For the purpose of this chapter, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
BUILDING. Any structure built for the support, shelter or enclosure of persons, chattels or movable property of any kind, including a mobile home, but excluding buildings used for agricultural purposes.
BUILDING PERMIT. A permit issued by the Building Official authorizing performance of a specified activity in or on a structure or building.
CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT. A park or recreational facility; police facility; fire or safety facility; or water facility, with a life expectancy of three or more years, owned and operated by or on behalf of the city.
CAPITAL IMPROVEMENTS COSTS. The cost of land acquisition, planning, design or construction for a capital improvement.
CAPITAL IMPROVEMENTS PLAN. The proposed schedule of future capital improvements, listed in order of construction priority over a five-year period, the associated capital improvements costs and the anticipated funding sources for each project together with the list of projected long-range capital improvements and capital improvements costs for the next 20 years.
CERTIFICATE OF OCCUPANCY. A license for occupancy of a building or structure after the building or structure has been inspected to determine that construction has been undertaken in compliance with the building permit application and in conformity with the Zoning Ordinance and other pertinent ordinances or codes.
CITY. The City of Spring Hill, Tennessee.
DEVELOPMENT. New construction, building, reconstruction, erection, extension, betterment or improvement of land providing a building or structure or the addition to any building or structure, or any part thereof, which provides, adds to or increases the floor area of a residential or non-residential use.
DWELLING UNIT. A room, or rooms connected together constituting a separate, independent housekeeping establishment for owner occupancy, rental or lease on a daily, weekly, monthly or longer basis; physically separated from any other room(s) or dwelling units which may be in the same structure; and containing independent cooking and sleeping facilities.
FLOOR AREA. The total of the gross horizontal area of all floors which will be heated or cooled, including such usable basements and cellars, below the roof and within the outer surface of the main walls of principal or accessory buildings or the centerlines of a party wall separating such buildings or portions thereof, or within lines drawn parallel to and two feet within the roof line of any building or portions thereof without walls, but excluding farm buildings and sheds and, in the case of non-residential facilities: arcades, porticoes and similar open areas which are accessible to the general public, and which are not designed or used as sales, display, storage, service or production areas.
NON-RESIDENTIAL. The development of any property for any use other than residential use, except as may be exempted by this chapter.
PERSON. Any individual, firm, copartnership, joint venture, association, corporation, estate, trust, business trust, receiver, syndicate or other group or combination acting as a unit, and the plural as well as the singular number.
PLACE OF WORSHIP. The portion of a building owned by a religious institution which has tax-exempt status, which is used for worship services and related functions, but does not include buildings or portions of buildings which are used for purposes other than for worship and related functions or which are or are intended to be leased, rented or used by persons who do not have tax- exempt status.
PUBLIC BUILDINGS. A building owned by the state or any agency thereof, a political subdivision of the state, including, but not necessarily limited to, counties, cities, school districts and special districts or the federal government or any agency thereof.
RESIDENTIAL. The development of any property for a dwelling unit or units.
STRUCTURE. Anything which is constructed or erected, and the use of which requires more or less permanent location on ground or attachment to something having permanent location on ground, not, however, including wheels; an edifice of any kind; any production or piece of work, artificially built up or composed of parts of and joined together in some definite manner.
(2011 Code, § 5-605)