Is one which:

Includes, but is not limited to, the following:

Any tract or parcel of land having an area of one (1) acre or more which has not been subdivided by metes and bounds or platted.

Any premises which is utilized by its owner, operator or manager to provide twenty-four (24) hour care to three (3) or more residents, who are not related within the fourth degree of consanguinity or affinity to the owner, operator or manager of the facility and who are provided with shelter, board, storage and distribution of medication and with protective oversight, including care during short-term illness or recuperation.

Any premises which is utilized by its owner, operator or manager to provide daytime (6:00 A.M. to 6:00 P.M.) care and supervision to functionally impaired adults and which will be licensed by the Missouri Division of Aging.

An adult arcade, adult bookstore, adult novelty store, adult cabaret, adult entertainment establishment, massage parlor, escort agency, nude or semi-nude model studio, or sexual encounter center. When used in connection with the phrase "adult or sexually-oriented establishments", the following words and phrases shall have the following meanings ascribed to them:

A public way, not more than thirty (30) feet wide, which affords only a secondary means of access to abutting property.

Any establishment defined as a short-term loan establishment, pawnbroker, precious metal and gem buying establishment or any other similar business engaged in short-term lending. This excludes financial institutions and establishments that are principally grocery stores, convenience stores that are accessory to an automobile service station, and liquor stores, which are registered as a money services business under Code of Federal Regulations 31 CFR 103.41, and offer, as a convenience to their customers, and accessory to the principal use, check cashing, traveler's check, money order or money transfer services, when fees or charges for check cashing services constitute a de minimus percentage of gross receipts.

Any premises used for the sale, purchase, or trading of articles of which eighty percent (80%) or more are over fifty (50) years old or have collectible value. Also includes the sale, purchase, or trading of rare coins, stamps, and previously-owned games, books, videos and other media. This use excludes precious metal and gem buying establishments, thrift/consignment stores, and adult or sexually-oriented establishments.

A room or suite of rooms in a multiple dwelling family structure which is arranged, designed, used or intended to be used as a single housekeeping unit. Complete kitchen facilities, permanently installed, must always be included for each apartment.

Any premises, other than a residential care facility (RCF), intermediate care facility, or skilled nursing care facility, or as designated as an RCF by the State of Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services, that is utilized by its owner, operator, or manager to provide twenty-four (24) hour care and services and protective oversight to three (3) or more residents who are provided with shelter, board, and who may need and are provided with the following:

A building or structure designed or intended for use for the gathering of people as an audience to hear music, lectures, presentations, plays, and spectator sports, expositions, live or amplified entertainment, and other public gatherings. See Live or Amplified Entertainment.

Washing and polishing of the exterior of automobiles, as well as the interior and upholstery, but not including the cleaning and degreasing of engines.

Engine rebuilding or major reconditioning of worn or damaged motor vehicles or trailers; collision service, including body, frame or fender straightening or repair; and overall painting of vehicles.

Incidental repairs, replacement of parts, and motor service to automobiles, but not including any operation specified under "AUTOMOBILE REPAIR — MAJOR".

A place where gasoline stored only in underground tanks, kerosene, or lubricating oil or grease, for operation of automobiles, are offered for sale directly to the public on the premises, and including minor accessories and services for automobiles; but not including major automobile repairs; and including hand washing of automobiles where no mechanical devices are employed. When the dispensing, sale or offering for sale of motor fuels or oil is incidental to the conduct of a public garage, the premises shall be classified as a public garage. Automobile service stations shall not include sale or storage of inoperative motor vehicles or junk yards as defined herein.

Any place where two (2) or more motor vehicles not in running condition, or parts thereof, are stored in the open and are not being restored to operation, or any land, building or structure used for wrecking or storing of such motor vehicle, or parts thereof, and including any used farm vehicles or farm machinery, or parts thereof, stored in the open and not being restored to operating condition; and including the commercial salvaging of any other goods, articles or merchandise.

An establishment which is rented by individuals or groups to accommodate singular private functions including, but not limited to, banquets, weddings, receptions, anniversaries, graduations, and other similar celebrations; and fundraising activities including, but not limited to, dances, trivia contests, bingo and other similar games when sponsored by civic, charitable, or non-profit groups (i.e. 501(c) organizations). Such a use may or may not include:

A story partly or wholly underground. Where more than one-half (½) of its height is above the average elevation of the finished lot grade at the front of the building, a basement shall be counted as a story for purposes of height measurement.

A tract of land bounded by streets or, in lieu of a street or streets, by public parks, cemeteries, railroad rights-of-way, bulkhead lines or shore lines of waterways or a corporate boundary line of the City.

A building other than a hotel or restaurant where meals are provided for compensation to four (4) or more persons, but not more than twelve (12), who are not members of the keeper's family.

Nightclubs not licensed to sell alcoholic beverages or nightclubs duly licensed to sell alcoholic beverages operating beyond the hours or days when such sale is authorized, but where members, guests, or members of the public provide their own alcoholic beverages for on-premises consumption, paying a fee or other consideration for admission or membership in exchange for mixers or other beverages, ice, food, container, and/or live or amplified entertainment furnished by the establishment. See Live or Amplified Entertainment.

A tavern or saloon licensed as a microbrewer per Chapter 600 of the Bridgeton Code of Ordinances where the product authorized by said license is sold for either consumption on premises by the glass or in hand-capped or sealed containers in quantities up to one-half (½) barrel or fifteen and one-half (15.5) gallons sold directly to the consumer. Wholesaling shall be permitted only where authorized within the zoning ordinance. The area used for brewing, including bottling and kegging, shall not exceed thirty percent (30%) of the total floor area of the commercial space. See Tavern or Saloon.

