Abandoned Sign: A sign or sign structure which no longer identifies or advertises a business, lesser, service, owner, product or activity, and/or for which no legal owner can be found. Such sign(s) and sign structures shall be removed within 30 days of notification by the Village Zoning Administrator.
(Ord. 11-07. Passed 7-18-07.)
Accessory Building: A structure located on the same lot with the principal building, detached or attached and is substantial and customarily incidental to the use of the principal building. Each accessory use requires a zoning permit. Examples include, but are not limited to fences, walls, garages, sheds, parking places, decks.
(Ord. 19-18. Passed 12-5-18.)
Accessory Use: A use customarily incidental and subordinate to the principal use or building and located on the same lot with such principal use or building, including home occupations where permitted. Each accessory use requires a zoning permit.
(Ord. 11-07. Passed 7-18-07.)
Adjacent: Sharing a common boundary of at least one point, but also includes properties which are separated by a public right of way not exceeding one hundred and twenty (120) feet in width. (Ord. 19-18. Passed 12-5-18.)
Advertising Message: The copy on a sign describing products or services being offered to the public.
Advertising Sign: A sign which directs attention to a business, commodity or service or entertainment conducted, sold or offered elsewhere than on the premises and only incidentally on the premises, if at all.
Agriculture: Includes farming, dairying, pasturage, apiculture, horticulture, viticulture, tree farming, animal and poultry husbandry; and only the sale of such products as are raised on the premises; agriculture shall not include kennels. Includes the necessary accessory uses, provided however that:
(a) The operation of any such accessory uses shall be secondary to that of normal agricultural activities; and
(b) The above uses shall not include the feeding or sheltering of animals or poultry in penned enclosures within 100 feet of any residential zoning district. Agriculture does not include the feeding of garbage to animals or the operation or maintenance of a commercial stockyard or feedyard.
(c) A use shall be classified as agricultural only if agriculture is the principal use of the land.
Agricultural Products: Goods produced or services provided by person(s) engaged in agriculture.
Airport or Aircraft Landing Field: Any landing area, runway, or other facility designed, used, or intended to be used either publicly or by any person or persons for the landing and taking off of aircraft, including all necessary taxiways, aircraft storage, and tie-down areas, hangars, and other necessary buildings and open spaces.
Aisle: That portion of the circulation area within a parking lot that provides access to parking spaces or a delivery zone. The minimum width permissible for an aisle to serve adjacent parking spaces shall depend on the angle of parking as stated in Section 1183.02.
Alley: A public thoroughfare which typically affords a secondary means of access to the back or side of properties abutting another street. It is not more than ten feet wide where required for pedestrian use exclusively and not less than 20 feet wide where required for vehicular use.
Alteration means, as applied to a building, a change or rearrangement in the structural or in the exit facilities, or an enlargement, whether by extending on a side or by increasing in height, or the moving from one location or position to another.
Alteration, Structural: Any change which would tend to prolong the life of the supporting members of a building or structure, such as bearing walls, columns, beams, or girders.
Animal Care Facilities: Structures, buildings, or enclosures used for medical treatment including care and temporary housing of animals receiving treatment, with temporary housing being limited to 48 hours. Uses include but are not limited to veterinary clinics and animal hospitals.
Animal Hospital: Structures, buildings, or enclosures used for medical treatment and care of animals, but does not include housing nor kennels for animals.
(Ord. 11-07. Passed 7-18-07.)
Animals, Domestic: Animals not considered as livestock and that are typically small in size and customarily kept for personal use or enjoyment within the home. Household pets shall include but not be limited to dogs, cats, tropical birds, amphibians and rodents.
Animals, Exotic: Those animals that meet two or more of the following criteria:
(a) Dangerous
(b) Not indigenous to Ohio
(c) Wild (not domesticated)
Animals, Farm: Animals that are typically kept for commercial purpose.
(Ord. 19-18. Passed 12-5-18.)
Animated Sign: A sign or display manifesting either kinetic or illusionary motion occasioned by natural, manual, mechanical, electrical or other means. (See also and note difference from "Changeable sign.") Animated signs include the following types:
(a) Naturally Energized: Signs whose motion is activated by wind or other atmospheric impingement. Wind-driven signs include flags, banners, pennants, streamers, spinners, metallic disks, or other similar devices designed to move in the wing.
(b) Mechanically Energized: Signs manifesting a repetitious pre-programmed physical movement or rotation in either one or a series of planes activated by means of mechanically based drives.
(c) Electrically Energized: Illuminated signs whose motion or visual impression of motion is activated primarily by electrical means. Electrically energized animated signs are of two types:
(1) Flashing Signs: Illuminated signs exhibiting a pre-programmed repetitious cyclical interruption of illumination from one or more sources in which the duration of the period of illumination (on phase) is either the same as or less than the duration of the period of darkness (off phase), and in which the intensity of illumination varies from zero (off) to 100 percent (on) during the programmed cycle.
(2) Illusionary Movement Signs: Illuminated signs exhibiting the illusion of movement by means of a pre-programmed repetitious sequential switching action in which illuminated elements of the sign are turned on or off to visually simulate the impression of motion characteristic of chasing, running, blinking, oscillating, twinkling, scintillating, or expanding and contracting light patterns.
Apartment House: A building or portion thereof used or intended to be used as the home of three or more families or householders living independently of each other.
(Ord. 11-07. Passed 7-18-07.)
Apartment Unit: One or more rooms with a private bath and kitchen facilities comprising and independent, self-contained dwelling unit in a building containing three (3) or more dwelling units. (Ord. 19-18. Passed 12-5-18.)
Applicant: An owner of real property in the Village of Walbridge or his/her agent.
Architectural projection: Any projection not intended for occupancy which extends beyond the property line, not including signs, canopies or marquees.
Area, built means the total of areas taken on a horizontal plane at the main grade level of the principal building and all accessory buildings exclusive of uncovered porches, terraces and steps. All dimensions shall be measured between the exterior faces of walls.
Area Identification Sign: A sign freestanding or affixed to a wall or fence which identifies a neighborhood, a residential subdivision, a multi-family residential complex or a commercial or industrial complex.
Area of a Sign: See "Sign, Area of."
Area, net site means the total area within the property lines excluding external streets.
Assisted Living Facility: A licensed residential care facility that is designed, maintained and operated for persons in need of assistance/medical/rehabilitative care where, in addition, a limited number of support services such as meals, housekeeping, transportation, and social and recreational activities are provided.
Athletic Field: An area substantially open to the sky that may include, along with the natural environmental features, any other recreational facilities that the Planning Commission deems permissible. Streets, parking areas, structures for habitation, and the like shall not be included.
Auction Market: A building, structure, or site which primary use is for selling of goods, merchandise, land etc. by a bidding process.
Automobile/Automotive Service Station: Any premises used for supplying gasoline, oil, grease, batteries, tires, parts and motor vehicle accessories, at retail direct to the customer, and where, in addition, minor auto repairs and services may be rendered and sales made, but not including body or fender work, painting or major motor repairs. When the aforementioned service is incidental to the conduct of a public garage, the use shall be classified as a public garage. See also "Convenience Gas Station." (Ord. 11-07. Passed 7-18-07.)
Automotive Repair: The repair, refurbishing, installing or reconditioning of motor vehicles or parts thereof, including collision service, painting, and detail cleaning of vehicles.
(Ord. 19-18. Passed 12-5-18.)
Automotive Salvage: The dismantling, wrecking and/or salvage of used motor vehicles or trailers, or the storage, sale, or dumping of dismantled, partially dismantled, obsolete or wrecked vehicles or their parts.
Automotive, Travel Trailer, and Farm Implement Sales and Rentals: An open area, other than a street, used for the display or sale of new or used automobiles, motorcycles, recreational vehicles, trailers, travel trailers and farm implements, and where no repair work is done except minor incidental repair of automobiles, motorcycles, recreational vehicles, trailers, travel trailers and farm implements to be displayed and sold on the premises.
Automotive Wrecking/Salvage Yard: Any place where two or more motor vehicles not in running condition, or parts thereof, are stored in the open, in a fenced area, or in a partially enclosed building, and are not being restored to operation, or any land used for wrecking, storing and/or salvage of such motor vehicles or farm machinery, or parts thereof, stored in the open and not being restored to operating conditions.
Awning: A shelter projecting from and supported by the exterior wall of a building constructed of rigid or non-rigid materials on a supporting framework.
Awning Sign: A sign painted on, printed on, or attached flat to an awning covering a doorway, window or face of the building.
Background area: The entire area of a sign on which copy could be placed, as opposed to the copy area, when referred to in connection with fascia or painted wall signs.
Backlit Awning Sign: A sign attached to an awning that is covered with translucent fabric and is internally illuminated.
Balcony: A railing enclosed platform projecting from the outer wall of a building.
Banner: A temporary sign not exceeding 30 square feet in aggregate, displayed on a flag or a strip of lightweight material made of paper, cloth or fabric, which is attached to a building, another sign (but as not to obstruct the view of traffic) or some other existing structure. One banner sign is allowed for two, 30-day periods per year and requires a Sign Zoning Permit. See also "Flag."
Banner sign: A temporary sign composed of lightweight material either enclosed or not enclosed in a rigid frame, secured or mounted so as to allow movement of the sign caused by movement of the atmosphere.
Basement: A story partly or wholly below grade. For purposes of height measurement, a basement shall be counted as a story where one-half of its height is above the average level of the adjoining ground. If, however, a basement is not occupied as living quarters or for business purposes, it shall not be included as a story for the purpose of height measurement.
Bed and Breakfast: Any place of lodging that provides eight or fewer rooms for rent, for more than 10 nights in a 12-month period, is the owner's personal residence, is occupied by the owner at the time of rental, and at which the only meal served to a guest is breakfast. The building is distinguished from a hotel, boarding or rooming house in the above-listed ways.
Billboard or Poster Panels: Any sign or advertising structure used to advertise goods, products, services or facilities which are located off-site from where the sign is installed and maintained. See also "Off-Premise Sign."
Board: The Zoning Board of Appeals of the Village of Walbridge, Ohio.
Boarding House: A building, or portion thereof, other than a hotel, tourist home, bed and breakfast, or motel, where lodging and meals for three or more persons are provided for compensation.
Boarding of Animals and Livestock: The stabling, housing and feeding of animals or livestock for compensation or for use in a commercial activity, exhibit or for other commercial/ recreational purposes.
Boat Storage: The storage of boats, similar watercraft and marine equipment.
Boats and Boat Trailers: Shall include boats, floats and rafts, plus the normal equipment to transport same on the highway.
Boundary Wall (Exterior): See "Wall, Boundary (Exterior)."
Building: A structure having a roof supported by columns or walls designed or intended for the shelter, support, protection or enclosure of persons, animals, property, or chattels. When separated by division walls from the ground up without openings, each portion of such building shall be deemed a separate building.
Building Area: The space remaining on a lot after the minimum open-space requirements (coverage, yards, setbacks) have been met.
Building, Community: A building for social, educational, and recreational activities of a neighborhood or community provided any such use is not operated for commercial gain.
