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(1) PARK - A tract of land designated and used by the public for active and passive recreation.
(2) PARK AND RIDE FACILITIES - Parking lots or structures located along public transit routes designed to encourage transfer from private automobile to mass transit or to encourage carpooling for purposes of commuting, or for access to recreation areas.
(3) PARKING GARAGE - A building, other than a private garage, used for the parking of automobiles with or without a fee.
(4) PARKING LOT - An open area, other than a street, used for the parking of vehicles.
(5) PATIO - An uncovered floor, usually made of concrete, brick, or other masonry material, which is not elevated above the surface of the ground and generally used for outdoor enjoyment or dining.
(6) PERFORMANCE STANDARD - A criterion established in the interest of protecting the public health and safety for the control of noise, odor, smoke, noxious gas, and other objectionable or dangerous elements generated by and inherent in, or incidental to, certain uses and activities.
(7) PERSONAL WIRELESS SERVICE - Commercial mobile services, unlicensed wireless services and common carriers wireless exchange access service, including, cellular services.
(8) PLACE OF WORSHIP - Church, synagogue, temple, rector, parish house, meditation center, or similar building incidental to the particular use which is maintained and operated by an organized group of people for religious purposes.
(9) PLANNED DEVELOPMENT - An area of land that is planned, developed, and maintained as a cohesive development according to the provisions of this Zoning Code.
(10) PLOT PLAN - A plat of a lot, drawn to scale, showing the actual measurements, the size and location of any existing buildings or buildings to be erected, the location of the lot in relation to abutting streets, and other such information.
(11) POOL - Any structure that contains water over twenty-four (24) inches (610 mm) in depth and which is used, or intended to be used, for swimming or recreational bathing as an accessory use. This includes in-ground, aboveground and on-ground swimming pools, hot tubs and spas.
(12) PORCH - A covered platform, usually having a separate roof, at an entrance to a dwelling or building, or an open or enclosed gallery or room which is not heated or cooled that is attached to the outside of a building.
(13) PREMISES - Any lot or combination of contiguous lots held in single ownership, together with the development thereon; a condominium complex constitutes one premises.
(14) PRINCIPAL BUILDING - A building on a lot containing the primary use of the lot.
(15) PRINCIPAL ENTRANCE - The place of ingress and egress used most frequently by the public.
(16) PRINTING & PUBLISHING - The setting of type and the printing and publishing of books, newspapers, etc. for sale.
(17) PROFESSIONAL OFFICE - An office of a practitioner or practitioners of a specific occupation, vocation or calling in which a professed knowledge of some department of science or learning, not purely commercial, mechanical or agricultural, is used in its practical application to the affairs of other, either by advising or by guiding them in serving their interests or welfare. Such uses include, but are not limited to, offices of medical doctors, dentists, engineers, surveyors, city planners, lawyers, real estate brokers, insurance agents, architects, landscape architects, optometrists, and chiropractors.
(18) PUBLIC SERVICE FACILITY - A structure or facility used by a public or utility agency to store, distribute, generate electricity, gas, communications, and related equipment, or to pump or chemically treat water. This does not include storage or treatment of sewage, solid waste, or hazardous waste.
(19) PUBLIC USE - The public use of parks, schools and administrative, cultural and accessory building, not including public land or buildings devoted solely to the storage and maintenance of equipment and material.
(20) PUBLIC UTILITY - Any firm, corporation, governmental department, or board duly authorized to furnish and furnishing under State or Municipal regulation to the public, electricity, gas, steam, communications, telegraph, transportation, water, or sewers.
(21) PUBLIC WAY - Any street, alley or similar parcel of land essentially unobstructed from the ground to the sky which is deeded, dedicated or otherwise permanently appropriated to the public for public use.
(22) PUBLICLY OWNED PROPERTY - Any real property owned by the City of Oxford, Talawanda School District, Miami University, or Oxford Township.
(Ord. 3612. Passed 1-19-21.)
(1) QUASI-PUBLIC USE - A use owned or operated by a nonprofit, religious, or charitable institution and providing educational, cultural, recreational, religious, or similar types of programs.
(2) QUEUE – A line of people or vehicles awaiting individual turns.
(3) QUORUM - A majority of the authorized members of a board or commission.
(Ord. 2782. Passed 5-20-03.)
(1) RECONFIGURATION- interior or exterior modification to change the layout of a building or to make substantial/structural repair or alteration
(2) RECONSTRUCTION-. Rebuilding as a result of destruction or demolition of an
existing building to allow for a new building to be constructed on the same site.
