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For the purpose of this ordinance certain terms used herein are herewith defined. When not consistent with the context, words used in the present tense include the future, words in the singular include the plural number and words in the plural include the singular number. The word "shall" is mandatory and not directory. Accessory structure: A structure which is normally incidental to, subordinate to and related exclusively to the principal use of the premises. (Ord. No. 95-1386, § 1, 10-2-95; Ord. No. 97-1566, § 4, 6-16-97) Accessory use: A use which is normally incidental, subordinate to and related exclusively to the principal use of the premise. (Ord. No. 95-1386, § 1, 10-2-95; Ord. No. 97-1566, § 5, 6-16-97) Alley: A public thoroughfare or way which affords only a secondary means of access abutting property. Alter and alteration: Any change or modification in construction or occupancy. (Ord. No. 85-448, § 2, 9-16-85) Alternative support structure: A building or structure other than a tower, which is used to support an antenna(s), such as a steeple, power pole, water tank, sign, clock tower, light pole and other similar structures. (Ord. No. 97-1566, § 2, 6-16-97) Antenna: Any exterior apparatus designed to transmit and/or receive electromagnetic waves. (Ord. No. 97-1566, § 2, 6-16-97) Assisted living facility: A licensed facility in which room, board, meals, laundry, and assistance with personal care and other services are provided for not less than twenty-four (24) hours in any week to a minimum of two (2) ambulatory adults not related by blood or marriage to the owner and/or administrator. (Ord. No. 96-1525, § 12-16-96; Ord. No. 97-1574, § 1, 7-21-97) Awning: A frame attached to a building wall, over which canvas, cloth, plastic or other fabric is stretched, in order to provide shade or cover or to serve as an ornamental feature of the building. (Ord. No 99-1719, § 1, 2-7-00) Awning sign: A sign which is not internally illuminated, painted upon or otherwise directly applied to an awning. (Ord. No 99-1719, § 1, 2-7-00) Basement: That portion of a building which is partly or wholly below grade but so located that the vertical distance from the average grade to the floor is greater than the vertical distance from the average grade to the ceiling. A basement shall not be counted as a story. Block : All land fronting on one side of a street between the nearest intersecting streets, roads, railroad rights-of-way and waterways, meeting or crossing the aforesaid street and bounding such land. Boarding house: A building other than a hotel or motel, where for compensation and by pre-arrangement for specific time periods, meals and lodgings are provided for not less than three (3) persons nor more than ten (10) persons. Building: A structure having a roof supported by columns or walls for the shelter, support or enclosure of persons, animals or chattels; and when supported by division walls from the ground up without ingress and egress provided between such divisions or suitable openings, each portion of such building so divided shall be deemed a separate building. Building area: That portion of a lot occupied by the principal building, including porches, carports, accessory buildings, and other structures. (Ord. No. 95-1386, § 1, 10-2-95) Building face or wall: All window and wall area of a building in one plane or elevation. Building height: The vertical distance measured from the average elevation of the proposed finished grade at the front of the building of the highest point of the roof for flat roofs, to the decked line for masard [mansard] roofs, and to the mean height between eaves and ridges for gable, hip and gambrel roofs. Building line: The street-side line or lines, in the case of a corner lot, of the building or legally established line, or lines, which determine the location of the building setback with respect to the street line or lines. Building, principal: A permanent building in which is conducted or is intended to be conducted the principal use of the lot on which said building is located. A principal building shall be a permanent building which has a roof supported by columns or walls, with walls constructed of wood, metal, glass, brick or masonry materials, which completely enclose the principal building area. A principal building shall not be a mobile building. (Ord. No. 90-946, § 1, 11-5-90; Ord. No. 95-1386, § 1, 10-2-95) Building, mobile: A building transportable in one or more sections, which is built on a permanent chassis, and designed to be occupied and used with or