Having lot lines or boundary lines in common.

A subordinate building which is incidental to that of the main building on the same lot. Accessory buildings in residential districts shall be limited to: attached or detached garages, carport, servant’s quarters, storage building, bath house, greenhouse, bomb or fall-out shelter.

A subordinate use which is incidental to the main or primary use.

Any place which the public is permitted or invited wherein coin-operated, token-operated or electronically, electrically or mechanically controlled still or motion picture machines, projectors, or other image-producing devices are maintained to show images to five (5) or fewer persons per machine at any one time, and where the images so displayed are distinguished or characterized by an emphasis on matter depicting or describing sexual activities or specified anatomical areas.

A commercial establishment which as one its principal business purposes offers for sale or rental for any form of consideration books, magazines, periodicals or other printed matter which are distinguished or characterized by an emphasis on matters depicting or describing specified sexual activities or specified anatomical areas.

A nightclub, bar, restaurant, or similar commercial establishment which regularly features persons who appear in a state of nudity or give live performances which are distinguished or characterized by an emphasis on the exposure of specified anatomical areas or by an emphasis on specified sexual activities.

A hotel, motel or similar commercial establishment which:

A commercial establishment where, for any form of consideration, films, motion pictures, videocassettes, video reproductions, slides or other visual representations are regularly shown which are distinguished or characterized by an emphasis on matters depicting or describing specified sexual activities or specified anatomical areas.

A commercial establishment which as one its principal business purposes offers for sale or rental for any form of consideration photographs, films, motion pictures, videocassettes, video reproductions, slides or other visual representations which are distinguished or characterized by an emphasis on matters depicting or describing specified sexual activities or specified anatomical areas.

A way which affords only a secondary means of access to abutting property.

Any building, lot, tract, or parcel of land used in whole or part for the operation and maintenance of a circus, carnival, miniature golf course, golf driving range, batting cages, skating rinks, go-kart racing tracks and/or minstrel shows.

A facility operated by a veterinarian for the purpose of examining and treating animals including outdoor facilities for caring for the animals and allowing the keeping of animals overnight.

A facility that keeps impounded stray, homeless, abandoned, or unwanted animals.

A room or suite of rooms in an apartment building intended, designed, or occupied as a home or residence by a single family, individual, or group of individuals living together as a single housekeeping unit.

Any building which is intended, designed, or occupied as the home or residence of three (3) or more families living independently of each other and maintaining separate cooking facilities.

A public place of business where 50% or more of the gross sales are derived from amusement machines. The term amusement machine shall mean every machine of any kind of character whatsoever, when such a machine is capable of use or operations for amusement, other than for the purpose of vending merchandise, music, or a service such as telephone service, laundry service, etc. Included in the description of amusement machines are video games, pinball machines, miniature sports machines, and all other machines which designed for challenge, entertainment, or pleasure.

A facility, permanent or temporary, which mixes asphalt or cement with various aggregates and water in large quantities for transport elsewhere.

Having one or more walls common with a main use building, or joined to main use building by a covered porch or passageway, the roof of which is a part or extension of a main use building.

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, trucks (1-ton G.V.W. or less), buses, motor scooters, motorcycles, and recreational vehicles.

An area outside of a building where motor vehicles are disassembled, dismantled, junked or “wrecked,” or where motor vehicles not in operable condition or used parts of motor vehicles are stored.

Any area of land, including structures thereon, that is used for the sale of gasoline, oil or other fuels, and automobile accessories, and which may include facilities for lubricating, washing, cleaning, mechanical repair, and other normal servicing of automobiles. Painting is not considered within the scope of “other normal servicing.”

A building or space for the repair or maintenance of motor vehicles, but not including factory assembly of such vehicles, auto wrecking establishments or junkyards.

An open area or lot used for the display or sale of automobiles, where no repair work is done except minor reconditioning of the cars to be displayed and sold on the premises, and no dismantling of cars for sale or keeping of used car parts or junk on the premises.

An establishment which produces bakery goods and various confectionery items, such as rolls, bread, etc. for direct sale to the consumer.

Means a story below the first story of a building.

That property abutting on one side of a street and lying between the nearest intersecting or intercepting streets or nearest intersecting or intercepting street and railroad right-of-way, waterway, or other barrier to or gap in the continuity of development along such street.

