Abutting: Having a common lot line or district line. (Synonym for “adjacent” or “adjoining”.)
Access Way: A curb cut, ramp, driveway, or other means for providing vehicular access to an off-street parking or loading area.
Accessory Use: Any structure or use that is:
(A) Subordinate in size or purpose to the principal use or structure which it serves;
(B) Necessary or contributing to the comfort and convenience of the occupants of the principal use or structure served; and
(C) Located on the same lot as the principal use or structure served.
Administrator: The official appointed by the Mayor, with the advice and consent of the Village Board, or his representative, to administer this Code. (Synonymous with "Zoning Administrator" or “Zoning Officer”.)
Agriculture: Any one or any combination of the following: the growing of farm or truck garden crops, dairying, pasturage, horticulture, floriculture, or animal/poultry husbandry. The term "agriculture" encompasses the farmhouse, and accessory uses and structures customarily incidental to agricultural activities.
Aisle: A vehicular traffic-way within an off-street parking area, used as a means of access/egress from parking spaces.
Alley: A public right-of-way which affords a secondary means of vehicular access to abutting premises that front on a nearby street.
Alter: To change the size, shape, or use of a structure or the moving from one location to another.
Amendment: A change in the provisions of this Code {including the District Map), properly effected in accordance with State law and the procedures set forth herein.
Anchor: Any approved device to which a manufactured home is tied down to keep it firmly attached to the stand on which it is placed.
Attached: As applied to buildings, "attached" means having a common wall and/or a common roof.
Basement: A story having more than one-half (1/2) of its height below the average level of the adjoining ground.
Billboard: Any single- or double-faced sign displaying messages or advertising not associated with the premises on which the sign is located or to which it is affixed.
Bituminous Concrete: A mixture of petroleum by-products and gravel used for paving to form a smooth, permanent surface. It does not mean “oil and chip”.
Block: An area of land entirely bounded by streets, highways, barriers, or ways (except alleys, pedestrian ways or exterior boundaries of a subdivision unless the exterior boundary is a street, highway, or way) or bounded by a combination of streets, public parks, cemeteries, railroad rights-of-way, waterways, or corporate boundary lines.
Board of Appeals: The Zoning Board of Appeals of the Village.
Boarding House: A building other than a hotel or restaurant where meals are provided for compensation to three (3) or more persons, but not more than ten (10) who are not members of the keeper's family, but not open on a daily, overnight or per meal basis to transient guests.
Buffer Strip: An area of land undeveloped except for landscaping fences, etc., used to protect a use situated on one (1) lot from the deleterious effects of the use on the adjacent lot.
Building: Any covered structure permanently affixed to land and designed or used to shelter persons or chattels.
Building or Structure Height: The vertical distance measured from the average grade at the front wall of a building to the highest point of the coping of a flat roof or to the deck line of a mansard roof, or to the mean height level between eaves and ridge for gable, hip or gambrel roofs.
Building Line: The line nearest the front of and across a lot, delineating the minimum open space required between the front of a structure and the street right-of-way line.
Bulk: Any one or any combination of the following structural or site design characteristics:
(A) Size or height of structure;
(B) Location of exterior walls at all levels in relation to lot lines, streets, or other structures;
(C) Lot area;
(D) Yards or setbacks.
Centerline:
(A) The centerline of any right-of-way having a uniform width;
(B) The original centerline, where a right-of-way has been widened irregularly;
(C) The new centerline, whenever a road has been relocated.
Certificate of Zoning Compliance, Final: A permit issued by the Administrator indicating that a lot or newly completed structure or use complies with all pertinent requirements of this Code and therefore, may be occupied or used.
Certificate of Zoning Compliance, Initial: A permit issued by the Administrator indicating a proposed lot, structure, or use is in conformity with the requirements of this Code.
Clinic: A place used for the care, diagnosis and treatment of sick, ailing, infirm and injured persons, but who are not provided with room or board nor kept overnight on the premises.
Club/Lodge: A nonprofit association of persons who are bona fide members organized for some purpose(s) and paying regular dues and whose facilities are restricted to members and their guests; not including a group organized solely or primarily to render a service customarily carried on as a commercial enterprise.
Commercial Use/Establishment: Any use or establishment wherein goods are purchased or sold, whether to the consuming public (retail) or to other businesses (wholesale).
