§ 152.003 DEFINITIONS.
   For the purpose of this chapter, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
   ABANDONMENT. An action to give up one's rights or interests in property. To leave unattended for 30 days.
   ACCESSORY BUILDING or USE.
      (1)   One of which:
         (a)   Is subordinate to and serves a principal building or principal use;
         (b)   Is subordinate in area, extent or purpose to the principal building use served;
         (c)   Contributes to the comfort, convenience or necessity of occupant of the principal building or principal use served; and
         (d)   Is located on the same zoning lot as the principal building or use served with the exceptions of (1) such accessory off-street parking facilities as are permitted to locate elsewhere than on the same zoning lot with the building or use served; and (2) if the principal building is rendered uninhabitable by fire, tornado or other natural disaster, but the accessory building or use remains in a safe and healthy condition, the accessory building or use may remain on the zoning lot notwithstanding the absence of the principal building. However, no expansion of the accessory building shall be made and no additional accessory buildings or uses thereof may be placed upon the zoning lot unless a principal building is constructed either prior to or contemporaneously therewith.
      (2)    ACCESSORY USE Includes but is not limited to the following:
         (a)   A children's playhouse, garden house and private greenhouse;
         (b)   A shed, garage or building or domestic storage;
         (c)   Storage of merchandise normally carried in stock on the same lot with any retail service or business use, unless such storage is excluded by the district regulations;
         (d)   Storage of goods used in or produced by manufacturing activities on the same lot or parcel of ground with such activities, unless such storage is excluded by the district regulations;
         (e)   Off-street motor car parking areas, and loading and unloading facilities;
         (f)   Signs (other than advertising signs) as permitted and regulated in each district incorporated herein;
         (g)   Carports;
         (h)   Public utility facilities -- telephone electric, gas, cable TV, water and sewer lines, their supports and incidental equipment.
   ACREAGE. Any tract or parcel of land having an area of one or more acres which has not heretofore been subdivided or plotted.
   ALLEY. A public way, which affords only a secondary means of access to abutting property.
   ALTERATION, STRUCTURAL. Any change which would tend to prolong the life of the supporting members of the building or structure, such as bearing walls, columns, beams or girders.
   ANIMAL HOSPITAL. Any building or portion thereof designed or used for the care, observation or treatment of domestic animals.
   APARTMENT. A room or suite of rooms in a multiple-family structure, which is arranged, designed, used or intended to be used as a single housekeeping unit. Complete kitchen facilities, permanently installed must always be included for each apartment.
   AUDITORIUM. A room, hall or building made a part of a church, school, recreation building or other building assigned to the gathering of people as an audience, to hear lectures, plays, indoor sporting events and other presentations.
   AUTOMOBILE LAUNDRY. A building or portion thereof, where automobiles are washed with the use of a chain conveyor and blower or steam-cleaning device.
   AUTOMOBILE REPAIR, MAJOR. Engine rebuilding or major reconditioning of worn or damaged motor vehicles or trailers collision service, including body, frame or fender straightening or repair, and painting of vehicles.
   AUTOMOBILE REPAIR, MINOR. Incidental repairs, replacement of parts and motor service to automobiles, but not including any operation specified under AUTOMOBILE REPAIR, MAJOR.
   AUTOMOBILE SERVICE STATION. A place where gasoline, stored only in underground tanks, kerosene, lubricating oil or grease, for operation of automobiles are offered for sale directly to the public on the premises and including minor accessories and the servicing of automobiles, but not including major automobile repairs; and including washing of automobiles where no chain conveyor, blower or steam-cleaning device is employed. When the dispensing, sale or offering of sale of motor fuels or oil is incidental to the conduct of a public garage, the premises shall be classified as a public garage. AUTOMOBILE SERVICE STATIONS shall not include sale or storage of automobiles, trucks or trailers (new or used).
   AUTOMOBILE SALES AREA. An open area other than a street, used for the display or sale of new or used automobiles and where no repair work is done except for minor incidental repair of automobiles to be displayed and sold on the premises.
   AUTOMOBILE WRECKING YARD. Any place where two or more motor vehicles, not in running condition or parts thereof, are stored in the open and are not being restored to operation or any land, building or structure used for wrecking or storing of such motor vehicles or parts thereof, and including any used farm vehicles or farm machinery or parts thereof, stored in the open and, not being restored to operating condition, and including the commercial salvaging of any other goods, articles or merchandise.
