DEFINITIONS
In construing the intended meaning of terminology used in this Code, the following rules shall be observed:
(A)
Words and phrases shall have the meanings respectively ascribed to them in Section 40-2-2 unless the context clearly indicates otherwise; terms not defined in Section 40-2-2 shall have their standard English dictionary meanings.
(B)
Words denoting the masculine gender shall be deemed to include the feminine and neuter genders.
(C)
Words used in the present tense shall include the future tense.
(D)
Words used in the singular number shall include the plural number, and the plural shall include the singular.
(E)
The term "shall" is mandatory; the term "may" is discretionary.
(F)
All distances shall be measured to the nearest integral foot; six (6) inches or more shall be deemed one (1) foot.
(G)
References to sections shall be deemed to include all subsections within that section; but a reference to a particular subsection designates only that subsection.
(H)
A general term that follows or is followed by enumerations of specific terms shall not be limited to the enumerated class unless expressly limited.
"ABUTTING" means having a common lot line or district line (synonym for "adjacent").
"ACCESS WAY" means a curb cut, ramp, driveway, or other means for providing vehicular access to an off-street parking or loading area.
"ACCESSORY USE" means any structure or use that is:
(A)
Subordinate in size or purpose to the principal structure or use which it serves;
(B)
Necessary or contributing to the comfort and convenience of the occupants of the principal structure or use served; and
(C)
Located on the same lot as the principal structure or use served.
"ADMINISTRATOR" means the official appointed by the Mayor with the advice and consent of the City Council, or his representative, to administer this Code (synonymous with "Zoning Administrator").
"ADULT-USE CANNABIS BUSINESS ESTABLISHMENT" means a cultivation center, craft grower, processing organization, infuser organization, dispensing organization or transporting organization.
"ADULT-USE CANNABIS CRAFT GROWER" means a facility operated by an organization or business that is licensed by the Illinois Department of Agriculture to cultivate, dry, cure and package cannabis and perform other necessary activities to make cannabis available for sale at a dispensing organization or use at a processing organization, per the Cannabis Regulation and Tax Act, (P.A. 101-0027), as it may be amended from time-to-time, and regulations promulgated thereunder.
"ADULT-USE CANNABIS CULTIVATION CENTER" means a facility operated by an organization or business that is licensed by the Illinois Department of Agriculture to cultivate, process, transport and perform necessary activities to provide cannabis and cannabis-infused products to licensed cannabis business establishments, per the Cannabis Regulation and Tax Act, (P.A. 101-0027), as it may be amended from time-to-time, and regulations promulgated thereunder.
"ADULT-USE CANNABIS DISPENSING ORGANIZATION" means a facility operated by an organization or business that is licensed by the Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation to acquire cannabis from licensed cannabis business establishments for the purpose of selling or dispensing cannabis, cannabis-infused products, cannabis seeds, paraphernalia or related supplies to purchasers or to qualified registered medical cannabis patients and caregivers, per the Cannabis Regulation and Tax Act, (P.A.101-0027), as it may be amended from time-to-time, and regulations promulgated thereunder.
"ADULT-USE CANNABIS INFUSER ORGANIZATION OR INFUSER" means a facility operated by an organization or business that is licensed by the Illinois Department of Agriculture to directly incorporate cannabis or cannabis concentrate into a product formulation to produce a cannabis-infused product, per the Cannabis Regulation and Tax Act, (P.A.101-0027), as it may be amended from time-to-time, and regulations promulgated thereunder.
"ADULT-USE CANNABIS PROCESSING ORGANIZATION OR PROCESSOR" means a facility operated by an organization or business that is licensed by the Illinois Department of Agriculture to either extract constituent chemicals or compounds to produce cannabis concentrate or incorporate cannabis or cannabis concentrate into a product formulation to produce a cannabis product, per the Cannabis Regulation and Tax Act, (P.A.101-0027), as it may be amended from time-to-time, and regulations promulgated thereunder.
"ADULT-USE CANNABIS TRANSPORTING ORGANIZATION OR TRANSPORTER" means an organization or business that is licensed by the Illinois Department of Agriculture to transport cannabis on behalf of a cannabis business establishment or a community college licensed under the Community College Cannabis Vocational Training Pilot Program, per the Cannabis Regulation and Tax Act, (P.A.101-0027), as it may be amended from time-to-time, and regulations promulgated thereunder.
