1102.02 DEFINITIONS.
   (1)   "Accessory use (or structure)" means a use, object, or structure constructed or installed on, above, or below the surface of a parcel, which is located on the same lot as a principal use, object, or structure, and which is subordinate to or serves the principal use, object, or structure, is subordinate in area to the principal use, object, or structure, and is customarily incidental to the principal use, object, or structure. Among other things "Accessory Use" includes anything of a subordinate nature attached to or unattached from a principal structure or use, such as fences, walls, sheds, garages, parking places, decks, poles, poster panels, and billboards. Notwithstanding the foregoing, neither a manufactured home (whether or not permanently sited), nor a mobile home, nor a trailer shall be used as an accessory use. Except as otherwise required in this Zoning Ordinance, an accessory use shall be a permitted use.
   (2)   "Agriculture" means the use of land for farming, dairying, pasturage, apiculture (bee keeping), horticulture, floriculture, viticulture (grape cultivation), and animal and poultry husbandry and the necessary accessory 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 agricultural 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 feed yard.
   (3)   "Alterations, structural" means any change in the supporting members of a building such as bearing walls, columns, beams, or girder, including razing of a structure.
   (4)   "Automotive repair" means the repair, rebuilding or reconditioning of motor vehicles or parts thereof, including collision service, painting, and steam cleaning of vehicles.
   (5)   "Automotive wrecking" means the dismantling or wrecking of used motor vehicles, mobile homes, trailers, or the storage, sale of dumping of dismantled, obsolete or wrecked vehicles or their parts.
   (6)   "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.
   (7)   "Bed and Breakfast establishment" means a private residence where lodging and breakfast is provided by a resident family for compensation. Such a facility is generally used by tourists and out of town guests/travelers.
   (8)   "Board" means the New London Board of Zoning Appeals.
   (9)   "Building" means any structure designed or intended for the support, enclosure, shelter, or protection of persons, animals, chattels, or property.
   (10)   "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.
   (11)   "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.
   (12)   "Building principal" means a building in which is conducted the main or principal use of the lot on which said building is situated.
   (13)   "Business/Commercial use" means Business/Commercial uses which shall include any profit making activity which renders goods or services and which generally require location on or near main thoroughfares and/or their intersections. Separate buildings that serve as institutional offices of a charitable, philanthropic, or religious or educational nature are also included in this classification.
   (14)   "Business/Office" means quasi-commercial uses which may often be transitional between retail businesses and/or manufacturing and residential uses. Office business generally accommodates administrative, executive, professional, institutional and other quasi-public operations.
   (15)   "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.
   (16)   "Child daycare center"- any place in which child daycare is provided with or without compensation. In Ohio, the Ohio Department of Jobs and Family Services (ODJFS) licenses, certifies, and regulates child care centers, family child care homes and school age programs.
   Licenses are required for:
      (a)   Child care centers that are full or part-time in a non-residential setting for 7-12 children or in any place in which child care is provided for 13 or more children.
      (b)   Family child care homes (Type A) that are full or part-time in a residence for 7-12 children when no more than 3 children are under 2 years old, or for 4 to 12 children if 4 or more are under 2 years old including related children under 6 years old.
   Certification is required by the County DJFS for the following child care centers
      (c)   Family child care homes that receive public funds. Full or part-time care in a residence for between 1 and 6 children, including related children under 6 years old, with no more than 3 children under 2 years old, and
      (d)   Family child care homes that receive public funds in a residence for eligible children all of whom have the same caretaker parents.
   (17)   "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.
   (18)   "Commission" means the New London Planning and Zoning Commission.
   (19)   "Commissioner" means the New London Zoning Commissioner.
   (20)   "Comprehensive Plan" means a plan, or any portion thereof, which establishes the general goals, objectives, and policies of the community, is recommended and approved by the Planning and Zoning Commission and adopted by the village council. The plan shows the general location and extent of the present and proposed physical facilities and open spaces including housing, industrial and commercial uses, major streets, parks, schools, and other community facilities.
   (21)   "Conditional Use" means a use permitted within a district other than a principally permitted use, requiring a conditional use permit and approval of the Board of Zoning Appeals.
   (22)   "Conditional Use Permit" means a permit issued by the Zoning Commissioner upon approval by the Board of Zoning Appeals to allow a use other than a principally permitted use to be established within the district.
   (23)   "Corner lot" (see Lot Types).
   (24)   "Density" means a unit of measurement expressing the number of dwelling units per acre of land.
      (a)   Gross Density: the number of dwelling units per acre of the total land to be developed.
      (b)   Net Density: the number of dwelling units per acre of land when the acreage involved includes only the land devoted to residential uses.
