Carbon Hill City Zoning Code
ARTICLE X
Interpretation and Terminology
§ 330-50 Applicability.
In the construction of this chapter, the rules and definitions contained in this section shall be observed and applied, except when the context clearly indicates otherwise.
§ 330-51 Rules of interpretation.
A.
Words used in the present tense shall include the future tense and the future the present; words used in the singular number shall include the plural number, and the plural the singular; where the context requires;
B.
The word "shall" is mandatory and not discretionary; and the word "may" is permissive;
C.
The word "lot" shall include the words "piece," "parcel," and "tract"; and the phrase "used for" shall include the phrases "arranged for," "designed for," "intended for," "maintained for," and "occupied for";
D.
All measured distances shall be to the nearest integral foot;
E.
Any words not defined as follows shall be construed in their generally accepted meaning as defined in the most recent publication of Webster's Dictionary.
§ 330-52 Definitions.
As used in this chapter, the following terms shall have the meanings indicated:
To surrender one's claim to, right to, or interest in; give up entirely. Deserted; forsaken.
To have a common property line or district line.
A subordinate building or a portion of a principal building, the use of which is incidental and customary to that of the principal building. Where an accessory building or structure is attached to and made a part of the principal building such accessory building or structure shall comply in all respects with the requirements of this chapter applicable to the principal building.
[Amended at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General Provisions, Art. IV)]
An accessory use is one which is incidental to the dominant use of the premises.
To lie near or close to; in the neighborhood or vicinity of.
Touching or contiguous, as distinguished from lying near.
Land; or land, buildings, and structures, the principal uses of which are growing of farm or truck garden crops and one or more of the following: dairying, pasturage, apiculture, horticulture, floriculture, viticulture, or animal and poultry husbandry, and accessory uses customarily incidental to agricultural activities, including but not limited to the farm dwelling, dwellings for tenants and full-time hired farm workers and dwellings or lodging rooms for seasonal workers.
A right-of-way, which affords a secondary means of vehicular access to abutting properties.
A change in size, shape, occupancy or use of a building or structure.
A building or portion thereof designed or used for the care, observation, or treatment of domestic animals.
A building or portion thereof containing facilities for washing more than two motor vehicles, using production-line methods.
A building or portion thereof or lot used for offering for sale at retail to the public, fuels, oils and accessories for motor vehicles; where repair service is incidental, where no storage or parking space is offered for rent and no motor vehicles or boats are offered for sale or rent. When such dispensing, sale, or offering for sale is incidental to the conduct of a public garage, the premises are classified as a public garage.
An area of land where three or more motor vehicles, or vehicles, machinery, or equipment drawn or operated by attaching to motor vehicles or a mechanical unit, not in or being restored to running or operable condition, or parts thereof are stored in the open and any land, building or structure used for wrecking or storing prior to wrecking of such motor vehicles, vehicles, machinery, or equipment or parts thereof.
A roof-like mechanism, retractable in operation, which projects from the wall of a building.
A story having part but not more than one-half of its floor to clear ceiling height below grade. When a basement is used for storage, or garages for use of occupants of the building, or other facilities common for the operation and maintenance of the entire building, it shall not be counted as a story.
A tract of land bounded by streets, or by a combination of streets and public parks, railroad rights-of-way, or other lines of demarcation.
A residential building, or portion thereof, other than a motel, apartment hotel, or hotel, containing lodging rooms for accommodation of three or more but not more than 10 persons who are not members of the keeper's family and where lodging or meals or both are provided.
[Amended at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General Provisions, Art. IV)]
That portion of a lot bounded by the required rear yard, side yard and front yard.
A structure built for the support, enclosure, shelter or protection of person, animals, chattels, or property of any kind, and which is permanently affixed to the land. When any portion thereof is completely separated from every other portion by a party wall then such portion shall be deemed to be a separate building.[1]
A building separated on all sides from the adjacent open space, or from other buildings or structures, by a permanent roof and by exterior or party walls, pierced only by windows and normal entrance and exit doors.
