(a) General terms. As used in this Zoning Code, words in the present tense include the future tense, the singular number includes the plural and the plural number includes the singular. In addition:
“Lot” includes “plot” and “parcel.”
“Person” means an individual, firm, association, organization, partnership, trust, company or corporation.
“Shall” is a mandatory requirement, “may” is a permissive requirement and “should” is a preferred requirement.
“Used” and “occupied” include “intended, designed or arranged to be used or occupied.”
(b) Specific terms. As used in this Zoning Code:
“Accessory use” and “accessory structure” mean a use or structure on the same lot with, and of a nature customarily incidental and subordinate to, the principal use or structure.
“Agriculture” means the use of land for farming, dairying, pasturage, apiculture, horticulture, floriculture, viticulture and animal and poultry husbandry and the necessary accessory uses for packing, treating or storing the produce, provided, however, that:
A. The operation of any such accessory use shall be secondary to that of normal agricultural activities.
B. The above uses shall not include the feeding or sheltering of animals or poultry in penned enclosures within 100 feet of any residential zoning district. Agriculture does not include the feeding of garbage to animals or the operation or maintenance of a commercial stockyard or feedyard.
“Airport” means any runway, land area or other facility designed or used, either publicly or privately, by a person for the landing and taking off of aircraft, including all necessary taxiways, aircraft storage and tie-down areas, hangars and other necessary buildings and open spaces.
“Alteration, structural.” “Structural alteration” means any change in the supporting members of a building, such as a bearing wall, column, beam or girder.
“Automotive repair” means the repair, rebuilding or reconditioning of motor vehicles or parts thereof, including collision service, painting and steam cleaning of vehicles.
“Automotive, travel trailer and farm implement sales” means the sale or rental of new and used motor vehicles, travel trailers or farm implements, but not including repair work, except the incidental warranty repair of the same, to be displayed and sold on the premises.
“Automotive wrecking” means the dismantling or wrecking of used motor vehicles, mobile homes or trailers, or the storage, sale or dumping of dismantled, partially dismantled, obsolete or wrecked vehicles or their parts.
“Basement” means a story all or partly underground, but having at least one-half of its height below the average level of the adjoining ground.
“Bed and breakfast” means a dwelling unit in which there are one or more rooms in which transient paying guests may live, sleep and/or eat over a period of one or more days, as distinguished from a boarding house, a lodging house, a hotel, a motel or a tourist home. Bed and breakfast dwelling units may also be used for family dwelling use purposes.
“Building” means any structure designed or intended for the support, enclosure, shelter or protection of persons, animals, chattels or property.
“Building, accessory.” “Accessory building” means a subordinate building detached from, but located on the same lot as, the principal building, the use of which is incidental and accessory to that of the main building or use.
“Building, height of.” “Height of building” means the vertical distance from 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 mean height level between eaves and the ridge of a gable, hip or gambrel roof.
“Building line” means the line defining the minimum front, side and rear yard requirements outside of which no building or structure may be located, except as otherwise provided in this Zoning Code.
“Building, principal.” “Principal building” means the building on a lot used to accommodate the primary use to which the premises is devoted.
“Building sign” means a sign which identifies the business or profession conducted or the principal products sold upon the premises.
“Canopy” means any structure, other than an awning, made of cloth or metal, with frames attached to a building, projecting over a sidewalk.
“Carport” means a covered automobile parking space not completely enclosed by walls or doors. A carport shall be subject to all the provisions prescribed in this Zoning Code for private garages.
“Cemetery” means land used or intended to be used for the burial of the human or animal dead and dedicated for cemetery purposes, including crematories, mausoleums and mortuaries if operated in connection with and within the boundaries of such cemetery.
“Centralized sewerage system” means a system where individual lots are connected to a common sewerage system, whether publicly or privately owned and operated.
“Centralized water system” means a system where individual lots are connected to a common water distribution system, whether publicly or privately owned and operated.
“Clinic” means any building or other structure devoted to the diagnosis, treatment and care of human outpatients.
“Commission” means the Municipal Planning Commission.
“Comprehensive Development Plan” means the Plan, or any portion thereof, adopted by the Planning Commission and Council, showing the general location and extent of present and proposed physical facilities, including housing, industrial and commercial uses, major thoroughfares, parks, schools and other community facilities. Such Plan establishes the goals, objectives and policies of the community.
