(1) “Accessory use or structure” means a use or structure on the same lot with, and of a nature customarily incidental and subordinate to, the principal use or structure.
(2) “Agriculture”shall include farming, dairying, pasturage, horticulture, viticulture, animal and poultry husbandry and the raising and/or sales of agricultural products.
(3) “Animal feed lot” means a paved animal feeding or holding area or other lot, pen, yard, or other feeding or holding area where grass or other suitable vegetative cover is not maintained.
(4) “Aviation field (private)” means any privately owned and operated, F.A.A. approved runway, landing area or other facility designed, used or intended to be used for the landing and taking off of aircraft, including all necessary taxiways, aircraft storage facilities and tie-down areas, hangers and other necessary buildings and open spaces.
(5) “Automotive repair” means the repair, rebuilding or reconditioning of motor vehicles or parts thereof, including collision services, painting and steam cleaning of vehicles.
(6) “Automotive vehicle” means a vehicle which is designed and manufactured to be self-propelling or self-moving upon the public highway. More specifically, as referred to in the Zoning Ordinance, it includes: automobiles, trucks, tractors and motorcycles.
(7) “Alterations, structural” means any change in the supporting members of a building such as bearing walls, columns, beams or girders.
(8) “Basement” means a story all or partly underground but having at least one-half of its height below the average level of the adjoining ground.
(9) “Building” means any structure designed or intended for the support, enclosure, shelter, or protection of persons, animals, chattels, or property.
(10) “Building, accessory” means a subordinate building detached from, but located on the same lot as the principal building, the use of which is incidental and accessory to that of the main building or use.
(11) “Building, height” means the vertical distance measured from the average elevation of the proposed finished grade at the front of the building to the highest point of the roof for flat roofs, to the deck line of mansard roofs, and the mean height between eaves and ridge for gable, hip and gambrel roofs. Where a building is located on sloping terrain, the height may be measured from the average ground level of the grade at the building wall.
(12) “Building, manufactured”. A manufactured building has the following features or characteristics:
(1) Mass produced in a factory;
(2) Designed and constructed for transportation to site with or without a chassis for installation and use when connected to required utilities;
(3) Either an independent, individual factory erected building or a module with two or more sides erected at the factory, for combination with other elements to form a building on the site.
(13) “Building, principal” means a building in which is conducted the main or principal use of the lot on which said building is situated.
(14) “Business, convenience-type retail” means retail businesses whose market area is the neighborhood or part of the community, which provides convenience-type goods and personal services for the daily needs of the people within the residential area. Uses include, but need not be limited to, drugstores, beauty salons, barber shops, carry-outs, dry cleaning and laundry facilities, supermarkets, etc.
(15) “Business, drive-in” means any business, structure or premise which is designed primarily to serve occupants of motor vehicles without the occupants having to leave the vehicle.
(16) “Business, service” means any profit making activity which renders primarily services to the public or to other commercial or industrial enterprises. Some retail sales may be involved in connection with the service rendered.
(17) “Business, shopping-type retail” means a retail or service business which supplies a wide variety of comparison goods and services to consumers in a market area that includes the community or an area greater than a community. Examples of shopping-type businesses are furniture stores, automobile sales and services and clothing shops.
(18) “Chassis” means the steel undercarriage, supporting framework to which a dwelling is permanently attached.
(19) “Clinic” means a place used for the care, diagnosis and treatment of sick, ailing, infirm, or injured persons, and those who are in need of medical and surgical attention, but who are not provided with board or room or kept overnight on the premises.
(20) “Club” means a building or portion thereof or premises owned or operated by a person for a social, literary, political, educational, fraternal or recreational purpose primarily for the exclusive use of members and their guests.
(21) “Conditional use” means a use permitted within a district other than a principally permitted use, requiring a conditional use permit and approval of the Board of Zoning Appeals. Conditional uses permitted in each district are listed in the Official Schedule of District Regulations.
(22) “Conditional use permit” means a permit issued by the Zoning Code Enforcement Officer upon approval by the Board of Zoning Appeals to allow a use other than a principally permitted use to be established within the district.
(23) “Density” means a unit of measurement; the number of dwelling units per acre of land.
A. “Gross density” means the number of dwelling units per acre of the total land to be developed.
B. “Net density” means the number of dwelling units per acre of land when the acreage involved includes only the land devoted to residential uses.