The space remaining on a lot after the minimum open space requirements of this Chapter have been complied with.

Any structure with substantial walls and roof securely affixed to the land and entirely separated on all sides from any other structure by space or by walls in which there are no communicating doors, windows or openings; and which is designed or intended for the shelter, enclosure or protection of persons, animals or moveable personal property. Any structure with interior areas not normally accessible for human use, such as gas holders, oil tanks, water tanks, grain elevators, coal bunkers, oil cracking towers, and other similar structures, are not considered as buildings.

A building separated on all sides from the adjacent open space, or from other buildings or other structures, by a permanent roof and by exterior walls or party walls, pierced only by windows and normal entrance or exit doors.

The vertical distance measured from the sidewalk level or its equivalent established grade opposite the middle of the front of the building to the highest point of the roof in the case of a flat roof; to the deck line of a mansard roof; and to the mean height level between eaves and ridge of a gable, hip or gambrel roof; provided that where buildings are set back from the street line, the height of the building may be measured from the average elevation of the finished lot grade at the front of the building.

Any building which does not conform to the regulations of this Chapter prescribing the maximum floor area ratio, required yards, coverage, height and setbacks, minimum required spacing between buildings on a single lot, and minimum required usable open space for the district in which such building is located.

Any building not an accessory building.

A line parallel to the street line at a distance from it, regulated by the front yard requirements set up in this Chapter.

The term used to describe the size and mutual relationships of buildings and other structures as to size; height; coverage; shape; location of exterior walls in relation to lot lines to the centerline of streets; to other walls of the same building; and to other buildings or structures; and to all open spaces relating to the building or structure.

A story having more than one-half (½) of its height below the curb level or below the highest level of the adjoining ground. A cellar shall not be counted as a story for the purpose of height measurement.

A business engaged in check cashing for a fee and which may or may not provide short-term loans for a fee.

Family-like care provided in a single-family dwelling occupied by the child care provider as a permanent residence, to from one (1) through four (4) children not related to the child care provider, for any part of a twenty-four (24) hour day for compensation or otherwise.

Buildings and facilities or premises utilized by its owner or operator to provide residential, educational, recreational, counseling, pregnancy and other crisis services to children, adolescents and young adults and their families and educational and training programs related thereto.

A facility operated by one or more physicians, dentists, psychiatrists, psychologists, optometrists, ophthalmologists, chiropractors, rehabilitation therapists, or other licensed practitioners of the healing arts for the examination and treatment of persons solely on an outpatient basis, including diagnostic services, blood donation stations, infusion centers, surgery centers, and urgent care facilities.

An establishment where patients are not lodged overnight but are admitted for special study and treatment by two (2) or more licensed physicians or dentists and their professional associates practicing medicine together. The term does not include a place for the treatment of animals.

Buildings and facilities or premises owned or operated by a corporation, association, fraternal organizations, labor unions and similar organizations; political organizations; professional membership organizations; other membership organizations, person or persons for a social, educational or recreational purpose but not primarily for profit and not primarily to render a service which is customarily carried on as a business.

See Antique/Collectible Shops.

An institution for post-secondary education, public or private, offering courses in general, technical, trade or religious education and not operated for profit.

A place, structure, area, or other facility used for and providing religious, fraternal, social, or recreational programs generally open to the public and designed to accommodate and serve significant segments of the community. Community or youth centers are operated by either a public agency or by private civic, charitable, or non-profit groups (i.e. 501(c) organizations).

A comprehensive marijuana cultivation facility, comprehensive marijuana dispensary facility, or a comprehensive marijuana-infused products manufacturing facility.

A facility licensed by the State of Missouri to acquire, cultivate, process, package, store on-site or off-site, transport to or from, and sell marijuana, marijuana seeds, marijuana vegetative cuttings (also known as clones) to a medical marijuana facility, comprehensive marijuana facility, or marijuana testing facility. A comprehensive marijuana cultivation facility need not segregate or account for its marijuana products as either non-medical marijuana or medical marijuana. A comprehensive marijuana cultivation facility's authority to process marijuana shall include the creation of prerolls but shall not include the manufacture of marijuana-infused products.

A facility licensed by the State of Missouri to acquire, process, package, store on-site or off-site, sell, transport to or from, and deliver marijuana, marijuana seeds, marijuana vegetative cuttings (also known as clones), marijuana-infused products, and drug paraphernalia used to administer marijuana as provided for in this Chapter to a qualifying patient or primary caregiver, as those terms are defined in this Chapter, or to a consumer, anywhere on the licensed property or to any address as directed by the patient, primary caregiver, or consumer and consistent with the limitations of this Chapter and as otherwise allowed by law, to a comprehensive marijuana facility, a marijuana testing facility, or a medical marijuana facility. Comprehensive marijuana dispensary facilities may receive transaction orders at the comprehensive marijuana dispensary facility directly from the consumer in person, by phone, or via the Internet, including from a third party. A comprehensive marijuana dispensary facility need not segregate or account for its marijuana products as either non-medical marijuana or medical marijuana but shall collect all appropriate tangible personal property sales tax for each sale, as set forth in any applicable State Statutes and provided for by the Bridgeton Municipal Code and any other general or local law. A comprehensive marijuana dispensary facility's authority to process marijuana shall include the creation of prerolls.