"AGRICULTURE" means any one (1) or any combination of the following: The growing of farm or truck garden crops, dairying, pasturage, horticulture, floriculture, or animal/poultry husbandry. The term "agriculture" encompasses the farmhouse and accessory uses and structures customarily incidental to agricultural activities.
"AISLE" means a vehicular traffic way within an off-street parking area, used as a means of access/egress from parking spaces.
"ALLEY" means a public right-of-way which affords a secondary means of vehicular access to abutting premises that front on a nearby street.
"ALTER" means to change the size, shape or use of a structure.
"AMENDMENT" means a change in the provisions of this Code (including the District Map), properly effected in accordance with State law and the procedures set forth herein.
"ANCHOR" means any approved device to which a mobile home is tied down to keep it firmly attached to the stand on which it is placed.
"ASPHALTIC CONCRETE" means a mixture of petroleum by-products and gravel used for paving to form a smooth, permanent surface. "Asphaltic concrete" does not mean "oil and chip".
"ATTACHED" as applied to buildings means having a common wall and/or a common roof.
"BILLBOARD" means any single or double-faced sign displaying messages or advertising not associated with the premises on which the said sign is located or to which it is affixed.
"BLOCK" means an area of land entirely bounded by streets, highways, barriers, or ways (except alleys, pedestrian ways, or exterior boundaries of a subdivision unless exterior boundary is a street, highway or way), or bounded by a combination of streets, public parks, cemeteries, railroad rights-of-way, waterways or corporate boundary lines.
"BOARD OF APPEALS" means the Zoning Board of Appeals of the City.
"BUFFER STRIP" An area of land undeveloped except for landscaping fences, etc.—used to protect a use situated on one (1) lot from the deleterious effects of the use on the adjacent lot.
"BUILDING" means any covered structure permanently affixed to land and designed or used to shelter persons or chattels.
"BUILDING HEIGHT" means the vertical distance measured from the average grade at the front wall of a building 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.
"BUILDING LINE" means the line nearest the front of and across a lot, delineating the minimum open space required between the front of a structure and the street right-of-way line.
"BULK" means any one (1) or any combination of the following structural or site design characteristics:
(A)
Size or height of structure;
(B)
Location of exterior walls at all levels in relation to lot lines, streets, or other structures;
(C)
Lot area;
(D)
Yards or setbacks.
"CENTERLINE" means:
(A)
The centerline of any right-of-way having a uniform width;
(B)
The original centerline where a right-of-way has been widened irregularly;
(C)
The new centerline, whenever a road has been relocated.
"CERTIFICATE OF ZONING COMPLIANCE, FINAL" A permit issued by the Administrator indicating that a lot, or newly completed structure, or use complied with all pertinent requirements of this Chapter and therefore, may be occupied or used.
"CERTIFICATE OF ZONING COMPLIANCE, INITIAL" A permit issued by the Administrator indicating a proposed lot, structure, or use is in conformity with the requirements of this Code.
"CLINIC" means an establishment wherein licensed physicians, chiropractors, or dentists practice their professions, but where overnight lodging for sick or injured persons is not provided.
"CLUB/LODGE" means a nonprofit association of persons who are bonafide members organized for some purpose(s) and paying regular dues and whose facilities are restricted to members and their guests; not including a group organized solely or primarily to render a service customarily carried on as a commercial enterprise.
"COMMERCIAL USE/ESTABLISHMENT" means any use or establishment wherein goods are purchased or sold, whether to the consuming public (retail) or to other businesses (wholesale).
"CONFORMING" means in compliance with the applicable provisions of this Code.
"CONVENIENCE/GASOLINE SERVICE STATION" means a building or premises or portion thereof used for retail sales of gasoline, oil and accessories of motor vehicles and general convenience service goods to include the retail sale of alcoholic beverages, not for consumption on the premises where it is sold.
"CORRECTIVE ACTION ORDER" means a legally binding order issued by the Administrator in accordance with the procedures set forth herein to effect compliance with this Code.
