For the purpose of this title, the following terms shall have the meanings ascribed to them in this section:
ACCESS EASEMENT: An easement across one or more adjacent properties to allow vehicular access to an otherwise inaccessible area at any time.
ACCESSORY USE OR STRUCTURE: A use or structure that is incidental and subordinate to the principal allowed use of a property and located on the same lot as the principal allowed use.
ADMINISTRATOR: A person who is legally vested with the right of administration of this title.
ALLEY: See definition of Street.
ANIMAL, SMALL AND LARGE: An animal shall be considered small if it is a domestic pet normally kept in a house and weighs less than one hundred fifty (150) pounds at maturity. All other animals shall be classed as large animals.
ANIMATED SIGN: A sign with action or motion, flashing, color changes requiring electrical energy, electronic or manufactured sources of supply, but not including wind actuated elements such as flags, banners or specialty items. This definition does not include public service signs such as time and temperature units.
APARTMENT HOTEL: A building or portion thereof designed for or containing both individual guestrooms or suites of rooms and dwelling units.
APPLIANCE REPAIR: The repair of a household or office device operated by gas or electrical current.
APPROVED: Unless otherwise indicated, means by the city council. All approvals delegated in this title to administrative personnel of the city are subject to review and final determination by the council.
ARCHITECTURAL PROJECTION: Any projection which is not intended for occupancy and which extends beyond the face of an exterior wall of a building but shall not include signs. Examples of such projections are cornices, eaves, canopies, sunshades, gutters, chimneys, flues, belt courses, etc.
AREA OF IMPACT: The area surrounding the city as established by mutual agreement with the county in conformance with state law.
AREA OF SPECIAL FLOOD HAZARD: The land in the floodplain within a community subject to a one percent (1%) or greater chance of flooding in any given year.
AUTOMOBILE, MOBILE HOME, TRAVEL TRAILER AND FARM IMPLEMENT REPAIR: The repair of automobiles, mobile homes, travel trailers and farm implements.
AUTOMOBILE, MOBILE HOME, TRAVEL TRAILER AND FARM IMPLEMENT SALES AREAS: An open area, other than a street, used for the display, sale or rental of new or used automobiles, mobile homes, travel trailers, or farm implements but not including repair work except minor incidental repair of same to be displayed, sold or rented on the premises.
AUTOMOBILE STORAGE SPACE: Parking and/or storage of new and/or used automobiles which are capable of immediate operation under their own power.
AUTOMOBILE WRECKING: The dismantling or wrecking of two (2) or more used motor vehicles, mobile homes or trailers.
AUTOMOBILE WRECKING YARD: Any area where automobile wrecking is carried out and/or accumulation of parts thereof are stored in the open and are not being restored to operation within six (6) months of notification; or any land, building or structure used for the wrecking or storing of such motor vehicles.
BASE FLOOD: The flood having a one percent (1%) chance of being equaled or exceeded in any given year.
BASEMENT: A portion of living space in a dwelling unit, all or at least one-half (1/2) of its height below the average level of the adjoining ground.
BICYCLE WAY: A public way designed for the use of nonmotorized vehicles.
BLOCK: A group of lots, tracts or parcels within well defined boundaries, usually streets.
BUILDING: Any combination of materials constructed in accordance with the current international building code or which is used or intended to support or shelter any use, person, animal, plant or other property. Permanent buildings are attached to a foundation. Temporary buildings are not attached to a foundation and merely rest on the ground. An enclosed building has a covering on all sides.
BUILDING HEIGHT: 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 building excluding roof projections.
CARPORT, ATTACHED: "Attached carport" means having all or part of one wall common to the dwelling or to a covered porch attached to the dwelling.
CARPORT, DETACHED: "Detached carport" means a roofed structure of which all sides and ends are not enclosed.
