A.Â
The following rules of construction shall apply in interpreting this
chapter:
(1)Â
Words used in the present tense include the future.
(2)Â
The singular number includes the plural, and the plural the singular.
(3)Â
The word "shall" is always mandatory; the word "may" is permissive.
(4)Â
The word "used" or "occupied," as applied to any land or building,
includes the words "arranged or designed or intended to be used or
occupied."
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Unless otherwise expressly stated, the definitions of words and terms
contained in this article shall be used in interpreting this chapter.
Words not herein defined are used with a meaning of standard usage.
As used in this chapter, the following terms shall have the
meanings indicated:
A second dwelling unit either in or added to an existing
single-family detached dwelling or in a separate accessory structure
on the same lot as the main dwelling, for use as a complete, independent
living facility with provision within the accessory apartment for
cooking, eating, sanitation, and sleeping. Such a dwelling is an accessory
use to the main dwelling.
A subordinate use or building customarily or intended to
be incidental to and located on the same lot occupied by a principal
use or building. The term "accessory building" includes but is not
limited to a private garage, garden or barn, private playhouse, private
greenhouse, private swimming pool, freestanding patios and decks.
An establishment that has as a majority portion of its stock-in-trade
and offers for sale or rental, for any form of consideration, any
one or more of the following:
Books, magazines, periodicals, or other printed matter or photographs,
films, motion pictures, videocassettes, slides, or other visual representations
that are characterized by an emphasis upon the depiction or description
of specified sexual activities or specified anatomical areas; or
Instruments, devices, or paraphernalia that are designed for
use in connection with specified sexual activities.
The cultivation of soil and the raising and harvesting of
products of the soil, including customary soil and water conservation
practices, but not including the raising or keeping of livestock,
poultry, pigs, horses, sheep or the like.
A right-of-way, other than a street, used for vehicular access
to the side or rear of abutting property.
As applied to a building or structure, a change or rearrangement
in the structural parts, or an enlargement, that changes one or more
of the exterior architectural features of a structure, including but
not limited to the erection, construction, reconstruction or removal
of any structure.
A commercially operated indoor facility providing a variety
of coin-operated amusement devices suitable for participation by people
of all ages, including but not limited to television games, electronic
novelty games, electromechanical and electronic target games, driving
games, pinball machines, small kiddie rides, and other similar devices;
does not include billiard or pool tables.
Land devoted to the hatching, raising, and breeding of fish
or other aquatic plants or animals for sale or personal use.
BUILDING AREAThe aggregate of the maximum horizontal cross-section areas of all buildings on a lot, excluding cornices, unroofed porches, paved terraces, steps, eaves and gutters.
LOT AREAThe area contained within the property lines of a record lot, including the area within all easements, but excluding the area within all existing or dedicated street rights-of-way or future rights-of-way reserved or dedicated for use by the public.
A building or premises where gasoline, oil, grease, batteries,
tires and automobile accessories, or any combination thereof, are
sold at retail and where incidental servicing and mechanical repairs
are conducted; provided, however, that this term shall not be deemed
to include motor vehicle repair garages.
A home occupation that provides one to three rooms for occasional
paying guests on an overnight basis for periods of time not to exceed
14 days, with breakfast being available on premises at no additional
cost.
A tourist home that provides four to 12 rooms for paying
guests on an overnight basis for periods of time not to exceed 14
days, with breakfast being available on premises at no additional
cost.
A business establishment where the principal use is the playing
of pool or billiards and at least 75% of the net floor area of the
establishment's interior space is devoted exclusively to this use.
A combination of materials having a roof to form a structure
for the shelter of persons, animals or property. The word "building"
shall include any part thereof.
The percentage of the lot area covered by the building area.
A building's vertical measurement from the mean level
of the ground abutting the building to a point midway between the
highest and lowest points of the roof.
The minimum distance required from the property line to provide
adequate front, rear and side yards as herein designated for each
district.
A retail business establishment for the sale of products
to the general region, to include the uses listed herein for each
district and also to include shops for the sale or resale of antiques,
appliances, automobiles, truck and other vehicle parts and accessories,
beverages and bottled goods, books, periodicals and stationery, drugs
and sundries, including food services as an accessory use, furniture
and other home furnishings, general merchandise, gifts and jewelry,
hardware, hobby and craft supplies, pets, shoes, specialty items,
sporting goods, tobacco, and lawn and garden stock and supplies, excluding
commercial wholesale greenhouses and nurseries.
