This chapter shall be known and cited as the
"Zoning Ordinance of the Village of Superior."
A.
All words in the present tense include the future
tense; all words in the singular number include the plural and all
words in the plural number include the singular number; unless the
natural construction of the wording indicates otherwise, the word
"shall" is mandatory. The word "used" includes the words "designed
or intended to be used." All distances shall be measured horizontally
unless otherwise specified. The word "Village" shall mean the Village
of Superior.
B.
ALLEY
APARTMENT
AUTOMOBILE WRECKING
BLOCK
BUILDING
BUILDING, ACCESSORY
BUILDING, MAIN
DWELLING, MULTIPLE
DWELLING, ONE-FAMILY
DWELLING, TWO-FAMILY
FAMILY
GARAGE, PRIVATE
GARAGE, PUBLIC
GARAGE, STORAGE
HEIGHT OF BUILDING
HOME OCCUPATION
HOTEL
JUNKYARD
LOT
LOT, CORNER
LOT, INTERIOR
LOT, THROUGH
SETBACK
STORY
STORY, HALF
STREET
STRUCTURAL ALTERATIONS
STRUCTURE
USE
USE, ACCESSORY
USE, NONCONFORMING
YARD
YARD, REAR
YARD, SIDE
For the purpose of this chapter, certain terms used
herein are defined as follows:
A thoroughfare less than 30 feet in width.
A room, or a suite of two or more rooms, which is designed
for, intended for or occupied by one family doing its cooking therein.
See "junkyard."
The property abutting a street between the two nearest intersecting
or intercepting streets. A railroad right-of-way or the boundary line
of unsubdivided acreage or a body of water shall be regarded the same
as an intersecting or intercepting street for the purpose of defining
a "block."
Any structure intended for the support, shelter or enclosure
of any person, chattel or property of any kind. For the purpose of
this chapter, the word "building" shall include the word "structure."
A subordinate building, the use of which is incidental to
the main building on the same lot. On any lot on which a dwelling
is located, any building used for or incidental to any agricultural
use shall be deemed to be an accessory building.
A building in which is conducted the principal use of the
lot on which it is situated. In any residential district, any dwelling
shall be deemed to be a main building on the lot on which it is situated.
A building or portion thereof used or designed as a residence
for three or more families living independently of each other and
doing their own cooking in said building; including apartment houses,
apartment hotels and flats, but not including automobile courts.
A detached building designed for or occupied exclusively
by one family.
A detached building designed for or occupied exclusively
by two families living independently of each other.
One or more persons occupying a premises and living as a
single, nonprofit housekeeping unit.
An accessory building or portion of the main building used
only for the storage of self-propelled vehicles, in which the storage
space does not exceed that necessary for, in a one-family residence
or two-family residence district, two vehicles on a lot and, in addition,
one vehicle for each 3,000 square feet of lot area in excess of 6,000
square feet; and in a multiple-dwelling district, two vehicles on
a lot and, in addition, one vehicle for each family housed on the
lot; on any lot or parcel of land of one acre or more in area, in
lieu of the foregoing specified storage space, the storage space shall
not exceed that necessary for the vehicles used by the families housed
on such lot or parcel, including visitors, servants and farm help.
Except for vehicles used in agriculture, not more than one commercial
vehicle shall be stored in a private garage.
Any premises, except those herein defined as a private garage,
used for the storage or care of self-propelled vehicles or where any
such vehicles are equipped for operation or repair or kept for remuneration,
hire or sale.
Any premises, except those herein defined as a private garage,
used exclusively for the storage of self-propelled vehicles.
The vertical distance to the level midway between the eaves
and the highest point of the roof, at the center of the building's
principal front, measured as follows:
Any use customarily conducted entirely within a dwelling
and carried on by the inhabitants thereof, which use is clearly incidental
and secondary to the use of the dwelling for dwelling purposes and
does not change the character thereof. Clinics, hospitals, barbershops,
beauty parlors, tea rooms and animal hospitals shall not be deemed
to be home occupations.
Any building or portion thereof which provides or which is
intended, arranged or designed to provide meals or lodging or both
to guests for compensation, whether the compensation is paid directly
or indirectly, and containing five or more sleeping rooms for such
guests, with no provision for cooking in any such guest room.
The use of more than 200 square feet of the area of any lot
or the use of that half of any lot which adjoins any street for the
storage, keeping or abandonment of any junk, including scrap metals
or other scrap material, or for the dismantling, demolition or abandonment
of automobiles or other vehicles or machinery or parts thereof; provided,
however, that this definition shall not be deemed to include any of
the foregoing uses which are necessary and incidental to any agricultural
uses permitted in the district.
Land occupied or to be occupied by a building and its accessory
building, together with such open spaces as are required under this
chapter, and having frontage on a street.
A lot abutting on two or more streets at their intersection.
A lot other than a corner lot.
A lot other than a corner lot having frontage on two streets.
The minimum distance between the street line on that side
of a block on which interior lots have been platted, or the street
line along unplatted land, and the building or any projection thereof
other than steps, uncovered porches or entrance canopies not exceeding
20 square feet of roof area.
That portion of a building included between the surface floor
and the surface of the next floor above it, or if there is no floor
above it, then the space between the floor and the ceiling next above
it. A basement shall be counted as a story if its ceiling is over
five feet above the level from which the height of the building is
measured or if it is used for business purposes or for dwelling purposes.
A story with at least two opposite exterior sides meeting
a sloping roof not more than three feet above the floor of such story.
A thoroughfare 30 feet or more in width, dedicated to the
public, or privately owned before the passage of this chapter, or
privately owned hereafter and approved by the Village Board.
Any change in the supporting members of a building, such
as bearing walls, columns, beams or girders.
Anything constructed or erected, the use of which requires
location on the ground or attachment to something having location
on the ground.
The purpose for which land or a building thereon is designed,
arranged or intended, or for which it is or may be occupied or maintained.
A use incidental and accessory to the principal use of a
lot or a building and located on the same lot as the principal use.
Use of a building or of land that does not conform to the
regulations for the district in which it is situated.
An open space, other than a court, on the same lot with a
building, unoccupied except as otherwise herein provided.
A yard extending across the full width of the lot and lying
between the rear line of the lot and the nearest line of the building.
A yard between the side line of the lot and the nearest line
of the building and extending from the front lot line to the rear
yard.