A facility licensed by the State of Missouri to acquire, process, package, store, manufacture, transport to or from a medical marijuana facility, comprehensive marijuana facility, or marijuana testing facility, and sell marijuana-infused products, prerolls, and infused prerolls to a marijuana dispensary facility, a marijuana testing facility, or another marijuana-infused products manufacturing facility. A comprehensive marijuana-infused products manufacturing facility need not segregate or account for its marijuana products as either non-medical marijuana or medical marijuana.

Any tract of land which shall have been planned for development with common elements or facilities maintained for the benefit of the inhabitants or their guests in addition to the dwelling units contained or located on the tract, which tract shall have been declared, planned, recorded and approved for development as condominium property under Section 448.010, RSMo., so that dwelling units and a percentage of ownership in the common elements appertaining to such units may be sold and conveyed, leased, mortgaged or otherwise dealt with as interests in real estate to separate owners without subdivision of said interests.

A person who is at least twenty-one (21) years of age.

An open space which may or may not have direct street access and around which is arranged a single building or group of related buildings.

See "LOT COVERAGE".

The level of the established curb in front of the building measured at the center of such front. Where a building faces on more than one (1) street, the "curb level" shall be the average of the levels of the curbs at the center of the front of each street. Where no curb elevation has been established, the mean level of the land immediately adjacent to the building shall be considered the "curb level".

An establishment in which at least one thousand (1,000) square feet or more than ten percent (10%) of the total floor area, whichever is less, is designed or used as a dance floor, or where an admission fee is directly collected or some other form of compensation is obtained for dancing. Accompanying music may be produced by live performance or recorded media and may include a disc jockey. A dance hall shall not include dance academies, schools, or studios where dancing is permitted only by students and instructors engaged in dancing instruction, nor shall this include public or private schools, which host dances solely for students or adult-supervised youth organizations, or other governmental facilities that host dances.

A facility, other than a dwelling, where care is provided for children for any part of the twenty-four (24) hour day, for compensation or otherwise.

A facility, other than a dwelling, where care is provided for children for any part of the twenty-four (24) hour day, for compensation or otherwise, and operated by a non-profit religious organization on the same property where religious activity is conducted.

A single-family dwelling, occupied as a permanent residence by the day care provider, in which family-like care is given to from five (5) through ten (10) children, not related to the day care provider, for any part of the twenty-four (24) hour day, for compensation or otherwise.

Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services, or its successor agency.

A banquet hall located within and accessory to a hotel or motel. See Banquet Hall.

Any section of the City of Bridgeton within which the zoning regulations are uniform.

A term used to describe an establishment designed or operated to serve a patron while seated in an automobile parked in an off-street parking space or to serve a patron at a window without providing inside seating facilities.

A building or portion thereof, but not including a house trailer or mobile home, designed or used exclusively for residential occupancy, including single-family dwelling units, two-family dwelling units and multiple-family dwelling units, but not including hotels, boarding or lodging houses or lodging establishments.

A building or portion thereof designed or altered for occupancy by three (3) or more families living independently of each other.

A row of two (2) to eight (8) attached, single-family party-wall dwellings not more than two and one-half (2½) stories in height nor more than two (2) rooms in depth measured from the building line.

A building designed exclusively for use and occupancy by one (1) family and entirely separated from other dwellings by space.

A building designed or altered to provide dwelling units for occupancy by two (2) families living independently of each other.

One (1) or more rooms in a residential structure or apartment hotel designed for occupancy by one (1) family or other group of persons not exceeding five (5) living together as a household or by a person living alone.

The right of a person, government agency or public utility company to use public or private land owned by another for a specific purpose.

Public schools, providing primary and secondary education, or private schools having a curriculum equivalent to a public elementary, middle, or high* school and having no rooms regularly used for housing or sleeping purposes.

Any establishment having five (5) or more amusement games of any description, including pinball amusement games, computer amusement games, video amusement games, and electronic amusement games, for the public amusement, patronage or recreation. Such amusement games shall not include video games or other entertaining display, such as, but not limited to, computer terminals, not dependent upon skill or dexterity that are offered in connection with the sale of a product or service if the product or service being promoted is only ancillary and incidental to the game or amusement device; and whereby prizes of cash value, not including replays or novelties of de minimus value are awarded to players, including, but not limited to, those devices known as "sweepstakes".

A lodging establishment where any of the guest rooms are rented to semi-permanent guests. It is the intent of this Chapter that extended stay lodging establishments shall only be permitted uses or permitted uses with special use permits in those districts where this Chapter specifically lists "extended stay lodging establishment" as a permitted use or permitted use with a special use permit. In those districts where this Chapter only states that "lodging establishments" are permitted uses or permitted uses with a special use permit, extended stay lodging establishments are not permitted.

An individual or two (2) or more persons related by blood or marriage or adoption or a group of not more than three (3) persons who need not be related by blood or marriage or adoption living together and subsisting in common as a single non-profit housekeeping unit utilizing only one (1) kitchen.

An area which is used for the growing of the usual farm products, such as vegetables, fruit trees and grain, and for the packing or storage of the products produced on the premises as well as for the raising thereon of the usual farm poultry and farm animals, such as horses, cattle, sheep and swine as secondary to crop raising, subject to distance limitations from residential property and not including the commercial feeding of garbage or offal to swine or other animals, the commercial feeding of animals on open lots where no feed is raised on the premises, or the commercial feeding of poultry broilers, or laboratory animals.

A structure forming a physical barrier which is so constructed that less than fifty percent (50%) of the vertical surface is open to permit the transmission of light, air and vision through such surface in a horizontal plane.

A structure forming a physical barrier which is so constructed that no less than fifty percent (50%) of the vertical surface is open to permit the transmission of light, air and vision through such surface in a horizontal plane.

