Unless the context otherwise requires, the following definitions shall be used in the interpretation and construction of the Zoning Ordinance. Words used in the present tense shall include the future; the singular number shall include the plural; the word "used" shall include "arranged, designed, constructed, altered, converted, rented, leased," or "intended to be used;" the word "shall" is mandatory; and the word "may" is permissive.
(1) Accessory Use or Structure: Use of a structure on the same lot with and of a nature customarily incidental and subordinate to the principal use or structure.
(2) Abutting: Having a common border with or being separated from such common border by a public right-of-way, alley, or easement.
(3) Adult Bookstore: An establishment that has as a substantial portion of its stock-in-trade and offers for sale or rent for any form of consideration any one of the following items: (1) Books, magazines, periodicals, or other printed matter; photographs, films, motion pictures, video cassettes, slides, compact disks, or other visual representations, audio tapes, cassettes, records, compact disks, or other audio representations or any other similar material that are characterized by an emphasis upon the depiction or description of specified sexual activities or specified anatomical areas or (2) Instruments, devices, or paraphernalia that are designed for use in connection with specified sexual activities.
(4) Adult Cabaret: A nightclub, bar, restaurant, or similar establishment that regularly features live performances that are characterized by the exposure of specified anatomical areas or by specified sexual activities, films, motion pictures, video cassettes, slides, or other photographic reproductions in which a substantial portion of the total presentation time is devoted to showing of material that is characterized by an emphasis upon the depiction or description of specified sexual activities or specified anatomical areas.
(5) Adult Group Homes: See Group Homes.
(6) Adult Motion Picture Theater: An establishment, where for any form of consideration, films, motion pictures, video cassettes, slides, or similar photographic reproductions are shown and in which a substantial portion of the total presentation time is devoted to the showing of material characterized by an emphasis on the depiction or description of specified sexual activities or specified anatomical areas.
(7) Advertising Sign: A sign which directs attention to goods, services, or entertainment sold or offered on the premises. This includes free-standing, wall-mounted projection, or incidental signs.
(8) Agriculture: The use of land for farming, dairy, pasturage, agriculture, horticulture, floriculture, viticulture, animal and poultry husbandry, and the necessary accessories for packing, treating, and storing the produce; provided, however, that the operations of any such accessory uses shall be secondary to that of normal agricultural activities and provided further that the above uses shall not include the commercial feeding of garbage or offal to swine or other animals.
(9) Airport: Any runway, land area, or other facilities designed and commonly used either publicly or privately by any person for the landing and taking off of aircraft, including all necessary taxiways, aircraft storage, and tie- down areas, hangars, and other necessary buildings and open spaces.
(10) Alley or Lane: The public or private thoroughfare typically not more than thirty feet (30') wide affording only secondary means of access to abutting property.
(11) Amusement Arcades: A building or part of a building in which five (5) or more pinball machines, video games, or other similar player-operated amusement devices are maintained.
(12) Area of Sign: The surface of the sign to be included when computing maximum allowable square footage. The area includes molding and framing, but excludes supporting members. Planters or other decorative supporting structures shall not be considered in the computation of signage unless the structure exceeds twenty-four inches (24") in height or eight feet (8') in length. In this case, the entire structure will be included in the computation of sign area. In the case of double or multi-faced structures, all faces shall be included in the computation of sign area.
(13) Arterial Street: Roadways that typically have a sixty foot (60') to one hundred foot (100') right-of-way providing relatively high overall traffic speed and volumes linking other communities or major traffic generators within the region.
(14) Automobile or Trailer Sales Area: An open space 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, including farm implements, boats, motorcycles, bicycles, and lawnmowers.
(15) Automotive Repair: The repair, rebuilding, or reconditioning of motor vehicles or parts thereof, including collision service, painting, and steam cleaning of vehicles.
(16) Automotive Service Station or Filling Stations: See Filling or Gas Stations.
(17) Banner. A temporary sign, usually made of plastic or cloth, used for advertising sales and events without being permanently attached to a structure.
(18) Bar, Tavern, or Cocktail Lounge: Any premises wherein alcoholic beverages are sold at retail for consumption on the premises and minors are excluded by law. It shall not mean a premises wherein such beverages are sold in conjunction with the sale of food for consumption on the premises.