“Condominium” means and includes the land, together with all buildings, improvements and structures thereon, all easements, rights and appurtenances belonging thereto and all articles of personal property which have been submitted to the provisions of Ohio R.C. Chapter 5311.
“Convalescent home” means a rest home or boarding home for the aged or mentally or physically infirm, conducted within any abode, building, institutional residence or a home used for the reception and care, for a consideration, of three or more persons who, by reason of age or mental or physical infirmities, are not capable of properly caring for themselves or who are 65 years of age or older, and for which a license has been issued by the State Department of Public Welfare.
“Council” means the Municipal Council.
“Court” means an open, unoccupied and unobstructed space, other than a yard, on the same lot with a building or group of buildings.
“Density” means the number of families residing on, or dwelling units developed on, a gross acre of land.
“Discarded motor vehicle” means an inoperable motor-propelled vehicle or an accessory to the same, which is in the process of being wrecked, dismantled or stored and which does not have a license thereon which is valid or was valid not more than six months prior to such wrecking, dismantling or storage.
“District” means a section of the incorporated territory of the municipality for which the regulations governing the use of buildings and premises or the height and area of buildings are uniform.
“Duplex.” See Dwelling, two-family.
“Dwelling” means any building, or portion thereof, which is designed or used primarily for residential purposes, including one-family, two-family and multi-family dwellings, but not including hotels, motels, boarding houses, lodging houses and tourist dwellings. An attached garage, for purposes of determining the front, side and rear yards, shall be considered a part of the dwelling.
“Dwelling, group.” “Group dwelling” means a group of single-family, two-family or multi- family dwellings or a combination thereof located on one lot and around a common court or courts.
“Dwelling, multi-family.” “Multi-family dwelling” means a dwelling designed for or occupied by three or more families living independently of each other.
“Dwelling, single-family, attached.” “Attached single-family dwelling” means and includes single-family dwelling units, not more than three in any one building, which are physically attached, one to another, by a combination of common or adjoining vertical walls or floors which have individual heating and plumbing systems.
“Dwelling, two-family.” “Two-family dwelling” means a building designed and used exclusively by two families living independently of each other.
“Dwelling unit” means one or more rooms providing complete living facilities for one family, including equipment for cooking or provisions for the same, and including a room or rooms for living, sleeping and eating.
“Easement” means authorization by a property owner for the use by another, and for a specified purpose, of any designated part of his or her property.
“Essential services” means the erection, construction, alteration or maintenance by public utilities or municipal departments or commissions, of underground or overhead gas, electrical, steam or water transmission or distribution systems or collection, communication, supply or disposal systems, including poles, wires, mains, drains, sewers, pipes, conduits, cables, fire alarm boxes, police call boxes, traffic signals, hydrants and other similar equipment and accessories in connection therewith, but not including buildings reasonably necessary for the furnishing of adequate service by such public utilities or municipal departments or commissions or for the public health, safety or general welfare.
“Family” means one or more persons occupying a dwelling unit and living as a single housekeeping unit, whether or not related to each other by birth or marriage, as distinguished from a group occupying a boarding house, lodging house, hotel, tourist dwelling or sorority or fraternity house. A family may also include domestic servants.
“Fence” means a barrier constructed so as to contain or enclose an area as a protective measure or to separate or divide areas.
“Floor area” means the sum of the gross horizontal areas of the several floors of a building, measured from the exterior faces of exterior walls or from the centerline of common walls separating two buildings. Floor area, for the purposes of this Zoning Code, does not include basements, garages, elevator and stair bulkheads, attic spaces, terraces, breezeways, open porches or uncovered steps.
“Floor area ratio” means a mathematical expression determined by dividing the total floor area of a building by the area of the lot on which it is located.
“Frontage” means all the property on one side of a street adjacent to, and contiguous with, the line of the street.
“Garage, auto service shop.” “Auto service shop garage” means a building or portion of a building in which repairs are made to motor vehicles and in which there is no painting of cars or body and fender work done.
“Garage, private.” “Private garage” means an accessory building or an accessory portion of a main building, enclosed on all sides, designed or used for the shelter or storage of passenger vehicles and located on the same lot as the dwelling to which it is accessory.
“Garage, public.” “Public garage” means a building or portion of a building in which more than four motor vehicles are, or are intended to be, housed under arrangements made with patrons for renting or leasing such space and accommodation and in which no repair work is carried on.