   AWNING. A roof-like cover, temporary in nature, which projects from the wall of a building or overhangs the public way.
   BASEMENT. A story partly or wholly underground. Where more than one-half of its height is above the established curb level or above the average level of the adjoining ground where the curb level has not been established, a basement shall be counted as a story for purposes of height measurement.
   BILLBOARD. Any structure or portion thereof upon which are signs or advertisements used as an outdoor display. This definition does not include bulletin boards used to announce church services or to display court or other public office notices, or signs offering the sale or lease of the premises on which the sign is located.
   BLOCK. A tract of land bounded by streets or, in lieu of a street or streets, by public parks, cemeteries, railroad rights-of-ways bulkhead lines or shore lines of waterways or corporate boundary lines of municipalities.
   BOARDING HOUSE. A building where meals are served or which is equipped to serve such meals (by previous arrangement) for definite periods for compensation for more than eight persons.
   BUILDABLE AREA. The space remaining on a zoning lot after the minimum open space requirements have been complied with.
   BUILDING. Any structure with substantial walls and roof securely affixed to the land and entirely separated on all sides from any other structure by space or by walls in which there are no communicating doors, windows or openings; and which is designed or intended for the shelter, enclosure or protection of persons, animals or chattels. Any structure with interior areas not normally accessible for human use, such as gas holders, oil tanks, water tanks, grain elevators, coal bunkers, oil cracking towers and other similar structures, are not considered as buildings.
   BUILDING, COMPLETELY ENCLOSED. A building separated on all sides from the adjacent open space or from other buildings or other structures, by a permanent roof and by exterior walls or party walls, pierced only by windows and normal entrance or exit doors.
   BUILDING, DETACHED. A building surrounded by open space on the same zoning lot.
   BUILDING HEIGHT. The vertical distance measured from the sidewalk level or its equivalent established grade opposite the middle of the front of the building to the highest elevation of the roof in the case of a slant or flat roofs to the deck line of a mansard roof and to the mean height level between eaves and ridge of a gable, hip, or gambrel roof provided that where buildings are set back from the street line, the height of the building may be measured from the average elevation of the finished lot grade at the front of the building.
   BUILDING LINE. The line nearest the front of and across a zoning lot, establishing the minimum open space to be provided between the front line of a building or structure and the street right-of-way line.
   BUILDING, NONCONFORMING. Any building which does not conform to the regulations herein prescribing the maximum floor area ratio, required yards, coverage, height and setbacks, minimum required spacing between buildings on a single lot, and minimum required usable open space for the district in which such building is located.
   BUILDING, PRINCIPAL. A non-accessory building in which the principal use of the zoning lot on which it is located, is conducted.
   BUILDING SETBACK LINE. A line parallel to the street line at a distance from it, regulated by the front yard requirements set up herein.
   BUILDING, TEMPORARY. Any building not designed to be permanently located in the place where it is, or where it is intended to be, placed or affixed.
   BULK. The term used to indicate the size and setbacks of buildings or structures and location of same with respect to one another and includes the following:
      (1)   Size and height of buildings;
      (2)   Location of exterior walls at all levels in relation to lot lines, streets or other buildings;
      (3)   Gross floor area of buildings in relation to lot area (floor area ratio);
      (4)   All open spaces allocated to the buildings;
      (5)   Amount of lot area per dwelling unit; and
      (6)   Required parking areas.
   BUS LOTS. Any lot or land area uses for the storage or layover of passenger buses or motor coaches, including school buses.
   CARPORT. A roofed-over area attached to the principal building for vehicle storage, which may be open on three sides.
   CELLAR. A story having more than one-half its height below the curb level or below the highest level of the adjoining ground. A cellar shall not be counted as a story for the purpose of height measurement.
   CLINIC OR MEDICAL HEALTH CENTER. A medical or dental center or clinic is an establishment where two or more licensed doctors of medicine engage in the practice of medicine, or dentistry, operating on a group or individual basis, with pooled facilities, such as coordinated laboratory, x-ray and allied departments for the diagnosis and treatment of humans, which need not but may include, a drug prescription counter (not a drug store) for the dispensing of drugs and pharmaceutical products to the patients of the organization.
   CLUB OR LODGE, PRIVATE. A nonprofit association of persons, who are bona fide members paying annual dues which owns, hires or leases a building or portion thereof the use of such premises being restricted to members and their guests. It shall be permissible to serve food and meals on such premises, provided that adequate dining room space and kitchen facilities are available.
