For the purpose of this article, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
ACCESSORY USE or BUILDING. A subordinate building or portion of the main building, the use of which customarily is incidental to that of the main building or to the main use of the premises.
APPROVED PUBLIC SANITARY SEWER SYSTEM. A sewage disposal plant, main sanitary sewer lines and other lines approved by the City Council, and by the Kansas State Department of Health.
APPROVED PUBLIC WATER SYSTEM. Water service lines approved by the City Council of Hill City, Kansas, and by the Kansas State Department of Health.
BUILDING INSPECTOR. The City Administrator or his or her designated agent.
LOT or PLOT. A parcel of land occupied or intended for occupancy) by one main building, together with its accessory building, including the open paces required by this article. A LOT or PLOT may include more than one platted lot.
LOT, CORNER. A lot as defined above, abutting upon two or more streets at their intersection.
LOT, DEPTH OF. The mean horizontal distance between the front and the rear lot lines.
LOT, DOUBLE FRONTAGE. A lot having a frontage on two non-intersecting streets as distinguished from a corner lot.
LOT OF RECORD. A lot which is a part of a subdivision, the map of which has been recorded in the office of the Register of Deeds, or a lot described by metes and bounds, the description of which has been recorded in the office of the Register of Deeds.
MOBILE HOME (TRAILER HOUSE). A movable, detached single-family dwelling unit which has a width of not less than ten feet and a length more than 40 feet, and which requires a special permit for highway transportation with all of the following characteristics:
(1) Designed for a long term occupancy and containing accommodations, a flush toilet, a tub or shower bath, kitchen facilities and having plumbing and electrical connections provided for attachment to public utilities;
(2) Designed and constructed on a chassis that is capable of being transported after fabrication on its own wheels (or detached wheels); and
(3) Arrived at the site where it is to be occupied as a dwelling, complete and ready for occupancy except for minor and incidental unpacking and assembly operations, location on supports, connection to utilities and the like.
MOBILE HOME LOT. A tract of land designated for accommodation of one trailer house, which provides service facilities for water, sewage and electricity, which has a minimum area of 3,750 square feet and which has dimensions that would permit compliance to all setback provisions of the laws of the city, pertaining to residential housing and is designated or zoned for use by a single mobile home placed on a permanent foundation and which is owned by the owner of the mobile home.
MOBILE HOME PARK. Any park, court, camp, lot, area, piece, parcel, tract or plot of ground upon which mobile homes are used, whether for compensation or not, including all accessory use thereof.
MOBILE HOME SPACE. A tract within a mobile home park which is intended for use by a single mobile home.
MODULAR HOME. A dwelling structure located on a permanent foundation and permanently connected to public utilities, consisting of preselected, prefabricated units or modules, and transported to and/or assembled on the site of its permanent foundation; in contradistinction to a dwelling structure which is custom-built on the site of its permanent location; and also in contradistinction to a mobile home, either single-wide, double-wide or multiple width, located on a permanent foundation and permanently connected to public utilities; and further, that it conforms to the present City Building, Housing, Electrical and Plumbing Codes. Such conformity may be either to the adopted codes of the city or by reciprocal conformity agreement between the Building Inspector of the city and a similar municipal official who inspects and approves the modular home at the place of its manufacture, according to a previously and mutually agreed set of standards.
OFF- STREET PARKING SPACE. An area adjacent to, but off of the street right-of-way or private roadway surfaced for the purpose of storing one parked automobile. For the purpose of this article, one parking space shall have a minimum width of nine feet and a minimum length of 20 feet. Additional space shall be required off-street for access drives to each parking space.
PUBLIC UTILITY. Any business which furnishes the general public telephone service, telegraph service, electricity, natural gas or water and any other business so affecting the public interest as to be subject to the supervision or regulation by an agency of the State of Kansas.
SETBACK. The distance between the lot line and the building line as required by the zoning ordinance or the fire code of the city.
STRUCTURE. Anything constructed or erected, the use of which requires permanent location on the ground or attachment to something having a permanent location on the ground, but not including fences.
TRAVEL TRAILER or HOUSE TRAILER. A vehicular, portable dwelling unit designed especially for short term occupancy (one month or less), such as, travel trailers, campers, converted buses and similar units whether self-propelled, pulled or hauled and/or designed primarily for highway travel without a special permit; and/or does not comply with the requirements of the minimum Housing Code as a dwelling unit.
YARD. A space on the same lot with a main building, open, unoccupied and unobstructed by buildings or structures from the ground upward.
YARD, FRONT. A yard extending across the full width of the lot, the depth of which is the least distance between the street right-of-way and the front building line. On corner lots (lots abutting two or more streets at the intersection of those streets), the FRONT YARD shall face the shortest street dimension of the lot.
YARD, REAR. A yard extending across the full width of the lot between the rear of the main building and the rear lot line, the depth of which is the least distance between the rear lot line and the rear of such main building. Where an alley is platted at the rear of the lots, one-half of the width of the alley may be included in the REAR YARD requirements.
YARD, SIDE. A yard between the main building and the side lot line, extending from the front yard, or front lot line where no front yard is required, to the rear yard. The width of the required side yard shall be measured horizontally, at 90 degrees with the side lot line, from the nearest point of the side lot line toward the nearest part of the main building.
ZONE or DISTRICT. An area of Hill City for which uniform regulations governing the use, height, area, size and intensity of use of buildings, land and open spaces about buildings are established.
ZONING ORDINANCE. The zoning requirements approved by ordinances for the city.
(1987 Code, § 4-1002)