Any business or use of property as a full service bank, credit union or savings and loan association, including any accessory drive through. Such institutions shall be licensed or hold a certificate of registration from the appropriate State agency. This definition shall not include short-term loan establishments as defined herein.

A facility operated by a public or not-for-profit entity for the sourcing, collecting, sorting, cataloging, and warehousing of unprepared packaged and fresh food items to be distributed to the general public via off-site third-party entities such as food pantries. Such facilities may also handle clothing in a similar manner and are not open to the general public.

A facility operated by a public or not-for-profit entity that directly distributes unprepared packaged and fresh food items to the public on a charitable basis. Such facilities may also distribute clothing to the general public in such manner.

Buildings and facilities or premises owned or operated by a corporation, association, fraternal organizations, labor unions and similar organizations; political organizations; professional membership organizations; other membership organizations, person or persons for a social, educational or recreational purpose, but not primarily for profit and not primarily to render a service which is customarily carried on as a business.

A place where crude petroleum, gasoline, naphtha, benzine, benzol, kerosene or other flammable liquid which has a flash point at or below two hundred degrees Fahrenheit (200° F) (closed cup tester) is stored for wholesale purposes, where the aggregate capacity of all storage tanks is more than six thousand (6,000) gallons, regardless of whether the fuel is stored above ground, underground or in mobile tank cars or trucks.

An accessory building housing motor-driven vehicles which are the property of and for the private use of the occupants of the lot on which the private garage is located. Not more than one (1) of the vehicles may be a commercial vehicle of not more than one and one-half (1½) tons capacity.

Any building or premises used for equipping, repairing, hiring, selling or storing motor-driven vehicles.

An establishment that sells a wide variety of relatively small and inexpensive items, exclusive of items identified as drug paraphernalia or illegal smoking products in Chapter 205 of the Municipal Code.

Building and facilities or premises occupying an area of not less than forty-five (45) acres for recreational purposes related to golf and shall include such incidental accessory uses and structures as dining room facilities, sale of liquor by the drink, and sale of golf equipment and supplies. The length of a golf course shall be a minimum of two thousand (2,000) linear yards for nine (9) holes, as defined by the U.S. Golf Association.

Any home in which eight (8) or fewer unrelated mentally or physically handicapped persons reside, and may include two (2) additional persons acting as houseparents or guardians who need not be related to each other or to any of the mentally or physically handicapped persons residing in the home as defined in Section 89.020, RSMo.

Any room or unit in a lodging establishment where sleeping accommodations are regularly furnished to the public.

An occupation conducted in a dwelling unit provided that:

A facility providing, without charge, single-night, temporary shelter, with or without meals, storage for personal items, showers, laundry, bathrooms, snacks, and other similar services for up to five (5) people, with no ordinary or regular home or residence address. Such shelters shall not provide shelter on a regular basis and shall not continually provide shelter for the same individuals. Homeless emergency centers shall operate no more than three (3) nights per month for a total of thirty-six (36) days per calendar year. A homeless emergency center shall be used only as an accessory use to religious institutions (as defined herein) or not-for-profit agency, where either has been established for a period of at least twelve (12) consecutive months, and where specifically permitted in this Code, and shall meet the following requirements:

A private not-for-profit, public, or quasi-public facility to provide temporary counseling, case management, medical assessment and referral, health outreach, computer center, social service information and referral, job search assistance, veteran's administration counseling, and other similar services to homeless persons.

A private not-for-profit, public, or quasi-public facility, other than a food pantry or food banks, to provide temporary daytime shelter, common room, telephone, mail, computers, showers, laundry, bathrooms, snacks, appointment assistance, and other similar services to homeless persons.

An institution devoted primarily to the maintenance and operation of facilities for the diagnosis, treatment or care for not less than twenty-four (24) hours in any week of three (3) or more unrelated individuals suffering from illness, disease, injury, deformity or other abnormal physical conditions and which may include related facilities such as laboratories, out-patient departments, training facilities, central service facilities, and staff offices; provided that such related facility must be incidental and subordinate to the main use and must be an integral part of the hospital operations. The term "hospital", as used in this Chapter, does not apply to institutions operating solely for treatment of insane persons, drug addicts, liquor addicts or other types of cases necessitating restraint of patients, and the term "hospital" shall not include convalescent, nursing shelter or boarding homes as defined in Chapter 198, RSMo.

An establishment that is primarily utilized for showing motion pictures, or for dramatic, dance, musical, or other live or amplified entertainment and associated rehearsals. Such establishments shall have stationary or fixed seating for all patrons and may include related services such as light snack food and beverage sales and other related concessions. See Live or Amplified Entertainment.

Objects or mechanisms used to attract attention, advertise, promote, market, or display goods and/or services, which are inflated with air or gas, or equipped with a portable blower motor that provides a constant flow of air into the device in the likeness of an animate or inanimate object or cartoon figure, including but not limited to tethered balloons, blimps, dirigibles, or similar lighter-than-air objects and recreational devices such as inflatable slides and bounce-houses.

A consumable or smokable marijuana product, generally consisting of: (1) a wrap or paper; (2) dried flower, buds, and/or plant material; and (3) a concentrate, oil or other type of marijuana extract, either within or on the surface of the product. Infused prerolls may or may not include a filter or crutch at the base of the product.