Building Coverage: The amount of land covered or permitted to be covered by a building measured on a horizontal plane at mean grade level and excluding uncovered porches, terraces and steps.
Building Face or Wall: All window and wall area of a building in one plane or elevation.
Building, Front Line of: The line of the face of the building nearest the front line of the lot. This face includes sun parlors and covered porches whether enclosed or unenclosed but does not include steps.
Building Frontage: The linear width of an outside building wall facing a right-of-way or the linear length of the right-of-way facing the building, whichever is smaller.
Building Height: The vertical distance measured from the adjoining curb grade to the highest point of the roof surface, if a flat roof; to the deck line of a mansard roof; and to the mean height level between eaves and ridges for a gable, hip, or gambrel roof; provided that where the buildings are set back from the street line, the height of the building may be measured from the average elevation of the finished grade along the front of the building.
Building Line: A setback line for a main building on a platted lot.
Building, Main: A building in which is conducted the principal use of the lot on which it is situated.
Building(s), Principal means a building or group of buildings in which is the conducted the main or principal use of the lot on which the buildings are situated.
Building, Unit Group: Two or more buildings (other than dwellings) grouped upon a lot and held under one ownership, such as universities, hospitals and institutions.
Building Sign: A sign lettered to give the name of a building itself, as opposed to the name of occupants or services.
Bulletin Board, Institutional: See "Institutional Bulletin Board."
Bus Shelter: An open structure with a roof used as a protection or shield from wind, rain, snow etc. Usually a place for persons to stay awaiting a bus or passenger vehicle.
Business: The sale, purchase, or exchange of goods or services.
Business Classifications:
(a) Business, General: Retail and service establishments which, in addition to catering to the daily needs of community residents and workers for convenience goods and services, also include establishments offering comparative-type shopping facilities. General business includes, but is not limited to, automobile service station; automotive repair; banks; financial and insurance services; marine sales and service; printing and publishing services; supermarkets; and stores for the sale of drugs, hardware, appliances, furniture, apparel and footwear; business and personal services; professional services; and other similar or related activities which can be grouped by design into a unified shopping center.
(b) Business, Highway: Includes commercial uses requiring locations on major thoroughfares and at their principal intersections. Highway uses include motels, motor vehicle service stations, motor vehicle repair, restaurants, drive-in establishments, automotive and farm implement rental, sales and services, building trades and services, commercial recreation and similar commercial activities, when maintained inside an enclosed building.
(c) Business, Neighborhood: Retail and service establishments which primarily serve a day-to-day need in local market areas and can be located in close proximity to or within residential districts without creating undue vehicular congestion, excessive noise or other objectionable influence. To prevent congestion, local retail and service uses include only those enterprises which normally employ less than 10 persons. Permitted uses include drug stores, beauty salons, barber shops, carry-outs, dry cleaning and laundry pickup facilities, banks and financial/insurance services with fewer than 10 employees, and hardware and grocery stores if less than 10,000 square feet of floor area. Other small businesses of an equally restricted and local nature may be permitted, based upon such interpretation of the Zoning Code by the Board of Zoning Appeals.
(d) Business, Office-Type: Quasi-commercial uses which may often be transitional between retail business and/or manufacturing, and residential uses. The term "Office-Type Business" generally accommodates such occupations as administrative, executive, professional, accounting, writing, clerical, stenographic and drafting. Institutional offices of a charitable, philanthropic, or religious or educational nature are also included in this classification. Establishments in this classification are located in the "C-3," General Commercial and "C-2," Village Center Commercial zoning districts.
(e) Business, Wholesale: Business establishments that generally sell commodities in large quantities or by the piece to retailers, jobbers, other wholesale establishments, or manufacturing establishments. These commodities are basically for further resale, for use in the fabrication of a product, or for use by a business service. Establishments in this classification are located in the "M-1," Light Industrial and "M-2," General Industrial zoning districts.
Business Services: Any activity conducted for gain which renders services primarily to other commercial or industrial enterprises, or which services and repairs appliances and machines used in homes or business.
Business Sign: A sign which directs attention to a business or profession conducted on the premises. A "For Sale" sign or a "For Rent" sign relating to the property on which it is displayed shall be deemed a "business sign."
Camp means any one or more of the following, other than a hospital, place of detention or school offering general instruction:
Type 1. Any area of land or water on which are located two or more cabins, tents, trailers, shelters, houseboats or other accommodations of a design or character suitable for seasonal or other more or less temporary living purposes, regardless of whether such structures or other accommodations actually are occupied seasonally or otherwise; or
Type 2. Any land, including any building thereon, used for any assembly of persons for what is commonly known as "day camp" purposes; and any of the foregoing establishments whether or not conducted for profit and whether or not occupied by adults or by children, either as individuals, families or groups.
Campground: Land used or intended to accommodate two or more recreational vehicles, tents, or other individual camping units to be used as temporary housing for recreational purposes.
Canopy Sign: Any sign attached to or constructed on a roof like covering with poles or an overhanging shelter.
Cellar: See "Basement."
Cemetery/Memorial Gardens: Land used or intended to be used for the burial of the human or animal dead and dedicated for cemetery purposes, including associated buildings such as chapels, crematories, mausoleums, and mortuaries if operated in connection with and within the boundaries of such cemetery.
Changeable Sign: A sign or portion thereof with characters, letters or illustrations that can be changed or rearranged by manual or electric, electro-mechanical, or electronic means. Changeable signs include the following types:
(a) Manually-Activated: Signs whose alphabetic, pictographic, or symbolic informational content can be changed or altered by manual means.
(b) Electrically-Activated: Signs whose alphabetic, pictographic, or symbolic informational content can be changed or altered on a fixed display surface composed of electrically-illuminated or mechanically-driven changeable segments. Includes the following types:
(1) Fixed Message Electronic Signs: Signs whose basic informational content has been pre-programmed to include only certain types of information projection, such as time, temperature, predictable traffic conditions, or other events subject to prior programming.
(2) Computer-Controlled Variable Message Electronic Signs: Signs whose informational content can be changed or altered by means of computer-driven electronic impulses.
Changeable Copy Sign: A sign or portion thereof with characters, letters, or illustrations that can be changed or rearranged by manual or electric, electro-mechanical, or electronic means without altering the face or the surface of the sign. A sign on which the message changes more than eight times per day shall be considered an animated sign and not a changeable copy sign for purposes of this code. A sign on which the only copy that changes is an electronic or mechanical indication of time or temperature shall be considered a "time and temperature" portion of a sign and not a changeable copy sign for purpose of the Ordinance.
Child Care Clinic: Is an establishment where patients up to and including the age of twelve are not lodged overnight but are admitted for examination and treatment by a physician or a group of physicians practicing medicine together.
Child Day Care: Administering to the needs of infants, toddlers, pre-school children and school children outside of school hours by persons other than their parents or guardians, custodians or relatives by blood, marriage or adoption for any part of the 24-hour day in a place or residence other than the child's own home. The following are child day care facilities:
(a) Child Day Care Center: Any place in which child day care is provided, with or without compensation, for thirteen or more children at any one time, or any place that is not the permanent residence of the licensee or administrator in which child day care is provided, with or without compensation, for seven to twelve children at any one time. In counting children for the purposes of this definition, any children under six years of age who are related to a licensee, administrator, or employee and who are on the premises shall be counted.
(b) Family Day Care Home, Type A: A permanent residence of the administrator in which child day care is provided for four to twelve children at any one time, if four or more children are under two years of age. In counting children for the purposes of this definition, any children under six years of age who are related to a licensee, administrator, or employee and who are on the premises of the Type A home shall be counted. The term "Family Day Care Home, Type A" does not include a residence in which the needs of children are administered to, if all such children are siblings of the same immediate family and the residence is their home.
(c) Office Complex Day Care Facilities: A place that is an integral part of an office building or office complex where child day care is provided, with or without compensation, typically for the employees of said office building or complex.
(Ord. 11-07. Passed 7-18-07.)
(d) Type B Family Day-Care Home: A permanent residence of the provider in which child day-care is provided for 1 to 6 children at one time and in which no more than three (3) children may be under 2 years of age at any one time. In counting children for the purposes of this definition, any children under 6 years of age who are related to the provider and who are on the premises of the Type B home shall be counted. The term “Type B family day-care home” does not include a residence in which the needs of children are administered to, if all such children are siblings of the same immediate family and the residence is their home. Type B Family Day Care home and Type B home do not include any chid day camp.
(Ord. 19-18. Passed 12-5-18.)
Church: A place of worship that typically includes an assembly room, rooms for religious education and administrative offices. A church is considered a semi-public use.
Clearance (of a Sign): The smallest vertical distance between the grade of the adjacent street, highway, or street curb and the lowest point of any sign, including framework and embellishments extending over that grade.
Clinic: An establishment where human patients, who are not lodged overnight, are admitted for examination and treatment by a group of physicians practicing medicine together or professionals licensed to practice the healing arts.
Club: A building or portion thereof or premises owned or operated by a corporation, association, person or persons for a social, literary, political, educational or recreational purpose, primarily for the exclusive use of members and their guests, and not primarily for profit or to render a service which is customarily carried on as a business.
Code: The codified Zoning Ordinance of the Village of Walbridge, Ohio.
Commercial: A use or activity which includes the purchase, sale, or exchange of goods or services including the display and transportation of commodities.
Commercial Entertainment Facilities: Any activity conducted for gain which is generally related to the entertainment field, such as motion picture theaters, carnivals, night clubs and similar entertainment activities.
Commercial Message: Any sign wording, logo or other representation that directly or indirectly, names, advertises or calls attention to a business, product, service or other commercial activity.
Commercial Vehicle: Any vehicle with a carrying capacity of over 6,000 pounds and used or designed to be used for business or commercial purposes and that requires a commercial driver's license (CDL) to drive. This definition includes school buses, semi-tractors, dump trucks and hazardous material haulers. Commercial vehicles may not remain overnight in a residential area or on the street adjacent to a residential area unless parked in an enclosed garage.
Commission: Shall mean the Planning Commission of the Village of Walbridge, Ohio.
Community Water and Sewerage Facilities or Services: The water distribution and/or sewage collection system provided by or authorized or franchised by a public authority.
Conditional Use (Conditional Exception): A use permitted within a district other than a principally permitted use which is subject to conditional approval by the Zoning Board of Appeals and requires a conditional use permit. A use other than a use by (or as of) right. A conditional use may be granted by the Board only when there is a specific provision for such conditional exception made in this Ordinance. A conditional use is not considered to be a nonconforming use.
Conditional Use Permit: A permit issued by the Zoning Administrator upon approval by the Board of Zoning Appeals to allow a use other than a principally permitted use to be established within a district.
Condominium (Zero-Lot Line Development): A form of real property ownership in fee simple of a cubic air space including only interior surfaces (the individual dwelling unit), and undivided ownership share, in common with other purchasers, of the common elements of the project including the land and its appurtenances.
Construction Sign: A temporary sign identifying an architect, engineer, financial institution, contractor, subcontractor and/or material supplier participating in construction on the property on which the sign is located.
