For the purposes of this title, the following terms, phrases, words and their derivations shall have the meanings given herein. When not inconsistent with the context, words used in the present tense include the future, words in the plural number include the singular number and words in the singular number include the plural number. The word "shall" is always mandatory and not merely directory.
ACCESSORY USE OR BUILDING: A subordinate use or building customarily incident to and located on the same lot with the main use or building.
ALLEY: Any public space or thoroughfare twenty five feet (25') wide providing access at the back or side of a property.
ALTERATION: As applied to a building or structure, is a change or rearrangement in the structural parts or in the exit, facilities or enlargement, whether by extending on a side or by increasing in height or in the moving from one location position to another.
APARTMENT HOUSE: A multi-family dwelling for three (3) or more families, living independently of each other and doing their cooking upon the premises.
AREA, BUILDING: The aggregate of the maximum horizontal cross section area of the main building on a lot, excluding cornices, eaves, gutters or chimneys projecting not more than two feet (2'), steps, one story open porches, bay windows not extending through more than one story and not projecting more than four feet (4'), balconies and terraces.
BUILDING: A structure designed, built or occupied as a shelter or roofed enclosure for persons, animals or property, including tents, lunch wagons, dining cars, camp cars, trailers and other roofed structures on wheels or other supports used for residential, business, mercantile, storage, commercial, industrial, institutional, assembly, education or recreational purposes. For the purposes of this definition, "roof" shall include an awning or other similar covering, whether or not permanent in nature.
BUILDING LINE: The line between which and the street line or lot line no building or other structure or portion thereof, except as provided in this Code, may be erected above the grade level. The building line is considered a vertical surface intersecting the ground on such line.
BUILDING LINE, SETBACK: See definition of setback building line.
COLLOCATION: The use of a single support system on the ground by more than one carrier or several support systems on an existing building or structure by more than one carrier.
COURT: An unoccupied open space, other than a yard, on the same lot with a building which is bounded on two (2) or more sides by the walls of such building.
COURT, INNER: A court enclosed on all sides by exterior walls of a building or by exterior walls and lot lines on which walls are allowable.
COURT, OPEN: A court enclosed on all sides by exterior walls of the building or by exterior walls and lot lines on which walls are allowable, with one side or end open to a street, driveway, alley or yard.
DWELLING: A single family dwelling, a two family dwelling, or a multi-family dwelling as defined in this section.
DWELLING, MULTI-FAMILY: Any building that contains three (3) or four (4) dwelling units used, intended, or designed to be built, used, rented, leased, let or hired out to be occupied, or that are occupied for living purposes.
DWELLING, SINGLE FAMILY: Any building that contains one dwelling unit used, intended, or designed to be built, used, rented, leased, let or hired out to be occupied, or that are occupied for living purposes.
DWELLING, TWO FAMILY: Any building that contains two (2) dwelling units used, intended, or designed to be built, used, rented, leased, let or hired out to be occupied, or that are occupied for living purposes.
DWELLING UNIT: A single unit providing complete independent living facilities for one or more persons, including permanent provisions for living, sleeping, eating, cooking and sanitation.
DWELLING, ZERO LOT LINE: Any building that contains one dwelling unit used, intended, or designed to be built, used, rented, leased, let or hired out to be occupied, or that are occupied for living purposes which abuts one side lot line and on the same side lot line shares a common wall with a second zero lot line dwelling which abuts the same side lot line.
ESSENTIAL SERVICES: 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, collection, communication, supply or disposal systems, including poles, wires, mains, drains, sewer, 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 or safety or general welfare.
FACADE MOUNTED: Directly attached or affixed to the elevation of a building, tank, or other structure.
FAMILY: A single individual, doing his/her own cooking and living upon the premises as a separate housekeeping unit or a collective body of persons doing their own cooking and living a domestic relationship based upon birth, marriage or other domestic bond as distinguished from a group occupying a boarding house, lodging house, club, fraternity or hotel.
FLOOR AREA, GROSS: For the purpose of determining the ratio of the floor area of a building to the area of the lot, the "gross floor area" shall be the sum of the gross horizontal areas of the several floors of the building excluding areas used for accessory garage purposes and such basement and cellar areas as are devoted exclusively to uses accessory to the operation of the building. All horizontal dimensions shall be taken from the exterior faces of walls, including walls or other enclosures or enclosed porches.
