(1) "Accessory use or structure" means a use or structure on the same lot with, and of a nature customarily incidental and subordinate to, the principal use or structure.
(2) "Agriculture" means the use of land for farming, dairying, pasturage, agriculture, horticulture, floriculture, viticulture and animal and poultry husbandry and the necessary uses for packing, treating or storing the produce, provided, however, that:
A. The operation of any such accessory uses shall be secondary to that of normal agriculture activities; and
B. The above uses shall not include the feeding or sheltering of animals or poultry in penned enclosures within 100 feet of any residential zoning district. Agriculture does not include the feeding of garbage to animals or the operation or maintenance of a commercial stockyard or feedyard.
(3) "Airport" means any runway, land area or other facility designed or used either publicly or privately by any person for the landing and taking-off of aircraft, including all necessary taxiways, aircraft storage and tie-down areas, hangars and other necessary building, and open spaces.
(4) "Alley" See Thoroughfare.
(5) "Alteration, structural" means any change in the supporting members of a building such as bearing walls, columns, beams, or girders.
(6) "Automotive repair" means the repair, rebuilding or reconditioning of motor vehicles or parts thereof, including collision service, painting, and steam cleaning of vehicles.
(7) "Automotive, mobile home, travel trailer, and farm implement sales" means the sale or rental of new and used motor vehicles, mobile homes, travel trailers, or farm implements, but not including repair work except incidental warranty repair of same, to be displayed and sold on the premises.
(8) "Automotive wrecking" means the dismantling or wrecking of used motor vehicles, mobile homes, trailers, or the storage, sale or dumping of dismantled, partially dismantled, obsolete or wrecked vehicles or their parts.
(9) "Basement" means a story all or partly underground but having at least one-half of its height below the average level of the adjoining ground.
(See definition of "Story.")
(10) "Building" means any structure designed or intended for the support, enclosure, shelter, or protection of persons, animals, chattels or property.
(11) "Building accessory" means a subordinate building detached from, but located on the same lot as the principal building, the use of which is incidental and accessory to that of the main building or use.
(12) "Building height" means the vertical distance measured from the average elevation of the proposed finished grade at the front of the building to the highest point of the roof for flat roofs, to the deck line of mansard roofs, and the mean height between eaves and ridge for gable, hip and gambrel roofs.
(13) "Building line" See Setback Line.
(14) "Building, principal" means a building in which is conducted the main or principal use of the lot on which such building is situated.
(15) "Business, convenience" means commercial establishments which cater to and can be located in close proximity to or within residential districts without creating undue vehicular congestion, excessive noise, or other objectionable influences. To prevent congestion, convenience uses include, but need not be limited to, drugstores, beauty salons, barber shops, carryouts, dry cleaning and laundry pickup facilities, and grocery stores, if less than 10,000 square feet in floor area. Uses in this classification tend to serve a day to day need in the neighborhood.
(16) "Business, general" means commercial uses which generally require locations on or near major thoroughfares and/or their intersections, and which tend, in addition to serving day to day needs of the community, also supply the more durable and permanent needs of the whole community. General business uses include, but need not be limited to, such activities as supermarkets; stores that sell hardware, apparel, footwear, appliances, and furniture; department stores; and discount stores.
(17) "Business, highway" means commercial uses which generally require location on or near major thoroughfares and/or their intersections, and which tend to serve the motoring public. Highway business uses include, but need not be limited to, such activities as filling stations; truck and auto sales and service; restaurants and motels; and commercial recreation.
(18) "Business, office type" means quasi-commercial uses which may often be transitional between retail business and/or manufacturing, and residential uses. Office business generally accommodates such occupations as administrative, executive, professional, accounting, writing, clerical, stenographic, and drafting. Institutional offices of a charitable, philanthropic, or religious or educational nature are also included in this classification.
(19) "Business services" means any profit making activity which renders services primarily to other commercial or industrial enterprises, or which services and repairs appliances and machines used in homes and business.
(20) "Business, wholesale" means business eatablishments that generally sell commodities in large quantities or by the piece to retailers, jobbers, other wholesale establishments, or manufacturing establishments. These commodities are basically for further resale, for use in the fabrication of a product, or for use by a business service.
