(1) "Accessory Building or Use" means an accessory building or use which:
A. Is subordinate to and serves the principal building or principal use;
B. Is subordinate in area, extent, or purpose to the principal building or principal use served;
C. Contributes to the comfort, convenience, or necessity of occupants of the principal building or principal use served; and
D. Is located on the same zoning lot as the principal building or principal use served, with the single exception of such accessory off-street parking facilities as are permitted to locate elsewhere than on the same zoning lot with the building or use served.
(2) "Acre" means a measure of land area. One acre shall equal 43,560 square feet.
(3) "Adult entertainment establishment" means any establishment involved in the sale or service of products characterized by the exposure or presentation of specified anatomical areas, as defined herein, which is characterized by salacious conduct appealing to prurient interest for the observation by patrons. Services or products included within the scope of adult entertainment are photography, dancing, reading, massage, and/or similar functions which utilize activities as specified above and such establishments include specifically adult bookstores, adult motion picture theatres, and adult mini-motion picture theatres. (See Section #1154.10)
(4) "Agriculture" means the use of a tract of land for agriculture, dairying, farming, floriculture, horticulture, ornamental horticulture, pasturage, viticulture, aquaculture, olericulture, pomiculture, and animal and poultry husbandry; provided, however, such agricultural use shall not include the following use:
A. 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 feed yard.
(5) "Alley" means a public or private way with a right of way not more than thirty feet wide, affording only secondary means of access to abutting property.
(6) "Apartment" means a portion of a building comprising a single dwelling unit consisting of a room or suite of rooms intended, designed, or used as a permanent residence by an individual or one family.
(7) "Automotive body shop" means any structure or use intended for collision service, repair, or painting of motor vehicles.
(8) "Automotive or trailer sales area" means an open area, other than a street, used for the display, sale, or rental of new or used motor vehicles or trailers in operable condition and where no repair work is done.
(9) "Automotive repair" means the repair, rebuilding, or reconditioning of motor vehicles or parts thereof, and steam cleaning of vehicles in association with a repair garage.
(10) "Automotive repair garage" means a building or structure used or intended to be used for the care, repair, or similar major or mechanical work, with or without provisions for the dispensing of oil, gasoline, or similar products for the servicing of such vehicles, for profit.
(11) "Automotive service station" means a structure and surrounding land used for the storage and sale of petroleum fuel, primarily to passenger vehicles, and for accessory uses such as the sale and installation of lubricants, accessories, or supplies; the incidental washing of motor vehicles and the performing of tune-ups, tire and brake changing and repair. Other permitted uses include sales of cold drinks, packaged foods, tobacco, and similar convenience goods for service station customers, as accessory and incidental to principal operations.
(12) "Automotive wrecking" means the dismantling or wrecking of used motor vehicles, mobile homes, trailers, or the storage, sale, or dumping of dismantled, obsolete, or wrecked vehicles or their parts.
(13) "Basement" means any area of a building having its floor subgrade (below ground level) on all sides.
(14) "Board of Zoning Appeals" means the Board of Zoning Appeals of Enon, Ohio. Also referred to as the "Board."
(15) "Building" means any structure, either temporary or permanent, having a roof supported by columns or walls, used or intended to be used for the shelter or enclosure of persons, animals, or property.
(16) "Building, alteration of" means any change or rearrangement in the supporting members (such as bearing walls, beams, columns, or girders) of a building or any addition to a building, or movement of a building from one location to another.
(17) "Building, enlargement of" means any increase in the cubic content of a building.
(18) "Building, height of" means the vertical distance measured 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 to the mean height level between eaves and ridge for gable, hip, or gambrel roofs.
(19) "Building, principal" means the building in which the main or chief use permitted on the zoning lot is conducted.
(20) "Building line" means a line defining the minimum front, side and rear yard requirements.
(21) "Building permit" means a permit issued for the construction or alteration of any building or structure.
(22) "Building setback line" means the line nearest the front and across a lot establishing the minimum open space to be provided between the front line of the building foundation and the front lot line or the front line of the foundation of enclosed porches or vestibules if nearer the front line than the main foundation, not including steps.
