For the purpose of this chapter, the following definitions shall
be used:
Having a common property line or district line.
A building or portion of a building subordinate to the main
building and used for a purpose customarily incidental to the permitted
use of the main building or the use of the premises. When an accessory
building is a part of the main building or is substantially attached
thereto, the side yard and rear yard requirements of the main building
shall be applied to the accessory building.
A street or thoroughfare less than 21 feet wide and affording
only secondary access to abutting property.
A portion of a multiple dwelling used as a separate housing
unit and having cooking facilities and a private bath.
See "dwelling, multifamily."
A story, as defined below in this section, partly underground
which, if occupied for living purposes, shall be counted as a story
for purposes of height measurement.
An advertising device, either freestanding or attached to
a building, which is used to display information not related to the
use or ownership of the establishment on the property upon which it
is located.
A building other than a hotel where lodging and meals are
furnished for compensation for three or more persons not members of
a family.
Any structure used, designed or intended for the protection,
shelter, enclosure or support of persons, animals or property. When
a building is divided into separate parts by unpierced walls extending
from the ground up, each part shall be deemed a separate building.
See "structural alterations."
The total living area bounded by the exterior walls of a
building at the floor level, but not including basement, garage, open
porch and unfinished attic.
The vertical distance from the average curb level in front
of the lot or the finished grade at the building line, whichever is
higher, to the highest point of the coping of a flat roof, to the
deck line of a mansard roof, or to the average height of the highest
gable of a gambrel, hip or pitch roof.
A written statement issued by the Building Inspector which
permits the use of a building or lot or a portion of a building or
lot and which certifies compliance with the provisions of this chapter
for the specified use and occupancy.
A use of a special nature so as to make impractical its predetermination
as a principal use within a district.
ONE-FAMILYA detached building designed for or occupied exclusively by one family.
TWO-FAMILYA detached or semidetached building designed for and occupied exclusively by two families.
MULTIFAMILYA building or portion thereof designed for and occupied by more than two families, including tenement houses, row houses, apartment houses and apartment hotels.
A separate housekeeping unit, designed and used for occupancy
by a single family.
One or more persons, related by blood, adoption or marriage,
living and cooking together as a single housekeeping unit, or a number
of persons living and cooking together as a single housekeeping unit
though not related by blood, adoption or marriage.
[Amended 4-14-2015 by Ord. No. 233]
Land consisting of five acres or more on which produce, crops,
livestock or flowers are grown primarily for off-premises consumption
or use.
For residential uses, the gross horizontal area of the floor
of a dwelling unit, exclusive of porches, balconies, garages and basements,
measured from the exterior faces of the exterior walls or from the
center lines of walls or partitions separating dwelling units.
For uses other than residential, the area measured from the
exterior faces of the exterior walls, or from the center line of walls
or partitions separating such uses, including all floors, lofts, balconies,
mezzanines, cellars, basements and similar areas devoted to such uses.
All the property abutting on one side of a street between
two intersecting streets or all of the property abutting on one side
of a street between an intersecting street and the dead end of a street.
PRIVATEAn accessory building or space for the storage of motor-driven vehicles shall be a maximum of 900 square feet and a maximum of 16 feet in height.
[Amended by Ord. No. 203]
PUBLICAny building or premises, other than a private or a storage garage, where motor-driven vehicles are equipped, repaired, serviced, hired, sold or stored.
STORAGEAny building or premises used for the storage only of motor-driven vehicles, pursuant to previous arrangements and not to transients, and where no equipment, parts, fuel, grease or oil is sold. No commercial motor vehicle exceeding two tons' capacity shall be stored in any storage garage.
A gainful occupation conducted by members of the family only
within their place of residence; provided that no article is sold
or offered for sale on the premises except such as is produced by
such occupations, that no stock-in-trade is kept or sold, that no
mechanical equipment is used other than such as is permissible for
purely domestic purposes, that no sign other than one unlighted name
plate not more than one foot square is installed and that no person
other than a member of the immediate family living on the premises
is employed. Outdoor storage of raw materials or finished products
is not allowed.
A building in which lodging, with or without meals, is offered
to transient guests for compensation and in which there are more than
five sleeping rooms with no cooking facilities in any individual room
or apartment.
A parcel of land having a width and depth sufficient to provide
the space necessary for one main building and its accessory building,
together with the open spaces required by this chapter and abutting
on a public street or officially approved place.
A lot abutting on two or more dedicated and accepted streets
at their intersections, provided that the interior angle of such intersection
is less than 135°.
The mean horizontal distance between the front and rear lot
lines.
A lot other than a corner lot.
The lines bounding a lot as defined herein.
An interior lot having frontage on two nonintersecting streets.