(21) "Cemetery" means land used or intended to be used for the burial of the human or animal dead and dedicated for cemetery purposes, including crematories, mausoleums, and mortuaries if operated in connection with and within the boundaries of such cemetery.
(22) "Channel" means a natural or artificial watercourse of perceptible extent, with bed and banks to confine and conduct continuously or periodically flowing water.
(23) "Clinic" means a place used for the care, diagnosis, and treatment of sick, ailing, infirm, or injured persons, and those who are in need of medical and surgical attention, but who are provided with board or room or kept overnight on the premises.
(24) "Club" means a building or portion thereof or premises owned or operated by a person for a social, literary, political, educational, or recreational purpose primarily for the exclusive use of members and their guests.
(25) "Commercial entertainment facilities" means any profit making activity which is generally related to the entertainment field, such as motion picture theatres, carnivals, nightclubs, cocktail lounges, and similar entertainment activities.
(26) "Community oriented residential social service facilities" means a facility which provides resident services to a group of individuals of whom one or more are unrelated. These individuals are mentally retarded, handicapped, aged, or disabled, are undergoing rehabilitation, and are provided services to meet their needs. This category includes uses licensed, supervised or under contract by any Federal, State, County or other political subdivision. Community Oriented Residential Social Service Facilities (Residential Homes) include the following listed categories:
A. Residential facilities are homes or facilities in which a person with a developmental disability resides, except a home subject to Ohio R.C. 3721 or the home of a relative or legal guardian in which a person with a developmental disability resides. ("Developmental disability" means a disability that originated before the attainment of eighteen years of age and can be expected to continue indefinitely; constitutes a substantial handicap to the person's ability to function normally in society; and is attributable to mental retardation, cerebal palsy, epilipsy, autism, or any other condition found to be closely related to mental retardation because such condition results in similar impairment of general intellectual functioning or adaptive behavior or requires similar treatment and service.)
1. Family Homes are residential facilities that provide room and board, personal care, rehabilitation services, and supervision in a family setting for not more than eight persons with developmental disabilities.
2. Group Homes are residential facilities that provide the services of Family Homes for at least nine but not more than sixteen persons with developmental disabilities.
B. Social Care Homes are residential homes for children or adolescents who lack social maturity or have emotional problems but who have not been or judged delinquent. Residency may be permanent or transient.
C. Intermediate Care Homes are residential homes for children or adolescents who have been assigned by a court to a residential home in lieu of placement in a correctional institutions.
D. Halfway Houses are residential homes for adolescents or adults who have been institutionalized and released or who have had alcohol or drug problems which make operation is society difficult and who require the protection of a group setting.
(27) "Day" means an ordinary calendar day exclusive of Saturdays, Sundays and all legal holidays established by the State or the government of the United States of America.
(28) "Dwelling unit" means space, within a dwelling, comprising living, dining, sleeping room or rooms, storage closets, as well as space and equipment for cooking, bathing, and toilet facilities, all used by only one family and its household employees.
(29) "Dwelling, Single-Family" means a dwelling consisting of a single dwelling unit only separated from other dwelling units by open space.
(30) "Dwelling, Two-Family" means a dwelling consisting of two dwelling units which may be either attached side by side or one above the other, and each unit having a separate or combined entrance or entrances.
(31) "Dwelling, Multi-Family" means a dwelling consisting of three or more dwelling units including condominiums with varying arrangements of entrances and party walls. Multi-family housing may include public housing and industrialized units.
(32) "Dwelling, industrialized unit" means an assembly of materials or products comprising all or part of a total structure which, when constructed, is self-sufficient or substantially self-sufficient and when installed, constitutes a dwelling unit, except for necessary preparations for its placement, and including a modular or sectional unit but not a mobile home.
(33) "Dwelling, rooming house (boarding house, lodging house, dormitory" means a dwelling part thereof, other than a hotel, motel or restaurant where meals and/or lodging are provided for compensation, for three or more unrelated persons where no cooking or dining facilities are provided in the individual rooms.
(34) "Easement" means authorization by a property owner for the use by another, and for a specified purpose, of any designated part of this property.