A retail business establishment for the sale of products
intended primarily for neighborhood convenience shopping, to include
baked goods stores, dairy products stores, food and grocery stores,
fruit and vegetable stores or produce stands, meat markets, pharmacies,
household items, and other goods commonly associated with the same.
The retailing floor area of any such business shall not exceed 2,000
square feet.
A business establishment providing personal services, to
include barbershops; beauty salons; cold storage lockers; photography
studios; repair shops for appliances, bicycles, electronic equipment,
furniture, guns, locks, shoes or watches; dry cleaning or laundromat;
and tailoring and dressmaking.
A business establishment providing services, to include banks,
inclusive of ATM facilities, credit unions, savings-and-loan and similar
institutions, business offices and real estate and insurance agencies.
An individual younger than 16 years old or an individual
younger than 21 years old who has a handicapping condition or other
emotional, developmental, physical, educational, or medical need necessitating
child care beyond the age of 16.
An agency, institution, or establishment that, for part or
all of the day, or on a twenty-four-hour basis on a regular schedule,
and at least twice a week, offers or provides child care to children
who do not have the same parentage.
Nonparental care of children for part of a twenty-four-hour
day not in the child's own home, in a group setting such as a
child-care center, preschool, child development center, nursery school,
before-school and after-school program, school age child care, or
early learning center, by whatever name known, under private nonprofit,
proprietary, public, or religious auspices.
Any retail establishment offering for sale prepackaged or
preprocessed food products, household items, and other goods commonly
associated with the same and having a gross floor area of less than
5,000 square feet. Such establishments may also sell gasoline at retail
prices. The area utilized for the sale of gasoline shall be considered
as part of the gross floor area.
A restaurant designed and equipped with facilities for drive-through
purchase of takeout food to be consumed by the customers in their
motor vehicles or off the premises, including those establishments
where patrons, in addition to being accommodated in the vehicles,
may also be accommodated within the premises.
A child-care center which provides care exclusively to children
on an intermittent and occasional basis for less than four hours a
day while parents are not on the same premises or not immediately
available, or both.
A business establishment containing no more than 3,000 square
feet of net floor area where the principal use is the provision of
quick-copy duplicating and printing of reports, resumes, correspondence,
office forms and other similar services to businesses and individuals.
For the purpose of this definition, the term "net floor area" includes
selling and working space and accessory storage areas, but it does
not include areas intended and utilized for permanent uses such as
sanitary facilities, stairwells, heating equipment, fire corridors
and enclosed parking.
A building or portion thereof arranged or designed to provide
one or more dwelling units.
DWELLING UNITA dwelling or portion thereof providing complete living facilities for one family; provided, however, that this term shall not be deemed to include rooming houses, boardinghouses or lodging houses or hotels, motels, tourist homes or other similar places offering overnight accommodations for transients.
SINGLE-FAMILY DETACHED DWELLINGA building, commonly known as a "single-family house," designed for and occupied exclusively as a residence having one dwelling unit from ground to roof and open space on all sides; where a private garage is structurally attached to such a dwelling, it shall be considered as a part thereof.
TWO-FAMILY (DUPLEX) DWELLINGA single building containing two dwelling units located on one lot separated by a party wall and intended and designed to be occupied as a residence by two families living independently of each other as separate housekeeping units.
TWO-FAMILY SEMIDETACHED DWELLINGOne of two buildings arranged or designed as dwelling units, located on abutting lots, separated from each other by a party wall, without openings, extending from the cellar floor to the highest point of the roof along the dividing lot line, and separated from any other building or structures by space on all sides.
SINGLE-FAMILY ATTACHED (TOWNHOUSE) DWELLINGA portion of a building designed for and occupied exclusively as a residence for only one family and having only one dwelling unit from ground to roof, two points of independent outside access, and at least two other dwellings built in conjunction therewith, and any portion of one or two walls in common with an adjoining dwelling shall extend without openings from the cellar floor to the highest point of the roof along the dividing lot line.
MULTIFAMILY (APARTMENT) DWELLINGA building containing one dwelling unit above another dwelling unit or a building containing three or more dwelling units and designed to be occupied by three or more families living independently of one another.
CONDOMINIUMA system of separate ownership of individual units in multiunit projects on land in common ownership established under the provisions of Title 11, Maryland Condominium Act, of the Real Property Article of the Annotated Code of Maryland.
