Accessory Structure
A detached, subordinate structure located on the same lot, the use which is clearly incidental to the principal building.
Accessory Use
A use on the same lot with, and of a nature customarily incidental and subordinate to, the principal use or structure. A driveway and/or parking area shall be deemed an accessory use.
Agriculture
The use of land for farming, dairying, pasturage, apiculture, horticulture, floriculture, viticulture, and animal and poultry husbandry and the necessary accessory uses for packing, treating, or storing the produce, provided however, that:
1. The operation of any such accessory uses shall be secondary to that of normal agricultural activities; and
2. Agriculture does not include the feeding of garbage to animals or the operation or maintenance of a commercial stockyard or feed yard.
Cemetery
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.
Clinic
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.
Conditional Use
A use permitted within a district other than a principally permitted use which is subject to conditional approval by the Zoning Board of Appeals and requires a conditional use permit. A conditional use may be granted by the Board only when there is a specific provision for such made in this Ordinance. A conditional use is not considered to be a nonconforming use.
Conditional Use Permit
A permit issued by the Zoning Inspector upon approval by the Zoning Board of Appeals to allow a use other than a principally permitted use to be established within a district.
Corner Lot
A lot abutting on two or more streets at their intersection, provided the angle at which the streets intersect does not exceed one hundred thirty-five degrees. A portion of a corner lot distant more than one hundred feet from the corner shall be treated as an interior lot.
Driveway
A vehicular access for ingress/egress to a principal structure or accessory structure, irrespective of its construction. Driveways may be constructed of dirt, stone, asphalt, concrete, or any other such material, as permitted.
Dwelling
Any building or structure (except a house trailer or mobile home as defined by Ohio Revised Code 4501.01) which is wholly or partly used, or intended to be used, for living or sleeping by one or more human occupants.
Dwelling Unit
Space, within a dwelling, comprising living, dining, sleeping room or rooms, and storage closets, as well as space and equipment for cooking, bathing, and toilet facilities, all used by only one family and its household employees.
Dwelling, Single Family
A dwelling consisting of a single dwelling unit only, separated from other dwelling units by open space.
Dwelling, Two-Family
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.
Dwelling, Multi-Family
A dwelling consisting of three or more dwelling units, including condominiums, with varying arrangements or entrances and party wells.
Essential Services
The erection, construction, alteration, or maintenance, by public utilities or municipal or other governmental agencies, of 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, safety, or general welfare, but not including building.
Family
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.
Garage
A detached 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.
Garage, Community
A series of private garages, one story in height, located jointly on a parcel of land under a single ownership.
Hotel or Motel and Apartment Hotel
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.
In the Home Business
Business activities being conducted in or from the residential premises by the occupant of the residence providing the activities do not involve hired employees, private phone or mail advertising status, nor involve any modification which alters the outward appearance as a residential premises.
Interior Lot
A lot the side lines of which do not abut on any street.
Junk Yards
Any land, property, structure, building, or combination of the same, on which junk is stored or processed.
Lot
A piece or parcel of land occupied, or to be occupied, by one building and its accessory structure, including the open spaces required under this Ordinance.
Lot: Front, Rear, and Depth Thereof
The owner may elect by statement on his plans either street boundary line as the front line of a lot that is a corner lot. In the case of a triangular or gore lot, the rear is the boundary line not bordering on the street. The depth of a lot is the dimension measured from the front of the lot to the extreme rear line of the lot. In case of irregular shaped lots the mean depth shall be taken.
Lot Lines
The lines bounding a lot as defined herein.
Mobile Home
A vehicle whether self-propelled or not self-propelled, so designed, constructed, reconstructed, or added to by means of accessories in such a manner as will permit the use and occupancy thereof for human habitation, when connected to utilities, whether resting on wheels, jacks, blocks, foundations and used or so constructed as to permit its being used as a conveyance upon the public streets and highways and exceeding an overall length of thirty-five feet.
Nursery, Nursing Home
A home or facility for the care and treatment of babies, children, pensioners, or elderly people.
Outdoor Heating Units
Any accessory structure, appliance, or apparatus located outside any space ordinarily used for human or animal habitation or business that is designed, intended, or used to transfer or provide heat to building space and/or water through liquid or other means, by burning wood, coal, corn, or any other type of solid fuel. Outdoor heating units may include, but are not limited to, outdoor wood-fired boilers (OWB's), outdoor wood fired hydronic heaters, or any other outdoor heater, stove, or furnace. Outdoor heating units do not include fire pits, wood-fired barbecues, or grills.
Parking Area, Private
An open area, other than a driveway, street, or alley, used for the parking of the automobiles of occupants of a dwelling.
Parking Area, Public or Customer
An open area, other than a private parking area, street or alley, used for the parking of automobiles and available for public or semi-public use.
Parking Space, Automobile
Space within a building or a private or public parking area for the parking of one (1) automobile.
Parking Space, Off-Street
For the purpose of this Ordinance, an off-street parking space shall consist of 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.
Professional Activities
The use of offices and related spaces for such professional services as are provided by medical practitioners, lawyers, architects, and similar professions.
Public Service Facility
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, communications, public water and sewage services.
Public Uses
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.
Quasi-public Uses
Churches, Sunday schools, parochial schools, colleges, hospitals, and other facilities of an educational, religious, charitable, philanthropic, or non-profit nature.
Retail Business Activities
Commercial uses which serve the today needs of the Village and the surrounding community, including personal services and office type businesses. Such uses include, but are not necessarily limited to, retail food stores, supermarkets, drug stores, retail stores that sell hardware, apparel, foot ware, appliances and furniture, beauty salons, barber shops, carry outs, restaurants and bars, dry cleaning and laundry facilities, insurance agencies and accountants. Also included within this classification are offices accommodating administrative, executive, professional, accounting, writing, clerical, stenographic, or drafting activities and institutional offices of a charitable, philanthropic, religious, or educational nature.
Rooming House
A dwelling or 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.
Right of Way
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.
Satellite Dish
A devise (normally a dish or disc shape) used or designed as an antenna for reception of signals via satellites.
Set Back
The minimum horizontal distance measured between the nearest portion of the street right-of-way and the front line of any building or projection thereof, excluding steps and unenclosed porches.
Sign
Any device designated to inform or attract the attention of persons not on the premises on which the sign is located.
Storage Container
A steel container, often referred to as a "Conex" container, designed and built for transporting goods or freight within intermodal transport, and sometimes used for other, non-transport uses. For purposes of this code, these shall be deemed an Accessory Structure.
Street
A public thoroughfare more than sixty feet wide, provided however, that any existing thoroughfare less than sixty feet wide, generally known as a street at the time of passage of this ordinance, shall be considered a public street.
Use
The specific purpose for which land or a building is designated, arranged, intended, or for which it is or may be occupied or maintained.
Variance
A variance is a modification of the strict terms of the relevant regulations, where such modification 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.
Veterinary Animal Hospital or Clinic
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 treatment, observation and/or recuperation. It may also include boarding that is incidental to the primary activity.
Wind Powered Generator
A wind energy system consisting of a wind turbine, tower or mounting structure, footings, and associated control or conversion electronics, which is intended to primarily reduce onsite consumption of power.
Wind Turbine
A devise that converts kinetic energy of the wind into rotational energy to turn an electrical generator shaft. A wind turbine typically consists of a rotator or blade, a frame and housing enclosing a gearbox and generator, and supporting tower.
Zoning Permit
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. 792. Passed 12-12-18.)