The following terms, whenever used in this chapter, shall have the meanings indicated. Words used in the present tense include the future tense; words in the singular include the plural, and vice versa. The word "shall" is always mandatory, and the word "may" is permissive. The word "persons" includes an association, firm, partnership or corporation, as well as an individual. The word "occupied" and the word "used" shall be considered as meaning the same as the words "intended", "arranged" or "designed to be used or occupied". The word "dwelling" includes the word "residence"; the word "lot" includes the words "plot" or "parcel".
ABUTTING: | The condition of two (2) adjoining properties having a common property line or boundary, including cases where two (2) or more lots adjoin only at a corner or corners, but not including cases where adjoining lots are separated by a street or alley. |
ACTION: | The decision made by the reviewing authority on a land use application, to include any conditions of approval. |
ADJOINING, ADJACENT: | The condition of being near to or close to, but not necessarily having a common dividing line; e.g., two (2) properties which are separated only by a street or alley shall be considered as adjoining one another. |
ADULT BOOKSTORE: | For the purposes of this chapter, means an establishment which merchandises printed material or movies which are intended to appeal to the prurient interests of the reader. |
ADULT CARE FACILITY: | An establishment that furnishes food, shelter, assistance and limited supervision only during the day to unrelated person(s) with an intellectual disability or with a physical disability who is aged or infirm. |
ADULT MOTION PICTURE THEATER: | A motion picture theater whose program, during the time of its operation, contains one or more motion pictures which are rated "X" by the Code Rating Administration of the Motion Picture Association of America or are not rated, and whose program is intended to appeal to the prurient interests of the viewer. |
AGRICULTURE: | The practice of cultivating the soil, producing crops and raising livestock. |
ALLEY: | A. A street or highway within a City block set apart for public use, vehicular traffic and local convenience; B. A street or highway which primarily furnishes access to the rear entrances of abutting property. |
APARTMENT: | A room or suite of rooms with facilities for the preparation of meals that is designed for and used or intended to be used by one family and that is intended to be occupied on a rental basis with a rental period of at least one week. |
APPLICANT: | A person who submits an application to the Planning Department. |
APPLICATION: | A written request for a permit on a form approved by the City. |
AWNING: | An architectural projection that provides weather protection, identity or decoration and is partially or wholly supported by the building to which it is attached. An awning is comprised of a lightweight frame structure over which a covering is attached. |
BUILDING: | Any structure, regardless of whether it is affixed to real property that is used or intended for supporting or sheltering any human use or occupancy. |
BUILDING, ACCESSORY: | A detached subordinate building on the same lot with a principal building or use, the use of which is customarily accessory and incidental to the main use of the principal building or use. |
BUILDING, ACCESSORY, NON-PERMANENT: | A detached building that is not attached to or set upon a permanent foundation, such as a greenhouse, garden shed, storage shed, or other building designed to store garden tools, bicycles, holiday decorations, or similar items and that is usually purchased at a retail establishment. |
BUILDING, ACCESSORY, PERMANENT: | A detached building attached to or set upon a permanent foundation and/or connected to utilities, such as a greenhouse, pole barn, garage, or other building designed to store household items and/or vehicles and that is usually built on-site. |
BUILDING HEIGHT: | The vertical distance measured from grade to the highest point of the building. |
BUILDING INSPECTOR: | Qualified employee of the City of Elko Building Department delegated to do building inspections and enforce applicable portions of this Code. |
BUILDING, PRINCIPAL: | A building, or where the context so indicates, a group of buildings, within which is conducted the principal use of the lot on which the building is situated. |
CAMPING: | The use of real property owned or occupied by another person for living accommodation purposes outside of a structure that is affixed to the ground, to include uses such as, without limitation, the following when done in connection with outdoor living: a) overnight sleeping activities or making preparations to sleep overnight outside of a motor vehicle, recreational vehicle or trailer, such as the laying down of bedding on the ground for the purpose of sleeping overnight; b) storing personal belongings outside of a structure in connection with overnight sleeping activities; c) cooking outdoors or making a fire for the purpose of cooking food outdoors as approved by the City; or d) using any tent, shelter or other mobile structure for sleeping overnight. "Camping" does not include using a motor vehicle, recreational vehicle or trailer as long-term shelter, for living accommodation purposes or for the purpose of storage of belongings. |