   CURB LEVEL. The level of the established curb in front of the building measured at the center of such front. Where a building faces on more than one street, the CURB LEVEL shall be the average of the levels of the curbs at the center of the front of each street. Where no curb elevation has been established, the mean level of the land immediately adjacent to the building shall be considered the CURB LEVEL.
   DAY NURSERY. A building or portion thereof used for the daytime care of preschool age children.
   DWELLING. A building or portion thereof, but not including a house trailer or mobile home, designed or used exclusively for residential occupancy, including one family dwelling units, but not including hotels, motels, boarding or lodging houses.
   DWELLING, DETACHED. A dwelling which is entirely surrounded by open space on the same lot.
   DWELLING, GROUP. Two or more one-family, two-family or multiple-family dwellings or boarding or lodging houses, located on one zoning lot, but not including tourist courts or motels.
   DWELLING, MULTIPLE-FAMILY. A building or portion thereof, designed or altered for occupancy by three or more families, living independently of each other. For the purposes of this chapter, a condominium containing more than two dwelling units shall be considered a multiples-family dwelling.
   DWELLING, ONE-FAMILY. A dwelling unit designed exclusively for use and occupancy by one family.
   DWELLING, ROW (PARTY WALL). A row of two to eight attached one-family party-wall dwellings, not more than two and one-half stories in height nor more than two rooms in depth, measured from the building line.
   DWELLING, SEMI-DETACHED. A dwelling which is joined to another dwelling at one or more sides by a party wall or walls.
   DWELLING, TWO-FAMILY. A building designed or altered to provide dwelling units for occupancy by two families.
   DWELLING UNIT. One or more rooms in a residential structure which are arranged, designed, used or intended to be used by one family, plus not more than three lodgers, for living or sleeping purposes, and which include complete kitchen facilities permanently installed.
   FAMILY. One or more persons related by blood, marriage or adoption, or a group of not more than five persons, who need not be related by blood, marriage or adoption, living together and maintaining a common household, but not including sororities, fraternities or similar organizations.
   FLOOR AREA, GROSS. 
      (1)   For the purpose of determining floor area ratio, the floor area of a building or buildings shall be the sum of the gross horizontal areas of the several floors of such building or buildings-- measured from the exterior faces of exterior walls or from the center line of panty walls separating two buildings. In particular, GROSS FLOOR AREA shall include:
         (a)   Basement space if at least one-half of the basement story height is above the established curb or ground level;
         (b)   Elevator shafts and stairwells at each floor;
         (c)   Floor space used for mechanical equipment where the structural headroom exceeds seven and one-half feet; except equipment, open or enclosed, located on the roof; for example, bulkheads, water tanks and cooling towers;
         (d)   Attic floor space where the structural headroom exceeds seven and one-half feet;
         (e)   Interior balconies and mezzanines;
         (f)   Enclosed porches, but not terraces and breezeways; and
         (g)   Accessory buildings.
      (2)   For the purpose of determining requirements for off-street parking and off-street loading, the floor area shall mean the sum of the gross horizontal areas of the several floors of the building or portion thereof, devoted to such use, including accessory storage area located within selling or working space, such as counters, racks or closets, and any basement floor area devoted to retailing activities to the production or processing of goods or to business or professional offices. However floor area for purposes of measurement for off-street parking spaces shall not include floor area devoted primarily to storage purposes (except as otherwise noted herein); floor area devoted to off-street parking or loading facilities; including aisles, ramps and maneuvering space, or basement floor other than area devoted to retailing activities or the processing of goods or to business or professional offices.
   FLOOR AREA RATIO or F.A.R. The total floor area of the building or buildings on the zoning lot divided by the area of such zoning lot, or in the case of a planned developments by the net site areas.
   FRONTAGE. All the property fronting on one side of a street between the nearest intersecting streets or between a street and a right-of-way, waterway or other similar barrier.
   GARAGE, BUS. Any building used or intended to be used for the storage of three or more passenger motor buses or motor coaches used in public transportation, including school buses.
   GARAGE, BUS or TRUCK. A building which is used or intended to be used for the storage of motor trucks, truck trailers, and commercial vehicles exceeding one and one-half ton capacity.