(24) “Dwelling” means any building or structure which is wholly or partly used or intended to be used for living or sleeping by one or more human occupants.
(25) “Dwelling unit” means space, within a dwelling, comprising living, dining, sleeping room or rooms, storage closets, as well as space and equipment for cooking, bathing, and toilet facilities, all used by only one family and its household employees.
(26) “Dwelling, single-family” means a dwelling, except manufactured housing, consisting of single dwelling unit only, separated from other dwelling units by open space.
(27) “Dwelling, multi-family” means a dwelling, except manufactured housing, consisting of two or more dwelling units including condominiums with varying arrangements of entrances and party walls.
(28) “Dwelling, (Housing) Manufactured” means a manufactured building or portion of a building designed for long-term residential use. This category includes the following:
A. “Modular unit” means a factory-fabricated transportable building designed to be used by itself or to be incorporated with similar units at a building site. The term is intended to apply to major assemblies and does not include prefabricated panels, trusses, plumbing trees, and other prefabricated sub-elements which are to be incorporated into a structure at the site.
B. “Sectional units” means a dwelling made of two or more modular units transported to the homesite, put on a foundation, and joined to make a single dwelling.
C. “Mobile home” means manufactured housing built on a chassis. A mobile home shall be construed to remain a mobile home, subject to all regulations applying thereto, even when wheels, axles, hitch, or other appurtenances of mobility are removed and regardless of the nature of the foundation provided. A mobile home shall not be construed to be a travel trailer or other form of recreational vehicle.
D. “Mobile home, double-wide or triple-wide” means a mobile home consisting respectively of two or three sections combined horizontally at the site to form a single dwelling, while still retaining their individual chassis for possible future movement.
E. “Mobile home, expandable” means a mobile home with one or more room sections that fold, collapse, or telescope into the principal unit when being transported and which can be expanded at the site to provide additional living area.
This category does not include the sub-assembly methods of construction known as pre-fab or pre-cut, in which cases some portion of the preparation or sub-assembly may be done at the factory but not erected until at the foundation site.
Statement of Intent for Dwelling (Housing), Manufactured Definition
Because terms for manufactured housing such as those listed in the above definition titled Dwelling, (Housing) Manufactured tend to change over the years, the purpose and intent of the definition is to draw a distinction between dwellings that are produced and erected in assembly line style at the factory, from those stick-built dwellings (see definition of Stick-built) in which a substantial amount of material and construction labor are brought together in final form at the foundation site. The above explanation is the spirit in which any future interpretation shall be made from this section, no matter what terms for manufactured housing are in vogue at any given time.
(29) “Dwelling, rooming house (boarding house, lodging house, dormitory)” means a dwelling or part thereof, other than a hotel, motel or restaurant where meals and/or lodging are provided for compensation, for three or more unrelated persons where no cooking or dining facilities are provided in the individual rooms.
(30) “Essential services” means the erection, construction, alteration or maintenance, by public utilities or municipal or other governmental agencies, of underground gas, electrical, water transmission, or distribution systems, collection, communication, supply or disposal systems or sites, including poles, wires, mains, drains, sewers, pipes, traffic signals, hydrants, or other similar equipment and accessories in connection therewith which are 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.
(31) “Family” means one or more related persons occupying a single dwelling unit.
(32) “Floor area of a residential building” means the sum of the gross horizontal area of the several floors of a residential building, excluding basement floor areas not devoted to residential use and attached garages, but including the area of roofed porches and roofed terraces. All dimensions shall be measured between interior faces of walls.
(33) “Floor area of a nonresidential building (to be used in calculating parking requirements)” means the floor area of the specified use excluding stairs, washrooms, elevator shafts, maintenance shafts and rooms.
(34) “Floor area, usable” means measurement of usable floor area shall be the sum of the horizontal areas of the several floors of the building, measured from the interior faces of the exterior walls.
(35) “Food processing” means the preparation, storage or processing of food products. Examples of these activities include bakeries, dairies, canneries, meat processing plants and similar activities.
(36) “Hazardous wastes” means those substances which, singly or in combination, pose a significant present or potential threat or hazard to human health or to the environment, and which, singly or in combination, require special handling, processing, or disposal, because they are or may be flammable, explosive, reactive, corrosive, toxic, infectious, carcinogenic, bioconcentrative, or persistent in nature, potentially lethal, or an irritant or strong sensitizer.
