10-6-3: DEFINITIONS:
As used in this chapter, the following words and terms shall have the meanings ascribed to them in this section:
   BEDROOM: A private room in a dwelling which is larger than one hundred (100) square feet in area, meets the bedroom egress requirements of the Waterman building code 1 , is separable from other rooms by a door or doorframe (frame that can be used for a standard door), and does not have facilities or furnishings for cooking, eating, and laundering, and is not solely a bathroom, a living room, a den/family room, a kitchen, a dining room, a laundry room or a utility room for central heating/cooling equipment.
   CIVIC: Refers to the park district and other recreational facilities, the fire protection district, the village of Waterman (public works and infrastructure), and the Clinton Township library district.
   DENSITY: The numerical value which indicates the number of dwelling units per acre of a development.
   DWELLING UNIT: One or more rooms in a building or a portion of a room, designed, intended to be used, or actually used for occupancy by one family for living and sleeping quarters, and containing one kitchen only, and includes a mobile home, but not hotel or motel units.
   NEW DEVELOPMENT OR DEVELOPMENT PROJECT OR SUBDIVISION OR PLANNED UNIT DEVELOPMENT: Means and includes any project undertaken for the purpose of development, including, without limitation, a project involving the issuance of a permit for construction, reconstruction, or change of use, but not a project involving the issuance of a permit to operate or to remodel, rehabilitate, or improve an existing structure, nor the rebuilding of a structure destroyed or damaged by an act of nature, nor the replacement of one mobile home with another on the same pad if no dwelling unit is added.
   RESIDENTIAL DEVELOPMENT PROJECT: Any development undertaken to create a new dwelling unit or units. (1999 Code § 10.05.03; amd. 2005 Code)

 

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1. See title 8, chapter 1, article A of this code.