Convenience Gas Station: Any premises used for supplying gasoline as well as convenience goods, at retail direct to the customer, and wherein auto repairs and services are not rendered.
Copy, Sign: The graphic content of a sign surface in either permanent or removable letter, pictographic, symbolic or alphabetic form.
Copy area, Sign: The area in square feet of the smallest geometric figure which describes the area enclosed by the actual copy of a sign. For fascia signs, the copy area limits refer to the message, not to the illuminated background.
Court: An open unoccupied space, other than a yard, on the same lot with a building or group of buildings and which is bounded on two or more sides by such building or buildings.
(a) Inner Court: A court other than an outer court. An inner court is enclosed on all sides by the exterior walls of a building, or by exterior walls and lot lines on which walls are allowable. The length of an inner court is the minimum horizontal dimension measured parallel to its longest side. The width of an inner court is the minimum horizontal dimension measured at right angles to its length.
(b) Outer Court: A court which opens onto a required yard, or street or alley. An outer court is enclosed on not more than three sides by the exterior walls of a building, or by exterior walls and lot lines on which walls are allowable. The width of an outer court is the minimum horizontal dimension measured in the same general direction as the yard, street or alley upon which the court opens. The depth of an outer court is the minimum horizontal dimension measured at right angles to its width.
Covenant: A private legal restriction on the use of land, contained in the deed to the property or otherwise formally recorded.
Coverage: Percentage of the plot or lot area covered by the building area.
Crawl Space: The shallow portion of a building that is at or below grade.
Cul-de-Sac: A short street having one end open to traffic and being terminated by a vehicle turn-around. See also "Street."
Curb Grade: The elevation of the established curb in front of the building measured at the center of such front. Where no curb grade has been established, the Village Engineer shall establish such curb grade or its equivalent for the purpose of this Ordinance.
Day Care Facilities: A place other than the permanent residence which administers to the needs of children or adults providing social, rehabilitation, recreational, or educational activities on a daily basis with no provisions for residential care. Uses include, but are not limited to, adult day care, child day care, rehabilitative care and nursery schools.
Dead-End Street: See "Street."
Density: A unit of measurement representing the number of dwelling units per acre of land.
(a) Gross Density: The number of dwelling units per acre of total land to be developed including rights of way.
(b) Net Density: The number of dwelling units per acre excluding rights of way.
(c) Gross Acre: Total acreage of a parcel including public rights-of-way and easements.
(d) Net Acre: Total acreage of a parcel excluding public rights-of-way and easements.
(e) Density Classification:
(1) Low: No greater than 1.5 units per net acre
(2) Low-Medium: 1.5 to 2.2 units per net acre
(3) Medium: 2.2 to 3.9 units per net acre
(4) Medium-High: 3.9 to 5.0 units per net acre
(5) High: Greater than 5 units per net acre
Detached refers to a structure surrounded by open space on the same lot as a main or principal building.
Detached Sign: Any sign which serves solely to designate the location or direction of any place or area.
Directional Sign: Any sign which serves solely to designate the location or direction of any place or area.
Directional/Information Sign (Private): An on-premise sign giving directions or instructions to facilitate traffic flow, e.g., parking or exit and entrance signs. Such signs may contain the name or logo of an establishment but no advertising copy. On such signs, the logo may not comprise more than 20 percent of the total sign area.
Disabled Vehicle: A vehicle that is inoperable and can not move under its own power. It meets one of the following requirements:
(a) It does not display a valid license plate and is in either wrecked, partially wrecked, dismantled, partially dismantled, or discarded condition, or is incapable of being driven; or
(b) It is wrecked, partially wrecked, dismantled, partially dismantled, discarded or is incapable of being driven and has remained in such condition for a continuous period of 14 days.
Dish: Shall mean that part of a signal-receiving antenna characteristically shaped like a saucer or dish.
Dish Antenna (Earth Station) (Ground Station): An accessory structure that shall mean one or a combination of two or more of the following:
(a) A signal-receiving device (antenna, dish antenna or dish-type antenna), the purpose of which is to receive communication or other signals from satellites in earth orbit and other extraterrestrial sources.
(b) A low-noise amplifier (LNA) which is situated at the focal point of the receiving component and the purpose of which is to magnify, store, transfer and/or transmit electronic or light signals.
(c) A coaxial cable, the purpose of which is to carry or transmit the signals into a receiver which may be located in the interior of the building.
District, Zoning Districts: Administrative tracts designating the uses to which land can legally be utilized. Boundaries of the districts are shown on the Zoning District Map which is part of this Ordinance. Regulations governing the use of land, buildings and premises, the height of buildings, the size of yards, the requirements for off-street parking and the intensity of use are uniform within said tracts.
Dormitory: See "Boarding House."
Double-Faced Sign: A sign with two faces, essentially back-to-back.
Drive-in Commercial Uses: Any retail commercial use providing considerable off-street parking and catering primarily to vehicular trade such as drive-in restaurants, drive-in theaters and similar uses.
Drive-Up: An establishment or facilities where goods or services are provided from windows or in drive-through areas to customers in cars or to the cars, and where the cars are temporarily stopped or standing and which commonly does, or could involve, a lineup of cars waiting in line for such goods or services. Current examples of drive-up developments include, but are not limited to, car washes, and drive-up windows at banks and fast food restaurants.
Driveway: A permanent hard-surfaced way that provides access to a garage, carport or unsheltered parking space from a street or place.
Dwelling: A building or portion thereof used exclusively for residential purposes, including one-family, two-family and multiple-family dwellings. The term "dwelling" shall include Ohio Basic Building Code (OBBC) approved units, but not include house trailers, e.g. travel trailers, motor homes, truck campers and park trailers, or mobile homes as defined by Ohio R.C. Chapter 4501.01, recreational vehicles, hotels, and boarding, rooming, tourist and lodging houses. Residential purposes shall mean use or intention to use for living or sleeping by one or more human occupants.
(a) Dwelling Unit: One or more rooms in a dwelling, or in a commercial building for which a conditional residential use has been approved, and designed for occupancy by one family and its household employees for living, dining and sleeping purposes, and having cooking, bathing and toilet facilities and space for storage.
(b) One-family dwelling: A detached building designed exclusively for occupancy by one family and separated from other dwelling units by open space.
(c) Two-family dwelling: A building designed exclusively for occupancy by two (2) families living independently of each other, including a duplex (one dwelling unit above the other), or a semi-detached dwelling (one dwelling unit beside the other) and each unit having a separate or combined entrance or entrances.
(d) Multiple-family dwelling: A building or portion thereof, designed for occupancy by three or more families living independently of each other including condominiums with varying arrangements of entrances and party walls. Multi-family housing may include public housing and industrialized units.
(e) Row: A row of three or more attached, one-family dwellings, not more than two rooms deep.
Dwelling Group: A group of two or more one-family, two-family or multiple-family dwellings occupying a lot in one ownership and having any yard in common.
Easements: Authorization by a property owner for the use by the public, a corporation or persons, and for a specified purpose, of any designated part of his property.
Educational Institution: A college or university giving general academic instruction equivalent to the standards prescribed by the State Board of Education.
Elderly Housing Facility: A building or buildings containing twelve or more dwelling units where occupancy is restricted to elderly persons or households. Such facilities may include emergency first aid care, day care, therapy, personal care, nursing facilities and recreational facilities, and provide for independent or semi-independent living. For the purposes of this definition, "Elderly Housing Facility" shall not include convalescent homes, nursing homes, group residential facilities, or homes for the aged.
Electrical Sign: A sign or sign structure in which electrical wiring, connections, or fixtures are used.
Embellishment: The decorative or ornamental detail on a sign or sign structure.
Erected: Attached, altered, set up, raised, built, constructed, reconstructed, enlarged or moved into place, and includes the painting of wall signs, but does not include copy changes on any sign.
Essential Services: The erection, construction, alteration, or maintenance by public utilities or municipal or other governmental agencies, of underground or overhead gas, electrical, steam or water transmission or distribution systems, collection, communication, supply or disposal systems, including poles, wires, mains, drains, sewers, pipes, traffic signals, hydrants, and other similar equipment and accessories in connection therewith; reasonably necessary for the furnishing of adequate service by such public utilities or municipal or other governmental agencies or for the public health or safety or general welfare, but not including buildings.
Exception: See "Conditional Use."
Exempted Signs: Exempted from normal permit requirements.
Extraction Industry: The removal of soil, sand, gravel or minerals from land or water for purposes of resale or use in the commercial operation of a business or the production of a good or service.
Facade: The entire building front including the parapet.
Face of Sign: See "Sign Face."
Family: An individual or married couple and natural or adopted children thereof, or of either parent, occupying a dwelling for the purposes of habitation, and including other persons related directly to the individual or married couple by blood or marriage, and including not more than two lodgers or boarders.
Family Day Care Home, Type A: See "Child Day Care."
Farm means any parcel of land containing at least five acres which is used for the raising of agricultural products, livestock, poultry and dairy products. It includes necessary farm structures and the storage of equipment used subject, however, to applicable regulations. It excludes the raising of fur-bearing animals, riding academies, livery or boarding stables, and dog kennels.
Farm Market: A building, structure or site whose primary purpose is the sale of agricultural commodities or products, derived from the premises upon which the market is located or on land owned or leased by the operator of the market.
Fence (Unit Fence): An artificially-constructed structure intended to act as a barrier, to demarcate a boundary, or an enclosure to restrict access to and/or egress from a lot or parcel of land, whether enclosing all or part of said lot or parcel or acting as a barrier to travel. Does not include ornamental structures of less than one foot in height. Fences shall be constructed of materials compatible with the surroundings of the zoning district and of material that is uniform throughout the line of the fence.
Field, Athletic: See "Athletic Field."
Filling Station: See "Automobile Service Station."
Flag: Any fabric, banner, or bunting containing distinctive colors, patterns, or symbols, used as a symbol of a government, political subdivision, or other entity. See also "Banner."
Flea Market: A building, structure or site whose primary purpose is the leasing/renting of space, stalls or areas which are used for selling goods or merchandise.
Flood Plain: That land, including the floodway fringe and the floodway, subject to inundation by the regional flood.
Flood, Regional: Large floods which have previously occurred or which may be expected to occur on a particular stream because of like physical characteristics. The regional flood generally has an average frequency of the 100-year recurrence interval flood.
Flood stage: The highest point at which flood waters have risen in the specific area in question. If the Zoning Administrator is unable to determine, it shall be the duty of Council to so determine.
Floodway: That portion of the flood plain, including the channel, required to convey the regional flood waters. Floods of less frequent recurrence are usually contained completely within the floodway.
Floodway Fringe: That portion of the flood plain, excluding the floodway, where development may be allowed under certain restrictions.
Floor area: Space enclosed within a dwelling used for basic living purposes, exclusive of garages, storage rooms, porches or breezeways, enclosed or unenclosed. "Floor area" shall be determined by measurement of the exterior faces of exterior walls or from the center line of walls separating two buildings.