(23) "Buildings, Inspector of" means the Inspector of Buildings of Clark County, Ohio.
(24) "Business" means an occupation, enterprise, undertaking, or employment which engages in the purchase, sale, barter, or exchange of goods, wares, merchandise, or services or where there is the maintenance or operation of an office or offices for the exhibition, sale, or offering of merchandise or services.
(25) "Camping and recreational equipment" includes the following:
A. "Boat and boat trailer" includes boats, floats, and rafts plus the normal equipment to transport the same on the highway.
B. "Folding tent trailer" means a canvass folding structure mounted on wheels and designed for travel and vacation uses.
C. "Motorized home" means a portable dwelling designed and constructed as an integral part of a self-propelled vehicle.
D. "Pick-up camper" means a structure designed primarily to be mounted on a pickup or truck chassis and with sufficient equipment to render it suitable for use for travel, recreational, or vacation uses.
E. "Travel trailer" means a vehicular, portable structure built on a chassis, designed to be used as a temporary dwelling for travel, recreational, and vacation uses, permanently identified "travel trailer" by the manufacturer.
(26) "Certify" means to attest with a signature of seal.
(27) "Child day-care" means care provided for any part of the twenty-four hour day for infants, toddlers, preschool children, and school children outside of school hours by persons other than their parents or guardians, custodians, or relatives by blood, marriage, or adoption, in a place or residence other than the child's own home.
(28) "Child day-care centers" means any place in which child day care is provided, with or without compensation, for thirteen or more children at one time or any place that is the permanent residence of the licensee or administrator in which child day care is provided for more than six children at one time.
(29) "Commission, Planning" means the Village of Enon Planning Commission.
(30) "Conditional Use" means a use permitted within a district other than a principally permitted use, requiring application for a Conditional Use and approval by the Board of Zoning Appeals that all prior conditions for approval have been met.
(31) "Deed restriction" means a legal restriction on the use of land contained in the deed to the property.
(32) "Density" means a unit of measurement; the number of dwelling units per acre of land. (see 1161.02 (b) (1))
(33) "Detached" means not connected in any manner by walls or other structural supports.
(34) "Development standards" means standards controlling the size of structure and the relationships of structures and uses to each other and to open spaces and lot lines. Development standards include but are not limited to regulations controlling maximum height, minimum lot area, minimum lot frontage, minimum size of yards and setbacks, maximum lot coverage, and maximum density.
(35) "District" means a portion of the incorporated area of the Village of Enon of which certain uniform regulations governing the use, height, area, and intensity of use of buildings and land and open spaces are herein established.
(36) "Dwelling" means a single unit providing complete independent living facilities for one or more persons including permanent provisions for living, sleeping, eating, cooking, and sanitation, but not including a tent, cabin, shed, hotel, or motel.
A. "Single family" means a detached building designed for or occupied exclusively for residential purposes by one family or housekeeping unit.
B. "Two family" means a building designed for or occupied exclusively by two families or housekeeping units living independently of each other.
C. "Multiple family" means a building or portion thereof designed for or occupied by three or more families or housekeeping units living independently of each other.
(37) "Dwelling group" means a group of two or more detached dwellings located on a parcel of land in one ownership and having any yard or court in common.
(38) "Dwelling unit" means any building which contains complete living facilities and intended or designed to be built, used, rented, leased, let, or hired out to be occupied or which is occupied for living purposes.
(39) "Eating place #1" means an establishment, other than a dining room operated by a hotel, motel or private club, offering food and beverages, which may include liquor, beer, and wine, if licensed by the State of Ohio, for consumption only inside the building.
(40) "Eating place #2" means an establishment having the attributes of an Eating Place #1, and which also provides live entertainment.
(41) "Eating place - carry-out" means an establishment offering food and beverages, which may include liquor, beer, and wine, if licensed by the State of Ohio, where the food and beverages are dispensed at the counter for consumption within the building or off the premises.
