Glossary Of Definitions.
ACCESSORY BUILDING OR 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. An "accessory use" includes, but is not limited to the
following:
1.
A children's playhouse, garden house and private greenhouse.
2.
A civil defense shelter serving not more than two (2) families.
3.
A garage, shed, or building for domestic storage.
4.
Storage of merchandise normally carried in stock on the same
lot with any retail service or business use, unless such storage is
excluded by district regulations.
5.
A nonpaying guest house or rooms for guests within an accessory
building, provided such facilities are used for the occasional housing
of guests of occupants of the principal building and not for permanent
occupancy by others as housekeeping units.
6.
Off-street motor vehicle parking areas and loading and unloading
facilities.
ADULT
An individual over the age of eighteen (18).
ADULT DAY-CARE PROGRAM
A group program designed to provide care and supervision
to meet the needs of functionally impaired adults for periods of less
than twenty-four (24) hours but more than two (2) hours per day in
a place other than the adult's own home.
ADULT MERCHANDISE ESTABLISHMENT
Any establishment where twenty-five percent (25%) or more of the gross public floor area, and/or twenty-five percent (25%) or more of the stock in trade is that which is offered for sale or rental and used or viewed solely off the establishment's premises, for any form of consideration; this includes visual representations, photographs, pictures, magazines, instruments, devices, or paraphernalia, distinguished or characterized by an emphasis in matter depicting, describing or relating to specified anatomical areas as herein defined or sexual conduct as defined in Chapter
215, Section
215.400.
ALLEY
A narrow service way providing a secondary public means of
access to abutting properties and not more than twenty (20) feet wide.
ALTERATIONS
As applied to a building or structure, a change or rearrangement
in the structural parts 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, or by change in use
from that of one district classification to another.
ALTERATIONS, STRUCTURAL
Any change in the supporting members of a building such as
bearing walls, columns, beams or girders.
APARTMENT
A room or suite of rooms in a multiple-family structure,
which is arranged, designed, used or intended to be used as a single
housekeeping unit, and which contains complete kitchen, bath and toilet
facilities, permanently installed.
APARTMENT HOUSE
A building arranged, intended or designed to be occupied
by three (3) or more families living independently of each other.
AREA, BUILDING
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.
AUTOMOBILE REPAIR, MAJOR
Engine rebuilding or major reconditioning of worn or damaged
motor vehicles or trailers; collision service, including body, frame
or fender straightening or repair; and overall painting of vehicles.
AUTOMOBILE REPAIR, MINOR
Incidental repairs, replacement of parts and motor service
to automobiles, but not including any operation specified under "automobile
repair, major."
BASEMENT
That portion of a building which is partly or completely
below grade. (See "story above grade.")
BED-AND-BREAKFAST
A building or premises where lodging with meals is provided
for compensation and which has less than five (5) guest rooms.
BLOCK
That property abutting on one side of a street between the
two (2) nearest intersecting streets or other natural barriers.
BOARDINGHOUSE
A building or premises where meals are served for compensation
for five (5) or more persons, but not exceeding twelve (12) persons.
BUILDING
A structure having a roof supported by columns or walls,
for the shelter, support, enclosure or protection of persons, animals,
chattels or property.
BUILDING AREA
The maximum horizontal projected area of a building and its
accessory buildings, excluding open steps, terraces and cornices projecting
not more than thirty (30) inches.
BUILDING HEIGHT
The vertical distance measured from the average elevation
of the proposed, or existing, 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 to the mean height between eaves and ridge for
gable, hip and gambrel roofs.
BUILDING, FRONT LINE OF
The roof line of the building nearest the front line of the
lot. These lines include sun parlors and covered porches, whether
enclosed or unenclosed, and includes steps.
CHILD-CARE FACILITY
A business in a house or other place conducted or maintained
by any person who advertises as providing care for more than four
(4) children during the daytime for compensation as defined in Chapter
210, RSMo. This general definition shall also include definitions
set forth in State Department of Health Licensing Rules for Group
Day Care Homes and Child Day Care Centers CSR 30-62.
CODE OFFICIAL
City Administrator or his/her designated representative.
COVERAGE
That percentage of the plot or lot area covered by the building
area.
CRAWL SPACE
That area under a structure that does not meet the definition
of a basement.
DISTRICT
A section of the City for which uniform regulations governing
the use, height, area and intensity of use by buildings and land,
and open spaces about buildings, are herein established.
DWELLING
A building designed or used exclusively as the living quarters
for one (1) or more families that is built on site where the occupants
will reside. This definition does not include "house trailers," "mobile
homes," "manufactured homes" or "modular homes," as defined in this
Section, or any type of recreational vehicle that is capable of use
as living quarters.
DWELLING UNIT
A building or portion thereof providing complete housekeeping
facilities for one (1) family.