Folding Camper: A folding or collapsing structure of low silhouette mounted on wheels and designed for travel, recreational or vacation uses.
Food Processing: The preparation or processing of food products. Examples of activities included are bakeries and dairies.
Freestanding Sign: See "Sign, Freestanding."
Frontage: All of the property on one side of a street between two intersecting streets (crossing or terminating), measured at the setback building line. Or if the street is a dead-end street, then all of the property abutting on one side between an intersecting street and the dead-end of the street. (For individual lots, see "Lot Frontage" under "Lot.")
Frontage, Building: See "Building Frontage."
Frontage, Lot: See "Lot Frontage" under "Lot."
Funeral Home: See "Mortuary."
Future Development Sign: A temporary sign indicating the future construction or development of a building or area but not fitting under the definition of construction sign.
Garage: A structure or portion thereof which is used for the storage of motor vehicles.
(a) Garage, Private: A detached accessory building or portion of a main building for the parking or temporary storage of automobiles of the occupants of the premises, and wherein:
(1) Storage shall not exceed three motor vehicles;
(2) Not more than one space is rented for parking to persons not resident on the premises;
(3) Not more than one commercial vehicle per dwelling unit is parked or stored; and
(4) The commercial vehicle permitted does not exceed two ton capacity.
(b) Garage, Public: A building other than a private garage used for the care, repair, rental or equipment of automobiles, or where such vehicles are parked or stored for remuneration, hire or sale. See also "Automobile Service Station."
(c) Garage, Storage: A building or portion thereof, other than a private garage, designed or used exclusively for storage of motor-driven vehicles, and at which motor fuels and oils are not sold, and motor-driven vehicles are not equipped, repaired, hired or sold.
Gas Station, Gasoline Service Station: See "Automobile Service Station."
Golf Course: An extensive recreational facility that typically includes nine or eighteen holes of golf plus a driving range and a clubhouse which typically includes a restaurant and a bar.
Government Sign: See "Sign, Government."
Grade: The curb line grade at the front lot line as established by Council.
Grade, Finished: The completed surfaces of lawns, walks, and roads brought to grades as shown on official plans or designs relating thereto.
Greenhouse: A building or structure enclosed with glass or other glazing and used for the cultivation and production of plants.
Greenspace: An area open to the sky which may be cultivated or maintained in a natural state.
Gross Floor Area: All of the area on each floor, whether or not such area is enclosed by walls, exclusive of interior areas used for off-street parking or loading facilities.
Ground Sign: See "Sign, Ground."
Grounding Rod: Shall mean a metal pole permanently positioned in the earth to serve as an electrical conductor through which electrical current may safely pass and dissipate.
Guest House: Living quarters within a detached accessory building, located on the same premises with the main building, for use by temporary guests of occupants of the premises; such quarters have no kitchen facilities and are not rented or otherwise used as a separate dwelling.
Half story: see "Story."
Hard-Surfaced: A layer of bituminous, concrete, brick or other dust material forming a rigid, solid surface.
Hazardous Waste: Any waste or combination of waste in solid, liquid, semi-solid or contained gaseous form which falls within the definition of Hazardous Waste under Ohio R.C. Chapter 3734.01(j).
Health Care Clinics: A health care facility which provides for diagnosis and treatment services on an emergency or outpatient basis with no provisions for residential care.
Height (of a Sign): The vertical distance measured from the highest point of the sign, including decorative embellishment, to the grade of the adjacent street or the surface grade beneath the sign, whichever is less. (See also "Clearance [of a Sign].")
Height of Building: See "Building Height."
Highway, Major: A street or road of considerable continuity and used primarily as a traffic artery for intercommunication among large areas.
Holiday Sign: See "Seasonal Sign."
Home Occupation: An occupation for gain or support carried on by the occupant of a dwelling, which use is clearly incidental and secondary to the use of the dwelling for dwelling purposes, such as millinery; dressmaking; hairdressing; upholstering; repairing; art or photography studio; professional office of an engineer or architect within a dwelling occupied by same; or teaching, with musical instruction limited to a single pupil at a time. A home occupation does not change the external character of the dwelling; does not produce a sound that is audible beyond the dwelling, nor any offensive vibration, smoke, dust, odors, heat or glare; and does not involve the employment of more than one person who is not a resident of such dwelling. No articles are sold or offered for sale except such as are produced within the dwelling, and such occupation shall not occupy more than one-third of the area of the residence. There shall be no exterior display or exterior sign (except as permitted under Chapter 1181), no exterior storage of material and no other exterior indication of the home occupation or variation from the residential character of the principal building. A home occupation shall not be interpreted to include commercial stables, kennels or restaurants.
Hospital: A health care facility which provides for diagnostic, medical, surgical or psychiatric treatment and care. It may include but is not limited to related facilities for educational and training facilities for health professionals. Unless otherwise specified, "hospital" includes sanitarium, sanatorium, preventorium, and similar places for the diagnosis, treatment or other care of human ailmens.
Hospital, Animal: An establishment for the medical and/or surgical care of sick or injured animals.
Hotel: Any building, or portion thereof, which contains guest rooms which are designed or intended to be used, let or hired out for occupancy by, or which are occupied by, ten or more individuals for compensation, whether the compensation be paid directly or indirectly.
House Trailer: See "Mobile Home."
Identification Sign: A sign whose copy is limited to the name and address of a building, institution or person and/or to the activity or occupation being identified.
Illegal Sign: A sign which does not meet the requirements of this code and which has not received legal nonconforming status.
Illuminated Sign: A sign with an artificial light source incorporated internally or externally for the purpose of illuminating the sign.
Incidental Sign: A sign, generally informational, that has a purpose secondary to the use of the zone lot on which it is located, e.g. "no parking," "entrance," "loading only," "telephone," and other similar directives. No sign with a commercial message legible from a position off the zone lot on which the sign is located shall be considered incidental.
Industrial Park: Any parcel containing more than one industry.
Industrialized Unit: A building unit or assembly of closed construction fabricated in an off-site facility, that is substantially self-sufficient as a unit or as part of a greater structure, and that requires transportation to the site of intended use. "Industrialized Unit" includes units installed on the site as independent units, as part of a group of units, or incorporated with standard construction methods to form a completed structural entity. "Industrialized Unit" does not include a manufactured home or mobile home as defined in this Zoning Code.
Inoperable Vehicle: See "Disabled Vehicle."
Institution: Building or land occupied by a nonprofit corporation or a nonprofit establishment wholly for the public use.
Institutional Bulletin Board: A sign which primarily displays the name of the organization and/or upcoming events of that organization.
Institutional Health Care Facilities: A public or nonprofit institution which provides for residential health care and maintenance for mental health or developmentally disabled persons.
Interior Property Lines: Property lines other than those fronting on a street, road or highway.
Junk: Any worn-out, castoff, or discarded article or material which is, or may be, salvaged for reuse, resale, reduction, or similar disposition, or which is possessed, transported, owned, collected, accumulated, dismantled, or assorted for the aforementioned purposes. Any article or material, which unaltered or unchanged and without further reconditioning, can be used for its original purpose as readily as when new, shall not be considered junk.
Junk Yard: An area where waste, scrap metal, paper, rags, or similar materials are bought, sold, exchanged, stored, packed, or handled, including building wrecking yards, or areas housing the dismantling, demolition or abandonment of automobiles or other vehicles or machinery or parts thereof.
Kennel: Any lot or premises on which three or more dogs, more than four months of age, are kept for boarding purposes, medical care, or for other commercial purposes excluding animal husbandry.
Landfill: Any site used for the discharge, deposit, injection, dumping, spilling, leaking, emitting or placing of any solid waste or hazardous waste into or on any land or ground or surface water.
Launderette: A business premises equipped with individual clothes-washing machines for the use of retail customers, exclusive of laundry facilities provided as an accessory use in an apartment house or an apartment motel.
Library: A public or semi-public educational institution that, among other activities, catalogues and stores books and other educational media for research and archival purposes, disseminates information, and provides books and other media for recreational reading and learning. (Ord. 11-07. Passed 7-18-07.)
Livestock: Any animal or reptile generally used for food or in the production of food, fur bearing production of hide or textile including but not limited to cattle, sheep, goats, rabbits, poultry, alpacas and llamas.
(Ord. 19-18. Passed 12-5-18.)
Living Space or Area: The total square footage of usable living floor space within the defined areas created by the walls of a dwelling. Such area does not include crawl spaces, unfinished attics, open patios, open terraces or courts, open breezeways, outside steps, garages and/or carports.
Loading Space or Berth: An off-street space or berth on the same lot with a building, or contiguous to a group of buildings, exclusive of off-street parking spaces, for the temporary parking of a commercial vehicle while loading or unloading merchandise or materials, and which abuts upon a street or other appropriate means of access.
Lodging House: See "Boarding House."
Lot: Land occupied or to be occupied by a building, or unit group of buildings, and accessory buildings, together with such yards and other open spaces and a lot area as are required by this Ordinance to meet minimum zoning requirements for use, coverage, and area, and having its principal frontage upon an improved public street, or on an approved private street, and may consist of:
(1) A single lot of record;
(2) A portion of a lot of record; or
(3) A combination of complete lots of record, of complete lots of record and portions of lots of record, or of portions of lots of record.
(a) Lot Area: The total horizontal area within the lot lines of a lot, exclusive of any portion of the right-of-way of any public or private street.
(b) Lot, Corner: A lot, or portion thereof, not greater than 100 feet in width and situated at the intersection of two or more streets, having an angle of intersection of not more than 135 degrees. A lot abutting upon a curbed street shall be considered a corner lot if the tangents to the curve at the points of intersection of the side lot lines intersect at an interior angle of less than 135 degrees.
(c) Lot Coverage: The ratio of enclosed ground floor area of all buildings on a lot to the horizontally-projected area of the lot, expressed as a percentage.
(d) Lot Depth: The horizontal distance between the mid-points of straight lines connecting the foremost points of the side lot lines in front and the rearmost points of the side lot lines in the rear. Unless otherwise specified, length shall be measured from the street line. Lot length and lot depth have the same meaning.
(e) Lot Frontage: The horizontal length of the property line of any one parcel along a public right-of-way on which it borders. The front of a lot shall be construed to be the portion nearest the street. For the purpose of determining yard requirements on corner lots and through lots, all sides of a lot adjacent to streets shall be considered frontage, and yards shall be provided as indicated under "Yards" in this section.
(f) Lot, Interior: A lot other than a corner lot with only one frontage on a street.
(g) Lot of Record: Any lot which individually or as part of a subdivision has been recorded in the Office of the Wood County Recorder; or a parcel of land described by metes and bounds, the description of which has been recorded in the office of the County Recorder.
(h) Lot Lines: The lines bounding a lot as described and defined herein.
(i) Lot, Minimum Area of: See "Lot Area."
(j) Lot, Reversed Corner: A corner lot, the side street line of which is substantially a continuation of the front lot line of the lot to its rear.
(k) Lot, Through: An interior lot having frontage on two or more streets.