CARPORT: | An accessory building, attached or detached, having two (2) or more open sides, used by occupants of the principal building for automobile shelter or storage. |
CERTIFICATE OF OCCUPANCY: | A document issued by the building official certifying that work performed by a permittee is in compliance with this title and is in a condition suitable for the indicated use or occupancy. The term “building official” shall have the meaning ascribed in Section 2- 1-2(C) of the Code. |
CHILDCARE CENTER: | A childcare facility providing care for more than twelve (12) children. |
CHILDCARE FACILITY: | An establishment operated and maintained for the purpose of furnishing care on a temporary or permanent basis during the day or overnight, to five (5) or more children under eighteen (18) years of age, if compensation is received for the care of any of those children and provided that such establishment is licensed by the State and operated in accordance with State requirements. |
CHILDCARE FAMILY HOME: | A childcare facility providing care for not less than five (5) children and not more than six (6) children. |
CHILDCARE GROUP HOME: | A childcare facility providing care for not less than seven (7) children and not more than twelve (12) children. |
CITY COUNCIL: | The Mayor and City Council of the City of Elko, Nevada. |
CLINIC: | A building, or part thereof, in which ambulatory patients are provided diagnostic, therapeutic or preventative medical, surgical, dental or optical treatment by a group of doctors acting jointly, but not providing for overnight residence of patients. |
CODE: | The Elko City Code. |
COMMON OPEN SPACE: | A parcel or parcels of land, or an area of water, or a combination of land and water, within the site designated for planned unit residential development which is designed and intended for the use or enjoyment of the residents of the development. Common open space may contain such complementary structures and improvements as are necessary and appropriate for the benefit and enjoyment of such residents. |
CONDITIONAL USE: | A use permitted in zoning district regulations subject to a finding by the Planning Commission that all special conditions and requirements imposed shall be met. |
CONDOMINIUM: | A multi-family dwelling or commercial building within which the occupied area is owned individually and the structure, land, common open space areas and facilities are owned by all of the owners on a proportional, undivided basis. |
CONSTRUCTION YARD: | An area on, abutting or adjacent to a major construction or demolition site used on a temporary basis for the parking and storage of equipment used in the project, and the storage and preparation of materials and other items used in the project, including construction offices and shops. |
CONVALESCENT HOME: | See definition of nursing or convalescent home. |
DESIGN PROFESSIONAL: | Unless specifically provided otherwise, a person who holds a professional license or certificate issued pursuant to chapter 623, 623A or 625 of the Nevada Revised Statutes, or a person primarily engaged in the practice of professional engineering, land surveying architecture or landscape architecture. |
DEVELOPMENT PLAN: | A location-specific written document containing the information required by this chapter and demonstrating the feasability of a proposed commercial or other development. A development plan is in addition to and not in lieu of a site plan. |
DRIVE-IN ESTABLISHMENT: | A business enterprise, activity or use of land consisting of sales or services rendered to patrons who normally receive the products or utilize the services while in motor vehicles upon the premises, including, but not limited to, gas service stations, drive-in restaurants, drive-in laundry and dry cleaning pick up, and drive-in bank. |
DRIVE-THROUGH: | The use of a dedicated drive lane that, incidental to a principal use, provides access to a station, such as a window, door or mechanical device, from which occupants of a motor vehicle receive or obtain a product or service. |
DROUGHT TOLERANT PLANT: | A plant that can survive with minimum supplemental water. |
DWELLING, MULTIPLE-FAMILY: | A building or group of buildings that contains three (3) or more dwelling units. |
DWELLING, SINGLE-FAMILY: | A building that consists solely of one (1) dwelling unit and which is constructed under the Building Code in accordance with title 2 of this Code, and which also includes manufactured homes developed to specific standards in accordance with subsection 3-2-3Q of this chapter. |
DWELLING, TWO- FAMILY: | A building that contains two (2) attached single-family dwelling units totally separated from each other by an unpierced wall and located on the same lot or parcel. |
DWELLING UNIT (DU): | A single unit providing complete, independent living facilities for one (1) family, including permanent provisions for living, sleeping, eating, cooking and sanitation. |
ERECTED: | Built, constructed, altered, reconstructed or moved upon; any physical operations on a premises which are required for construction, excavation, fill, drainage and the like, shall be considered a part of erection. |