A building surrounded by open space on the same lot.
The vertical distance from grade to the highest point of the coping of a flat roof or to the deck line of mansard roof, or to the mean height level between eaves and ridge for gable, hip or gambrel roofs. Chimneys, towers, spires, elevator penthouses, cooling towers and similar projections other than signs shall not be included in calculating building height.
A nonaccessory building in which is conducted the principal use of the lot.
Any building not designed to be permanently located at the place where it is, or where it is intended to be temporarily placed or affixed.
The term used to indicate the size and setback of buildings or structures, and the location of same with respect to one another, and includes the following:
An occupation, employment, or enterprise which occupies time, attention, labor, and materials; or wherein merchandise is exhibited or sold, or where services are offered.
The luminous intensity, as evaluated in effectiveness of stimulating visual sensation, of any radiation in a given direction. The international candle has been adopted in 1940 as 1/60 of the brightness of platinum.
A roofed automobile shelter, with two or more open sides.
An area having more than one-half of its floor to clear ceiling height below grade and which is not counted as a story.
Any building or portion thereof, the principal use of which is for offices of physicians or dentists or both, for the examination and treatment of persons on an out-patient basis.
The lowest temperature at which combustible liquid under prescribed conditions will give off a flammable vapor which will propagate a flame. The tag closed cup tester shall be authoritative for liquids having a flash point below 175° F. The Pensky-Martens tester shall be authoritative for liquids having a flash point between 175° F. and 300° F.
A nonprofit association of persons who are bonafide members and whose facilities are restricted to members and their guests. Food and alcoholic beverages may be served on its premises provided they are secondary and incidental to the principal use.
To judge or declare to be unfit for use or consumption, usually by official order. To appropriate (property).
A building or structure which:
A unit of measurement of the intensity or loudness of sound. Sound level meters employed to measure the intensity of sound are calibrated in decibels. A decibel is technically defined as 20 times the logarithm to the base 10 of the ration of the sound pressure in microbars to a reference pressure of 0.0002 microbar.
Separated; disconnected; standing apart from others.
The amplitude or intensity of an earthborn vibration measured in inches. The displacement or amplitude is one-half the total earth movement.
A section or portion of the Village within which certain uniform regulations and requirements or various combinations thereof apply under the provisions of this chapter.
An establishment or part thereof in which are provided facilities where serving or consuming commodities or both are intended to occur primarily in patrons' automobiles parked on the premises.
A structure containing two primary units with one main building, located on one lot which is intended to be used as the residence for two families. The two units must share a common wall that is at least 25% of the length of the side of the building. Units will have separate parking and be arranged horizontally (side by side).
A building or portion thereof designed or used exclusively for residential purposes, including single-family, two-family, and multiple-family dwellings, but not including mobile homes or other trailers, or lodging rooms in hotels, motels, or lodging houses.
One or more rooms which are used for living quarters for one family only. Individual bathrooms, and complete kitchen facilities, permanently installed to serve the entire family, shall always be included within each dwelling unit.
A dwelling joined to two other dwellings by party walls, or vertical cavity walls, and above ground physically unifying horizontal structure elements.
A dwelling which is surrounded on all sides by open space on the same lot.
A building or portion thereof containing three or more dwelling units.
A dwelling joined to one other dwelling by a party wall, or vertical cavity wall, and above ground physically unifying horizontal structure elements.
A dwelling containing one dwelling unit in a detached building unless otherwise specified.
A dwelling containing two dwelling units only, one above the other.
A cyclic movement of the earth due to the propagation of mechanical energy.
A dwelling unit consisting of one principal room, exclusive of bathroom, kitchen, hallway, closets, or dining alcove directly off the principal room.
A terminal at which electric energy is received from the transmission system and is delivered to the distribution system only.
A terminal at which electric energy is received from the transmission system and is delivered to other elements of the transmission system and, generally, to the local distribution system.
The shade on the Ringelmann Chart that most closely corresponds to the density of smoke, other than black or gray.
