EASEMENT means a grant or reservation made by the owner of a strip or parcel of land for specific purpose to the general public, specific people, or a corporation. The property owner retains ownership and grants perpetual use of a defined portion for a specific purpose.
ELDERLY HOUSING means a residential structure designed specifically to provide for the special housing needs of elderly persons, including any and all special safety and convenience features as required in buildings qualifying for governmental housing assistance for the elderly.
ELECTRONIC MESSAGE CENTER means a sign designed so that the characters, letters, or illustrations can be changed or rearranged automatically on a lampbank or through mechanical means (e.g. electronic or digital signs).
ELEVATION shall mean one of the following:
a. A scale drawing of the view of one side of a building or structure that indicates location and dimensions of doors and windows, floor-to-floor heights and the final grade level of the ground adjacent to the building in relation to the floor level. Elevations generally show the types of wall finishes, such as wood, stone or brick, as well as architectural details of doors, windows and exterior stairs.
b. The altitude of the ground or a place above sea level.
ENGINEER means the City Engineer of the City of North Olmsted.
EMPLOYEES means the maximum number of employees on the two (2) largest successive shifts.
ERECT shall mean to build, construct, alter, relocate, modify, attach, hang, place, suspend or affix, and shall also include the painting of signs.
EROSION means the wearing away of land surface by the action of wind, water, gravity, ice or any combination of those forces.
EROSION AND SEDIMENT CONTROL means the control of solid material, both mineral and organic, during a land disturbing activity to prevent its transport out of the disturbed area by air, water, gravity or ice.
ESSENTIAL SERVICES means the erection, construction, alteration or maintenance by a public utility or municipal department of underground, surface or overhead gas, communication, telephone, electrical, steam, fuel or water, transmission, distribution collection, supply or disposal systems. This includes related poles, wires, pipes, conduit, cables, public safety alarm and communication equipment, traffic signals, hydrants and similar accessories that are necessary to furnish adequate service, addressing general public health, safety, convenience or welfare. Wireless telecommunication towers (unless located on public property and used as part of a municipal emergency communications network), wind energy conversion systems, office buildings, substations or structures that are enclosures or shelters for service equipment, or maintenance depots are not considered essential services.
EXTERIOR LIGHTING means temporary or permanent lighting that is installed, located or used in such a manner to cause light rays to shine outside. Fixtures that are installed indoors that are intended to light something outside are considered exterior lighting for the intent of this ordinance.
FAÇADE, PRIMARY means, for the purpose of sign regulations, a façade that faces directly onto a public street or that contains the majority of customer entrances, if the façade does not face a public street. A building may have only one primary façade.
FAÇADE, SECONDARY means, for the purpose of the sign regulations, a façade other than the primary façade that faces directly onto a public street. A building may have only one secondary façade.
FALL ZONE means the area on the ground within a prescribed radius from the base of a WECS. The fall zone is the area within which there is a potential hazard from falling debris (such as ice) and, in the case of towers, shall not be less than a radius equal in distance to the total height of the WECS.
FAMILY means one (1) or more persons, living together as a single housekeeping unit and occupying a single dwelling unit, whether or not related to each other by birth or marriage.
FILL means a deposit of soil, rock or other material placed by humans.
FLOOD LIGHT means any light fixture or lamp that incorporates a reflector or a refractor to concentrate the light output into a directed beam in a particular direction.
FLOOR AREA means the total area of all the floors as measured from the exterior faces of the building, except that an area used for storage of merchandise or housing of mechanical equipment may be excluded if approved by the Building Commissioner, or only the floor area occupied by the specific use if so set forth in the schedule in Section 1161.03.
FLOOR AREA, GROSS means the sum of the area of all of a building's floors existing within its exterior walls.
FLOOR AREA, LIVEABLE means the total area of all floors within a dwelling unit whose height is more than half above the finished grade, having a minimum floor-to-ceiling height of seven and one-half (7½) feet, located on a permanent foundation, wired for electrical service and fully enclosed for year-round use. This term shall not include garages.
FLOOR AREA, MINIMUM means the required minimum number of square feet of floor area of a dwelling unit or structure.
FLOOR AREA, NET means the total floor area of a structure minus the square footage devoted to elevator shafts, stairwells, interior space used for parking or loading, equipment and utility rooms and basement areas.
FLOOR AREA, USEABLE means the actual occupied area not including unoccupied accessory areas such as corridors, stairways, bathrooms, storage rooms, mechanical/utility rooms and closets. |  |
FOOTPRINT means the area of land surface on the site that will be covered by the planned building. It shall equal the outside dimensions of the structures depicted on the plans used by the builder or contractor.
FRONTAGE means the distance between the side lot lines measured at the street right-of-way.
FRONTAGE, BUILDING means the linear dimension of the width of the widest portion of the building face including all appurtenant overhangs or other structures, either:
a. Closest to parallel to the principal street or
b. Containing the primary building entrance, of any building on any lot.
FULL CUTOFF FIXTURE means an outdoor light fixture shielded or constructed in such a manner that it emits no light above the horizontal plane of the fixture.
(Ord. 2020-78. Passed 11-17-20.)