(37) “Home occupation” means an occupation conducted in a dwelling unit, provided that no more than one person other than members of the family residing on the premises shall be engaged in such occupation. The uses of the dwelling unit for the home occupation shall be clearly incidental and subordinate to its use for residential purposes by its occupants, and not more than thirty-five percent (35%) of floor area of the dwelling unit shall be used in the conduct of the home occupation. There shall be no change in the outside appearance of the building or premises, or other visible evidence of the conduct of such home occupation other than one sign, not exceeding four square feet in area, nonilluminated and mounted flat against the wall of the principal building. No traffic shall be generated by such occupation in greater volume than would normally be expected in such a residential area and any need for parking generated by the conduct of such home occupation shall meet the off-street parking requirements as specified in this Zoning Ordinance.
(38) “Junk” means old scrap copper, brass, rope, rags, trash, waste, batteries, paper, rubber, junked, dismantled, or wrecked automobiles or parts thereof, iron, steel, and other old or scrap ferrous or non-ferrous materials.
(39) “Junk yard” means an establishment or place of business which is maintained or operated, or any other land used, for the purpose of storing, keeping, buying, or selling junk, or for the maintenance or operation of an automobile graveyard. It shall also include scrap metal processing facilities which are located within 1,000 feet of the nearest edge of the right of way of a highway or street.
(40) “Kennel” means any lot or premise on which dogs, cats, or other household pets are boarded, bred or exchanged for monetary compensation.
(41) “Light assembly” means the assembling of parts and materials, the primary purpose of which is to furnish the assembled product to a manufacturer of a specific item.
(42) “Loading space, off-street” means space logically and conveniently located for bulk pickups and deliveries, scaled to delivery vehicles expected to be used, and accessible to such vehicles when required off-street parking spaces are filled. Required off-street loading space is not to be included as off-street parking space in computation of required off-street parking space. All offstreet loading spaces shall be located totally outside of any street or alley right-of-way.
(43) “Lot” means a parcel of land of at least sufficient size to meet minimum zoning requirements for use, coverage, and area, and to provide such yards and other spaces as are herein required. Such lot shall have frontage on an improved public street or road, and may consist of:
A. A single lot of record;
B. A portion of a lot of record;
C. 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;
D. A parcel of land described by metes and bounds.
However, in no case of diversion or combination shall any residential lot or parcel be created which does not meet the requirements of this Zoning Ordinance.
(44) “Lot coverage” means 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.
(45) “Lot frontage.” The front of a lot shall be construed to be the portion at the street or road. For the purpose of determining yard requirements on corner lots and through lots, all sides of a lot adjacent to streets or roads shall be considered frontage, and yards shall be provided as indicated under "Yard" in this section.
(46) “Lot, minimum area of” means the area of a lot computed exclusive of any portion of the right-of-way of any public or private street or road.
(47) “Lot measurements.” A lot shall be measured as follows:
A. “Depth” means the distance between the mid-points of straight lines connecting the foremost points of the side lot lines in front and rearmost points of the side lot lines in the rear. No lot shall have an average depth which is more than three times its average width.
B. “Width” means the distance between straight lines connecting front and rear lot lines at each side of the lot, measured at the building setback line.
(48) “Lot of record” means a lot which is part of a subdivision recorded in the office of the County Recorder, or a lot or parcel described by metes and bounds, the description of which has been so recorded.
(49) “Lot types.” Terminology used in this Zoning Ordinance with reference to corner lots, interior lots and through lots is as follows:
A. “Corner lot” means a lot located at the intersection of two or more streets. A lot abutting on a curved street or streets shall be considered a corner lot if straight lines drawn from the foremost points of the side lot lines to the foremost point of the lot meet at an interior angle of less than one hundred thirty-five degrees.
B. “Interior lot” means a lot with only one frontage on a street.
C. “Through lot” means a lot other than a corner lot with frontage on more than one street or road. Through lots abutting two streets or roads may be referred to as double frontage lots.
D. “Reversed frontage lot” means a lot on which frontage is at right angles to the general pattern in the area. A reversed frontage lot may also be a corner lot.
(50) “Manufacturing, heavy” means manufacturing, processing, assembling, storing, testing and similar industrial uses which are generally major operations and extensive in character; require large sites, open storage and service areas, extensive services and facilities, ready access to regional transportation; and normally generate some nuisances such as smoke, noise, dust, glare, air pollution, odor, but not beyond the district boundary to any large extent.