(42) "Eating place - drive-in" means an establishment offering food and beverages, which may include liquor, beer, and wine, if licensed by the State of Ohio, where the food and beverages are served directly to persons while in motor vehicles, or where the food and beverages are dispensed at the counter for consumption on or off the premises.
(43) "Enclosed building" means any permanent structure having a roof supported by columns and walls which are opaque.
(44) "Engineer, Village" means until such time that a Village Engineer is appointed, either the Planning Commission or its designate shall assume the engineer's duties.
(45) "Essential services" means the erection, construction, alteration, or maintenance, by public utilities or county or other governmental agencies, 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, reasonably necessary for the furnishing of adequate service by such public utilities or county or other governmental agencies or for the public health or safety or general welfare.
(46) "Family" means a person living alone, or two or more persons related by blood, marriage, or adoption, or unrelated persons living together as a single housekeeping unit, in a dwelling unit, as distinguished from a group occupying a motel or hotel, fraternity or sorority house, or other types of contractual living quarters.
(47) "Fence" means a barrier constructed of materials other than evergreen shrubbery erected for purposes of protection, confinement, enclosure, or privacy.
(48) "Finished grade" means the elevation of the surface of the ground adjoining the building after construction of required parking areas or driveways and after the planting of lawn and shrubbery, or other required improvements.
(49) "Flood plain" means that area of the Village of Enon which has been determined to be subject to a temporary rise in stream level that results in inundation of the area, whether or not the area is ordinarily covered by water.
(50) "Floor area" means the total horizontal area of all floors finished as useable area including roofed porches and roofed terraces. Measurements of floor area shall be taken to the outside of the exterior walls. Floor area shall not include: cellar or basement space; elevator or stair bulkheads, attic space, breezeways, patios, or open porches; uncovered stairs or steps; garages.
(51) "Floor area ratio" is determined by dividing the floor area of such building or structure by the area of the lot on which the building or structure is located. When more than one building or structure is located on a lot, then the floor area ratio is determined by dividing the total floor area of all buildings or structures, by the area of the lot. The floor area ratio requirements, as set forth under each zoning district, shall determine the maximum floor area allowable for buildings or other structures, in direct ratio to the area of the lot.
(52) "Garage" means a structure used primarily but not exclusively for the storage of motor vehicles.
(53) "Garage sale" means the selling of used or unused household goods normally accumulated in the process of housekeeping. Includes yard sales, porch sales, and rummage sales.
(54) "Garbage" means all putrescible wastes including vegetable, animal offal, and carcasses of small dead animals; but does not include human excreta, sewage, and other water carried wastes.
(55) "Grade" means the average level of the finished surface of the ground adjacent to the exterior walls of the building or structure.
(56) "Greenbelt" means a strip of land parallel to and extending inwardly from the lot lines or right-of-way lines. Such greenbelt shall be maintained at all times in grass, trees, shrubs, or plantings and no structures, parking areas, or signs shall be permitted.
(57) "Home occupation" means an accessory use which is an activity, profession, occupation, service, craft, or revenue-enhancing hobby which is clearly incidental and subordinate to the use of the premises as a dwelling and is conducted entirely within the dwelling unit without any significant adverse effect upon the surrounding neighborhood. See Section 1154.13.
(58) "Housekeeping unit" means one or more persons living in a dwelling unit who are not a family.
(59) "Identification" means that by which a person, thing, product, etc., can be identified or recognized and those specific symbols, traits, trademarks, characteristics, etc., which provide such recognition.
(60) "In the open" means not located in an enclosed building.
(61) "Industry" means storage, repair, manufacture, preparation, or treatment of any article, substance, or commodity.
(62) "Junk" means old or scrap copper, brass, rope, rags, batteries, paper, rubber; junk, dismantled, or wrecked automobiles or parts thereof; iron, steel, and other old or scrap ferrous or nonferrous materials which are not held for sale or remelting purposes by an establishment having facilities for processing such materials.