A dwelling wherein lodging or meals for three (3) or more persons, not members of the principal family therein, is provided for compensation, but not including a building in which ten (10) or more guest rooms are provided.

A covered passage one story in height connecting a main structure and an accessory building.

An area of land together with specified planting and/or structures thereon, which may be required between land uses of different intensities to eliminate or minimize conflicts between such uses.

Any structure built for the support, shelter, or enclosure of persons, animals, chattels, or movable property of any kind. When separated by dividing walls without openings, each portion of such structure so separated will be deemed a separate structure.

Means the portion of the lot remaining after the required yards have been provided.

The percent of the lot area covered by the building exclusive of all overhanging roofs.

A line established, in general, parallel to the front street line. No building or structure may be permitted in the area between the building line and the street right-of-way line.

A business which stocks building materials, such as fencing, wire, bricks, cement, and lumber, for use in building construction and landscaping.

Includes retail, commercial, personal services, excavation, manufacturing and industrial operations and uses.

A room or group of rooms where the general administration and affairs of a business, etc., are carried on, but where no actual transactions are conducted.

A building and/or premises used for the design and construction of cabinets, shelves and similar structures for subsequent sales, installation and use in homes, businesses and offices.

A permanent roofed structure open on at least two sides, designed for the parking and shelter of private passenger vehicles.

A building, or portion thereof, where automobiles or other motor vehicles are automatically or manually washed regularly as a business.

A building story with more than one-half of its height below the average level of the adjoining ground. A cellar shall not be counted as a story in computing building height.

Land used or intended to be used for the burial of the dead humans, including crematories[,] mausoleums, and mortuaries.

An official certificate issued by the City which indicates conformance with or approved conditional waiver from the zoning regulations and authorizes the city’s approval of the Historic request from the property owner.

An official certificate issued by the City which indicates conformance with or approved conditional waiver from the zoning regulations and authorizes the legal use of the premises for which it is issued.

A facility that provides care or supervision for children who are not related by blood, marriage, or adoption to the owner or operator of the facility for less than 24 hours a day for more than twelve (12) children under the age of fourteen (14), whether or not the facility is operated for profit or charges for the services it offers.

An institution providing basic child care is a child care facility which provides care for more than 12 children for more than a 24-hour period. Basic child care does not include a 24-hour-a-day specialized program such as that offered by an emergency shelter, therapeutic camp, residential treatment center, halfway house, or institution serving mentally retarded children.

A facility, sometimes referred to as a “Registered Family Home,” that regularly provides care in the caretaker’s own residence for not more than six (6) children under the age of fourteen (14) years of age, excluding the caretaker’s own children. When more than six (6) children are kept in the home, it shall be considered as either a “Group Day Care Home” or “Child Care Center.”

A place of worship and religious training of recognized religions including the on-site housing of ministers, rabbis, priests, and nuns.

The governing body of the City of Big Lake, Texas.

A group of offices for one or more physicians, surgeons, opticians or dentists to treat patients who do not remain overnight.

A building used primarily for the social or recreational activities serving the city, neighborhood, or apartment complex.

A use allowed in a zoning district only if a special use permit is granted by the City Council.

See “Townhouse.”

A building and/or premises for the storage of materials, tools, products and vehicles used in the conduct of a construction business related to heating and air conditioning service, building construction, electrical service, landscaping service, plumbing service, utility service, etc.

Any building or structure used for or customarily occupied by persons recovering from illness or suffering from infirmities of age.

An area of land containing either a golf course or tennis courts, or both, and a clubhouse and which is available to members only. Country clubs may contain adjunct facilities such as private club, dining room, swimming pool, and other similar recreational or service facilities.

An open, unoccupied space on the same lot with a building and bounded on three (3) or more sides by such building; or the open space provided for access to a dwelling group.

Fully separated from any other building, or joined to another building by structural members not constituting an enclosed or covered space.

The exhibition of vehicles, trailers, boats, goods, wares, or merchandise for sale, rental or lease.

A building or group of buildings with cumulative storage space of over 5,000 square feet in area which is used for the storage of merchandise, goods, and wares which are intended to be distributed to other retail or wholesale establishments.