ESSENTIAL SERVICE: | The erection, construction, alteration or maintenance by a public utility of underground, surface or overhead gas, electrical, steam, water transmission or distribution systems, communication, supply or disposal systems, poles, wires, mains, drains, sewers, pipes, cables, fire alarm boxes, police call boxes, traffic signals, hydrants, and other similar equipment and accessories in connection therewith reasonably necessary for the furnishing of adequate service by such public utilities for the public health, safety or general welfare, not including buildings, electric substations and transmission towers. |
EXCAVATION: | Any breaking of ground, except common gardening and grounds care, and general agriculture. |
FAMILY: | An individual living alone; or, one (1) or more persons living together who are related by blood, marriage or other legal bond, and their dependents; or, a group of not more than five (5) unrelated persons living together as a single household in a dwelling unit. A "family" includes its domestic employees. |
FOUNDATION: | A structure that supports a building or structure from underneath, typically made of stone or concrete. |
FULL FRONTAGE: | All lot lines of any lot, parcel or tract of property adjacent to a road, street, alley or right-of-way, to include lots, parcels or tracts containing multiple borders or edges, such as corner lots. |
GARAGE: | A covered or enclosed outbuilding or part of a building designed for housing motor vehicles, boats, or trailers. |
GAS SERVICE STATION: | An establishment retailing motor fuels and lubricants directly to the public on the premises, including incidental sale of minor auto accessories and services. |
GOVERNING BODY: | The City Council. |
GRADE: | The average elevation of the finished ground surface adjacent to the exterior walls of a building or base of a structure. |
HALFWAY HOUSE FOR RECOVERING ALCOHOL AND DRUG ABUSERS: | A residence that provides housing and a living environment for recovering alcohol and drug abusers and is operated to facilitate their reintegration into the community, but does not provide treatment for alcohol or drug abuse. The term "halfway house for recovering alcohol and drug abusers" does not include a facility for transitional living for released offenders. |
HOME OCCUPATION: | A business customarily carried on in a business establishment that is permitted to be carried out in a residence as long as the use as a business is incidental to the primary residential purpose and the residential character of the property is not changed. Every person permitted to carry on a home occupation shall obtain an annual business license. |
HOSPITAL: | A building, or group of buildings, in which sick or injured persons are given medical or surgical treatment, examination or care, including overnight residence, together with related facilities, e.g., laboratories, training facilities, staff residences, outpatient department and similar facilities which are an integral part of the principal use. |
HOTEL, MOTEL, or HOTEL SUITES: | A building, or group of buildings, used primarily for accommodation of transient guests in rooms or suites. |
HUMANITARIAN CAMPGROUND: | A designated area that serves a humanitarian purpose by allowing people, with permission from the owner or occupier of the land, to engage in camping and that may or may not have toilets, showers and/or other amenities for campers to use. |
HUMANITARIAN PURPOSE: | A use which is not for profit and which is designed to allow people who are homeless or who cannot occupy their homes due to lack of utilities or other causes, to engage in life sustaining activities, such as eating and sleeping. |
JUNKYARD: | An open area where waste, used or secondhand materials are bought and sold, exchanged, stored, baled, packed, disassembled or handled, including, but not limited to, scrap iron and other metals, paper, rags, rubber tires, and bottles. A "junkyard" includes automobile wrecking yards and any area of more than one hundred twenty (120) square feet for storage, keeping or abandonment of junk, but does not include uses confined entirely within enclosed buildings. |
LANDOWNER: | The legal or beneficial owner or owners of all the land proposed to be included in the planned unit development. The holder of an option or contract of purchase, and lessee having a remaining term of not less than thirty (30) years, or another person having an enforceable proprietary interest in such land, is a "landowner" for the purposes of this chapter. |
LICENSED HOUSE OF PROSTITUTION: | A licensed commercial enterprise maintained for the convenience and resort of persons desiring lawful sexual intercourse. |
LOADING SPACE: | An off-street space provided for the temporary parking of a vehicle while loading or unloading merchandise or materials, situated on the same lot with a building and entirely outside the right-of-way of any public street or alley. |
LOFT: | A floor level located more than 30 inches (762 mm) above the main floor, open to the main floor on one or more sides with a ceiling height of less than 6 feet 8 inches (2032 mm) and used as a living or sleeping space. |
LOT: | A distinct part or parcel of land separated from other pieces or parcels by description, identified as such in a subdivision or on a record survey map, or described as such by metes and bounds, with the intention or for the purposes of sale, lease, or separate use, or for the purpose of building, including the following types of lots: Corner Lot: A lot abutting two (2) or more intersecting streets. Double Frontage Lot: A lot abutting two (2) parallel or approximately parallel streets. Interior Lot: A lot having only one (1) side abutting a street. Key Lot: An interior lot, one (1) side of which is contiguous to the rear line of a corner lot. |