without a permanent foundation. (Ord. No. 90-946, § 1, 11-5-90) Building street frontage, percent : The length of front building wall facing a street, divided by the length the front lot line of the subject property, abutting said street. (Ord. No. 04-2013, § 2, 4-5-04) Building wall sign: A sign attached parallel to, supported by and not more than twelve (12) inches from, the exterior wall of a building, which may be painted on the surface of the wall or erected and confined within the limits of said wall; and a sign which is not internally illuminated, painted upon or otherwise directly applied to an awning as defined herein. (Ord. No. 86-479, § 1, 6-2-86; Ord. No 99-1719, § 1, 2-7-00) Candella per square meter (cd/m ): The metric unit used to describe the Luminance of a light source or of an illuminated surface that reflects light. (Ord. No. 11-2210, § 3, 11-21-11) Carport: An accessory structure attached to a principal building, having a roof with one or more open sides and intended for the sheltering of motor vehicles. Clearing. Any intentional or negligent act to cut down, remove all or a substantial part of, or damage a tree or other woody vegetation which will cause the tree or woody vegetation to decline and/or die. Such acts shall include but not be limited to damage inflicted upon the root system of the vegetation by the application of toxic substances, by the operation of equipment and vehicles, by storage of materials or by the change of natural grade due to unapproved excavation or filling, or damage caused by the unapproved alteration of natural physical conditions. (Ord. No. 96-1477, § 3, 4-15-96) Concealment structure: A structure which supports or completely conceals an antenna(s), such as steeple, sign, man-made tree, clock tower and similar applications. (Ord. No. 97-1566, § 2, 6-16-97) Cul-de-sac: The dead-end street terminated by a vehicle turnaround area having a minimum right-of-way radius of fifty (50) feet. Day care center or day care nursery: A facility, other than a day care home or group care home, which receives children for care during the day. The term does not include: programs operated as part of public or private schools; programs operated on federal governmental premises; and special activities programs such as athletics, crafts, and similar activities conducted on an organized and periodic basis by civic, charitable and governmental organizations. (Ord. No. 87-611, § 2, 5-4-87; Ord. No. 18-2360 , § 1.A, 3-5-18) Day care home: A child care facility licensed by the Alabama Department of Human Resources which is a family dwelling and which receives not more than five (5) children for care during the day. (Ord. No. 18-2360 , § 1.A, 3-5-18) DBH. Diameter-at-breast-height is a standard measure of tree size, and is a tree trunk diameter measured in inches at a height of four and one-half (4.5) feet above the ground. If a tree splits into multiple trunks below four and one-half (4.5) feet, then the trunk is measured at its most narrow point beneath the split. (Ord. No. 96-1477, § 3, 4-15-96) Directional sign: Any sign which serves solely to designate the location or direction of any place or area. Display time: The amount of time a message and/or graphic is displayed on an electronic message sign. (Ord. No. 11-2210, § 3, 11-21-11) Double faced sign: A sign with copy area on both sides of a sign. Dripline. A vertical line extending from the outer surface of a tree's branch tips down to the ground. (Ord. No. 96-1477, § 3, 4-15-96) Drive-in theatre: A theatre so arranged and conducted that the customer or patron may view the performance while being seated in a vehicle. Dwelling: Any building or portion thereof which is designed or used exclusively for residential occupancy. Dwelling—multiple: A structure designed or used for residential occupancy by more than two (2) families, with or without common or separate kitchen or dining facilities, including apartment houses, apartment hotels, rooming houses, boarding houses, fraternities, sororities, dormitories, row houses, town houses, and similar housing types, but not including hotels, motels, hospitals, or nursing homes. Dwelling—single family: A detached building so designed and arranged to provide sleeping, cooking and kitchen accommodations and toilet facilities for occupancy by one family only. Dwelling-two family: A building so designed and arranged to provide separate sleeping, cooking and kitchen accommodations and toilet facilities for occupancy by two (2) families. Dwelling unit: Any portion of a building used as a separate abode for a family having its own cooking and