Any premises, other than a residential care facility, assisted living facility, or skilled nursing facility, which is utilized by its owner, operator, or manager to provide twenty-four (24) hour accommodation, board, personal care, and basic health and nursing care services under the daily supervision of a licensed nurse and under the direction of a licensed physician to three (3) or more residents dependent for care and supervision and who are not related within the fourth degree of consanguinity or affinity to the owner, operator or manager of the facility.

A business primarily engaged in the on-premise retail sale of new jewelry and watches, and may include the retail sale of clocks. Accessory to the primary use of the sale of new material may be the sale of used jewelry from estate sales or reconstituted precious metals and gems/stones purchased and handcrafted by the business into jewelry forms. Such establishments may also provide repair and lapidary services.

The use of more than two hundred (200) square feet of any lot where waste, scrap, metal, paper, rags or similar materials are bought, sold, exchanged, stored, baled, packed, disassembled or handled, including auto and building wrecking yards, but excluding similar uses taking place entirely within a completely enclosed building.

Any motor vehicle, other than a taxi, offered to the public by a public limousine business for the purpose of carrying or transporting passengers for a fixed charge or fee, or an hourly rate.

The business of offering the public motor vehicles for carrying or transportation of passengers between airports and points within the City for a fixed charge or fee, or offering a vehicle with driver for a fixed charge or fee, or offering a vehicle with driver for transportation of passengers at an hourly rate.

A line parallel to the nearest lot line drawn through the point of a building or group of buildings nearest to such lot line, exclusive of such features specified as being permitted to extend into a yard.

Performances including, but not limited to, those by musicians, singers, disc jockeys, dancers, acrobats, magicians, dramatists, and speakers; as well as entertainment-related activities that involve patrons such as karaoke. Jukeboxes, piped background music, and individual serenading acoustic musicians at restaurants, taverns or saloons, and at tea rooms and coffee houses shall not be considered live or amplified entertainment for purposes of this Section provided such performances are not audible off-premises.

One (1) or more loading spaces, together with necessary maneuvering space, and aisles and driveways.

An area of land not a part of a street right-of-way and/or the area of a building used principally for the loading and unloading of materials or merchandise from a single motor vehicle and/or trailer, provided such trailer is not utilized for living or sleeping.

Any building, group of buildings, structure, facility, place, or places of business where five (5) or more guest rooms are provided, which is owned, maintained, or operated by any person and which is kept, used, maintained, advertised or held out to the public for hire and which can be construed to be a hotel, motel, motor hotel, tourist court, resort, bunkhouse, dormitory, or other similar place by whatever name called, and includes all such accommodations operated for hire as lodging establishments.

A building with not more than five (5) guest rooms where lodging is provided for compensation pursuant to previous arrangement, but not open to overnight guests.

A facility that is licensed either solely or in combination as a skilled nursing facility, an intermediate care facility, a residential care facility, or assisted living facility.

Land occupied or intended for occupancy by a use permitted in these regulations including one (1) main building, together with its accessory buildings and the yards, loading, and parking spaces required herein and having its principal frontage upon a street or upon an officially approved place.

The total horizontal area within the lot lines of the lot.

A parcel of land situated at the intersection of two (2) or more streets or adjoining a curved street at the end of the block.

The area of the lot occupied by the ground floor of all buildings, main and accessory, measured from the exterior faces of exterior walls, or from the exterior faces of supporting exterior columns for any portion of the ground floor not enclosed by exterior walls, or from the centerline of walls separating two (2) buildings.

The horizontal distance between the front and rear lot lines measured in the mean direction of the side lot lines.

The front of a lot shall be that boundary of a lot along a public street; for a corner lot, the owner may elect either street line as the front lot line.

A lot other than a corner lot.

The front property line of a lot.

A side lot line common with another lot.

The rear lot line is the lot line or lot lines most nearly parallel to and most remote from the front lot line. Lot lines other than front or rear lot lines are side lot lines.

A parcel of land shown on a recorded plat or on the official map of the County or any parcel of land described by a legally recorded deed.

A lot having frontage on two (2) parallel or approximately parallel streets with access to both streets, and which is not a corner lot.

The horizontal distance between the side lot lines measured at right angles to the lot depth at the established front building lines.

Any equipment, product, material, or combination of equipment, products, or materials, which is specifically designed for use in planting, propagating, cultivating, growing, harvesting, manufacturing, compounding, converting, producing, processing, preparing, testing, analyzing, packaging, repackaging, storing, containing, ingesting, inhaling, or otherwise introducing marijuana into the human body.

Cannabis indica, Cannabis sativa, and Cannabis ruderalis, hybrids of such species, and any other strains commonly understood within the scientific community to constitute marijuana, as well as resin extracted from the marijuana plant and marijuana-infused products. "Marijuana" or "Marihuana" does not include industrial hemp as defined by Missouri Statute, or commodities or products manufactured from industrial hemp.

A comprehensive marijuana cultivation facility, comprehensive marijuana dispensary facility, marijuana testing facility, comprehensive marijuana-infused products manufacturing facility, microbusiness dispensary facility, microbusiness wholesale facility, or any other type of marijuana-related facility or business licensed or certified by the State of Missouri but shall not include a medical facility (as defined in the State Medical Marijuana Regulations).

Products that are infused, dipped, coated, sprayed, or mixed with marijuana or an extract thereof, including, but not limited to, products that are able to be vaporized or smoked, edible products, ingestible products, topical products, suppositories, and infused prerolls.

A microbusiness dispensary facility or a microbusiness wholesale facility.

A facility certified by DHSS, to acquire, test, certify, and transport marijuana, including those originally licensed as a medical marijuana testing facility.