LOT AREA: | The total area of a lot within the lot lines as measured on a horizontal plane. |
LOT COVERAGE: | That part or percentage of a lot occupied by principal and/or accessory buildings. |
LOT DEPTH: | The shortest distance, measured on a line parallel to the axis of the lot, between points on the front and rear lot lines. |
LOT LINE: | A line bounding a lot, including the following types of lot lines: Front Lot Line: The lot line coinciding with the street line; or, in the case of a corner lot, the shorter of two (2) lot lines coinciding with street lines; or, in the case of a double frontage lot, both lot lines coinciding with street lines. Rear Lot Line: The lot line opposite and farthest from the front lot line; for a pointed or irregular lot, the rear lot line shall be an imaginary line, parallel to and farthest from the front lot line, not less than ten feet (10') long and wholly within the lot. Side Lot Line: Any lot line other than a front or rear lot line; in the case of a corner lot, the lot line abutting the side street is designated as the exterior side lot line and all other side lot lines are designated as interior side lot lines. |
LOT OF RECORD: | A lot which is part of a subdivision plat or other type of map used for the purpose of dividing or merging parcels of land, recorded in the Elko County Recorder's Office prior to the effective date hereof; or, a lot or parcel described by metes and bounds and having its description recorded in the Elko County Recorder's Office prior to the effective date hereof. |
LOT WIDTH: | A. In case of a rectangular lot or a lot abutting on the outside of a street curve, the distance between side lot lines measured parallel to the street or to the street chord and measured on the street chord. B. In the case of a lot abutting on the inside of a street curve, the distance between the side lot lines measured parallel to the street or the street chord at the rear line of the dwelling, or, where there is no dwelling, thirty feet (30') behind the minimum front setback line. |
MAJOR ELECTRICAL TRANSMISSION LINE: | Any electrical line carrying an electrical load of sixty six (66) kV and above. |
METALLURGY: | The reduction or extraction of metals from their ores by mechanical, physical or chemical methods, including their refinement and preparation for use as raw materials. |
MINING: | The extraction from the earth of gravel, stone, sand, and metallic or nonmetallic ore, and the crushing, washing, grading, storage and loading for transportation thereof. |
MIXED USE: | Combination of different uses including residential use within a shared building. |
MOBILE HOME: | As defined in the City of Elko mobile home ordinance.
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MOBILE HOME LOT: | As defined in the City of Elko mobile home ordinance.
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MOBILE HOME PARK: | As defined in the City of Elko mobile home ordinance.
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NONCONFORMING USE: | Uses existing at the time of adoption of this chapter, but not in accordance with the provisions and requirements contained herein. |
NURSING OR CONVALESCENT HOME: | An establishment providing bed care, or chronic or convalescent care, for one (1) or more persons, exclusive of relatives, who by reason of illness or physical infirmity are unable to properly care for themselves; excluding, however, institutions for the care of alcoholics, drug addicts, and persons with mental or communicable diseases. |
OFF STREET: | Land which is not within the right-of-way of any street or alley. |
PARK AND RIDE FACILITIES: | Parking lots which are intended to allow commuters to park their vehicles and then transfer to some form of mass transportation, such as buses, trains or carpools. |
PARKING LOT: | An area other than for single-family dwellings used for the off street parking of more than two (2) motor vehicles, including parking spaces, access and maneuvering aisles. |
PARKING SPACE: | A fully accessible space adequate for the temporary parking of permitted vehicles, situated entirely outside the right-of-way of any public street. |
PARTIES IN INTEREST: | A term identifying the owners of property within three hundred feet (300') of specific property. |
PERSON: | Except where otherwise indicated, a natural person, any form of business or social organization and any other nongovernmental legal entity including, but not limited to, a corporation, partnership, association, trust or unincorporated organization, or a government, governmental agency or political subdivision of a government. |
PLANNED COMMERCIAL DEVELOPMENT: | An area of one or more parcels to be developed as a single project which is planned, operated and maintained by one entity and contains a number of commercial uses to include but not limited to mixed- use community shopping centers, office parks, and other similar commercial developments. |
PLANNED SHOPPING CENTER: | A business development not divided by a street and characterized by an organized and concentrated grouping of retail and service outlets served by a common circulation and parking system. |
