For the purpose of this chapter, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning. Words used in the present tense include the future tense. The singular number includes the plural. The word “person” includes a corporation as well as an individual. The word “lot” includes the word “plot” or “parcel.” The term “shall” is always mandatory. The word “used” or “occupied” as applied to any land or building shall be construed to include the words “intended, arranged or designed to be used or occupied.”
ACCESSORY USE OR BUILDING. A use customarily incidental and subordinate to the principal use or building and located on the same lot with such principal use or building.
ALTERATIONS. As applied to a building or structure, is a change or rearrangement in the structural parts or in the exit facilities; or an enlargement whether by extending on a side or by increasing height; or the moving from one location or position to another.
BUILDING. A structure designed, built or occupied as a shelter or roofed enclosure for persons, animals or property, including tents, lunch wagons, dining cars, camp cars, trailers and other roofed structures on wheels or other supports used for residential, business, mercantile, storage, commercial, industrial, institutional, assembly, educational or recreational purposes. For the purposes of this definition, “roof” shall include an awning or other similar covering, whether or not permanent in nature.
BUILDING, FRONT LINE OF. The line of that face of the building nearest the front line of the lot. This face includes sun parlors and covered porches whether enclosed or unenclosed but does not include steps.
BUILDING PRINCIPAL. A building in which is conducted the main or principal use of the lot on which said building is situated.
BULK. Signifies the size of building in terms of floor area and floor area ratio, the location of building wall in relation to lot lines and to the exterior walls of other buildings, and the yards, front, side and rear required under the terms of this chapter.
COVERAGE. The percentage of the plot or lot area covered by the building area.
DWELLING, SINGLE-FAMILY. A building used as a residence exclusively by one family.
DWELLING, TWO-FAMILY. A building used as a residence exclusively by two families.
DWELLING, MULTIPLE. A building used as a residence for more than two families living independently of each other and doing their own cooking therein, including apartment houses, apartment hotels, group houses and row houses.
DWELLING UNIT. A dwelling or portion thereof providing complete living facilities for one family.
FAMILY. A group of one or more persons occupying a premises and living as a single housekeeping unit, whether or not unrelated to each other by birth, adoption or marriage, but no unrelated group shall consist of more than five persons, as distinguished from a group occupying a boarding or lodging house or hotel, as herein defined.
FILLING STATION. Any building or premises used for the dispensing, sale or offering for sale at retail of any automobile fuel or oils. When the dispensing, sale or offering for sale is incidental to the conduct of a public garage, the premises are classified as public garage.
FLOOR AREA, GROSS.
(1) For the purpose of determining floor area ratio, the GROSS FLOOR AREA of a building or buildings shall be the sum of the gross horizontal areas of the several floors of such building or buildings measured from the exterior faces of exterior walls or from the centerline of party walls separating two buildings.
(2) In particular, GROSS FLOOR AREA shall include:
(a) Basement space if at least one-half of the basement story height is above the average level of the finished grade;
(b) Elevator shafts and stairwells at each floor;
(c) Attic floor space provided there is structural headroom of more than seven and one-half feet;
(d) Interior balconies and mezzanines;
(e) Enclosed porches; and
(f) Accessory uses other than floor space devoted exclusively to accessory off-street parking or loading.
(3) GROSS FLOOR AREA, for the purposes of determining floor area ratio, however, shall not include:
(a) Floor space devoted exclusively to accessory off-street parking or loading;
(b) Basement space where more than one-half the basement story height is below the average level of the finished grade;
(c) Elevator and stair bulkheads, water tanks and cooling towers;
(d) Attic floor space where structural headroom is seven and one-half feet or less;
(e) Floor space used for mechanical equipment where structural headroom is seven and one-half feet or less; or
(f) Terraces, breezeways and open porches.
FLOOR AREA RATIO (FAR). The numerical value obtained through dividing the gross floor area of a building or buildings by the total area of the lot or parcel of land on which such building or buildings are located.
