For the purpose of this title, certain terms and words are hereby defined. Words used in the present tense shall include the future; words used in the singular number shall include the plural number, and the plural the singular; the word "building" shall include the word "structure"; the word "lot" shall include the word "plot"; and the word "shall" is mandatory and not directory.
ACCESSORY BUILDING OR USE: A subordinate building or use which is located on the same lot on which the main building or use is situated and which is reasonably necessary and/or incidental to the conduct of the primary use of such building or main use.
ALLEY: A public thoroughfare, not more than twenty feet (20') wide, which affords only a secondary means of access to abutting property.
APARTMENT: A building in which there are two (2) or more rooms or suites of rooms which are arranged, designed, used or intended to be used as a housekeeping unit for a single family.
AUTOMOBILE SERVICE STATION: A place where gasoline is stored only in underground tanks; kerosene, or motor oil and lubricants or grease, for operation of automobiles, are retailed directly to the public on the premises; and including minor accessories and services for automobiles. When the dispensing, sale or offering for sale of motor fuels or oil is incidental to the conduct of a public garage, the premises shall be classified as a public garage.
BASEMENT: A story partly or wholly underground. Where more than one-half (1/2) of its height is above the average level of the adjoining ground, a basement shall be counted as a story for purposes of height measurement.
BOARDING HOUSE: A building, other than a hotel or restaurant, where meals or lodging and meals are provided for compensation for three (3) or more persons, but not exceeding twelve (12) persons.
BUILDING: Any structure having a roof supported by columns or walls, and designed or intended for the shelter, support, enclosure or protection of persons, animals, or chattels.
BUILDING HEIGHT: The vertical distances measured from the sidewalk level or its equivalent established grade opposite the middle of the front of the building to the highest point of the roof in the case of a flat roof; to the deck line of a mansard roof; and to mean height level between the 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: Is the same as a front yard setback line.
DISTRICT: A section or sections of the incorporated area of the village of Shannon for which the regulations and provisions governing the use of buildings and land are uniform for each class of use permitted therein.
DWELLING: A building or portion thereof, designed exclusively for residential occupancy, including one-family and multiple dwellings, but not including hotels, boarding and lodging houses and automobile house trailers.
DWELLING, MULTIPLE: A building or portion thereof designed for occupancy by two (2) or more families living independently of each other.
DWELLING, ONE-FAMILY: A detached building designed or erected for one family and occupied exclusively by one family.
DWELLING UNIT: One or more rooms in a dwelling or apartment designed primarily for occupancy by one family for living or sleeping purposes.
FAMILY: An individual, or two (2) or more persons related by blood or marriage or adoption, or a group of not more than five (5) persons (excluding servants) who need not be related by blood or marriage, living together as a single housekeeping unit in a dwelling unit.
GARAGE, PUBLIC: A building, other than a private garage, used for the care, repair, or equipment of motor vehicles, or where such vehicles are parked, stored, repaired, or rebuilt for remuneration, hire or sale within the structure.
HOME OCCUPATION: Any use customarily conducted entirely within a single- or multi-family residential dwelling and carried on by the inhabitants thereof, which is clearly incidental and secondary to the use of the dwelling for dwelling purposes and does not change the character thereof.
HOSPITAL OR SANATORIUM: An institution open to the public in which sick patients or injured persons are given medical or surgical care, or for the care of contagious diseases or incurable patients.
HOTEL: A building designed for occupancy as the more or less temporary abiding place of individuals who are lodged with or without meals, in which there are six (6) or more guestrooms.
INSTITUTION: A building occupied by a nonprofit corporation or nonprofit establishment for public or semipublic use.
KENNEL: Any lot or premises on which four (4) or more dogs, at least four (4) months of age, are kept.
LABORATORY: A place devoted to experimental study such as testing and analyzing. Manufacturing of product or products is not to be permitted within this definition.
LOADING SPACE: An off street space or berth on the same lot with a building, or contiguous to a group of buildings, for the temporary parking of a commercial vehicle while loading or unloading merchandise or materials, and which abuts upon a street, alley or other appropriate means of access.
LODGING HOUSE: A building with not more than five (5) guestrooms where lodging is provided for compensation.
LOT: A parcel of land occupied or suitable for occupancy by one main building or use, with accessory buildings, including the open spaces required by this title, and having frontage upon a public or private street.
LOT, CORNER: A lot situated at the intersection of two (2) or more streets.
LOT DEPTH: The mean horizontal distance between the front and rear lot lines.
LOT FRONTAGE: The front of a lot shall be that boundary of a lot along a public street; and for a corner lot, the front shall be the shorter lot boundary along a street.
LOT, THROUGH: A lot having its front and rear lines on different streets.
LOT WIDTH: The horizontal distance between the side lot lines measured at right angles to the lot depth at a point midway between the front and rear lot lines.
MOBILE HOME: A movable or portable dwelling unit built on a chassis and designed for transportation on its own wheels after fabrication, and placed on wheels, jacks or permanent foundation and connected to utilities and designed for year round living.
MOTEL: See definition of Tourist Court.
NONCONFORMING USE: Any building, structure or land occupied for a use which does not conform with the provisions of this title after the effective date hereof or amendments hereto.
NURSING HOME OR REST HOME: A private hospital for the care of the aged or infirm, or a place of rest for those suffering bodily disorder, but not including facilities for the treatment of sickness or injuries, or for surgical care.
PARKING SPACE: A durably surfaced area enclosed in the main building, in an accessory building, or unenclosed, sufficient in size to store one standard automobile and, if the space is unenclosed, comprising an area of not less than one hundred forty (140) square feet, exclusive of a durably surfaced driveway connecting the parking space with a street or alley and permitting satisfactory ingress and egress of an automobile.
PORCH: A roofed entrance to a building, projecting out from the wall or walls of the main structure and commonly open to the weather in part.
STORY: That portion of a building other than a basement, included between the surface of any floor and the surface of the floor next above it, or if there be no floor above it, then the space between the floor and the ceiling next above it. Any portion of a story exceeding fourteen feet (14') in height shall be considered as an additional story for each fourteen feet (14') or fraction thereof.
STREET: A public thoroughfare which affords the principal means of access to abutting property.
STRUCTURAL ALTERATION: Any change in the supporting members of a building or structure, such as bearing walls, columns, beams, or girders.
STRUCTURE: Anything constructed or erected which requires location on the ground or attached to something having a location on the ground.
TOURIST COURT: A group of attached or detached buildings containing individual sleeping or living units, designed for or used temporarily by automobile tourists or transients, with garage attached or parking space conveniently located to each unit, including auto courts, motels, or motor lodges.
TRAILER, AUTOMOBILE: A vehicle without motive power, so constructed and designed that, with or without modifications, it can be drawn by a motor vehicle and used for human habitation or for the carrying of persons and property, including a trailer coach or house trailer.
TRAILER CAMP, AUTOMOBILE: Any premises occupied or designed to accommodate more than one family living in an automobile house trailer.
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.
YARD: An open space on the same lot with a main building, unoccupied and unobstructed from the ground upward, except as otherwise provided in this title.
YARD, FRONT: A yard extending across the full width of the lot and lying between the front line of the lot and the nearest line of a building.
YARD, REAR: A yard extending across the full width of the lot and lying between the rear line of the lot and the nearest line of the principal building. (Ord. 78b, 7-1-1958; amd. Ord. 347, 6-5-2012; Ord. 363, 2-4-2014)