“Garden apartment” means a group of buildings not more than two and one-half stories in height, each building containing not more than eight dwelling units.
“Gasoline service station” means a place where gasoline, kerosene or any other motor fuel or lubricating oil or grease for operating motor vehicles is offered for sale to the public and deliveries are made directly into motor vehicles, and where minor repairs are performed.
“Grade, finished.” “Finished grade” means, for buildings abutting one street only, the elevation of the sidewalk at the center of the wall facing the street or the elevation of the centerline of the street where no sidewalk exists; for buildings having walls facing more than one street, the average elevation of the sidewalk at the centers of all walls facing the streets; and for buildings having no walls facing the street, the average level of the finished surface of the ground adjacent to the exterior walls of the buildings. Any wall approximately parallel to a street line shall be considered as facing the street.
“Grade, natural.” “Natural grade” means the elevation of the undisturbed natural surface of the ground prior to any excavation or fill.
“Gross acre” means land area, measured on the horizontal plane, and includes land occupied by all natural and manmade features of the landscape.
“Guest house” and “accessory living quarters” means living quarters located on the second floor of a private garage for the use of persons employed on the premises or for the temporary use by guests of the occupants of the premises. Such quarters shall have no kitchen facilities and shall not be rented or otherwise used as a separate dwelling.
“Home occupation” means any use or profession customarily conducted entirely within a dwelling and carried on only by the inhabitants thereof, which use is clearly incidental and secondary to the use of the dwelling for dwelling purposes and does not change the character thereof.
“Hospital” means any building or other structure containing beds for at least four patients and devoted to the medical diagnosis, treatment or other care of human ailments.
“Hotel” means a building in which lodging is provided and offered to the public for compensation and which is open to transient guests, as distinguished from a boarding house or a lodging house.
“Institution” means a building occupied by a nonprofit corporation or a nonprofit establishment for public use.
“Junk” means any worn out or cast off litter, debris, discarded article or material which is ready for destruction or has been collected or stored for salvage or conversion to some use.
“Junk yard” means the use of more than 25 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.
“Kennel” means any lot or premises on which four or more domesticated animals more than four months of age are housed, groomed, bred, boarded, trained or sold or which offers provisions for minor medical treatment.
“Land Use and Thoroughfare Plan” means the long range plan for the development of the municipality and its environs, as officially adopted and amended by the Planning Commission.
“Loading space” means an off-street space or berth on the same lot with a building or contiguous to a group of buildings, for the temporary parking of a commercial vehicle while loading or unloading merchandise or materials, and which abuts upon a street, alley or other appropriate means of access.
“Lodging house” means a building where lodging only is provided by the week or the month, for compensation, for three or more, but not more than 20, persons.
“Lot” means a piece, parcel or plat of land occupied or intended to be occupied by a principal building or a group of such buildings and accessory buildings, or utilized for a principal use and uses accessory thereto, together with such open spaces and access to or frontage on a public street as are required by this Zoning Code.
“Lot area” means the computed area contained within lot lines. Where the lot has been conveyed to the center of the street, the area of the lot lying within the established street right-of-way shall not be included as part of the lot area for the purposes of this Zoning Code.
“Lot, corner.” “Corner lot” means a lot at the junction of, and abutting upon, two intersecting streets.
“Lot coverage” means the portion of the lot area that is covered by any building.
“Lot depth” means the mean horizontal distance between the right-of-way line of the street and the rear lot line.
“Lot, double frontage.” “Double frontage lot” means a lot having a frontage on two nonintersecting streets, as distinguished from a corner lot.
“Lot, interior.” “Interior lot” means a lot other than a corner lot.
“Lot line” means the property line defining the limits of a lot.
“Lot line, front.” “Front lot line” means the line separating a lot from the street on which the lot fronts.
“Lot line, rear.” “Rear lot line” means the lot line opposite and most distant from the front lot line.
“Lot line, side.” “Side lot line” means any lot line other than a front or rear lot line. A side lot line separating a lot from a street is called a side street lot line. A side lot line separating a lot from another lot is called an interior side lot line.
“Lot of record” means a lot which is a part of a subdivision, the map of which has been recorded in the office of the County Recorder, or a parcel of land, the deed to which was of record on or prior to the effective date of this Zoning Code (Ordinance 74-O-128, passed October 17, 1974).
