9-2-2: DEFINITIONS:
ALLEY: A public service way providing a secondary means of access to abutting properties.
APARTMENT HOUSE: A building arranged, intended or designed to be occupied by three (3) or more families living independently of each other.
AREA, BUILDING: The total of areas taken on a horizontal plane at the main grade level of the principal building and all accessory buildings exclusive of uncovered porches, terraces and steps.
AREA HABITABLE: The building area minus square footage occupied by interior partitions and exterior walls.
AREA, NET SITE: The total area within the property lines excluding exterior streets.
AUTO WRECKING YARD: Any place where two (2) or more motor vehicles not in running condition, or parts thereof, are stored in the open.
BASEMENT: A story partly underground, but having more than half its clear height below finished grade.
BOARDING HOUSE: A private dwelling in which at least three (3), but not more than six (6) rooms are offered for rent and table board is furnished only to roomers, and in which no transients are accommodated.
BUILDING: Any structure having a roof supported by columns or by walls permanently attached to the ground and intended for the shelter, housing or enclosure of persons, animals or chattels.
BUILDING, ACCESSORY: A subordinate building or portion of the main building on a lot, the use of which is customarily incidental to that of the main or principal building.
BUILDING, DETACHED: A building surrounded by open space on the same lot.
BUILDING, FRONT LINE OF: The line of that face of the building nearest the front line of the lot. This face includes sun parlors and covered, enclosed porches, but does not include steps.
BUILDING, HEIGHT OF: The vertical distance measured from the average elevation of the proposed finished grade at the front of the building to the highest point of the roof for flat roofs, to the deck line of mansard roofs, and the mean height between eaves and ridge for gable, hip and gambrel roofs.
BUILDING, PRINCIPAL: A building in which is conducted the main or principal use of the lot on which the building is situated.
CAMP: Any area of land or water on which are located two (2) or more cabins, trailers, tents, shelters, houseboats or other accommodations of a design or character suitable for seasonal living purposes of other more or less temporary living purposes, regardless of whether such structure or other accommodations actually are occupied seasonally or otherwise.
CAMP TRAILER: A land or floor area occupied or designed for occupancy by two (2) or more trailers or camp cars in use for living purposes.
CAMPING GROUND: A parcel of land used or intended to be used, let or rented for occupancy by campers or for occupancy by or of trailers, tents or movable or temporary dwellings, rooms or sleeping quarters of any kind.
COURT: An open unoccupied space bounded on two (2) or more sides by the exterior walls and lot lines.
COURT, AUTO: A building or group of buildings, whether detached or in connected units, used as individual sleeping or dwelling units designed primarily for transient automobile travelers and providing for accessory off street parking facilities. "Auto court" includes buildings designated as tourist courts, motor lodges, motels and similar appellations.
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.
COVERAGE: That percentage of the plot or lot area covered by the building area.
CURB LEVEL: The officially established grade of the curb in front of the midpoint of the lot.
DUMP: A lot or land or part thereof used primarily for the disposal of waste material of any kind.
DWELLING: A building designed or used as the living quarters of one or more families. "Dwelling", "one-family dwelling", "multiple dwelling", "two-family dwelling", or "dwelling group" shall not be deemed to include auto court, rooming house or tourist home.
DWELLING, MULTI-FAMILY: A dwelling or group of dwellings on one plot containing separate living units for three (3) or more families, but which may have joint services or facilities or both.
DWELLING, ONE-FAMILY: A detached building designed for or occupied exclusively by one family.
DWELLING, TWO-FAMILY: A detached building containing two (2) dwelling units.
EFFICIENCY, APARTMENT HOUSE: An apartment house in which the minimum dwelling area shall be five hundred (500) square feet and which may house no more than two (2) adults and one child under twelve (12) years of age in each dwelling unit.
FAMILY: One or more persons occupying a dwelling unit and living as a single, nonprofit housekeeping unit.
FARM: Any parcel of land containing at least ten (10) acres which is used for gain in the raising of agricultural products, livestock, poultry and dairy products. It includes necessary farm structures within the prescribed limits and the storage of equipment used. It excludes the raising of furbearing animals, riding academies, livery or boarding stables and dog kennels.
FILLING STATION: Any area of land, including the structures thereon, that is used or designed to be used for the supply of gasoline or oil or other fuel for the propulsion of motor vehicles and which may include facilities for cleaning or servicing such motor vehicles.
FIRE HAZARD: Any area of land, including the structures thereon, that is used or intended to be used for manufacturing processes of, or the storage use or manufacture of materials or products of combustible nature. Such uses include, but are not limited to, ammunition storage, bakeries, building material establishment, cleaning plants, coal and coke yards, contractor's plant or storage yards, foundries or forges, feed establishments, freight yards or terminals, junkyards, laundries, lumberyards, paint stores and shops, potteries, paper storage, welding shops, warehouses, wholesale houses and the storage, use or manufacture of explosive gases, liquids or solids.
FLOOR AREA OF A BUILDING: The sum of the gross horizontal areas of the several floors of a building and its accessory buildings on the same lot, excluding basement floor areas not devoted to residential use, but including the area of roofed porches and roofed terraces. All dimensions shall be measured between exterior faces of walls.
GARAGE: An accessory building intended or designed to be used for the storage of noncommercial motor vehicles. "Garage" includes the term "carport".
GARAGE, PUBLIC: Any garage not a private garage, and which is used for storage or servicing of motor vehicles.
