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(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.)
(1) WAREHOUSE - A building used primarily for the storage of goods and materials.
(2) WIRELESS AND CELLULAR TELECOMMUNICATION FACILITIES - Any cables, wires, lines, wave-guides, support structures, antenna, and any other equipment or facilities associated with the transmission or reception of communications, as authorized by the Federal Communication Commission, which an applicant seeks to locate, or have installed, upon or within a tower or existing structure.
(Ord. 2782. Passed 5-20-03.)
(1) YARD - An open space that lies between the principal building or buildings and the nearest lot line. The minimum required yard as set forth in the ordinance is unoccupied and unobstructed from the ground upward except as may be specifically provided in the zoning ordinance.
A. YARD, FRONT - A space extending the full width of the lot between any building and the front lot line and measured perpendicular to the building at the closest point to the front lot line.
B. YARD, REAR - A space extending across the full width of the lot between the principal building and the rear lot line and measured perpendicular to the building to the closest point of the rear lot line.
C. YARD, SIDE - A space extending from the front year to the rear yard between the principal building and the side lot line and measured perpendicular from the side lot line to the closest point of the principal building.
(Ord. 2782. Passed 5-20-03.)
(1) ZONING ADMINISTRATOR - That official appointed by the City Manager to administer and enforce the Zoning Code and subdivision regulations.
(2) ZONING MAP - The official Zoning Map of the City of Oxford is the District Map, 1989 edition, together with all amendments subsequently adopted by the Oxford City Council, on file in the Municipal Building.
(3) ZONING PERMIT - A document issued by the Zoning Administrator authorizing buildings, structures, or uses consistent with the terms of this Zoning Code including “non-conforming” situations.
(Ord. 2782. Passed 5-20-03.)
CODIFIED ORDINANCES OF OXFORD