A use or structure on the same lot with the principal use or structure and of a nature customarily incidental and subordinate to the principal structure.

A change or rearrangement in the structural parts of a structure, an enlargement of a structure, whether by extending on the side or by increasing the height, or the movement of a structure from one location to another.

An establishment where meals and/or lodging is provided for compensation by prearrangement, other than in dwelling units, without limitation on time periods involved, and for a total of five to 10 roomers and/or boarders.

A structure having one or more stories and a roof, which is used or intended to be used for shelter or enclosure of persons, property or animals.

A building's vertical measurement, from the mean level of the finished grade in front of the building to the highest point on the roofline of a flat roof or of a roof having a slope of less than 15° from the horizontal, and to a point midway between the peak and the eaves of a roof having a slope of 15° or more.

An office or group of offices for one or more physicians or dentists engaged in the treatment of persons.

A place where regular care is provided to two or more infirm persons, children, or aged persons, who are not members of the family which resides on the premises.

A place where day care is provided to five or more children who are not members of the family which resides on the premises, provided this definition will not include public or private schools organized, operated, or approved under state law.

Any man-made change to improved or unimproved real estate, including, but not limited to, construction of or additions or substantial improvements to buildings, other structures, or accessory uses, mobile homes, mining, dredging, filling, grading, paving, excavation or drilling operations, and deposition of materials.

A place where more than two adult dogs are boarded for a fee on a recurrent basis or a place where more than five adult dogs are kept for any purpose.

Any establishment dispensing or serving food in automobiles, including those establishments where customers serve themselves and may eat or drink in the building or in their automobiles on the premises.

A room or rooms connected together, constituting a separate, independent housekeeping establishment for one family only, for owner occupancy or for rental, lease or other occupancy on a weekly or longer basis, physically separated from any other rooms or dwelling units, and containing independent cooking and sleeping facilities.

A building transportable in one or more sections, built on a permanent chassis, with body width exceeding eight feet or body length exceeding 32 feet, designed to be used as a single dwelling with or without a permanent foundation when connected to the required utilities.

A building containing three or more dwelling units. "Multiple-family dwelling" includes cooperative apartments, condominiums, apartments and the like. Regardless of how rental units are equipped, any multifamily dwelling in which units are available for rental periods of less than one week will be considered a motel.

A building containing not more than one dwelling unit attached at the side or sides in a series or group of three or more buildings, each containing not more than one dwelling unit. Each building will be separated from the adjoining building or buildings by a party wall or walls extending from footings through roofs. The term "attached dwelling" is intended to imply townhouses, patio, or atrium houses or any form which conforms to this definition.

A building containing not more than one dwelling unit, entirely separated from structures on adjacent lots. The term "detached dwelling" will not include mobile homes, travel trailers, or other forms of portable or temporary housing, but may include modular or sectional homes constructed in accordance with ANSI (American National Standards Institute), provided any such dwelling will require a permanent foundation, be constructed with nonreflective exterior materials, and have a one-to-four, rise-to-run, roof pitch. No modular or section home will exceed a building width-to-length ratio of one to three.

One building containing not more than two dwelling units or two buildings, attached at the side, with not more than one dwelling unit per building. "Two-family dwelling" is intended to imply single-family semidetached buildings and duplexes or any form which conforms to this definition.

One or more persons occupying a single dwelling unit, provided that, unless all members are related by blood or marriage, no such family will contain over five persons, but further provided that domestic servants employed on the premises may be housed on the premises without being counted as family.

A structure erected around or by the side of any open space to prevent passage in or out at the border of a property.

Buildings and premises where gasoline, oil, grease, batteries, tires, and automobile accessories may be supplied and dispensed at retail and where, in addition, minor repair work may be performed, such as ignition service, tire repair, repair and replacement of minor parts such as pumps and filters, brake service and the like. A filling station is not a repair or body shop.

Occupations conducted in a dwelling unit, provided:

An establishment where lodging is provided for compensation other than in dwelling units and for 11 or more persons. Hotels may serve meals to both occupants and others. "Hotel" is also intended to imply motel, motor court, motor lodge, tourist court, or any form which conforms to this definition.

A parcel of land used or set aside and available for use as the site for one or more buildings and buildings necessary or for any other purpose, in one ownership and not divided by a street nor including any land within the limits of a public or private street right-of-way. The term "record lot" means land designated as a distinct and separate parcel on a legally recorded deed or plat in the County Clerk's office at the county courthouse.

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

The percentage of the lot area covered by the principal structure.

The front of a lot will be construed to be the portion nearest the street. For the purposes of determining yard requirements on corner lots and through lots, all sides of a lot adjacent to streets will be considered frontage.

The line on the Official Map that indicates lot boundaries, provided any street lines will be considered lot lines for the purposes of this chapter.

The width of a lot measured at the front yard line.

A lot located at the intersection of two or more streets. A lot abutting a curved street will be considered a corner lot when the projected tangents of the lot lines along those streets meet at an interior angle of less than 135°.

A lot with only one frontage on a street.

A lot other than a corner lot with frontage on two streets.

A site designed and maintained for the location of two or more mobile homes under a continuing local general management and including special facilities for common use by the occupants, such as open space areas and recreational areas and buildings.

The total acreage of a lot, tract, or parcel excluding land in existing and proposed streets and street rights-of-way.

An establishment where lodging is provided for compensation other than in dwelling units, without meal service, and for a total of five to 10 persons.

A use that would not be appropriate in a zoning district but which, if controlled as to number, area, location or relation to the neighborhood, would promote the public health, safety, welfare, morals, order, comfort, convenience, appearance, property, or general welfare. Such uses may be permitted in a zoning district if they meet the requirements of this chapter.

That portion of a building, other than a basement, that is between the surface of any floor and the surface of the next floor above it or, if there is not a floor above, then the space between such floor and the ceiling next above it.

Anything constructed or erected with a fixed location on the ground or attached to something with a fixed location on the ground. Among other things, structures include signs, fences, mobile homes, and parking lots.

A relaxation of the terms of the zoning chapter where such variance will not be contrary to the public interest and where, owing to conditions peculiar to the property and not the result of the actions of the applicant, a literal enforcement of the chapter would result in unnecessary and undue hardship. Variances may be granted only if they meet the requirements of this chapter.

An open space other than a court, on a lot, unoccupied and unobstructed from the ground upward; provided, however, that fences, walls, poles, posts and other customary yard accessory ornaments and furniture may be permitted in any yard subject to height limitations and requirements limiting obstruction of visibility.

A yard extending across the front of a lot between the side lot lines and extending from the street line to the nearest building or projection of a building.

A yard extending across the rear of a lot between the side lot lines and extending from the rear property line to the nearest line of the principal structure or projection of the principal structure.

A yard extending between the nearest building or projection and the side lot line and extending from the front yard to the rear yard.