A place for docking ten (10) or more pleasure boats or providing services to pleasure boats and the occupants thereof, including minor servicing and repair to boats while in the water, sale of fuel and supplies, and provision of lodging, food, beverages, and entertainment as accessory uses. A yacht club shall be considered as a marina, but a hotel, motel or similar use, where docking of boats and provision of services thereto is incidental to other activities, shall not be considered a marina, nor shall boat docks accessory to a multiple dwelling where no boat-related services are rendered.

A facility licensed by the State of Missouri, to acquire, cultivate, process, package, store on-site or off-site, transport to or from, and sell marijuana, marijuana seeds, and marijuana vegetative cuttings (also known as clones), to a medical marijuana dispensary facility, marijuana testing facility, medical marijuana cultivation facility or to a medical marijuana-infused products manufacturing facility. A medical marijuana cultivation facility's authority to process marijuana shall include the production and sale of prerolls but shall not include the manufacture of marijuana-infused products.

A facility Licensed by the State of Missouri to acquire, process, package, store on-site or off-site, sell, transport to or from, and deliver marijuana, marijuana seeds, marijuana vegetative cuttings (also known as clones), marijuana-infused products, and drug paraphernalia used to administer marijuana as provided for in the State Medical Marijuana Regulations to a qualifying patient, a primary caregiver, anywhere on the licensed property or to any address as directed by the patient or primary caregiver, so long as the address is a location allowing for the legal possession of marijuana, another medical marijuana dispensary facility, a marijuana testing facility, a medical marijuana cultivation facility, or a medical marijuana-infused products manufacturing facility. Medical marijuana dispensary facilities may receive transaction orders at the medical marijuana dispensary facility in person, by phone, or via the Internet, including from a third party. A medical marijuana dispensary facility's authority to process marijuana shall include the production and sale of prerolls but shall not include the manufacture of marijuana-infused products.

Any facility that is regulated by the State to acquire, certify, cultivate, deliver, dispense, manufacture, process, sell, store, test, transport or warehouse medical marijuana including a medical marijuana cultivation facility, a medical marijuana dispensary facility, and a medical marijuana-infused product manufacturing facility.

A facility licensed by the State of Missouri, to acquire, process, package, store on-site or off-site, manufacture, transport to or from, and sell marijuana-infused products to a medical marijuana dispensary facility, a marijuana testing facility, a medical marijuana cultivation facility, or to another medical marijuana-infused products manufacturing facility.

A room within a hotel or motel which is rented by individuals or groups for singular events such as business conferences, seminars, and meetings. Meeting or conference rooms may include movable barriers that partition large rooms into several smaller rooms.

A restaurant licensed as a microbrewer per Chapter 600 of the Bridgeton Code of Ordinances where the product authorized by said license is sold for either consumption on premises by the glass or in hand-capped or sealed containers in quantities up to one-half (½) barrel or fifteen and one-half (15.5) gallons sold directly to the consumer. Wholesaling shall be permitted only where authorized within the zoning ordinance. The area used for brewing, including bottling and kegging, shall not exceed thirty percent (30%) of the total floor area of the commercial space. See Restaurant.

Shall have the same meaning set forth in Article 14, Section 2(2)(18), of the Missouri Constitution, as amended from time to time.

Shall have the same meaning set forth in Article 14, Section 2(2)(19), of the Missouri Constitution, as amended from time to time.

As used in the Bridgeton Zoning Ordinance, "Mobile Food Vendor" shall have the meaning set forth in the Mobile Food Vendors Code (Chapter 685 of this Code), provided that, for purposes of the Bridgeton Zoning Ordinance, "Mobile Food Vendor" shall not include solicitation of the sale of ice cream products and other frozen dessert products, which solicitation is governed by Section 640.070 of this Code.

Any portable structure or vehicle of fire-resistant construction, designed for highway transport and to permit occupancy thereof for dwelling or sleeping purposes, including individual flush toilet, bath, cooking and refrigeration facilities.

An area where one (1) or more mobile homes or trailers can be and are intended to be parked, designed or intended to be used as temporary or permanent living facilities for one (1) or more families.[3]

An establishment whose primary activities are the sale of alcoholic beverages to be consumed on the premises, the provision of live or amplified entertainment, and dancing by patrons. See Live or Amplified Entertainment.

Any use of any building, structure or land lawfully established, or any building, structure or land occupied by a use lawfully established, which use does not conform after the passage of this Chapter, or amendments hereto, with the use regulations of the district in which such use is located.

A school operated by a person or organization which is conducted primarily for education of children two (2) years through five (5) years of age for no more than four (4) hours per child per day.

A means of dividing the range of sound frequencies into octaves in order to classify sound according to pitch.

Reference to "ordinance" herein shall be construed as the Zoning Ordinance.

One (1) or more parking spaces together with necessary aisles and driveways.

An area of land, not a part of a street right-of-way, and/or the area of a building used principally for the standing of a single motor vehicle otherwise than temporarily while actually engaged in loading or unloading merchandise or passengers, exclusive of a commercial driveway or drive aisle connecting the parking space with a street or alley and permitting satisfactory ingress and egress of an automobile.

A tract of land developed pursuant to Section 410.090 of this Chapter.

The City of Bridgeton Planning Commission, also known as the Planning and Zoning Commission.

A roofed-over structure projecting out from the wall or walls of a main structure and commonly open to the weather in part.

An establishment that purchases secondhand precious metals or gems from the public at large for cash value with no certain or implied contractual period within which the seller may purchase the precious metal or gem back for the amount of the sale plus a fee. This use excludes establishments that are principally jewelry stores, pawnshops, antique/collectible shops and thrift/consignment stores.