PLANNED UNIT DEVELOPMENT: | An area of land controlled by a landowner, which is to be developed as a single entity for a number of dwelling units, the plans for which do not correspond in lot size, bulk or type of dwelling, density, lot coverage and required open space to the regulations established in any one (1) residential district created, from time to time, under the provisions of this chapter. |
PLANNING COMMISSION: | The City of Elko Planning Commission. |
PRIVATE GARAGES: | An enclosed accessory building, attached or detached, used for storage of motor vehicles used by occupants of the principal building and providing no public shop or services in connection therewith. |
PROJECT: | A commercial development consisting of buildings, structures and other improvements built and arranged according to a single plan. |
PUBLIC UTILITY: | Any person, firm, corporation, municipality or Municipal board duly authorized under State or Municipal regulations, to furnish to the public electricity, gas, steam, communications, water, drainage, flood control, irrigation, garbage or trash disposal, or sewage disposal. |
PROHIBITED USE: | A use that is not permitted by any means in a particular zoning district. |
RAILROAD USE: | The occupation and use of land, buildings and structures for purposes directly connected with rail transportation of articles, goods and passengers, including such facilities as tracks, sidings, signal devices and structures, shops and yards for maintenance and storage of rail machinery, loading platforms, passenger and freight terminals, but excluding warehouses, stockyards, grain elevators, truck freight terminals and yards, and similar facilities, which are maintained and operated by the owning railroad company or by a lessee for purposes auxiliary to rail transportation. |
RECREATION AND SOCIAL CLUBS: | Buildings and grounds used for and operated by membership of fraternal organizations primarily not for profit, including golf clubs, tennis clubs, riding clubs, American Legion halls, Elks Club, and similar facilities. |
RECREATIONAL VEHICLE: | A vehicle self-propelled or otherwise, designed to temporarily shelter persons en route on a recreational or vacation trip. "Recreational vehicle" includes truck mounted campers, and self-propelled travel vans. |
RECREATIONAL VEHICLE PARK: | A lot, parcel or tract of land, having as its principal use the rental of space of temporary short term, transient occupancy by two (2) or more recreational vehicles, including any accessory buildings, structures and uses customarily incidental thereto. |
REPAIR GARAGE: | An establishment where these services may be allowed: normal activities of a gas service station, general repair, engine rebuilding, rebuilding or reconditioning of motor vehicles; collision services such as body, frame or fender straightening and repair; general painting and undercoating of automobiles; high speed washing; auto, boat or trailer rental; and general sales of auto parts or accessories. |
RESIDENTIAL ESTABLISHMENT: | A halfway house for recovering alcohol and drug abusers or a residential facility for groups. |
RESIDENTIAL FACILITY FOR GROUPS: | An establishment that furnishes food, shelter, assistance and limited supervision to unrelated person(s) with an intellectual disability or with a physical disability who is aged or infirm. The term does not include an establishment which provides care only during the day, a natural person who provides care for no more than two (2) persons in his own home, a natural person who provides care for one (1) or more persons related to him within the third degree of consanguinity or affinity, a halfway house for recovering alcohol and drug abusers, or a facility funded by a division or program of the Nevada Department of Health and Human Services. |
RETAIL USE: | A commercial establishment selling goods at retail; however, a home occupation shall not be considered as a retail use. |
ROADWAY CLASSIFICATION: | All roadway classifications shall be determined in accordance with the Transportation Component of the City of Elko Master Plan. |
ROOMING OR BOARDING HOUSE: | A building other than a hotel or motel where, for compensation and by prearrangement for definite periods of time, with or without meals, lodging is provided for individuals who are not members of a resident family and not occupied by a single-family unit. |
SCHOOL: | A public or private building, or group of buildings, used for purposes of primary or secondary education, meeting all requirements of the Compulsory Education Laws of the State of Nevada. |
SCREEN WALL: | A masonry wall or opaque fence so constructed as to prevent the view of enclosed activities or uses from without. |
SERVANT QUARTERS: | An attached or detached building, or part thereof, housing persons employed on the premises. |
SERVICE CLUBS: | Buildings and grounds used for and operated by nonprofit organizations whose membership is open to any resident of the community, including YMCA, YWCA, Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts, Boys Club and any similar organizations having as its primary objective the improvement of the district, neighborhood or community and its social welfare. |
SETBACK: | The minimum horizontal distance between a lot line and the nearest point of a building, structure or use, as the context indicates, located on a lot. "Setback" shall not include eaves of the building. |