A structure, or lot used in whole or in part as a place of business, the ownership or management of which is separate and distinct from the ownership or management of any other place of business located on the same or other lot.
An accessory building and use which incorporates the fundamentals for fallout protection, shielding mass, ventilation, and space to live, and which is constructed of such materials, in such a manner, as to afford to the occupants substantial protection from radioactive fallout.
One or more persons, related by blood, adoption or marriage, living and cooking together as a single housekeeping unit, or a number of persons living and cooking together as a single housekeeping unit though not related by blood, adoption or marriage.
[Amended at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General Provisions, Art. IV)]
A structure, or tree or shrub hedge which is a barrier and used as a boundary or means of protection or confinement.
The elevation of the highest flood level that has been or may be subsequently designed by the Village Engineer. The flood-crest elevation designated by the Village Engineer shall be based on a stormwater drainage map showing flood-crest elevations at appropriate locations as approved by the Board of Trustees.
The continuous area adjacent to a stream or stream bed, or any stormwater retention area and its tributaries, whose elevation is equal to or lower than the flood-crest elevation, including also land having an elevation higher than flood-crest elevation but less than 10 acres in area and surrounded by land in a floodplain area or an area of such elevation secured by land fill projecting into a floodplain area.
Any point shall be deemed to be within the floodplain area if it falls below the elevation of a high-water mark, as the elevation of the mark is projected in horizontal directions perpendicular to the flow of the stream and thence to intersections at an equal elevation with the land on either side of the stream. Any point between the afore described projection of any two high-water marks shall be deemed within the floodplain area if it is at an elevation equal to or lower than similar projections of the interpolated flood-crest elevation. The interpolated flood-crest elevation is the calculated elevation of the flood-crest at the center line of the stream between two known flood-crests of the nearest upstream and downstream high-water marks and the difference in elevation between the flood-crest at this location and at either of the high-water mark projections is directly proportional to the difference in stream center line distance between the two high-water mark projections.
For determining floor area ratio:
The sum of the grass horizontal areas of the several floors, including also the basement floor of a building, measured from the exterior faces of the exterior walls, or from the center lines of walls separating two buildings. The "floor area" shall also include the horizontal areas on each floor devoted to: a) elevator shafts and stairwells; b) mechanical equipment, except if located on the roof, when either open or enclose, i.e., bulkheads, water tanks, and cooling towers; c) habitable attic space as permitted by the Building Code of Grundy County; d) interior balconies and mezzanines; e) enclosed porches; and f) accessory uses. The floor area of structures used for bulk storage of materials, i.e., grain elevators, petroleum tanks, shall also be included in the floor area and such floor area shall be determined on the basis of the height of such structures with one floor for each 10 feet of structure height and if such structure measures less than 10 feet but not less than five feet over such floor height intervals, it shall be construed to have an additional floor.
The horizontal area in each floor of a building devoted to off-street parking and off-street loading facilities and the horizontal area of a cellar floor shall not be included in the floor area.
For determining off-street parking and off-street loading requirements: floor area when prescribed as the basis of measurement for off-street parking spaces and off-street loading spaces for any use shall be the sum of the gross horizontal area of the several floors of the building, excluding areas used for accessory off-street parking facilities and the horizontal areas of the basement and cellar floors that are devoted exclusively to uses accessory to the operation of the entire building. All horizontal dimensions shall be taken from the exterior of the walls.
The numerical value obtained by dividing the floor area within a building or buildings on a lot by the area of such lot. The floor area ratio as designated for each district when multiplied by the lot area in square feet shall determine the maximum permissible floor area for the building or buildings on a lot.
A unit of illumination, equivalent to the illumination at all points which are one foot distant from a uniform point source of one candle power.
A unit of brightness, usually of a reflecting surface. A diffusion surface of uniform brightness reflecting or emitting the equivalent of the light from one candle at one foot distance over one square foot has a brightness of one foot-lambert.
The rate of combustion of a material which burns actively, and easily supports combustion.
