[Amended 1-29-1998, Ordinance
1998-2; amended 9-27-2018, Ordinance
2018-07]
For the purpose of these regulations, certain terms and words
are to be used and interpreted as defined hereinafter. Words used
in the present tense shall include the future tense; words in the
singular number include the plural and words in the plural number
include the singular, except where the natural construction of the
writing indicates otherwise. The word "shall" is mandatory and not
directory.
1.
ACCESSORY BUILDING – A subordinate building or a portion of
the main building located on the same lot as the main building, the
use of which is incidental to that of the dominant use of the building
or premises.
2.
ACCESSORY USE – A use customarily incidental, appropriate and
subordinate to the principal use of land or buildings and located
on the same lot therewith.
3.
ADVERTISING SIGN OR STRUCTURE – Any cloth, card, paper, metal,
glass, wooden, plastic, stone sign or other sign, device or structure
of any character whatsoever, including a statuary, place for outdoor
advertising purposes on the ground or any tree, wall, bush, rock,
post, fence, building or structure. The term "placed" shall include
erecting, constructing, posting, painting, tacking, nailing, gluing,
sticking, carving, or otherwise fastening, affixing or making visible
in any manner whatsoever.
The area of an advertising structure shall be determined as
the area of the largest cross-section of such structure. Neither directional,
warning nor other signs posted by public officials in the course of
their duties nor merchandise or materials being offered for sale shall
be construed as advertising signs for the purpose of this ordinance.
4.
ALLEY – A minor right-of-way, dedicated to public use, which
affords a secondary means of vehicular access to back or side of properties
otherwise abutting a street, and which may be used for public utility
purposes.
5.
APARTMENT HOUSE – See Multiple Family Dwelling.
6.
AUTOMOBILE – A self-propelled mechanical vehicle designed for
use on streets and highways for the conveyance of goods and people
including but not limited to the following: passenger cars, busses,
trucks, motor scooters and motorcycles.
7.
BASEMENT – A story partly or wholly underground. For purposes
of height measurement a basement shall be counted as a story when
more than 1/2 of its height is above the average level of the adjoining
ground or when subdivided and used for commercial or dwelling purposes
other than a janitor employed on the premises.
8.
BOARDING HOUSE – A dwelling other than a hotel where for compensation
and by prearrangement for definite periods, meals or lodging and meals
are provided for three or more, but not exceeding 20 persons on a
weekly or monthly basis.
9.
BUILDING – Any structure intended for shelter, housing or enclosure
for persons, animals for chattel. When separated by dividing walls
without openings, each portion of such structure so separated, shall
be deemed a separate building.
10.
BUILDING HEIGHT – The vertical distance from the average line
of the highest and lowest points of that portion of the lot covered
by the building to the highest point of coping of a flat roof, or
the deck line of a mansard roof or to the average height of the highest
gable of a pitch or hip roof.
11.
BUILDING, MAIN – 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.
12.
BUILDING SITE – A single parcel of land under one ownership,
occupied or intended to be occupied by a building or structure.
13.
CAMPERS – Portable or mobile living units designed for temporary
human occupancy away from the place of residence of the occupants.
Includes van conversions, van campers and slide-in truck campers.
14.
CHILD CARE CENTER – Any place, home or institution which receives
three or more children under the age of 16 years, and not of common
parentage, for care apart from their natural parents, legal guardians
or custodians, when received for regular periods of time for compensation;
provided, however, this definition shall not include public and private
schools organized, operated or approved under the laws of this state,
custody of children fixed by a court of competent jurisdiction, children
related by blood or marriage within the third degree to the custodial
person, or to churches or other religious or public institutions caring
for children within the institutional building while their parents
or legal guardians are attending services or meetings or classes or
other church activities.
15.
COVERAGE – The lot area covered by all buildings located thereon,
including the area covered by all overhanging roofs.
16.
DISTRICT – Any section or sections of the City of Weatherford
for which the regulations governing the use of land and the use, density,
and other laws or ordinances, and having its principal frontage on
a street.
17.
DWELLING – Any building or portion thereof, which is designed
or used as living quarters for one or more families, but not including
trailer homes. (See Trailer Home).
18.
DWELLING, SINGLE-FAMILY – A detached dwelling designed to be
occupied by one family.
19.
DWELLING, TWO-FAMILY – A detached dwelling designed to be occupied
by two families living independently of each other.
20.
DWELLING, MULTIPLE – A detached dwelling designed to be occupied
by three or more families living independently of each other, exclusive
of hotels or motels.
21.
CONVENIENCE STORE – Retail store which supplies the daily needs
of the residents of the neighborhood where it is located and which
are primarily for the residents' convenience. It is used for the retail
sales of groceries, magazines, newspapers, bakery, drugs, and health
care products. It may include gasoline fuel pumps for automobiles,
but not any kind of automobile service or maintenance can be conducted.
(See Gasoline Service or Filling Station).
22.
FAMILY – One or more persons related by blood, marriage, including
adopted children, or a group of not to exceed five persons, excluding
servants, not all related by blood or marriage, occupying the premises
and living as a single non-profit housekeeping unit, as distinguished
from a group occupying a boarding or lodging house, hotel, club, residential
care home or similar dwelling for group use. A family shall be deemed
to include domestic servants employed by such family, foster children,
and foreign exchange students.