(51) “Manufacturing, light” means 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; operate and store within enclosed structures; and generate little industrial traffic and no major nuisances.
(51.5) “Medical marijuana” related definitions:
A. “Cultivate” means to grow, harvest, package, and transport medical marijuana pursuant to ORC 3796.
B. “Cultivator” means an entity that has been issued a certificate of operation by the State of Ohio to grow, harvest, package, and transport medical marijuana as permitted under ORC 3796.
C. “Dispensary” means an entity licensed pursuant to ORC 3796 and any rules promulgated thereunder to sell medical marijuana to qualifying patients and caregivers.
D. “Dispense” means the delivery of medical marijuana to a patient or the patient's registered caregiver that is packaged in a suitable container appropriately labeled for subsequent administration to or use by a patient as permitted by Ohio law in accordance with Ohio law.
E. “Manufacture” means the process of converting harvested plant material into marijuana extract by physical or chemical means for use as an ingredient in a medical marijuana product.
F. “Marihuana” has the same meaning as defined in ORC 3719.01, as amended from time to time.
G. “Marijuana” has the same meaning as defined in ORC 3796.01, as amended from time to time.
H. “Medical Marijuana” has the same meaning as defined in ORC 3796.01, as amended from time to time.
I. “Medical Marijuana Entity” means a medical marijuana cultivator, processor, dispensary, or testing laboratory licensed by the State of Ohio.
J. “Medical Marijuana Processor” means an entity that has been issued a certificate of operation by the State of Ohio to manufacture medical marijuana products.
K. “Testing Laboratory” means an independent laboratory located in Ohio that has been issued a certificate of operation by the State of Ohio to have custody and use of controlled substances for scientific and medical purposes and for purposes of instruction, research, or analysis.
(52) “Mining, commercial quarries, sand and gravel pits” means any mining, quarrying or processing of limestone, clay, sand and gravel or other mineral resources. Also referred to as mineral extraction.
(53) “Mobile home park” means any site, or tract of land under single ownership, upon which three or more mobile homes used for habitation are parked, either free of charge or for revenue purposes; including any roadway building, structure, vehicle, or enclosure used or intended for use as a part of the facilities of such park.
(54) “Motor vehicle salvage facility” means any establishment or place of business which is maintained, used, or operated for buying or selling wrecked, scrapped, ruined, or dismantled motor vehicles or motor vehicle parts.
(55) “Nonconformities” means a building, structure or use of land existing at the time
of enactment of this Zoning Ordinance and which does not conform to the regulations of the district or zone in which it is situated.
(56) “Nursery, nursing home” means a home or facility for the care and treatment of babies, children, pensioners or elderly people.
(57) “Nursery, (greenhouse) tree and plant” means a place where young trees or other plants are raised for transplanting and/or for sale.
(58) “Offices” means quasi-commercial uses which may often be transitional between retail business and/or manufacturing and residential uses. Office business generally accommodates such occupations as administrative, professional, accounting, clerical, drafting, etc. Institutional offices of a charitable, philanthropic, financial or religious or educational nature are also included in this classification.
(59) “Open space” means an area substantially open to the sky which may be on the same lot with a building. The area may include, along with the natural environmental features, water areas, swimming pools and tennis courts and other recreational facilities that the Zoning Commission deems permissive. Streets, parking areas, structures for habitation, and the like shall not be included.
(60) “Orchards” means an area of land devoted to the cultivation and sale of fruit trees and the sale of the fruit therefrom.
(61) “Outdoor storage” means an area of land open to the sky on which materials or chattels are stored.
(62) “Parking space, off-street” means 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 road or alley right-of-way.
(63) “Personal services” means any enterprise conducted for gain which primarily offers services to the general public such as shoe repair, watch and clock repair, barber shops, beauty shops and similar activities.
(64) “Printing and publishing” means any business which is engaged in the printing and/or publishing of newspapers, magazines, brochures, business cards and similar activities either for profit or non-profit.
(65) “Public service facility” means the erection, construction, alteration, operation or maintenance of buildings, power plants, substations, water treatment plant or pump station, sewage disposal plant or pump station, communications facilities and/or equipment, electrical, gas, water and sewerage service and other similar public service structures or facilities whether publicly or privately owned; but excluding sanitary landfills.
(66) “Public uses” means public parks, schools, administrative and cultural buildings and structures, not including public land or buildings devoted solely to the storage and maintenance of equipment and materials and public service facilities.