A building or group of buildings with cumulative storage space not to exceed 5,000 square feet in area which is used for the storage of merchandise, goods, and wares which are intended to be distributed to other retail or wholesale establishments.

A section or sections of the City of Big Lake, Texas, for which regulations governing the use of buildings and premises, the height of buildings, the size of yards, and the intensity of use are uniform.

A lot with double frontage is a lot having lot lines formed by the intersection of two streets, whether public or private, and where the interior angle of such intersection is less than 135 degrees. A lot fronting on a curved street shall also be considered a corner lot if the central angle of the curve is less than 135 degrees.

Any establishment where food, and/or non-alcoholic beverage is sold to the consumer and where motor vehicle parking space is provided and where patrons may be served in their respective vehicles or inside the 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 by means of a mechanical appliance(s).

A building or portion of a building which is arranged, occupied or intended to be occupied as living quarters and includes facilities for food preparation and sleeping.

A building containing three (3) or more dwelling units which is designed for or occupied as a home or residence for three (3) or more families living independently of each other and maintaining separate cooking facilities.

A detached building which is designed for or occupied as a home or residence by not more than one (1) family.

Three or more dwelling units attached at the side or sides, each unit of which has a separate outdoor entrance and is designed to be occupied and may be owned by one family.

A detached building containing two (2) dwelling units, commonly referred to as a duplex, and which is designed for or occupied as a home or residence by not more than two (2) families.

A right given by the owner of a parcel of land to another person, public agency or private corporation for a specific and limited use of that parcel.

An establishment selling electrical supplies and parts and/or providing the servicing and installation of electrical equipment and fixtures.

One or more persons living together as a single housekeeping unit, in which not more than five (5) individuals are unrelated by blood, marriage or adoption, but not including a group occupying a hotel, motel, boarding house, club, dormitory, fraternity or sorority house.

An area of two (2) acres or more which is used for the growing of farm products such as vegetables and grain as well as the raising thereon of the usual farm poultry and farm animals such as horses, dairy cattle, sheep, and swine.

A commercial establishment which sells animal feed; feeding troughs; animal cages, pens, and gates; fencing materials; pesticides; seeds; and other gardening farming, and ranching supplies. The sale of baby chicks, rabbits, guinea pigs, and other similar small or domesticated animals may be permitted only with a specific use permit and in accordance with all ordinances.

See Screening (Device) hereafter.

Refer to Automobile Service Station.

Music, painting, sculpture, and including drawing, etchings, ceramics, inlays, needlework, knitting, weaving, and craft work involving leather, wood, metal and glass.

A collection of two or more stalls, booths, tables or other similar arrangements, used by individual vendors, for the display and sale of various items of new or used personal property.

The area outside of the floodway which may be inundated with floodwater with an average frequency of occurrence in the order of once in one hundred years, normally referred to as the intermediate regional flood by the U.S. Corps of Engineers.

The channel of a stream and those portions of the floodplain adjoining the channel that are required to carry and discharge floodwaters.

The area of a building, including the walls thereof, but excluding all porches, open breezeways and garages.

The foster group home is a child care facility which provides care for 7-12 children for 24 hours a day.

A property or building in which freight is brought by common carriers during and is stored for interstate or intrastate shipment by motor truck, including the necessary warehouse space for storage of transitory freight.

All the property on one side of a street between two intersecting streets (crossing or terminating), measured along the line of the street, or if the street is dead-ended, then all the property abutting on one side between an intersecting street and the dead-end of the street.

A facility open to the public and used primarily for the playing of games of chance, skill, sport or amusement. Such games include but are not limited to the following: dominoes, cards, bingo, billiards, darts, and amusement machines.

A dwelling unit for one family attached to a private garage.

A building or portion of a building used for the general repair and/or painting of motor vehicles.

A building or portion of a building used for the parking and storage of motor vehicles, other than a private garage or a auto repair garage, in which any sale of gasoline, oil, and accessories is only incidental to the storage of the vehicles.

An accessory building or portion of a main building on the same lot and intended to be used for the parking and storage of private passenger motor vehicles, boats, or other vehicles.