CHANGE OF USE: Change of use from one of the following categories to another:
Agricultural processing
Agriculture
Communications and utilities
Cultural facilities
Manufacturing
Parks
Public assembly
Residential
Retail trade
Services
Sports facilities
Transportation
Wholesale trade
COMMERCIAL USE: A structure or area intended for the selling, bartering or swapping of any merchandise, commodities, objects or services.
COMMITTEE: The city planning and zoning committee.
COMPREHENSIVE PLAN: The overall guiding document for all development within the legal jurisdiction of the city.
CONCESSION: A building or structure having less than three hundred (300) square feet of area that is used for the sale of food, beverages and/or souvenirs.
COUNCIL: The Hansen city council.
COUNTY: Twin Falls County, Idaho, and its governing board.
COVENANT: A written promise or pledge.
DAYCARE SERVICE: Services offered by persons who are paid to supervise or care for six (6) or more persons including the resident children for less than fourteen (14) hours per day, but excluding those businesses or religious institutions which provide incidental daycare service for patrons or attendees while parents are on the premises.
DEDICATION: The setting apart of land or interests in land, for use by the public, by ordinance, resolution or entry in the official minutes as by the recording of a plat. Dedicated land becomes public land upon the acceptance by the local governing authority.
DEVELOPER: The owner, or his legally authorized agent, of lands that are being platted or mapped.
DEVELOPMENT: Lands within the boundaries of an area that is platted or mapped in accordance with this title and that is intended to be improved by the construction of buildings, structures, public ways, utilities and other similar improvements.
DIRECTIONAL SIGNS: On premises incidental signs designed to guide or direct pedestrians or vehicular traffic.
DORMITORY: A rooming house or residence hall occupied by students.
DRIVE-IN ESTABLISHMENT: A commercial establishment, excluding gasoline service stations, in which business is conducted while the customers are vehicle occupants.
DWELLING: A building or portion thereof designed exclusively for residential occupancy, but not including hotels, boarding houses and lodging houses, trailers, camp cars or trailer houses.
DWELLING, MULTIPLE: "Multiple dwelling" means a building or portion thereof, designed for three (3) or more households living independently of each other and including apartment hotels.
DWELLING, TWO-HOUSEHOLD: A building designed exclusively for occupancy for two (2) households living independently of each other including duplexes, semidetached houses and separately owned shared-wall dwellings.
DWELLING UNIT: Space within the dwelling designed to accommodate all normal cooking, sleeping and sanitation needs of the residents.
EASEMENT: A right of use for a stated purpose, falling short of ownership, granted by a property owner to the public or to another person and restricting the property owner's use of the property by prohibiting the construction of any permanent building or structure over the easement and by prohibiting any other stated restriction of use.
ENGINEER: A professional engineer registered in the state of Idaho.
FARM: An area twenty (20) acres or more in the area of impact which is being used for the purpose of producing food, fiber, seed stock, fodder or oil producing crops.
FEEDLOT AND DAIRIES: Land use primarily for the feeding of farm animals where the number of animals being fed exceeds five (5) per acre.
FINISHED FLOOR: Any floor usable for living purposes, which includes working, sleeping, eating, cooking or recreation, or a combination thereof. A floor used only for storage purposes is not a "finished floor".
FLOOD INSURANCE RATE MAP: The official map on which the federal insurance administration has delineated both the areas of special flood hazard and the risk premium zones applicable to the community.
FLOOD INSURANCE STUDY: The official report provided by the federal insurance administration that includes flood profiles, the flood boundary-floodway map, and the water surface elevation of the base flood.
FLOOD OR FLOODWATERS: A temporary overflow of water on lands not normally covered by water.
FLOODPLAIN: The relatively flat areas or lowlands adjoining the channel of a watercourse, or areas where drainage is or may be restricted by manmade structures which have been or may be covered partially or wholly by floodwater, but shall compose an area not less than that area confined by the 50-year flood and shall not exceed that area confined by the 100-year flood.