(19) Basement: The story whose floor line is below grade at any entrance or exit and whose ceiling is not more than five feet (5') above grade.
(20) Bed and Breakfast: An owner-occupied single-family dwelling that contains guest rooms where short-term lodging with or without meals is provided for compensation.
(21) Block: In describing the boundaries of a district, the word "block" refers to the legal description. In all other cases, the word "block" refers to property between two (2) or more public streets, railroad, right-of-way, or watercourse that does not include a street, railroad, right-of-way, or watercourse in the interior boundaries of such block.
(22) Board: The Board of Zoning Appeals of the City of Gallipolis, Ohio.
(23) Boarding or Rooming House: A dwelling or part thereof occupied by a single housekeeping unit where meals and lodging are provided for three (3) or more persons for compensation by previous arrangement and where no cooking or dining facilities are provided in individual rooms. The arrangement is characterized as a longer-term arrangement and not meant to include transient guests or travelers as characterized by a Motel, Hotel, or Bed and Breakfast.
(24) Building: Any structure having a roof supported by columns or walls used or intended to be used for the shelter or enclosure of persons, animals, or property. When such a structure is divided into separate parts by one or more unpierced walls extending from the ground up, each part is deemed a separate building with respect to the minimum side yard requirements as hereinafter provided.
(25) Building, Height of: The vertical distance between the average contact with the ground level at the front wall of the building to the highest point of the roof.
(26) Building, Setback Line: A line established by this Zoning Ordinance generally parallel with and measured perpendicularly from the front lot line. It defines the limits of the front yard in which no building or structure may be located except as provided by this Zoning Ordinance or district regulations or as established by the Board of Zoning Appeals.
(27) Bulletin Board: A sign not exceeding fifteen square feet (15 s.f.) typically with changeable copy used to identify events for public and semi-public uses.
(28) Capacity: The maximum number of persons which may be accommodated by the use as determined by its design and/or by fire code regulations, whichever is greater.
(29) Carry-out Business: See Convenience Store.
(30) Car Wash: An auto service facility either manually operated or automatic for cleaning interior and exterior of automobiles or other motor vehicles.
(31) Cemetery: Land used or intended to be used for the burial of human dead and dedicated for cemetery purposes, including crematories, mausoleums, and mortuaries if operated in connection with and within the boundaries of such cemetery.
(32) Certificate of Occupancy: A certificate which is issued by the Code Enforcement Officer to allow occupancy after a building within the City of Gallipolis has been built or altered, and a final inspection made to determine if the building is in accordance with the provisions of this Zoning Ordinance.
(33) Certificate of Zoning: a certificate which is issued by the Code Enforcement Officer which allows a change in land use such as rezoning in accordance with the provisions of this Zoning Ordinance.
(34) Child Care Center: An establishment that administers to the needs of 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 for any part of the 24-hour day other than the child's own home. For the purposes of this Zoning Ordinance, the term “child care center” shall include all non-home- operated child care and all home-operated child care with over twelve (12) children in attendance. The term “child care center” also includes nursery schools where children under the age of five (5) are receiving schooling.
(35) Child Care Center, Home-Operated: A private residence where care, supervision, and protection are provided on a regular basis to no more than twelve (12) infants, toddlers, preschool children, and school children outside of school hours by a person who is not the parent but is a resident of the home. For the purposes of this definition, the resident children who are under sixteen (16) shall be included with the non-resident children when counting the number of children. A dwelling with a family with more than twelve (12) children who are all living in the dwelling unit and are related shall not be considered a home-operated child care if the resident is not caring for any non-resident children on a regular basis.
(36) Clinic: A place used for the care, diagnosis, and treatment of sick, ailing, infirm, and injured persons and those who are in need of medical or surgical attention, but who are not provided with board or room or kept overnight on the premises.
(37) Club: A building or portion thereof or premises owned or operated by a person for social, literary, political, educational, or recreational purpose primarily for the exclusive use of members and their guests.
(38) Conditional Use: A use which more intensely affects the surrounding area in which it is located than permitted uses in the same zoning district. Conditional use permits may be granted, in accordance with procedures described in Chapter 1145.
(39) Conditional Use Permit: A permit issued by the Code Enforcement Officer on approval by the Planning Commission to allow a conditionally permitted use to be established within the district.
