(A) For the purpose of this chapter, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
(B) Words used in the present tense include the future, words in the masculine gender include the feminine; the singular number includes the plural and the plural the singular, the word “lot” includes the word “structure”. The word “person” includes a corporation or other organization.
ACCESSORY BUILDING. A subordinate building or structure or portion of the main building which is located on the lot of the main building and the use of which is clearly incidental or subordinate to the use of the main building.
ALLEYS. A public way less than 30 feet in width, affording a secondary means of access to abutting property.
APARTMENT HOTEL. A multiple-dwelling that furnishes for the uses of the tenants services ordinarily furnished by hotels but the privileges of which are not primarily available to the public and are not for transient trade.
BILLBOARD. Advertising surface advertising business, service or events off the premises of the owner.
BLOCK. The property abutting on one side of a street between the two nearest intersecting streets or other natural barriers.
BOARDING HOUSE or LODGING HOUSE. A dwelling occupied by a single house-keeping unit, where meals and lodging are provided for five or more persons for compensation by previous arrangement, but not for transients.
BUILDING LINE. The line beyond which no building or part thereof shall project without special permission of the City Council.
CONSERVATORY. A room enclosed in glass for growing and showing of plants, but noncommercial or a school or academy of music or art.
CONVALESCENT HOME. A public or semi-public institution designed for caring of patients after they leave the hospital, but before they are released from observation and treatment.
CORNER LOT. Any lot, parcel or tract of land which abuts or is adjacent to a street on two of its adjoining sides.
COUNCIL. As used herein, shall refer to and mean the City Council.
CURB LEVEL. The mean level of the curb in front of a lot or the established elevation of the curb where it is not already constructed.
DWELLING. A building or part thereof used exclusively as the home or residence of one family, except where more than one family is specified.
FAMILY. An individual or group of individuals related by blood, marriage or adoption, non-paying guest or servants, living together as a single housekeeping unit.
HOME OCCUPATIONS. A customary occupation engaged in by the occupant only, such as dressmaking, beauticians where no one is employed, and which is operated solely out of the home.
HOTEL. A building used as a temporary abiding place for a renumeration with or without meals, with no provisions for cooking in the individual rooms.
INTERIOR LOT. Any lot, parcel or tract of land which is located between two intersections of streets and abutting the street on only one side, or any lot with any two non-adjoining sides abutting streets.
JUNK. Cast-off or salvage material of any sort that is sold, traded, stored or put in use in other than the original form in which it was manufactured including dismantled cars, rags, bottles, sacks, scrap-iron or other salvage materials.
LIVING UNIT. A room or group of rooms for use by a family as a dwelling.
LOT. A recorded numbered parcel of a subdivision or to any parcel or tract of land whether subdivided or not.
MULTIPLE GARAGE. A neighborhood, community or group garage for a number of motor vehicles for the use of the neighborhood or the dwellers in a multiple-family dwelling.
MULTIPLE-FAMILY DWELLING. A building containing three or more living units or apartments.
NONCONFORMING. A structure or land whose design or use does not conform to the requirements of the district or of this chapter.
NON-PROFIT. An organization, group or corporation, engaged in activities not for the profit of itself or its members.
OVERHANG. The projection of any portion of a building usually the roof beyond the walls of the building.
PERSON. Individuals, groups, organizations, associations, clubs, partnerships and corporations.
PLOT. A lot or parts of lots or an unplatted piece of land under one ownership used for building site.
PREMISE. A part of land, parcel, tract, lot or the land and the structure upon it.
PUBLIC UTILITY. Facilities of or being owned by the city.
SETBACK. This term is used in connection with front yards to indicate the distance from the street line to the building.
SOLID WASTE. Garbage, refuse, sludge from a water supply treatment plant or air contaminant treatment facility, or other discarded waste materials and sludges, in soil, semi-solid, liquid or contained gaseous form, resulting from industrial, commercial, mining, or agricultural operations, or from community activities, but does not include hazardous waste, animal waste used as fertilizer, earthen fill, boulders, rock; sewage sludge, solid or dissolved material in domestic sewage or other common pollutants in water resources, such as silt, dissolved or suspended solids in industrial waste water effluents, or discharges which are point sources subject to permits under Section 402 of the Federal Waste Pollution Control Act, as amended; dissolved materials in irrigation return flows; or source materials, special nuclear material, or by-product material as defined by the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended.
SOLID WASTE TRANSFER STATION (SWTS). An intermediate solid waste disposal facility in which solid waste collected from any source is temporarily deposited to await transportation to another solid waste management facility.
STORY. A section or horizontal division of a building extending from the floor to the ceiling lying directly above the floor and not more than ten feet in height.
STREET. Any thoroughfare more than 30 feet in width, also a square, terrace, place, court, lane, way or avenue dedicated as a right-of-way for street purposes.
TENANTS. A person occupying a building or portion thereof other than its owner or a member of his or her household for a consideration.
TRAILER OR MOTOR HOME. A vehicle used as sleeping or living quarters for one or more persons having no foundation other than wheels or jacks and propelled by its own or by other power-driven vehicle to which it may be attached.
WIDTH. The narrowest side of a lot.
YARD. The open unoccupied space between a building and the front street line, the space between the building and side lot line, the space between the building and rear lot line known respectively as the front, side and rear yard, the front street line being the front property line as the block has been developed or the dividing line between the lot and the principal street and side lot line being the property line between two adjoining properties and the rear lot line being opposite the front line as the lots are platted.
(Ord. passed 6-9-1947; Ord. passed 12-19-1949; Ord. passed 7-8-1955; Ord. passed 11-16-1959; Ord. passed 3-28-1960; Ord. passed 7-8-1974; Ord. passed 4-28-1975; Ord. 8.24, passed 9-17-1979; Ord. 8.46, passed 1-25-2010)