DWELLING, DETACHED
A building designed or used exclusively as the living quarters
for one (1) family that is built on the site where the occupants will
reside. This definition does not include "house trailers," "mobile
homes," "manufactured homes," or any type of recreational vehicle
that is capable of use as living quarters. Modular homes, as defined
in this Section, may be classified as dwellings under this definition
and permitted as one-family dwellings.
DWELLING, MULTIFAMILY
A dwelling or group of dwellings on one (1) plot containing
separate living units for three (3) or more families, but which may
have joint services or facilities, or both.
DWELLING, ROW
A dwelling, the walls on two (2) sides of which are in common
with the walls of adjoining dwellings and are party or lot-line walls.
DWELLING, SINGLE-FAMILY
A detached building designed for or occupied exclusively
by one (1) family and shall include, but not be limited to, any home
in which eight (8) or fewer unrelated mentally or physically handicapped
persons reside, and may include two (2) additional persons acting
as houseparents or guardians who need not be related to each other
or to any of the mentally or physically handicapped persons residing
in the home.
DWELLING, TWO-FAMILY
A building designed for or occupied exclusively by two (2)
families living independently of each other. May also be referred
to as a "duplex."
FAMILY
An individual, or two (2) or more persons related by blood
or marriage, or a group of not more than three (3) persons who need
not be related by blood or marriage living together and subsisting
in common as a single non-profit housekeeping unit utilizing only
one (1) kitchen and shall include, but not be limited to, any private
residence licensed by the Division of Family Services or Department
of Mental Health to provide foster care to one (1) or more but less
than seven (7) children who are unrelated to either foster parent
by blood, marriage or adoption.
FLOOR AREA, GROSS
Gross floor area shall be the floor area within the perimeter
of the outside walls of the building under consideration, without
deduction for hallways, stairs, closets, thickness of walls, columns
or other features. Gross floor area shall also include the area of
any floor which is considered a story, balcony or mezzanines.
FRONTAGE
That portion of a property line which adjoins a street, highway,
or road right-of-way.
GARAGE, COMMUNITY
A group of garages, one story in height, arranged in a row
or surrounding a common means of access and erected for the use of
adjacent property owners having no minor garage on their individual
lots.
GARAGE, PRIVATE
An accessory building, housing no more than four (4) motor
vehicles, the property of and for the use of the occupants of the
lot on which the accessory building is located, without provisions
for repairing, or servicing such vehicles for profit.
GARAGE, PUBLIC
Any garage other than a private garage, as defined in the
latest adopted BOCA Building Code, Section 408.0.
GRANDFATHERED USE OR STRUCTURE
A non-conforming use or structure that is exempt from complying with the latest code requirements as long as the use is continuous. (See Section
400.190, Non-Conforming Land Uses and Buildings.)
GUESTROOM
A room that can be utilized for sleeping accommodations for
transient guests.
HEIGHT
The vertical distance from the grade plane to the average
height of the highest roof surface.
HOME OCCUPATION
An accessory use of a service character customarily conducted
within a dwelling by the residents thereof, which is clearly secondary
to the use of the dwelling for living purposes and does not change
the character thereof or have any exterior evidence of such secondary
use other than a name plate not to exceed eight (8) square feet.
HOSPITAL
Unless otherwise specified, the term "hospital" should be
deemed to include sanitarium, preventorium, clinic, rest home, nursing
home, convalescent home or any other place for the diagnosis, treatment
or other care of ailments, and should be deemed to be limited to places
for the diagnosis, treatment or other care of human ailments.
HOTEL
A building in which lodging is provided and offered to the
public for compensation and in which ingress and egress to and from
rooms is made through an inside lobby or office supervised by a person
in charge at all hours, and which is open to transient guests, in
contradistinction to a boardinghouse or lodging house.
LANDSCAPE BUFFER
A landscape buffer separates or screens one land use from
another, reducing or eliminating objectionable sights, sounds or nuisances
reaching from one land use to another.
LOADING SPACE
A space within the main building or on the same lot therewith
providing for the standing, loading or unloading of trucks.
LOT
A parcel, tract or area of land accessible by means of a
street or place. It may be a single parcel separately described in
a deed or plat which is recorded in the office of the County Recorder,
or it may include parts of or a combination of such parcels when adjacent
to one another and used as one.
LOT COVERAGE
The percentage of the lot area covered by the building area.
LOT LINE, FRONT
In the case of an interior lot, a line separating the lot
from the street or place; and in the case of a corner lot a line separating
the narrowest frontage of the lot from the street.
LOT WIDTH
The dimension of a lot, measured between side and lot lines
on the building line.
LOT, CORNER
A lot at the junction of and having frontage on two (2) or
more intersecting streets.
LOT, DEPTH OF
The mean horizontal distance between the front lot line and
the rear lot line, measured in the general direction of the side lot
lines.
LOT, THROUGH
A lot having frontage on two (2) parallel or approximately
parallel streets and which is not a corner lot.