(40) Conforming Sign: A sign which complies with the requirements of the Zoning Ordinance.
(41) Construction Permit: The document issued by the City Code Enforcement Officer authorizing construction or alteration of a building or structure.
(42) Convalescent Home: A home designed for the care of patients after they leave the hospital, but before they are released from observation and treatment.
(43) Convenience Store: Any retail establishment offering for sale prepackaged food products, household items, and other goods commonly associated with the same and having a gross floor area of less than five thousand square feet (5,000 s.f.). The definition of convenience store does not include the sale of gasoline for automobiles unless such use is specifically stated as a permitted or conditional use.
(44) Court: An open unoccupied and unobstructed space other than a yard on the same lot with a building or group of buildings.
(45) Density: A unit of measurement or the number of dwelling units per acre of land.
A. Gross Density: The number of dwelling units per acre of the total land to be developed.
B. Net Density: The number of dwelling units per land exclusive of that area in publicly dedicated land.
(46) Development: Any man-made change to improved or unimproved real estate, including but not limited to buildings or other structures, mining, dredging, filling, grading, paving, excavating, or drilling operations.
(47) Directory Sign: A sign advertising more than one (1) business.
(48) Display Surface: Area intended for display of advertising.
(49) Double-Faced Sign: A sign having two (2) display surfaces.
(50) Drive-Ins and Drive-Throughs: Uses involving window service offered to persons in motor vehicles with or without aisles to direct autos to a point of service. Such uses include, but are not limited to, drive-in restaurants, financial institutions, beverage drive-through sales, and gas service stations.
(51) Dwelling Unit: Space within a building comprising living, dining, sleeping rooms, or storage closets as well as space and equipment for cooking, bathing, and toilet facilities all used by one (1) family and its household employees and having a separate means of egress and ingress to a common area or the outside.
(52) Dwelling, Single-Family: A building consisting of a single-dwelling unit only separated from other dwelling units by open space.
(53) Dwelling, Two-Family: A building consisting of two (2) or three (3) family units which may be either attached side by side or one above the other and each unit having either a separate or combined entrance or entrances.
(54) Dwelling, Multiple-Family: A building consisting of four (4) or more dwelling units including condominiums with varying arrangements of entrances and party walls. Multiple-family housing may include public housing and industrialized units.
(55) Dwelling, Industrialized Unit: A series of structural units which when assembled becomes a detached residential dwelling designed for occupancy by one (1) family only and transported on streets or highways after fabrication to the assembly site. The unit is constructed of similar material as a site-constructed unit and not to be constructed as a mobile home or double-wide. In addition, said units shall meet the standards of Chapter BB-75, Industrialized Dwelling Houses, of the Ohio Revised Code.
(56) Easement: An interest in land owned by another that entitles its holder to a specific limited use or enjoyment.
(57) Employees on the Largest Shift: The greatest number of employees that are regularly scheduled to be at a place of employment at one time.
(58) Family: One (1) or more persons occupying a single-dwelling unit provided that unless all members are related by blood or marriage, no such family shall contain over five (5) persons. Domestic servants employed on the premises may be housed without being considered as members of the family.
(59) Fast-Food Restaurant: An establishment whose principal business is the sale of food and/or beverages in a ready-to-consume state (1) within the restaurant building, (2) within a motor vehicle parked on the premises, or (3) off the premises as carry-out orders and whose principal method of operation includes food and/or beverages served in paper, plastic, or other disposable containers.
(60) Dwelling, Modular Home: See Dwelling, Industrialized Unit.
(61) Filling or Gas Station: An establishment selling vehicle fuels and other services such as lubrication, oil, tire changes, and minor repairs. This use does not include paint spraying or body repair.
(62) Free-Standing Sign: A sign that is erected on and supported by columns, pipes, posts, angles, channels, or a combination of these materials.
(63) Garage or Carport, Private: A detached or accessory building of the principal building used by the occupants of the premises for the storage of self-propelled vehicles or trailers.
(64) Gross Floor Area: The sum of the areas of the several floors of a building, including areas used for human occupancy in basements, attics, and penthouses, as measured from the exterior faces of the walls. It does not include cellars, unenclosed porches, or attics not used for human occupancy, or any floor space in accessory buildings or in the main building intended and designed for the parking of motor vehicles in order to meet parking requirements, or any such floor space intended and designed for accessory heating and ventilating equipment. It shall include the horizontal area at each floor level devoted to stairwells and elevator shafts.