“Lot, width of.” “Width of lot” means the width of a lot measured along the minimum building setback line.
“Major thoroughfare” and “collector thoroughfare” mean a thoroughfare designated as such on the adopted Land Use and Thoroughfare Plan.
“Marquee” means any hood or awning of permanent construction projecting from the wall of a building above an entrance and extending over a sidewalk, or part thereof.
“Minimum building setback line” means a line parallel to the street right-of-way line, at a distance therefrom equal to the required depth of the front yard, and extending across the full width of the lot. Where the established right-of-way line, if any, cannot be ascertained, it shall be deemed to be 30 feet from the center of the line of the existing roadway. Where a major thoroughfare or collector thoroughfare is designated on the Land Use and Thoroughfare Plan, the setback line shall be measured from the proposed right-of-way line.
“Motel” means any building or group of buildings containing sleeping rooms, with or without cooking facilities, designed as overnight sleeping quarters for automobile tourists or transients, with a garage attached or a parking space conveniently located to each unit, and includes auto courts, motor lodges and tourist courts.
“Net acre” means the land area of any lot or plot of ground after deducting that portion within the right-of-way of any street, alley or road.
“Nonconforming use” means any building, sign or land lawfully occupied by a use on the effective date of this Zoning Code (Ordinance 74-O-128, passed October 17, 1974), or any amendment or supplement thereto, which does not conform to the use regulations of the district in which it is situated.
“Outdoor advertising sign” means a fixed or portable appliance, structure or surface, including the supporting structure made necessary thereby, which is or shall be erected upon the ground or a wall of a building or above the roof of a building, and which is used, erected, intended and/or designed to be used for the public display of posters, painted displays, electrical displays, pictures or other pictorial or reading matter, for the benefit of a person, organization, business or cause not residing or located on the lot or in the building or on a lot adjoining the lot or building where such appliance, structure or surface is or shall be located. “Outdoor advertising sign” includes any card, cloth, paper, metal, painted glass, wood, plaster or stone sign or other sign of any kind or character placed for outdoor advertising purposes on the ground or on any tree, wall, bush, rock, post, fence, building, structure or thing. “Placed,” as used with “outdoor advertising sign” and “outdoor advertising structure,” includes erecting, constructing, posting, painting, printing, tacking, nailing, gluing, sticking, carving or otherwise fastening, affixing or making visible a sign in any manner.
“Parking space” means an off-street space or berth for the temporary parking of a vehicle for a period longer than required to load or unload persons or goods.
“Performance bond” and “surety bond” mean an agreement by a subdivider or developer with the municipality, for the amount of the estimated construction cost, guaranteeing the completion of physical improvements in accordance with plans and specifications within the time prescribed by the subdivider’s agreement.
“Planned unit residential development” means a planned, integrated residential development where the minimum lot size and dwelling type may be modified somewhat to achieve particular design objectives and economical provision of open space and utilities while maintaining the same overall density limitations of the district in which the planned unit residential development is located and complying with other pertinent requirements of the Planning Commission.
“Public uses” means public parks, schools and administrative and cultural buildings and structures, but does not include public lands or buildings devoted solely to the storage and maintenance of equipment and material and public service facilities.
“Public utility” means any person, firm, corporation, governmental agency or board who or which is fully authorized to furnish, and furnishes, to the public electricity, gas, steam, telephone, telegraphy, transportation, water or any other similar public utility.
“Quasi-public use” means a church, Sunday school, parochial school, college, hospital and any other facility of an educational, religious, charitable, philanthropic or nonprofit nature.
“Residential District” and “R District” mean any district in which residential uses are permitted.
“Roadside stand” means a removable structure used or intended to be used solely by the owner or the tenant of a property on which it is located for the sale of seasonal agricultural products produced on the premises and to be removed and stored behind the building line on the property at the conclusion of the seasonal sales.
“Row house.” See Town house.
“Screening strip” means a strip of land used as a planting strip on which are placed evergreens, hedges, shrubbery or other planting materials maintained in a neat and orderly manner.
“Seat” means, for the purpose of determining the number of off-street parking spaces for certain uses, the number of seating units installed or indicated, or each 24 linear inches of benches, pews or spaces for loose chairs.
“Setback line” means the line established by this Zoning Code, generally parallel with and measured from the lot line, defining the limits of a yard in which no building, other than an accessory building or structure, may be located above ground, except as may be provided in this Zoning Code.