Underground or overhead electrical, gas, communications,
water or sewage systems, including poles, rights-of-way, wires, lines,
mains, drains, sewers, conduits, cables, fire alarm boxes, public
telephone booths, police call boxes, traffic signals, hydrants, regulating
and measuring devices, and the structures in which they are housed,
and other similar equipment and accessories in connection therewith;
provided, however, that this term shall not be deemed to include buildings,
yards or areas for the storage, repair or processing of equipment
or material, with the exception of buildings utilized as water well
houses or water and/or sewage pumping stations, nor does it include
sewage treatment plants, lagoons, settling basins and like conducted
as a principal use, nor does it include yards, areas or substations
for the aboveground generation, transforming or switching of electricity.
An individual or two or more persons related by blood or
marriage or a group of not more than five persons, excluding servants,
not related by blood or marriage, living together as a single housekeeping
group in a dwelling unit.
Care given for compensation in lieu of parental care in a
residence other than the child's residence for part of a twenty-four-hour
day for not more than eight children under the age of 13 or to a developmentally
disabled person younger than 21 years. The provider's own child
or children under the age of six shall be included in the total number
of eight children allowed. At no time shall the provider care for
more than two children under the age of two years. Nothing in this
chapter shall prohibit the use of any residence to be used as a registered
family day-care home. Family day-care homes shall be registered with
and meet all requirements of the Maryland Office of Child Care, Licensing
and Regulations.
A private residence wherein care, protection and supervision
are provided for a fee for part or all of a day at least twice a week
to no more than eight children at one time, including children of
the adult provider.
A principal building other than a dwelling which is used
by one or more individuals commonly engaged in the sale of mutually
grown seasonal produce and nursery stock from their respective farms
or satellite farms.
Any use which is determined by the Board of Zoning Appeals
to be functionally similar to a principal permitted use listed in
districts herein.
A dwelling shared by four or more handicapped persons, including
resident staff, who live together as a single housekeeping unit and
in a long-term, family like environment in which staff persons provide
care, education, and participation in community activities for the
residents with the primary goal of enabling the residents to live
as independently as possible in order to reach their maximum potential.
As used herein, the term "handicapped" shall mean having a physical
or mental impairment that substantially limits one or more of such
person's major life activities so that such person is incapable
of living independently; a record of having such an impairment; or
having such an impairment. However, "handicapped" shall not include
current illegal use of or addiction to a controlled substance, nor
shall it include any person whose residency in the home would constitute
a direct threat to the health and safety of other individuals. The
term "group home for the handicapped" shall not include alcoholism
or drug treatment centers, work release facilities for convicts or
ex-convicts, or other housing facilities serving as an alternative
to incarceration.
A licensed home for people on release from more restrictive
custodial confinement or as remanded by court directive, wherein supervision,
rehabilitation, and counseling are provided to mainstream residents
back into society, enabling them to live independently. Such residents
may include but not be limited to persons under the supervision of
the State Department of Corrections and those under medical supervision
for substance abuse and mental conditions.
An indoor commercial or private facility, including uses
such as game courts, exercise equipment, locker rooms, a jacuzzi and/or
sauna and pro shop.
A business occupying not less than 10 acres of land at or
near an interchange of a limited-access highway and intended primarily
to provide for travelers, which consists of an integrated group of
at least three establishments such as service stations, restaurants,
and motels.
Any use of a dwelling or accessory building conducted solely by a member or members of the family residing therein and not more than two nonresident employees which is incidental or subordinate to the main use of the building for dwelling purposes, which utilizes not more than 25% of the floor space of the dwelling, and in connection with which no inventory or stock-in-trade is kept for regular sale to persons coming to the premises, nor shall there be any display or storage of goods visible from any street or adjoining properties, and with no other evidence being visible, other than a sign as provided in Article VII, from the outside of the dwelling, nor shall any noise, odors, fumes, vibration, glare and other nuisances extend beyond the property boundary which would indicate it is being used for anything other than residential purposes. The parking for those individuals involved in the home occupation shall be provided for on site and shall not utilize parking normally designed for public use within the residential neighborhood.
An association or other legal entity comprised of owners
of land or dwellings organized to own, operate or maintain open space
or facilities used in common by such owners.
Any use of a dwelling or accessory building conducted solely
by a member or members of the family residing therein which is incidental
or subordinate to the main use of the building for dwelling purposes,
which utilizes not more than 25% of the floor space of the dwelling,
which does not generate vehicular parking or nonresidential traffic
to a greater extent than would normally result from residential occupancy
and with no other evidence being visible from the outside of the dwelling,
nor shall any noise, odors, fumes, vibration, glare and other nuisances
extend beyond the property boundary which would indicate it is being
used for anything other than residential purposes.