(35) "Essential services" means the erection, construction, alteration or maintenance, by public utilities or municipal or other governmental agencies, or underground gas, electrical, steam or water transmission, or distribution systems, collection, communication, supply or disposal systems or sites, including poles, wires, mains, drains, sewers, pipes, traffic signals, hydrants, or other similar equipment and accessories in connection therewith which are reasonably necessary for the furnishing of adequate service by such public utilities or municipal or other governmental agencies or for the public health or safety or general welfare, but not including buildings.
(36) "Family" means one or more persons occupying a single dwelling unit, provided that unless all members are related by blood, adoption, or marriage, no such family shall contain over five persons.
(37) "Farm vacation enterprises (profit or non-profit)" means farms adapted for use as vacation farms, picnicking and sport areas, fishing waters, camping, scenery and nature recreation areas; hunting areas; hunting preserves and water-shed projects.
(38) "Flood Plain" means that land, including the flood fringe and the floodway, subject to inundation by the regional flood.
(39) "Flood, regional" means large floods which have previously occurred or which may be expected to occur on a particular stream because of like physical characteristics. The regional flood generally has an average frequency of the 100 year recurrence interval flood.
(40) "Floodway" means that portion of the flood plain, including the channel, which is reasonably required to convey the regional flood waters. Floods of less frequent recurrence are usually contained completely within the floodway.
(41) "Floodway fringe" means that portion of the flood plain, excluding the floodway, where development may be allowed under certain restrictions.
(42) "Floor area of a residential building" means the sum of the gross horizontal area of the several floors of a residential building, excluding basement floor areas not devoted to residential use, but including the area of roofed porches and roofed terraces. All dimensions shall be measured between interior faces of walls.
(43) "Floor area of a non-residential building (to be used in calculating parking requirements)" means the floor area of the specified use excluding stairs, washrooms, elevator shafts, maintenance shafts and rooms, storage spaces, display windows, and fitting rooms and similar areas.
(44) "Floor area, usable" Measurement of usable floor area shall be the sum of the horizontal areas of the several floors of the building, measured from the interior faces of the exterior walls.
(45) "Food processing" means the preparation, storage, or processing of food products. Examples of these activities include bakeries, dairies, canneries, and other similar businesses.
(46) "Garage, private" means a detached accessory building or portion of a principal building for the parking or temporary storage of automobiles, travel trailers and/or boats of the occupants of the premises and wherein:
A. Not more than one space is rented for parking to persons not resident on the premises;
B. Not more than one commercial vehicle or dwelling unit is parked or stored;
C. The commercial vehicle permitted does not exceed two tons capacity.
(47) "Garage, public" means a principal or accessory building other than a private garage, used for parking or temporary storage of passenger automobiles, and in which no service shall be provided for renumeration.
(48) "Garage, service station" means buildings and premises where gasoline, oil, grease, batteries, tires, and motor vehicle accessories may be supplied and dispensed at retail, and where in addition, the following services may be rendered and sales made:
A. Sales and service of spark plugs, batteries, and distributor parts;
B. Tire servicing and repair, but not recapping or regrooving;
C. Replacement of mufflers and tail pipes, water hose, fan belts, brake fluid, light bulbs, fuses, floor mats, seat covers, windshield wipers and blades, grease retainers, wheel bearings, mirrors, and the like;
D. Radiator cleaning and flushing;
E. Washing, polishing, and sale of washing and polishing materials;
F. Greasing and lubrication;
G. Providing and repairing fuel pumps, oil pumps, and lines;
H. Minor servicing and repair of carburetors;
I. Adjusting and repairing brakes.
J. Minor motor adjustment not involving removal of the head or crankcase or racing the motor;
K. Sales of cold drinks, packaged food, tabacco and similar convenience goods for service, station customers, as accessory and incidental to principle operations;
L. Provisions of road maps and other information material to customers, provisions of restroom facilities;
M. Warranty maintenance and safety inspections.
Uses permissible at a filling station do not include major mechanical and body work, straightening of body parts, painting, welding, storage of automobiles not in operation condition, or other work involving noise, glare, fumes, smoke, or other characteristics to an extent greater than normally found in filling stations. A filling station is not a repair garage nor a body shop.