(63) "Junkyard" means a place or structure where waste, discarded, or salvaged materials are bought, sold, exchanged, baled, packed, disassembled, handled or stored, or any combination there of, including auto wrecking yards, house wrecking yards, used lumber yards, and places or yards for storage of salvaged house wrecking and structural steel materials and equipment; but not including used cars in operable condition, or salvaged materials incidental to manufacturing operations, and not including such places where such uses are conducted entirely within a completely enclosed building or structure.
(64) "Kennel" means a building or structure which may also include outdoor pens or runs for dogs or other animals which are housed or boarded for a fee, or an establishment for the breeding or training of such animals for compensation or sale.
(65) "Land Use Plan" means the long-range plan for the desirable use of land within the unincorporated area of Clark County as officially adopted and as amended from time to time by the Planning Commission. The purpose of such plan is, among other things, to serve as a guide in the zoning and progressive changes in the zoning of land to meet changing community needs, in the subdivision and use of undeveloped land, and in the acquisition of rights-of-way or sites for such public purposes as streets, parks, schools, and public buildings.
(66) "Landscaping" means the improvement of open areas by the planting and maintenance of trees, bushes, flower gardens, grass, and other vegetation.
(67) "Livability space" means part of the open space as found in planned developments which includes all land not covered by roof or devoted to streets, easements of access, and parking.
(68) "Livable area" means that totally enclosed space within the principal structure having an average ceiling height of a minimum of four feet above the finished grade.
(69) "Live entertainment" means any entertainment, provided in eating places, other than music mechanically produced by juke boxes or other devices from recorded music.
(70) "Loading/unloading 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.
(71) "Lot" means a piece or parcel of land occupied or intended to be occupied by a principal building or a group of such buildings and its accessory buildings and uses, including all open spaces required by this Zoning Ordinance, and having frontage on a public street. The meaning of the word "lot" includes "plot" or "parcel."
(72) "Lot, corner" means a lot abutting upon two or more roads or streets at their intersection or upon two parts of the same road or street and in either case forming an interior angle of less than 135 degrees.
(73) "Lot, double frontage" means a lot having frontage on two non-intersecting streets.
(74) "Lot, interior" means a lot other than a corner lot with only one frontage on a street.
(75) "Lot, nonconforming" means a legally recorded lot which has less than the required minimum lot size, width, depth, or any combination thereof as specified by the zoning district in which it is located.
(76) "Lot area" means the computed area contained within the lot lines, excluding right of way, measured in square feet or acres.
(77) "Lot coverage" means that percentage of a lot which, when viewed directly from above, would be covered by a structure or structures, or any part thereof, excluding projecting roof eaves.
(78) "Lot depth" means the mean horizontal distance between the front and the rear lot lines.
(79) "Lot frontage" means the distance between the side lot lines, measured by a line drawn parallel with the front lot line.
(80) "Lot lines" means the property lines bounding a lot.
(81) "Lot line, front" means the line separating a lot from a street right-of-way.
(82) "Lot line, rear" means the lot line opposite and most distant from the front lot line.
(83) "Lot line, side" means any lot line other than 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 or lots is called an interior side lot line.
(84) "Lot line, street or alley" means a lot line separating a lot from a street or alley.
(85) "Lot of record" means any lot which individually or as a part of a subdivision has been recorded in the County Recorder's Office; or a parcel of land, the deed to which was of record as of the effective date of the zoning plan.
(86) "Lot split" means the division of any parcel of land so as to create two parcels or lots, either of which is less than five acres in size, for the immediate or future purposes of transfer of ownership.
(87) "Lot width" means the mean width of the lot measured at right angles to its depth.
(88) "Manufactured home (mobile)" means a structure with siding, doors and windows which is transportable in one or more sections, which, in the traveling mode, is twelve body feet or more in width or forty body feet or more in length or, when erected on site, is 480 or more square feet, and which is built on a permanent chassis and designed to be used as a dwelling or place of business with a permanent foundation. When placed on a permanent foundation it loses its mobility by complete removal of the under carriage and it converts to real estate. For the purpose of these provisions, a manufactured home carrying a HUD seal, certifies that it has been inspected by HUD at a point of origination and meets or exceeds Federal Building Code Requirements in effect at the time of manufacture.
