For the purpose of this chapter, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
ACCESSORY USE OR STRUCTURE. A subordinate use or structure on the same lot with and of a nature customarily incidental and subordinate to, the principal use or structure.
APARTMENT. A room or suite of rooms which is designed for, intended for or occupied by one family and equipped with cooking facilities.
BLOCK. Property abutting on one side of a street and lying between the two nearest intersecting or intercepting streets or unplatted acreage.
BOARDING AND LODGING HOUSES. A building or a portion thereof where lodging is offered for compensation in one or more sleeping rooms. This specifically includes ‘’bed and breakfast’‘ establishments.
BUILDING, MAIN. A building in which is conducted the principal use of the lot upon which it is situated.
COURT. An open, unoccupied space bound on two or more sides by the exterior walls of a building or buildings on the same lot.
DWELLING. A building used exclusively for occupancy by one family.
DWELLING, ONE-FAMILY. A building used exclusively for occupancy by one family.
DWELLING, TWO-FAMILY. A building used exclusively for occupancy by two families living independently of each other.
DWELLING, MULTIPLE. A building or portion thereof used for occupancy by three or more families living independently of each other.
DWELLING UNIT. A dwelling or portion of a dwelling or of an apartment hotel used by one family for cooking, living and sleeping.
FAMILY. One or more persons occupying a premises and living as a single, non-profit housekeeping unit, as distinguished from a group occupying a hotel, club, fraternity or sorority house. A FAMILY includes necessary servants.
GARAGE, PRIVATE. An accessory building for the storage of self-propelled vehicles only.
GARAGE, PUBLIC. Any premises, except those herein defined as a private garage, used for the storage or care of self-propelled vehicles or where any such vehicles are equipped for operation or repair, or kept for remuneration, hire or sale.
HEIGHT OF BUILDING. The vertical distance from the average level of the highest point of the roof for flat roofs; to the deck line of mansard roofs; and to the mean height between eaves and ridge for gable, hip and gambrel roofs.
HOME OCCUPATION. Any use customarily conducted entirely within a dwelling by the occupants only, which use is clearly incidental and secondary to the use of the dwelling for dwelling purposes and does not change the character thereof. Clinics, hospital, barber shops, beauty parlors and animal hospitals are not HOME OCCUPATIONS.
HOTEL. Any building or portion thereof where lodging is offered to transient guests for compensation and in which there are more that five sleeping rooms with no cooking facilities in an individual room or apartment.
JUNK YARD. Land or building used for the storage or keeping of junk, including scrap metals, or for the dismantling or “wrecking” of automobiles or other vehicles or machinery, other than the storage of materials which is incidental or accessory to any business or industrial use on the same lot.
LOT. Land occupied by a building and its accessory buildings, together with such open spaces as are required under the provisions of this chapter, having not less than the minimum are required by this chapter for a building frontage on a street.
LOT, CORNER. A lot situated at the intercession of two or more streets, or bounded on two or more adjacent sides by street lines.
LOT, INTERIOR. A lot other than a corner lot.
LOT, KEY. The first lot to the rear of a corner lot, the front line of which is continuation of the side line of the corner lot, exclusive of the width of any alley, and fronting on the street on which the corner lot fronts.
MANUFACTURED HOME. A structure, transportable in one or more sections, which in the traveling mode, is eight body feet or more in width or 40 body feet or more in length or, when erected on site, is 230 or more square feet, and which is built on a permanent chassis and designed to be used as a dwelling with or without a permanent foundation when connected to the required utilities, and includes the plumbing, heating, air conditioning and electrical systems contained therein.
MANUFACTURED HOME PARK. Any site, lot, field or tract of land upon which two or more occupied manufactured homes are located, either free of charge or for compensation, and includes any building, structure, tent vehicle and enclosure used or intended for use as part of the equipment of the manufactured home park. The park must be owned by a person, firm or corporation and duly licensed by the state’s Department of Health in accordance with state law.
NON-CONFORMING USE. A use lawfully in existence on the effective date of this chapter and not conforming to the regulations for the district in which it is situated; except that, such a use is not non-conforming if it would be authorized under special use permit where located.
RECREATIONAL CAMPING VEHICLE. Any of the following:
(1) CAMPING TRAILER. A folding structure, mounted on wheel sand designed for travel, recreation, and vacation use.
(2) MOTOR HOME. A portable temporary dwelling to be used for travel, recreation and vacation, constructed as an integral part of a self-propelled vehicle.
(3) PICK-UP COACH. A structure designed to be mounded on a truck chassis for use as a temporary dwelling for travel, recreation and vacation.
(4) TRAVEL TRAILER. A vehicular, portable structure built on a chassis, designed to be used as a temporary dwelling for travel, recreational and vacation uses, permanently identified as a ‘’travel trailer’‘ by the manufacturer.
RECREATIONAL CAMPING AREA. Any area, whether privately or publicly owned, used on a daily, nightly, weekly or longer basis for trailers, pick-up coaches, motor homes or camping trailers and whether use of such accommodation is granted free of charge or for compensation; provided that, nothing in this definition shall be constructed to include children’s camps, industrial camps, migrant labor camps, as defined in state statutes and State Board of Health regulations and also shall not include United States Forest Service Camps, state forest service camps, state wildlife management areas of state-owned private access areas which are restricted to use to picnicking the boat landing.
STORY. The portion of a building included between the surface of any floor and the surface of the next floor and the ceiling next above it.
STORY, HALF. The portion of a building under a gable, hip gambrel roof the wall plates of which, on at least two opposite exterior walls, are not more that two feet above the floor of such story.
STRUCTURAL ALTERATIONS. Any change in the supporting members of a building such as bearing walls, columns, beams or girders.
STRUCTURE. Anything constructed or erected, thus use of which requires location on the ground or attachment to something having location on the ground.
SWIMMING POOL. Any permanent or semi-permanent structure built either into the ground or on its surface for the purpose of containing a large amount of water to be used for recreational wading or swimming. It does not mean a collapsible wading pool intended of use by small children.
USE. The purpose for which land or premises or a building thereon is designed, arranged or intended of for which it is or may be occupied or maintained.
USE, ACCESSORY. A use incidental and accessory to the principal use of a lot or a building located on the same lot as the necessary use.
YARD. An open space other than a court on the same lot with a building, which open space is unoccupied and unobstructed from the ground upward, except as otherwise provided in Part VIII of this chapter. In measuring a YARD, the line of a building means a line parallel to the nearest lot line drawn through the point of a building or the point of a dwelling group nearest to such lot line, exclusive of the respective architectural features enumerated in Part VIII of this chapter as not to be considered in measuring yard dimensions or as being permitted to extend into any front, side or rear yard, respectively; and the measurement shall be taken from the line of the building to the nearest lot line.
YARD, FRONT. A yard extending across the front of the lot between the inner side yard lines and lying between the front line of the lot and the nearest line of the building.
YARD, REAR. A yard extending across the full width of the lot and lying between the rear line of the lot and the nearest line of the building.
YARD, SIDE. A yard between the side line of the lot and the nearest line of the building and extending from the front line of the lot to the rear yard.