23.
GARAGE APARTMENT – A dwelling unit for one family erected above
a private garage.
24.
GARAGE, PARKING – Any building or portion thereof, used for
the storage of four or more automobiles in which any servicing which
may be provided is incidental to the primary use for storage purposes,
and where repair facilities are not provided.
25.
GARAGE, PRIVATE – Any accessory building or a part of a main
building use for storage purposes only for automobiles used solely
by the occupants and their guests of the building to which it is accessory.
26.
GARAGE, PUBLIC – Any garage other than a private garage, available
to the public, where vehicles are parked or stored for remuneration,
hire or sale.
27.
GARAGE, REPAIR – A building in which are provided facilities
for the care, servicing, repair, or equipping of automobiles.
28.
GASOLINE SERVICE OR FILLING STATION – Any area of land, including
structures thereon, that is used for the retail sale of gasoline or
oil fuels, or other automobile accessories, and incidental services
including facilities for lubricating, hand washing and cleaning, or
otherwise servicing automobiles, but not including painting, major
repair or automatic automobile washing or the sale of butane or propane
fuels.
29.
HOME OCCUPATION – Any occupation carried on solely by the inhabitants
of a dwelling which is clearly incidental and secondary to the use
of the dwelling for dwelling purposes, which does not change the character
thereof, and which is conducted entirely within the main or accessory
buildings; provided that no trading in merchandise is carried on and
in connection with which there is no display of merchandise or advertising
sign other than one non-illuminated nameplate not more than two square
feet in area attached to the main or accessory building, and no mechanical
equipment is used except as is customary for purely domestic or household
purposes. No traffic shall be generated by such home occupation in
greater volumes than would normally be expected in a residential neighborhood,
and any need for parking generated by the conduct of such home occupation
shall be met off the street and other than a required front yard;
no equipment or process shall be used in such home occupation which
creates noise, vibration, glare, fumes, odors, or electrical interferences
detectable to the normal senses off the lot, if the occupation is
conducted in a single family residence. In the case of electrical
interference, no equipment or process shall be used which creates
visual or audible interference in any radio or television receivers
off the premises, or causes fluctuations in line voltage off the premises.
A tea room or restaurant, rest home or clinic, doctor's or dentist's
office, tourist home, or cabinet, metal or auto repair shop, barber
shop or beauty salon shall not be deemed a home occupation.
30.
HOTEL – A building or group of buildings under one ownership
containing six or more sleeping rooms occupied as the more or less
temporary abiding place of persons who are lodged with or without
meals for compensation, but not including trailer court or camp, sanatorium,
hospital, asylum, orphanage or building where persons are housed under
restraint.
31.
KENNEL – Any lot or premises on which are kept four or more
dogs, more than six months of age.
32.
LOT – Any plot of land occupied or intended to be occupied
by one main building, or a group of main buildings, and accessory
buildings and uses, including such open spaces as are required by
this ordinance.
33.
LOT, CORNER – A lot which has at least two adjacent sides abutting
for their full lengths on a street, provided that the interior angle
at the intersection of such two sides is less than 135°.
34.
LOT, DEPTH – The mean horizontal distance between the front
and rear lot lines.
35.
LOT, DOUBLE FRONTAGE – A lot having a frontage on two nonintersecting
streets, as distinguished from a corner lot.
36.
LOT, INTERIOR – A lot other than a corner lot.
37.
LOT, AREA – The total area measured on a horizontal plane,
included within lot lines.
38.
LOT, FRONTAGE – The dimension of a lot or portion of a lot
abutting on a street, excluding the side dimension of a corner lot.
39.
LOT LINES – The lines bounding a lot.
40.
MEDICAL FACILITIES – Any of the following:
a.
CONVALESCENT, REST, OR NURSING HOME – A health facility where
persons are housed and furnished with meals and continued nursing
care for compensation.
b.
DENTAL CLINIC OR MEDICAL CLINIC – A facility for the examination
and treatment of ill and afflicted human out-patients, provided that
patients are not kept overnight except under emergency conditions.
c.
DENTAL OFFICE OR DOCTOR'S OFFICE – Same as dental or medical
clinic.
d.
HOSPITAL – An institution providing health services primarily
for human inpatient medical or surgical care for the sick or injured
and including related facilities such as laboratories, out-patient
departments, training facilities, central services facilities, and
staff offices which are an integral part of the facilities.
e.
PUBLIC HEALTH CENTER – A facility primarily utilized by a health
unit for providing public health services including related facilities
such as laboratories, clinics and administrative offices operated
in connection therewith.
f.
RESIDENTIAL CARE HOME – A facility with five or less occupants,
excluding owners or operators, which accommodates individuals who,
because of health or age, must live in a supervised environment.
g.
SANATORIUM – An institution providing health facilities for
in-patient medical treatment or treatment and recuperation making
use of natural therapeutic agents.
40.1.