FLOODPLAIN REGULATIONS: The codes, ordinances and other regulations relating to the use of land and construction within the channel and floodplain areas, including zoning ordinances, subdivision regulations, building codes, housing codes, setback requirements, open area regulations and similar methods of control affecting the use and development of the areas.
FLOODPROOFING: Any combination of structural and nonstructural additions, changes or adjustments to properties and structures which reduce or eliminate flood damage to lands, water and sanitary facilities, structures and contents of buildings.
FLOODWAY: The channel of a river or other watercourse and the adjacent land areas that must be reserved in order to discharge the base flood without cumulatively increasing the water surface elevation more than one foot (1').
FRONT: The front of a building shall be the wall so designated by the building inspector which best conforms to the intent of this title. The front property line shall be the lot line most nearly parallel to the front of a building. In designating the front of a building, the building inspector shall base his decision on the location of the door which provides the principal access into the building and/or the location of the trafficway which provides the principal access to the property. The decision of the building inspector may be appealed to the city council for interpretation of the intent of this title and final determination of the designated front.
FRONT, ENTIRE: "Entire front" means all the property fronting on one side of a street between intersecting streets, or between a street and right of way, waterway, end of dead end street or city boundary, measured along the street line. An intersecting street shall determine only the boundary of the frontage on the side of the street which it intersects.
GARAGE, ATTACHED: "Attached garage" means a garage having all or part of one wall common to the dwelling or to a covered porch attached to the dwellings.
GARAGE, DETACHED: "Detached garage" means a garage which is completely surrounded by open space.
GARAGE, PRIVATE: "Private garage" means a building or a portion of a building in which only motor vehicles used by the tenants of the building on the premises are stored or kept.
GOVERNING AUTHORITY: The city council.
GOVERNMENTAL FACILITIES: Facilities owned and operated by a governmental agency for the benefit of the general public.
HIGHWAY: A street designated as a highway by an appropriate state or federal agency.
HISTORIC SITES: Sites established by the city, county, state or federal government as historic monuments that should be preserved.
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; provided, the service, sale or handcrafting is performed only by the resident therein; and provided, the area used in performing the home occupation does not exceed four hundred (400) square feet in area; and provided, there is no exterior indication of the home occupation.
HOSPITAL: An institution providing health services, primarily for inpatient and medical or surgical care of the sick or injured, including outpatient departments, training facilities, central service facilities and staff offices. Hospitals are assumed to be for humans unless otherwise indicated.
HOTEL: Any building containing six (6) or more 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.
HOUSEHOLD: An individual or two (2) or more individuals related by blood, marriage, legal adoption or guardianship, together with any servants or a group of four (4) or less persons who are unrelated and reside together for more than thirty (30) days.
HOUSEHOLD BUILDING: A single building containing one or more household units.
HOUSEHOLD UNIT: A room or group of rooms within a building containing cooking and bathroom facilities intended for use and occupancy by one family.
IMPROVEMENT: Any alteration to the land or other physical constructions associated with subdivision and building site developments.
KENNEL 1 : Any lot or premises on which three (3) or more domesticated mammals over one pound, of a single species, and more than six (6) months of age, are housed, groomed, bred, boarded, trained or sold.
LESSEE: A person holding a legally enforceable lease.
LINE, BUILDING: "Building line" means one of four (4) perpendicular lines established by the building inspector for the purpose of measuring setbacks. The lines shall be established parallel to the predominant building walls and shall pass through the most exterior point on the building walls, excluding architectural features not intended for occupancy.
LINE, PROPERTY: "Property line" means the legal boundary of a parcel of real property.
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: Unless otherwise defined, means a parcel of land with sufficient size to meet the minimum requirements of this title for use, dimensional standards and off street parking and which is owned by a single person with a separate interest or a group of persons with a separate interest together with an interest in common in the real property.
LOT AREA: The total area of a lot measured on a horizontal plane within the boundary lines exclusive of public and private roads and easements of access to other property.
