For the purpose of this chapter, certain terms
or words used herein shall be interpreted or defined as follows:
A.Â
Words used in the present tense shall include the
future. The singular number includes the plural, and the plural the
singular.
B.Â
The word "person" includes a corporation as well as
an individual.
C.Â
The word "building" includes the word "plot" or "parcel."
D.Â
The word "used" or "occupied" as applied to any land
or building shall be construed to include the words "built, arranged
or designed to be used or occupied."
As used in this chapter, the following terms
shall have the meanings indicated:
A building subordinate to the main building on a lot and
used for purposes customarily incidental to those of the main building.
A use customarily incidental and subordinate to the principal
use or building and located on the same lot with such principal use
or building.
A service way which affords a secondary public means of vehicular
access to abutting property.
The total ground area of a principal building and accessory
buildings, exclusive of uncovered porches, parapets, steps and terraces.
A space of full story height partly below grade and having
at least half of its clear floor-to-ceiling height above the average
grade of the adjoining ground and which is not designed or used primarily
for year-round living accommodations.
Any roofed structure intended for the shelter, housing or
enclosure of persons, animals or property. When a building is divided
into separate parts extending from the ground up, each part so divided
is deemed a separate "building."
The sum of the gross horizontal area of the several floors
of a building and its accessory buildings on the same lot, including
basement areas devoted to residential use and the area of bays, dormers,
roofed porches and roofed terraces. All dimensions shall be measured
between exterior faces of walls.
Vertical distance measured from curb to grade level to the
highest level of a flat or mansard roof or to the average height of
a pitched, gabled, hip or gambrel roof, excluding bulkheads, penthouses
and similar constructions enclosing equipment or stairs, provided
that they are less than 12 feet in height and do not occupy more than
30% of the area of the roof upon which they are located.
A line established by law or by agreement, usually parallel
with a property line, beyond which a structure may not extend.
That space of a building that is partly or entirely below
grade, which has more than half of its height, measured from floor
to ceiling, below the average established curb level or finished grade
of the ground adjoining the building.
A building or group of buildings designed for year-round
occupancy by more than three families, including apartment houses
and group houses, but excluding hotels and rooming houses.[1]
A detached building, other than a trailer or other temporary
structure, designed for exclusive year-round occupancy by one family
only.
A detached building, other than a trailer or other temporary
structure, designed for exclusive year-round occupancy by two families
living independently of each other.
One or more rooms with provision for living, sanitary and
sleeping facilities arranged for the use of one family.
That which incorporates structures or components designed
for residential occupancy which are constructed by a method or system
of construction whereby the structure or component is wholly or in
substantial part manufactured in a manufacturing facility and which
is intended for permanent installation on a building site.[2]
Any number of persons of recognized family relationship maintaining
a common household, including domestic help.
A parcel or tract of land which is used for the production
or raising of agricultural products, except where such production
is an accessory and noncommercial garden to a principal residential
use on the same lot, but not including kennels nor the raising of
poultry, fur-bearing animals, hogs or goats.
A roofed space for the storage of one or more motor vehicles,
provided that no business, occupation or service is conducted for
profit therein nor space therein for more than one car is leased to
a nonresident of the premises.
A building or part thereof used for the storage, hiring,
selling, greasing, washing, servicing or repair of motor-driven vehicles,
operated for gain.
A building or part thereof used only for the storage of vehicles
for gain and at which automobile fuels and oils are not sold and motor-driven
vehicles are not equipped, repaired, hired or sold.
Any area of land, including structures thereon, that is used
or designated to be used for the sale of gasoline or oil or other
motor vehicle fuel and which may include facilities for lubrication
washing, cleaning or otherwise servicing motor vehicles, but not including
the painting or major repair thereof. The term "gasoline station"
shall be deemed to include filling station and service station.[3]
Any personal or professional service customarily conducted
entirely within a dwelling and carried on only by resident members
of the family, which use is clearly incidental and secondary to the
use of the dwelling for dwelling purposes and does not change the
residential character thereof and in which there is kept no stock-in-trade.
A building or structure for the diagnosis and medical or
surgical care of human sickness or injuries.
A building or group of buildings where transient guests are
lodged for hire, including motels but excluding rooming houses.
A lot, land or structure or part thereof used for the collecting,
storage and sale of wastepaper, rags, scrap metal or discarded material
or for the collecting, dismantling, storage and salvaging of machinery
or vehicles and for the sale of the parts thereof.
A business premises equipped with individual clothes washing
or cleaning machines for use by retail customers, exclusive of laundry
facilities provided in an apartment, fraternity, sorority, residential
hotel or club.