   (25)   "District" means a part, zone, or geographic area within the Municipality within which certain zoning or development regulations apply.
   (26)   "Domestic pet" means any animal normally sold in a pet store or kennel. Including but not limited to dogs, cats, rabbits, hamsters, gerbils, birds, etc. When any of these types of animals are raised for production purposes or for resale, this becomes a commercial enterprise and the Zoning Ordinance will be appropriately applied.
   (27)   "Downtown Business District" defined as that part of the Village generally bounded by South Railroad Street, Energy Place, Prospect Street, South Main Street, Kirk Street, Park Avenue and James Street.
   (28)   "Drainage ditch" or "watercourse" means a natural or artificial watercourse of perceptible extent, with bed and banks to confine and conduct continuously or periodically flowing water.
   (29)   "Dwelling" means any building or portion thereof which is designed to provide living accommodations for one (1) or more families. An attached garage for purposes of determining the front, side, and year yards shall be considered a part of a dwelling.
   (30)   "Dwelling unit" means one (1) or more rooms physically arranged so as to create an independent housekeeping establishment for occupancy by one (1) family with separate toilets and facilities for cooking and sleeping.
   (31)   "Dwelling, single family" means a building designed to provide one (1) dwelling unit for a family and separated from other dwellings by required open space.
   (32)   "Dwelling, two-family" means a building consisting of two (2) 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.
   (33)   "Dwelling, multi-family" means a building consisting of three (3) or more dwelling units including condominiums with varying arrangements of entrances and party walls. Multi-family housing may include public housing.
   (34)   "Dwelling, rooming house (boarding house, lodging house, dormitory)" means 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.
   (35)   "Easements" means authorization by a property owner for the use by another, and for a specified purpose, of any designated part of his property.
   (36)   "Essential services" means 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 or safety or general welfare, but not including buildings other than structures for housing the essential services named herein or similar to those named herein.
   (37)   "Family" means one or more persons who live together in one dwelling unit and maintain a common household. A family may also include domestic employees and gratuitous guests.
   (38)   "Farm livestock" means all animals normally used in the production of food or food products such as eggs, milk, meat, etc. Specifically cattle, horses, sheep, swine, poultry, and rabbits used for production purposes; and others as determined by order of the Board of Zoning Appeals.
   (39)   "Feedlot/feed yard" means any pen, corral, or structure wherein livestock are maintained in close quarters for the purpose of fattening or temporarily holding for shipment to market.
   (40)   "Flood plain" means that land, including the flood fringe and the floodway, subject to inundation by the regional flood.
   (41)   "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 one hundred year recurrence interval flood.
   (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 uses.
   (43)   "Floor area, usable" means measurement of usable floor area which shall be the sum of the horizontal areas of the several floors of the building.
   (44)   "Garages, private" means a detached accessory building or portion of a principal building for the parking or temporary storage of vehicles.
   (45)   "Group residential facility" means a group residential facility is a community residential facility, licensed and/or approved and regulated by the State of Ohio, which provides rehabilitative or habilitative services. There are two (2) classes of group residential facilities.
      (a)   Class I: Any state, federal, or locally approved dwelling or place used as a foster home for children or adults (not including nursing homes) or as a home for the care or rehabilitation of dependent or pre-delinquent children, for the physically handicapped or disabled, or for those with mental illness or developmental disabilities. A Class I Type A group residential facility contains six or more residents, exclusive of staff. A Class I Type B group residential facility contains five or less residents, exclusive of staff.
      (b)   Class II: Any state, federal, or locally approved dwelling or place used as a home for juvenile offenders; a halfway house providing residential care or rehabilitation for adult offenders in lieu of institutional sentencing; a halfway house providing residence for persons leaving correctional institutions; and residential rehabilitation centers for alcohol and drug abusers, provided that detoxification is expressly prohibited on such premises. A Class II Type A group residential facility contains six (6) or more residents, exclusive of staff. A Class II Type B group residential facility contains five or less residents, exclusive of staff.
   (46)   "Historic area" means a district or zone designated by a local authority, state or federal government within which the buildings, structures, appurtenances and places are of basic and vital importance because of their association with history, or because of their unique architectural style and scale, including materials, proportion, form and architectural detail, or because of their being a part of or related to a square, park, or area the design or general arrangement of which should be preserved and/or developed according to a fixed plan based on cultural, historical, archaeological, or architectural motives or purposes.
   (47)   "Home occupation" means an accessory use which is an activity, profession, occupation, service, craft, or revenue enhancing hobby which is clearly incidental and subordinate to the use of the premises as a dwelling, and is conducted entirely within the dwelling unit, or elsewhere on the premises by conditional use permit, without any significant adverse effect upon the surrounding neighborhood.