A building or area in which freight brought by motor truck or railroad freight cars is assembled or stored for routing in intrastate or interstate shipment by motor trucks or railroad freight cars.
Signifies the number of oscillations per second in a sound wave and is and index of the pitch of the resulting sound.
An accessory building designed and used for the storage of motor vehicles owned and used by the occupants of the building to which it is accessory and in which no occupation or business for profit is carried on. Not more than one of the motor vehicles may be a commercial vehicle of not more than 1 1/2 ton capacity.
A building or portion thereof other than a private or storage garage, designed or used for equipping, servicing, or repairing motor vehicles. Hiring, selling, or storing of motor vehicles may be included.
A building or portion thereof designed or used or land used exclusively for storage of motor vehicles, and in which motor fuels and oils are not sold, and motor vehicles are not equipped, repaired, hired or sold.
The established grade of the street or sidewalk. Where no such grade has been established, the grade shall be the elevation of the sidewalk at the property line. Where no sidewalks exist, the grade shall be the average elevation of the street adjacent to the property line, except in cases of unusual topographic conditions as determined by the Building and Zoning Officer or designee grade shall be the average elevation of the finished surface of the ground adjoining the exterior walls of a building at the base of a structure.
The ratio between total number of dwelling units on a lot and total lot area in acres.
The lot area covered by a principal building, measured at highest point grade, adjacent to building, from the exterior faces of the exterior walls, but excluding open porches or terraces, and garages or carports.
A person who occupies or has the right to occupy a lodging house, rooming house, boarding house, hotel, apartment hotel or motel accommodation as his domicile and place of permanent residence.
Any gainful business, occupation or profession conducted within a dwelling unit by a member of the family residing in the dwelling unit and which is incidental and secondary to the use of the dwelling unit for dwelling purposes.
[Amended at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General Provisions, Art. IV)]
An establishment containing lodging rooms, for occupancy by transient guests in contradistinction to a lodging house, boarding house, or a rooming house, and which provides customer hotel services such as: maid, telephone and secretarial, bellboy and desk services; and the use and upkeep of furnishing and laundry of linens.
A hotel in which at least 80% of the hotel accommodations are occupied by permanent guests.
A short-duration sound which is incapable of being accurately measured on a sound level meter.
Discrete vibration pulsations occurring no more often than one per second.
A material which will not ignite nor actively support combustion during and exposure for five minutes to a temperature of 1,200° F.
A building occupied by a not-for-profit corporation wholly for public or semipublic use.
The rate of combustion described by a material that burns with a high degree of activity and is consumed rapidly. Examples: sawdust, magnesium (powder, flaked, or strips), rocket fuels.
An open area of land and any accessory building or structure thereon which is used primarily for buying, selling, exchanging, storing, baling, packing, disassembling, or handling waste or scrap materials, including vehicles, machinery, and equipment not in operable condition or parts thereof, and other metals, paper, rags, rubber tires and bottles. A "junkyard" includes an automobile wrecking yard, but does not include an establishment, located in the applicable Manufacturing District, engaged exclusively in processing of scrap iron or other metals to be sold only to establishments engaged in manufacturing of steel and metal alloys.
Any premises or portion thereof on which more than three dogs, cats, or other household domestic animals over one year of age are kept, or on which more than two such animals are maintained, boarded, bred, or cared for, in return for remuneration, or are kept for the purpose of sale.
1/929 of a foot-lambert; usually used to designate intrinsic brightness of light sources.
A strip of land used or intended for use for the landing and takeoff of the private aircraft of the owner or lessee of the landing strip and his guests and such accessory structures customarily incidental to the operations which may include one building for the storage and maintenance of not more than two such private aircrafts.
A business that provides coin operated self-service type washing, drying, dry-cleaning, and ironing facilities, providing that:
A space within the principal building or on the same lot as the principal building providing for the standing, loading or unloading of trucks and with access to a street or alley.