Conforming: In compliance with the applicable provisions of this Code.
Convenience/Gasoline Service Station: A building or premises or portion thereof used for retail sales of gasoline, oil and accessories of motor vehicles, and general convenience service goods to include the retail sale of alcoholic beverages, not for consumption on the premises where it is sold.
Corrective Action Order: A legally binding order issued by the Administrator in accordance with the procedures set forth herein to effect compliance with this Code.
Day Care Center: An establishment for the part-time care and/or instruction at any time of day of four (4) or more unrelated children of pre-elementary or elementary school age.
Detached: As applied to buildings, "detached" means surrounded by yards on the same lot as the building.
Develop: To erect any structure or to install any improvements on a tract of land or to undertake any activity (such as grading) in preparation, therefore.
Dimensions: Refers to both lot depth and lot width.
District Zoning: A portion of the territory of the Village wherein certain uniform requirements or various combinations thereof apply to structures, lots and uses under the terms of this Code.
Driveway: A minor way commonly providing vehicular access to a garage or off-street parking area.
Drive-In Restaurant: An establishment principally used for the sale of fast order food. Fast order food means food that is:
(A) Primarily intended for immediate consumption;
(B) Available after a short waiting time; and
(C) Packaged or presented in such a manner that it can be readily eaten outside the premises where it is sold.
Dwelling: A building or portion thereof designed or used primarily as living quarters for one or more families, but not including hotels, motels, or other accommodations for the transient public.
Dwelling, Multiple-Family: A building or portion thereof containing three (3) or more dwelling units.
Dwelling, Single-Family: A dwelling containing one dwelling unit and intended for the occupancy of one family.
Dwelling, Two-Family: A dwelling containing two (2) dwelling units.
Dwelling Unit: Two (2) or more rooms designed or used as living quarters by one family. A "dwelling unit" always includes a bathroom and a kitchen.
Easement: A right to use another person's real property for certain limited purposes.
Enclosed: As applied to a building, “enclosed” means covered by a permanent roof and separated on all sides from adjacent open space or other buildings by fixed exterior walls or by common walls, with openings only for windows and doors.
Enlarge: To increase the size (floor area, height, etc.) of an existing principal structure or accessory use, or to devote more land to an existing use.
Erect: Build, construct.
Essential Governmental or Public Utility Services: The erection, construction, alteration, or maintenance by public utilities or governmental departments, or underground or overhead gas, electrical, steam, or water transmission or distribution systems, collection, communication, supply or disposal system, including poles, wires, mains, drains, sewers, pipes, conduits, cables, traffic signals, hydrants, and other similar equipment and accessories in connection therewith, reasonably necessary for the furnishing of adequate service by public utilities or the furnishing of adequate service by such public utilities or municipal departments or commissions or for the public health or safety or general welfare, but not including buildings.
Establishment: Either of the following:
(A) an institutional, business, commercial, or industrial activity that is the sole occupant of one or more buildings; or
(B) an institutional, business, commercial, or industrial activity that occupies a portion of a building such that:
(1) the activity is a logical and separate entity from the other activities with the building and not a department of the whole; and
(2) the activity has either a separate entrance from the exterior of the building or a separate entrance from a common and clearly defined entryway that has direct access to the exterior of the building.
Existing: Actually constructed or in operation on the effective date of this Code.
Family:
(A) A single individual doing his own cooking and living upon the premises as a separate dwelling or housekeeping unit; or
(B) A collective body of persons doing their own cooking and living together upon the premises as a separate housekeeping unit in a domestic relationship based upon birth, marriage, adoption or employment as domestic servants; or
(C) A group of not more than three (3) unrelated persons doing their own cooking and living together on the premises as a separate housekeeping unit pursuant to a mutual housekeeping agreement (not including a group occupying a boarding or rooming house, club, fraternity or hotel).
Floor Area, Gross: The sum of the gross horizontal areas of the several floors of a building, measured from the exterior faces of the exterior walls or from the center of the common walls of attached buildings. “Gross floor area” includes basement floors, attic floor space, halls, closets, stairwells, space devoted to mechanical equipment, and enclosed porches.
Freight Terminal: as applied to motor carriers subject to the Illinois Compiled Statutes, Chapter 625, Section 18c-1101 et seq., a station for commercial motor vehicles wherein said motor trucks are stored, repaired or parked.