(l) Lot Width: The width of a lot at the building set-back line measured at right angles to its depth. The width of lots fronting on a cul-de-sac shall be the chord distance between side lot lines for the curve coinciding with the required depth of the front yard.
Lounge: A commercial establishment whose primary business is the sale for on-premise consumption of beverages and prepared food. Primary sales are of beverages. The establishment may also offer entertainment.
Low Profile Sign: A sign mounted directly to the ground with the maximum height not to exceed five feet measured from the ground surface and not to exceed seven feet measured from the center line of the road.
Maintenance (of a Sign): See "Sign Maintenance."
Maintenance and Storage Facilities: Land, buildings, and structures devoted primarily to the maintenance and storage of construction equipment and material.
Major Street: A dedicated street within the Village of Walbridge which has been classified as a dual highway, dominant major street, a major street, a secondary major street, or a main street on the Official Village Major Street Plan.
Major Street Plan: The Village of Walbridge Major Street Plan which designates roadways as expressways, principal arterial, minor streets, major collectors or local collectors.
Mansard Roof: A sloping roof where the angle of the roof is no more than 30 degrees from perpendicular. Signs on these roofs shall be considered fascia signs.
Manufactured Home: A factory-built, single-family structure that is transportable in one or more sections, is built on a permanent chassis and is used as a place of occupancy which is not constructed with a permanent hitch or other device allowing transport of the unit other than for the purpose of delivery to a permanent site and which does not have wheels or axles permanently attached to its body or frame. It is a building unit or assembly of closed construction that is fabricated in an off-site facility, designed for assembly at the building site, and bearing certification that it is built in conformance with the federal manufactured housing construction and safety standards established by the Secretary of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development pursuant to the "Manufactured Housing Construction and Safety Act of 1974." See also "Industrialized Unit" and "Permanently-Sited Manufactured Home."
Manufactured Home Park: Any lot, parcel or tract of land designed exclusively for the occupancy by manufactured homes or mobile homes, used for human habitation, either free of charge or for revenue purposes, which includes any roadway, building, structure, vehicle or enclosure used or intended for use as part of the facilities of such Manufactured Home Park.
Manufacturing: Any production or industrial process, including food processing, which combines one or more raw materials or components into a product, or which changes the nature of the materials entering the process.
(a) Manufacturing, General: Any manufacturing, industrial production or storage, which by the nature of the materials, equipment and processes utilized, may require large parcels and effective separation from residential areas, is generally conducted within an enclosed building and if outside storage of material is required such storage is conducted within a well-maintained enclosure which shall have an opaqueness of 75 percent or more. General Manufacturing shall include the manufacturing of dairy, canned fruit and vegetable, bakery, soft drink and confectionery products; textile mill products and apparel; glass products; lumber wood products, furniture and fixtures; plastic products and fabrication; pharmaceuticals; perfumes and cosmetics; fabricated products from metal coils and
sheets, the rolling and finishing of ferrous and nonferrous metals; screw machine products and bolts, nuts and screws, and washers; tool and die; cutlery, hand tools and general hardware; electrical machinery, equipment and supplies; appliance production; radio and television sets; electronic components and accessories; and products of a similar nature.
(b) Manufacturing, Heavy: Any industrial use which requires buildings and open area for manufacturing, fabricating, processing, heavy repair, dismantling, testing, storage or disposal of raw materials, manufactured products or wastes, which is not injurious to health or safety of humans or animals. Typically, heavy manufacturing requires large sites for isolation and separation from residential and commercial development because of the potential spill over effect on surrounding areas, the use of buildings and open areas of the parcel for processing production, open storage and service areas, extensive services and facilities, and ready access to regional transportation. Normally, such uses generate some nuisances such as smoke, noise vibration, dust, glare, air pollution and water pollution, but not beyond the district boundary. Heavy manufacturing shall include primary metal industrial operations involving the use of blast furnaces, the rolling and finishing of ferrous and nonferrous metals, iron and steel foundries, primary and secondary smelting and refining facilities, metal plate and sheet fabricating facilities for metal plates and sheets, metal salvage and fabrication, and any other operations which shall be deemed to be of a similar nature. Heavy manufacturing shall also include mineral extraction; motor vehicles and related products, manufactured housing; household appliances manufacturing; gas manufacture; refining; manufacturing and/or processing of animals, or animal parts for food, fertilizer or other purposes including the tanning and production of leather goods and furs; the manufacture of food and meat products; paper and allied products; chemicals and allied products, including plastic materials, synthetic rubber and man-made fibers, soaps and detergents, paints and agricultural chemicals, petroleum refining and related industries, including production of paving and roofing materials, tire products, glass products and any other products of a similar nature.
(c) Manufacturing, Light: Manufacturing or other industrial uses which are usually controlled operations; relatively clean, quiet, and free of objectionable or hazardous elements such as smoke, noise, odor, or dust; operating and storing within enclosed structures; and generating little industrial traffic and no nuisances.
(d) Manufacturing, Restricted: Any industrial use which is conducted entirely within enclosed, substantially constructed buildings; involving the use of only light machinery and equipment; does not use the open area about the buildings for the storage of materials or equipment other than for the unloading or loading operations at the rear or within an enclosure which abuts a building. Restricted manufacturing shall include the manufacture of drugs, jewelry, musical instruments, sporting goods; the processing and assembly of small glass products; small household appliances; small electronic products, scientific instruments, and parts for the production of finished equipment; office, computing and accounting machines; research and laboratory testing; printing, publishing and engraving plants; and other similar products and operations.
Marine Sales and Service: The sale and service of watercraft and marine equipment.
Marquee: A permanent roof-like structure or canopy of rigid materials supported by and extending from the facade of a building. (See also "Awning.")
Marquee Sign: Any sign attached to or supported by a marquee structure.
Massage Parlor: An establishment or place primarily in the business of providing massage services operated by anyone not a duly licensed medical doctor, osteopath, chiropractor, nurse or physical therapist treating patients recommended by a licensed physician under a duly licensed physician's direction, state licensed massage therapist or person practicing the art of massage on the face or hands in a duly licensed beauty parlor or barber shop.
(Ord. 11-07. Passed 7-18-07.)
Medical Marijuana: For the purpose of this section, “medical marijuana” shall have the same meaning as is defined in Section 3796.04(A)(2) of the Ohio Revised Code, effective September 8, 2016. (Ord. 19-18. Passed 12-5-18.)
Message: The wording or copy on a sign.
Metal Salvaging and Storage: The salvaging of metal in all forms for sale and storage.
Mineral processing: The processing of coal, limestone, clay and other mineral resources except sand and gravel provided no chemical change in the mineral is involved in the process.
Mobile Home: A transportable factory-built home, designed to be used as a year-round residential dwelling and built prior to the enactment of the Federal Manufactured Home Construction and Safety Standards Act of 1974 which became effective June 15, 1976. It is to be occupied as a building unit complete and ready for occupancy, except for minor and incidental unpacking and assembly operations, location on jacks or other foundations, and connection to essential public utilities. "Mobile Home" does not qualify as a "Manufactured Home" nor as an "Industrialized Unit" as defined in this zoning code.
Mobile Home Park: See "Manufactured Home Park"
Modular Home: A factory built building unit or assembly of closed construction, that is substantially self sufficient as a unit or as part of a greater structure designed for assembly at the building site. See "Industrialized Unit" and "Manufactured Home."
Mortuary: A building or part thereof used for human funeral services. Such building may contain space and facilities for:
(a) Embalming and the performance of other services used in preparation of the dead for burial;
(b) The performance of autopsies and other surgical procedures;
(c) The storage of caskets, funeral urns, and other related funeral supplies; and
(d) The storage of funeral vehicles but shall not include facilities for cremation.
Where a funeral home is permitted, a funeral chapel shall also be permitted.
Motel: A group of attached or detached dwellings containing less than 300 square feet of floor area for each sleeping or living unit and which are provided for transient guests; including auto courts, motels and motor lodges. (Ord. 11-07. Passed 7-18-07.)
Motor Vehicle: A self-propelled, free moving vehicle as defined in the Ohio Revised Code Chapter 4501.01. (Ord. 19-18. Passed 12-5-18.)
Motor Vehicle Sales and Rentals: See "Automotive, Travel Trailer, and Farm Implement Sales and Rentals."
Motor Vehicle Salvage: See "Automotive Salvage."
Motor Vehicle Salvage Yard: See "Automotive Wrecking/Salvage Yard."
Motor Vehicle Service Station: See "Automobile Service Station."
Motorized Home: A portable dwelling designed and constructed as an integral part of a self-propelled vehicle for travel, recreational or vacation use.
Multiple-Faced Sign: See "Sign, Multiple-Faced."
Nonconforming Sign: A sign which was constructed legally, but which does not comply with subsequently enacted sign restrictions and regulations. A sign which does not conform to the sign code requirements, but for which a special permit has been issued.
Nonconforming Use: The use of land or a building, or portion thereof, lawfully existing at the time this Ordinance, or amendments thereto, became effective, which does not conform with the use regulations of the district in which it is situated, and is therefore incompatible.
Nursery, Children's: See "Child Day Care."
Nursery, Plant Materials: Land, buildings, structures, or combination thereof, for the storage, cultivation and/or transplanting of live trees, shrubs, or plants offered for retail or wholesale sale on the premises including products used for gardening or landscaping.
Nursery School: A school designed to provide daytime care for instruction for two or more children, and operated on a regular basis.
Nursing Home: A residential care facility in which persons are housed or lodged and furnished with meals, and as its primary function provides for-hire nursing or convalescent care on a 24-hour basis, and physical and/or social rehabilitation services.
Occupancy: The portion of a building or premises owned, leased, rented, or otherwise occupied for a given use.
Off-Premise Sign: Any sign structure, advertising an establishment, merchandise, service, or entertainment, situated on private premises, or a structure used as an outdoor display for the purpose of making anything known on which the written or pictorial information is not directly related to the principal use of the land on which such sign is situated. See also "Billboard."
Off-Site Directional Sign: A sign which provides directional assistance to access an establishment conveniently and safely. Such signs shall be limited by the Zoning Administrator in size, height, and placement as justified.
Office Complex Day Care Facilities: See "Child Day Care."
On-Premise Sign: A sign which pertains to the use of the premises and/or property on which it is located.
Open Space: An area substantially open to the sky which may be on the same lot with a building. Along with the natural environmental features, the area may include any other recreational facilities that the Planning Commission deems permissible. Streets, parking areas, structures for habitation, and the like shall not be included.
Overlay District: An additional secondary zoning classification which establishes additional regulations on the use of land, buildings or structures.
Owner: A person recorded as such on official records. The owner of property on which a sign is located is presumed to be the owner of the sign unless facts to the contrary are officially recorded or otherwise brought to the attention of the Zoning Administrator, e.g. a sign leased from a sign company.
Painted Wall Sign: See "Sign, Painted Wall."
Park: An open space that is set aside for passive and/or active recreational purposes. The range of development of a park can extend from no development to highly developed. A park may include recreational facilities, a shelter house, rest rooms, and ball fields. Typically, a public parking area is included.