A building originally designed for and used as a single or two-family dwelling, all or portion of which contains lodging rooms which accommodate persons who are not members of the keeper's family. Lodging, or meals, or both are provided for compensation for three or more but not more than 10 persons.
A room or suite of rooms rented as sleeping and living quarters, but without cooking facilities and with or without an individual bathroom. In a suite of rooms, each room which provides sleeping accommodations shall be counted as one lodging room for the purpose of this chapter.
A single parcel of land which is legally described and recorded as such, or which is one or more numbered lots or parts of such lots legally described and recorded as part of a recorded subdivision plat, and in any case is located within a single block and having its principal frontage on a street or an easement or other common-use right-of-way, and which is designated by the owner at the time of application for a building permit as the site to be used, developed, or built upon as a unit under single-ownership or control. Therefore, a lot may or may not coincide with a single lot of record.
The area of a horizontal plane bounded by the front, side and rear lines of a lot.
The area of a lot occupied by buildings or structures, including accessory buildings or structures.
The mean distance between the front lot line and the rear lot line of a lot measured within the lot boundaries.
The boundary of a lot abutting a street. On a corner lot, either lot line may be construed to be the front lot line.
A lot line which does not abut a street.
An interior lot line which is most distant from and is almost parallel to the front lot line, and in the case of an irregular, or triangular, shaped lot a line 10 feet in length within the lot, which is parallel to and at maximum distance from the front lot line.
Any boundary of a lot which is not a front lot line or a rear lot line.
The property lines bounding a lot.
A single lot which is part of a subdivision, the plat of which has been recorded in the office of the Recorder of Deeds of Grundy County, Illinois.
The minimum distance between the side lot lines of a lot measured at the narrowest point within the front 30 feet of the buildable area.
A lot of which at least two adjacent sides abut for their full length upon streets; provided that the interior angle at the intersection of such two sides is less than 135°.
A lot that is not a corner lot.
A corner lot, the street side lot line of which is substantially a continuation of the front lot line of the first lot to its rear.
A lot having a pair of opposite lot lines along two more or less parallel streets, and which is not a corner lot. Both street lines shall be deemed front lot lines.
An establishment, the principal use of which is manufacturing, fabricating, processing, assembly, repairing, storing, cleaning, servicing, or testing of materials, goods or products.
A roof-like structure of a permanent nature which projects from the wall of a building.
A unit of length, equal to 0.001 millimeter.
A detached single-family dwelling unit with all of the following characteristics:
[Amended at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General Provisions, Art. IV)]
Designed for long-term occupancy, and containing sleeping accommodations, a flush toilet, a tub or shower bath, and kitchen facilities, with plumbing and electrical connections provided for attachment to outside systems;
Designed to be transported after fabrication on its own wheels, or on a flatbed or other trailer, or detachable wheels;
Arriving at the site where it is to be occupied as a dwelling, complete and ready for occupancy except for minor and incidental unpacking and assembly operations, location on a foundation, connection to utilities, and the like.
See definition in § 330-19B.
[Amended at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General Provisions, Art. IV)]
Implies a rate of combustion described by a material which supports combustion and is consumed slowly as it burns. Examples: wood, timber and logs.
An establishment consisting of a group of attached or detached lodging rooms with bathrooms, and where more than 50% of the lodging rooms are used for occupancy by transient automobile tourists. Cooking facilities shall not be included in any of the lodging rooms, but one dwelling unit may be included for occupancy by the owner or manager of the motel.
A building or area in which freight brought by motor truck is assembled or stored for routing in intrastate or interstate shipment by motor truck.
A passenger vehicle, truck or truck-trailer, trailer, or semi-trailer propelled or drawn by mechanical power.
A sign indicating the name and address of a building, or the name of an occupant thereof, and the practice of a permitted occupation therein.
A strip of land within and along a rear lot line of a through lot adjoining a street which is designated on a recorded subdivision plat or property deed as land over which motor vehicular travel shall not be permitted.