Shall mean occasional sales at retail by residential owners or occupants conducted in the garage, patio, driveway or yard of the residential premises occupied by the person holding the sale, for the purpose of disposing surplus personal property accumulated incidentally in the regular course of residential occupancy.

Any building or facility either owned or leased for use by local, state or federal governments and in which the affairs of the governmental body are carried on.

When used as a reference point in measuring height of building the “grade” shall be the average elevation of the finished ground at the exterior walls of the main building.

The total area of all floors as measured to the outside walls, excluding open porches, breezeways, balconies, and terraces. In computing the gross floor area of residential uses, garages and carports shall be excluded.

A facility that regularly provides care in the caretaker’s own residence for seven (7) to twelve (12) children under the age of fourteen (14) years of age, excluding the caretaker’s own children.

A residential facility licensed by the Texas Department of Human Resources to house up to six (6) handicapped and/or mentally retarded persons and two (2) supervisors.

A residential facility providing shelter, supervision and residential rehabilitative services for persons who have been inmates of any county, state or federal correctional institution and released and require a group setting to facilitate the transition to a functional member of society.

An establishment selling heating and air conditioning units, supplies and parts and/or providing the servicing and installation of heating and air conditioning equipment.

A business offering for sale, and including the servicing and repair of, equipment as construction graders, earth movers, backhoes, cement mixer trucks, dirt moving trucks, etc.

The vertical distance from the grade to the highest point of the coping of a flat roof or to the deck line of a mansard roof, or the highest ridge board, for gable, hip and gambrel roof.

A geographically defined area which possesses significant concentration, linkage, or continuity of buildings, structures, sites, areas, or land, which in turn are united by architectural, historical, archaeological, or cultural importance or significance and which the City Council determines shall be protected, enhanced and preserved.

Any building, structure, site, district, area, or land of architectural, historical, archaeological, or cultural importance or significance, which the City Council determines shall be protected, enhanced, and preserved.

The engagement of a person in an activity such as music, painting, sculpturing, drawing, etching, ceramics, needlework, knitting, weaving, craft work involving leather, wood, metal and glass, etc. in his or her spare-time activity within his or her premises. No person shall be engaged in a hobby as a business. Such activity shall be carried on within an enclosed or screened area and shall not involve any activity that requires open storage. No activity which is obnoxious or offensive by reason of vibration, electrical interference, glare, noise, odor, dust, smoke or fumes shall be permitted.

Any occupation or activity listed in Section 16, “Home Occupation,” of this ordinance which is clearly incidental and secondary to the residential use of the premises and which is carried on wholly within a main building or accessory building by a member of a family residing on the premises and which does not change the character thereof. However, such use will not be obnoxious or offensive due to vibration, smoke, dust, odor, heat, glare, noise or which increases traffic.

An institution or place where sick or injured patients are kept overnight and given medical or surgical care.

A building or arrangement of buildings designed for and occupied as a temporary abiding place by transient guests who are lodged with or without meals for compensation.

Shall mean a vehicle without automotive power designed for human habitation and for carrying persons and property upon its own structure and for being drawn by a motor vehicle.

A commercial or industrial structure that is constructed on one or more modules or constructed using one or more modular components built at a location other than the permanent site, and that is designed to be used as a commercial building when the modules or modular components are transported to the permanent commercial or industrial site and are erected or installed on a permanent foundation system. The term includes the plumbing, heating, air conditioning and electrical systems. The term does not include any commercial structure that is in excess of two (2) stories or thirty-five feet (35') in height as measured from the finished grade elevation at the building entrance.

A residential structure that is designed for the use and occupancy of one or more families, that is constructed in one or more modules or constructed using one or more modular components built at a location other than the permanent residential site, and that is designed to be used as a permanent residential structure when the modules or modular components are transported to the permanent residential site and are erected or installed on a permanent foundation system. The term includes the plumbing, heating, air conditioning, and electrical systems. The term does not include any residential structure that is in excess of two (2) stories or thirty-five feet (35') in height as measured from the finished grade elevation at the building entrance to the peak of the roof. The term shall not mean nor apply to (a) housing constructed of sectional or panelized systems not utilizing modular components; or (b) any ready-built home which is constructed so that the entire living area is contained in a single unit or section at a temporary location for the purpose of selling it and moving it to another location.