(3) RECREATIONAL FACILITIES (COMMERCIAL) - Recreational facilities open to the public and operated for gain.
(4) RECREATIONAL FACILITIES (NON-COMMERCIAL) - Private and semipublic recreational facilities which are not operated for gain.
(5) RENOVATION- interior or exterior maintenance and/or upgrade of a structure,
which does not involve any structural alteration.
(6) RESIDENTIAL USE - Land designated in the Zoning Code and official map for
buildings consisting only of dwelling units.
(7) RESTAURANT - An establishment which sells prepared food for consumption.
Restaurants shall be classified as follows:
A. Restaurant, fast food: An establishment which sells food already prepared for consumption, packaged in paper, Styrofoam or similar materials, and may include drive-in or drive-up facilities for ordering.
B. Restaurant, general: An establishment which sells food for consumption on or off the premises.
C. Restaurant, take-out: An establishment which sells food only for consumption off the premises.
(8) RETAIL - The disposal, by sale or exchange, of specific goods to, or the acquisition of specific goods by, a person for use other than for purposes of resale.
(Ord. 3207. Passed 3-19-13.)
(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.)
(1) TALL STRUCTURE / SUPPORT STRUCTURE - Any building or structure, other than a tower, which can be used for location of wireless and cellular telecommunication facilities.
(2) THEATER - A building used primarily for the presentation of live stage productions, performances, or motion pictures.
(3) TOWER - Any freestanding structure that is designed and constructed primarily for the purpose of supporting one or more antennas, including self-supporting lattice towers, guy towers, or monopole towers. The term includes radio and television transmission towers, microwave towers, common-carrier towers, cellular telephone towers, and alternative tower structures.
(4) TRAILER - A structure standing on wheels, towed or hauled by another vehicle, and used for short-term human occupancy, carrying of materials, goods, or objects, or as a temporary office.
(5) TRANSIENT - A person staying at a location such as a hotel, motel, bed & breakfast, or a dwelling offering transient guest lodging for less than thirty (30) consecutive days and does not use the location as his or her permanent address.
(6) TRANSIENT GUEST LODGING - An accessory use occupying an entire dwelling unit or portion thereof where sleeping accommodations are offered for compensation to transients occupying a room or rooms.
A. TRANSIENT GUEST LODGING BOOKING - Each instance of a reservation by an individual or group for transient guest lodging.
B. TRANSIENT GUEST LODGING HOST - Any person who is the owner of record of residential real property, or any person who is a lessee of residential real property pursuant to a written agreement for the lease of such real property, who offers a dwelling unit, or portion thereof, for transient guest lodging.
C. TRANSIENT GUEST LODGING HOSTING PLATFORM - An internet-based platform that generally allows an owner or tenant to advertise the dwelling unit through a website and provides a means for potential transient users to arrange transient guest lodging and payment through the hosting platform. (Ord. 3585. Passed 9-15-20.)
(1) USE - The activity occurring on a lot or parcel for which land or a building is arranged, designed, or intended, or for which land or a building is or may be occupied, including all accessory uses.
A. USE, CHANGE OF - The change within the classified use of a structure or premise.
B. USE, NONCONFORMING - A use which lawfully occupied a building or land at the time this Zoning Code became effective, which has been lawfully continued and which does not now conform with the use regulations.
C. USE, PRINCIPAL - A use which fulfills a primary function of a household, establishment, institution, or other entity.
D. USE, TEMPORARY - A use that is authorized by this Zoning Code to be conducted for a fixed period of time. Temporary uses are characterized by such activities as the sale of agricultural products, contractors’ offices and equipment sheds, fireworks, carnivals, flea markets, and garage sales.
(2) USEABLE FLOOR AREA - The sum of the gross floor area of all of the floors of a building or structure and of all accessory buildings on a lot as measured from the interior face of the exterior walls and usable for human occupancy but which excludes the floor area of heater rooms, mechanical equipment rooms, utility rooms, storage rooms, attics, unenclosed porches, light shafts, public corridors, public stairwells, and public toilets.
(Ord. 2782. Passed 5-20-03.)
(1) VARIANCE - A modification of the strict terms of the relevant regulations where such modification will not be contrary to the public health, safety, or welfare and where owning to conditions peculiar to the property and not the result of the action of the applicant, a literal enforcement of the regulations would result in unnecessary and undue hardship.
(2) VETERINARY HOSPITAL - A place where animals are given medical care and the boarding of animals is limited to short-term care incidental to the hospital use.
(Ord. 2782. Passed 5-20-03.)
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