(65) Group Dwelling: The residents of a group of six (6) or more persons not related by blood, marriage, adoption, or guardianship and living together as a single housekeeping unit.
(66) Home Occupation: Any home occupation conducted in a dwelling unit by a resident or occupant provided that the home occupation does not require any exterior modifications of the dwelling unit to distinguish it from other dwelling units in the vicinity of such home occupation.
(67) Hospital: Place used for the care, diagnosis, and treatment of sick, ailing, infirm, or injured persons and those who are in need of medical and surgical attention but who are provided with board or room or kept overnight on the premises.
(68) Hotel: A business which offers overnight accommodations to transient guests on a daily rate basis and often provides other services for the guests such as restaurants, meeting rooms, and recreational facilities. (See also Motel.)
(69) Incidental Sign: A sign having an above grade height of not more than twenty-four inches (24") or a total area of not more than eight square feet (8 s.f.) containing no advertising and typically erected to identify entrances, exits, restrooms, hours of operation, operational instructions, and/or public utility locations.
(70) Industrial, Planned: Coordination and integration of industrial uses designed as separate elements of one specific site layout.
(71) Industry: Storage, repair, manufacture, preparation, or treatment of any article, substance, or commodity.
(72) Institution: Buildings and/or land designed to aid individuals in the need of mental, therapeutic, or rehabilitative counseling, or other correctional services in coordination with other governmental agencies such as state, county, or federal offices.
(73) Junk Salvage Yard or Recycling Center: A place where waste is discarded or salvageable materials are bought, sold, exchanged, baled, packed, disassembled, handled, or recycled, 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 such places where such uses are conducted entirely within a completely enclosed building and not including pawn shops and establishments for the sale, purchase, or storage of used household equipment, used cars in operable condition, or salvage materials incidental to manufacturing operations.
(74) Kennel: Any lot or premises on which five (5) or more domesticated cats, dogs, or other mammals normally considered household pets that are either commercially housed, groomed, bred, boarded, trained, or sold.
(75) Light Industrial: Industrial activities which are generally free of nuisance from noise, dust, smoke, odor, or vibration.
(76) Loading Space: An off-street space or berth on the same lot within a building or contiguous to a group of buildings for temporary parking of a commercial vehicle while loading or unloading merchandise or materials.
(77) Lot: A division of land separated from other division for the purposes of sale, lease, or separate use described on the recorded subdivision plat or by metes and bounds.
(78) Lot Coverage: The ratio of enclosed ground floor area of all buildings in a lot to the horizontally projected area of the lot expressed as percentage.
(79) Lot Width: The width of a lot at the building setback line measured at right angles to its depth.
(80) Lot, Minimum Area of: The area of a lot as computed exclusive of any portion of the right-of-way of any public or private street.
(81) Lot of Record: A lot which is part of the original city plat or subdivision recorded in the Office of the Gallia County Recorder or lot or parcel described by a metes and bonds description which has been so recorded.
(82) Marquee or Canopy Sign: A sign attached to the underside of a marquee or canopy extending from a building and covering a walkway which identifies entrance to the establishment, including theaters, auditoriums, fairgrounds, or museums. Signs painted or attached to an awning or canopy shall also be considered as marquee signs.
(83) Manufactured Home: A non-self-propelled vehicle transportable in one (1) or more sections, built on a metal chassis or without. These are produced in a factory for use as a residential dwelling only. The minimum width of said structure shall be eighteen (18) feet for the entire length of the structure and the minimum dwelling size shall be one thousand (1,000) square feet. The structure shall be placed on a permanent perimeter foundation although it may be structurally supported from within. All other manufactured homes shall be considered "Mobile Homes" and not allowed within the City. A manufactured home park shall be further described as: Any site or tract of land which meets standards set forth in the Ohio Administrative Code, Chapters 3701-27.
(84) Mobile Home. A non self-propelled vehicle transportable in one (1) section, built on a metal chassis. These are produced in a factory for use as a residential dwelling. These are less than 18 feet in width and/or under 1,000 square feet in size. These are not allowed within the City.
