For the purpose of this Title, certain terms and words used herein shall be interpreted or defined as follows:
Words used in the present tense include the future tense.
The singular number includes the plural.
The word "person" includes a corporation as well as an individual.
The word "building" shall include the word structure.
The word "shall" is always mandatory and not directory.
ACCESSORY: | As applied to a building, structure, or use, one which is on the same lot with, which is incidental and subordinate to the main or principal building, structure or use, and which in area, extent or purpose is subordinate to said principal building, structure or use. |
ALLEY: | A public or private thoroughfare which affords only a secondary means of access to the property abutting thereon. |
APARTMENT: | A room or suite of rooms in a multiple- or two-family dwelling, or where more than one unit is established above nonresidential uses, intended or designed for use as a residence by a single family. |
APARTMENT HOUSE: | See definition of Dwelling, Multiple. |
BASEMENT: | A story having part but not less than one-half (1/2) of its height below grade. A basement shall not be counted as a story for the purpose of height regulation. |
BOARDING HOUSE: | A building other than a hotel where, for compensation, meals and lodging are provided for three (3) but not more than twelve (12) persons. |
BUILDING: | Any structure designed or intended for the support, enclosure, shelter or protection of persons, animals, chattels or property. When a structure is divided into separate parts by unpierced walls extending from the ground, each part is deemed a separate building. |
BUILDING, FRONT LINE: | The line of that face of the building nearest the front line of the lot. This face includes sun parlors and covered porches whether enclosed or unenclosed but does not include steps. |
BUILDING, HEIGHT OF: | The vertical distance from the grade to the highest point of the building. |
CELLAR: | A story having more than one-half (1/2) of its height below grade. A cellar is not included in computing the number of stories for the purpose of height measurement. |
COVERAGE: | That percentage of the plot or lot area covered by the building area. |
DISTRICT: | A section or sections of the Village for which the regulations governing the use of buildings and premises, the height of buildings, the size of yards and intensity of use are uniform. |
DWELLING DISTRICT: | Every district specified in this Title, except the B-1 Business and Commercial District, I-1 Industrial District (light) and I-2 Industrial District (heavy) is designated as Dwelling District. |
DWELLING, MULTIPLE: | A building designed for or occupied exclusively by more than two (2) families. |
DWELLING, SINGLE-FAMILY: | A building designed for or occupied exclusively by one family. |
DWELLING, TWO-FAMILY: | A building designed for or occupied exclusively by two (2) families. |
DWELLINGS: | Any building or portion thereof, but not a trailer, which is designed and used exclusively for residential purposes. |
FAMILY: | One or more persons occupying a premises and living as a single housekeeping unit, whether or not related to each other by birth, adoption or marriage, but no unrelated group shall consist of more than five (5) persons as distinguished from a group occupying a "boarding house", "lodging house" or "hotel", as defined herein. |
FARM: | An area which is used for the growing of the usual farm products such as vegetables, fruit, trees and grain, and their storage on the area, as well as for the raising thereon the usual farm poultry and farm animals for the use or consumption of the person or persons operating the farm. The term "farming" includes the operating of the necessary accessory uses for treating or storing the produce; however, the operation of any such accessory uses shall be secondary to that of the normal farming activities, and provided further, that farming shall not include the feeding of garbage or offal to swine or other animals. |
FILLING STATION: | Any building or premises used for the dispensing, sale or offering for sale at retail of any automobile fuels or oils. When the dispensing, sale or offering for sale is incidental to the conduct of a public garage, the premises shall be classified as a public garage. |
FRONTAGE: | All property on one side of a street between two (2) intersecting streets (crossing or terminating), measured along the line of the street, or if the street is a dead-end street, then all of the property abutting on one side between an intersecting street and the dead end of the street. |
GARAGE, CLASS I: | An accessory building housing motor-driven vehicles which are the property of and for the private use of the occupants of the lot on which the private garage is located, not more than one of the vehicles being a commercial vehicle of not more than three (3) tons' capacity. |
GARAGE, CLASS II: | Any building or premises used for the housing only of motor-driven vehicles other than trucks and commercial vehicles, pursuant to previous arrangements and not to transients and at which automobile fuels and oils are not sold and motor-driven vehicles are not equipped, repaired, hired or sold. |
GARAGE, CLASS III: | Any building or premises used for the housing, hiring, storing, equipping or repairing of motor-driven trucks, commercial or other vehicles owned, leased or operated by the occupant of the premises in the conduct of or as accessory to a business or occupation. |
GARAGE, CLASS IV: | Any building or premises except those as a private or storage garage, used for equipping, repairing, hiring, selling or storing motor-driven vehicles. |
GRADE: | (A) For buildings having walls adjoining more than one street, the average of the established elevation of the sidewalk at the centers of all walls adjoining the street. (B) For buildings having no wall adjoining the street, the average level of the finished surface of the ground adjacent to the exterior walls of the building. Any wall approximately parallel to and not more than twenty feet (20') from the street is to be considered as adjoining the street. |