Frontage: The lineal extent of the front (street-side) of a lot or establishment.
Garage, Private: A garage for four (4) or less passenger motor vehicles without provision for repairing or servicing such vehicle(s) for profit.
Greenhouse: (See “Nursery”.)
Hereafter: Any time after the effective date of this Code.
Home Occupation: Any business, profession, or occupation conducted for gain entirely within a dwelling or on residential premises in conformity with the provisions of this Code.
Intersection: The point at which two (2) or more public rights-of-way (generally, streets) meet.
Junk Yard: A tract of land, including any accessory structures thereon, that is used for buying, selling, exchanging, storing, baling, packing, disassembling, or handling waste or scrap materials. Such scrap materials include vehicles, machinery, and equipment not in operable condition (or parts thereof), and metals, glass, paper, plastics, rags, and rubber tires. (A lot on which one (1) or more inoperable or abandoned vehicles are stored shall be deemed a junk yard.) A junk yard includes an automobile wrecking yard. A junk yard includes automobile wrecking yards.
Kennel: Any structure or lot on which three (3) or more domesticated animals over four (4) months of age are kept.
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 tract of land intended as a unit for the purpose (whether immediate or future) of transfer of ownership or development. A "lot" may or may not coincide with a "lot of record".
Lot, Corner: A lot having at least two (2) adjacent sides that abut for their full length upon streets. Both such side lines shall be deemed front lot lines.
Lot, Through: A lot having a pair of approximately parallel lot lines that abut two (2) approximately parallel streets. Both such lot lines shall be deemed front lot lines.
Lot Area: The area of a horizontal plane bounded by the front, side, and rear lines of a lot. Application of the minimum lot width and minimum lot depth shall not be construed to satisfy minimum lot size.
Lot Coverage: The portion of a lot that is occupied by buildings or structures, including accessory buildings or structures.
Lot Depth: The average horizontal distance between the front lot line and the rear lot line of a lot.
Lot Line, Front: The lot line abutting the street right-of-way.
Lot Line, Rear: An interior lot line which is most distant from and most nearly parallel to the front lot line.
Lot Line, Side: Any lot line other than front or rear lot line. A side lot line separating a lot from a street is called a side street lot line. (A side lot line separating a lot from another lot or lots is called an interior side lot line.)
Lot of Record: An area of land designated as a lot on a plat of subdivision recorded with the County Recorder of Deeds in accordance with State law.
Lot Size Requirements: Refers to the lot area, width, and depth requirements of the applicable district.
Lot Width: The mean horizontal width of a lot measured at right angles to the side lot lines (at the building line).
Maintenance: The routine upkeep of a structure, premises or equipment including the replacement or modification of structural components to the extent necessary to keep said structure in sound condition.
Manufactured Home: A structure designed for permanent habitation and so constructed as to permit its transport on wheels, temporarily or permanently attached to its frame, from the place of its construction to the location or subsequent location at which it is intended to be a permanent habitation and designed to permit the occupancy thereof as a dwelling place for one (1) or more persons. The term “manufactured home” shall only include manufactured homes constructed after June 30, 1976, in accordance with the Federal “National Manufactured Housing Construction and Safety Standards Act of 1974”. Provided that any such structure resting on a permanent foundation with wheels, tongue and hitch permanently removed shall not be construed as a “manufactured home” but shall be an “immobilized manufactured home”. A manufactured home should not be confused with a “camping trailer” or “recreational vehicle”. (See 210 ILCS 115/2.10)
Manufactured Home, Dependent: A manufactured home which does not have a toilet and bath or shower facilities. (See 210 ILCS 115/2.3)
Manufactured Home, Double-Wide: Consists of two (2) mobile units joined at the site into a single home but kept on their separate chassis for repeated transportation to a site.
Manufactured Home, Immobilized: Any manufactured home resting on a permanent foundation with wheels, tongue, and hitch permanently removed. The Village Board establishes the following criteria to complete the immobilization of a manufactured home:
(A) The foundation shall extend into the ground below the frost line so as to attach and become a part of the real estate. Materials such as concrete, mortared concrete block, or mortared brick extending into the ground below the frost line shall satisfy the requirement for a permanent foundation.
(B) As an alternative to paragraph (A) above, piers may be used, extending into the ground below the frost line and sufficient in number to properly support the manufactured home.