Shall mean a parcel of land which has been planned and/or coordinated for a variety of industrial and related activities and business uses. This development may be on a one parcel or may be subdivided. The project is either owned, controlled or managed by a single entity and has its own master plan and/or covenants, conditions, and restrictions.

Means copper, brass, iron, steel, rope, rags, batteries, paper, rubber, tires, pipe, plastic, debris, trash, rubbish, waste, metal, and ferrous or non-ferrous materials which are old, scrapped, discarded, secondhand, or otherwise used.

Means any lot or tract of land upon which junk is kept, stored, bought, sold, recycled, or otherwise placed.

Any place or premise where four (4) or more dogs, cats, or other domestic animals at least four (4) months of age are raised, trained, boarded, or kept with or without charge, except for veterinary clinics, animal hospitals, and animal shelters.

Any facility, whether known or incorporated under such descriptive title or name as “Child Play School,” “Child Development Center,” “Early Childhood Center,” and the like, where six (6) or more children are left for care, training, or education during the day or portion of the day and a fee is charged for this service.

Shall mean living plant material, including but not limited to grass, turf, trees, shrubs, natural land forms, water forms, planters; and other landscape features, including walks and plaza areas consisting of enhanced paving, which are a function of the building and not the streetscape.

A building or place where clothes and linens are washed and thoroughly dried and pressed by the use of washing, drying, and ironing machines for fee basis and shall include the term “cleaners,” and “dry cleaners.”

A commercial establishment which sells leather materials and supplies or leather goods.

Shall include that portion of the dwelling unit which is used or designed for occupancy but does not include carports, garages, and open porches, breezeways, balconies, and terraces.

A space within the main building or on the same lot therewith, providing for the standing, loading or unloading of trucks, and having a minimum dimension of twelve (12) feet by thirty-five (35) feet and a vertical clearance of fourteen (14) feet.

A building or place where lodging is provided (or which is equipped to provide lodging regularly) by pre-arrangement for definite periods, for compensation, for three (3) or more persons in contradistinction to hotels open to transients.

A parcel of land occupied or intended to be occupied by a main building and its accessory buildings, or by a group of buildings and their accessory buildings, and having frontage on a dedicated street.

A lot abutting on two (2) intersecting streets.

The percentage of the total area of a lot occupied by the first story or ground floor of all buildings located on the lot.

The average depth from the front line of the lot to the rear line of the lot.

A lot other than a corner lot.

A lot which is part of a subdivision, the plat of which has been recorded in the office of the county clerk, or a parcel of land, the deed for which was recorded in the office of the county clerk prior to passage of this ordinance.

The width measured at a distance back from the front line equal to the minimum depth required for a front yard.

A building in which is conducted the principal use of the lot on which it is situated.

A structure that was constructed or after June 15, 1976 and is transportable in one or more sections, which, in the traveling mode, is eight body feet (8') or more in width or forty body feet (40') or more in length, or, when erected on-site, is 320 or more square feet, and which is built on a permanent chassis and designed to be used as a dwelling with or without a permanent foundation when connected to the required utilities, and includes the plumbing, heating, air conditioning and electrical systems.

That part of a parcel of land in a manufactured home park which has been reserved for the placement of one (1) manufactured home unit.

A parcel of land which is owned by an individual, a firm, trust, partnership, public or private association or corporation, and has been developed for rental of lots to tenants with mobile homes.

Shall mean that form of solid construction composed of stone, brick, concrete, gypsum, hollow clay tile or other similar building units or materials or combination of these materials which must be laid up unit by unit and set in mortar.

Any building, room, place, or establishment, other than a regularly licensed hospital, where manipulated massage or manipulated exercises are practiced upon the human body by anyone not a duly licensed physician, osteopath, chiropractor or a registered nurse or a doctor whether with or without the use of mechanical, therapeutic or bathing devices, and shall include Turkish bathhouses. This term shall not include duly licensed beauty parlors or barber shops or a place wherein registered physical therapists treat only patients recommended by a licensed physician and operate only under such physician’s direction.

A building or group of buildings in a controlled access compound that contains individual, compartmentalized, and controlled access stalls or lockers of varying sizes not to exceed five thousand (5,000) square feet for the storage of merchandise, goods, and wares.

