For the purposes of this Zoning Code, words used in the present tense include the future; the singular number includes the plural and the plural the singular; all distances are horizontal measurements unless otherwise specified; and “shall” is mandatory and not directory. In addition:
(1) “Accessory building or use” means a subordinate building or use customarily incidental to and located upon the same lot occupied by the main building and use.
(2) “Agriculture” means the use of land for agricultural purposes, including 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 that the operation of such an accessory use shall be secondary to that of the normal agricultural activities, and provided, further, that the above uses shall not include the commercial feeding of garbage or offal to swine and other animals. A use shall be classified as agricultural only if agriculture is the principal or main use of the land.
(3) “Alley” means a public thoroughfare that affords only a secondary means of access to a lot or abutting property.
(4) “Apartment” means a room or suite of rooms intended, designed or used as a residence by a single family.
(Ord. 1963-95. Passed 7-30-63.)
(5) “Apartment house” means a building or structure erected or converted for residence purposes for more than two family units per acre but not to exceed seven family units per acre.
(Ord. 1996-59. Passed 2-12-97.)
(6) “Basement” means a story having part, but not more than one-half of its height below grade. A basement is counted as a story for the purpose of height regulations.
(7) “Basement house” means a basement in which there are cooking facilities and sleeping quarters and two means of ingress and egress.
(8) “Boarding house” means a building, other than a hotel, where, for compensation by the week or month, meals or lodging and meals are provided for at least five, but not more than twenty persons.
(9) “Building” means any structure designed or intended for the support, enclosure, shelter or protection of persons, animals, chattels or property.
(10) “Building height” means the vertical distance from the grade to the highest point of the coping of a flat roof, or to the deck line of a mansard roof, or to the mean height level between eaves and ridge of a gable, hip or gambrel roof.
(Ord. 1963-95. Passed 7-30-63.)
(11) “Building line” means the front building line, which shall be the rear line of the front yard along a street frontage. The rear building line shall be the front line of the rear yard and shall be the line that is the greatest distance from the front property line.
(Ord. 1971-69. Passed 9-22-71.)
(12) “District” means any section of the Municipality for which zoning regulations governing the use of buildings and premises, the height of buildings and the area of buildings are uniform.
(13) “Cellar” means a story having more than one-half of its height below grade. A cellar is counted as a story for the purpose of height regulation only if it is used for dwelling purposes other than by a janitor employed on the premises.
(14) “Dwelling” means any building, or portion thereof, which is designed or used exclusively for residence purposes. An attached garage, for purposes of determining the front, side and rear yards, shall be considered a part of the dwelling.
(15) “Dwelling, single-family” means a building designed for or occupied by one family.
(16) “Dwelling, two-family” means a building designed for or occupied exclusively by two families.
(17) “Family” means one or more persons occupying a premises and living as a single nonprofit housekeeping unit, whether or not related to each other by birth or marriage as distinguished from a group occupying a boarding house, lodging house or hotel, as herein defined.
(18) “Frontage” means all the property on one side of a street between two intersecting streets, crossing or terminating, measured along the line of the street, or, if the street is dead-ended, then all the property abutting on one side between an intersecting street and the dead end of the street.
(19) “Garage, private” means an accessory building designed for and to be used for storage of passenger automobiles and in which no occupation, business or service for profit is carried on.
(20) “Garage, repair shop” means a building or portion thereof, other than a private garage, for the storage or repair of motor vehicles with or without ordinary maintenance service and within which building or portion thereof filling station service and/or sales of accessories are permitted.
(21) “Grade, finished” means the elevation of the finished surface of the ground adjoining a building or structure within a distance of ten feet of the foundation wall.
(22) “Grade, natural” means the elevation of the undisturbed natural surface of the ground adjoining a building or structure.
(23) “Grade, street” means the roadway elevation established by construction or usage measured along the roadway centerline in front of a lot.
(24) “Home occupation” means any use or profession conducted by members of a family entirely within a dwelling, provided that no enterprise is conducted that will substantially change the residential character of the premises and provided, further, that the use or profession is not one that should properly be conducted within a Business District. Such home occupation shall occupy no more than twenty-five percent of the floor area of only one story of a dwelling and shall not be objectionable because of odor, noise, dust, vibration or added traffic. No sign, other than one unlighted nameplate not more than two square feet in area, shall be installed within the metes and bounds of the place of residence.
(25) “Hotel” means a building in which lodging is provided and offered to the public for compensation and which is open to transient guests, as distinguished from a boarding house or a lodging house.
(26) “Institution” means a building occupied by a nonprofit corporation or a nonprofit establishment for public use.
(27) “Lodging house” means a building where lodging only is provided by the week or month for compensation for three or more but not more than twenty persons, and where table board may or may not be furnished.
(28) “Lot” means a parcel of land occupied or intended for occupancy by a use permitted in this Zoning Code, including one main building with its accessory buildings, and the open spaces and parking space required by this Zoning Code, and having its principal frontage upon a street or upon an officially approved place.
(29) “Lot, corner” means a lot abutting upon two intersecting streets.
(30) “Lot, double-frontage” means a lot having a frontage on two nonintersecting streets, as distinguished from a corner lot.
