(a) "Dwelling" means a building other than a camp car or trailer or other car on or off wheels which contains one or more dwelling units.
(b) "Dwelling unit" means a building or part of a building consisting of a room, or a suite of rooms, arranged, intended or designed for occupancy by one family for living, sleeping and cooking purposes.
(c) "Main dwelling" means a dwelling arranged, intended or designed for occupancy by owners or by tenants under an oral or written tenancy.
(d) "Dwelling group" means a group of two or more dwellings, each containing one or more dwelling units, occupying a lot in one ownership and having a yard in common.
(e) "One-family dwelling" means a detached dwelling arranged, intended or designed to consist of one dwelling unit.
(f) "Two-family dwelling" means a detached dwelling arranged, intended or designed to consist of two dwelling units.
(g) "Multi-family dwelling" or "apartment house" means a dwelling arranged, intended or designed to consist of three or more dwelling units.
(Ord. 56-53. Passed 10-1-1956.)
(h) "Town house" means a multi-family dwelling comprised of dwelling units attached in a row or group, having party walls, and each unit having at least two separate outside entrances.
(Ord. 64-18. Passed 4-20-1964.)
(i) "Attached one-family dwelling" means a dwelling unit attached to other dwelling units in contiguous side-by-side groupings, which are physically attached to one another by common or adjoining vertical walls without openings extending from the basement floor to the roof, which have individual heating and plumbing systems, individual attached garages, and separate ground floor entrances.
(j) "Cluster one-family dwelling" means a dwelling unit with attached garage that is designed for and used exclusively by one family and separated from all other dwelling units by air space from ground to sky, which is grouped with other dwelling units in a planned residential area.
(k) "Senior housing and care facilities" means independent or congregate care residential facilities for seniors which include dwelling units designed specifically for the elderly or handicapped and/or provision of non-acute personal or health care assistance. Congregate care means that the residential dwellings have common social, recreational, dining and food preparation facilities.
(l) "Residential behavioral health care facility" means a facility that provides 24-hour behavioral health care and related services, including accommodations, supervision and personal or custodial care, for three or more unrelated individuals who are dependent on the services of others by reason of age and/or physical or mental impairment. This facility shall not include acute care hospitals that provide general physical medical care or surgical services, urgent, ambulatory or acute care centers or other similar facilities, unless those receiving such services are within the care of the residential behavioral care facility, and acute care services are not otherwise readily obtainable elsewhere, without threatening the health of the service recipient. Services provided by a residential behavioral care facility shall not require the regular use of ambulances and/or police cars for emergency purposes. A residential behavioral health care facility shall not include conventional prisons, jails or correctional/penal institutions involving 24-hour locked incarceration with little or no freedom or movement unless residential behavioral health care services are provided, as described above.
(1982 Code, § 1101.08) (Ord. 99-45. Passed 12-20-1999.)