   GARAGE, PRIVATE. Any accessory building or an accessory portion of the principal building which is intended for and used to store the private passenger vehicles of the family or families resident upon the premises, and in which no business, service or industry connected directly or indirectly with automotive vehicles is carried on; provided that not more than one-half of the space may be rented for the private vehicles of persons not resident on the premises, except that all the space in a garage of one or two car capacity may be so rented. Such a garage shall not be used for more than one commercial vehicle, and the load capacity of such vehicle shall not exceed one and one-half tons.
   GARAGE, PUBLIC. A building, other than a private garage, used for the care, incidental servicing and sale of automobile supplies, or where motor vehicles are parked or stored for remuneration, hire or sale within the structure, but not including trucks, tractors, truck trailers and commercial vehicles exceeding one and one-half ton capacity.
   GRADE, STREET. The elevation of the established street in front of the building measured at the center of such front. Where no street grade has been established, the Director of Public Works shall establish such street grade or its equivalent for the purpose of this section.
   HOME OCCUPATION. Any business occupation or profession conducted within a dwelling unit by a person residing in the dwelling unit.
   HOTEL, APARTMENT. A building containing dwelling units or individual guest rooms, the majority of which are for permanent guests. Maid and janitor service may be provided but kitchen facilities are not necessarily included.
   HOTEL or MOTEL. An establishment containing lodging accommodations designed for use by transients or travelers or temporary guests. Facilities provided may include maid service, laundering of linen used on the premises, telephone and secretarial or desk service, meeting rooms and restaurants.
   JUNKYARD. An open area where waste, scrap metal, paper, rags or similar materials are bought, sold, exchanged, stored, baled, packed, disassembled or handled, including auto and building wrecking yards, but excluding similar uses taking place entirely within a completely enclosed building.
   KENNEL, COMMERCIAL. Any lot or premises or portion thereof on which more than four dogs, cats and other household domestic animals over four months of age are kept or on which more than two such animals are boarded for compensation or kept for sale.
   LABORATORY, COMMERCIAL. A place devoted to experimental study, such as testing and analyzing. Manufacturing, assembly or packaging of products is not included within this definition.
   LOADING AND UNLOADING SPACE or BERTH, OFF-STREET. An open, hard-surfaced area of land, other than a street or a public way, the principal use of which is for the standing, loading or unloading of motor vehicles, tractors and trailers to avoid undue interference with public streets and alleys. Such space shall not be less than ten feet in width, 35 feet in length, and 14 feet in height, exclusive of access aisles and maneuvering space.
   LODGING or BOARDING HOUSE. A building where lodging is provided for compensation, pursuant to previous arrangement for definite periods of more than eight persons.
   LOT. A parcel of land legally described as a distinct portion or piece of land of record.
   LOT OF RECORD. An area of land designated as a lot on a plat or subdivision record or registered pursuant to state statute.
   LOT AREA. The area of a horizontal plane bounded by vertical planes containing the front, side and rear lot lines.
   LOT, CORNER. A lot situated at the junction of and abutting on two or more intersecting streets or a lot at the point of deflection in alignment of a single street, the interior angle of which is 135° degrees or less.
   LOT COVERAGE. The area of a zoning lot occupied by the principal building or buildings and accessory buildings.
   LOT DEPTH. The mean horizontal distance between the front and rear lot lines of a lot measured within the lot boundaries.
   LOT FRONTAGE. The front of a lot shall be that boundary of a lot along a public street; for a corner lot the owner may elect either street line as the front lot line.
   LOT, INTERIOR. A lot other than a corner or reversed corner lot.
   LOT LINE. A property boundary line of any lot held in single or separate ownership except that where any portion of the lot extends to the abutting street or alley, the lot line shall be deemed to be the street or alley line.
   LOT LINE, FRONT. The front property line of a zoning lot.
   LOT LINE, INTERIOR. A side lot line common with another lot.
   LOT LINE, REAR. The lot line or lot lines most nearly parallel to, and remote from, the front lot lines.
   LOT LINE, SIDE. Lot lines other than front or rear lot lines are side lot lines.
   LOT, REVERSED CORNER. A corner lot, the rear of which abuts upon the side of another lot, whether across an alley or not.
   LOT, THROUGH. A lot having frontage on two parallel or approximately parallel streets and which is not a corner lot. On a through lot, both street lines shall be deemed front lot lines.
   LOT WIDTH. The mean horizontal distance between the side lot boundaries, or the minimum distance between the side lot lines within the buildable area.
   MANUFACTURE. The making of anything by any agency or process.