See “Hotel.”

Shall mean every kind of motor driven or propelled vehicle whether required or not required to be registered or licensed under the laws of the State of Texas, including trailers, house trailers, and semi-trailers, and shall also include motorcycles, dirt bikes, or other off-road/all-terrain vehicles.

Centers which carry convenience goods, such as groceries, drugs, hardware and some variety items, and also may include some service stores. The neighborhood convenience center may contain one (1) or two (2) small apparel or shoe stores, but it is clearly dominated by convenience goods, which are items of daily consumption and very frequent purchase, sometimes called “spot necessity” items. This neighborhood serving store group is within convenient walking distance of families served (within convenient driving range in low-density areas), with due consideration for pedestrian access and amenity of surrounding areas.

An establishment operated as a place of entertainment, characterized by any of the following as a principal use of the establishment:

A lawful condition of a structure or land which does not conform to the regulations of the zoning district in which it is situated. This may include but is not limited to failure to conform to use, height, area, coverage or off-street parking requirements.

The use of a building or land that does not conform to these zoning regulations and which lawfully existed at the time these zoning regulations became effective.

Means less than completely and opaquely covered:

See “Convalescent Center.”

An area of one (1) acre or more which is used for the growing of fruit trees.

An unenclosed, all-weather surface area used exclusively for the temporary parking and/or storage of motor vehicles.

An area measuring at least nine (9) feet wide by eighteen (18) feet in length, surfaced with an all-weather surface, enclosed or unenclosed, together with an all-weather surfaced driveway connecting the parking space with a street or alley permitting satisfactory ingress and egress. For computing off-street parking space requirements, parking spaces on public streets, alleys or rights-of-way shall not be used.

An open recreation facility or park owned and operated by a public agency such as the city or the school district and available to the general public for neighborhood use.

Businesses which provide services customized for an individual generally involving the care of the person or his or her apparel including but not limited to barber and beauty shops, shoe and boot repair, dry-cleaning shops, laundries, reducing salons, and health clubs.

An area with a specified minimum contiguous acreage to be developed as a single entity according to a unified site design plan, containing one or more residential uses, office uses, commercial uses, industrial uses, public and quasi-public uses, or any combination of the same.

An establishment which grows and sells plants, flowers, shrubs, grass and other items typically used as and associated with outdoor landscaping or house plants.

An establishment selling plumbing supplies and parts and/or providing the repair and installation of plumbing and fixtures.

An establishment utilizing letterpress, duplicating equipment, rotary presses or Linotype equipment to produce in printed form orders for its clients or customers.

Facilities where food, beverages (including alcoholic beverages), entertainment, or meeting space are provided to members only.

A room or group of rooms occupied by a physician, optometrist, psychologist, chiropractor, dentist, attorney, engineer, surveyor, architect, accountant, planner, management consultant, or any other similar vocation. Veterinary clinics are specifically excluded from this definition.

An area of two (2) acres or more which is used for the keeping or raising [of] farm animals and livestock including but limited to horses, mules, cows, cattle, and swine.

A vehicle towed or self-propelled on its own chassis or attached to the chassis of another vehicle and designed or used for temporary dwelling recreational or sporting purposes. The term recreational vehicle shall include, but not be limited to: travel trailers, pickup campers, camping trailers, motor coach homes, converted trucks and buses, and boats and boat trailers.

Any development, site, parcel or tract, of land designed, maintained or intended to be used for the purpose of providing short-term occupancy of camper vehicles, recreational vehicles, tents, or trailers.

A facility designed to collect, sort, and package, by either manual or mechanical processes, recyclable items for transport to a processing plant.

An establishment which offers and [an] array of items such as appliances, furniture, stereo equipment, televisions, etc. at a stated [price] for a fixed interval of time under a lease or rental agreement.

The number of lots, dwelling units, or persons located or residing within a residential area.

Any tract of land used primarily to provide recreation and entertainment especially, but not exclusively, to tourists or vacationers and generally but not necessarily provides overnight accommodations for their guests in the form of hotels, motels, cabins, RV parks, RV rentals, etc.

