As used in this Zoning Code:
(a) Easement. "Easement" means a grant by a property owner of the use of land for a specific purpose, by the general public, a corporation or another person.
(Ord. 72-72. Passed 8-31-72.)
(b) Entertainment Facilities, Indoor. “Indoor entertainment facilities” shall mean a building or part of a building devoted to providing entertainment indoors for a fee, including, but not limited to, such activities as music, live performances, and games - e.g., pinball, video arcades, computer games, billiards, table games and similar small scale entertainment and amusements.
(Ord. 20-2015. Passed 3-24-15.)
(c) Essential Services. "Essential services" means the erection, construction, alteration or maintenance by public utilities or municipal departments or commissions of underground or overhead gas, electricity, steam or water transmission or distribution systems, collection, communication, supply or disposal systems, including towers, poles, wires, mains, drains, sewers, conduits, cables, fire-alarm boxes, police call-boxes, traffic signals, hydrants and other similar equipment and accessories in connection therewith but not including buildings, reasonably necessary for the furnishing of adequate service by such public utilities or municipal departments or commissions or for the public health or safety or general welfare. This phrase also means the use of land, buildings and structures for municipal facilities that have been approved by Council after receiving a report and recommendation from the Planning and Zoning Commission.
(d) Family. "Family" means any number of persons living together in a room or rooms comprising a single housekeeping unit, doing their cooking on the premises and related by blood or marriage, and including the domestic employees thereof. (cf. Section 1123.05
(i) Household)
(e) Farm. "Farm" means a parcel or parcels of contiguous unplatted land of not less than ten acres which is directly farmed or used in the normal pursuits of agriculture by one farmer and which may include establishments operating as greenhouses, nurseries, orchards or apiaries.
(f) Floor Area of Dwelling Units.
(1) One-family dwelling units. The floor area of one-family dwelling units means the sum of the horizontal areas of each story of the dwelling unit measured from the exterior faces of the exterior walls. The floor area measurement shall not include the areas of basements, unfinished attics, attached or unattached garages, breezeways and enclosed and unenclosed porches.
(2) Attached single-family and two-family dwelling units. The floor area of attached single-family and two-family dwelling units means the sum of the horizontal floor areas measured from the exterior face of enclosing walls and the centerline of party walls. The area of basements, unfinished attics, attached or unattached garages, breezeways and enclosed or unenclosed porches shall not be included.
(3) Multi-family dwelling units. The floor area of multi-family dwelling units means the sum of the horizontal floor areas solely within a dwelling unit measured from the interior faces of enclosing and party walls. The area of basements, utility rooms, general storage rooms, garages and porches shall not be included.
(g) Floor Area, Useable. "Useable floor area" means the sum of the horizontal floor areas of all the floors of the building or structure and of all accessory buildings measured from the interior face of the exterior walls and which may be made useable for human habitation but excludes the horizontal floor area of heater rooms, mechanical equipment rooms, attics, unenclosed porches, light and elevator shafts, public corridors, public stairwells and public toilets.
(h) Frontage. "Frontage" means that portion of any property abutting a street. A corner lot and a through lot have frontage on both abutting streets.
(Ord. 72-72. Passed 8-31-72.)