Any building or structure lawfully established which:
Any building or structure and the use thereof or the use of land that does not conform with the regulations of this chapter or any amendment thereto governing use in the district in which it is located but conformed with all of the codes, ordinances, and other legal requirements, applicable to the time such building, or structure was erected, enlarged, or altered, and the use thereof or the use of land was established.
A material which is capable of causing injury to living organisms by chemical reaction, or is capable of causing detrimental effects of the physical or economic well-being of individuals.
An establishment for the part-time care of five or more children of preelementary school age in addition to the members of the family residing therein.
A home for aged, chronically ill, care of children, inform or incurable persons, or a place of rest for those persons suffering bodily disorders, in which three or more persons not members of the family residing on the premises are received, and provided with food, shelter and care, but not including hospitals, clinics, or similar institutions devoted primarily to the diagnosis and treatment of disease or injury, maternity cases, or mental illness.
The act of taking possession of previously unowned property with the intent of obtaining the right to own it. The period during which one owns, rents, or uses certain premises or land.
A prescribed interval of sound frequencies which classifies sound according to its pitch.
An electronic frequency analyzer designed according to standards of the American Standards Association and used in conjunction with a sound level meter to take measurements of sound pressure level in specific octave bands.
The lowest concentration of odorous matter in air that will produce an olfactory response in a human being. Odor thresholds shall be determined in accordance with ASTM Method D1391-57, "Standard Method for Measurement of Odor in Atmospheres (Dilution Method)."
Any material that produces an olfactory response among human beings.
Land which is improved and used or a structure which is designed and used exclusively for the storage of passenger motor vehicles, either for accessory off-street parking spaces or commercial off-street parking spaces when permitted herein by district regulations.
Land used or occupied for the purpose of buying, selling, or renting merchandise stored or displayed out-of-doors prior to sale. Such merchandise includes automobiles, trucks, motor scooters, motorcycles, boats, or similar commodities.
An area, enclosed in a building or unenclosed, reserved for the parking of one motor vehicle and which is accessible to and from a street or alley.
Material other than water which is suspended in or discharged into the atmosphere in a finely-divided form as a liquid or solid at outdoor ambient conditions.
A common wall which extends from its footing below grade to the underside of the roof and divides buildings.
A criteria established to control smoke and particulate matter, noise, odorous matter, toxic matter, vibration, fire and explosion hazards, glare, and radiation hazards generated by or inherent in uses of land or buildings.
The Village's Planning Commission.
A set of octave bands described by the band center frequency and standardized by the American Standards Association in ASA Standard N. S1.6-1960, "Preferred Frequencies for Acoustical Measurements."
A dust in a finely-divided state that is spontaneously combustible in air.
The deleterious and harmful effects of all ionizing radiation, which shall include all radiation capable of producing ions in their passage through matter. Such radiations shall include, but are not limited to, electromagnetic radiations such as X-rays and gamma rays and particulate radiations such as electrons or beta particles, protons, neurons, and alpha particles.
A strip of land containing railroad tracks and auxiliary facilities for track operations, but not including freight depots or stations, loading platforms, train sheds, warehouses, car or locomotive shops, or car yards.
All waste products resulting from human habitation, except sewage.
A building or group of buildings in which are located facilities for scientific research, investigation, testing, or experimentation, but not facilities for the manufacture or sale of products, except as incidental to the main purpose of the laboratory.
Those off-street parking spaces allocated for temporary standing of automobiles awaiting entrance to a particular establishment.
The chart described in the U.S. Bureau of Mines Information Circular 6888, on which are illustrated graduated shades of gray for use in estimating the light-obscuring capacity of smoke, smoke density.
The number of the area of the Ringelmann Chart that coincides most neatly with the visual density or equivalent opacity of the emission or smoke observed.
The portion of a street which is used or intended to be used for the travel of motor vehicles.
The minimum horizontal distance between a street line and the nearest wall of a building, or side of a structure facing such street line, or edge of the area of operation of a principal use when no building or structure is involved.