LOT, CORNER: "Corner lot" means a lot situated at the intersection of two (2) or more streets.
LOT DEPTH: The horizontal distance between the front and rear lot lines, measured along the median between the two (2) side lot lines.
MAINTENANCE EASEMENT: An easement granted for the purpose of providing access for repair and maintenance of the appurtenant property in zero lot line subdivisions.
MANUFACTURED HOUSING: A structure constructed according to HUD/FHA mobile home construction and safety standards, transportable in one or more sections, which, in the traveling mode, is eight (8) body feet or more in width or is forty (40) body feet or more in length, or when erected on site, is three hundred twenty (320) or more square feet, and which is built on a permanent chassis and designed to be used as a permanent dwelling with a permanent foundation when connected to the required utilities, and includes the plumbing, heating, air conditioning, and electrical systems contained therein, except that such term shall include any structure which meets all other requirements of this definition except size requirements and with respect to which the manufacturer voluntarily files a certification required by the secretary of housing and urban development and complies with the standards established under 42 USC 5401 et seq. Said structures shall also comply with the following requirements:
A. Shall be multisectional and enclose a space of not less than one thousand (1,000) square feet.
B. Shall be placed on an excavated and backfilled foundation and enclosed at the perimeter such that the home is located not more than twelve inches (12") above grade.
C. Shall have a pitched roof with a slope not less than a nominal four feet (4') in height for each twelve feet (12') in width.
D. Shall have exterior siding and roofing which, in color, material and appearance is similar to the exterior siding and roofing material commonly used on residential dwellings within the community or which is comparable to the predominant materials used on surrounding dwellings as determined by the zoning administrator/building inspector.
E. Shall have a garage or carport constructed of like materials.
F. Shall be subject to any required development standard, architectural requirement and minimum size requirements for a conventional single- family residential dwelling on a similar lot.
G. Shall be inspected by the city building inspector to ensure that the manufactured home is placed on site to HUD standards and meets the requirements of this definition.
H. Shall be issued a building permit if all of the requirements of this definition are met.
MANUFACTURING USE: The fabricating or assembling of materials into finished or partially finished products by hand or by the use of machinery, but excluding home occupations, activities creating products in which the process does not yield any vapor, liquid or solid waste materials, and crafts made in conjunction with retail business which may include, but not be limited to, ceramics, mosaic, fabrics, jewelry, leather goods, silk screening, dress designing, sculpturing and wood carving.
MARQUEE: A permanent roofed structure supported by the main building and projecting over a public way.
MOBILE HOME: A transportable structure of over eight hundred forty (840) square feet interior area, built on a chassis and designed to be used without a permanent foundation as a dwelling unit when connected to utilities.
MOBILE HOME PARK: Any tract of land that is divided into rental spaces under common ownership or management for the purpose of locating two (2) or more manufactured homes for dwelling purposes.
MOBILE HOME SUBDIVISION: A parcel of land divided into individual lots which are intended to be sold to persons and are designed to be occupied by residential buildings or permanent mobile homes.
MONUMENT: Any permanent marker either of concrete, galvanized iron pipe, or on steel rods, used to identify any tract, parcel, lot or street lines, as specified in Idaho Code section 50-1303.
MULTIPLE-OCCUPANCY BUILDING: A building containing more than two (2) businesses or households.
NONCONFORMING: A building, structure or use not conforming to the provisions of this title.
OFF PREMISES SIGN: A sign mounted on property other than that occupied by the business being advertised by the sign.
100-YEAR FLOOD: The highest level of flooding that, on the average, is likely to occur once every one hundred (100) years (i.e., that has a 1 percent chance of occurring each year).
OPEN SPACE: An area retaining a natural ground cover free of any buildings, structures, streets or parking areas.