(C) To complete the immobilization, wheels, tongue, and hitch must be removed. Axles may be removed.
Manufactured Home, Independent: A manufactured home which has self-contained toilet and bath or shower facilities. (See 210 ILCS 115/2.4)
Manufactured Home Lot: A parcel of land for the placement of a manufactured home and the exclusive use of its occupants.
Manufactured Home Module: A factory-fabricated building unit transported to a building site, mounted on a permanent foundation supporting the outside perimeter walls, and is designed for residential use.
Manufactured Home Pad: That part of an individual manufactured home space or lot beneath the manufactured home, including the concrete portion of the pad.
Manufactured Home Park: A tract of land or two (2) or more contiguous tracts of land upon which contain sites with the necessary utilities for two (2) or more independent manufactured homes for
permanent habitation either free of charge or for revenue purposes, and shall include any building, structure, vehicle, or enclosure used or intended for use as a part of the equipment of such manufactured home park. Separate ownership of contiguous tracts of land shall not preclude the tracts of land from common licensure as a manufactured home park if they are maintained and operated jointly. Neither an immobilized manufactured home nor a motorized recreational vehicle shall be construed as being a part of a manufactured home park. (See 210 ILCS 115/2.5)
Manufactured Home Sales Area: A parcel of land used for the display, sale and repair of new or used manufactured homes.
Manufactured Home Space: A portion of a manufactured home park designed for the use or occupancy of one (1) manufactured home.
Manufactured Home Stand: The part of a manufactured home space beneath the manufactured home that includes the concrete slab on which the home is placed and to which it is anchored.
Manufactured Housing Unit: Includes all forms of housing units listed in this Section and as regulated in this Code.
Mobile Home means a structure designed for permanent habitation and so constructed as to permit its transport on wheels, temporarily or permanently attached to its frame, from the place of its construction to the location or subsequent location at which it is intended to be a permanent habitation and designed to permit the occupancy thereof as a dwelling place for one (1) or more persons. The term “mobile home” shall only include homes constructed prior to June 30, 1976, not in accordance with the Federal “National Manufactured Housing Construction and Safety Standards Act of 1974”.
Mobile or Portable Marquee: A term used to describe any sign designed to be moved from place to place, including, but not limited to, signs attached to wood or metal frames designed to be self-supporting and movable; or paper, cardboard, or canvas signs wrapped around supporting poles.
Modular Home: A substantially constructed factory-fabricated building unit transported to a building site, mounted on a permanent foundation and designed for residential use as a “single-family dwelling” unit. “Modular home” shall not be construed to include “mobile homes”, “immobilized manufactured homes”, “manufactured housing” or “prefabricated housing”.
Motel or Motor Hotel: A series of attached, semi-attached or detached sleeping or living units for the accommodation of transient guests and not customarily including individual cooking or kitchen facilities; said units having convenient access to off-street parking spaces for the exclusive use of the guests or occupants.
Nonconforming: As applied to a lot, structure, or use, "nonconforming" means:
(1) lawfully existing on the effective date of this Code, but
(2) not in compliance with the applicable provisions thereof.
Nuisance: Any thing, condition, or conduct that endangers health, or unreasonably offends the senses or obstructs the free use of property or essentially interferes with the comfortable enjoyment of life or property. (See Chapter 25 of the Village Code)
Nursery: A tract of land on which trees, shrubs, and other plants are raised for transplanting and/or sale and including any structure in which said activities are conducted.
Nursery School or Day Care Center: An establishment for the part-time care and/or instruction at any time of day of four (4) or more unrelated children of pre-elementary or elementary school age.
Nursing Home: A building used as a medical care facility for persons who need nursing care and medical service, but do not require intensive hospital care.
Office: Any building or portion thereof in which the business (usually clerical and administrative affairs) of a commercial/service enterprise or professional person is transacted.
Official Map: The portion of the master plan which designates land necessary for public facilities or uses. It shall include streets, alleys, public ways, parks, playgrounds, school sites and other public grounds and ways for public service facilities within the whole area included within the official comprehensive plan. It can be one or more separate geographical or functional parts or include all or any part of the contiguous, unincorporated area under the planning jurisdiction of the Village.
Overlay District: A zoning district superimposed over one or more standard (primary) zoning districts or portions thereof for the purpose of controlling developmental problems caused by such factors as steep slopes, wet soils, flooding, etc.