"DETACHED" as applied to buildings, means surrounded by yards on the same lot as the building.
"DEVELOP" means to erect any structure or to install any improvements on a tract of land, or to undertake any activity (such as grading) in preparation therefore.
"DIMENSIONS" refers to both lot depth and lot width.
"DISTRICT, ZONING" means a portion of the territory of the City wherein certain uniform requirements or various combinations thereof apply to structures, lots and uses under the terms of this Code.
"DRIVEWAY" means a minor way commonly providing vehicular access to a garage or off-street parking area.
"DWELLING" means a building or portion thereof designed or used primarily as living quarters for one (1) or more families, but not including hotels, motels, or other accommodations for the transient public.
"DWELLING, MULTIPLE-FAMILY" means a building or portion thereof containing three (3) or more dwelling units.
"DWELLING, SINGLE-FAMILY" means a dwelling containing one (1) dwelling unit and intended for the occupancy of one (1) family.
"DWELLING, TWO-FAMILY" OR "DUPLEX" means a dwelling containing two (2) dwelling units.
"DWELLING UNIT" means one (1) or more rooms designed or used as living quarters by one (1) family. A "dwelling unit" always includes a bathroom and a kitchen.
"EASEMENT" means a right to use another person's real property for certain limited purposes.
"ENCLOSED" as applied to a building, means covered by a permanent roof and separated on all sides from adjacent open space or other buildings by fixed exterior walls or by common walls, with openings only for windows and doors.
"ENLARGE" means to increase the size (floor area, height, etc.) of an existing principal structure or accessory use, or to devote more land to an existing use.
"ERECT" means to build or construct.
"ESTABLISHMENT" means either of the following:
(A)
An institutional, business, commercial or industrial activity that is the sole occupant of one (1) or more buildings; or
(B)
An institutional, business, commercial or industrial activity that occupies a portion of a building such that:
(1)
The activity is a logical and separate entity from the other activities with the building and not a department of the whole; and
(2)
The activity has either a separate entrance from the exterior of the building, or a separate entrance from a common and clearly defined entry way that has direct access to the exterior of the building.
"EXISTING" means actually constructed or in operation on the effective date of this Code.
"FAMILY" means:
(A)
A single individual doing his own cooking and living upon the premises as a separate housekeeping unit; or
(B)
A collective body of persons doing their own cooking and living together upon the premises as a separate housekeeping unit in a domestic relationship based upon birth, marriage, adoption or employment as domestic servants; or
(C)
A group of not more than three (3) unrelated persons doing their own cooking and living together on the premises as a separate housekeeping unit pursuant to a mutual housekeeping agreement (not including a group occupying a boarding or rooming house, club, fraternity or hotel).
"FLOOR AREA, GROSS" means the sum of the gross horizontal areas of the several floors of a building, measured from the exterior faces of the exterior walls or from the center of the common walls of attached buildings. "Gross floor area" includes basement floors, attic floor space, halls, closets, stairwells, space devoted to mechanical equipment, and enclosed porches.
"FREIGHT TERMINAL", as applied to motor carriers subject to the 625 ILCS 5/18; a station for commercial motor vehicles wherein said motor trucks are stored, repaired or parked.
"FRONTAGE" means the lineal extent of the front (street side) of a lot or establishment.
"GARAGE, PRIVATE" means a building for four (4) or less passenger vehicles without provision for repairing or servicing such vehicles for profit.
"GREENHOUSE": See "NURSERY".
"HEREAFTER" means any time after the effective date of this Code.
"HOME OCCUPATION" means any business, profession, or occupation conducted for gain entirely within a dwelling or on residential premises in conformity with the provisions of this Code.
"HOTEL" means any building or buildings in which the public may, for a consideration, obtain living quarters, sleeping or housekeeping accommodation. The term includes, but is not limited to, inns, motels, tourist homes or courts, lodging houses, rooming houses and apartment houses, retreat centers, conference centers, and hunting lodges.
"IMMOBILIZE", as applied to a mobile home, means to remove the wheels, tongue, and hitch and/or to place on a permanent foundation.
"INTERSECTION" means the point at which two (2) or more public rights-of-way (generally, streets) meet.