A parcel of land considered as a unit, occupied or capable
of being occupied by a building or use and accessory buildings or
uses or by a group of buildings united by a common use or interest,
and including such open spaces as are required by this chapter and
having its principal frontage on a public street or an officially
approved place.
The total horizontal area included within lot lines. No part
of the area within a public right-of-way may be included in the computation
of lot area.
A lot located at the intersection of and fronting on two
or more intersecting streets and having an interior angle at the corner
of intersection of less than 135°.
The mean horizontal distance between the front and rear lot
lines measured in the general direction of the side lot lines.
A lot other than a corner lot.
A lot having frontage on two approximately parallel or converging
streets other than a corner lot.
The distance between side lot lines measured parallel to
the front lot line at a distance from the front lot line equal to
the front yard specified for the district.
A structure, transportable in one or more sections, which,
in the traveling mode, is eight body feet or more in width or 40 body
feet or more in length, or, when erected on site, is 320 or more square
feet and which is built on a permanent chassis and designed to be
used as a dwelling with or without a permanent foundation when connected
to the required utilities and includes the plumbing, heating, air-conditioning
and electrical systems contained therein.[4]
A parcel of land which has been planned and improved for
the placement of two or more mobile homes for nontransient use.
See "hotel."
Use of a building or of land that does not comply with the
regulations for the district in which it is situated.
Facilities for the daytime care or instruction of two or
more children from two to five years, inclusive, and operated on a
regular basis.
A building used for the accommodation and care of persons
with or recuperating from illness or incapacity, where nursing services
are furnished, or for the accommodation and care of persons of advanced
age.
An off-street space available for the parking of one motor
vehicle and having an area of not less than 180 square feet, exclusive
of passageways and driveways thereto.
A dwelling where transient guests are lodged for hire.
Any device affixed to or painted or represented directly
or indirectly upon a building, structure or land and which directs
attention to an object, product, place, activity, person, institution,
organization or business, but not including any flag, badge or insignia
of any government or government agency, school or religious group
or of any civic, charitable, religious, patriotic, fraternal or similar
organization nor any official traffic-control device. Each display
surface shall be considered to be a "sign."
A sign which directs attention to a business, commodity,
service or entertainment sold or offered elsewhere than upon the premises
where such sign is located or to which it is affixed and only incidentally
on the premises if at all.
A sign which directs attention to a business or profession
conducted or a commodity, service or entertainment sold or offered
upon the premises where such sign is located or to which it is affixed.
A "For Sale" or "To Let" sign relating to the lot on which it is displayed
shall be deemed to be a business sign.
Any illuminated sign on which the artificial light is not
maintained stationary or constant in intensity and color when such
sign is in use. For the purpose of this chapter, any revolving or
illuminated sign shall be considered a "flashing sign."
An accessory building in which horses are kept for private
use and not for hire or sale.
An accessory building in which horses are kept for remuneration,
hire or sale.
That portion of a building included between the surface of
any floor and the surface of the floor next above it, or if there
be no floor above it, then the space between any floor and the ceiling
next above it.
That part of a building between a pitched roof and the uppermost
full story and having a floor area at least half as large as the floor
below. Space with less than five feet clear headroom shall not be
considered as floor area.
A public or private way which affords the principal means
of access to abutting property.
Any change in the supporting members of a building.
Anything constructed or erected, the use of which requires
location on the ground or attachment to something having location
on the ground.
An open lot or part thereof with its appurtenant structures
and facilities devoted primarily to the showing of motion pictures
or theatrical productions on a paid admission basis.
A dwelling where transient guests are lodged for hire.
A mobile unit designed for camping, recreational travel or
vacation use which is equipped with a chassis and provides partial
housekeeping facilities such as plumbing, heating, electrical, cooking
or refrigeration systems or equipment.
An area occupied or designed for occupancy by two or more
trailers.
The authorization by the Zoning Board of Appeals for the
use of land in a manner which is not allowed by the dimensional or
physical requirements of the applicable zoning regulations.[5]
The authorization by the Zoning Board of Appeals for the
use of land for a purpose which is otherwise not allowed or is prohibited
by the applicable zoning regulations.[6]
An open, unoccupied space on the same lot with a main building,
extending the full width of the lot and situated between the street
line and the front line of the main building projected to the side
lines of the lot.
A space on the same lot with a main building, open and unoccupied
except for accessory buildings, extending the full width of the lot
and situated between the rear line of the main building projected
to the side lines of the lot and the rear line of the lot.
An open unoccupied space on the same lot with a main building,
situated between the side line of the main building and the adjacent
side line of the lot and extending from the front yard to the rear
yard.