FREESTANDING TOWER: A tower not physically attached to a building or structure. A tower is attached to the ground by a foundation.
GARAGE, PRIVATE: A building or part thereof other than a garage for the storage of motor vehicles and in which service station activities may be carried on.
HOME OCCUPATION: A service, excluding daycare, offered by the resident of a household unit or the sale of items handcrafted on the premises by the resident of a household unit providing the service, sale of handcrafting is performed only by the resident therein and providing the area used in performing the home occupation does not exceed four hundred (400) square feet in area and providing there is no exterior indication of the home occupation. Services which generate no traffic to the premises or which use no vehicles which would not normally be found incidental to a residential use shall be exempt from this definition.
HOTEL: A building containing rooms intended or designed to be used or which are used, rented or hired out to be occupied or which are occupied for sleeping purposes by guests and where only a general kitchen and dining room are provided within the building or in an accessory building.
JUNK: Any worn out, cast off or discarded article or material which is ready for destruction or has been collected or stored for salvage or conversion to some use. Any article or material which, unaltered or unchanged and without further reconditioning can be used for its original purpose as readily as when new, shall not be considered junk.
JUNKYARD: The use of more than one thousand (1,000) 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.
LATTICE TOWER: A support structure that consists of a network of crossed metal braces, forming a tower that is usually triangular or square in cross section. Towers not exceeding four feet (4') in any cross section shall not be considered lattice towers.
LOADING SPACE: 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.
LOT: A parcel of land occupied or capable of being occupied by one building and the accessory buildings or uses customarily incident to it, including such open spaces as are required by this title.
LOT CORNER: A lot at the point of intersection of and abutting on two (2) or more intersecting streets, the angle of intersection being not more than one hundred thirty five degrees (135°). It is the land occupied or to be occupied by the corner building and its accessory buildings.
LOT, REVERSED CORNER: A corner lot, the rear of which abuts upon the side of another lot, whether across an alley or not.
MASTER DEVELOPMENT PLAN: A plan showing a carrier's expected network of wireless communication facilities within the City and its Area of Impact.
NONCONFORMING USE: A building, structure or use of land legally existing at the date of establishment and which does not now conform to the regulations of the district in which it is located.
PARKING LOT AREA: An area, including access or maneuvering area, ramps or columns, exclusively as a temporary (not exceeding 24 hours) storage space for motor vehicles.
PARKING SPACE: An area of not less than two hundred (200) square feet, net, exclusive of access or maneuvering areas, or ramps, columns, etc., to be used exclusively as a temporary (not exceeding 24 hours) storage space for one private motor vehicle. Truck loading and unloading space shall not be included in such area.
ROOMING HOUSE: Any dwelling in which more than three (3) persons, either individually or as families, are housed or lodged for hire, with or without meals. A boarding house or furnished rooms house shall be deemed a "rooming house".
SETBACK BUILDING LINE: A building line back of the street line.
STREET: A public thoroughfare more than twenty five feet (25') in width which has been dedicated or deeded to the public for public use and which affords principal means of access to abutting property.
STRUCTURE: Anything constructed or erected which requires location on the ground or attached to something having location on the ground, including signs and billboards but not including fences or walls used as fences.
USE: The purpose for which land or a building is arranged, designed or intended or for which either land or a building is or may be occupied or maintained.
UTILITY POLE: A telephone, power, light, cable television, or flagpole. Light poles shall include street, stadium and security light poles.
WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS FACILITY: An unstaffed facility that transmits and/or receives electromagnetic signals, including antennas, microwave dishes, parabolic antennas, directional antennas and other types of equipment for the transmission or reception of such signals, towers or similar structures supporting the equipment, equipment buildings, shelters, cabinets, and other facilities.
YARD: An open space other than a court, on a lot, unoccupied and unobstructed from the ground upward, except as otherwise provided in this title.
YARD, FRONT: An open, unoccupied space on the same lot with a main building, extending the full width of the lot and situated between the street line and the front line of the building projected to the side lines of the lot.
YARD, REAR: An open, unoccupied space on the same lot with the building between the rear line of the building and the rear line of the lot and extending the full width of the lot.
YARD, SIDE: An open, unoccupied space on the same lot with the building situated between the building and the side line of the lot and extending from the front yard to the rear yard. Any lot line not a rear line or a front line shall be deemed a side lot line. (Ord. 618, 10-17-2018)