A consumable or smokable marijuana product, generally consisting of: (1) a wrap or paper; and (2) dried flower, buds, and/or plant material. Prerolls may or may not include a filter or crutch at the base of the product.

An individual twenty-one (21) years of age or older who has significant responsibility for managing the well-being of a Qualifying Patient and who is designated as such on the Primary Caregiver's application for an identification card under the State Medical Marijuana Regulations or in other written notification to DHSS.

Any person, firm, corporation or municipal department duly authorized to furnish under public regulation to the public, electricity, gas, steam, telephone, telegraph, transportation, water or sewage disposal.

An individual diagnosed with at least one (1) qualifying medical condition (as defined in the State Medical Marijuana Regulations).

A building used for public worship by a congregation, excluding buildings used exclusively for residential, educational, recreational or other uses not normally associated with worship. Includes churches, chapels, cathedrals, temples and similar designations. Permitted accessory uses may include homeless emergency centers and food pantries (both as defined herein), provided such accessory uses satisfy the aforementioned building use requirements.

Any premises, other than an assisted living facility, intermediate care facility, or skilled nursing facility, which is utilized by its owner, operator, or manager to provide twenty-four (24) hour care to three (3) or more residents who are not related within the fourth degree of consanguinity or affinity to the owner, operator, or manager of the facility and who need or are provided with shelter, board, and with protective oversight, which may include storage and distribution or administration of medications and care during short-term illness or recuperation, or as designated as an RCF by the State of Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services.

An establishment where food and/or beverages are prepared, served, and consumed, and whose principal method of operation includes one (1) or both of the following characteristics:

A restaurant where food and beverages are primarily served to customers in disposable containers or disposable dishes and where customers order and are served in whole or in part at a service counter; and a restaurant where customers are served at a drive-thru or a walk-up window or in vehicles.

The number of the area on the Ringlemann Chart that coincides most nearly with the visual density of emission.

Any person occupying a guest room or combination of guest rooms in a lodging establishment under any concession, permit, right of access, license, rental or other agreement for living and sleeping purposes for a period:

See "BUILDING SETBACK LINE".

Any of the following:

The letting or offering for let of a dwelling or a portion thereof to one (1) or more transient guests for a period of thirty (30) consecutive calendar days or less.

Any premises, other than a residential care facility, assisted living facility, or an intermediate care facility, which is utilized by its owner, operator, or manager to provide for twenty-four (24) hour accommodation, board and skilled nursing care and treatment services to at least three (3) residents who are not related within the fourth degree of consanguinity or affinity to the owner, operator, or manager of the facility. Skilled nursing care and treatment services are those services commonly performed by or under the supervision of a registered professional nurse for individuals requiring twenty-four (24) hours a day care by licensed nursing personnel including acts of observation, care, and counsel of the aged, ill, injured, or infirm, the administration of medications and treatments as prescribed by a licensed physician or dentist, and other nursing functions requiring substantial specialized judgment and skill.

Represent the number obtained by multiplying the smoke density in Ringlemann numbers by the time of emission in minutes. For the purpose of this chart, Ringlemann density reading is made at least once every minute during the period of observation; each reading is then multiplied by the time in minutes during which it is observed; and the various products are added together to give the total number of "smoke units" observed during the total period under observation.

An establishment engaged in the preparation and/or retail sale of beverages, ice cream or frozen treats, and candy or confections excluding liquor, beer, or other alcoholic beverages. Such beverages and foods may be consumed on- or off-premises. Soda fountains may provide customer service at a drive-thru or a walk-up window or in vehicles.

Activities defined herein as either a "civic event" or a "sales and promotional event," as follows:

A sign posted to advertise or draw attention to a special event and defined herein as either a banner sign or freestanding sign, as follows:

Any use of land or buildings, or both, described and permitted under the special use provisions of this Chapter.

The rules and regulations promulgated by DHSS for the regulation and control of the cultivation, manufacture, dispensing and sale of marijuana for adult use pursuant to Article 14, Section 2, of the Missouri Constitution.

The rules and regulations promulgated by DHSS for the regulation and control of the cultivation, manufacture, dispensing and sale of marijuana for medical and/or adult use.

The rules and regulations promulgated by DHSS for the regulation and control of the cultivation, manufacture, dispensing and sale of marijuana for medical use pursuant to Article 14, Section 1, of the Missouri Constitution.

That portion of a building included between the surface of any floor and the surface of the floor next above it or, if there be no floor above it, then the space between the floor and the ceiling next above it. Any portion of a story exceeding fourteen (14) feet in height shall be considered as an additional story for each fourteen (14) feet or fraction thereof.

A half story is that portion of a building under a gable, hip or mansard roof, the wall plates of which, on at least two (2) opposite exterior walls, are not more than four and one-half (4½) feet above the finished floor of such story. In the case of single-family dwellings, two-family dwellings, and multiple-family dwellings less than three (3) stories in height, a half story in a sloping roof shall not be counted as a story for the purpose of this Chapter, except in the case where independent apartments or living quarters occupy the half story when it shall be counted as a full story. In the case of multiple-family dwellings, three (3) or more stories in height, a half story shall be counted as a story.

A public way other than an alley.

A line separating an abutting lot, piece or parcel from a street.

Any change, except those required by law or ordinance, which would prolong the life or change the shape or size of any portion of a building or structure or of the supporting members of a building or structure, such as bearing walls, columns, beams, arches, floor or roof joists or girders.

Any thing constructed or erected which requires location on the ground or is attached to something having location on the ground.