An institution which is licensed as a hospital by the state
and which receives inpatients and provides medical, surgical, psychiatric,
or obstetrical care. This term includes any health-related facilities
which are established in connection with a hospital and are located
on the same site as the hospital. Such health-related facilities shall
include, but are not limited to, diagnostic facilities, rehabilitation
centers, laboratories, training facilities, outpatient care facilities,
facilities for chronic or convalescent care and elderly housing facilities.
A building or group of buildings containing sleeping rooms
for the accommodation of transient guests.
Any motor vehicle which does not have a lawfully affixed
license plate or plates, is wrecked, dismantled, partially dismantled,
inoperative, abandoned or discarded and is being stored upon either
private or public property.[1]
Any area where waste, discarded or salvaged materials are
bought, sold, exchanged, baled, parked, stored, disassembled or handled.
This includes but is not limited to auto wrecking yards, house wrecking
yards, used lumber yards, and places or yards for storage of salvaged
house wrecking and structural steel materials and equipment, but not
including areas where such uses are conducted entirely within a completely
enclosed building and not including pawnshops and establishments for
the sale, purchase, or storage of used furniture and household equipment,
used cars in operable condition, salvaged machinery and the processing
of used, discarded, or salvaged materials as part of manufacturing
operations.
Any building or structure and/or land used, designed, or
arranged for housing, boarding, breeding or care of more than three
adult dogs kept or bred for hunting, sale, exhibition and/or domestic
use.
A tract of land used for the disposal of materials, garbage
or any refuse by dumping, reduction, incineration or burial, which
said activity is controlled by Maryland law and/or the regulations
of the Maryland Department of the Environment.
A group of at least two but not more than five stores offering products and services intended for use by nearby residents. The center shall be designed as an integrated unit with off-street parking provided in accordance with applicable provisions of Article VI.
A parcel or plot of land used or set aside and available
for use as the site of one or more buildings and buildings accessory
thereto or for any other purpose, in one ownership and not divided
by a street nor including any land within the limits of a public or
private street right-of-way. The term "record lot" means the land
designated as a separate and distinct parcel of land on a legally
recorded deed filed among the land records of Washington County.
LOT, CORNERA lot abutting two or more streets at their intersection, where the interior angle of the intersection does not exceed 130°. When one or more of the intersecting streets is classified as a collector or arterial, the interior angle of the intersection shall not exceed 115°.
LOT DEPTHThe depth of a lot as measured by the average horizontal distance between the front lot line and the rear lot line.
LOT, PANHANDLEA lot with the appearance of a frying pan or flag and staff in which the "handle" is most often used as the point of access to a street or road. The "handle," when less than the minimum width for a building lot in the zoning district in which it is located, is not to be used in computing the minimum required area or delineating the minimum required building envelope. The "handle" shall not be less at any point than the required 25 feet minimum road frontage or greater than 300 feet in length.
LOT WIDTHThe width of a lot measured by the horizontal distance between the midpoints of the side lot lines.
A lot fronting and accessible from a circular turnaround
at the permanent closed end of a street.
Any boundary line of a lot.
LOT LINE, FRONTThe street line, which shall be the same as the legal right-of-way line, provided that, along streets for which a future right-of-way width is designated and legally adopted, pursuant to the Land Use Article of the Annotated Code of Maryland, the front lot line shall be the future right-of-way line thus established.
LOT LINE, REARAny lot line which is parallel to or within 45° of being parallel to a street line, except for a lot line that is itself a street line, and except that, in the case of a corner lot, the owner shall have the option of choosing which of the two lot lines that are not street lines is to be considered a rear lot line. In the case of a lot having no street frontage or a lot of an odd shape, only the one lot line furthest from any street shall be considered a rear lot line.
LOT LINE, SIDEAny lot line which is not a street line or a rear lot line.
The elected Mayor and Town Council of the Town of Smithsburg.
A term including ambulatory care centers, diagnostic centers,
birthing centers, and dialysis and does not include ambulatory surgical
facilities.
A building housing offices for the treating of outpatients
by one or more medical practitioners. This term does not include a
veterinarian's office, medical clinic, ambulatory care center,
ambulatory surgical facilities, diagnostic center, birthing center,
or dialysis satellite unit.
