A use customarily incidental and subordinate to the principal use of a building.

Is the employment of land for the primary purpose of obtaining a profit in money by raising, harvesting, and selling crops, or feeding (including grazing), breeding, managing, selling, or producing livestock, poultry, fur-bearing animals or honeybees, or by dairying and the sale of dairy products, by any other horticultural, floricultural or viticulture use, by animal husbandry, or by any combination thereof. It also includes the current employment of land for the primary purpose of obtaining a profit by stabling or training equines including, but not limited to, providing riding lessons, training clinics and schooling shows.

The keeping of any horses, cattle, sheep, goats, hogs, mules or other customary farm animals, the keeping of any animals or creatures customarily kept in zoos, and the keeping of any animals for sale, boarding, lease, hire or farming. Three acres or more are required to harbor animals defined as animal harboring. Animal harboring is also defined as the harboring of five or more of any one or more species of small domesticated animals such as dogs, cats, rabbits, pigs, chickens, fowl, or such similar animals, which also requires three acres or more. Roosters are not allowed in any residential district. Domesticated animals should be properly leashed, caged, penned or housed, and should not cause or present any health, safety, noise or odor issues.

The regulation of building size, setbacks or yards, parking and loading requirements and similar regulations not determining use, but excluding performance standards.

Any dwelling in which no more than three persons, either individually or as families, are housed or lodged for hire, with or without meals. A rooming house or a furnished room shall be deemed a "boardinghouse."

A structure having a roof supported by columns or walls.

A building subordinate to the principal building on a lot, structurally apart from the principal building and used for purposes customarily incidental to those of the principal building.

A cargo/freight container shall be considered an accessory building.

The percentage of the plot or lot area covered by the buildings' area.

The vertical distance measured from the average elevation of the proposed finished grade at the front of the building to the highest point of the roof for flat roofs, to the deck line of mansard roofs and to the height between eaves and ridges for gable, hip and gambrel roofs.

The line of the face of the building nearest the line of the lot. This face shall include bay windows, covered porches, whether enclosed or unenclosed, or any projections thereof, which are over 50 square feet in floor area, but not including overhangs of up to three feet.

Is the authorization given by the Town of Binghamton to erect, construct, renovate, maintain, or conduct any other specified activity on any building or structure, or on any installations or facilities therein.

The building in which the principal use located on a lot is conducted.

A story partly underground, the walls of which are used as the foundation and/or substructure for those remaining stories of the structure partially or completely above mean grade level. It may be used as a dwelling unit prior to the completion of the structure, following the issuance of a permit by the Zoning Board of Appeals, as provided in Article X, § 240-61.

A sewage or water system which serves a development and is paid for without public or special district administration or funding.

The approval by the Planning Board of a final plat subject to conditions set forth by the Planning Board in a resolution conditionally approving such plat. Such conditional approval does not qualify a final plat for recording nor authorize issuance of any building permits prior to the signing of the plat by a duly authorized officer of the Planning Board and recording of the plat in the office of the County Clerk or register as herein provided.

A building or portion thereof containing three or more dwelling units. This description shall include apartment houses, garden apartments, townhouses and condominiums.

A detached building containing one dwelling unit.

A detached building containing two dwelling units.

A building or portion thereof providing complete housekeeping facilities for one family.

One or more persons occupying a dwelling unit and living as a single housekeeping unit.

Raising agricultural products, livestock, poultry and/or dairy products on a tract of three acres or more. Does not include raising of fur-bearing animals, riding academies, livery or boarding stables and dog kennels. A "dog kennel" is a structure used for the harboring of more than three dogs that are more than six months old.

A drawing or drawings that show a proposed subdivision, containing in such additional detail as required by the Planning Board all information required to be shown on a preliminary plat and the modifications, if any, required by the Planning Board at the time of approval of the preliminary plat if such preliminary plat has been so approved.

The signing of a plat in final form by a duly authorized officer of a Planning Board pursuant to a Planning Board resolution granting final approval to the plat or after conditions specified in a resolution granting conditional approval of the plat are completed. Such final approval qualifies the plat for recording in the office of the County Clerk.

Any building or land that is used for the sale of motor fuel, oil and motor vehicle accessories and which may include facilities for lubricating, washing or servicing motor vehicles, but not including painting or major repairs to vehicles.

The area of space, as used herein, contained within the room or rooms in the main structure.

Any use customarily conducted entirely within a dwelling and carried on by the inhabitants thereof, which use is clearly incidental and secondary to the use of the dwelling for dwelling purposes and does not change the character thereof. No person outside of the dwelling shall be employed in the home occupation. There shall be no external evidence of such use, except an announcement or sign not over six square feet in area.

A contract agreed to by owners of homes in any area that provides regulations for the operation and maintenance of commonly owned facilities and/or open space.

Engaging in any activity or business, either for profit or otherwise, at wholesale or retail, which involves a collection, storage, burning, dumping, disassembling, dismantling, salvaging, sorting or otherwise handling or arranging for sale, resale, storage or disposal or otherwise of bodies, engines or parts of autos, or of any other secondhand or used property, of whatever material it is composed, or any waste material, whether composed of wood, paper, cloth, cardboard, plastics, metals, stones, cement or otherwise.

A parcel of land having distinct and defined boundaries as described in a separate deed.

The total horizontal area included within the lot lines.

A lot situated at the junction of two or more streets or highways.

The mean distance from the front line of the lot to its opposite rear line, measured in the general direction of the side lines of the lot.

The lot line which abuts upon a street or highway right-of-way boundary.

A parcel of land which is not occupied by a building or structure.