“Sign” means any device or surface of a building or any other natural or manmade object on which letters, illustrations, designs, figures or any other symbols are painted, printed, stamped, raised, or in any manner outlined or attached and used for display of or to attract attention to any object, product, place, activity, person, issue, institution, organization or business, but does not include the flag, pennant, badge or insignia of any government or governmental agency or of any charitable, religious, education or similar organization.
“Sign, area of.” “Area of sign” means that area which is normally visible from any one direction. For example, a rectangular sign four feet by five feet with a display on both sides shall be considered to be 20 square feet. The square footage determination shall be ascertained by adding all sign surface areas and dividing by two. In addition:
A. Signs which require other signs to display the full meaning, such as individually displayed letters of the name of an establishment or adjacent pictorial displays, shall be considered one sign, so long as such other signs are physically connected to the principal sign and so long as the surface area of such other signs, together with that of the principal sign, does not exceed the maximum square footage permitted.
B. Sign supporting structures, which by size or ornateness have been designed to attract attention, shall be considered part of the sign square footage.
“Sign, banner.” “Banner sign” means any sign made of canvas, plastic or other cloth with or without a frame.
“Sign, bulletin board.” “Bulletin board sign” means any sign or structure located on the property of a public, institutional, religious or charitable organization which is used to announce their activities.
“Sign, changeable copy.” “Changeable copy sign” means a sign or any portion thereof where the message or graphic is not permanently affixed to the structure, framing or background and may be periodically replaced or covered over, manually or by electric or manual devices.
“Sign, directional.” “Directional sign” means a sign indicating the direction to which attention is called either on the lot on which the sign is located or which directs attention to another location.
“Sign, ground and pole.” “Ground sign” and “pole sign” mean any sign supported by uprights or braces placed on the ground or attached to any building.
“Sign, horizontal.” “Horizontal sign” means any sign which is greater in width than in height.
“Sign, illuminated.” “Illuminated sign” means any sign which has characters, letters, figures, or outlines illuminated by electric lights or luminous tubes as a part of the sign proper.
“Sign, political.” “Political sign” means any sign which is portable or non-portable that relates to an election of any kind involving a political party, a candidate, or candidates for office and/or an issue or issues to be decided at such election.
“Sign, portable.” “Portable sign” means any temporary sign which is designed to be moved and is not permanently attached to any part of a building or to the ground.
“Sign, projecting.” “Projecting sign” means any sign which is attached to a building or other structure and extends beyond the line of such building or structure or beyond the surface of that portion of the building or structure to which it is attached.
“Sign, roof.” “Roof sign” means any sign erected, constructed and maintained wholly upon or over the roof or parapet wall of any building with the principal support on the roof structure.
“Sign, temporary.” “Temporary sign” means a sign which is intended to advertise construction projects, real estate sales, civic, religious or charitable events, leases or rentals, or political candidates, parties, or issues, directional signs and banners where the duration of such sign is not permanent, and the sign is not affixed in a lasting or permanent manner to the ground or a building.
“Sign, vertical.” “Vertical sign” means any sign which is greater in height than in width.
“Sign, wall.” “Wall sign” means any sign painted on, attached to or erected against the wall of a building or structure, with the exposed face of the sign in a plane parallel to the plane of such wall.
“Stable, private.” “Private stable” means a stable, with a capacity of not more than two animals, owned by the occupants of the dwelling to which it is an accessory use.
“Story” means that portion of a building included between the surface of any floor and the surface of the next floor above it or, if there is no floor above it, the space between the floor and the ceiling next above it.
“Story, half.” “Half story” means a space under a sloping roof which has the line of intersection of the roof decking and a wall face not more than three feet above the top floor level and in which space not more than two-thirds of the floor area is finished off for use.
“Street, private.” “Private street” means a thoroughfare which affords a principal means of access to abutting property, but which has not been dedicated to public use or subject to public easements therefor.
“Street, public.” “Public street” means a public thoroughfare which has been dedicated to public use and accepted by the municipality or subject to public easements therefor and which affords a principal means of access to abutting property.
“Street right-of-way line” means a dividing line between a lot, tract or parcel of land and a contiguous street. Where the lot, tract or parcel of land has been conveyed to the center of the street, the street right-of-way line then becomes the inside line of land reserved for street purposes.