A single-family detached dwelling unit manufactured in one
complete section, designed for long-term occupancy, containing sleeping
accommodations, a flush toilet, a bathtub or shower, and kitchen facilities
with plumbing and electrical connections provided for attachment to
outside systems, and designed to be transported after fabrication
on its own wheels, or on flatbed or other trailers, arriving at the
site where it is to be occupied as a complete dwelling, and ready
for occupancy except for minor and incidental unpacking and assembly
operations; provided, however, that sectional (double-wide) homes
and travel trailers shall not be considered mobile homes for the purposes
of this chapter.
A parcel of land under single ownership which has been planned
and improved for the placement of more than one mobile home occupied
for nontransient use.
A residential development where separate tracts of land,
specifically designed to accommodate mobile homes, are intended to
be sold to mobile home owners.
A building or premises intended or operated for the major
repair of motor vehicles, including body work, painting, spraying,
welding or the storage of vehicles not in operating condition.
A structure or lot that does not conform to a dimensional
regulation prescribed by this chapter for the district in which it
is located or to regulations for off-street parking, off-street loading
or accessory buildings but which structure or lot was lawfully in
existence at the effective date of this chapter.
A use of a building or lot that does not conform to use regulations
prescribed by this chapter for the district in which it is located
but which was lawfully in existence at the effective date of this
chapter.
The farm-specific field by field set of crop nutrient recommendations
prepared by a nutrient management planner certified by the Maryland
Department of Agriculture balancing nutrient sources, Including animal
waste, crop residues, commercial fertilizers and other materials containing
nutrients.
[Added 11-1-2016 by Ord.
No. 2016-05]
A corporation, institution, partnership, trust, association
or any other legal entity, as well as a natural individual.
The legally constituted Planning Commission of the Town of
Smithsburg.
A processing facility, to include baking, canning, cleaning, cooking, and drying, freezing, mixing, packaging and preserving of food and food products, such as animal and poultry processing, except slaughtering, provided that such processing shall be subject to the setback requirements specified in § 405-27; bottling of milk, soft drinks or water; fruit, vegetable and dairy processing; and production of other foodstuffs from flour or grains, excluding milling.
A processing or manufacturing facility, to include finished
or intermediate products from natural raw materials.
A processing or manufacturing facility, to include assembling,
altering, cleaning, finishing, maintenance, packaging or other processing
and incidental storage of previously prepared material.
A structure used for professional office purposes by any
member or members of a recognized profession, such as, but not limited
to, doctors, lawyers, architects, accountants, and engineers; this
does not include medical, dental or veterinarian clinics or inpatient/same-day
surgical treatment facilities.
Any lot used primarily for the commercial hiring out of horses
or ponies, whether with or without instruction in riding.
A dwelling in which, for compensation, lodging will be provided
and meals may be provided to permanent residents of the dwelling or
to no more than three transient guests of the dwelling. A rooming
house, boardinghouse or lodging house is not a home occupation or
a group home.
A group home to serve as a sheltered housing for individuals
and their dependent children which is managed by an institutional
or nonprofit agency.
A device or instrument designed or used for the reception
of television or other electronic communications signals broadcast
or relayed from an earth satellite. It may typically be a solid, open
mesh, or bar-configured structure, typically three to 10 feet in diameter,
in the shape of a shallow dish or parabola.
A single-family detached dwelling unit manufactured in two
or more sections, designed for permanent occupancy, and transported
to a building site in sections which are fastened together and mounted
on a permanent foundation ready for occupancy except for minor and
incidental unpacking and assembly operations. For purposes of this
chapter, "sectional dwelling" includes modular, prefabricated and
other similar types, but mobile homes and travel trailers are not
considered to be sectional dwellings.
CENTRALIZED SEWAGE DISPOSAL SYSTEMA utility system serving two or more dwelling units or business, commercial, industrial or other establishments which is designed and operated for the collection, transportation, treatment and disposal of sewage in compliance with county and state health regulations.
PRIVATE SEWAGE DISPOSAL SYSTEMA system of sewers, pipes, treatment tanks or other facilities serving only a single dwelling unit or a single business, commercial, industrial or other establishment which is designed and operated for the collection, treatment and disposal of sewage in compliance with county and state health regulations.
A group of six or more retail stores, service establishments
and other similar uses which are designed as an integrated unit.