   MARQUEE or CANOPY. A roof-like structure of a permanent nature which projects from the wall of a building and overhangs the public way and is designed and intended to protect pedestrians from adverse weather conditions.
   MOTEL. An establishment consisting of a group of attached living or sleeping rooms with individual bathrooms and designed for use by transients. Customary services such as maid service, telephone, linen, and desk service and the use and upkeep of furniture are provided.
   NAMEPLATE. A sign indicating the name and address of a building or the name of an occupant thereof and the practice of a permitted occupation therein.
   NONCONFORMING USE. Any building, structure or land lawfully occupied by a use or lawfully established at the time of the adoption of the ordinance from which this chapter was derived, or amendments thereto, which does not conform after the passage of the ordinance or amendments thereto with the use regulations of the ordinance.
   NOXIOUS MATTER. Material which is capable of causing injury to living organisms by chemical reaction or is capable of causing detrimental effects upon the psychological, social or economic well-being of human beings.
   NURSING HOME or REST HOME. A private home for the care of children or the aged or infirm, or a place of rest for those suffering bodily disorders, but not including facilities for the treatment of sickness or injuries or for surgical care.
   OCTAVE BAND. A means of dividing the range of sound frequencies into octaves in order to classify sound according to pitch.
   OPEN SALES LOT. Any land used or occupied for the purpose of buying and selling new or secondhand passenger cars or trucks, motor scooters, motorcycles, boats, trailers and for the storing of the same prior to sale.
   PARKING AREA, PRIVATE. An open, hard-surfaced area, other than a street or public way, designed, arranged and made available for the storage of private passenger automobiles only of occupants of the building or buildings for which the parking area is developed and is accessory.
   PARKING AREA, PUBLIC. An open, hard-surfaced area, other than a street or public way, intended to be used for the storage of passenger automobiles and commercial vehicles under one and one-half ton capacity and available to the public, whether for compensation, free or an accommodation to clients or customers.
   PARKING SPACE, AUTOMOBILE. Space within a public or private parking area of not less than 180 square feet (nine feet by 20 feet) exclusive of access drives or aisles, ramps, columns or office and work areas, for the storage of one passenger automobile or commercial vehicle under one and one-half ton capacity.
   PARTICULATE MATTER. Material which is suspended in or discharged into the atmosphere in finely divided form as a liquid or solid at atmospheric pressure and temperature.
   PERFORMANCE STANDARD. A criterion to control noise, odor, smoke, toxic or noxious matter, vibration, fire and explosive hazards or glare or heat generated by or inherent in uses of land or buildings.
   PLANNED DEVELOPMENT. A tract of land which is developed as a unit under single ownership or control which includes two or more principal buildings and which is at least two acres or one block in area, except manufacturing developments, which shall be at least ten acres in area.
   PLAYHOUSE. A type of house, toy and product created and designed in various colors, materials, shapes, sizes and styles of a house for a child to play in.
   PORCH. A roofed-over structure, projecting out from the wall or wall of a main structure and commonly open to the weather in part.
   PRINCIPAL USE. The main use of land or buildings as distinguished from a subordinate or accessory use.
   PUBLIC OPEN SPACE. Any publicly owned open area, including but not limited to, the following: parks, playgrounds, forest preserves, beaches, waterways, parkways and streets.
   PUBLIC UTILITY. Any person or municipal department duly authorized to furnish under public regulation to the public electricity, gas, steam, telephone, transportation or water.
   RESTAURANT. Any land, building or part thereof other than a boarding house, where meals are provided for compensation, including a cafe, cafeteria, coffee shop, lunch room, tea-room and dining room.
   SIGN. A name, identification, description, display or illustration which is affixed to or painted, or represented directly or indirectly upon a building, structure, tree, rock or other objects, or piece of land and which directs attention to an object, product, place, activity, person, institution, organization or business. However, a sign shall not include any display of official court or public notices, nor shall it include the flag, emblem, or insignia of a nation, political unit, school or religious group. A sign shall not include a sign located completely within an enclosed building, unless the context shall be exposed to view from a street. Each display surface of a sign shall be considered to be a sign.
   SIGN, ADVERTISING or BILLBOARD. A sign which directs attention to a business, commodity, service or entertainment conducted, sold or offered elsewhere than upon the premises where such sign is located, or to which it is affixed.
