CANOPY means a structure made of cloth, metal, or other material which may be totally or partially attached to a building for the purpose of providing shelter to patrons or automobiles, or as a decorative feature on a building wall. A canopy is not a completely enclosed structure and may or may not be raised or retracted.
CHANNEL LETTERING means a sign that consists of custom-made metal or plastic that are covered in a translucent plastic material, often internally illuminated.
CHECK CASHING ESTABLISHMENT means a use other than a bank or financial institution that cashes checks, drafts and money orders for a fee, service charge or other consideration regulated pursuant to the provisions of Chapter 1301:8 of the Ohio Administrative Code.
CITY means the City of North Olmsted.
CIVIC CLUBS AND LODGES means membership organizations that hold regular meetings and that may, subject to other regulations controlling such uses, maintain dining facilities, serve alcohol or engage professional entertainment for the enjoyment of dues paying members and their guests.
CLERK means the duly acting Clerk of Council of the City of North Olmsted.
CLUSTER DEVELOPMENT means a form of residential subdivision that permits housing units to be grouped on sites or lots with dimensions, frontages and setbacks reduced from conventional sizes, provided the density of the tract as a whole shall not exceed the density allowed by the district under existing regulations and the remaining land area is devoted to common open space.
COLLOCATION means the use of a Wireless Telecommunication Facility by more than one (1) wireless telecommunication provider.
COMMERCIAL PROPERTY means any real property in the City that is zoned for other than exclusive residential or industrial use.
COMMERCIAL VEHICLE means any propelled or non-propelled vehicle, trailer or semi-trailer designed or used to carry freight, passengers for a fee or merchandise in the furtherance of any commercial enterprise.
COMMISSION means the City's Planning and Design Commission.
COMMON OPEN SPACE means any portion of a development that is not part of a lot or tract and is designed for the common usage of residents, visitors, guests or the general public. May include complementary structures and improvements.
COMMUNICATION TOWER, FREESTANDING means a structure erected on the ground and used primarily for the support of broadcast and/or receiving equipment and utilized by commercial, governmental or other public or quasi-public users. A communication tower does not include private home use of satellite dishes and television antennas or amateur radio operators as licensed by the Federal Communications Commission.
COMMUNICATION TOWER, ROOF-MOUNTED means a structure placed on a building used primarily for the support of broadcast and/or receiving equipment and utilized by commercial, governmental or other public or quasi-public users. A communication tower does not include private home use of satellite dishes and television antennas or amateur radio operators as licensed by the Federal Communications Commission.
COMMUNITY CENTER means a building to be used as a place of meeting, recreation or social activity and is not operated for profit and in that neither alcoholic beverages nor meals are normally dispensed or consumed.
CONDOMINIUM means a type of development in which the dwellings, offices, floor area, etc. are owned individually and the structure, common area and joint facilities are owned by all of the individual owners on a proportional and undivided basis as defined in ORC 5311.01.
CONSTRUCTION means any preparation, building or erection of a structure.
COUNCIL means the legislative body of the City of North Olmsted.
COUNTY means the County of Cuyahoga, Ohio.
CUL-DE-SAC means a street having one (1) end open to traffic and being terminated by a permanent vehicular turnaround.
DAY CARE CENTER means a facility, other than a private home, providing care for preschool children, school-aged children during before or after school hours or adults who do not reside in the facility, are present primarily during daytime hours, do not regularly stay overnight and that may include some instruction.
DEDICATION means the transfer of land or an interest in land (for example, a right of way or utility easement) by its owner to public ownership, to be used for a public purpose.
DEED means a written instrument by which the owner of real estate (grantor) conveys their land, or an interest in their land, to another (grantee).
DEMOLITION means the razing of any structure, in whole or in part, including its ruin by neglect of maintenance or repairs.
DENSITY means a ratio of population, residential units or floor area of development to a unit of land area.
DETENTION STRUCTURE means a permanent storm water management structure whose primary purpose is to store storm water runoff temporarily and release the stored runoff at controlled rates.
DEVELOPER means any person acting in his own behalf, or as an owner, or as an agent for an owner of property, and (1) who makes application for plan approval and a permit under the provisions of this ordinance or (2) a person undertaking or for whose benefit, activities covered by these regulations are commenced and/or carried out.
DEVELOPMENT means any manmade change to improved or unimproved real estate, including but not limited to: subdivision of land; construction or alteration of structures, roads, utilities and other facilities; installation of septic systems; mining, dredging, grading, paving, excavation or drilling operations; deposit of refuse, debris or fill materials; and clearing of natural vegetative cover.
DIAMETER AT BREAST HEIGHT (DBH) means the diameter of a tree measured at 4.5 feet above the base of the tree. Multi-stem trees are considered one (1) individual tree and each stem must be measured 4.5 feet above the base of the stem and added together to determine the diameter of the multi-stem tree.
DIRECT ILLUMINATION means the center of a beam or main beam angle of a lighting fixture.
DISTRICT means one (1) of any number of continuous and contiguous geographic areas within which the provisions and regulations of this ordinance apply uniformly to each class or kind of structure or land.
DRAINAGE means a general term applied to the removal of surface or subsurface water from a given area either by gravity, natural means, or by systems constructed to remove water and is commonly applied to surface water.
DRIVE-THROUGH FACILITIES means any portion of a building from which business is transacted, or is capable of being transacted, directly with customers located in a motor vehicle during such business transactions. The term "drive-through" shall also include "drive-up" and "drive-in" facilities.
DWELLING means a building designed and occupied exclusively for residential purposes. An attached garage shall be considered a part of the dwelling.
DWELLING UNIT means a building or portion of a building designed for use and occupancy by one (1) family having permanent provisions for living, sleeping, eating, cooking and sanitation. A recreational vehicle, vehicle chassis, tent or other transient residential use is not considered a dwelling.
DWELLING, MULTIPLE-FAMILY means a building or portion of a building designed for residential use and containing three (3) or more attached dwelling units with various arrangements of entrances and party walls, comprising a unified building design. This term shall not include hotels and motels.
DWELLING, SINGLE-FAMILY ATTACHED means a building consisting of separate dwelling units sharing common or party walls with at least one (1) other dwelling unit with each unit having at least two (2) separate entrances.
DWELLING, SINGLE-FAMILY DETACHED means a freestanding dwelling unit designed for and occupied exclusively by one (1) family and having at least two (2) separate entrances.
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, separated from each other by tenant walls, floors and/or ceilings of concrete, masonry or the equivalent, and each unit having either a separate or combined entrance(s).
(Ord. 2020-78. Passed 11-17-20.)