Any permanent or temporary structure or part thereof or any
device attached, painted or represented directly or indirectly on
a structure or other surface that displays or includes any letter,
word, insignia, flag, or representation used as, or which is the nature
of, an advertisement, announcement, visual communication, or direction
or which is designed to attract the eye or bring the subject to the
attention of the public. Flags of any governmental unit or any charitable
or religious organization, interior signs and cornerstones built into
or attached to a wall or a building are not deemed signs within the
purposes of this chapter.
ON-PREMISES SIGNA sign which directs attention to a business, profession, product, home occupation, service or activity conducted or sold on the same lot.
OFF-PREMISES SIGNA sign which directs attention to a business, profession, product, home occupation, service or activity not conducted or sold on the same lot.
COMMERCIAL ADVERTISING SIGNAn advertising sign, structure or symbol, commonly known as a "billboard," erected and maintained by a person or corporation engaged in the sale or rental for profit of the space thereon to a clientele of manufacturing, service, commercial or other business enterprises, upon which sign there is displayed, generally for a limited period of time, advertising matter describing a variety of products or services widely or generally available, but usually not produced, assembled, stored or sold on the lot or premises upon which the advertisement is located.
BUSINESS ADVERTISING SIGNAn advertising sign, structure or symbol erected and maintained by or for the benefit of a specific individual manufacturing, service, commercial or other business enterprise and used exclusively to advertise the location or the products or services offered by said enterprise, rather than for the periodic advertising of products and services generally available.
DOUBLE-FACED SIGNA sign which has two identical-sized faces which are parallel or have an included angle not exceeding 90°.
PERPENDICULAR SIGNA sign which is mounted so as to project perpendicular from a building or structure or face and shall include all double-faced signs.
PERMANENT RESIDENTIAL/IDENTIFICATION SIGNA sign of a permanent nature setting forth the name of the residential subdivision or development it is identifying.
SANDWICH BOARD SIGNA two-sided portable advertisement sign placed on the premises of the business but shall not be located within the pedestrian walkways. This sign shall be placed within the business structure at the close of the business day.
A use for which the Board of Zoning Appeals may grant permission
following a public hearing and findings of fact consistent with the
provisions of this chapter, and provided that the use complies with
specified conditions and standards outlined in this chapter.
A strip of land, including the entire width of the right-of-way
between street lines, used or intended for use by the public for vehicular
travel or to provide vehicular access to three or more abutting lots
or principal uses.
The dividing line between the street and the lot. The street
line shall be the same as the legal right-of-way line, provided that
where a future right-of-way width for a street is officially established
pursuant to the Land Use Article of the Annotated Code of Maryland,
then the street line shall be the side of the future right-of-way
so established.
A combination of materials assembled, constructed or erected
at a fixed location, the use of which requires location on the ground
or attachment to something having location on the ground. The word
"structure" shall include any part thereof.
An establishment housing indoor equipment for the purpose
of giving artificial tans to customers.
A portable or vehicular unit:
Any activity, occupation, business or operation conducted,
or intended to be conducted, in a building or other structure or on
a tract of land.
An establishment renting videocassette or disc recorder/players
and videotapes or discs with incidental sale of these items.
The plan specific to a property engaged in animal husbandry
activities which shall define the means by which waste produced shall
be stored, managed, handled, and applied to the soil, pursuant to
the guidelines found In the most current edition of the Agricultural
Waste Management Field Handbook, US Department of Agriculture, Soil
Conservation Service.
[Added 11-1-2016 by Ord.
No. 2016-05]
CENTRALIZED WATER SUPPLY SYSTEMA utility system serving two or more dwelling units or business, commercial, industrial or other establishments which is designed and operated to supply potable water in compliance with county and state health regulations.
PRIVATE WATER SUPPLY SYSTEMA utility system serving only one dwelling unit or a single commercial, business, industrial or other establishment which is designed and operated to supply potable water in compliance with county and state health regulations.
A portion of a lot adjoining and extending inward from a
lot line or street line and which shall remain unobstructed by buildings
or structures or portions thereof, except overhanging eaves, gutters
or cornices.
YARD, FRONTA yard adjoining and extending parallel to a street line.
YARD, SIDEA yard adjoining and extending parallel to a side lot line and lying between a front yard and a rear yard.
YARD, REARA yard adjoining and extending parallel to a rear lot line.
The sale of miscellaneous merchandise on the premises of
an individual(s) that shall not exceed two consecutive days nor be
conducted more than twice within a one-year time period.