Parkland: Open space that is set aside for passive and/or active recreational purposes.
Parking Area, Private: An open area, other than a street or alley, used for the parking of the automobiles of occupants of a dwelling.
Parking Area, Public or Customer: An open area, other than a private parking area, street or alley, used for the parking of automobiles and available for public or semi-public use.
Parking Lot: Any off-street area or structure which meets one of the following conditions:
(a) Contains one or more parking, vehicular storage, loading or stacking spaces for commercial, institutional, recreational or industrial use, whether free or for compensation; or
(b) Contains five or more parking spaces for any residential use.
Parking Space, Automobile: A rectangular, or other angular area, within a building or a private or public parking area, designed for the temporary parking of one automobile, accessible from a street, alley or maneuvering area, and exclusive of any driveway or other circulation area. For single-family and two-family dwellings, one required parking space may be positioned behind another.
Parking Space, Off-Street: For the purpose of this Ordinance, an off-street parking space shall consist of an area adequate for parking an automobile with room for opening doors on both sides, together with properly related access to a public street or alley and maneuvering room, but shall be located totally outside of any street or alley right-of-way.
Pennant: Any lightweight plastic, fabric or other material, whether or not containing a message of any kind, suspended from a rope, wire or string usually in series designed to move in the wind.
Performance Bond or Surety Bond: An agreement by a subdivider or developer with the Village for the amount of the estimated construction cost guaranteeing the completion of physical improvements according to plans and specifications within the time prescribed by the subdivider's agreement.
Permanent Foundation: Permanent masonry, concrete, or a locally-approved footing or foundation, to which a building or building unit may be affixed.
Permanently-Sited Manufactured Home: A "Manufactured Home" that meets all the following criteria:
(a) The structure is affixed to a permanent foundation and is connected to appropriate facilities (i.e., water supply, sanitary waste disposal, electrical and heating facilities, etc.);
(b) The structure, excluding any addition, has a width of at least 22 feet at one point, and a total living area, excluding garages, porches, or attachments, of at least 900 square feet;
(c) The structure has a minimum 3:12 residential roof pitch, conventional residential siding, and a six inch minimum eave overhang, including appropriate guttering;
(d) The structure was manufactured after January 1, 1995 and;
(e) The structure is not located in a Manufactured Home Park as defined in this Zoning Code.
Person: Any individual, corporation, association, firm, partnership, or similarly defined interest.
Personal Services: Any enterprise conducted for gain which primarily offers services to the general public such as shoe repair, watch repairing, barber shop, beauty parlors and similar activities.
Pickup Camper: A structure designed primarily to be mounted on a pickup or truck chassis and with sufficient equipment to render it suitable for use as a temporary dwelling for travel, recreational or vacation uses.
Place: A private thoroughfare other than a street or alley permanently reserved as a lot on a recorded plat as the principal means of access to abutting property approved under applicable Subdivision Regulations by the Village of Walbridge in accordance with Ohio R.C. Chapter 711 and 713.
Planned Unit Development: An area of land in which a variety of housing types and subordinate commercial and industrial facilities are accommodated in a preplanned environment under more flexible standards, such as lot sizes and setbacks, than those restrictions that would normally apply under these regulations.
Plat: A map or drawing of a tract or parcel of land.
Playground: A park or a portion of a park that typically includes recreational equipment that is youth-oriented in nature, e.g. swings, slides, and play structures.
Point-of-Purchase Display: Advertising of a retail item accompanying its display, e.g. an advertisement on a product dispenser, tire display, etc.
Pole Sign: Any sign supported by upright structures or supports that are anchored in the ground and that are independent from any building or other structure. (See also "Sign, Freestanding.")
Political Sign: A temporary sign used in connection with a local, state, or national election or referendum.
Pond: A body of water, of which none of the excavated material has been removed from the site for commercial purposes, and which is used for the following purposes: to provide water for livestock, fish and wildlife, recreation, fire control, irrigation, or crop and orchard spraying.
Porch: An entrance one story high to a building, projecting out from a main wall, partially or fully enclosed but not heated.
Portable Sign: Any sign not permanently attached to the ground or other permanent structure or a sign designed to be transported, including but not limited to signs designed to be transported by means of wheels; signs converted to A-frames or T-frames; menu and sandwich board signs; inflated devices such as balloons and other gas-filled figures; umbrellas used for advertising; and signs attached to or painted on vehicles. Such vehicles are to be located in a designated off-street parking space that is in compliance with Chapter 1183 of this Ordinance, unless said vehicle is used in the normal day-to-day operations of the business.
Premises: A parcel of land with its appurtenances and buildings which, because of its unity of use, may be regarded as the smallest conveyable unit of real estate.
Private Garage: See "Garage, Private."
Professional Activities/Services: The use of offices and related spaces for such professional services as are provided by doctors, dentists, lawyers, architects, engineers, ministers, authors, artists or musicians.
Projecting Sign: A sign, other than a flat wall sign, which is attached to and projects from a building wall or other structure not specifically designed to support the sign.
Property Lines, Interior: See "Interior Property Lines."
Public Garage: "See Garage, Public."
Public Right-of-Way Width: The particular distance across a public street, measured from property line to property line. When property lines on opposite sides of the public street are not parallel, the public right-of-way width shall be determined by the Village Engineer.
Public Service Facility: The erection, construction, alteration, operation or maintenance of a utility or service building, power plant or substation, water treatment plant, sewage disposal or pumping facility, transmission, distribution, or collection systems, or similar public service structures by a public utility, by a railroad, whether publicly or privately-owned, or by a municipal or other government agency and providers of other uses which meet the definition of public utility under Ohio R.C. 4905.03, including the furnishing and maintenance of electrical, gas, rail transport, communication, public water, and sewerage services.
Public Service Information Sign: Any sign intended primarily to promote items of general interest to the community such as time, temperature, atmospheric conditions, news, traffic control and date. Public service information signs permitted in commercial and industrial districts are not included in the total square footage of sign area allowed, and require a Zoning Permit.
Public Uses: Uses which provide or maintain public services including public parks, schools, administrative offices, e.g. village halls and town halls, cultural and service buildings and structures, e.g. fire stations and police stations, and not including public land or buildings devoted solely to the storage and maintenance of equipment and materials.
Quasi-Public Uses: Churches, Sunday schools, parochial schools, colleges, hospitals, and other facilities of an education, religious, philanthropic, or non-profit nature.
Real Estate Sign: A temporary sign advertising the real estate upon which the sign is located as being for rent, lease or sale.
Receiver: Shall mean a television set or radio receiver.
Recreational Facilities: Public or private facilities, used for social, leisure and recreational activities, that may be classified as either "extensive" or "intensive," depending upon the scope of services offered and the extent of use. Extensive facilities generally require and utilize considerable areas of land and include, but need not be limited to, hunting, fishing and riding clubs and parks. Intensive facilities generally require less land (used more intensively) and include, but need not be limited to, miniature golf courses, amusement parks, stadiums and bowling alleys.
(a) Commercial Recreational Facilities: Recreational facilities open to the public, established and operated for a profit, such as commercial golf courses, swimming pools, ice skating rinks, riding stables, campgrounds, race tracks, carnivals and similar commercial enterprises.
(b) Non-Commercial Recreational Facilities: Private and semi-public recreational facilities which are not operated for commercial gain including private country clubs, riding clubs, golf courses, game preserves, campgrounds, hunting and trapping, and other private noncommercial recreation areas and facilities or recreation centers including private community swimming pools. Noncommercial recreational facilities may be leased to outside groups and organizations provided the fee for such purposes is limited to incidental maintenance and custodial expenses.
(c) Restricted Commercial Recreational Facilities: Concessions for the sale of food, non-alcoholic beverages and boating and fishing supplies and accessories.
Recreational and Utility Equipment: Travel Trailers, Pickup Campers, Motorized Homes, Folding Campers, Boats, Boat Trailers, Utility Trailers, Snowmobiles and All-Terrain Vehicles.
Recreational Vehicle: Any vehicular portable structure designed and constructed to be used as a temporary dwelling, or, for travel, recreational or vacation purposes. These include, but are not limited to, motor homes, travel trailers, tent campers and truck campers, vehicles used for off-road recreation, competition or show events (i.e., all-terrain vehicles, dirt bikes, racing vehicles or other vehicles used in competition or show events and that are not licensed for operating on, or to be driven on a public road). See also "Recreational and Utility Equipment."
Research Activities: Research, development, and testing related to such fields as chemical, pharmaceutical, medical, electrical, transportation, and engineering. All research, testing, and development shall be carried on within entirely enclosed buildings, and no noise, smoke, glare, vibration, or odor shall be detected outside of said building.
Residential Floor Area: The interior floor area of a dwelling including stairways, halls, and closets but not including basement, porches, garages, breezeways or carports.
Residential Sign: Any sign located in a district zoned for residential uses that contains no commercial message except advertising for goods or services legally offered on the premises where the sign is located, if offering such service at such location conforms with all requirements of the Zoning Ordinance.
Restaurant: A commercial establishment whose primary business is the sale for on-premise consumption of prepared food and beverages. Primary sales are of prepared food.
(Ord. 11-07. Passed 7-18-07.)
Retail Sales, Outdoor: The display and sale of products and services primarily outside of a building or structure, including vehicles, garden supplies, gas, tires and motor oil, food and beverages, boats and aircraft, farm equipment, motor homes, burial monuments, building and landscape materials, and lumber yards. (Ord. 19-18. Passed 12-5-18.)
Retail Store: A store serving a limited local area or neighborhood selling commodities, not processed on the premises, direct to the public.
Right-of-Way: A strip of land taken or dedicated for use as a public way. In addition to the roadway, it normally incorporates the curbs, lawn strips, sidewalks, lighting and drainage facilities and may include special features (required by the topography or treatment) such as grade separation, landscaped areas, viaducts and bridges. (See also "Public Right-of-Way Width.")
Right-of-Way Line: A dividing line between a lot, tract or parcel of land and a contiguous right-of-way. All setback distances on the Zoning Map shall be measured from the right-of-way line.
Road Side Stands or Structures: A building or structure used for the sale of agricultural produce that is grown on the property. See also "Farm Market."
(Ord. 11-07. Passed 7-18-07.)
Roadway: Public or private way owned or dedicated for purpose of vehicular transportation. (Ord. 19-18. Passed 12-5-18.)
Roofline: The top edge of a roof or building parapet, whichever is higher, excluding any mansards, cupolas, pylons, chimneys, or minor projections.
Roof Sign: Any sign erected and constructed wholly on and over the roof of a building, supported by the roof structure and extending vertically above the highest portion of the roof.
Roof Sign, Integral: Any sign erected or constructed as an integral or essentially integral part of a normal roof structure of any design, such that no part of the sign extends vertically above the highest portion of the roof and such that no part of the sign is separated from the rest of the roof by a space of more than six inches.
Rooming House: See "Boarding House."
Row House: See "Dwelling, Row." (Ord. 11-07. Passed 7-18-07.)