kitchen facilities. Earthwork: The breaking of ground, except common gardening and ground care. Electrical sign: Any sign containing electrical wiring which is attached or equipped to be attached to an electrical energy source. Electronic message sign ("EMS"): An electronically activated changeable sign which displays only static messages and whose variable message and/or graphic presentation capability can be electronically programmed by a computer from a remote location. EMSs are not digital billboards and include incandescent lamps, LEDs, LCDs or a flipper matrix. (Ord. No. 11-2210, § 3, 11-21-11) Entrance walk: A free-standing masonry structure, located on private property, the sole purpose of which is to highlight or emphasize the appearance and location of a private driveway entrance from a public road. Erect: Construct, including built, reconstruction, alteration, moved upon or any physical operations on the premises required for the building, principal structure, sign or accessory use. Excavation, earthwork, fill, drainage work, utilities installations and other work as it relates to the construction or use of a building, principal structure, sign or accessory use shall be considered within the meaning of erect. Family: One person or a group of two (2) or more persons living together and inter-related by bonds of consanguinity, marriage, or legal adoption, occupying the whole or part of a dwelling as a separate housekeeping unit, with a common and single set of culinary facilities. Fence: A structure intended for a barrier or enclosure. First floor: The term "first floor" shall mean the lowest floor surface of that portion of a structure defined as a story. Flashing sign: Any sign which contains an intermittent or flashing light source, or which includes the illusion of intermittent or flashing light by means of animation, or an externally mounted intermittent light source. Public service time and temperature signs are not classified as flashing signs. (Ord. No. 93-1137, § 1, 7-19-93) Floor area, livable: The livable floor area for all residential uses shall be the area of the first floor plus the area of the floors next above, and the area under a sloping roof having a minimum ceiling height of six (6) feet. Garage floor area, basements, decks, porches, patios, terraces, and carport floor area are not included as livable floor area. (Ord. No. 85-439, § 2, 6-3-85) Floor area nonresidential: The gross floor area, including basement, of any structure. (Ord. No. 85-439, § 1, 6-3-85) Floor area ratio: The total floor area of all buildings on a lot or parcel, divided by the area of said lot or parcel. (Ord. No. 04-2013, § 2, 4-5-04) Free standing sign: Any sign erected on a free standing frame, foundation, mast or pole and not attached in any way to any building. Garage—private: A private garage is a garage for which the principal use is storage of privately owned vehicles and constituting an accessory use on the lot. Garage—public: Any garage other than a private garage available to the public, operated for gain. Gasoline service stations: Any building, structure or land at which the sale of combustible and flammable fuels is conducted. (Ord. No. 322, § 6, 5-4-81) Group care home: A child care facility licensed by the Alabama Department of Human Resources which is a family dwelling and which receives at least seven (7) but not more than twelve (12) children for care during part of the day where there are at least two (2) adults present and supervising the activity. (Ord. No. 18-2360 , § 1.A, 3-5-18) Hazardous uses: All uses which involve the storage, sale, manufacture, processing or handling of materials which are easily ignited and likely to burn with moderate rapidity or cause smoke, including materials which are highly flammable, explosive, noxious, toxic, or inherently dangerous to humans, animals, land, crops, or property. Home occupation: An accessory use of a dwelling conducted entirely within the enclosed dwelling, employing only the inhabitants thereof, which is clearly incidental and secondary to residential occupancy and does not change the character thereof, and subject to the criteria set forth in Article III, Section 2.0, 2.30 of the zoning code. (Ord. No. 18-2360 , § 1.A, 3-5-18) Hospital: A public or proprietary institution providing medical diagnosis, treatment, or other care of human ailments, operating under license by the Alabama State Health Department, and which, unless otherwise specified, shall be deemed to include institutions primarily for treatment of contagious diseases and the insane or feeble minded but not