   (48)   "Hotel or motel and apartment hotel" means a building in which lodging or boarding are provided and offered to the public for compensation. As such it is open to the public as opposed to a boarding house, rooming house, lodging house, or dormitory which is herein separately defined.
   (49)   "Junk buildings, junk shops, junk yards" means any area, lot, land, parcel, building, structure or part thereof, or open area, where waste (excluding municipal waste), discarded or salvaged material are stored, bought, sold, exchanged, abandoned, processed, baled, packed, disassembled or handled, including but not limited to: wastepaper, rags scrap metal or other scrap or discarded goods, material, machinery, auto wrecking yards, house-wrecking yards, used lumber yards and places or yards for storage and equipment, as well as any structure or buildings used in connection therewith, or where more than two junk vehicles or parts thereof are stored, even when concealed by fence or opaque hedges.
   (50)   "Junk motor vehicle" means a motor vehicle that is three (3) model years or older, inoperable, and extensively damaged including but not limited to missing wheels, tires, engines or transmissions (ORC.505.173).
   (51)   "Kennel" means any commercial enterprise in which five (5) or more domesticated animals more than four months of age are housed, groomed, bred, boarded, trained or sold.
   (52)   "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.
   (53)   "Location map" (See Vicinity Map).
   (54)   "Lot". For the purposes of this Zoning Ordinance, a lot is 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 as are herein required. Such lot 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 records, or of portions of lots of record.
   (55)   "Lot coverage ratio" means the numerical value obtained through dividing the sum of the gross horizontal area of the footprint of all buildings and covered or roofed structures on a zoning lot by the area of the zoning lot on which the buildings are located or intended to be located, expressed as a percentage.
   (56)   "Lot frontage" means the 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.
   (57)   "Lot, minimum area of" means the area of a lot is computed exclusive of any portion of the right-of-way of any public or private street.
   (58)   "Lot measurements". A lot shall be measured as follows:
      (a)   Depth: The distance between the midpoints 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.
   (59)   "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.
   (60)   "Lot types". Terminology used in this Zoning Ordinance with reference to corner lots, interior lots and through lots is as follows:
      (a)   Corner lot: A lot located at the intersection of two (2) or more streets.
      (b)   Interior lot: A lot with only one (1) 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 (2) 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.
      (e)   Flag lot: A lot shaped like a flag not meeting minimum frontage requirements and where access to the public road is by a narrow right-of-way driveway.
   (61)   "Major thoroughfare plan" means the portion of comprehensive plan adopted by the Village Planning Commission indicating the general location recommended for arterial, collector, and local thoroughfares within the appropriate jurisdiction.
   (62)   "Maintenance and storage facilities" means land, buildings, and structures devoted primarily to the maintenance and storage of equipment and material.
   (63)   "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.
   (64)   "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 nuisance.
   (65)   "Manufacturing, extractive" means any mining, quarrying, excavating processing, storing, separating, cleaning, or marketing of any mineral natural resource.
   (66)   "Nonconformities" means lots, uses of land, structures, and uses of structures and land in combination lawfully existing at the time of enactment of this Zoning Ordinance or its amendments which do not conform to the regulations of the district or zone in which they are situated, and are therefore incompatible.
   (67)   "Nuisance" means anything that interferes with the use or enjoyment of property, endangers personal health or safety, or is offensive to the senses, including but not limited to: odor, air and water pollution, noise, vibration, dust, fumes, smoke, radiation, light glare, fire hazard, electromagnetic radiation, erosion, and congestion.
   (68)   "Nursing home" means a long term facility or a distinct part of a facility (exclusive of a hospital) licensed by the State that provides nursing care and related medical services on a 24 hour per day basis to four (4) or more individuals because of illness, disease, or physical or mental infirmity.
   (69)   "Nursery, plant materials" means land, 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.
   (70)   "Open spaces" 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.
   (71)   "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, which shall be located totally outside of any street or alley right-of-way.
   (72)   "Performance bond or surety bond" means an agreement by a sub-divider 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 sub-divider's agreement.
   (73)   "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 pre-planned environment under more flexible standards, such as lot sizes and setbacks, than 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.
   (74)   "Primary use". The primary use of a lot shall be defined as the use or purpose which comprises more than one half of the available land and/or floor area of structures on said lot.
   (75)   "Professional activities" means the use of offices and related spaces for such professional services as are provided by medical practitioners, lawyers, architects, and engineers, and similar professions.
   (76)   "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.
   (77)   "Public uses" means public parks, schools, administrative and cultural buildings and structures, not including public and land or buildings devoted solely to the storage and maintenance of equipment and materials and public service facilities.
   (78)   "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 public entity have a right, or which are dedicated, whether improved or not.
