(1) SALVAGE YARD - Any location whose primary use is where waste or scrap materials are stored, bought, sold, accumulated, exchanged, packaged, disassembled or handled, including, but not limited to, materials such as scrap metals, paper, rags, tires and bottles.
(2) SCHOOL, COMMERCIAL - A school establishment to provide for the teaching of industrial, clerical, managerial or artistic skills. This definition applies to schools that are owned and operated privately for profit and that do not offer a complete educational curriculum (e.g., beauty school, modeling school).
(3) SETBACK - The distance between the building and any lot line.
(4) SHOPPING CENTER - A group of five (5) or more commercial establishments on one lot and managed as a unit with off-street parking on-site, and having 30,000 square feet or more of floor area.
(5) SIGN - Any object, device, display, or structure, or part thereof, situated outdoors or indoors, which is used to advertise, identify, display, direct, or attract attention to an object, person, institution, organization, business, product, service, event, or location by any means, including words, letters, figures, design, symbols, fixtures, colors, illumination, or projected images.
(6) SIGN TYPES
A. ILLUMINATED SIGN, DIRECTLY - A sign with internal electronic circuitry emitting light through the sign face.
B. ILLUMINATED SIGN, INDIRECTLY - A sign which is illuminated by an external source which reflects light off the surface of a sign face.
C. POLE SIGN - A sign erected on a single pole or multiple poles regardless of size and shape.
(7) SITE PLAN - A plan which outlines the use and development of any tract of land.
(8) SPECIFIED ANATOMICAL AREAS - Less than completely and opaquely covered human genitals, pubic region, buttock, and female breasts below a point immediately above the top of the areola; or human male genitals in a discernible turgid state even if completely and opaquely covered.
(9) SPECIFIED SEXUAL ACTIVITIES - Human genitals in a state of sexual stimulation or arousal; Acts, real or simulated, of human masturbation, sexual intercourse, sodomy, cunnilingus, or fellatio; or fondling or other erotic touching of human genitals, pubic region, buttock, and female breasts below a point immediately above the top of the areola.
(10) STOOP - An exterior floor or platform typically, but not necessarily, constructed of concrete and/or masonry and sometimes having an overhead roof, utilized for the primary purpose of accessing a building entrance.
(11) STORY - That portion of a building included between the surface of any floor and the surface of the floor next above it, or if there is no floor above it, then the space between the floor and the ceiling next above it and including those basements used for the principal use.
(12) STREET - Any vehicular way that: (1) is an existing state, county, or municipal roadway; (2) is shown upon a plat approved pursuant to law; (3) is approved by other official action.
A. ARTERIAL - A major roadway that provides intra-community travel and access to the county or regional highway system. Access to an arterial should be provided at collector and local streets.
B. COLLECTOR - A thoroughfare which provides for distribution of traffic between major and local streets and abutting properties, including the principal entrance and circulation routes within residential subdivisions.
C. LOCAL - A street primarily used for providing access to individual properties as shown of the official Thoroughfare Plan.
D. PRIVATE - A street that has not been accepted by the municipality or other governmental entity.
(13) STREET LINE - A dividing line between a lot, tract or parcel of land, and a continuous street.
(14) STRUCTURE - Anything permanently constructed, erected or located on the ground, including, but not limited to, advertising signs and backstops for tennis courts.
(15) STRUCTURAL ALTERATION - Any change in the supporting member of a building such as bearing walls, columns, beams or girders, or any substantial change in the roof or in the exterior walls or change in the design or dimensions of the roof or exterior walls.
(16) STUDIO - Means the working place of a painter, sculptor or photographer or other artists, or a place maintained and equipped for the transmission of radio or television programs.
(17) SUBDIVISION - The division of a tract, lot or parcel of land into two or more lots, plats, sites or other divisions of land.
(Ord. 3612. Passed 1-19-21.)