§ II. Definitions

A. For the purpose of this ordinance, the following terms or words used herein shall be interpreted as follows:

1. The word shall is mandatory, the word may is permissive.

2. The word lot includes the words plot or parcel.

B. For the purpose of this ordinance, the following terms or words are defined as follows:

1. Accessory use. A use which is customarily incidental to the principal use, e.g., a garage for the storage of an automobile by the occupant.

2. Area. This term refers to the amount of land surfaces in a lot, plot or parcel.

3. Area requirements. The yard, lot area, lot width, lot coverage, and parking requirements as set forth in a specific district.

4. Dwelling unit. A structure or portion thereof which provides complete housekeeping facilities for one family.

4.1. Light manufacturing. A manufacturing activity which consists of (1) assembly of completed goods from otherwise finished component parts, (2) the fabrication of textiles, or (3) the manufacture of goods by hand or by the use of small electrical machinery.

5. Lot. A tract of land defined by metes, bounds or boundary lines in a recorded deed or on a recorded plat.

6. Lot of record. A lot which is part of a subdivision recorded in the office of the county recorder, or a lot, plat or parcel described by metes and bounds, the description of which had been so recorded before February 18, 1975.

7. Mobile home. A single-family dwelling unit which is either:

(a) A movable living unit designed for year-round occupancy, sometimes termed a trailer home; or

(b) A portable contrivance used or intended to be used generally for living and sleeping quarters and which is capable of being moved by its own power, towed or transported by another vehicle, except camping trailers not used for occupancy are not to be treated as a mobile home for the purposes of this ordinance.

8. Mobile home park. A mobile home park is any plot of ground upon which one or more mobile homes, occupied for dwelling or sleeping purposes, are located, regardless of whether or not a charge is made for such accommodation. A mobile home space means ground within a mobile home park designed for the accommodation of one mobile home.

9. Nonconforming. That use which does not meet the requirements of the use district in which it is located at the time of the effective date of these regulations.

10. Parking space. An on-lot space available for the parking of one motor vehicle and having an area of not less than 200 square feet, exclusive of space necessary to provide access to a street.

11. Property line. The line bounding a lot as defined herein.

12. Residential structure. A structure containing one or more dwelling units.

13. Setback or setback requirements. A minimum distance from the street line, a requirement that no structure be placed closer to the street line than specified.

14. Street line. The boundary of any street, highway, or alley, including right-of-way.

15. Structure. Anything constructed or erected with a fixed location on the ground, or attached to something with a fixed location on the ground. Among other things, structures include buildings, walks, fences, billboards and mobile homes.

16. Yard. A horizontal distance from a lot line to a parallel designated line. A yard is an open space extending the full distance of the lot.

(Ord. No. 89-26, § 1, 9-5-89)

(Ord. No. 89-26, § 1A, 9-5-89)