ORIGINAL PARCEL OF LAND: A lot or tract as recorded on any plat or record on file in the office of the county recorder, or an unplatted contiguous parcel of land held in one ownership and of record at the time of the effective date hereof. In cases of "unrecorded matters of fact", the commission shall use its best judgment to determine a fair designation.
ORPHANAGE: A rooming house or residence hall occupied by orphaned children.
OWNER: Any person or group of persons having legal title to real property which is subject to this title.
PARKING SPACE, AUTOMOBILE: An enclosed or unenclosed surfaced area of not less than twenty feet by nine feet (20' x 9') in size, together with access and maneuvering space sufficient to permit a standard automobile to be parked within the surfaced area, permanently reserved for the temporary parking or storage of one automobile. The total space shall be not less than two hundred seventy (270) square feet.
PATIO, COVERED: "Covered patio" means the same as "carport".
PEDESTRIANWAY: A public way designed to be used as a walkway for pedestrians.
PERFORMANCE BOND: An amount of money or other negotiable security paid by the subdivider or his surety to the city clerk which guarantees that the subdivider will perform all actions required by the governing body regarding an approved plat; and provided, that, if the subdivider defaults and fails to comply with the provisions of an approved plat, the subdivider or his surety will pay damages up to the limit of the bond, or the surety will itself complete the requirements of the approved plat.
PERMANENT: Not less than six (6) months.
PERSON: Any individual or any corporation, joint venture, limited partnership, partnership, firm, association, trustee or other similar entity or organization.
PICK UP SHELTER: A structure used only by persons waiting for public transportation.
PLANNED UNIT DEVELOPMENT: A tract of land on which a variety of residential, commercial and manufacturing uses may coexist in a preplanned environment with more flexible standards than normally apply to the use of land in a standard zoning district.
PLAT: The drawings, certifications, descriptions and approval of a division or proposed division of real property into two (2) or more lots, blocks, parcels, sites, plots, units, common areas, limited common areas or other descriptive designations of real property for the purpose of offering for sale, lease or development, either on the installment plan or upon any and all other plans, terms and conditions to any person having a separate interest or an individual interest in common together with a separate interest in any or all of the real property.
PORCH: A covered entrance to a building.
PREMISES: An area of land including a lot, with or without buildings.
PRIVATE: Belonging to an individual or group of persons and not for the public or open to the public.
PRIVATE WAY: Any right of way or easement indicated or platted across real property owned by the person dedicating or platting the private way and intended for the general or special use of a person or persons rather than the general public.
PROFESSIONAL SERVICES: Services offered by persons engaged in the legal, engineering, architectural, design, planning, accounting, auditing, educational and related professions and persons who service the human body or mind.
PROJECT: A development.
PROJECTING DOUBLE FACED BUILDING SIGN: A double faced sign which projects more than twelve inches (12") over public property, and which uses a building wall as its main source of support.
PUBLIC: Owned by federal, state or local government or subdivisions thereof.
PUBLIC WAY: Any right of way or easement dedicated or platted across real property owned by the person dedicating or platting the public way and intended for the general or special use of the public; or any right of way or easement legally obtained by the city through the use thereof; provided, such public way has not been vacated by the city council.
REAL PROPERTY: Real estate consisting of:
A. Lands, possessory rights to land, ditch and water rights and mining claims, both lode and placer;
B. That which is affixed to land; and
C. That which is appurtenant to land.
REAR: The rear of a building and rear property line shall be the wall and lot line most nearly parallel to the front wall and lot line.
RELIGIOUS FACILITIES: A building intended for the worship of God and its related facilities such as meeting halls, household unit for persons employed in the building, and schools for religious teachings.
RELIGIOUS QUARTERS: A rooming house or residence hall occupied by persons employed by a single religious organization.
REPRODUCIBLE DRAWING: A permanent drawing prepared in black india ink or an archival photographic image process conforming to the standards established by the American National Standards Institute on a polyester material four thousandths of an inch (0.004") thick with a matte finish.