(67) “Quasi-public use” means churches, and other facilities of an educational, religious, charitable, philanthropic, or non-profit nature.
(68) “Recreation, commercial” means any business which is operated as a recreational enterprise, either publicly or privately owned, for profit. Examples include, but are not limited to: golf courses, bowling alleys, swimming pools, tourist attractions, etc.
(69) “Recreation, non-commercial” means any business which is operated as a recreational enterprise, either publicly or privately owned, for non-profit. Examples include, but are not limited to: fishing areas, parks, archery ranges, etc.
(70) “Recreational vehicle” means a vehicle type unit primarily designed as temporary living quarters for recreational, camping, or travel use only, which either has its own motive power or is mounted on or drawn by another vehicle. The basic entities are: travel trailer, camping trailer, truck camper, and motor home.
(71) “Recreational vehicle park” means a parcel of land upon which two or more recreational vehicle sites are located, established, or maintained for occupancy by recreational vehicles of the general public as temporary living quarters for recreation or vacation purposes.
(72) “Recreational vehicle site” means a plot of ground within a recreational vehicle park intended for the accommodation of either a recreational vehicle, tent, or other individual camping unit on a temporary basis.
(73) “Research, development and testing” means establishments, structures, facilities and areas devoted to research, product development and scientific testing whether in connection with the development of new products, the discovery of causes of product failure or malfunction, and specifically including without limitation the conduct of research, development and testing concerning: automotive, vehicular and other forms of transportation; engines, power products and equipment; production equipment; any and all other processes related to any of the foregoing; and improved highway facilities for vehicular traffic.
(74) “Right-of-way” means 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).
(75) “Salvage motor vehicle” means any motor vehicle which is in a wrecked, dis mantled, or worn out condition, or unfit for operation as a motor vehicle.
(76) “Sanitary landfill” means a land disposal site employing a method of disposing of solid wastes on land in a manner intended to minimize environmental hazards by spreading the solid wastes in thin layers, compacting the solid wastes to the smallest practical volume, and applying and compacting cover material daily.
(77) “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 twenty-four (24) lineal inches of benches, pews, or space for loose chairs.
(78) “Setback line” means a line established by the Zoning Ordinance generally parallel with and measured from the lot line, defining the limits of a yard in which no building, other than accessory building, or structure may be located above ground, except as may be provided in said code.
(79) “Sewers, central or group” means an approved sewage disposal system which provides a collection network and disposal system and central sewage treatment facility for a single development, community or region.
(80) “Sewers, on-site” means a septic tank or similar installation on an individual lot which utilizes an aerobic bacteriological process or equally satisfactory process for the elimination of sewage and provides for the proper and safe disposal of the effluent, subject to the approval of health and sanitation officials having jurisdiction.
(81) “Sidewalk” means that portion of the road right-of-way outside the roadway, which is improved for the use of pedestrian traffic.
(82) “Sign” means any device designated to inform or attract the attention of persons not on the premises on which the sign is located.
A. “Sign, on-premises” means any sign related to a business or profession conducted, or a commodity or service sold or offered upon the premises where such sign is located.
B. “Sign, off-premises” means any sign unrelated to a business or profession conducted or to a commodity or service sold or offered upon the premises where such sign is located.
C. “Sign, illuminated” means any sign illuminated by electricity, gas or other artificial light including reflection or phosphorescent light.
D. “Sign, lighting device” means any light, string of lights, or group of lights located or arranged so as to cast illumination on a sign.
E. “Sign, ground” means a display sign supported by uprights or braces in or upon the ground surface.
F. “Sign, marquee” means a display sign attached to or hung from a marquee, canopy or other covered structure projecting from and supported by the building and extending beyond the building wall, building line or street lot line.
G. “Sign, pole” means any sign which is erected on a pole or poles, which is wholly or partially independent of any building for support.
H. “Sign, projecting” means a display sign which is attached directly to the building wall and which extends more than fifteen inches from the face of the wall.
I. “Sign, roof” means a display sign which is erected, constructed and maintained above the roof of the building.
J. “Sign, temporary” means a display sign, banner or other advertising device constructed on cloth, canvas, fabric or other light temporary material, with or without a structural frame, intended for a limited period of display, including decorative displays for holidays or public demonstrations.
K. “Sign, wall” means a display sign which is painted on or attached directly to the building wall and which extends not more than fifteen inches from the face of the wall.
