(1) ACCESS A way or means of approach to provide vehicular or pedestrian physical entrance to a property from a public right-of-way.
(2) ACCESSORY BUILDING OR STRUCTURE - A structure detached from a principal building located on the same lot and customarily incidental and subordinate to the principal building or use. Such as fences, garages, and parking spaces.
(3) ACCESSORY USE - A use that is incidental to the principal use of the building or lot.
(4) ACREAGE, NET - Land area remaining after deductions are made for, including streets, easements for access, street dedications, and similar areas.
(5) ADDITION – Any extension or enlargement of a structure that results in additional square foot area.
(6) ADULT ENTERTAINMENT USE - An establishment consisting of, including, or having characteristics of any or all of the following:
A. ADULT BOOKSTORE – An establishment having as a substantial or significant portion of its stock-in-trade books, magazines, publications, tapes, or films that are distinguished or characterized by their emphasis on matter depicting, describing, or relating to sexual activities or anatomical genital areas.
B. ADULT CABARET – (1) An establishment devoted to adult entertainment devoted to adult entertainment, either with or without a liquor license, presenting material distinguished or characterized by an emphasis on matter depicting, describing, or relating to sexual activities or anatomical genital areas; (2) a cabaret that features topless dancers, go-go dancers, strippers, male or female impersonators, or similar entertainers for observation by patrons.
C. ADULT MINI MOTION PICTURE THEATER – An enclosed building with a capacity for less than fifty persons used for presenting material distinguished or characterized by an emphasis on matter depicting, describing, or relating to sexual activities or anatomical genital areas.
D. ADULT MOTION PICTURE THEATER – An enclosed building with a capacity for fifty or more persons used for presenting material distinguished or characterized by an emphasis on matter depicting, describing, or relating to sexual activities or anatomical areas.
E. ADULT PARAPHERNALIA STORE – An establishment having as a significant portion of its stock in trade, mechanical and/or non-mechanical devices which are distinguished or characterized by their intended use for sexual arousal and / or massage of “specific anatomical areas,” as herein defined.
(7) AFFORDABLE HOUSING – Housing with purchase values or rent costs that are less than 30% of the annual household income of a household with an annual income 80% or less of the median income for Butler County as defined on the Department of Housing and Urban Development’s annually published tables.
(8) AGRICULTURE - The use of land for farming, dairying, pasturage, apiculture, horticulture, floriculture, viticulture or animal or poultry husbandry and the necessary accessory uses for packing, treating or storing the produce, provided that the operation of any such accessory use is secondary to that of normal agricultural activities and provided, further, that the uses do not include the commercial feeding of garbage or offal to swine or other animals.
(9) AISLE - That portion of the off-street parking and loading area that provides access to parking, cueing or loading spaces, exclusive of driveways and parking and loading spaces. Minimum aisle width to serve a loading space shall be 15 feet.
(10) ALLEY - A service, space, or roadway providing a secondary means of public access to abutting property and not intended for general traffic circulation.
(11) ALTERATION - Any change or rearrangement in the supporting members of an existing building, such as bearing walls, columns, beams, girders, or interior partitions, as well as any change in doors, windows, means of ingress or egress, or any enlargement to or diminution of a building or structure, whether horizontally or vertically, or the moving of a building or structure from one location to another.
(12) AMERICANS WITH DISABILITIES ACT (ADA) – An act to establish a clear and comprehensive prohibition of discrimination on the basis of disability.
(13) AMUSEMENT ARCADE – A building or part of a building in which five or more pinball machines, video games, or other similar player-operated amusement devices are maintained.
(14) ANIMAL HOSPITAL / CLINIC – A building with necessary appurtenances, for the treatment of and/or temporary occupancy of ailing animals.
(15) ANTENNA - Any panel (directional antenna), whip or rod (omni-directional antenna), dish or disc (parabolic antenna), or other similar, devices used for communications through the sending and /or receiving of electromagnetic waves. The definition of antenna does not include any support structure other than mounting brackets.
(16) APARTMENT - A dwelling unit in a multi-family building, complex, duplex, or tri-plex. (also see “dwelling”).
(17) AQUIFER – A geologic formation, group of geologic formations, or a portion of a geologic formation capable of yielding ground water to wells or springs.
(18) AQUIFER RECHARGE AREA – An area that has soils and geological features conducive to allowing significant amounts of surface water to percolate into the groundwater.
(19) AUTOMOBILE SERVICE STATION - Any building, land area, or other premises, or portion thereof, used for the retail dispensing or sales of vehicular fuels; servicing and repair of automobiles; and including as an accessory use the sale and installation of lubricants, tires, batteries, and similar vehicle accessories.
(20) AUTOMOBILE OR CAR WASH - Any building or premises or portions thereof used for washing vehicles.
(21) AUTOMOTIVE REPAIR SERVICES & GARAGES - Establishments primarily engaged in furnishing automotive repair, rental leasing, and parking services to the general public.
(22) AUTOMOBILE SALES – The display or sale of new or used passenger motor vehicles, motorcycles or trucks and where no repair work is done except minor incidental repair of passenger motor vehicles, trucks, or motorcycles to be displayed and sold on the premises.
(23) AUTOMOTIVE WRECKING - The dismantling or wrecking or used motor vehicles or trailers, or the storage, sale or dumping of dismantled, partially dismantled, obsolete or wrecked vehicles or their parts.
(24) AWNING - A shelter supported entirely from the exterior wall of a building.
(Ord. 2782. Passed 5-20-03.)