(85) Motel: A building or group of detached or connected buildings designed or used primarily for providing sleeping accommodations for automobile travelers and having a parking space adjacent to a sleeping room. An automobile court or a tourist court with more than one (1) unit or a motor lodge shall be deemed a motel. (See also Hotel).
(86) Multiple-Face Sign: A sign having more than two (2) display surfaces and shall include spheres and cubes.
(87) Non-Conforming Sign: A sign which is not properly erected under the conditions of this Zoning Ordinance.
(88) Non-Conforming Use: The use of land or a building or a portion thereof which does not conform with the use regulations of the district in which it is situated.
(89) Non-Conforming Lot: A lot which does not meet the requirements of this Zoning Code due to size and/or other lot dimension.
(90) Nursery, Plant Material: A space including accessory buildings or structures for the growing or storage of live trees, shrubs, or plant materials which may be offered for retail sale on the premises, including products used for gardening or landscaping.
(91) Nursery or Day Care Center: See Child Care Center.
(92) Nursing Home: A home or facility for the care and treatment of three (3) or more persons who are living on the premises who are infirmed and not normally capable of leaving the premises without assistance from care givers who are in attendance at the nursing home at all times.
(93) Opacity: The grade to which a wall, fence, structure, or landscaping is solid or impenetrable to light and/or vision with a general uniform pattern over a surface.
(94) Open Space: That part of a zoning lot including porches or yards which is open and unobstructed from its lowest level to the sky, accessible to all tenants on the zoning lot. Open space shall also mean unique, natural scenic land areas, and land uses that are characterized by an absence of development that is defined by the surrounding development.
(95) Parking Area, Private: An open area for the same use as a private garage.
(96) Parking Area, Public: An open area other than the street or other public way used for the parking of automobiles and available to the public whether for a fee, free, or as an accommodation for clients or customers.
(97) Parking Space, Off-Street: Permanently surfaced area not less than two hundred square feet (200 s.f.) either within a structure or in the open exclusive of driveways or access drives for the parking of one (1) motor vehicle.
(98) Permitted Use: A class of specific uses of land and indoor structures which is allowed by right within any designated zoning district conforming to site design and other criteria specified within this Zoning Ordinance.
(99) Personal Services: Any enterprise conducted for gain which primarily offers services to the general public such as shoe repair, watch repair, barber shops, beauty parlors, and similar activities.
(100) Planned Development: An area of land in which a variety of housing types and/or related commercial and industrial facilities are accommodated in a pre-planned environment under more flexible standards (such as lot sizes and setbacks) than those restrictions which would normally apply under these regulations. Procedure for approval of such development contains requirements in addition to those of the standard subdivision, such as building design principle and landscaping plans.
(101) Portable Sign: Any sign which is not permanently anchored to a foundation on structure and used to advertise a business establishment, product, service or entertainment.
(102) Product Sign: A sign typically located in a window advertising a product or service offered by the business, including foods offered by grocery stores or convenience stores.
(103) Recreational Facilities: Any commercial or non-commercial facilities that offer non-passive recreational services to a group of people or the general public. Included in this definition are outdoor recreational facilities such as golf courses, driving ranges, tennis courts, swimming pools, and indoor recreational facilities in which all activities are conducted indoors. This definition could also include a combination of indoor and outdoor recreational services.
(104) Rental Office: An administrative office used specifically for renting, leasing, and/or selling and managing condominium or cooperative properties.
(105) Research Activities: Research, development, and testing relating to such fields as chemical, pharmaceutical, medical, electrical, transportation, and engineering. All research, testing, and development shall be carried on within an entirely enclosed building and no noise, smoke, glare, vibration, or odor shall be detected outside the said building.
(106) Right-of-Way: A strip of land taken or dedicated for use as a public way. In addition to the roadway, the right-of-way incorporates the curbs, lawn strips, sidewalks, lighting, and drainage facilities and may include special features such as grade separation, landscape areas, viaducts, and bridges.
(107) Satellite Dish: A signal receiving device whose purpose is to receive or send communications or signals from earth-orbiting satellites or other sources.
(108) Shopping Center: A group of commercial establishments planned, developed, and managed as a unit with off-street parking provided on the property and having common walls between most uses.
