(A) For the purpose of the chapter, words used in the present tense shall include the future. Words in the singular shall include the plural, and the plural the singular. The word “building” shall include the word “structure.” The word “lot” shall include the word “plot” and the word “shall” is mandatory and not discretionary.
(B) For the purpose of this chapter, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
AGRICULTURE. The growing of soil crops in the customary manner on open tracts of land or the raising of animals or poultry. The term shall include incidental retail selling by the producer or the products raised on the premises, providing that customer parking space is furnished off of the public right-of-way.
ALLEY. A public or private right-of-way less than 30 feet in width, which affords secondary means of access to abutting property.
APARTMENT BUILDING. Three or more dwelling units grouped in one building.
APARTMENTS. A room or suite of rooms designed for, intended for, or used as a residence for one family or individual and equipped with cooking facilities.
BLOCK. A tract of land bounded by streets or a combination of streets and public parks, cemeteries, railroad rights-of-way, shorelines, unsubdivided acreage or boundary line of the corporate limits of the city.
BOARDING HOUSE. Any dwelling other than a hotel or a motel with meals or lodging and meals for conversation are provided for five or more persons pursuant to previous arrangements.
BUILDING. Any structure for the shelter, support or enclosure of persons, animal, chattel or property of any kind. When separated by bearing walls without opening, each portion of a BUILDING so separated shall be deemed a separate BUILDING.
BUILDING HEIGHT. The vertical distance from the average of the lowest and highest point of the portion of the lot covered by the building to highest point of the roof, to the deck line of mansard roofs, and to the mean height between eaves and ridge for gable, hip and gambrel roofs.
BUSINESS. Any occupation, employment or enterprise wherein merchandise is exhibited or sold, or which occupies time, attention, labor and materials, or where services are offered for compensation.
CENTRAL BUSINESS DISTRICT. Main concentration of uses devoted to the retailing of goods and services for a profit.
COMMERCIAL DISTRICT. Consists of other business locations such as highway serving uses and that which deal more in convenience goods and services.
DWELLING UNIT. One room, or rooms connected together, constituting a separate, independent housekeeping establishment for owner occupancy, or rental or lease on a weekly, monthly or longer basis, and physically separated from any other room or dwelling units which may be in the same structure, and containing independent cooking and sleeping facilities.
(a) MANUFACTURED HOME. A manufactured home shall be as defined by M.S. § 327.31, Subdivision 6 as it may be amended from time to time and shall be constructed in compliance with the Manufactured Home Building Code established by M.S. §§ 327.31 and 327.32, as they may be amended from time to time.
(b) MULTIPLE-FAMILY DWELLING. A residential building designed for or occupied by three or more families, with the number of families, in residence not exceeding the number of dwelling units provided.
(c) SINGLE-FAMILY DWELLING. A detached residential dwelling unit, including a manufactured single-family dwelling, but other than a manufactured home, designed for and occupied by one family only.
(d) TWO-FAMILY DWELLING. A detached residential building containing two dwelling units, designed for occupancy by not more than two families.
FAMILY. Any number of individuals living together on the premises as a single non-profit housekeeping unit, except for necessary servants, as distinguished from a group occupying a boarding house, lodging house, hotel, club, fraternity or sorority house.
FLOOR AREA. The sum of the gross horizontal areas of the several floors of a building, measured from the exterior walls, including basements and attached accessory buildings.
GARAGE, PRIVATE. An accessory building for storage of self-propelled vehicles and tools and equipment maintained as incidental to a conforming use of the premises.
GARAGE, PUBLIC. Any premises, except those defined as a private garage, used for storage or care of self-propelled vehicles and or where any vehicles are equipped for operating, repair or are kept for remuneration, hire or sale.
HOME OCCUPATION. Any use customarily conducted entirely within a dwelling and carried on by members of a family residing therein, which use is clearly incidental and secondary to the use of the dwelling for dwelling purposes and does not change the character thereof. Clinics, hospitals, barber shops, mortuaries, beauty parlors, motor vehicle repairing for hire, welding, animal hospitals and the maintenance of animals, except as provided in § 151.15, shall not be deemed to be HOME OCCUPATIONS.
INDUSTRIAL DISTRICT. All uses which include the compounding, processing, packaging, treatment or assembly or products and materials provided such use will not generate offensive odors, glare, smoke, dust, noise, vibrations or other objectionable influences that extend beyond the district boundaries.
HOTEL. Any building or portion thereof where lodging is offered to transient guests for compensation and in which there are more than five sleeping rooms, with no cooking facilities in individual dwelling units.
JUNK YARD. Land or buildings where waste, discarded or salvaged materials are bought, sold, exchanged, stored, cleaned, packed, disassembled or handled, including but not limited to scrap metal, rags, paper, rubber products, glass products, lumber products and products resulting from the wrecking of automobiles or other machinery.