MANUFACTURED HOME
A factory-built structure or structures manufactured after
June 15, 1976, meeting HUD standards for manufactured housing that
in the traveling mode is nine (9) body feet or more in width or forty
(40) feet or more in length or, when erected on site, contains three
hundred sixty (360) or more square feet and made to be readily movable
as a unit or units on their own running gear and designed to be used
as a dwelling unit.
MOBILE HOME
A factory-built structure manufactured before June 15, 1976,
and certified for compliance with the Standard for Mobile Homes, NFPA
501, designed to be used as a dwelling unit that in the traveling
mode is nine (9) body feet or more in width or forty (40) feet or
more in length or, when erected on site, contains three hundred sixty
(360) or more square feet and made to be readily movable as a unit
or units on their own running gear.
MODULAR HOME
A structure that is constructed of modules, sections, panels
or units that are built elsewhere and not assembled into a whole building
until they are delivered to the site. When erected on site, the structure
is not designed to use the chassis or hauling mechanism as part of
the support framing and must be supported by a perimeter foundation
wall. A modular home will be designed to meet the requirements of
the adopted International Residential Code or equivalent.
MOTEL
A building or premises where lodging is provided for compensation
and which has five (5) or more guest rooms.
NET SITE AREA
That area, in the case of a community unit plan, not occupied
by rights-of-way.
NIGHTLY RENTAL
A building or portion thereof built or renovated for the
purpose, in which sleeping accommodation is available for four (4)
or fewer guestrooms, for legal consideration, for a term less than
thirty (30) consecutive days.
NIGHTLY RENTAL OCCUPANT LOAD
The occupant load for any nightly rental unit shall be calculated
at one (1) occupant per two hundred (200) gross square feet or fraction
thereof plus one (1) person.
NON-CONFORMING USE
A building or use of land that does not conform to the regulations
for the district in which it is situated.
NURSERY SCHOOL
A school designed to provide daytime care or instruction
for five (5) or more children from two (2) to five (5) years of age
inclusive.
OFF-PREMISES CONTACTS (OPC) LOCATED INSIDE A BUILDING
OPCs are businesses that set up booths or spaces within other
(usually retail) businesses to establish contacts with potential customers
for a business that is not on the same premises as the booth or contact
point.
PARKING SPACE
An off-street space available for the parking of one (1)
motor vehicle, and having a dimension of nine (9) feet by twenty (20)
feet for parallel parking spaces, nine (9) feet by eighteen (18) feet
for ninety-degree head-in parking, eleven (11) feet by eighteen (18)
feet for forty-five-degree angle parking and ten (10) feet by eighteen
(18) feet for sixty-degree angle parking.
SERVICE STATION
A building, buildings, premises or portions thereof which
are used or arranged, designed, or intended to be used for the retail
sale of gasoline or other motor vehicle, motor boat or aircraft fuels.
SETBACK
An open area of land between the legal property line and
the nearest point of vertical construction, including any cantilevered
areas, balcony, porch or deck attached or unattached to the building.
SPECIFIED ANATOMICAL AREAS
Less than completely and opaquely covered human genitals,
pubic regions, buttock, and female breast below a point immediately
above the top of the areola; and human male genitals in a discernibly
turgid state, even if completely and opaquely covered.
STABLE
Any building, structure, or portion thereof which is used
in whole or in part for the shelter or care of horses, cattle or other
similar animals, either permanently or transiently.
STORY ABOVE GRADE
That portion of a building included between the upper surface
of a floor and the upper surface of the floor or roof next above,
provided there is a minimum height of seven (7) feet, six (6) inches.
STREET
A public or private way which affords the principal means
of access to abutting properties.
STREET GRADE
The officially established grade of the street upon which
a lot fronts. If there is no officially established grade, the existing
grades of the street should be taken as the street grade.
STRUCTURE
That which is built or constructed or a portion thereof.
SUBDIVISION RESTRICTIONS
A covenant running with the land or a subdivision restriction
will in all cases control the use of the land that is "burdened" by
the restriction. Normally the restriction in a subdivision may be
changed by the vote of the landowners that are subject to the subdivision
restriction.
TOWNHOUSE
Single-family home that shares one or more walls with other
independently owned units. They are often rows of uniform homes, two
stories or taller. Residents own their interior and exterior walls,
lawn and roof, as well as the insurance on both their home and property.
USE
The specific purpose for which land on a structure is designed
to be used.
YARD
A space on the same lot with a principal building, open,
unoccupied, and unobstructed by structures, except as otherwise provided.
YARD, FRONT
A yard extending across the full width of the lot, between
the structure and the street, which complies with the setback requirements.
YARD, REAR
A yard extending across the full width of the lot between
the rear of the structure and the rear lot line which complies with
the setback requirements.
YARD, SIDE
A yard between the structure and the side lot line which
complies with the setback requirements.