RESERVE STRIP: A strip of land between a partial street and adjacent property which is reserved or held in public ownership for future street extension or widening.
RESIDENCE HALL: A building without cooking facilities where one or more rooms without cooking facilities are occupied by separate households where more than seventy five percent (75%) of the households reside for more than thirty (30) days.
RESIDENTIAL USE: Any use designed or intended to meet the cooking, sleeping and sanitary needs of one or more individuals.
RETIREMENT HOME: A rooming house or residence hall occupied by retired persons.
REVOLVING SIGN: A sign which revolves or rotates about an axis.
RIGHT OF WAY: A strip of land dedicated or reserved for use as a public way, which normally includes streets, sidewalks and other public utilities or service areas.
ROOF PROJECTIONS: Chimneys, smokestacks, church spires, flagpoles, radio and television antennas or towers, masts, cooling towers, elevator shafts and other similar projections.
ROOF SIGN: A sign erected upon or above a roof or parapet wall of a building and which is wholly or partially supported by the building. Supports must be an integral part of the design. There shall be no exposed wires or struts.
ROOMING HOUSE: A building with common cooking facilities having one or more rooms without cooking facilities occupied by separate households for more than thirty (30) days with or without board.
SANITARIUM, SANATORIUM: A private hospital, whether or not such facility is operated for profit.
SCHOOL: Any place primarily used for educational purposes.
SERVICE BUILDING: A permanent building or buildings designed to provide service facilities to the inhabitants or users of any development.
SERVICE ROAD: A dedicated minor way which is used for vehicular access to the back or side of residential property otherwise abutting on a street.
SERVICE STATION: A building or portion thereof and land used for supplying fuel, oil and minor accessories for motor vehicles at retail direct to the customer and for making minor emergency repairs.
SHELTER HOME: A building or facility however named, operated on either a profit or nonprofit basis for the purpose of providing a home with necessary supervision for three (3) or more persons not related to the owner and who are unable to care for themselves.
SIDE: The side of a building and side property line shall be the wall and lot line most nearly perpendicular to the front wall and lot line.
SIGN STRUCTURE: Any structure which supports or is capable of supporting any sign as defined in this code. A sign structure must be an integral part of the sign design.
SPECIAL USE PERMIT: A permit granted by the commission for a permanent use that is otherwise prohibited but may be allowed under specific provisions when not in conflict with a comprehensive plan.
STANDARD SPECIFICATIONS: The specifications as specified in this title or as officially adopted by the city council.
STATE: State of Idaho.
STREET: A right of way which provides access to adjacent properties, the dedication of which has been officially accepted. The term "street" also includes the terms "highway", "thoroughfare", "parkway", "road", "avenue", "boulevard", "land", "place" and other such terms.
Alley: A minor street providing secondary access at the back of a property otherwise abutting a street.
Arterial: A street designated for the purpose of carrying fast and/or heavy traffic.
Collector: A street designated for the purpose of carrying traffic from local streets to other collector streets and/or arterial streets.
Cul-De-Sac: A street connected to another street at one end only, and provided with a turnaround space at its terminus.
Frontage: A local street parallel to and adjacent to an arterial street to provide access to abutting properties.
Half Street: A street comprised of one-half (1/2) of the width required to conform with a standard city street section.
Local: A street which has the primary purpose of providing access to abutting properties.
Loop: A local street with both terminal points on the same street of origin.
Partial: A dedicated right of way providing only a portion of the required street width, usually along the edge of a subdivision or tract of land.
Private: A street that is not accepted for public use or maintenance which provides vehicular and pedestrian access.
Stub Street: A street which terminates without provisions for a turnaround area.
STREET GRADE: The officially established grade of the street upon which a lot fronts. If there is no officially established grade, the existing grade of the street shall be taken as the street grade.
STRUCTURAL ALTERATIONS: Any change which would tend to prolong the life of the supporting members of a building or structure, such as bearing walls, columns, beams or girders.