(See definition of "Automotive Wrecking.")
(49) "Home occupation" means an occupation conducted in a dwelling unit, provided that:
A. No more than one person other than members of the family residing on the premises shall be engaged in such occupation;
B. The use of the dwelling unit for the home occupation shall be clearly incidental and subordinate to its use for residential purposes by its occupants, and not more than twenty-five percent (25%) of floor area of the dwelling unit shall be used in the conduct of the home occupation;
C. There shall be no change in the outside appearance of the building or premises, or other visible evidence of the conduct of such home occupation other than one sign, not exceeding four square feet, nonilluminated, and mounted flat against the wall of the principal building;
D. No traffic shall be generated by such home occupation in greater volume than would normally be expected in a residential neighborhood, and any need for parking generated by the conduct of such home occupation shall meet the off-street parking requirements as specified in the Zoning Ordinance, and shall not be located in a required front yard;
E. No equipment or process shall be used in such home occupation which creates noise, vibration, glare, fumes, odor, or electrical interference detectable to the normal senses off the lot, if the occupation is conducted in a single-family residence, or outside the dwelling unit if conducted in other than a single-family residence. In the case of electrical interference, no equipment or process shall be used which creates visual or audible interference in any radio or television receivers off the premises, or causes fluctuations in line voltage off the premises.
(50) "Hotel or motel and apartment hotel" means a building in which lodging or boarding and lodging are provided and offered to the public for compensation. As such it is open to the public in contradistinction to a boarding house, rooming house, lodging house, or dormitory which is herein separately defined.
(51) "Institution" means a building and/or land designed to aid individuals in need of mental, therapeutic, rehabilitative counseling, or other correctional service.
(52) "Junk building, junk shops, junk yards" means any land, property, structure, building, or combination of the same, on which junk is stored or processed.
(53) "Kennel" means any lot or premises on which four or more domesticated animals more than four months of age are housed, groomed, bred, boarded, trained, or sold and which offers provisions for minor medical treatment.
(54) "Loading space, off-street" means space logically and conveniently located for bulk pickups and deliveries, scaled to delivery vehicles expected to be used, and accessible to such vehicles when required off-street parking spaces are filled. Required off-street loading space is not to be included as off-street parking space in computation of required off-street parking space. All off-street loading spaces shall be located totally outside of any street or alley right of way.
(55) "Location map" See Vicinity Map.
(56) "Lot" means a parcel of land of sufficient size to meet minimum zoning requirements for use, coverage, and area, and to provide such yards and other open spaces are herein required. Such lots shall have frontage on an improved public street, or on an approved private street, and may consist of:
A. A single lot of record;
B. A portion of a lot of record;
C. A combination of complete lots of record, of complete lots of record and portions of lots of record, or of portions of lots of record.
(57) "Lot coverage" means the ratio of enclosed ground floor area of all buildings on a lot to the horizontally projected area of the lot, expressed as a percentage.
(58) "Lot frontage" Front of a lot shall be construed to be the portion nearest the street. For the purpose of determining yard requirements on corner lots and through lots, all sides of a lot adjacent to streets shall be considered frontage, and yards shall be provided as indicated under "Yards" in this section.
(59) "Lot, minimum area of" means the area of a lot computed exclusively of any portion of the right of way of any public or private street.
(60) "Lot measurement" A lot shall be measured as follows:
A. Depth: The distance between the mid-points of straight lines connecting the foremost points of the side lot lines in front and rearmost points of the side lot lines in the rear.
B. Width: The distance between straight lines connecting front and rear lot lines at each side of the lot, measured at the building setback line.
(61) "Lot of record" means a lot which is part of a subdivision recorded in the office of the County Recorder, or a lot or parcel described by metes and bounds, the description of which has been so recorded.
(62) "Lot types" means terminology used in the Zoning Ordinance with reference to corner lots, interior lots and through lots as follows:
A. Corner lot: A lot located at the intersection of two or more streets. A lot abutting on a curved street or streets shall be considered a corner lot if straight lines drawn from the foremost point of the side lot lines to the foremost point of the lot meet at an interior angle of less than 135 degrees.