including nursing homes. Hotel: A building or part thereof occupied as the more or less temporary abiding place of individuals in which the rooms are usually occupied singularly for hire and in which rooms no provision for cooking is made and in which building there is usually a kitchen and public dining room for the accommodation of the occupants and guest. Independent living facility: Attached dwellings, restricted to occupancy by handicapped persons or persons sixty-two (62) years and older, which may provide common facilities and services, but which are not defined as an assisted living facility. (Ord. No. 97-1574, § 1, 7-21-97; Ord. No. 02-1865, § 1, 2-18-02) Indirectly illuminated sign: A sign which is illuminated by a light source which is external to the sign cabinet or structure. (Ord. No 99-1719, § 1, 2-7-00) Industrial park: [A] tract of industrial land, [with a] minimum of forty (40) acres and subdivided into at least two (2) parcels. Institution: A nonprofit or quasi-public use such as a church, library, public or private school, hospital, or publicly owned or operated building, structure or property used for public purpose. (Ord. No 99-1719, § 1, 2-7-00) Internally illuminated sign: A sign which is illuminated by a light source which is behind the sign face. (Ord. No 99-1719, § 1, 2-7-00) Junkyard: A place, structure or lot where junk, waste, discarded, salvaged or similar materials such as old iron or other metal, wood, slush, lumber, glass, paper, rags, cloth, bagging, cordage, barrels, containers, etc., are stored, bought, sold, exchanged, baled, packed, dissembled or handled. Kennel—indoor: A building in which five (5) or more domestic animals are permanently or temporarily boarded, groomed, trained or treated, for compensation. Kennel—outdoor: A lot or premises on which five (5) or more domestic animals are permanently or temporarily boarded, groomed, trained or treated, for compensation. Land area: Property which is not water surface area. (Ord. No. 91-1058, § 1, 10-7-91) Live entertainment: Any activity performed by persons for the entertainment of patrons on the premises of establishments dispensing alcoholic beverages. (Ord. No. 92-1086, § 1, 7-6-92) Lot: A parcel of land intended for transfer of ownership or for building development, which shall be comprised of land area or a combination of land area and water surface area which complies with the area and dimensional regulations of the zoning district in which it is located. Each lot shall be comprised of land area in an amount equal to or greater than the minimum lot area required in the zoning district in which it is located. Said land area shall be contiguous and have principle frontage upon a public street. (Ord. No. 91-1058, § 3, 10-7-91) Lot—corner: A lot abutting upon two (2) or more streets at their intersection. Lot—interior: A lot other than a corner lot. Lot line: The lines bounding a lot as defined herein. Lot line—front: In the case of a lot line abutting upon one street. The front lot line is the line separating such lot from such a street. On corner lots the front lot line shall be considered as parallel to the streets upon which the lot is located. Lot line—rear: The rear lot line is that opposite the front line. In case of a lot terminating at a point at the rear of the lot, or having a rear lot line less than ten (10) feet long, the rear lot line shall be considered a line parallel to the front lot line having a length not less than ten (10) feet long. Lot line—side: Any lot line other than front lot line or rear lot line. Lot of record: A lot-of-record is a lot shown on the records in the office of the judge of probate and which actually exists as so shown. Lot—through: A lot which abuts two (2) parallel or approximately parallel streets. Lot width: The width of the lot measured at the minimum front building setback line of the zoning district; unless the proposed front building setback for the lot is more than one hundred (100) feet from the public street(s) used to determine the front lot line(s), in which case lot width shall be measured at the proposed front building set back line. (Ord. No. 97-1598, 11-17-97) Luminance: Measurement of sign illumination by measuring light output at the light's source. (Ord. No. 11-2210, § 3, 11-21-11) Mezzanine: An intermediate or fractional story between the floor and ceiling or a main story occupying not more than one-third ( 1/3 ) of the floor area of such main story. Motel: A motel or motor court is a business comprised of a dwelling unit or a group of dwellings or dwelling units so arranged as to furnish overnight