Sand and Gravel Extraction: The excavation, storage separation, cleaning and marketing of sand and gravel.
Satellite, Signal Receiver: Includes “dish-type satellite signal receiving antennas”, “earth station” or “ground stations”, whether functioning as part of a basic service system direct broadcast satellite system, or multi-point distribution service system including one, or a combination of the following:
(a) A signal-receiving device, such as a dish antenna, whose purpose is to receive communications or signals from earth-orbiting satellites or similar sources.
(b) A low-noise amplifier (LNA) whose purpose is to boost, magnify, store, transfer or transmit signals.
All dishes smaller than twenty-four (24) inches in diameter do not require a permit.
School: A facility that provides a curriculum of elementary and/or secondary academic instruction, including pre-schools, kindergartens, elementary schools, middle schools, junior high schools, and high schools, excluding home school programs and on-line schools.
Screening: A device or material used to conceal one element of a development from other elements or from adjacent or contiguous development. Screening may include one or a combination of the following materials of sufficient mass to become opaque after twelve (12) months and which shall be maintained in an opaque condition: walls, berms, or plantings. For the purpose of this Ordinance, screening shall consist of objects:
(a) Kept in good condition
(b) Free of advertisements, and
(c) Which comply with required front yard set-back lines.
(Ord. 19-18. Passed 12-5-18.)
Seasonal Sign or Holiday Sign: Any sign such as a Christmas decoration or those used for a historic or traditional holiday and installed for a limited period of time.
Seat: For purposes of determining the number of off-street parking spaces for certain uses, the number of seats is the number of seating units installed or indicated, or each 24 lineal inches of benches, pews or space for loose chairs.
(Ord. 11-07. Passed 7-11-07.)
Seating: For purposes of determining the number of off-street parking spaces for certain uses, the number of seats is the number seating units installed or indicated, or each twenty-four (24) lineal inches of benches, pews, or space for loose chairs.
Seasonal Residence: Summer cottages, winter lodges and similar housing occupied less than six (6) months during the year. (Ord. 19-18. Passed 12-5-18.)
Self-Service Storage Facility: Any real property designed and used for the purpose of renting or leasing of storage spaces for storage of personal property.
Semi-Public Uses: Services and facilities which are provided to the public that are privately-owned and controlled. These include, but are not limited to, churches, Sunday schools, parochial schools, colleges, hospitals and other institutions of an educational, religious, charitable or philanthropic nature, and telecommunication facilities.
Service Station: See "Automobile Service Station."
Setback: The minimum distance from the street building line measured along a line perpendicular to the street line or front property line, or in the case of an arced street, measured along the radius of such arc. For lots abutting on a thoroughfare as shown on the Major Thoroughfare Plan for the Village, the setback shall be measured from the proposed right-of-way line specified for that thoroughfare on the Major Thoroughfare Plan for the Village.
Setback Line: A line established by zoning, platting or other legal means on a lot, that is a specified distance from and parallel to the lot line defining the limits of a yard in which no building or structure may be located above ground to restrict the encroachment of buildings on the lot line, except as may be provided in this Ordinance. See "Yard."
Sewage Disposal System, On-Site: A septic tank installation on an individual lot which utilizes an anaerobic bacteriological process for the elimination of solid wastes and provides for the proper and safe disposal of the effluent, subject to the approval of health and sanitation officials having jurisdiction.
School, Elementary and High: An institution which offers instructions in the several branches of learning and study required to be taught in the public schools by the Ohio School Code. High schools include junior and senior.
Shopping Center: A group of retail businesses and services on a single site with common parking facilities and containing a building or buildings with a floor area of 20,000 square feet or greater.
Sidewalk: That portion of the road right-of-way outside the roadway, which is improved for the use of pedestrian traffic.
Sign: Any visual communication display, object, device, fixture, placard, flag, banner, graphic or similar structure situated indoors or outdoors on a parcel or lot, or attached to, painted on, projected on, or displayed from a building or structure in order to direct or attract attention to or to announce, identify, communicate information about, or promote an object, person, service, product, event, activity, location, organization, business or the like or to communicate information of any kind to the public by means of letters, words, designs, colors, symbols, images, forms, pictorial representation, animations or illuminations. Architectural design features such as building accent lighting are not considered signs.
Sign, Area of: The area of the largest single face of the sign where the copy is placed, within a rectangle which forms the outside shape including any frame that forms an integral part of the display, but excluding the necessary supports or uprights on which the sign may be placed. Embellishments and other architectural features are not included in the square footage of the sign area calculation, and are not to exceed 25 percent of the single face area.
(a) The area of a freestanding or projecting sign shall have only one side of any double or multiple-faced sign counted in calculating its area. The area of the sign shall be measured as follows if the sign is composed of one or more individual cabinets: A rectangle shall be drawn around and enclosing the perimeter of each cabinet or module. The area shall then be summed and totaled to determine total area. The rectangular measurable area shall include embellishments such as pole covers, framing, decorative roofing and support structures.
(b) The area of a wall sign shall be computed within a single rectangle composed of any geometric figure which encloses the extreme limits of the advertising message.
Sign Face: The entire area of a sign on which copy could be placed.
Sign, Freestanding: Any sign supported by structures or supports that are placed on, or anchored in, the ground and that are independent from any building or other structure.
Sign, Government: Any temporary or permanent sign erected and maintained by the Village, county, state, or federal government for traffic direction or for designation of or direction to any school, hospital, historical site, or public service, property, or facility.
Sign, Ground: A sign which is anchored to the ground similar to a pylon or freestanding sign, but which has a monolithic or columnar line and which maintains essentially the same contour line from grade to top. Height and setbacks are to be the same as for freestanding signs.
Sign Height: See "Height (of a Sign)."
Sign, Illegal: See "Illegal Sign."
Sign, Illuminated: See "Illuminated Sign."
Sign, Incidental: See "Incidental Sign."
Sign, Low Profile: See "Low Profile Sign."
Sign Maintenance: The cleaning, painting, repair, or replacement of defective parts of a sign in a manner that does not alter the basic copy, design, or structure of the sign.
Sign, Multiple-Faced: A sign containing three or more faces, not necessarily in back-to-back configuration.
Sign, Nonconforming: See "Nonconforming Sign."
Sign, Painted Wall: Any sign which is applied with paint or similar substances on the surface of a wall.
Sign, Pole: See "Pole Sign."
Sign, Political: See "Political Sign."
Sign, Projecting: See "Projecting Sign."
Sign, Real Estate: See "Real Estate Sign."
Sign, Roof: See "Roof Sign."
Sign, Roof, Integral: See "Roof Sign, Integral."
Sign, Seasonal: See "Seasonal Sign."
Sign Structure: Any structure which supports, has supported or is capable of supporting a sign, including decorative cover.
Sign, Temporary: See "Temporary Sign."
Sign, Wall: See "Wall Sign."
Sign, Window: See "Window Sign."
Site Plan: A scaled drawing of a proposed project showing, among others, the location of property lines, building locations, drives, walkways, parking areas, fencing and screening, setbacks, and signs as required by this Ordinance.
Sludge: A solid or near solid by-product of sewage treatment or industrial waste treatment.
(Ord. 11-07. Passed 7-18-07.)
Snowmobile: A self-propelled vehicle utilizing sleds, runners or caterpillar treads.
Social Activities: Use of any building and land used for private or semi-private club activities, including lodges, fraternities, and similar activities.
Solar Energy Conversion Systems: Systems that convert solar energy into electric power for on-site use using either roof mounted panels that are parallel to the roofline or stand-alone systems to be treated as accessory uses.
(Ord. 19-18. Passed 12-5-18.)
Solicitor: Village Legal Advisor.
Solid Waste: Refuse materials that are normally disposed of in a sanitary landfill or a lawn and garden rubbish disposal site. Solid waste includes any unwanted residual solid or semi-solid material as results from industrial, commercial, agricultural, and community operations, excluding earth or material from construction, mining or demolition operations or other waste materials of the type that would normally be included in demolition debris, non-toxic fly-ash, spent non-toxic foundry sand, slag, and other substances that are not harmful or inimical to public health and includes, but is not limited to, garbage, tires, combustible and non-combustible materials, street dirt and debris. Solid waste does not include any material that is an infectious waste or hazardous waste. (Ord. 11-07. Passed 7-18-07.)
Special Use District: A zoning district created to meet the needs of an area exemplifying unique land use features not found in other established district or an area experiencing unusual problems, or a district designed to meet special needs.
(Ord. 19-18. Passed 12-5-18.)
Storage Garage: See "Garage, Storage."
(Ord. 11-07. Passed 7-18-07.)
Story: That part of a building between the surface of a floor and the ceiling immediately above. (See basement) (Ord. 19-18. Passed 12-5-18.)
Story, Half: A basement, the floor of which is more than three feet six inches, but not more than four feet, below grade and the ceiling of which is more than four feet, but not more than four and one-half feet above grade, or, a partial story under a gable, hip or gambrel roof, the wall plates of which on at least two opposite walls are not more than two feet above the floor of such story, except that any such partial story under a gable, hip or gambrel roof used for residence purposes, other than by a family occupying the floor immediately below it, shall be deemed a full story.
Story, Height of: The vertical distance from the top surface of the ceiling joists.
Street: A dedicated public thoroughfare, the full width between property lines bounding every public way of whatever nature, with a part thereof to be used for vehicular traffic access to abutting properties. For the purpose of this Ordinance, the word "street" shall include the words "road," "thoroughfare" and "highway."
(a) Cul-de-Sac: A local street of relatively short length with one end open to traffic and the other end terminating in a vehicular turnaround.
(b) Dead-End Street: A street temporarily having only one outlet for vehicular traffic and intended to be extended or continued in the future.
(c) Local Street: A street primarily designed for providing access to residential or other abutting property.
Street line: See "Right-of-Way Line."
Street Width: The horizontal distance between the side lines of a street, measured at right angles to the side lines. (Ord. 11-07. Passed 7-18-07.)
Strip Commercial Development: Commercial or retail uses which front on a major street.
(Ord. 19-18. Passed 12-5-18.)
Structural Alterations: Any change which would tend to prolong the life of a supporting member of a structure such as bearing walls, columns, beams or girders.
Structural Wall: See "Wall, Structural."
(Ord. 11-07. Passed 7-18-07.)
Structure: Anything constructed or erected, the use of which requires location on the ground, or attachment to something having a fixed location on the ground, including, but not limited to building, mobile homes, walls, portable vehicle structures, fences and billboards.
Subdivision: The division of a lot, tract, or parcel of land into two or more lots, tracts or parcels or other divisions of land transfer of ownership, development or lease.
Sub-divider: The owner of land, whether a person, firm, corporation or legal entity, affecting the subdivision of land.
(Ord. 19-18. Passed 12-5-18.)
Substantially to Alter: Shall mean any exterior alteration or any structural alteration amounting to a minimum dollar amount established through ordinance by Council.
(Ord. 11-07. Passed 7-18-07.)
Surveyor: An individual whose job it is to measure and examine real estate as further defined by Ohio Revised Code 477.33.