The shorter of two straight lines, one line running from corner to corner where side lines meet the street line and the other line running from side to side along the front setback line.

A distance equal to the height of the tower plus the length of the blade times 1.5.

Any portable vehicle which is designed to be transported on its own wheels or those of another vehicle; which is used, designed to be used and capable of being used as a detached single-family residence; and which is intended to be occupied as permanent living quarters containing sleeping accommodations, a flush toilet, a tub or shower, kitchen facilities and plumbing and electrical connections for attachment to outside systems. This definition does not include modular housing placed on a standard foundation, or travel trailers.

Any parcel of land which is planned for the placement of mobile homes which are used as dwellings and for occupancy of more than 90 consecutive days.

A dwelling unit constructed off site, consisting of more than one segment and designed to be permanently anchored to a foundation, to become a fixed part of the real estate, and which meets all the standards of the New York State Fire Prevention and Building Code Council.

The portion of the wind turbine that connects the rotor to the support tower, and houses the generator, gearbox, drive train, and braking system.

Is any lot existing at the time of enactment of this chapter which does not conform to the minimum size of the district or zone in which it is located.

Use that does not conform with the regulations of the district in which it is situated.

Land not covered by buildings or parking lots, open storage, mining operations or any other use that visually obscures the natural or improved landscape, except for recreational facilities.

The design of a development, including a plot of subdivision, all covenants related to use, location and bulk of buildings and structures, intensity of use or density of development, private streets, ways and parking facilities, common open space and facilities. The phrase "provisions of the plan," when used in these regulations, shall mean the written and graphic materials referred to in this definition.

The approval of the layout of a proposed subdivision as set forth in a preliminary plat but subject to the approval of the plat in final form in accordance with the provisions of this section.

A residence in which the occupant has a profession: office of an architect, accountant, chiropractor, dentist, doctor of medicine, landscape architect, land surveyor, lawyer, optometrist, osteopath, physiotherapist, planning consultant, podiatrist, professional engineer or psychologist which is clearly secondary to the dwelling use for living purposes and does not change the residential character thereof, and where not more than two persons in addition to the resident professional are working.

A strip of land acquired by reservation, dedication, forced dedication, prescription, or condemnation and intended to be occupied by a road, crosswalk, railroad, electric transmission lines, oil or gas pipeline, water line, sanitary storm sewer, and other similar uses.

The minimum distance between the front, side or rear lot line and the front, side or rear building line, respectively.

See Article VIII (§ 240-36) for definitions of various types of signs and regulations pertaining thereto.

Site plan shall mean a plan, prepared to scale, depicting accurately and with complete dimensions all of the proposed buildings, structure and uses on a particular lot and showing the manner by which the development and use of the lot conforms to the development standards required by the Town of Binghamton.

Persons or persons who are applying to site a wind energy-deriving tower facility.

Anything constructed or erected, the use of which requires location on the soil or which is attached to something having location on the soil.

A public or private right-of-way for vehicles and pedestrians, used or laid out to furnish access to two or more lots. "Street" shall be taken as synonymous with "road" or "highway."

As applied to a building or structure, a change or rearrangement in the structural parts or in the exit facilities, or an enlargement, whether by extending on a side or by increasing in height, or the moving from one location or position to another.

A building or structure existing at the time of enactment or amendment of this chapter and which does not conform to the area regulations of the district or zone in which it is situated.

Any portable vehicle which is designed to be transported on its own wheels; which is designed and intended to be used for temporary living quarters for travel, recreation or vacation purposes; and which may or may not include all of the facilities included in a mobile home. Said travel trailer shall be less than 35 feet in length and not more than eight feet in width.

The authorization consistent with New York State Town Law § 267-b and by the Zoning Board of Appeals for the use of land in a manner which is not allowed by the dimensional or physical requirements of the applicable zoning regulations.

The authorization consistent with New York State Town Law § 267-b and by the Zoning Board of Appeals for the use of land for a purpose which is otherwise not allowed or is prohibited by the applicable zoning regulations.

Any tower, pole, or other structure, whether attached to a building, guyed, or freestanding, designed to be used for the support of a rotor that consists of blades and hub, as well as a nacelle and generator for producing electricity.

Any structure other than a wind turbine, related to the use and purpose of deriving energy from such towers, located at the tower facility.

More than one tower, pole, or other structure, whether attached to a building, guyed, or freestanding, designed to be used for the support of a rotor that consists of blades and hub, as well as a nacelle and generator for producing electricity intended to provide wholesale electricity production for delivery on the local transmission network. Any wind energy-deriving tower/wind turbine not meeting the definition of a wind energy-deriving tower/wind tower (small project) shall, for the purposes of this chapter, be considered a wind energy-deriving tower/wind tower (large project).

One tower, pole, or other structure, whether attached to a building, guyed, or freestanding, designed to be used for the support of a rotor that consists of blades and hub, as well as a nacelle and generator for producing electricity and is intended to reduce on-site consumption of utility power. Wind energy-deriving towers/wind towers not meeting the requirements of this definition shall be considered wind energy-deriving towers/wind towers (large project).

A site where one or more wind energy-deriving tower(s) or wind turbines will be located, including all accessory facilities or equipment.

An open space on the same lot with a building, unoccupied and unobstructed from the ground upward except as otherwise provided herein.

An open, unoccupied space on the same lot with the building between the front line of the building and the front line of the lot and extending the full width of the lot.

An open, unoccupied space on the same lot with the building between the rear line of the building and the rear line of the lot, and extending the full width of the lot.

The required open, unoccupied space on the same lot with the building between the side line of the building and the side line of the lot, and extending along the side lot lines from the front yard to the rear yard.