(89) "Manufacturing" means a production or industrial process, including food processing, which combines one or more raw materials or components into a product, or which changes the nature of the materials entering the process.
(90) "Maximum lot coverage" means the greatest percentage of the total zoning lot which may be occupied by principal and accessory buildings or structures.
(91) "Motel or hotel" means a series of attached, semi-detached, or detached sleeping or living units, for the accommodation primarily of automobile transient guests, having convenient access to off-street parking spaces, for the exclusive use of the guests or occupants and including also such accessory commercial uses operated primarily for the convenience of guests and subject to such restrictions as may be specified in the district where located.
(92) "Motor home" means a self-propelled recreational vehicle constructed with permanently installed facilities for cold storage, for cooking and consuming of food, and for sleeping.
(93) "Nonconformities" means a building, structure, premises, or use thereof, legally existing and/or used at the time of adoption of these Regulations or any amendment thereto, which does not conform with the use regulations of the district in which it is located. If any such nonconforming use is voluntarily discontinued for two years or more, any future use of such land shall be in conformity with Ohio R.C. 713.01 to 713.15.
(94) "Nursing homes, convalescent homes, and rest homes" means a facility housing three or more individuals on a twenty-four hour basis who, because of age, mental or physical disability, or other reasons, must live in a supervised environment and depend upon the services of others.
(95) "Nuisance factors" means an offensive, annoying, unpleasant, or obnoxious thing or practice, a cause or source of annoyance, especially a continuing or repeating invasion of any physical characteristics of activity or use across a property line which can be perceived by or affects a human being, or the generation of an excessive or concentrated movement of people or things, such as, but not limited to: noise, dust, smoke, odor, glare, fumes, flashes, vibrations, shock waves, heat, electronic or atomic radiation, objectionable effluent, noise from congestion of people, passenger traffic, invasion of non-abutting street frontage by traffic.
(96) "Open space" means a parcel of land and/or an area of water within a site designated as a planned development and designed and intended for the use and enjoyment of the residents of the planned development. The area may include, along with the natural environmental features, water areas, swimming pools, tennis courts, or any other recreation facilities that the Village deems permissive.
(97) "Open storage" means storing or keeping of personal, movable property not enclosed in a building.
(98) "Original tract" means a contiguous quantity of land held in common ownership which has not been platted by the existing owner or owners since the enactment of these Regulations.
(99) "Parcel" means an individual lot held under common ownership.
(100) "Permitted use" means a use which is specifically authorized by these Zoning Regulations in a particular zoning district.
(101) "Planned development" means land under unified control, planned and developed as a whole in a single development operation or a definitely programmed series of development operations including all lands and buildings. Planned development is according to comprehensive and detailed plans which include not only streets, utilities, lots, or building sites and the like, but also site plans and design principles for all buildings as intended to be located, constructed, used, and related to each other; and detailed plans for other uses and improvements on the land as related to buildings. Finally, there will be a program for provision, operation and maintenance of such areas, improvements, and facilities necessary for common use by some or all of the occupants of the development, but which will not be provided, operated, or maintained at general public expenses.
(102) "Porch" means entrance or structure attached to the outside of an outer wall of a building, one or two stories in height, with integral foundations, which is open on three sides, and which may have railings and banisters or a parapet, and which is roofed.
(103) "Private garage" means a garage for four or fewer passenger motor vehicles without provisions for repairing or servicing such vehicles for profit.
(104) "Public facilities" means any building or structure used by government for administrative or service purposes.
(105) "Public utility" means any building, power plant, substation, water treatment plant, pumping station, sewage treatment and disposal plant, or other similar public structure, including the furnishing of electrical, gas, telephone, water, and sewage services.
(106) "Replacement cost" means the construction cost at current prices of the property, less depreciation, that is not necessarily an exact duplicate of the subject property, but serves the same function as the original.