Parking Area/Lot, Off-Street: Land that is improved in accordance with this Code and used primarily for the storage of passenger motor vehicles, free of charge or for compensation. An “off-street parking lot”, depending on the circumstances of its use, may be either a principal use or an accessory use.
Parking Lot – Commercial: Land that is improved in accordance with this Code and shall be limited to automobiles and trucks one (1) ton and under.
Parking Space, Off-Street: An area at least twenty (20) feet long and nine (9) feet wide within an off-street parking area or garage, used for the storage of one passenger motor vehicle. (Ord. No. 21- 01; 01-12-21)
Permanent Habitation: A period of two (2) or more months. (See 210 ILCS 115/2.2)
Person: Any individual, firm, association, organization, or corporate body.
Planned Development Project: A residential or commercial development on a parcel of land in single ownership and consisting of two (2) or more buildings having any yard, court, parking or loading space in common.
Premises: A lot and all the structures and uses thereon.
Principal Building/Structure/Use: The main structure erected on or the main use occupying a lot, as distinguished from an accessory (subordinate) structure or use.
Professional Office: An office (other than a service office and other than an office for care and/or treatment of or medical attention to, animals as distinguished from persons) for the practice of professions, such as the offices of physicians, dentists, attorneys-at-law, architects, or engineers qualified to perform services of a professional nature, or the offices of a governmental agency; and where there is no storage, sale or display of merchandise on the premises.
Property Line: See “Lot Line”.
Public Buildings: Any building owned, operated, constructed or maintained at the expense of the public or a building which provides a service or function necessary for the general health, welfare, and convenience of the public.
Public Open Space: Any publicly owned open area, including, but not limited to the following: Parks, playgrounds, forest preserves, beaches, waterways, parkways and streets.
Public Utilities: Utilities which are either government-owned or owned by an established firm serving a wide geographical area and/or a substantial number of persons.
Quick Shop: Any small retail commercial or service establishment offering goods/services primarily to the residents of a particular multi-family complex, manufactured home park or similar development. No liquor or gasoline shall be sold in this shop.
Reconstruct: As applied to nonconforming structures, "reconstruct" means to rebuild after damage or destruction.
Recreational Vehicle: A term encompassing any type of vehicle used primarily for pleasure, such as travel trailers, motor homes, boats, snowmobiles, etc.
Refuse: Garbage (food wastes) and trash, but not sewage or industrial wastes.
Relocate: To move to another portion of a lot or to a different lot.
Repair: To restore to sound condition, but not to reconstruct.
Restrictive: Tending to keep within prescribed limits.
Retail: Refers to the sale of goods or services directly to the consumer rather than to another business.
Right-of-Way, Public: A strip of land which the owner/subdivider has dedicated to the Village or to another unit of government for streets and alleys.
Roof Line: A horizontal line parallel to the average ground level of a building along the front thereof, which line delineates the highest point of a flat roof; or where the flat surface area of a gable, hip, mansard, or gambrel roof is in view from the ground level, the line of demarcation between the flat surface and the vertically structured façade; or the line along the front of a building delineating the roof line between eaves and ridge for gable, hip, and gambrel roofs.
Screening: Trees, shrubs, walls, solid fences, etc. used as a means of view and noise control.
Semi-Finished Materials: Materials which have been sufficiently processed at heavy industrial facilities so that they are no longer in their raw state but are readily usable by light industry for assembly or manufacture into consumer goods.
Service Building: A structure within a manufactured home park or travel trailer park that contains toilet facilities, clothes washers and dryers and in some instances, a convenience store.
Service Station: A building and premises or portion thereof designed and used for the retail sale of gasoline or other automotive fuel, oil, and automotive parts, supplies, and accessories. A service station may include facilities for washing vehicles and for making minor automotive repairs.
Service Use/Establishment: Any use or establishment where services are provided for remuneration either to individuals or to other firms.
Setback: The horizontal distance from the lot line in question to the side of the structure facing that lot line or to the edge of the area of operation of the principal use (in the case of a use which does not involve a structure).
Sewage Treatment Plant, Private: Any properly constructed disposal system intended for the treatment of wastewater from more than one (1) residence and/or building unit.