SITE PLAN: | An architectural, engineering, and/or landscape architectural plan drawn to scale showing the physical layout of the site, including the size and location of new construction and existing structures on the site, distances from lot lines, the established street grades, the proposed finished grades and, as applicable, flood hazard areas, floodways, design flood elevations, and any other information pertaining to the physical layout of the site required by the building official. |
STORY: | That portion of a building included between the surface of any floor and the surface of the next floor above, or if there is no floor above, the space between the topmost floor and the roof having a usable floor area at least one-half (½) that of the floor area of the floor immediately below. A basement shall be considered a story when fifty percent (50%) or more of its cubic content is above grade. |
STREET: | A dedicated public way which affords the principal means of vehicular access to abutting property. |
STREET LINE: | A line demarcating the limits of a street right-of-way. |
STREET, PRIVATE: | A nondedicated, privately owned right-of-way or limited public way that affords the principal means of emergency and limited vehicular access and connection from the public street system to properties created through the division or subdivision of land. |
STREET, PUBLIC: | A dedicated public right-of-way that is part of the public street system and which affords the principal means of emergency and general vehicular access to abutting property. |
STRUCTURE: | Something built or constructed that may be placed upon or affixed to real property for a purpose, such as storage or protection from the elements. The term “structure” includes, without limitation, a building, a non- permanentized mobile home or an unattached shed placed on skids. |
SWIMMING POOL: | Any constructed pool, used for swimming, bathing or wading, whether above or below the ground surface and regardless of depth or water surface area. |
TEMPORARY USE OR BUILDING: | A use or structure permitted under the terms of this chapter to exist for a limited period of time. |
TINY HOUSE: | A dwelling that is 400 square feet (37m2) or less in floor area excluding lofts. |
TOWNHOUSE OR ROW HOUSE: | A row or cluster of at least three attached dwellings in which each dwelling is located on separately owned lot, each unit is separated by one or more common vertical walls, each unit has its own front and rear yard access, and no unit is located over another unit. A townhouse complex may include common open space and recreational areas and facilities which are owned by all owners on a proportional, undivided basis. |
USABLE FLOOR AREA: | A term used in computing parking requirements, meaning the aggregate area of a building measured to the interior area, similarly measured, or each additional story which is connected to the first story by a fixed stairway, escalator, ramp or elevator, and the floor area of all accessory buildings, measured similarly, but excluding that part of any floor area which is occupied by heating, ventilating, or other permanently installed equipment required for operation of the building, and by unenclosed porches, light shafts, public corridors and public toilets. For uses not enclosed within a building, the area for sales, display or service shall be measured to determine equivalent usable floor area. |
USE: | The purpose for which land or a building is arranged, designed or intended, or for which land or a building is or may be occupied. The principal use is the main use to which the premises are devoted and the main purpose for which the premises exist. An accessory use is a use subordinate to the principal use on a lot and used for purposes clearly incidental to those of the principal use. |
VARIANCE: | A modification of the literal enforcement of the technical provisions and requirements of this chapter. The applicant for variance shall present adequate evidence to support the granting of a variance in accordance with section 3-2-22 of this chapter. |
WORK: | The construction, erection, installation, production, activity, manufacture, labor or operation that goes into the making of any improvement to or alteration of real property, to include buildings, structures and building service equipment systems. |
YARD: | An open space located between any portion of a building and the nearest lot line, or the nearest adjacent building or group of buildings, as the context indicates, unoccupied and unobstructed from the ground upward, except as otherwise provided in this chapter. |
YARD, FRONT: | A yard extending across the full width of the lot and having a depth equal to the horizontal distance between the nearest point of the principal building and the front lot line, measured at right angles to the front lot line. |
YARD, NONREQUIRED: | Any yard with dimensions exceeding those required herein. |
YARD, REAR: | A yard extending across the full width of a lot and having a depth equal to the horizontal distance between the nearest point of the principal building and the rear lot line, measured at right angles to the rear lot line. |
YARD, REQUIRED: | A yard having the minimum dimensions required herein. |
YARD, SIDE: | A yard extending from the front lot line to the rear lot line between a side lot line and the principal building, and having a width equal to the horizontal distance between the nearest point of the principal building and the side lot line, measured at right angles to the side lot line. (Ord. 818, 4-25-2017; amd. Ord. 860, 5-25-2021; Ord. 880, 8-8-2023) |