(107) "Recreation space" means all area, open or enclosed, available for the general use of the residents of a planned semi-residential district for active or passive recreation. Recreation space shall be provided in locations easily accessible to the living units, but where they will not impair the view and privacy of living units. Such space may be a part of the livability space, where required.
(108) "Refuse" means combustible and non-combustible waste materials, except garbage, rubber, leather, tree branches, tin cans, metals, mineral matter and dust.
(109) "Right-of-way" means a strip of land taken or dedicated for use as a public way. In addition to the roadway, it normally incorporates the curbs, lawn strips, sidewalks, lighting, and drainage facilities, and may include special features (required by the topography or treatment) such as grade separation, landscaped areas, viaducts, and bridges.
(110) "Roadside stand" means a temporary structure designed or used for the display or sale of agricultural products produced on the premises upon which a stand is located.
(111) "Room, habitable" means a room occupied or designed to be occupied by one or more persons for living, sleeping, eating, or cooking, including kitchens serving a dwelling unit; but not including bathrooms, toilet compartments, laundries, pantries, attics for storage, and other similar spaces.
(112) "Rooming house" means a dwelling in which two or more rooms for lodging, with or without board, are provided for compensation.
(113) "Satellite dish antennas" means any device incorporating a reflective surface that is solid, open-mesh or bar configured, is in the shape of a shallow dish, cone, horn, cornucopia or flat plate, and is used to transmit and/or receive radio or electromagnetic waves or other signals between terrestrially and/or orbitally based units. This definition is meant to include but not be limited to what is commonly referred to as satellite earth stations, satellite receivers, satellite dishes, direct broadcast systems (DBSs), television reception only systems (TVROs), and satellite microwave antennae.
(114) "School, primary or secondary" means an institution which offers instruction in the several branches of learning and study required to be taught in the public schools by Ohio Common School Laws. (Secondary includes both junior and senior high.)
(115) "School bus" means a bus designed for carrying more than nine passengers which is owned by a public, private, or governmental agency or institution of learning and operated for the transportation of children to or from a school session or a school function, or owned by a private person and operated for compensation for the transportation of children to or from a school session or a school function.
(116) "Semitrailer" means a vehicle designed or used for carrying persons or property with another and separated motor vehicle, so that in operation, a part of its own weight or that of its load, or both, rests upon and is carried by another vehicle.
(117) "Service establishment" means any enterprise conducted for gain which primarily offers services to the general public such as shoe repair, barber shops, beauty parlors, and similar activities.
(118) "Setback" means the minimum distance at which a building may be constructed from a lot line.
(119) "Sidewalk" means that portion of the road right of way outside the roadway, which is improved for the use of pedestrian traffic.
(120) "Sign" means any device, figure, object, picture, letter, word, message, symbol, plaque, or poster visible from outside the premises on which it is located and designed to inform, attract, identify, or direct attention to an object, product, place, activity, person, institution, organization, or business which is affixed to or painted upon a building, structure, or piece of land. A sign support structure shall be considered to be an integral part of the actual sign itself. The following are some types of signs:
A. "Advertising" means a sign which directs attention to a use, commodity, or service not related to the premises on which the sign is located.
B. "Awning, canopy, or marquee" means a sign that is mounted on or painted on or attached to an awning, canopy or marquee.
C. "Bulletin board" means a structure containing a surface upon which is displayed the name of a religious institution, school, or library, auditorium, stadium, athletic field, or arena of similar use for the announcement of services or activities to be held therein.
D. "Construction" means a sign indicating the names of architects, engineers, contractors, and similar persons involved in the design and construction of a structure or project.
E. "Directional" means a sign directing vehicular or pedestrian movement onto premises or within a premises.
F. "Flashing" means any illuminated sign on which the artificial light or any part thereof has conspicuous or intermittent variation in intensity or color.
G. "Free standing sign" means a sign suspended or supported by one or more uprights or braces in or upon the ground surface. All such supports, uprights, or braces shall be considered an integral part of the actual sign.