When 40% or more of the lots fronting on one side of a street within a block are improved, the existing setbacks of such improved lots shall be the established setback for determining the depth of the required front yards for the remainder of the lots along such street frontage, as regulated in this chapter.
A name, identification, description, illustration, display or device which is affixed to, painted or represented upon a building, structure or land and which directs attention to a product, place, activity, person, institution, or business. For purpose of definition, a sign structure may be single face or double face. However, a sign shall not include any display of any court, public or official notice, nor shall it include the flag, emblem, insignia of a nation, political unit, school, religious or charitable institution or organization. A sign shall also include a permanent sign located within an enclosed building in such a manner as to be viewed or intended for view primarily from the exterior of the building.
A structure including a billboard on which is portrayed information which directs attention to a business, commodity, service, or entertainment or other activity not related to use on the lot upon which the sign structure is located.
A sign which directs attention to a business, commodity, service, entertainment or other activity conducted on the lot upon which such sign is located.
An illuminated sign on which the artificial light is not maintained constant or stationary in intensity or color at all times when such sign is in use. For the purpose of this chapter, a revolving sign, or any advertising device which attracts attention by moving parts, operated be mechanical equipment or movement is caused by natural sources, whether or not illuminated with artificial lighting, shall be considered a flashing sign.
The entire area within a single continuous perimeter enclosing the extreme limits of a sign.
A sign which is supported by one or more uprights or braces in or upon the ground.
A sign which is affixed to any building wall or structure and extends beyond the building wall or parts thereof or structure more than 12 inches.
A sign erected, constructed, and maintained above the roof of any building.
A sign which is affixed to an exterior wall of any building, when sign project not more than 12 inches from the building wall or parts thereof.
The visible discharge from a chimney, stack, vent, exhaust, or combustion process which is made up of particulate matter.
The number obtained when the smoke density in the Ringelmann Number is multiplied by the time of emission in minutes. For the purpose of this calculation: a) a Ringelmann density reading shall be made at least once a minute during the period of observation; b) each reading is then multiplied by the time in minutes during which it is observed; and c) the various products are then added together to give the total number of smoke units observed during the entire observation period.
The intensity of sound of an operation or use as measured in decibels.
An instrument for the measurement of sound pressure levels constructed in accordance with the standards of the American Standards Association and calibrated in decibels.
The intensity of sound or noise in decibels.
A building or structure which is located on a lot on which a dwelling is located, and which is designated, arranged, used or intended to be used for housing horses for the private use of occupants of the dwelling, but in no event for hire.
A building where horses are kept for remuneration, hire or sale.
That portion of a building, other than a cellar, 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. The floor of a story may have split levels provided that there are not more than four feet difference in elevation between the different levels of the floor. A basement shall be counted as a story, except when used for storage, garages for use of occupants of a building or other facilities common for the rest of the building. A mezzanine floor shall be counted as a story when it covers over 1/3 the area of the floor next below it, or of the vertical distance from the floor next below it to the floor next above it is 24 feet or more.
A partial story under a gable, hip or gambrel roof, the wall plates of which on at least two opposite exterior walls are not more than three feet above the floor of such story, except that any partial story used for residence purposes other than for a janitor or caretaker or his family, or by a family occupying the floor immediately below it. Shall be deemed a full story.
A public or private right-of-way or easement which is designated as a permanent right-of-way or easement for common use as the primary means of vehicular access to properties abutting on it.
The street right-of-way line abutting a property line of a lot.
All of the property fronting on one side of a street between two intersecting streets, or in the case of a dead-end street, all of the property along one side of the street between an intersecting street and the end of such dead-end street.
Any change in the supporting members of a building, such as bearing walls, columns, beams or girders, or any substantial change in the roof or in the exterior walls, excepting such repair or replacement as may be required for the safety of the building.
Anything constructed or erected, the use of which requires more or less permanent location on the ground or attached to something having a permanent location on the ground, including, but without limiting the generality of the foregoing, advertising signs, back stops for tennis courts, and pergolas.