B. Interior lot: A lot with only one frontage on a street.
C. Through lot: A lot other than a corner lot with frontage on more than one street. Through lots abutting two streets may be referred to as double frontage lots.
D. Reversed frontage lot: A lot on which frontage is at right angles to the general pattern in the area. A reversed frontage lot may also be a corner lot.
(63) "Major Thoroughfare Plan" means the portion of the comprehensive plan adopted by the Village Planning Commission indicating the general location recommended for arterial, collector, and local thoroughfares within the appropriate jurisdiction.
(64) "Maintenance and Storage Facilities" means land, buildings, and structures devoted primarily to the maintenance and storage of construction equipment and material.
(65) "Manufacturing, heavy" means manufacturing, processing, assembling, storing, testing, and similar industrial uses which are generally major operations and extensive in character; require large sites, open storage and service areas, extensive services and facilities, ready access to regional transportation; and normally generate some nuisances such as smoke, noise vibration, dust, glare, air pollution, and water pollution, but not beyond the district boundary.
(66) "Manufacturing, light" means manufacturing or other industrial uses which are usually controlled operations; relatively clean, quiet, and free of objectionable or hazardous elements such as smoke, noise, odor, or dust; operating and storing within enclosed structures; and generating little industrial traffic and no nuisances.
(67) "Manufacturing, extractive" means any mining, quarrying, excavating processing, storing, separating, cleaning, or marketing of any mineral natural resources.
(Ord. 82-1. Passed 2-16-82.)
(68) “Manufactured home” means any non-selfpropelled vehicle so designed, constructed, reconstructed, or added to by means of accessories in such manner as will permit the use and occupancy thereof for human habitation, when connected to utilities, whether resting on wheels, jacks, blocks or other temporary foundation and used or so construed as to permit its being used as a conveyance upon the public streets and highways and exceeding a gross weight of 4,500 pounds and an overall length of thirty feet. Included are all forms of chattel housing with a title document recordable with the County Clerk of Courts. Trailers, house trailers, mobile homes, modular homes, sectional homes, single-wides, double-wides, and manufactured homes are all included in this definition.
(69) “Manufactured home park” means any site, or tract of land under single ownership, upon which three or more manufactured homes used for habitation are parked, either free of charge or for revenue purposes; including any roadway, building, structure, vehicle or enclosure used or intended for use as a part of the facilities of such park.
(Ord. 1996-22. Passed 12-26-96.)
(70) "Nonconformities" means a building, structure or use of land existing at the time of enactment of the Zoning Ordinance, and which does not conform to the regulations of the district or zone in which it is situated.
(71) "Nursery, nursing home" means a home or facility for the care and treatment of babies, children, pensioners, or elderly people.
(72) "Nursery, plant materials" means land, a building, structure, or combination thereof for the storage, cultivation, transplanting of live trees, shrubs, or plants offered for retail sale on the premises including products used for gardening or landscaping.
(73) "Open space" means an area substantially open to the sky which may be on the same lot with a building. The area may include, along with the natural environmental features, water areas, swimming pools, and tennis courts, any other recreational facilities that the Planning Commission deems permissive. Streets, parking areas, structures for habitation, and the like shall not be included.
(74) "Parking space, off-street" means an area adequate for parking an automobile with room for opening doors on both sides, together with properly related access to a public street or alley and maneuvering room but shall be located totally outside of any street or alley right of way.
(75) "Performance bond or surety bond" means an agreement by a subdivider or developer with the Village for the amount of the estimated construction cost guaranteeing the completion of physical improvements according to plans and specifications within the time prescribed by the subdivider's agreement.
(76) "Personal services" means any enterprise conducted for gain which primarily offers services to the general public such as shoe repair, watch repair, barber shops, beauty parlors, and similar activities.
(77) "Planned Unit Development" means an area of land in which a variety of housing types and subordinate commercial and industrial facilities are accommodated in a preplanned environment under more flexible standards, such as lot sizes and setbacks, then those restrictions that would normally apply under these regulations. The procedure for approval of such development contains requirements in addition to those of the standard subdivision, such as building design principles, and landscaping plans.