   SIGN, BUSINESS. A sign which directs attention to a business or profession conducted or to a commodity, service or entertainment sold or offered upon the premises which such sign is located or to which it is affixed.
   SIGN, CHURCH BULLETIN BOARD. A sign attached to the exterior of a church or located elsewhere on the church premises, used to indicate the services or activities of the church and including its name if desired.
   SIGN, FLASHING. Any illuminated sign on which the artificial light is not maintained stationary or constant in intensity and color at all times when such sign is in use. Any revolving, illuminated sign shall be considered a flashing sign.
   SIGN, GROSS SURFACE AREA OF. A sign shall be the entire area within a single continuous perimeter enclosing the extreme limits of such sign and in no case passing through or between any adjacent elements of same. However, such perimeter shall not include any structural or framing elements lying outside the limits of such sign and not forming an integral part of the display.
   SIGN, IDENTIFICATION. A structure, building wall or other outdoor surface used to display and identify the name of the individual business, profession, organization or institution occupying the premises upon which it is located.
   SOLAR FARM/SOLAR GARDEN. A use of land where a series of solar collectors are placed in an area for the purpose of converting solar energy into electrical power for interconnection with the power grid primarily for off-site energy consumption. The term includes any associated cabling, devices, equipment, and structures located on site that are associated with the operation of a solar farm/solar garden. The use of solar collectors for residential or business consumption that occurs on-site is not considered a solar farm or solar garden.
   STACKING REQUIREMENTS. For the purposes herein, stacking requirements are the number of cars that must be accommodated in a reserve space while awaiting ingress or egress to specified business or service establishments.
   STORY. That portion of a building included between the surface of any floor and the surface of the floor above it, or if there is no floor above, then the space between the floor and the ceiling next above it. Any portion of a story exceeding 14 feet in height shall be considered as an additional story for each 14 feet or fraction thereof.
   STORY, HALF. A half story is that portion of a building under a gable, hip or mansard roof, the wall plates of which on at least two opposite exterior walls are not more than four and one half feet above the finished floor of each story. In the case of one-family dwellings, two-family dwellings and multiple-family dwellings less than three stories in height, a half-story in a sloping room shall not be counted as a story.
   STREET. A public way other than an alley, which affords a primary means of access to abutting property.
   STREET LINE. A line separating a lot, piece or parcel of land from a street.
   STRUCTURE. Anything constructed or erected which requires location on the ground or is attached to something having location on the ground, including a fence or free-standing wall. A sign, billboard or other advertising medium, detached or projecting, shall be construed to be a structure.
   STRUCTURAL ALTERATIONS. Any change other than incidental repairs which would prolong the life of the supporting members of a building or structure, such as bearing walls columns, beams or girders.
   TOXIC MATERIALS. A substance (liquid, solid or gaseous) which by reason of an inherent deleterious property tends to destroy life or impair health.
   TRUCK PARKING AREA OF YARD. Any land used or intended to be used for the storage or parking of trucks, trailers, tractors, and including commercial vehicles while not loading or unloading, which exceeds one and one-half tons in capacity.
   USE. The purpose for which land or a building thereon is designed, arranged or intended or for which it is occupied or maintained, let or leased.
   USE, PRINCIPAL. The main use of land or buildings as distinguished from a subordinate or accessory use.
   USED CAR LOT. A zoning lot on which used or new cars, trailers or trucks are displayed in the open for sale or trade.
   YARD. An open space on the same zoning lot with a principal building or group of buildings which is unoccupied and unobstructed from its lowest level upward, except as otherwise permitted herein and which extends along a lot line and at right angles thereto to a depth or width specified in the yard regulations for the district in which the zoning lot is located.
   YARD, FRONT. A yard extending along the full length of the front lot line between the side lot lines.
   YARD, REAR. A yard extending along the full length of the rear lot line between the side lot lines.
   YARD SIDE. A yard extending along a side lot line from the front yard to the rear yard.
   ZONING LOT. A single tract of land located within a single block which (at the time of filing for a building permit) is designated by its owner or developer as a tract to be used developed or built upon as a unit, under single ownership or control. Therefore, a ZONING LOT may or may not coincide with a lot of record.
   ZONING MAP. The map or maps incorporated herein as a part hereof designating zoning districts.
(Ord. passed 8-4-86; Am. Ord. 19-10, passed 8-19-19; Am. Ord. 20-01, passed 3-2-20; Am. Ord. 22-15, passed 10-3-22)