LOADING AREA. Any area where trucks are parked, maneuvered or loaded or unloaded of materials or equipment.
LOT. One unit of a recorded plat or subdivision, which unit has frontage on a public street and is occupied, or to be occupied, by a building and its accessory buildings, and including as a minimum, the open spaces as are required under this chapter.
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CORNER LOT. A lot situated at the intersection of two or more streets.
(b) DOUBLE FRONTAGE LOT. An interior lot having frontage on two streets.
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INTERIOR LOT. A lot other than a corner lot.
LOT AREA. The land area within the lot lines.
LOT COVERAGE. The total allowable amount of lot area, expressed as a percentage, which may be covered by a principal use and its accessory structures.
LOT DEPTH. The average distance between the front and rear lot line. The greater frontage of a corner lot shall be deemed its depth and the lesser frontage its width.
LOT WIDTH. The horizontal straight line distance between the side lot lines at the setback line.
NONCONFORMING USE. A use lawfully in existence on the effective date of this chapter and not conforming to the regulations for the district in which it is situated. A use is not nonconforming if it would be authorized under a special use permit where located.
PERSONS. Any individual, firm, partnership, corporation, company, association or body politic; includes any trustee, receiver, assignee or similar representative thereof.
PREMISES. A lot or plot with the required front, side and rear yards for a dwelling or other use as allowed under this chapter.
SETBACK. The shortest horizontal distance between the front lot line and foundation wall of a building or the allowable building line as defined by the front yard regulations of this chapter.
SIGN. A name, identification, display, illustration or device which is affixed to or represented directly or indirectly upon a building, structure or land in view of the general public and which directs attention to a product, place, activity, purpose, institution or business.
(a) ADVERTISING SIGN. A sign which directs attention to a business, commodity, service, activity or entertainment not necessarily conducted, sold or offered upon the premises where a sign is located.
(b) BUSINESS SIGN. A sign which directs attention to a business or profession of a commodity, services or entertainment sold or offered upon the premises where a sign is located.
(c) FLASHING SIGN. Any illuminated sign on which the illumination is not kept stationary or constant in intensity and color at all times which the sign is in use.
(d) ILLUMINATED SIGN. Any sign which has characters, letters, figures, designs or outlines illuminated by electric lights or luminous tubes as part of the sign.
(e) NAMEPLATE SIGN. Any sign which states the name or address or both of the business or occupant of the lot where the sign is placed.
(f) ROTATING SIGN. A sign which revolves or rotates on its axis by mechanical means.
(g) SURFACE AREA OF SIGN. The entire area within a single continuous perimeter enclosing the extreme limits of the actual sign surface, not including any structural elements outside the limits of the sign and not forming an integral part of the display. Only one side of a double-face or V- type sign structure shall be used in computing total surface area.
STORY. That portion of the building included between the surface of any floor and the surface of the next floor above it, the space between the floor and the preceding next above it.
STORY, HALF. A story with at least two opposite exterior sides meeting a sloping roof not more than two feet above the floor of the story.
STREET LINE. The right-of-way line of a street.
STRUCTURAL ALTERATION. Any change or addition to the supporting members of a building such as bearing walls, columns, beams or girders.
STRUCTURE. Anything constructed or erected, the use of which requires location on the ground or attachment to something having a location on the ground.
SUBDIVISION. A described tract of land which is to be or has been divided into two or more lots or parcels, any of which result in parcels less than 2½ acres in area and 150 feet in width, for the purpose of transfer of ownership of buildings involved, any division of a parcel of land. The term includes resubdivision, and, where it is appropriate to the context, relates either to the process of subdivision or land subdivided.
TRAVEL TRAILER. A vehicular portable structure built on a chassis to be used as a temporary dwelling for travel and recreation and vacation uses.
USE. The purpose for which land or premises or a building thereon is designated, arranged or intended, or for which it is or may be occupied or maintained.
USE, ACCESSORY. A use clearly incidental or accessory to the principal use of a lot or a building located on the same lot as the accessory use.
VARIANCE. A modification or variation of the provisions of the chapter, as applied to a specific piece of property only under the circumstances provided for in § 151.53, except that modification in the allowable uses within a district shall not be considered a VARIANCE.
YARD. Any space in the same lot with a building open and unobstructed from the ground to the sky, except for fences five feet or less in height, and trees and shrubs.
(a) FRONT YARD. A yard extending across the front of the lot between the side yard lines and lying between the front street right-of-way of the road or highway and the nearest line of the building.
(b) SIDE YARD. An open, unoccupied space on the lot between the building and the side line of the lot.
(Ord. passed 4-24-78; Am. Ord. passed - -82)