MEDICAL MARIJUANA DISPENSARY – Is defined as
an establishment licensed under Title 63, Section 421 of the Oklahoma
Statutes whereby the retail sale of medical marijuana is conducted
on the premises.
41.
NONCONFORMING USE – A structure or land lawfully occupied by
a use that does not conform to the regulations of the district in
which it is situated.
42.
OFF-STREET PARKING SPACE – A parking space not on or extending
over any public easement or right-of-way.
43.
PARKING SPACE – A permanently surfaced area, enclosed or unenclosed,
sufficient in size to store one automobile together with a permanently
surfaced driveway connecting the parking space with a street or alley
and permitting ingress or egress of an automobile.
44.
RECREATIONAL VEHICLE OR MOTOR HOME – Includes every vehicle
which is manufactured, constructed or equipped as a self-propelled
home, including motor buses, and capable of being operated on the
highways, and which is permanently constructed and equipped living
quarters, having its own sleeping and kitchen facilities, toilet facilities,
including permanently affixed water tanks, holding tanks and toilet,
and which is propelled by a motor installed thereon and not towed
by another motor vehicle.
45.
ROOMING HOUSE – A building where lodging only is provided for
compensation to three or more, but not exceeding 20 persons. A building
which has accommodations for more than 20 persons shall be defined
as a hotel under the terms of this ordinance.
46.
SELF-SERVICE LAUNDRY OR DRY CLEANING ESTABLISHMENT – Any attended
or unattended place, building or portion thereof; available to the
general public for the purpose of washing, drying, extracting moisture
from, or dry-cleaning wearing apparel, cloth, fabrics, and textiles
of any kind of means of a mechanical appliance which is operated primarily
by the customer.
47.
STABLE, PRIVATE – A stable with a capacity for not more than
two horses or mules.
48.
STABLE, PUBLIC – A stable, other than a private stable, with
a capacity for more than two horses or mules.
49.
STORY – That portion of a building, other than a basement,
included between the surface of any floor and the surface of the floor
next above it, or if there be not floor above it, then the space between
the floor and the ceiling next above it.
50.
STORY, HALF – A space under a sloping roof which has the line
of intersection of roof decking and wall face not more than three
feet above the top floor level, and in which space not more than 2/3
of the floor area is finished off for use. A half story containing
independent apartment or living quarters shall be counted as a full
story.
51.
STREET – Any public or private thoroughfare which affords the
principal means of access to abutting property.
52.
STREET, INTERSECTING – Any street which joins another street
at an angle, whether or not it crosses the other.
53.
STRUCTURE – Anything constructed or erected, the use of which
requires location on the ground or which is attached to something
having a location on the ground.
54.
STRUCTURAL ALTERATIONS – Any change in the supporting members
of a building, such as bearing walls or partitions, columns, beams,
or girders, or any substantial change in the roof or in the exterior
walls.
55.
TOURIST COURT – An area containing one or more buildings designed
or intended to be used as temporary sleeping facilities of one or
more transient families and intended primarily for automobile transients.
56.
TOURIST HOME – A dwelling occupied as a permanent residence
by an owner or renter in which sleeping accommodations in not more
than four rooms are provided or offered for transient guests for compensation.
57.
TRAILER COURT OR MOBILE HOME PARK – A parcel of land under
single ownership which has been designed or improved or is intended
to be used or rented for occupancy by one or more trailer houses or
mobile homes.
58.
TRAILER OR MOBILE HOME SPACE – A plot of ground within a trailer
court designed for the accommodation of one mobile home.
59.
TRAILER HOME OR MOBILE HOME – A portable or mobile living unit
designed or used for human occupancy on a permanent basis.
60.
TRAILER, TRAVEL OR CAMPING – A portable or mobile living unit
used for temporary human occupancy away from the place of residence
of the occupants, and not containing less than 175 square feet of
floor area.
61.
TRAILER, HAULING – A vehicle to be pulled behind an automobile
or truck which is designed for hauling animals, produce, goods or
commodities, including boats.
62.
YARD – An open space at grade between a building and the adjoining
lot lines, unoccupied and unobstructed by any portion of a structure
from the ground upward, except where otherwise specifically provided
in this article that an accessory building or structure may be located
in a portion of a yard required for a main building. In measuring
a yard for the purpose of determining the width of the side yard,
the depth of a front yard or the depth of a rear yard, the shortest
horizontal distance between the lot line and the main building shall
be used.
63.
YARD, FRONT – A yard located in front of the front elevation
of a building and extending across the lot between the side lines
and being the minimum horizontal distance between the front property
line and the outside wall of the main building.
64.
YARD, REAR – A yard extending across the rear of a lot measured
between the lot lines and being the minimum horizontal distance between
the rear lot lines and the rear of the outside wall of the main building.
On both corner lots and interior lots the rear yard shall in all cases
be at the opposite end of the lot from the front yard.
65.
YARD, SIDE – A yard between the building and the side line
of the lot and extending from the front lot line to the rear lot line
and being the minimum horizontal distance between a side lot line
and the outside wall of the side of the main building.
66.
BED AND BREAKFAST – A commercial establishment with five or
less units for rent which provides a combination of overnight lodging,
off street parking and breakfast for a fee.
