As used in this chapter:
(a) "Landscaping" means living materials, including, but not limited to, grass, ground covers, shrubs, vines, hedges, trees and nonliving durable material commonly used in landscape development.
(b) "Screen" means plant material or other nonliving durable material, including, but not limited to, walls, berms or decorative wood fencing.
(c) "Opacity" means the state of being impervious to rays of light measured by observation of any two square yard area lying between two feet and ten feet from the ground.
(d) "Shrub" means a self-supporting, deciduous and/or evergreen species, normally branched near the base, bushy and less than fifteen feet in height as normally grown in Lorain and Erie Counties.
(e) "Tree" means a self-supporting, woody, deciduous and/or evergreen plant with a well defined central stem or a species of such plant that normally grows to a height of fifteen feet or more in Lorain and Erie Counties.
(f) "Vine" means a plant that normally requires physical support to reach mature form.
(g) "Use class" means any one of a group of uses. For the purposes of this chapter only, from most restrictive to least restrictive the use classes are as follows:
Class l: Any use permitted in any of the following zoning districts:
A-l Agricultural District
R-l Estate Residence District
R-2 Rural Residence District
R-3 Suburban Residence District
R-4 Urban Residence District
RS Special Residence District
RL-1 Existing Lagoon District
Class 2: Any use permitted in the following zoning district:
R4a Two-Family Urban Residence District
Class 3: Any use permitted in any of the following zoning districts:
R-5 Apartment Residence District
R-6 Special Family Residence District
Class 4: Any use permitted in any of the following zoning districts:
B-1 Neighborhood Business District
B-2 Central Business District
B-3 Highway Commercial District
B-4 Motorist Service District
FP Flood Plain District
PUD Planned Unit Development
Class 5: Any use permitted in any of the following zoning districts:
I-1 Light Industrial District
I-2 Heavy Industrial District
I-3 Industrial Park District
I-U Utility District
(Ord. 02-63. Passed 11-4-02.)