GARAGE, PRIVATE. An accessory building housing not more than four motor vehicles, not more than one of which may be commercial vehicle of not more than one and one-half tons capacity, for the use of the occupants of the lot on which the private garage is located, or for others pursuant to previous arrangement and not to transients, and at which automobile fuels and oils are not sold, and motor vehicles are not equipped, repaired, hired or sold.
GARAGE PUBLIC. An garage or other than a private garage, available to the public, operated for gain, and which is used for storage, repair, rental, greasing, washing servicing, adjusting, selling or equipping of automobiles or other motor vehicles.
LOT. A portion or parcel of land considered as a unit, devoted to a certain use or occupied by a building or a group of buildings that are united by a common interest or use, and the customary accessories and open spaces belonging to the same.
MOTEL. A building or a group of detached, semi-detached or attached buildings containing guest rooms or dwelling units each of which, or each pair of which, has a separate entrance leading directly from the outside of the. building, with garage or parking space conveniently located to each unit, and which is designed, used or intended to be used primarily for the accommodation of motor vehicle transients. MOTELS do not include hotels, boarding houses or trailer camps.
NONCONFORMING STRUCTURE. A structure lawfully existing at the time of adoption of this chapter, or any amendment thereto, and which does not conform with the regulations of the district in which is located.
NONCONFORMING USE. A use which lawfully occupied a structure or land at the time of adoption of this chapter, or any amendment thereto, and which does not conform with the regulations of the district in which it is located. For the purpose of this chapter, any use lawfully established on the effective date of this chapter, which is nonconforming solely by virtue of lacking off-street parking or loading facilities as required hereafter for new uses, shall not deemed a NONCONFORMING USE.
PARKING SPACE. An all-weather surfaced area within the lot lines, enclosed in the main building, in an accessory building, or unenclosed, sufficient in size to store one standard automobile, and if the space is enclosed comprising an area of not less than 140 square feet; if enclosed, at least 20 feet by ten feet, with an all-weather surface permitting satisfactory ingress and egress of an automobile.
RESIDENCE DISTRICT OR ZONE. Any one or all of the R-1, R-2, R-2A, R-3 and R-4 Districts.
SATELLITE EARTH STATION (SATELLITE DISH). Dish-shaped antennas designed to receive television broadcasts relayed by microwave signals from earth orbiting communications satellites.
STREET. A public or private thoroughfare which affords the principal means of access to abutting property.
STRUCTURE. A combination of materials, other than a building, to form a construction that is safe and stable and includes among other things stadiums, platforms, radio towers, sheds, storage bins, fences and display signs.
TRAILER COACH, MOBILE HOME. Any enclosure or vehicle used for living sleeping, business or storage purposes, having no foundation other than wheels, blocks, skids, jacks, horses or skirting, and which is, has been or reasonably may be equipped with wheels or other devices for transporting it from place to place.
TRAILER COURT. The premises upon which one or more occupied trailer coaches is located.
YARD, FRONT. An open unoccupied space on the same lot with a main building, extending the full width of the lot and situated between the street line and the front line of the building projected to the side lines of the lot. The depth of the FRONT YARD shall be measured between the front line of the building and street line. Covered porches, whether enclosed or unenclosed, shall be considered as a part of the main building and shall not project into a required FRONT YARD.
YARD, REAR. An open unoccupied space on the same lot with a main building, extending the full width of the lot and situated between the rear line of the lot and the rear line of the building projected to the side lines of the lot, or the centerline of alley, if there be an alley, and the rear line of the building.
YARD, SIDE. An open unoccupied space on the same lot with a main building situated between the side line of the building and the adjacent side line of the lot and extending from the rear line of the front yard to the front line of the rear yard. If no front yard is required, the front boundary of the SIDE YARD shall be the front line of the lot, and if no rear yard is required, the rear boundary of the SIDE YARD shall be the rear line of the lot.
(Ord. passed 2-25-1960; Ord. passed 9-9-1985)