An establishment where the principal or accessory business activity includes one (1) or more of the following activities:

An establishment whose primary activity is the sale of alcoholic beverages to be consumed on the premises. Taverns or saloons include bars, private clubs and similar facilities serving alcoholic beverages.

An establishment where tea, coffee, other beverages; excluding liquor, beer, or other alcoholic beverages; and light snack foods, such as baked goods, soups and sandwiches, are prepared and served in either disposable or non-disposable containers. Such beverages and foods may be consumed on- or off-premises. Tea rooms and coffee houses may provide customer service at a drive-thru or a walk-up window or in vehicles.

A level and rather narrow plane or platform which, for the purpose of this Chapter, is located adjacent to one (1) or more faces of the principal structure and which is constructed not more than four (4) feet in height above the average level of the adjoining ground.

An establishment open to the general public wherein one (1) or more types of secondhand domestic articles are purchased or accepted for donation, but not sold, such as clothing, shoes, furniture and other assorted items, the value of which is only a fraction of the original cost, for which price guides are not available, and which normally have no collectible or antique value. This classification does not include the purchase, acceptance, or storage of secondhand motor vehicles, trailers, boats, construction equipment, parts, accessories, or similar items.

An establishment open to the general public wherein one (1) or more types of secondhand domestic articles are sold, such as clothing, shoes, furniture and other assorted items, the value of which is only a fraction of the original cost, for which price guides are not available, and which normally have no collectible or antique value. Accessory to sales, such establishments may purchase and/or accept the donation of the aforementioned secondhand domestic articles. This classification does not include the sales, acceptance, or storage of secondhand motor vehicles, trailers, boats, construction equipment, parts, accessories, or similar items. This classification does not apply to businesses which sell primarily new goods, and which occasionally sell secondhand articles as a result of trade-ins or unclaimed merchandise.

A specialty retail establishment that has, as a substantial or significant portion of its stock in trade, smoking-related accessories, such as pipes, pipe cleaners, lighters, butane, flints, pocket knives, and cigar nippers, exclusive of items identified as drug paraphernalia or illegal smoking products in Chapter 205 of the Municipal Code.

A specialty retail establishment that has no substantial or significant portion of its stock in trade in anything other than tobacco products. The consumption of purchased tobacco products on the grounds of the establishment shall be as permitted by the St. Louis County Department of Health.

Use providing education or training in business, commerce, health, technical, mechanical, language, or other similar activity or occupational pursuit, and not otherwise defined as an "educational institution", either primary and secondary, or college/university, or as a "home occupation".

A vehicle without motor power used or adaptable for living, sleeping, business or storage purposes, having no foundation other than wheels, blocks, skids, jacks, horses or skirting, which does not meet Building Code requirements and has been or reasonably may be equipped with wheel or other devices for transporting the structure from place to place. The term "trailer" shall include "camp car" and "house car". A permanent foundation shall not change its character unless the entire structure is erected in accordance with the City Building Code.

Any premises occupied or designed to accommodate one (1) or more families living in an automobile house trailer or mobile home, or the parking of one (1) or more trailers for business or storage purposes.

Any person who occupies any dwelling unit, room or accommodation under any concession, permit, right of access, license, rental or other agreement for living and sleeping purposes for a period of thirty (30) consecutive calendar days or less.

An area where freight brought by truck is stored for routing or reshipment or in which semi-trailers, including tractor and/or trailer units and other trucks, are parked or stored. The area used for storage, routing and/or transfer of any designated or potentially toxic or hazardous waste as defined by Building and/or Fire Codes shall meet requirements of those Codes during the handling of these materials.

The purpose for which land or a building thereon is designed, arranged or intended, or for which it is occupied or maintained, let or leased.

A retail store that sells inexpensive items, often with a single price for all items in the store. Typical merchandise includes cleaning supplies, toys, household goods and gardening equipment, exclusive of items identified as drug paraphernalia or illegal smoking products in Chapter 205 of the Municipal Code. A variety store may include a counter for the sale of hot and cold prepared foods.

A building used primarily for the storage of goods and materials. The storage of any designated or potentially toxic or hazardous waste as defined by Building and/or Fire Codes shall meet requirements of those Codes.

A use engaged in storage, wholesale and distribution of manufactured products, supplies and equipment. The storage of any designated or potentially toxic or hazardous waste as defined by Building and/or Fire Codes shall meet requirements of those Codes.

One (1) or more buildings used for the processing of wine and juice-making material, sale of wine and wine-related products, and related wine producing activities. All wine offered for sale at a winery shall be produced under a State of Missouri domestic license. Retail activities of a winery may include, but are not limited to, a tasting room, gift shop, reception area or meeting space, special events planning, and the sale of natural table grapes, unfermented grape juice, wine, and re-packaged food and gift items. Seventy-five percent (75%) of the wine sold on site shall be produced from grapes either grown on the premises or the State of Missouri.

An open space on the same lot with a principal building or group of buildings, which is unoccupied and unobstructed from its lowest level upward, except as otherwise permitted in this Chapter, and which extends along a lot line and at right angles thereto to a depth or width specified in the yard regulation for the district in which the lot is located.

A yard extending across the full width of the lot and lying between the front line of the lot and the nearest line of a building.

A yard extending across the full width of the lot and lying between the rear line of the lot and the nearest line of the principal building.

That part of the yard lying between the nearest line of the principal building and a side lot line and extending from the required front yard (or from the front lot line, if there is no required front yard) to the required rear yard.

The City Engineer or assigns.

The map or maps incorporated into this Chapter as a part hereof.