As used in this chapter the masculine line includes the feminine and neuter and the singular includes the plural. The following words and phrases, unless the context otherwise requires, shall have the meanings set forth in this chapter.
Accessory Structure or Use: means a structure or use incidental and subordinate to the main use of the property which is located on the same lot with the main use and contributes to the comfort or convenience of persons occupying the property.
Alley: means a narrow street through or partially through a block primarily for vehicular service access to the back or side of properties otherwise abutting on another street.
Apartment House: see dwelling, multifamily, § 13.06.080.
Attached Single Family Dwelling: means two separate occupied living spaces attached by a common wall with separate lot lines and yards.
Boarding, Lodging or Rooming House: means a building where lodging with or without meals is provided for compensation.
Building: means a structure built for the support, shelter or enclosure of persons, animals, chattels or property of any kind but excluding driveways, walks, and similar slab construction not exceeding the surrounding ground level by six inches.
City: means the City of King Cove.
Commission: means the planning and zoning commission of the City of King Cove.
Duplex: means a building designed or used exclusively for the occupancy of two families living independently of each other and having separate housekeeping facilities for each family.
Dwelling Unit: means one or more rooms designed for occupancy by one family and not having more than one cooking facility.
Family: means an individual, or two or more persons related by blood, marriage, legal adoption, or guardianship living together in a dwelling unit.
Fence, Sight-Obscuring: means a fence or evergreen planting arranged in such a way as to obstruct vision.
Floor Area: means the area included in surrounding walls of a building or portion thereof, exclusive of vents, shafts and courts.
Garage, Private: means an accessory building or portion of a main building used for the parking or temporary storage of vehicles owned or used by occupants of the main building.
Garage, Public: means a building other than a private garage used for the care and repair of motor vehicles or where such vehicles are parked or stored for compensation, hire or sale.
Grade (Ground Level): means the average of the finished ground level at the center of all walls of the building. In case a wall is parallel to and within five feet of a boardwalk, the ground level shall be measured at the boardwalk.
Height of Building: means the vertical distance from the "grade" to the highest point of a building.
Home Occupation: means a lawful activity commonly carried on within a dwelling by members of the family occupying the dwelling with no servant, employee or other persons being engaged, provided that:
1. The residence character of the building is maintained;
2. The activity occupies less than one-quarter of the ground floor area of the main building;
3. The activity is conducted in such a manner as not to give an outward appearance nor manifest any characteristic of a business in the ordinary meaning of the term nor infringe upon the right of neighboring residents to enjoy the peaceful occupancy of their homes.
Hotel and Motel: means a building or buildings in which lodging is provided for guests for compensation and in which provisions are made for cooking in motel rooms only.
Lot: means a recorded parcel or tract of land.
Lot Area: means the total horizontal area within the lot lines of a lot.
Lot, Corner: means a lot abutting on two intersecting streets other than an alley.
Lot Coverage: means that portion of a lot covered by buildings and/or accessory structures.
Lot Depth: means the horizontal distance from the midpoint of the front lot line to the midpoint of the rear lot line.
Lot, Interior: means a lot other than a corner lot.
Lot Line, Front: means the lot line or lines the lot from any street or streets other than an alley.
Lot Line, Rear: means a lot line which is opposite and most distant from the front lot line, and in the case of an irregular, triangular or other shaped lot line 10 feet in length within the lot parallel to and at a maximum distance from the front lot line.
Lot Line, Side: means any lot line intersecting or connecting with front or rear lot lines.
Lot Width: means the horizontal distance between the side lot lines, ordinarily measured parallel to the front lot line.
Mezzanine or Mezzanine Floor: means an intermediate floor in any story or room. When the total area of any such "mezzanine floor" exceeds 33 1/3 percent of the total floor area in that room, it constitutes an additional "story". The clear height above or below a "mezzanine floor" construction shall be not less than seven feet.
Mobile Home (Manufactured or Trailer Dwelling): means a dwelling unit on wheels or self sustained means of mobility with cooking and other living space within for continuous occupancy.
Motel or Auto Court: means a building or group of buildings on the same lot containing guest units with separate entrances from the building exterior and consisting of individual sleeping quarters, detached or in connected rows, with or without cooking facilities, for rental to transients.
Multifamily Dwelling: means a building containing three or more dwelling units.
Nonconforming Structure or Use: means a lawfully existing structure or use at the time this title or any amendment thereto becomes effective which does not conform to the requirements of the zone in which it is located.
Open Space: means a portion of a tract of land or lands identified on the "official map" requiring restricted permitted use as defined in § 13.06.120 of this code.
Parking Space: means a space adequate in size to allow safe maneuvering and access for standard American vehicles to park within.
Person: means every natural person, firm, partnership, association or corporation.
Setback or Yard: means an open space on a lot which is unobstructed from the ground upward except as otherwise provided in this title.
Setback, Front Yard: means a setback or yard abutting any street other than an alley and measured horizontally at right angles to the front lot line from the front lot line to the nearest point of the building.
Setback, Rear Yard: means a setback or yard abutting the rear lot line and measured horizontally at right angles to the rear lot line from the rear lot line to the nearest point of the main building.
Setback, Side Yard: means a setback or yard between the front and rear yard measured horizontally and at right angles to the side lot line from the side lot line to the nearest point of the main building.
Sign: means a presentation or representation, other than a house number, by words, letters, figures, designs, pictures or colors publicly displayed so as to give notice relative to a person, a business, an article or merchandise, a service, an assemblage, a solicitation or a request for aid, or other type of advertising. This includes the surface upon which the presentation or representation is displayed. Each display surface for a sign shall be considered to be a sign.
Single Family Dwelling: means a detached building containing one dwelling unit.
Story: means any portion of a building lying between two floors or between the floor and ceiling of the highest usable level in the building.
Story, Half-: means a story with at least two opposite exterior sides meeting a sloping roof not more than five feet above the floor of such a story and not designed for human habitation.
Street: means the entire width between the boundary lines of every way which provides for public use for the purpose of vehicular and pedestrian traffic and the placement of utilities and includes "road", "highway", "lane", "place", "avenue", "alley" or other similar designations.
Structural Alteration: means a change to the supporting members of a structure, including foundations, bearing walls or partitions, columns, beams, girders or the roof.
Trailer Coach: means a building or vehicle originally designed or presently constructed to be used as a human dwelling or lodging place and to be movable from place to place over streets.
Trailer or Mobile Home Park: means a plot of ground upon which one or more trailer coaches occupied for dwelling or sleeping purposes are located, regardless of whether a charge is made for such accommodation.
Use: means the purpose for which land or a structure is designed, arranged, or intended or for which it is occupied or maintained.
Vehicular Access: means an improved roadway, either public or private providing automobile entrance and/or exit from a public street approved and accepted for public maintenance into private property.
Vehicular Egress: means an improved roadway, either public or private, providing automobile exit on private property into a public street approved and accepted for public maintenance.
Vision Clearance Area: means a triangular area on a lot at the intersection of two streets or a street and another right-of- way, two sides of which are lot lines measured from the corner intersection of the lot lines for a distance specified in these regulations. The third side of the triangle is a line across the corner of the lot joining the ends of the other two sides. Where the lot lines at intersections have rounded corners, the lot lines will be extended in a straight line to a point of intersection. The vision clearance area contains no planting, wall, structures or temporary or permanent obstructions exceeding three feet in height, except occasional tree trunks or poles. The vision clearance area shall be measured from the grade or from the center line street grade and extend upward 10 feet.
Yard: see setback or yard.
Ord. 81-09 (part), 1981)