Any eating or drinking establishment where the preparation and serving of food is the primary business of such establishment including cafes, bistros, cafeterias, and other fast food and drive-in food establishments.

Shall mean and necessarily include:

Shall mean and necessarily includes a salvage yard, automotive wrecking yard, and automotive graveyard [and] shall mean any lot or tract of land upon which three (3) or more discarded, abandoned, junked, wrecked, dismantled, worn-out, or ruined motor vehicles (including autos, trucks, tractor-trailers, and buses), motor vehicle parts, boats, travel trailers, trailers, and/or recreational vehicles are either:

A place having a curriculum for the purpose of giving instruction, training or education in a service, art, trade, or for general knowledge.

Shall mean any of the following:

Shall mean shrubs with an installed minimum height of three (3) feet as identified below, or any other shrubs which, when mature, shall reach a minimum height of six (6) feet, provide a dense visual barrier, be drought resistant, and possess compact root systems posing minimum danger to integrity of public utilities. The large screening shrubs included on the following list are recommended to be planted to screen incompatible land uses, parking facilities, and dumpsters by forming a visual barrier.

Shall mean shrubs with an installed minimum height of two (2) feet as hereinafter identified, or any other shrubs which, when mature, shall reach a minimum height of two (2) feet and provides a dense visual barrier. The small screening shrubs included on the following list are recommended to be planted to screen parking lots, playgrounds, ballfields, swimming pools, and tennis courts by forming a visual barrier.

As used in determining parking requirements for this ordinance, a seat shall mean such sitting space as needed or which is designed to be used for one person to sit down and occupy.

An establishment specializing in the sale of previously used materials, goods, and merchandise of less than twenty (20) years of age and of that material, goods and merchandise over twenty (20) years of age which do not derive a value as a result of their age.

A secondary dwelling unit located on a lot with a main residential structure and used as living quarters for persons employed on the premises and not for rent or use as a separate domicile by persons other than those employed on the premises or their immediate family.

A business establishment where gasoline, oil, grease, batteries, tires and motor vehicle accessories may be supplied and dispensed at retail, and the servicing of vehicles occurs, but not including the major overhaul of automobiles, body work, or repair of heavy trucks and equipment. A service station is sometimes referred to as a “gas station, “filling station,” or “fuel service station.”

The required minimum distance between any structure and any property line of the lot on which it is located. Setbacks shall be measured perpendicular to lot lines. The terms “setback” and “required yard” shall mean the same and can be interchanged.

Shall mean a love parlor, nude modeling studio, adult bookstore, adult movie theater, adult video arcade, adult video store, adult motel, or other commercial enterprise the primary business of which is the offering of a service or the selling, renting or exhibiting of devices or any other items intended to provide sexual stimulation or sexual gratification to the customer.

A planned and coordinated grouping of retail business and service uses on a single site or a combination of sites where special attention is given to on-site vehicular circulation, parking, and building design and orientation.

An outdoor device or structure which directs attention to a business, commodity, service, announcement, direction or entertainment conducted, sold, or offered to the public.

A drawing showing the provisions for a proposed project, including such information that enables the drawing to serve as a plat, together with information pertaining to all covenants relating to land use, location and bulk of structures, intensity of use or density of development, private streets, ways and parking facilities, common open space and public facilities, and all other reasonable information required by the Planning and Zoning Commission as a part of the review process.

An office or group of offices for one or more veterinarians engaged in treating diseases or injuries to small domestic animals. Structures are to be soundproof and no outside facilities are permitted.

A use that may be allowed if it meets certain specified requirements or conditions and meets the approval of the City Council.

Means human genitals, pubic regions, buttocks and female breast below a point immediately above the top of the areola.

Means and includes the fondling or other erotic touching of human genitals; sexual acts including intercourse, copulation, or sodomy, or masturbation; or excretory functions as part of or in connection with any sexual act or fondling or other erotic touching of human genitals.

An accessory building used by the residents of the premises for sheltering and quartering of horses owned by the occupants and for which no fee is charged for stabling the horses.

A lot or tract of land used for the sheltering and quartering of horses for which a fee or charge is made for the stabling of the horses.

Washed stone 1/2 inch or 1-1/2 inch in size.

