For the purpose of this title, certain terms or words used herein shall be interpreted as follows:
All words used in the present tense include the future tense; all words in the singular include the plural, and all words in the plural include the singular; the word "shall" is mandatory and not directory; the word "used" shall be deemed to include "designed, intended, or arranged to be used".
ACCESSORY USE OR BUILDING: A use customarily incidental and subordinate to the principal use or building and located on the same lot with such principal use or building.
AGRICULTURAL USES, BONA FIDE: The growing of crops in the open, raising of stock and poultry, forestry, mushroom growing, flower gardening, operation of apiaries and aviaries, nurseries, orchards, fur farms, roadside stands, signs and billboards relating to the sale or use of products produced thereon and necessary structures and farm dwellings for such uses.
ALLEY: Any public or private way dedicated to public travel and less than twenty feet (20') in width.
AUTO WRECKING YARD: Any place where three (3) or more motor vehicles not in running condition, or the parts thereof, are stored in the open and are not being restored to operation or any land, building or structure used for the wrecking or storing of such automobiles or the parts thereof.
BUILDING: Any structure constructed or placed or used for residence, business, commercial, or industrial use or for other public or private purposes or accessory uses thereto and including, but not limited to, portable storage containers, portable awnings, accessory buildings, canopies, coverings, or roofs of any kind, nature or extent whatsoever, tents, lunch wagons, dining cars, trailers, billboards, signs and similar structures whether stationary or movable or portable or affixed to real estate.
DWELLING: A permanent building used primarily for human habitation, but not including facilities for the housing of transient residents, nor to include mobile homes.
Dwelling, Multiple-Family: A permanent building or portion thereof providing separate living accommodations for three (3) or more families.
Dwelling, Single-Family: A permanent building, separate and freestanding, in itself providing living accommodations for one family.
Dwelling, Two-Family: A permanent building designed exclusively for occupancy by two (2) families.
HEIGHT OF BUILDING: The vertical distance from the established average sidewalk grade, street grade or finished grade at the building line, whichever is the highest, to the highest point of the building.
HOME OCCUPATION: The conduct of an art or profession, the offering of a service or the conduct of a business, or the handcrafted manufacture of products within a dwelling in a residential district, which is incidental and secondary to the use of the structure for dwelling purposes.
LOT: A piece, parcel or plot of land occupied or to be occupied by one principal building and its accessory buildings and including the open spaces required under this title.
NONCONFORMING USE: A use of building or land lawful at the effective date hereof that does not conform with the "permitted use" provisions of this title.
SCHOOLS: Accredited elementary schools, junior high and high schools (nonboarding).
STREET: Any public or private way dedicated to public travel twenty feet (20') or more in width. The word "street" shall include the words "road", "highway" and "thoroughfare".
TRAILER OR MOBILE HOME: Any vehicle or similar portable structure originally constructed with wheels, whether or not the wheels are still contained thereon, and designed and constructed to permit occupancy for dwelling or sleeping purposes but does not include camping vehicles used for recreational purposes.
USE: The purpose or activity for which a building or structure is occupied or maintained.
YARD: An open space on the same lot with a principal building, open, unoccupied and unobstructed by buildings, except as otherwise provided in this title.
Front Yard: The yard extending across the entire width of the lot between the principal building and the right of way line or street line which the building faces.
Rear Yard: The yard extending across the entire width of the lot between the rear lot line and the nearest part of the principal building.
Side Yard: The yard extending along the side lot line from the front yard to the rear yard and lying between the side lot line and the nearest part of the principal building. (Ord. 1793, 2-7-1977; amd. Ord. 2079, 11-7-1982; Ord. 3081, 7-15-2002; Ord. 3734, 11-2-2015)