(31) “Lot, interior” means a lot other than a corner lot.
(32) “Lot, minimum area of a” means the area of a lot as computed exclusive of any portion of the right-of-way of any public thoroughfare.
(33) “Lot of record” means a lot which is a part of a subdivision, the map of which has been recorded in the office of the County Recorder, or a parcel of land, the deed to which was of record on or prior to the effective date of this section (Ordinance 1963-95, passed July 30, 1963).
(34) “Motel” means a one or two-story attached building used or intended to be used as overnight sleeping quarters for automobile tourists.
(35) “Nonconforming use” means any building or land lawfully occupied by a use on the effective date of this Zoning Code (Ordinance 1963-95, passed July 30, 1963), or any amendment or supplement thereto, which does not conform to the use regulations of the district in which it is situated.
(36) “Outdoor advertising sign” means a fixed or portable appliance, structure or surface, including the supporting structure made necessary thereby, which is, or is to be, erected upon the ground or wall of a building, or above the roof of a building, and which is used, erected, intended and/or designed to be used for the public display of posters, painted displays, electrical displays, pictures or other pictorial or reading matter, for the benefit of a person, organization, business or cause not residing or located on the lot or in the building, or on a lot adjoining the lot or building where the appliance, structure or surface is, or is to be, located. An outdoor advertising sign includes any card, cloth, paper, metal, painted glass, wooden, plaster, stone or other sign of any kind, placed for outdoor advertising purposes on the ground or on any tree, wall, bush, rock, post, fence, building, structure or other thing. As used in this definition, “placed” includes erecting, constructing, posting, painting, printing, tacking, nailing, gluing, sticking, carving or otherwise fastening, affixing or making visible in any manner whatsoever.
(37) “Private stable” means a stable with a capacity of not more than two animals.
(38) “Roadside stand” means a removable structure used or intended to be used, solely by the owner or inhabitant of the property on which it is located, for the sale of seasonal agricultural products produced on the premises and to be removed and stored back of the setback building line of the property at the conclusion of seasonal sales. During seasonal sales such structure shall not be placed nearer than ten feet from the front line of the property on which it is located and shall not be located so as to cause congestion of the highway abutting such property. Not more than two unlighted signs, each to be not over two square feet in area and attached to the roadside stand, shall be used on each lot where a roadside stand is located.
(39) “Story” means that portion of a building included between the surface of any floor and the surface of the next floor above it, or if there is no floor above it, then the space between the floor and the ceiling next above it.
(40) “Story, half” means a space under a sloping roof which has the line of intersection of roof decking and wall face not more than three feet above the top floor level, and in which space not more than two-thirds of the floor area is finished off for use.
(41) “Street” means all property dedicated or intended for public or private street, highway, freeway or roadway purposes or subject to public easements therefor.
(42) “Street line” means a dividing line between a lot, tract or parcel of land and a contiguous street. Where the lot, tract or parcel of land has been conveyed to the center of the street, the street line then becomes the inside line of land reserved for street purposes.
(43) “Structural alteration” means any change in the supporting members of a building, such as bearing walls or partitions, columns, beams or girders, or any increase in the area or cubical contents of the building.
(44) “Structure” means anything built or erected, including, but without limiting the generality of the foregoing, buildings, reviewing stands, bandstands, bleachers, booths, swimming pools, platforms, towers, bridges, trestles, sheds, bins, poles, tents, tanks, (above or below ground), signs and gasoline and fuel oil pumps, but not including fences. “Structure” shall also include the supporting framework or parts of a building. “Structure” shall be construed as if followed by the words “or parts thereof”.
(45) “Tourist dwelling” means a dwelling where overnight accommodations are provided for automobile tourists, but not to exceed seven persons at one time.
(46) “Trailer camp” or “cabin camp” means a tract or parcel of land open to the public upon which cabins for automobile tourists and/or spaces for trailers or trailer coaches are provided for a consideration, whether for an overnight stay, or by the day, the week or the month.
(47) “Yard” means an open space on the same lot with a building, unoccupied and unobstructed by any portion of a structure from the ground upward, except as otherwise provided in this Zoning Code. In measuring a yard for the purpose of determining the width of a side yard, the depth of a front yard or the depth of a rear yard, the mean horizontal distance between the lot lines and the main building shall be used.
(48) “Yard, front” means a yard extending across the front of a lot between the side yard lines and being the minimum horizontal distance between the street line and any enclosed portion of the main building or projection thereof. On corner lots the front yard shall be considered as parallel to the street upon which the lot has its least dimension.
(49) “Yard, rear” means a yard extending across the rear of a lot, measured between the side lot lines, and being the minimum horizontal distance between the rear lot line and the rear of the main building, or any projection other than steps. On corner lots the rear yard shall be considered as parallel to the street upon which the lot has its least dimension. On both corner lots and interior lots the rear yard shall in all cases be at the opposite end of the lot from the front yard.
(50) “Yard, side” means a yard between the main building and the side lines of the lot and extending from the front yard to the rear yard.
(51) “Zoning Code” means Ordinance 1963-95, passed July 30, 1963, as amended, which is codified as Title Six Part Twelve - Planning and Zoning Code.
(Ord. 1963-95. Passed 7-30-63.)