STRUCTURES: Anything constructed or erected, the use of which requires location on the ground or attachment to something having a fixed location on the ground. Among other things, structures include buildings, mobile homes, walls, fences and billboards.
SUBDIVIDER: The individual, firm, corporation, partnership, association, syndicate, trust or other legal entity that executes the application and initiates proceedings for the subdivision of land in accordance with the provisions of this title. The subdivider need not be the owner of the property; however, he shall be an agent of the owner or have sufficient proprietary rights in the property to represent the owner.
SUBDIVISION: The result of an act of dividing an original lot, tract or parcel of land into more than two (2) parts for the purpose of transfer of ownership or development; which shall also include the dedication of public streets and other rights of way and the addition to, or creation of, a cemetery. However, this title shall not apply to the following:
A. An adjustment of lot lines as shown on a recorded plat which does not reduce the area, frontage, width, depth or building setback lines of each building site below the minimum zoning requirements and does not change the original number of lots in any block of the recorded plat;
B. An allocation of land in the settlement of an estate of a decedent or a court decree for the distribution of property;
C. The unwilling sale of land as a result of legal condemnation as defined and allowed in the Idaho Code;
D. Widening of existing streets to conform to a comprehensive plan;
E. The acquisition of a street right of way by a public agency in conformance with a comprehensive plan; and
F. The exchange of land for the purpose of straightening property boundaries which does not result in the change of the present land usage.
SURVEYOR: A land surveyor or professional engineer registered in the state.
THEATER, OUTDOOR DRIVE-IN: An open lot or part thereof, with its appurtenant facilities, devoted primarily to the showing of moving pictures or theatrical productions on a paid admission basis, to patrons seated in automobiles or on outdoor seats.
TOURIST COURT: A group of attached or detached buildings containing individual sleeping or living units designed for, or used temporarily by, automobile tourists or transients, with parking spaces conveniently located to each unit and including auto courts, motels or motor lodges.
TOWNHOUSE: A single-family dwelling with party walls and no side yards between abutting dwellings.
TRAFFICWAY: A public or a private way whose primary use is for movement of motorized vehicles.
TRAILER, CAMP CAR OR TRAILER HOUSE: Any unit used for living or for sleeping purposes which is equipped with wheels or a similar device used for the purpose of transporting the unit from place to place, whether by motor power or other means, and such vehicles that are used as aforesaid that have had the wheels or equipment removed.
TRANSIENT LODGING: A rooming house or residence hall having one or more rooms occupied by separate families where less than seventy five percent (75%) of the families reside for more than thirty (30) days.
UNATTENDED VEHICLE: A vehicle parked for more than twenty four (24) hours in one location.
UNIT: A separate interest in real property in a condominium or townhouse ownership.
UNPLATTED AREA: Any area that has not been subdivided according to law.
USE: An activity or purpose for which land or premises or a building thereon is designed, arranged or intended, or for which it is occupied or maintained, let or leased.
VARIANCE: A modification of the requirements of this title.
VICINITY MAP: A drawing which sets forth by dimensions or other descriptive means the relationship of proposed developments, trafficways or other landmarks within the general area in order to better locate and orient the area in question.
WALL: The full width or length of a building, including recessed windows or doors.
YARD: An open space on a lot, unoccupied and unobstructed from the ground upward, except as otherwise provided in this title.
YARD, REAR: "Rear yard" means a yard extending between side lot lines across the rear of the lot and from the rear lot line to the rear of the principal building, excluding architectural projections.
YARD, SIDE: "Side yard" means a yard extending from the principal building to the side lot line on both sides of the principal building between the lines establishing the front and rear yards, excluding architectural projections. (Ord. 151, 8-14-1995; amd. 2011 Code; Ord. 132-A, 4-13-2015)
Notes
| 1 | 1. See also definition of "dog kennel" in section 5-3B-1 of this code. |