“Structure” means anything constructed or erected, the use of which requires a permanent location on the ground or an attachment to something having a permanent location on the ground, including advertising signs, billboards, pergolas and farmers’ roadside stands, but not including fences or walls used as fences.
“Swimming pool, commercial.” “Commercial swimming pool” means a body of water in an artificial receptacle or other container, whether located indoors or outdoors, used or intended to be used for public, semipublic or private swimming by adults or children, or both, whether or not any charge or fee is imposed upon such adults or children, operated and maintained by any person, whether he or she is an owner, lessee, operator, licensee or concessionaire, exclusive of a family swimming pool, and includes all structures, appurtenances, equipment, appliances and other facilities appurtenant to and intended for the operation and maintenance of a swimming pool, as well as all swimming pools operated and maintained in conjunction with or by clubs, motels and community associations.
“Swimming pool, family.” “Family swimming pool” means a swimming pool used or intended to be used solely by the owner or lessee thereof and his or her family and by friends invited to use it without payment of any fee.
“Thoroughfare” means a street or alley or a boulevard as such terms are defined in § 1240.12(b)(42) of the Codified Ordinances of the Municipality of Columbiana.
“Tourist dwelling” means a dwelling where overnight accommodations are provided for tourists.
“Town house” means single-family attached dwelling units, not less than three nor more than eight in any one single story building or two-story building, if the second story space is part of the dwelling units, each of which occupies at least an equal area of floor space on the first floor. Such units are physically attached one to another by a combination of common or adjoining vertical walls and floors, have individual heating and plumbing systems and are individually owned, sold as condominiums or rented.
“Usable open space” means the required portion of a lot, excluding the required front yard area, which is unoccupied by principal or accessory buildings and available to all occupants of the building for use for recreational and other leisure activities normally carried on outdoors.
“Use” means the purpose for which a building or premises is or may be occupied. In the classification of uses, a use may be a use as commonly understood, the name of an occupation, business, activity or operation carried on, or intended to be carried on, in a building or on any premises, or the name of a building, place or thing, which name indicates the use or intended use.
“Used car lot” means any lot on which two or more motor vehicles, which have been previously titled in a name other than the manufacturer or dealer, in operating condition, are offered for sale or displayed to the public.
“Variance” means a modification of the strict terms of the relevant regulations of this Zoning Code, where such modification will not be contrary to the public interest and where, owing to conditions peculiar to the property and not the result of the action of the applicant for a variance, a literal enforcement of such regulations would result in unnecessary and undue hardship.
“Yard” means an open space on the same lot with a building, which is unoccupied and unobstructed by any portion of a structure from the ground upward, except as otherwise provided in this Zoning Code.
“Yard, front.” “Front yard” means a yard extending across the full width of a lot and being the perpendicular distance between the street right-of-way line and the nearest portion of any building or structure existing or proposed for construction on such lot. Where the right-of-way is not established, the right-of-way shall be assumed to be 60 feet. Where a major or collector thoroughfare is designated on the Land Use and Thoroughfare Plan, the front yard depth shall be measured from the proposed street right-of-way line.
“Yard, rear.” “Rear yard” means a yard extending across the full width of a lot between the side lot lines and being the perpendicular distance between the rear lot line and the nearest portion of any building or structure existing or proposed to be constructed on such lot. On corner lots, the rear yard shall be considered as parallel to the street upon which the lot has its least dimension. On both corner lots and interior lots, the rear yard shall be, in all cases, at the opposite end of the lot from the front yard.
“Yard, side.” “Side yard” means a yard between the nearest portion of any building or structure existing or proposed to be constructed on such lot and the side lines of the lot and extending from the front yard to the rear yard.
“Zoning Code” means Ordinance 74-O-128, passed October 17, 1974, as amended, codified herein as Title Six of Part Twelve - the Planning and Zoning Code.
“Zoning Map” means the “Zoning Districts Map, Municipality of Columbiana, Ohio.”
“Zoning permit” means a document issued by the Zoning Inspector authorizing the use of lots, structures, uses of land and structures and the characteristics of the uses.
(Ord. 74-O-128, passed 10-17-1974; Ord. 92-O-1319, passed 11-3-1992; Ord. 98-O-1698, passed 10-6-1998; Ord. 03-O-2067, passed 10-21-2003; Ord. 09-O-2511, passed 2-17-2009; Ord. 15-O- 2826, passed 6-16-2015)