"JUNK YARD" means a tract of land, including any accessory structures thereon, that is used for buying, selling, exchanging, storing, baling, packing, disassembling, or handling waste or scrap materials. Such scrap materials include vehicles, machinery, and equipment not in operable condition (or parts thereof), and metals, glass, paper, plastic, rags, and rubber tires. A lot on which three (3) or more inoperable vehicles are stored shall be deemed a junk yard. A junk yard includes an automobile wrecking yard.
"KENNEL" means any structure or lot on which five (5) or more domesticated animals over four (4) months of age are kept.
"LARGE COMMERCIAL ESTABLISHMENT" means an establishment used for commercial activity located in a building that exceeds ninety thousand (90,000) square feet in size.
"LOADING SPACE" means an off-street space used for the temporary parking of a commercial vehicle while loading or unloading merchandise or materials.
"LOT" means a tract of land intended as a unit for the purpose (whether immediate or future) of transfer of ownership or development. A "lot" may or may not coincide with a "lot of record".
"LOT, CORNER" means a lot having at least two (2) adjacent sides that abut for their full length upon streets. Both such side lines shall be deemed front lot lines.
"LOT, THROUGH" means a lot having a pair of approximately parallel lot lines that abut two (2) approximately parallel streets.
"LOT AREA" means the area of a horizontal plane bounded by the front, side and rear lines of a lot.
"LOT COVERAGE" means the portion of a lot that is occupied by buildings or structures, including accessory buildings or structures.
"LOT DEPTH" means the average horizontal distance between the front lot line and the rear lot line of a lot.
"LOT LINE, FRONT" means the lot boundary abutting the street.
"LOT LINE, REAR" means an interior lot line which is most distant from and the most nearly parallel to the front lot line.
"LOT LINE, SIDE" means any boundary of a lot which is not a front lot line or a rear lot line.
"LOT OF RECORD" means an area of land designated as a lot on a plat of subdivision recorded with the County Recorder of Deeds in accordance with State law.
"LOT SIZE REQUIREMENTS" refers to the lot area, width, and depth requirements of the applicable district.
"LOT WIDTH" means the mean horizontal width of a lot measured at right angles to the side lot lines at the building line.
"MAINTENANCE" means the routine upkeep of a structure, premises, or equipment, including the replacement or modification of structural components to the extent necessary to keep said structure in sound condition.
"MOBILE HOME" means a structure designed for permanent habitation and so constructed as to permit its transport on wheels, temporarily or permanently attached to its frame; from the place of its construction to the location or subsequent location at which it is intended to be a permanent habitation and designed to permit the occupancy thereof as a dwelling place for one (1) or more persons, provided the structure meets the National Manufactured Home Construction and Safety Standards as established by the federal government. A mobile home shall not be confused with a camping trailer or a recreational vehicle.
"MOBILE HOME PARK" means a parcel not less than five (5) acres in area in single ownership/control, developed with facilities for accommodating occupied mobile homes in accordance with the requirements of this Code.
"MOBILE HOME SPACE" means a portion of a mobile home park designed and improved for the placement of one (1) mobile home and the private use of the occupants thereof.
"MOBILE HOME STAND" means the part of a mobile home space beneath the mobile home that includes the concrete slab on which the home is placed and to which it is anchored.
"MOBILE OR PORTABLE MARQUEE" is a term used to describe any sign designed to be moved from place-to-place, including, but not limited to signs attached to wood or metal frames designed to be self-supporting and movable; or paper, cardboard, or canvas signs wrapped around supporting poles.
"MODULAR HOMES" means any detached single-family dwelling that is transported to the site where it will be permanently located in assembled form on a permanent foundation and that fully complies with the BOCA National Building Code, 1987; the National Electric Code, and the Illinois State Plumbing Code.
"NONCONFORMING" as applied to a lot, structure or use, means:
(A)
Lawfully existing on the effective date of this Code, but
(B)
Not in compliance with the applicable provisions thereof.
"NUISANCE" means any thing, condition, or conduct that endangers health, or unreasonably offends the senses, or obstructs the free use and comfortable enjoyment of property, or essentially interferes with the comfortable enjoyment of life.