GASOLINE STATION: Any area of land, including structures thereon, that is used for the sale of gasoline or other motor vehicle fuel and oil and other lubricating substances, accessories, and which may or may not include facilities for lubricating, washing or otherwise servicing motor vehicles.
GRADE, ESTABLISHED: The elevation of the centerline of the streets as officially established by the village authorities.
GRADE, FINISHED: The completed surfaces of lawns, walks, and roads brought to grades shown on official plans or designs relating thereto.
GREENBELT PLANTING STRIP: A cultivated strip of ground of width specified and planted with such plant materials that will, at maturity, grow to an average height or greater than the specified height.
HOME OCCUPATION: Any use customarily conducted entirely within a dwelling and carried on 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. The conducting of a clinic, hospital, barbershop, beauty parlor, tea room, tourist home, animal hospital or any similar use shall not be a home occupation. Such home occupations, where permitted in a residential district of any zoning type, shall be subject to the following conditions:
   A.   The occupation shall be conducted wholly within the principal building;
   B.   Only persons residing within the dwelling unit shall be employed in the occupation;
   C.   No equipment shall be used in the occupation, other than that which is customarily incidental to domestic use;
   D.   No outdoor storage in conjunction with the occupation shall be allowed;
   E.   No exterior display or exterior sign shall be permitted, except as allowed by the sign regulations for each district;
   F.   No alterations of any kind shall be made to the dwelling which changes its residential character;
   G.   No equipment or material or compounds used in such occupation shall be of a dangerous, hazardous, poisonous, noxious or like nature.
HOSPITAL: A building used for the diagnosis, treatment or other care of human ailments, unless otherwise specified.
HOTEL: A building containing rooms intended or designed to be used, rented or hired out to be occupied or which are occupied for sleeping purposed by guests and where only a general kitchen and dining room are provided within the building or in an accessory building.
HOUSE TRAILER: Any portable or mobile vehicle used or designed to be used for living purposes and with its wheels, rollers or skids in place.
JUNKYARD: Lot, land or structure, or part thereof, used primarily for the collecting, storage and sale of wastepaper, rags, scrap metal or discarded material; or for the collecting, dismantling, storage and salvaging of machinery or vehicles not in running condition, and for the sale of parts thereof.
LAUNDERETTE: A business premises equipped with individual clothes washing machines for use of retail customers, exclusive of laundry facilities provided as an accessory use in an apartment house or an apartment hotel.
LOADING SPACE, OFF STREET: A unit being ten feet (10') wide, thirty feet (30') long and fourteen feet (14') high located within the structure, or within a side or rear yard or within an access drive or aisle of a required off street parking space.
LODGING HOUSE: A building in which two (2) or more rooms are rented and in which no table board is furnished.
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 parcel of land at the junction of and fronting on two (2) or more intersecting streets.
LOT DEPTH: A mean horizontal distance between the front and rear lot lines, measured in the general direction of its side lot lines.
LOT, INTERIOR: A lot other than a corner lot.
LOT LINES: The lines bounding a "lot" as defined in this section.
LOT WIDTH: The mean width measured at right angles to its depth.
MOTOR VEHICLE, REPAIR SHOP: A building, or portion of a building, arranged, intended or designed to be used for making repairs to motor vehicles.
NURSING OR CONVALESCENT HOME: Any dwelling where persons are housed or lodged and furnished with meals and nursing care for hire.
OPEN SPACE: An unoccupied space open to the sky on the same lot with the building.
PARKING SPACE, OFF STREET: Each unit being eight feet (8') wide and twenty feet (20') long exclusive of access drives and turning areas, located within an accessory garage or in a side or rear yard, properly graveled, or paved and maintained.
PLAT: A map, plan or layout of a parcel or parcels of land, indicating the location and boundaries of individual properties.
SIGN: Any device for visual communication that is used for the purpose of bringing the subject thereof to the attention of the public, but not including any flag, badge or insignia of any government or government agency, or of any civic, charitable, religious, patriotic, fraternal or similar organization.
STREET: A public way which affords principal means of access to abutting property.
STREET GRADE: The officially established grade of the street upon which a lot fronts or in its absence the established grade of other street upon which the lot abuts, at the midpoint of the frontage of the lot thereon. If there is no officially established grade, the existing grade of the street at such midpoint shall be taken as the street grade.
STREET LINE: The dividing line between the street and the lot.
STRUCTURE: A combination of materials other than a building to form a construction that is safe and stable and includes among other things platforms, bleachers, towers, bins, fences and display signs.
TOURIST HOME: A dwelling in which overnight accommodations are provided or offered for a transient guest for compensation.
TRAILER: See definition of House Trailer.
USE, ACCESSORY: A use incidental to the principal use of a building. In buildings restricted to residence use, the office of a professional man, customary family occupations and workshops not conducted for compensation shall be deemed accessory uses.
USE, MANUFACTURING: Any building or lot used for making articles or products and employing more than four (4) persons or consuming more than sixty (60) man hours per week for manufacturing purposes.
USE, NONCONFORMING: A building, structure or use of land existing at the time of enactment of the ordinance codified in this title, and which does not conform to the regulations of the district or zone in which it is situated.
YARD: An unoccupied space open to the sky, on the same lot with a building or structure.
YARD, FRONT: A yard on the same lot with the building between the front line of the building and the front line of the lot and extending the full width of the lot. As used in this title "front yard" applies to all buildings on the lot.
YARD, REAR: A yard 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. As used in this title "rear yard" applies to principal buildings only.
YARD, SIDE: A yard 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 line. As used in this title "side yard" applies to principal buildings only. (Ord. 609, 4-9-2001)