An establishment where liquors are sold to be consumed on the premises but not including restaurants where the principal business is the serving of food.
Instruments which measure simultaneously earthborn vibrations in horizontal and vertical planes.
A building which contains a single dwelling unit and in which meals or lodging or both are provided or offered to transient guests for compensation. Does not include a hotel, apartment hotel, or a motel.
A parcel or tract of land containing facilities for locating three or more travel trailers or mobile homes, and for use only by transients remaining less than three months, whether or not a charge is made. An open sales lot in which automobiles or unoccupied trailers are parked for the purposes of inspection or sale is not included in a tourist park.
Those materials which are capable of causing injury to living organisms by chemical means.
Any vehicle or portable structure constructed so as to permit occupancy thereof for lodging or dwelling purposes or for the use as an accessory building or structure in the conduct of business, trade, or occupation, and which may be used as a conveyance on streets and highways, by its own or other motive power.
A trailer designed and constructed for temporary dwelling purposes which does not contain certain built-in sanitary facilities and has a gross floor area of less than 130 square feet.
Any vehicle or mobile structure designed for highway travel less than 30 feet long, on wheels, skids, rollers or blocks designed to be pulled, pushed or carried by motor vehicle, and any house, car, camp car, piggyback camper or self-propelled motor vehicle which is designed for sleeping or commercial purposes, and which is complete and ready for occupancy as such except for minor and incidental unpacking and assembly operations, location on jacks, connections to utilities, and the like.
[Amended at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General Provisions, Art. IV)]
A dwelling for use by one family.
The purpose or activity for which the land, or building thereon, is designed, arranged, or intended, or for which it is occupied or maintained, and shall include any manner of performance of such activity with respect to the performance standards of this chapter.
A use that has unusual operational, physical, or other characteristics that may be different from those of the predominant permitted uses in a district, but which is a use that complements and is otherwise, or can be made, compatible with the intended over-all development within a district. Compliance with special standards not necessarily applicable to other permitted uses or conditional permitted uses in the district shall be required for a conditional permitted use, as regulated in this chapter.
The use of any building, structure, or land that conforms with all of the regulations of this chapter or any amendment hereto and which conforms with all of the codes, ordinances, and other legal requirements, as existing at the time of the enactment of this chapter or any amendment thereto, for the structure or land that is being examined.
Any use which is or may be lawfully established in a particular district or districts, provided it conforms with all requirements, regulations, and when applicable, performance standards of this chapter for the district in which such use is located.
The dominant use of land or buildings as distinguished from a subordinate or accessory use.
Containing nothing; empty. Not occupied or put to use.
A machine for dispensing merchandise or services designed to be operated by the customer.
The periodic displacement, measured in inches, of earth at designated frequency, cycles per second.
An open area n a lot which is unobstructed from its lowest level to the sky, except as otherwise provided in this chapter.
A yard which is bounded by the side lot lines, front lot line, and the front yard line.
A side yard which adjoins another lot or an alley separating such side yard from another lot.
A line in a lot that is parallel to the lot along which the applicable yard extends and which is not nearer to such lot line at any point than the required depth or width of the applicable yard. A building, structure or other obstruction shall not encroach into the area between the yard line and such adjacent lot line, except for such permitted obstructions in yards as set forth in this chapter.
A yard which is bounded by side lot lines, rear lot line, and the rear yard line.
A yard which is bounded by the rear yard line, front yard line, side yard line, and side lot line.
A yard which is bounded by the front lot line, side yard adjoining a street line and rear lot line.
The districts into which the Village has been divided for zoning regulations and requirements as set forth on the Zoning District Map.
The Zoning Enforcement Office is the Village Hall from which the Building and Zoning Officer or designee as may be duly appointed by the Board of Trustees shall administer and enforce the provisions of this chapter and to make such determinations, interpretations and orders as are necessary therefore, and require such plats, plans, and other descriptive material in connection with the applications for permits as are necessary for him/her to judge compliance with this chapter in accordance with regulations set forth in this chapter.