accommodations for transient guests. Night care facility home: A child care facility licensed by the Alabama Department of Human Resources which is a family dwelling and receives a child or children for care after 7:00 p.m. (Ord. No. 18-2360 , § 1.A, 3-5-18) Nonconforming use: The use of any building, structure or land which was lawful at the time of the passage of this ordinance, or amendment thereto but which use does not conform, after the passage of this ordinance or amendment thereto, with the use regulations of the district in which it is situated. Nursery school, kindergarten, or day care center: Any premises or portion thereof used for educational work or parental care of children of less than the age required for enrollment in the public school system. Nursing home: A licensed facility providing inpatient care for convalescents or other persons not acutely ill and not in need of acute general hospital care, but do require skilled nursing care. (Ord. No. 97-1574, § 1, 7-21-97) Office: Space or rooms for professional, administrative, clerical and similar uses. Office/technical use. Office use combined with an equipment intensive use, wherein twenty (20) percent or more of the net usable floor area of a building is devoted to large equipment used by administrative employees for business process functions, such as data processing and communications equipment. (Ord. No. 99-1691, § 1, 5-17-99) Parking area: Except as provided for in Article IX, Section 2.0, a parking area is defined as an open, unoccupied space which is surfaced by either bituminous pavement or concrete, used or intended to be used for parking of vehicles, and in which no business is conducted. (Ord. No. 85-453, § 1, 10-21-85; Ord. No. 93-1172, § 1, 11-15-93) Parking space: Except as provided for in Article IX, Section 2.0, a parking space is defined as an area surface by either bituminous pavement or concrete, enclosed or unenclosed, not less than nine (9) feet wide and twenty (20) feet long. (Ord. No. 85-453, § 1, 10-21-85; Ord. No. 93-1172, § 1, 11-15-93) Pedestrian way: An improved pedestrian walkway located on private property. (Ord. No. 02-1888, § 4, 4-16-02) Portable sign: Any sign not permanently attached to the ground or a building. Premises: A lot, parcel or tract of land together with the buildings and structures thereon, having a separate street address. (Ord. No 99-1719, § 1, 2-7-00) Projecting sign: A sign, other than an awning sign, that is attached to the exterior wall of a building and extends more than fourteen (14) inches from the wall of the building. (Ord. No 99-1719, § 1, 2-7-00) Property line: The line bounding a lot as defined herein. Public property: Property owned by a municipality, a county, the state or the United States government, except property used for public utility purposes. All public street rights-of-way are public property. (Ord. No 99-1719, § 1, 2-7-00) Public utility: Any person, firm, corporation, municipal department or board, duly authorized by the Alabama Public Services Commission, to provide electricity, gas, steam, telephone, telegraph, transportation, water or sewer service to the general public. (Ord. No. 97-1566, § 6, 6-16-97) Restaurant: An establishment where food is cooked, patrons dine on or off the premises, and where there is no drive-up or walk-up window service or service to customers in their vehicles. (Ord. No. 87-581, § 2, 3-2-87) Restaurant; catering: An establishment where food is cooked or prepared exclusively for delivery off the premises by employees. (Ord. No. 87-581, § 2, 3-2-87) Restaurant, drive-up: An establishment where food is cooked or prepared, and where there is drive-up or walk-up window service, or service to customers in their vehicles. (Ord. No. 87-581, § 2, 3-2-87) Restaurant, food service: An establishment where food is not cooked on the premises, but is prepared and served, including: sandwich shop, delicatessen, ice cream parlor, yogurt shop, soda fountain, and similar establishments where there is no drive-up or walk-up window service or service to customers in their vehicles. (Ord. No. 87-581, § 2, 3-2-87) Road: That portion of a public thoroughfare or right-of-way intended for use by vehicles. Roof line: The top edge of the roof or the top of the parapet, whichever forms the top line of the building silhouette. Roof sign: A sign that is mounted on the roof of a building or which is wholly dependent upon a building for support and which projects above the point of a building with a flat roof, the eave line of a building with a gambrel, gable or hip roof or the deck line of a building with a mansard