H. "Identification" means a sign which displays only the same address and/or use of the premises upon which it is affixed or the product or service offered therein.
I. "Illuminated" means a sign that is lighted by an artificial light source.
J. "Moving" means any sign which in part or total rotates, revolves, or otherwise is in motion.
K. "Name plate" means a sign designating only the name and address or the name and professional occupation and address of a person or persons residing in or occupying space in such building or premises.
L. "Poster panel" means an advertising structure measuring not more than twelve feet by twenty-five feet overall on which posters are displayed.
M. "Painted bulletin" means an advertising structure on which advertising design is painted or painted and posted, and which may incorporate the use of cutouts and/or other embellishments.
N. "Political" means a sign which announces the candidacy of a person or slate of persons running for elective office, a political party, or issue or slate of issues.
O. "Portable" means a sign which is designed to be easily movable.
P. "Projecting sign" means a sign suspended from or supported by a building, structure, or column and extending there from, more than fifteen inches. All such supports, structures, or columns shall be considered an integral part of the actual sign.
Q. "Real estate" means a sign pertaining to the sale or lease of the lot or tract of land on which the sign is located or to the sale or lease of one or more structures or a portion thereof located on such lot or tract of land.
R. "Roof" means any sign which is erected over the roof parapet above the roofline and/or receives any of its support from the roof structure.
S. "Temporary" means any banner, pennant, poster display, or illustration which is affixed to or painted upon or represented directly or indirectly upon a building, structure or piece of land and which directs attention to an object, product, place, person, institution, organization, or business and is constructed of cloth, canvas, plastic sheet, cardboard, or other like materials and which is intended to be displayed for a limited period of time, not to exceed 120 days.
T. "Wall" means a sign which is affixed, painted on, or attached to the wall of the building or structure and which extends not more than fifteen inches from the face of the wall.
U. "Warning" means any sign indicating danger or a situation which is potentially dangerous.
(121) "Sign area" means the entire area within a single continuous perimeter enclosing the extreme limits of writing, representation, emblem, or any figure of similar character together with any frame or other material or color forming an integral part of the display or used to differentiate such sign from the background against which it is placed. The area of a sign having more than one display surface shall be computed as the total of the exposed exterior display surface area.
(122) "Sign face" mean the surface of the sign upon, against, or through which the message of the sign is exhibited.
(123) "Sign height" means the vertical distance from the uppermost point used in measuring the area of the sign to the crown of the road on which the property fronts.
(124) "Sign support structure" means the supports, uprights, bracing, pole, post, strut, cable, or other structural fixture or framework, including the base, necessary to hold and secure the sign face, all of which shall be considered to be an integral part of the actual sign itself.
(125) "Stable" means a structure for the keeping of domesticated animals.
(126) "Story" means that portion of a building included between the upper surface of any floor and the upper surface of the floor next above, or if there is no floor above, the portion between the floor and ceiling above; also any portion of a building used for human occupancy between the topmost floor and the roof. A basement shall not be counted as a story unless more than one-half of the basement height is above grade level at the front of the building.
(127) "Street" means a public right of way fifty feet or more in width which provides a public means of access to abutting property, or any such right-of-way more than thirty feet and less than fifty feet in width provided it existed prior to the enactment of these regulations and had been accepted by the Village. Street includes avenue, drive, circle, road, parkway, boulevard, highway, thoroughfare, or any other similar term.
(128) "Structural alteration" means any change, other than incidental repairs, in the supporting members of a building, such as bearing walls, columns, beams, or girders.
(129) "Structure" means an assembly of materials which forms a construction for occupancy for use which requires permanent location on the ground, or attachment to something having a permanent location on the ground.
(130) "Temporary use" means any non-permanent or intermittent use of land, building, or structure which is permitted by these Regulations.
(131) "Thoroughfare Plan" means the official Thoroughfare Plan as adopted by the Enon Planning Commission and Village Council, establishing the location and official right-of-way widths of principal highways and streets in Enon, together with all amendments thereto subsequently adopted.
