted construction site from which it was generated, for use on a permitted site, other than the site from which it was generated, for legitimate fill operations or permitted construction purposes on another site or to bring another site up to a consistent grade, if stored, managed and used in accordance with the Building Code at Chapter 345 and Chapter 3126 of these Codified Ordinances.
   "Temporary receipt or storage" means storage of that material for no more than sixty (60) days, as demonstrated by documentation.
(Ord. No. 806-18. Passed 7-18-18, eff. 7-20-18)
§ 325.121 Correctional Halfway House
   “Correctional halfway house” means a premises which provides room and board and correctional oversight, pursuant to a contract to provide those services for the Federal Bureau of Prisons or the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Corrections or the Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas Department of Probation or any other governmental entity with jurisdiction to provide correctional services, to adults who have been assigned to such facility by either a governmental authority or a court of law. Such premises may be one (1) building or a grouping of buildings located on contiguous properties.
(Ord. No. 2215-96. Passed 4-7-97, eff. 4-7-97; Reprinted 7-2-97 CR)
§ 325.13 Court
   “Court” means an open, unoccupied space, other than a yard, bounded on two (2) or more sides by the exterior walls of a building, or by exterior walls and lot lines.
(Ord. No. 1105-57. Passed 4-14-58. eff. 4-15-58)
§ 325.14 Court, Height
   “Height” as applied to a court, means the vertical distance from the lowest level of the court as actually constructed, or from the grade level, whichever is higher, to the top of the walls bounding the court, or to the level under consideration. In case the tops of such walls are at different elevations, the measurement shall be taken to the average elevation of the two (2) highest walls that are opposite.
(Ord. No. 1105-57. Passed 4-14-58, eff. 4-15-58)
§ 325.15 Court, Inner
   “Inner court” means a court enclosed on all sides by exterior walls of a building, or by exterior walls and lot lines other than street or alley lines.
(Ord. No. 1105-57. Passed 4-14-58, eff. 4-15-58)
§ 325.16 Court, Length
   “Length”, as applied to an outer court, means the mean horizontal distance between the open and closed ends of the court.
(Ord. No. 1105-57. Passed 4-14-58, eff. 4-15-58)
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