(109) Sign: Any device, structure, material, or combination of these intended to advertise or draw attention to real estate, a building or structure, product, service, or entertainment sold or offered on the premises.
(110) Single-Face Sign: A sign having one (1) display surface.
(111) Specified Anatomical Area: As used herein, specified anatomical areas mean and include any of the following: less than completely and opaquely covered human genitals, pubic region, buttocks, anus, or female breasts below a point immediately above the top of the areolae; or human male genitals in a discernibly turgid state, even if completely and opaquely covered.
(112) Specified Sexual Activities: As used herein, specified sexual activities means and include any of the following: 1) the fondling or other erotic touching of human genitals, pubic region, buttocks, anus, or female breasts; 2) sex acts, normal or perverted, actual or simulated, including intercourse, oral copulation, or sodomy; 3) masturbation, actual or simulated; or 4) excretory functions as part of, or in connection with, any of the activities set forth in subdivisions in items 1), 2), or 3) of this definition.
(113) Story: That part of a building between the surface of a floor and the ceiling immediately above.
(114) Substantial Improvement: Any repair, reconstruction, or improvement of a structure, the cost of which equals or exceeds fifty percent (50%) of the market value of the structure either (1) before the improvement or repair is started or (2) if the structure has been changed and is being restored before the damage occurred. For the purpose of this definition, "substantial improvement" is considered to occur when the first alteration of any wall, ceiling, floor, or other structural part of the building commences, whether or not that alteration affects the external dimensions of the structure. The term does not, however, include either (1) any project for the improvement of a structure to comply with existing state or local health, sanitary, or safety code specifications which are necessary to ensure safe living conditions or (2) any alteration of a structure listed on the National Register of Historic Places or a state inventory of historic places.
(115) Structure: Anything constructed where the use of which requires permanent location on the ground or attachment to something having a permanent location on the ground with exception to landscaping.
(116) Travel Trailer: A non-self-propelled recreational vehicle designed for conveyance on highways by means of pulling by another vehicle and intended to be used for temporary sleeping purposes, including the tent-type or fold-out-type trailer.
(117) Use: The specific purpose for which land or buildings are designated, arranged, intended, or for which they may or may not be occupied or maintained.
(118) Variance: A variance is any modification of the strict term of the relevant regulations where such modification will not be contrary to the public interest and where owing to conditions peculiar to the property and not to the result of the actions of the applicant where a literal enforcement of the regulations would result in unnecessary undue hardships. Variances may be granted in accordance with procedures described in Chapter 1143.
(119) Wall-Mounted Sign: Any sign attached to or erected against the inside or outside wall of the building or a wall-type structure that is an integral part of such building or structure with the exposed display surface of the sign in a plane parallel to the plane of the building or structure.
(120) Wireless Telecommunications Equipment Shelter: A structure in which electronic receiving and relay equipment for a wireless telecommunications facility is housed.
(121) Wireless Telecommunications Facility: A facility consisting of the equipment and structures involved in receiving or relaying telecommunications or radio signals from a mobile radio communication source and transmitting those signals to a central switching computer which connects the mobile unit with land-based telephone lines.
(122) Wireless Telecommunications Tower: A structure intended to support equipment used to transmit, relay, and/or receive telecommunications signals including but not limited to monopolies, guyed, and lattice construction steel structures.
(123) Yard: A required open space, other than a court, unoccupied and unobstructed by any structure or portion of a structure three feet (3') above the general ground level of the graded lot upward. Provided accessories, ornaments, and furniture may be permitted in a yard subject to height limitations and requirements limiting obstruction of visibility.
A. Front Yard: A yard extending between side lot lines across the front of a yard and from the front lot line to the front of the principal building.
B. Rear Yard: A yard extending between side lot lines across the rear of a lot and from the rear lot line to the rear of the principal building.
C. Side Yard: A yard extending from the principal building to the side lot on both sides of the principal building between the lines establishing the front and rear yards.
(124) Zero Lot Line: The location of a building on a lot in such a manner that one or more of the building’s sides rests directly on a lot line. Also, for the purposes of this Ordinance, a zero lot line shall include buildings that are built with a shared wall resting on a lot line and the shared wall shall be considered the zero lot line if the building is intended to be owned by two (2) separate owners on both sides of the shared wall.
(Ord. 2001-35. Passed 7-17-01.)