(78) "Professional Activities" means the use of offices and related spaces for such professional services provided by medical practitioners, lawyers, architects, and engineers, and similar professions.
(79) "Public service facility" means the erection, construction, alteration, operation, or maintenance of buildings, power plants, or substations, water treatment plants or pumping stations, sewage disposal or pumping plants and other similar public service structures by a public utility, by a railroad whether publicly or privately owned, or by a municipal or other governmental agency, including the furnishing of electrical, gas, rail transport, communication, public water and sewage services.
(80) "Public uses" means public parks, schools, administrative and cultural buildings and structures, not including public land or buildings devoted solely to the storage and maintenance of equipment and materials and public service facilities.
(81) "Public way" means an alley, avenue, boulevard, bridge, channel, ditch, easement, expressway, freeway, highway, land, parkway, right of way, road, sidewalk, street, subway, tunnel, viaduct, walk, bicycle path; or other ways in which the general public or a public entity have a right, or which are dedicated, whether improved or not.
(82) "Quasipublic use" means churches, sunday schools, parochial schools, colleges, hospitals, and other facilities of an educational, religious, charitable, philanthropic, or non-profit nature.
(83) "Recreation camp" means an area of land on which two or more travel trailers, campers, tents or other similar temporary recreational structures are regularly accommodated with or without charge, including any building, structure, or fixture of equipment that is used or intended to be used in connection with providing such accommodations.
(84) "Recreation facilities" means public or private facilities that may be classified as either "extensive" or "intensive" depending upon the scope of services offered and the extent of use. Extensive facilities generally require and utilize considerable areas of land and include, but need not be limited to hunting, fishing and riding clubs and parks. Intensive facilities generally require less land (used more intensively) and include, but need not be limited to, miniature golf courses, amusement parks, stadiums, and bowling alleys.
(85) "Research activities" means research, development, and testing related to such fields as chemical, pharmaceutical, medical, electrical, transportation, and engineering. All research, testing, and development shall be carried on within entirely enclosed buildings, and no noise, smoke, glare, vibration, or odor shall be detected outside of the building.
(86) "Roadside stand" means a temporary structure designed or used for the display or sale of agricultural and related products.
(87) "Right of way" means a strip of land taken or dedicated for use as a public way. In addition to the roadway, it normally incorporates the curbs, lawn strips, sidewalks, lighting, and drainage facilities, and may include special features (required by the topography or treatment) such as grade separation, landscaped areas, viaducts, and bridges.
(88) "Seat" For purposes of determining the number of off-street parking spaces for certain uses, the number of seats is the number of seating units installed or indicated, or each twenty-four lineal inches of benches, pews, or space for loose chairs.
(89) "Setback line" means a line established by the Zoning Ordinance, generally parallel with and measured from the lot line, defining the limits of a yard in which no building, other than accessory building, or structure may be located above ground, except as may be provided in the Zoning Ordinance.
(See definition of "Yard")
(90) "Sewers, central or group" means an approved sewage disposal system which provides a collection network and disposal system and central sewage treatment facility for a single development, community, or region.
(91) "Sewers, on-site" means a septic tank or similar installation on an individual lot which utilizes an aerobic bacteriological process or equally satisfactory process for the elimination of sewage and provides for the proper and safe disposal of the effluent, subject to the approval of health and sanitation officals having jurisdiction.
(92) "Sidewalk" means that portion of the road right-of-way outside the roadway, which is improved for the use of pedestrian traffic.
(93) "Sign" means any device designed to inform or attract the attention of persons not on the premises on which the sign is located.
A. Sign, On-Premises: Any sign related to a business or profession conducted, or a commodity or service sold or offered upon the premises where such a sign is located.
B. Sign, Off-Premises: Any sign unrelated to a commodity or service sold or offered upon the premises where such sign is located.
C. Sign, Illuminated: Any sign illuminated by electricity, gas, or other artificial light including reflecting or phosphorescent light.
D. Sign, Light Device: Any light, string of lights, or group of lights located or arranged so as to cast illumination on a sign.