roof. (Ord. No 99-1719, § 1, 2-7-00; Ord. No. 01-1829, § 1, 8-6-01) Rooming house: Either a one (1) or two (2) family dwelling other than a hotel, motel, or apartment house where lodging for one (1) or more persons not of the immediate family is provided for compensation and by pre-arrangement for definite time periods. Self-service storage, limited access: A self-service storage facility with limited access points from the exterior of the building to interior halls that provide the only access to individual storage units. (Ord. No. 97-1605, § 1, 12-15-97) Self-service storage, multi-access: A self-service storage facility with access points from the exterior of the building to individual storage units. (Ord. No. 97-1605, § 1, 12-15-97) Shopping center: Two (2) or more retail or service establishments in the C-1 Commercial District, or three (3) or more such establishments in the other retail commercial districts; located in one (1) building or a group of architecturally unified buildings; said buildings being under one (1) ownership or management, with selected tenants, and having an integrated parking area. (Ord. No. 85-456, § 1, 11-18-85) Sidewalk: A pedestrian walkway that is located within a public or private street right-of-way and complies with the minimum standards of the subdivision regulations. (Ord. No. 02-1888, § 4, 4-16-02) Sign: A name, identification, image, description, display or illustration which is affixed to, painted or represented directly or indirectly upon a building, structure or piece of land, and which directs attention to an object, product, place, activity, facility, service, event, attraction, person, institution, organization or business and which is visible from any street, right-of-way, sidewalk, alley, park or other public property. Sign face area: The sign face area of a building wall sign or other sign with only one sign face, shall be computed by means of the smallest geometric figure that encompasses the extreme limits of the writing, representation, emblem, or other display, together with any material or color forming an integral part of the background of the display or used to differentiate the sign from the backdrop or structure against which it is placed. The sign face area for a sign with more than one (1) face shall be computed by adding together the area of all sign faces visible from any one (1) point. When two (2) sign faces are placed back to back, so that both faces cannot be viewed from any point at the same time, and when such sign faces are not more than forty-two (42) inches apart, with a horizontal angle no greater than thirty (30) degrees, the sign area shall be computed by the measurement of one (1) of the sign faces. (Ord. No 99-1719, § 1, 2-7-00) Sign height: The height of a free standing sign shall be measured from the average elevation of the ground at the base of the sign to the highest point of the sign structure. Berms or fill material which raise the base of the sign above the average elevation of the surrounding ground, shall not be used to increase the height of a free standing sign. (Ord. No 99-1719, § 1, 2-7-00) Sign, on-premise: A sign which attracts attention to a business, commodity, service, entertainment or attraction sold, offered, or existing on the premises where a sign is located. (Ord. No. 11-2210, § 3, 11-21-11) Sign structure: The structure of a sign shall include the entire sign, its supporting devices, source of illumination, and copy area. However, with regard to internally illuminated signs in which the copy area is depicted on a sign face which is designed to be removed from the sign cabinet for maintenance, repair, or change of copy, the sign structure shall not include the sign face or source of illumination. (Ord. No. 85-448, § 3, 9-16-85) Signable area: A continuous portion of the front building facade unbroken by doors or windows, that is specifically designed to accommodate a sign, and which shall not extend above the window sill of the story above unless the establishment to which it pertains is located above the first floor. (Ord. No. 04-2013, § 2, 4-5-04) Static message or graphic: A message or graphic that does not move, scroll, travel, flash or animate. (Ord. No. 11-2210, § 3, 11-21-11) Story: That part of a building, except a mezzanine as defined herein, included between the surface of one floor and the surface of the next floor, or if there is no floor above, then the ceiling next above. A story thus defined shall not be counted as a story when more than fifty (50) percent, by cubic content, is below the height level of the adjoining ground. Story—half: A half story is a story situated within a sloping roof, the floor area of which, at a height of five (5) feet above the floor, does not exceed two-thirds ( 2/3 ) of the floor area in the story directly below it and the height above at least two hundred (200) square feet of floor space is seven (7) feet six (6) inches. A half story containing independent apartment or living quarters shall be counted as a full story. Street: A thoroughfare which affords a principal means of access to abutting property which has been accepted by the city as a public street. Structure, principal. A permanent structure which is not accessory to the principle use of a lot or parcel, including, but not limited to, off premises signs and certain types of antennas and public utility structures. (Ord. No. 95-1386, § 1, 10-2-95) Structure, height: Except for buildings, the height of a structure shall be measured from the average ground elevation at the bottom of the structure to the highest point of the structure. (Ord. No. 97-1566, § 2, 6-16-97) Swale: A depression in the ground which channels storm water runoff, where the side slopes are no steeper than 5:1 rise to run. (Ord. No 99-1719, § 1, 2-7-00) Telecommunications facility: A facility owned or operated by a public utility or a business, that transmits and/or receives electromagnetic waves. It includes antennas, microwave dishes, horns and other types of equipment for the transmission or receipt of such signals, telecommunications towers or alternative supporting structures and uses. (Ord. No. 97-1566, § 2, 6-16-97) Tower: Any structure that is designed and constructed primarily for the purpose of supporting one or more antenna, including self-supporting lattice towers, guy towers, or monopole towers. The term includes radio and television transmission towers, microwave towers, common carrier towers, cellular telephone towers and similar towers. (Ord. No. 97-1566, § 2, 6-16-97) Townhouse: Two (2) or more dwelling units, attached by a common side wall(s), each unit of which is located on an individual lot and designed to be occupied and owned by one (1) family. (Ord. No. 310, § 2, 12-15-80; Ord. No. 86-464, § 1, 1-6-86) Tree: Any self-supporting woody plant, usually having a single woody trunk and a potential DBH of two inches or more and normally attaining a mature height of 25 feet. (Ord. No. 96-1477, § 3, 4-15-96) Tree cover: The area directly beneath the crown and within the dripline of a tree. (Ord. No. 96-1477, § 3, 4-15-96) Use, principal: The purpose for which land or buildings and structures thereon are designed, arranged or intended to be used, occupied or maintained. (Ord. No. 95-1386, § 1, 10-2-95) Used Motor Vehicle Sales Establishment: An establishment that sells previously owned motor vehicle(s) where such sale is not accessory to a new automobile dealership, except when the owner of a private motor vehicle offers not more than one of his or her own vehicles for sale on his or her own private property. (Ord. No. 02-1899, § 1, 5-6-02) Vehicle barricade: A fence or wall less than thirty (30) inches high, located within front yard, for the sole purpose of restraining motor vehicles from entering said yard. The vehicle barricade may not be located on the public road right-of-way. Water surface area: Property within lakes, ponds, rivers and year-round streams. Water surface area shall not include property within storm drainage structures, drainage ways which periodically contain water no swimming pools and other structures which contain water. (Ord. No. 91-1058, § 3, 10-7-91) Wholesale establishment: Any establishment which exclusively sells goods in large quantities, as for resale by a retailer. Yard: A ground area open to the sky, unoccupied and unobstructed. Yard measurements shall be the minimum horizontal distances. Yard—front: A yard, or yards in the case of a corner or through lot, extending across the entire width of the lot between the street right-of-way and the principal building. (Ord. No. 95-1386, § 1, 10-2-95; Ord. No. 10-2189, § 1, 3-15-10) Yard—rear: A yard extending across the entire width of the lot between the rear lot line and the principal building. (Ord. No. 95-1386, § 1, 10-2-95; Ord. No. 10-2189, § 1, 3-15-10) Yard—side: A yard between the side lot line and the principal building, extending from the front yard to the rear yard, or in the absence of either of such yards, to the front or rear lot line. (Ord. No. 10-2189, § 1, 3-15-10) |
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(Ord. No. 87-581, § 1, 3-2-87; Ord. No. 91-1058, § 2, 10-7-91; Ord. No. 92-1086, § 2, 7-6-92) |