HOME OCCUPATION: | Any gainful occupation or profession conducted entirely within a dwelling or a structure accessory thereto, and carried on in such a manner as to be clearly accessory to the use of the dwelling for residential purposes. |
HOTEL: | A building in which lodging is provided and offered to the public for compensation, and which is open to transient guests, in contradistinction to a boarding house or lodging house. |
INSTITUTION: | A building occupied by a nonprofit corporation or a nonprofit organization for public use. |
LODGING HOUSE: | A building or place where lodging is provided (or which is equipped regularly to provide lodging by prearrangement for definite periods) for compensation for three (3) or more but not exceeding twelve (12) individuals, not open to transient guests, in contradistinction to hotels open to transients. |
LOT, CORNER: | A lot abutting upon two (2) or more streets at their intersection. |
LOT, DEPTH OF: | The mean horizontal distance between the front and rear lot lines. |
LOT, DOUBLE FRONTAGE: | A lot having a frontage on two (2) nonintersecting streets, as distinguished from a corner lot. |
LOT OF RECORD: | A lot which is a part of a subdivision, the map of which has been recorded in the office of the Recorder of Deeds, or a parcel of land the deed to which was recorded in the office of the Recorder of Deeds prior to the date of the adoption of this Title. |
LOTS: | A parcel of land occupied or intended for occupancy by use permitted in this Title, including one main building together with its accessory building, the open spaces and parking spaces required by this Title, and having its principal frontage upon a street or upon an officially approved place. The minimum width shall be not less than fifty feet (50') wide, nor shall it have a minimum area of less than four thousand (4,000) square feet. |
MANUFACTURING OR INDUSTRY: | Any use in which the major activity is the treatment, processing, rebuilding, repairing or wholesale storage of material, products or items, and where the finished product is not acquired by the ultimate user on the premises, as distinguished from a retail use where the treatment, processing, repairing or storage is secondary to the sale, exchange or repairing of materials or products on the premises. |
NONCONFORMING USE: | Any building or land lawfully occupied by the use at the time of passage of the original Zoning Ordinance or any amendment thereto, which does not conform after the passage of this Title or amendment thereto with the use regulations of the district in which it is situated. |
PARKING SPACE: | A durable surfaced area, enclosed in the main building, in an accessory building, or unenclosed, and if the space is unenclosed comprising an area of not less than one hundred forty (140) square feet, exclusive of a durable surfaced driveway connecting the parking space with a street or alley and permitting satisfactory ingress and egress of an automobile. |
PLACE: | An open unoccupied space other than a street or alley permanently reserved as the principal means of access to abutting property. |
ROOMING HOUSE: | See definition of Lodging House. |
SERVICE ESTABLISHMENTS: | Shops wherein the major activities are the repair and maintenance of wearing apparel, sporting goods and articles for use in the home, including household appliances. |
STABLE: | A building accommodating one or more horses. |
STORY: | That portion of a building, other than a cellar or basement included between the surface of any floor and the surface of the floor next above it, or if there be no floor above it, then the space between the floor and the ceiling next above it. |
STORY, HALF: | A space under a sloping roof which has the line of intersection of roof decking and wall space not more than three feet (3') above the top floor level and in which space not more than sixty percent (60%) of the floor area is finished for use. |
STREET: | All property dedicated or intended for public or private street, highway, freeway or roadway purposes or subject to easements therefor. |
STREET LINE: | A dividing line between a lot, tract or parcel of land and a contiguous street. |
STRUCTURAL ALTERATIONS: | Any change in the supporting members of a building, such as bearing walls of partitions, columns, beams or girders, or any substantial change in the roof or in the exterior walls. |
STRUCTURE: | Anything constructed or erected which requires permanent location on the ground or attached to something having a permanent location on the ground, including, but without limiting the generality of the foregoing, advertising signs, billboards, backstops for tennis courts, TV satellite receiving antennas and pergolas. |
TOURIST OR TRAILER CAMP: | An area containing one or more structures, designed or intended to be used as temporary living facilities of two (2) or more families, and intended primarily for automobile transients or providing spaces where two (2) or more tents or auto-trailers can be or are intended to be parked. |
TRAILER: | Any structure used for living, sleeping, business or storage purposes, having no foundation other than wheels, blocks, skids, jacks, horses or skirtings, and which is, has been or reasonably can be equipped with wheels or other devices for transporting the structure from place to place, whether by motive power or other means. The term "trailer" shall include camp car, camper and house car. |
YARD: | An open space on the same lot with a building, occupied and unobstructed by any portion of a structure from the ground upward, except as otherwise provided herein. In measuring a yard for the purpose of determining the width of a side yard, or the depth of a rear yard, the mean horizontal distance between the lot line and main building shall be used. |
YARD, FRONT: | 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 the main building or any projection thereto other than the projection of the usual steps. |
YARD, REAR: | 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 rear of the main building or any projections other than steps. 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. |
YARD, SIDE: | The yard between the main building and the side line of the lot, and extending from the front lot line to the rear yard line. (Ord. 1040, 8-10-2020) |