E. Sign, Projecting: Any sign which projects from the exterior of a building.
(94) "Story" means that part of a building between the surface of a floor and the ceiling immediately above.
(See definition of "Basement")
(95) "Structure" means anything constructed or erected, the use of which requires location on the ground, or attachment to something having a fixed location on the ground. Among other things, structures include buildings, mobile homes, walls, fences, and billboards.
(96) "Supply yards" means a commercial establishment storing and offering for sale building supplies, steel supplies, coal, heavy equipment, feed and grain, and similar goods.
(97) "Swimming pool" means a pool, pond, lake, or open tank containing at least 1.5 feet of water at any point and maintained by the owner or manager.
A. Private: Exclusively used without paying an additional charge for admission by the residents and guests of a single household, a multifamily development, or a community, the members and guests of a club, or the patrons of a motel or hotel; an accessory use.
B. Community: Operated with a charge for admission; a primary use.
(98) "Thoroughfare, street or road" means the full width between property lines bounding every public way or whatever nature, with a part thereof to be used for vehicular traffic and designated as follows:
A. Alley: A minor street used primarily for vehicular service access to the back or side of properties abutting on another street.
B. Arterial Street: A general term denoting a highway primarily for through traffic, carrying heavy loads and large volume of traffic, usually on a continuous basis.
C. Collector Street: A thoroughfare, whether within a residential, industrial, commercial, or other type of development, which primarily carries traffic from local streets to arterial streets, including the principal entrance and circulation routes within residential subdivisions.
D. Cul-de-sac: A local street of relatively short length with one end open to traffic and the other end terminating a vehicular turnaround.
E. Dead-end Street: A street temporarily having only one outlet for vehicular traffic and intended to be extended or continued in the future.
F. Local Street: A street primarily for providing access to residential or other abutting property.
G. Loop Street: A type of local street, with end of which terminates at an intersection with the same arterial or collector street, and whose principal radius points of the 180 degree system of turns are not more than 1000 feet from arterial or collector street, nor normally more than 600 feet from each other.
H. Marginal Access Street: A local or collector street, parallel and adjacent to an arterial or collector street, providing access to abutting properties and protection from arterial or collector streets. (Also called Frontage Street.)
(99) "Through lot" See Lot Types.
(100) "Transportation, Director of" means the Director of the Ohio Department of Transportation.
(100) "Use" means the specific purposes for which land or a building is designated, arranged, intended, or for which it is or may be occupied or maintained.
(102) "Variance" means a modification of the strict terms of the relevant regulations where such modifications will not be contrary to the public interest and where owing to conditions peculiar to the property and not the result of the action of the applicant, a literal enforcement of the regulations would result in unnecessary and undue hardship.
(103) "Veterinary animal hospital or clinic" means a place used for the care, grooming, diagnosis, and treatment of sick, ailing, infirm, or injured animals, and those who are in need of medical or surgical attention, and may include overnight accommodations on the premises for the treatment, observation and/or recuperation. It may also include boarding that is incidental to the primary activity.
(104) "Vicinity map" means a drawing located on the plat which sets forth by dimensions or other means, the relationship of the proposed subdivision or use to other nearby developments or landmarks and community facilities and services within the general area in order to better locate and orient the area in question.
(105) "Walkway" means a public way four feet or more in width, for pedestrian use only whether along the side of a road or not.
(106) "Yard" means a required open space other than a court unoccupied and unobstructed by a structure or portion of a structure or portion of a structure from three feet above the general ground level of the graded lot upward; provided, accessories, ornaments, and furniture may be permitted in any yard, subject to height limitations and requirements limiting obstructions of visibility.
A. Yard, Front: A yard extending between side lot lines across the front of a lot and from the front lot line to the front of the principal building.
B. Yard, Rear: A yard extending between side lot lines across the rear of a lot and from the rear lot line to the rear of the principal.
C. Yard, Side: A yard extending from the principal building to the side lot line on both sides of the principal building between the lines establishing the front rear yards.
(107) "Zoning permit" means a document issued by the zoning inspector authorizing the use of lots, structures, uses of land and structures, and the characteristics of the uses.
(Ord. 82-1. Passed 2-16-82.)