Swimming Pool: A water filled enclosure, permanently constructed or portable, having a depth of more than eighteen (18) inches, as defined in Section 1193.09 herein.
(a) PRIVATE: Exclusively used without paying an additional charge for admission by the residents and guests of a single household, a multifamily development or a community, the members and guests of a club, or the patrons of a motel or hotel; an accessory use.
(b) COMMUNITY: Open to the general public; a primary use.
(c) PORTABLE POOLS: Pools that are temporary and seasonal in nature intended for the use and enjoyment of the occupants of the premises.
(Ord. 19-18. Passed 12-5-18.)
Telecommunication Tower: Any structure with radio frequency transmission or reception equipment attached that is free standing or is to be connected to a building or other structure. A telecommunication tower shall meet all of the following conditions:
(a) It is constructed on or after October 31, 1996;
(b) Is owned or principally used by a public utility engaged in the provision of telecommunication service;
(c) Is a freestanding structure or is attached to another building or structure and is higher than the maximum allowable height permitted in the zoning district in which it is located.
Temporary Sign: Any portable sign, flag, pennant, garage sale sign, or public election and candidate sign that is used temporarily and is not permanently mounted. Includes devices such as banners, pennants, flags (not intended to include flags of any nation), searchlights, twirling or sandwich type signs, sidewalk or curb signs and balloons or other air or gas-filled figures.
(Ord. 11-07. Passed 7-18-07.)
Terrace (Stoop): An unroofed paved area immediately adjacent to a house and overlooking a lawn or garden, supported on one or more sides by a wall.
(Ord. 19-18. Passed 12-5-18.)
Theater, Outdoor: An open lot or part thereof, with its appurtenant facilities, devoted primarily to the showing of moving pictures or theatrical productions, on a paid admission basis, to patrons seated in automobiles or in outdoor seats.
This Ordinance: Whenever the term "this Ordinance" is used, it shall be deemed to include where the text permits any and all amendments thereto as the same may be hereafter from time to time adopted. (Ord. 11-07. Passed 7-18-07.)
Thoroughfare, Street or Road: The full width between property lines bounding every public way of whatever nature or within the boundary of the roadway easement, with a part thereof to be used for vehicular traffic and designed as follows:
(a) ALLEY: A service roadway providing a secondary means of public access to abutting property and not intended for general traffic circulation.
(b) ARTERIAL STREET: A general term denoting a highway, as determined by the Planning Commission, primarily for through traffic, carrying heavy loads, and a large volume of traffic, usually a continuous route.
(c) COLLECTOR STREET: A thoroughfare, whether within a residential, industrial, commercial, or other type or development which primarily carries traffic from local streets to arterial streets, including the principal entrance and circulation routes of residential subdivisions.
(d) LOCAL STREET: A street primarily for providing access for residential or other abutting property.
(e) LOOP STREET: A type of local street, each end of which terminates at an intersection with the same arterial or collector street, and whose principal radius points of the one hundred and eighty (180) degree system of turns are not more than one thousand (1,000) feet from the said arterial or collector street, nor normally more than six hundred (600) feet from each other.
(f) MARGINAL ACCESS STREET: A local or collector street, parallel and adjacent to an arterial or collector street, providing access to abutting properties and protection arterial or collector streets, (Also called Frontage Street).
Through Lot: (See Lot Types).
(Ord. 19-18. Passed 12-5-18.)
Tourist Cabins: A group of buildings, including either separate cabins or a row of cabins which contain living and sleeping accommodations for transient occupancy, and which have individual entrances.
Tourist Home: A building other than a hotel or motel where temporary lodging is provided and offered to the public for compensation for not more than 10 individuals and open to transient guests. (Ord. 11-07. Passed 7-18-07.)
Tracing: A translucent drawing on linen, mylar cronaflex or equal, from which a print can be taken directly. (Ord. 19-18. Passed 12-5-18.)
Trailer Park: A facility offering grounds or accommodations or both for house trailers or house cars, whether occupied as dwellings or stored temporarily or permanently.
Travel Trailer: A vehicular, portable structure, not over 32 feet long or eight feet wide, designed to be used as a temporary dwelling for travel, recreational and vacation use.
Tree House: An accessory building that is constructed within a tree or a group of trees and which may or may not be supported by one or more posts. Tree houses also include buildings constructed on a post or posts adjacent to a tree. Tree houses may not be used for storage.
(Ord. 11-07. Passed 7-18-07.)
Trunk Camper: A non-self-propelled recreational vehicle that does not have wheels for road use and is designed to be placed upon and attached to a motor vehicle. Trunk camper does not include truck covers that consist of walls and a roof, but do not have floors and facilities enabling them to be used as a dwelling.
(Ord. 19-18. Passed 12-5-18.)
Truck Gardening: Farming for the purpose of producing vegetables for market.
(Ord. 11-07. Passed 7-18-07.)
Use: The specific purposes for which land or a building is designated, arranged, intended or for which it is or may be occupied or maintained.
Vacant Land:
(1) Land that is undeveloped and unused;
(2) Any non-residential areas with significant amounts of land not covered by non-structural impervious surfaces;
(3) Land suitable for redevelopment or infill at higher densities; and
(4) Residential areas with lot sizes in excess of two acres where environmental factor permit higher densities.
(Ord. 19-18. Passed 12-5-18.)
Variance, Area: See "Variance, Non-Use."
(Ord. 11-07. Passed 7-18-07.)
Variance: A modification of the strict terms of the relevant regulations where modification will not be contrary to the public interest and where owing to conditions peculiar to the property and not the result of the action of the applicant, a literal enforcement of the regulations would result in unnecessary and undue hardship.
(Ord. 19-18. Passed 12-5-18.)
Variance, Non-Use: A variance that allows an owner, who is engaging in a permitted use, to build improvements that would otherwise violate the Zoning Ordinance. Examples of non-use or area variances include, but are not limited to, reduction of yard requirements; the placement of structures in a location on a lot otherwise prohibited by the ordinance; a permitted use or activity in a location on a lot otherwise prohibited by the Ordinance; or a waiver or reduction of supplemental regulations otherwise required for a permitted use or accessory use.
Variance, Use: A variance which allows a land owner to engage in a use that would otherwise violate the Zoning Ordinance. Examples of use variances include but are not limited to: industrial use in a commercial zone; commercial use in a residential district; a multi-family dwelling in an area zoned for a single-family dwelling; or the extension of a nonconforming use.
(Ord. 11-07. Passed 7-18-07.)
Vehicle, Commercial: A vehicle having a gross weight greater than one ton and designed for transportation of commodities, merchandise, produce, freight, animal or passengers.
Vehicle, Recreational: A vehicle designed to be used primarily for recreational purposes, including self-propelled motor homes, truck campers, travel trailers, tent trailers, jet-skis, wave runners, boats, ATV’s and snowmobiles.
Veterinary Animal Hospital or Clinic: A place used for the care, grooming, diagnosis and treatment of sick, ailing, infirmed, or injured animals, and those who are in need of medical or surgical attention and may also include boarding that is incidental to the primary activity.
Vicinity Map: A drawing on the plat which sets forth by dimensions or other means, the relationship of the proposed subdivision or use to other nearby developments or landmarks and community facilities and services within the general area in order to better locate and orient the area in question. (Ord. 19-18. Passed 12-5-18.)
Village Council: The Village Council for the Village of Walbridge, Wood County, Ohio.
(Ord. 11-07. Passed 7-18-07.)
Walkway: A public way, four (4) feet or more in width, for pedestrian use only, which may or may not be immediately adjacent to a roadway.
(Ord. 19-18. Passed 12-5-18.)
Wall, Boundary (Exterior): A solid structure used as a barrier or to demarcate a boundary. Boundary walls shall meet the same zoning requirements as fences.
Wall, Building: All window and wall area of a building in one plane or elevation.
Wall, Structural: A load-bearing wall.
Wall Sign: A sign attached parallel to or placed against a wall of a building with the face parallel to the building wall and extending not more than one foot therefrom, and which displays only one sign surface, and which advertises the use carried on within such building.
Warehouse: A building or structure used for the storage of goods, materials or equipment.
Warehousing Activities: The receiving, storage, sale and distribution of manufacturing products and equipment, such storage to be within wholly enclosed structures or buildings.
Waste: See "Hazardous Waste," "Sludge," "Solid Waste."
Waste Disposal: Disposition of garbage, combustible and noncombustible waste material.
Way: A street or alley or other thoroughfare or easement permanently established for passage of persons or vehicles. Also, see "Right-of-Way."
Window Sign: Any sign, picture, symbol or combination thereof designed to communicate information about an activity, business, commodity, event, sale or service that is placed inside a window or upon the interior window panes or glass and is visible from the exterior of the window.
Yard: A required open space, other than a court, on the same lot with a building or structure or group of buildings and structures. The open space lies between the building or group of buildings and the nearest lot line and is unoccupied and unobstructed from three feet above the general ground level of the graded lot upward. Accessories, ornaments and furniture may be permitted in any yard, subject to height limitations and requirements limiting obstruction of visibility. In measuring a yard for the purpose of determining the width of a side yard, the depth of a front yard or the depth of the rear yard, the minimum horizontal distance between the lot line and the main building shall be used.
(a) Yard, Front: A yard extending across the full width of the lot between side lot lines, the depth of which is the minimum horizontal distance between the front lot line and the front of the principal building or any projections thereof other than the projections or permitted uncovered steps, uncovered balconies, platforms or decks, which are open to the sky. Covered porches whether enclosed or unenclosed, shall be considered as part of the main building and shall not project into a required front yard.
(b) Yard, Rear: A yard extending across the full width of the lot between side lot lines and from the rear lot line to the rear of the nearest principal building or any projections thereof, other than the projections of uncovered steps, balconies, platforms or decks which are open to the sky. The depth of the required rear yard shall be measured horizontally from the nearest part of the principal building to the nearest point of the rear lot line. On all lots, the rear yard shall be at the opposite end of the lot from the front yard.
(c) Yard, Side: A yard between the principal building and the side lot line extending from the required front yard, or front lot line, where no front yard is required, to the required rear yard. The width of the required side yard shall be measured horizontally from the nearest point of the side lot line to the nearest part of the principal building or any projection thereof.
Zero-Lot Line Development: See "Condominium."
Zoning Administrator (Zoning Inspector): The agent, appointed by the Mayor and Council, who is responsible for the administration and enforcement of this Ordinance and required inspections for zoning compliance.
Zoning Certificate: See "Zoning Permit."
Zoning Code: The Ordinance, codified herein as the Planning and Zoning Code, and including, where the text permits, any amendment thereto.
Zoning District Map: The Zoning District Map or maps delineating zoning districts of the Village of Walbridge, Wood County, Ohio, together with all amendments subsequently adopted.
Zoning Ordinance: The officially adopted Zoning regulations as contained in the Codified Ordinances of the Village.
Zoning Permit: A document issued by the Zoning Administrator authorizing the use of lots, structures, uses of land and structures, and the characteristics of the uses.
(Ord. 11-07. Passed 7-18-07.)