Sign: Any object, device, display, or structure or part thereof used to advertise, identify, display, or attract attention to a person, establishment, product, service, or event by any means including words, letters, figures, designs, symbols, fixtures, colors, illuminations, etc. The term “sign” includes, but is not limited to, every projecting sign, freestanding sign, awning, canopy, marquee sign; changeable copy sign, illuminated sign; moving sign, temporary sign; portable sign; or other display whether affixed to a building or erected elsewhere on the premises. The term “sign” excludes features of a building which are an integral part of the building’s design (e.g., the “castle-look” of a White Castle restaurant).
Sign, Canopy/Marquee: Any sign affixed to, painted on, or suspended from an awning, canopy, marquee, or similar overhang.
Sign, Flush-Mounted: Any sign attached to or erected against a wall of a structure with the exposed face of the sign in a plane approximately parallel to the plane of the wall and not projecting more than eighteen (18) inches. A flush-mounted sign displays only messages associated with the building to which said sign is attached.
Sign, Freestanding: Any sign supported by one (1) or more uprights, poles, or braces placed in or upon the ground; or any sign supported by any structure erected primarily for the display and support of the sign; provided that a freestanding sign displays only messages associated with the structure to which it is attached.
Sign, Projecting: Any sign which is suspended from or supported by a wall, awning, canopy, marquee, etc., and which is approximately perpendicular thereto. A projecting sign displays only messages associated with the structure to which it is attached.
Sign Area: The entire area within a single, continuous perimeter enclosing the extreme limits of the message and the background thereof, calculated in accordance with the provisions of this Code.
Sign Area Allowance: The maximum total sign area of all signs that an establishment is permitted to display.
Skirting: The covering affixed to the bottom of the exterior walls of a manufactured home to conceal the underside thereof.
Special Use: A use that has unusual operational, physical, or other characteristics which distinguish it from the permitted uses of a district, but which can be made compatible with the intended overall development within a district. Special uses commonly must meet special standards not necessarily applicable to permitted uses in the district and are allowed only by permit.
Special-Use Permit: A permit issued in accordance with the provisions of this Code to regulate development of a special use.
Stop Order: A type of corrective action order used by the Administrator to halt work in progress that is in violation of this Code.
Street: A public or private way for motor vehicle travel. The term "street" includes a highway, thoroughfare, parkway, through way, road, pike, avenue, boulevard, lane, place, drive, court, and similar designations, but excludes an alley or a way for pedestrian use only.
Street, Private: Any street providing access to abutting property that is not maintained by and dedicated to the Municipality or other public entity.
Stringent: Binding and/or exacting.
Structure: Anything constructed or erected on the ground or attached to something having fixed location on the ground. All buildings are structures, but not all structures are buildings.
Topography: The relief features or surface configuration of an area.
Use: The purpose or activity for which land or a structure thereon is designed, arranged, intended, occupied, or maintained.
Use Variance: A type of amendment (not a variance) that allows a use in a district where said use would not be allowed under existing provisions of this Code.
Utility Substation: A secondary utility facility such as an electrical substation, gas regulator station, telephone exchange facility, sewage treatment plant, etc.
Vacant as applied to a lot, means that no structure is situated thereon.
Variance: A relaxation of the strict application of the lot size, setbacks, or other bulk requirements applicable to a particular lot or structure.
Village: Either the territory or the local government of the Village.
Wholesale: Refers to the sale of goods or services by one business to another business.
Window Sign: Any sign visible from the exterior of a building or structure which is painted directly on the surface of a window or affixed to or suspended immediately behind the window for the purpose of informing passersby of the identity of the proprietor or business, or of the product or service which can be obtained on the premises.
Yard: Open space that is unobstructed, except as specifically permitted in this Code and that is located on the same lot as the principal building.
Yard, Front: A yard, which is bounded by the side lot lines, front lot line, and the building line.
Yard, Rear: A yard which is bounded by side lot lines, rear lot lines and the rear yard line.
Yard, Side: A yard, which is bounded by the rear yard line, front yard line, side yard line, and side lot line.
Yard Line: A line in a lot that is generally parallel to the lot line along which the yard in question extends and which is not nearer to such lot line at any point than the required depth or width of said yard.
Zoning Administrator; Zoning Official or Zoning Officer: The Zoning Administrator of the Village or his authorized representative.
Zoning Map: The map(s) and any amendments thereto designating zoning districts and incorporated into this Code by reference.