   (79)   "Quasi-public use" means churches, Sunday schools, parochial schools, colleges, hospitals, and other facilities of an educational, religious, charitable, philanthropic, or non-profit nature.
   (80)   "Recreation camp/campgrounds" means area of land on which three 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.
   (81)   "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 requires less land (used more intensively) and include, but need not be limited to, miniature golf courses, amusement parks, and stadiums.
   (82)   "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 said building.
   (83)   "Roadside stand" means a temporary structure designed or used for the display or sale of agricultural and related products.
   (84)   "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.
   (85)   "Satellite dish" means a parabolic dish antenna including its structural supports, used for reception of various satellite television programming signals.
   (86)   "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 or benches, pews, or space for loose chairs.
   (87)   "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 or structure may be located above ground, except as may be provided in said code.
   (88)   "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.
   (89)   "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 officials having jurisdiction.
   (90)   "Sidewalk" means that portion of the road right-of-way outside the roadway, which is improved for the use of pedestrian traffic.
   (91)   "Sign" means any visual communication display, object, device, graphic, structure, or part, situated indoors or outdoors, or attached to, painted on, or displayed from a building or structure, in order to direct or attract attention to, or to announce or promote, an object, person, service, product, event, location, organization or the like, by means of letters, words, designs, colors, symbols, fixtures, images or illuminations.
      (a)   Sign, In-Premises: Any sign related to a business or profession conducted, or a commodity or service sold or offered upon the premises where such sign is located.
      (b)   Sign, Off-Premises: Any sign unrelated to a business or profession conducted, or 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, Lighting 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.
      (f)   Sign, Awning: a sign which is suspended from, attached to, supported from or forms a part of an awning.
      (g)   Sign, Electronic Message Center (EMC): An EMC is a sign capable of displaying words, symbols, figures or images that can be electronically or mechanically changed by remote or automatic means.
      (h)   Sign, Snipe: A temporary or permanent sign tacked, nailed, posted, pasted, glued, or otherwise attached to trees, poles, stakes, fences, or other objects.
      (i)   Sign, Wall: A wall sign mounted on a building which is either attached to, displayed, or painted on an exterior wall in a manner parallel with the wall surface, and not projecting more than sixteen inches from such surface.
      (j)   Sign, Window: A sign that is painted on, attached to, or suspended directly behind or in front of a window or the glass portion of a door.
      (k)   Sign, Temporary: Any sign intended to remain in use for a short period of time which is not permanently installed.
   (92)   "Story" means that part of a building between the surface of a floor and the ceiling immediately above, except that the topmost story shall be that habitable portion of a building included between the surface of the topmost floor and ceiling or roof above.
   (93)   "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, factory built housing, walls, fences and billboards.
   (94)   "Subdivision" means the division of a lot, tract, or parcel into two or more lots, tracts, or parcels or other divisions of land for sale, development, or lease.
   (95)   "Swimming pool" means a pool or open tank obtaining 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.
   (96)   "Thoroughfare, street, or road" means the full width within the right-of-way bounding every public way, with a part thereof to be used for vehicular traffic designated as follows:
      (a)   Alley: A service roadway providing a secondary means of public access to abutting property and not intended for general traffic circulation.
      (b)   Arterial street: A general term denoting major thoroughfares designed to carry traffic between municipalities and other activity centers and to provide connections with major state and interstate highways. Typically, existing state routes will be classified as arterial.
      (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 in a vehicular turnaround.
      (e)   Dead-end street: A street having only one common ingress and egress for vehicular traffic and perhaps intended to be extended or continued in the future.
      (f)   Local street: A street primarily for providing access to residential or other abutting property.
   (97)   "Through Lot" (See Lot Types).
   (98)   "Transportation, Director of" means the Director of the Ohio Department of Transportation.
   (99)   "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.
   (100)   "Variance" means 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.
   (101)   "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.
   (102)   "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 lots, developments or landmarks and community facilities and services within the general area in order to better locate and orient the area in question.
   (103)   "Walkway" means a public way, four feet or more in width, for pedestrian use only, whether along the side of a road or not. (See Sidewalk)
   (104)   "Yard" means a required open space other than a court unoccupied and unobstructed by any 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 obstruction 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 building.
      (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 and rear yards.
   (105)   "Zoning Commissioner" means the person designated by Council to administer and enforce zoning regulations and related ordinances. This person may also be known as the Zoning Inspector.
   (106)   "Zoning permit" means a document issued by the Zoning Commissioner authorizing the use of lots, structures, uses of land and structures, and the characteristics of the uses.
   (107)   "Zoning map" means the official Zoning Map of the Village of New London.
(Ord. 2015-09. Passed 7-13-15.)