That portion of a building, other than a basement, included between the surface of a floor and the surface of a floor next above it, or if there is no floor above it, then the portion of the building between the surface of a floor and the ceiling or roof above it.

The topmost story under a gable, hip or gambrel roof, the wall plates of which on at least two (2) opposite exterior walls are not more than four feet (4') above the floor of such story, except that any partial story used for residence purposes shall be deemed a full story.

A public or private thoroughfare or road which affords the principal means of access to abutting property.

Any change, addition or modification in construction in the supporting members of a building, such as exterior walls, bearing walls, beams, columns, foundations, girders, floor joists, roof joists, rafters or trusses.

Anything constructed or erected having location on or under the ground or attached to something having location on or under the ground.

A recreational facility used for swimming which is used [by] the owners, employees, or residents of the property and their guests.

A recreational facility used for swimming which is open to the public for which a membership is required or a fee or charge is made for the use of the facility.

A commercial establishment which sells horse equipment such as saddles, bridles, blankets, riding accouterments, etc.

An earth-based station shaped like a dish which is used for the reception of satellite signals for television programs.

A concrete or clay court which is used for the playing of tennis by the owners, employees, or residents of the property and their guests.

A concrete or clay court which is used for the playing of tennis by the general public and for which membership is required or a fee or charge is made for the use of the facility.

An establishment which offers and [an] array of tools and equipment and machinery such as cranes, backhoes, trucks, tractors, etc. at a stated [price] for a fixed interval of time under a lease or rental agreement.

A single-family dwelling constructed as part of a series of dwellings, all of which are either attached to the adjacent dwelling or dwellings by party or common walls or are located immediately adjacent thereto with no visible separation between walls or roofs. This definition shall also include the term “condominium.”

An area designed, arranged or used for the parking or storing of one or more recreational vehicles, travel trailers, motor homes, motor coaches, pickup campers, and camping trailers which are occupied or intended for occupancy as temporary living quarters by individuals or families.

A self-propelled mechanical vehicle designed for use on streets and highways for the conveyance of goods and people and having a G.V.W.R. in excess of one (1) ton.

Shall mean the following list of turfs and any other turfs which can be demonstrated to the building official to be drought resistant.

A concrete structure designed for the protection of humans from tornadoes or from nuclear blast, heat, or fall-out, the main portion of which is underground.

The purpose for which land or a building or structure thereon is designed, arranged, intended or maintained or for which it is or may be used or occupied.

A subordinate use on the same lot with the principal use and incidental and accessory thereto.

A lot or portion thereof to be used only for the purchase, trade, display, and sale of automobiles that are in condition to be driven on or off the lot, under its own power. Used car lots shall not be used for the storage of wrecked automobiles, or the dismantling of automobiles, or the storage of automobile parts.

An adjustment in the application of the specific regulations of the zoning ordinance to a particular parcel of property which, because of special conditions or circumstances peculiar to the particular parcel, is necessary to prevent the property from being deprived of rights and privileges enjoyed by other parcels in the same vicinity and zoning district.

An establishment for the care and medical veterinary practice on or for domestic household animals, conducted completely within an enclosed structure. This term shall also include “animal clinic.”

An establishment for the care and medical veterinary practice on or for large animals and household domestic animals and which animals may be boarded during treatment in outside pens, runs or stables. This term shall also include “animal hospital.”

A building or group of buildings used for the storage of merchandise, goods, and wares.

A building or place where clothes and linens are washed and thoroughly dried on a self-service basis by the use of washing, drying, and ironing machines and shall include the term “self-cleaning laundry.”

An open space, other than a court, on the same lot with a building and which is not obstructed from ground level to the sky except for roof overhangs, fences, trees, and shrubs.

A yard extending across the full width of a lot and having a depth equal to the shortest distance between the front line of the lot and the nearest portion of the main building, including an enclosed or covered porch, provided that the front yard depth shall be measured from the future street line for a street on which a lot fronts, when such line is shown on the official map or is otherwise established.

A yard extending across the full width of a lot and having a depth equal to the shortest distance between the rear line of the lot and the main building.

A yard between the side line of the lot and the main building extending from the front yard to the rear yard and having a width equal to the shortest distance between said side line and the main building.