(83) “Service station” means any building, structure, or land used for the dispensing and sale at retail of any automobile fuels, oils, or accessories, including lubrication of automobiles and replacement or installation of parts and accessories.
(84) “Solid wastes” means such unwanted residual solid or semisolid material as results from industrial, commercial, agricultural, and community operations, excluding earth or material from construction, mining, or demolition operations, and slag and other substances which are not harmful or inimical to public health, and includes, but is not limited to, garbage, combustible and non-combustible material, street dirt, and debris. For purposes of this definition, "material from construction operations" and "material from demolition operators" are those items affixed to the structure being constructed or demolished, such as brick, stone, glass, wallboard, framing and finishing lumber, roofing materials, plumbing, plumbing fixtures, wiring, and insulation material.
(85) “Stick-built” means a way of describing any structure built from boards of lumber and other building materials, in which a substantial amount of the required material and construction labor are brought together in final form at the foundation site.
(86) “Storage facility” means a completely enclosed structure which is designed, used or intended to be used, for short or long-term storage of miscellaneous chattels or property.
(87) “Story” means that part of a building between the surface of a floor and the ceiling immediately above.
(88) “Structure” means anything constructed or erected, the use of which requires location on the ground, or attachment to something having a fixed location on the ground. Among other things, structures include buildings, mobile homes, walls, fences and billboards.
(89) “Supply yards” means a commercial establishment storing and offering for sale building supplies, steel supplies, coal, heavy equipment, feed and grain, and similar goods.
(90) “Swimming pool” means a pool, lake pond or open tank containing at least 1.5 feet of water at any point and maintained by the owner or manager. Farm ponds are exempt from this definition.
A. “Private” means exclusively used without paying an additional charge for admission by the residents and guests of a single household, a multi-family development, or a community, the members and guests of a club, or the patrons of a motel or hotel; an accessory use.
B. “Community” means operated with a charge for admission; a primary use.
(91) “Toxic or hazardous material” means any substance or mixture by physical characteristic such as flammability, corrositivity, toxicity, reactivity, or infectious characteristics as to pose, a significant or potential hazard to water supplies or human health if such substances were discharged to land or waters of the community or township.
(92) “Transient lodgings” means a building in which lodging or boarding and lodging are provided and offered to the public for compensation. As such, it is open to the public in contradistinction to a boarding house, rooming house, lodging house, or dormitory which is herein separately defined. Examples include: hotel, motel, and apartment hotel.
(93) “Transport terminals” means any business, structure or premise which primarily receives or distributes goods.
(94) “Transportation, Director of” means the Director of the Ohio Department of Transportation.
(95) “Use” means the specific purposes for which land or a building is designated, arranged, intended, or for which it is or may be occupied or maintained.
(96) “Variance” means a modification of the strict terms of the relevant regulations where such 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.
(97) “Veterinary animal hospital or clinic” means a place used for the care, grooming, diagnosis, and treatment of sick, ailing, infirm, or injured animals, and those who are in need of medical or surgical attention, and may include overnight accommodations on the premises for the treatment, observation and/or recuperation. It may also include boarding that is incidental to the primary activity.
(98) “Wholesale and warehouse” means business establishments that generally store and sell commodities in large quantities or by the piece to retailers, jobbers, other wholesale establishments or manufacturing establishments.
(99) “Yard” means a required open space other than a court unoccupied and unobstructed by any structure or portion of a structure from three (3) feet above the general ground level of the graded lot upward; provided, accessories, ornaments, and furniture may be permitted in any yard, subject to height limitations and requirements limiting obstruction of visibility.
A. “Yard, front” means a yard extending between side lot lines across the front of a lot and from the front lot line to the front of the principal building.
B. “Yard, rear” means a yard extending between side lot lines across the rear of a lot and from the rear lot line to the rear of the principal building.
C. “Yard, side” means a yard extending from the principal building to the side lot line on both sides of the principal building between the lines establishing the front and rear yards.
(100) “Zoning certificate” means a document issued by the Zoning Code Enforcement Officer authorizing the occupancy or use of a building or structure or the actual use of lots or land in accordance with the previously issued Zoning Permit.
(101) “Zoning permit” means a document issued by the Zoning Code Enforcement Officer authorizing the use of lots, structures, uses of land and structures, and the characteristics of the uses.
(Ord. 553. Passed 1-24-94; Ord. 2017-08. Passed 9-11-17; Ord. 2022-02. Passed 2-14-22.)