(132) "Trailer" means any vehicle or structure constructed in such a manner as to permit occupancy thereof as sleeping quarters or the conduct of any business, trade, or occupation, or use as a selling or advertising device, or use for storage or conveyance for tools, equipment, or machinery, and so designed that it is or may be mounted on wheels and used as a conveyance on highways and streets, propelled or drawn by other motor power.
(133) "Tree" means any self-supporting woody plant which usually produces one main trunk, and a more or less distinct and elevated head with many branches.
(134) "Use" means the activity conducted on or in a particular parcel of land or structure.
(135) "Variance" means a modification of the literal provisions of these Regulations granted when strict enforcement of these Regulations would cause undue hardship owning to circumstances unique to the individual property on which the variance is granted.
(136) "Vehicle" means all automobiles, trucks, motorcycles, trailers, truck campers, recreational vehicles, buses, and boats.
(137) "Vehicle, motor" means anything on wheels propelled or drawn by power other than muscular power.
(138) "Vehicle, recreational" means any vehicle or appurtenance thereof, self-propelled or non-self-propelled, which is designated, constructed, used, or intended for use primarily as temporary shelter, and whose principal function is to serve a recreational and/or entertainment purpose. Recreational vehicles include travel trailers, motor homes, truck campers, and tent-type fold out camping trailers.
(139) "Wall" means a boundary enclosure or separating barrier which is usually opaque.
(140) "Yard" means a space on the same lot with a main building, open, unoccupied and unobstructed by buildings or structures from the ground to the sky, except as otherwise provided in these Regulations.
(141) "Yard, front" means a yard extending across the full width of the lot, the depth of which shall be the least perpendicular distance between the front lot line and the front of the main building.
(142) "Yard, front (least depth)" means the shortest distance, measured horizontally between any part of a building and the right-of-way line of the existing street on which the lot fronts, i.e., the front lot line; provided, however, that if the proposed location of the right-of-way line of such street as established on the Official Thoroughfare Plan differs from that of the existing street, then the required front yard least depth shall be measured from the right-of-way line of such street as designated on the Official Thoroughfare Plan.
(143) "Yard, rear" means a yard extending the full width of the lot between the rear-most main building and the rear lot line, the depth of which shall be the least distance between the rear lot line and the rear of such main building.
(144) "Yard, rear (least depth)" means an open space extending the full width of the lot between a building and the rear lot line, unoccupied and unobstructed from the ground upward except as herein specified.
(145) "Yard, side" means a yard between the main building and the side lot line, extending from the front yard or front lot line to the rear yard. The width of the required side yard shall be measured horizontally and perpendicularly from the nearest point of the side lot line toward the nearest part of the main building.
(146) "Yard, side (least width)" means the shortest distance, measured horizontally, between any part of a building, other than such parts herein excepted, and the nearest side lot line.
(147) "Yard, side (least width, how measured)" means such width shall be measured from the nearest side lot line and, in case the nearest side lot line is a side street lot line, from the right-of-way line of the existing street, the required side yard shall be the same as the required front yard of the lot adjacent thereto.
(148) "Zoning certificate" means a document issued by the Zoning Inspector or his/her authorized agent which certifies that the use to be made of a particular property is consistent with the terms of these Regulations and for the purpose of carrying out and enforcing its provisions.
(149) "Zoning District" means a portion of the incorporated area of the Village of which certain uniform regulations governing the use, height, area, and intensity of use of buildings and land and open spaces are herein established.
(150) "Zoning Inspector" means the officer or his/her authorized representative, appointed by Council, charged with the interpretation, administration, and enforcement of these Regulations.
(151) "Zoning map" means the zoning map or maps of the incorporated area of the Village of Enon, Clark County of Ohio, or portion thereof together with all amendments thereto subsequently adopted.
(152) "Zoning regulations" means this document in its entirety, any subsequent amendments; and all maps, figures, drawings, and any other clarifications appurtenant.
(Ord. 93-12. Passed 12-14-93.)