Any structure, except a "manufactured home," which is, or
was as originally constructed, designed to be transported by any motor
vehicle upon a public highway, transportable in one or more sections,
which is over 400 square feet in area excluding the hitch, built on
a permanent chassis, and designed to be used as a dwelling, with or
without permanent foundation, when connected to the required utilities,
and includes the plumbing, heating, air conditioning and electrical
systems contained in it. In computing square footage, length is multiplied
by width. In this definition, "length" means the distance from the
exterior of the front wall, i.e., the wall nearest to the exterior
of the draw bar and coupling mechanism to the exterior of the rear
wall at the opposite end of the home where the walls enclose living
or other interior space, and that distance includes expandable rooms,
but not bay windows, porches, draw bars, couplings, hitches, wall
and roof extensions or other attachments. In this definition, "width"
means the distance from the exterior of one side wall to the exterior
of the opposite side wall where the walls enclose living or other
interior space, and that distance includes expandable rooms, but not
bay windows, porches, wall and roof extensions, or other attachments.
[Amended 4-14-2015 by Ord. No. 233]
Any plot or plots of land upon which two or more mobile homes,
occupied for dwelling or sleeping purposes on a temporary or permanent
basis, are located.
[Amended 4-14-2015 by Ord. No. 233]
See "hotel or motel."
A building or premises lawfully used or occupied at the time
of the passage of this chapter or amendments thereto which use or
occupancy does not conform to the regulations of this chapter or any
amendments thereto.
Any building or lot, or portion thereof, used for the cultivation
or growing of plants and including all accessory buildings.
Any building used for the continuous care, on commercial
or charitable basis, of persons who are physically incapable of caring
for their own personal needs.
An off-street space, available for the parking of a motor
vehicle and which, in this chapter, is held to be an area 10 feet
wide and 20 feet long, exclusive of passageways and driveways appurtenant
thereto and giving access thereto.
The office of a doctor, practitioner, dentist, minister,
architect, landscape architect, professional engineer, lawyer, author,
musician or other recognized profession. When established in an R-1
District, a professional office shall be incidental to the residential
occupation, and not more than 25% of the floor area of only one story
of a dwelling unit shall be occupied by such office. Only one person
may be employed who is not a resident of the home.
A strip of land with tracks and auxiliary facilities for
track operation, but not including freight depots or stations, loading
platforms, train sheds, warehouses, car or locomotive shops, or car
yards.
The minimum horizontal distance between the street line and
the nearest point of a building or any projection thereof, excluding
uncovered steps.
A group of stores, planned and designed for the site on which
it is built, functioning as a unit with off-street parking provided
on the property as an integral part of the unit.
A device that is intended, designed or used for advertising
display, identification, announcements or related purposes, including
signs, screens, billboards and other advertising devices of any type.
Structures which have no wording or which are not directly a solicitation
for business or other activity such as animal figures, artificial
waterfalls and art forms with no solicitation shall not be considered
as a sign, but shall not be placed so as to violate the lighting,
spacing, size or vision triangle requirements of this chapter or any
pertinent building code. For purposes of removal, signs shall also
include all sign structures.
[Amended 4-14-2015 by Ord. No. 233]
That portion of a building included between the surface of
a floor and the surface of the floor next above it or, if there be
no floor above it, then the space between the floor and the ceiling
next above it. A basement or cellar having 1/2 or more of its height
above grade shall be deemed a story for purposes of height regulation.
All property dedicated for public street purposes.
A dividing line between a lot, tract or parcel of land and
an abutting street.
Anything constructed or erected, the use of which requires
a permanent location on the ground or attached to something having
a permanent location on the ground.
Any change in the supporting members of a building or any
change in the roof structure or in the exterior walls.
A movable structure which does not require a permanent location
on the ground and which is not attached to something having a permanent
location on the ground.
The use of a property is the purpose or activity for which
the land or building thereon is designed, arranged or intended, or
for which it is occupied or maintained.
A use subordinate in nature, extent or purpose to the principal
use of a building or lot and which is also an approved use if so stated
in this chapter.
See "conditional use."
A use which may be lawfully established in a particular district
or districts, provided it conforms with all requirements, regulations
and performance standards, if any, of such districts.
The main use of land or building as distinguished from a
subordinate or accessory use. A principal use may be permitted or
conditional.
Public and private facilities such as water wells, water
and sewer pumping stations, water storage tanks, electric transmission
towers, electric lines, electric transmission substations, gas transmission
regulation stations, telephone and telegraph exchanges, microwave
relay structures, but not including sewage disposal plants, municipal
incinerators, warehouses, shops and storage yards.
An unoccupied triangular space at the street corner of a
corner lot which is bounded by the street lines and a setback line
connecting points specified by measurement from the corner on each
street line.
An open space on the same lot with a building, unoccupied
and unobstructed from the ground upward, except as otherwise provided
herein.
FRONT YARD OR SETBACKA yard extending the full width of the lot between the front lot line and the nearest part of the main building, excluding uncovered steps.
REAR YARDA yard extending the full width of the lot, being the minimum horizontal distance between the rear lot line and the nearest part of the building excluding uncovered steps.
SIDE YARDA yard extending from the front yard to the rear yard, being the minimum horizontal distance between a building and the side lot line.
An area or areas within the corporate limits for which the
regulations and requirements governing use, lot and bulk of building
and premises are uniform.
A permit stating that the placement of and the purpose for
which a building or land is to be used is in conformity with the uses
permitted and all other requirements under this chapter for the zone
in which it is to be located.