"NURSERY" means a tract of land on which trees, shrubs, and other plants are raised for transplanting and/or sale, and including any structure in which said activities are conducted.
"NURSERY SCHOOL" means an establishment for the part-time care and/or instruction at any time of day of four (4) or more unrelated children of pre-elementary school age.
"NURSING HOME" means a building used as a medical care facility for persons who need long-term nursing care and medical service, but do not require intensive hospital care.
"OFFICE" means any building or portion thereof in which the business (usually clerical and administrative affairs) of a commercial/service enterprise or professional person is transacted.
"OVERLAY DISTRICT" means a zoning district superimposed over one (1) or more standard (primary) zoning districts or portions thereof for the purpose of controlling developmental problems caused by such factors as steep slopes, wet soils, flooding, etc.
"PARKING AREA/LOT, OFF-STREET" means land that is improved in accordance with this Code and used primarily for the storage of passenger motor vehicles, free of charge or for compensation. An "off-street parking lot," depending on the circumstances of its use, may be either a principal use or an accessory use.
"PARKING SPACE, OFF-STREET" means an area at least twenty (20) feet long and ten (10) feet wide within an off-street parking area or garage, used for the storage of one (1) passenger motor vehicle.
"PERMITTED USE" means any use which is or may be lawfully established in a particular districts), provided it conforms with all the requirements applicable to such districts).
"PERSON" means any individual, firm, association, organization, or corporate body.
"PREMISES" means a lot and all the structures and uses thereon.
"PRINCIPAL BUILDING/STRUCTURE/USE" means the main structure erected on or the main use occupying a lot, as distinguished from an accessory (subordinate) structure or use.
"PROPERTY LINE". See "LOT LINE".
"PUBLIC STORAGE BUILDINGS" means any real property designed and used for the purpose of renting or leasing individual storage space to occupants who are to have access to such for the purpose of storing and removing personal property.
"PUBLIC UTILITIES" means utilities which are either government-owned or owned by an established firm serving a wide geographical area and/or a substantial number of persons.
"QUICK SHOP" means any small retail commercial or service establishment offering goods/services primarily to the residents of a particular multiple-family complex, mobile home park, or similar development.
"RECONSTRUCT" as applied to nonconforming structures, means to rebuild after damage or destruction.
"RECREATIONAL VEHICLE" is a term encompassing any type of vehicle used primarily for pleasure, such as travel trailers, motor homes, boats, snowmobiles, etc.
"REFUSE" means garbage (food wastes) and trash, but not sewage or industrial wastes.
"RELOCATE" means to move to another portion of a lot or to a different lot.
"REPAIR" means to restore to sound condition, but not to reconstruct.
"RESTRICTIVE" means tending to keep within prescribed limits.
"RETAIL" refers to the sale of goods or services directly to the consumer rather than to another business.
"RIGHT-OF-WAY, PUBLIC" means a strip of land which the owner/ subdivider has dedicated to the City or to another unit of government for streets and alleys.
"ROOF LINE" means a horizontal line parallel to the average ground level of a building along the front thereof, which line delineates the highest point of a flat roof; or where the flat surface area of a gable, hip, mansard, or gambrel roof is in view from the ground level, the line of demarcation between the flat surface and the vertically structured facade; or the line along the front of a building delineating the roof line between eaves and ridge for gable, hip, and gambrel roofs.
"SCREENING" means trees, shrubs, walls, solid fences, etc., used as a means of view and noise control.
"SEMI-FINISHED MATERIALS" means materials which have been sufficiently processed at heavy industrial facilities so that they are no longer in their raw state but are readily usable by light industry for assembly or manufacture into consumer goods.
"SERVICE BUILDING" means a structure within a mobile home park or travel trailer park that contains toilet facilities, clothes washers and dryers and in some instances, a convenience store.
"SERVICE STATION" means a building and premises or portion thereof designed and used for the retail sale of gasoline or other automotive fuel, oil, and automotive parts, supplies, and accessories. A service station may include facilities for washing vehicles and for making minor automotive repairs.
"SERVICE USE/ESTABLISHMENT" means any use of establishment where services are provided for remuneration either to individuals or to other firms.
"SETBACK" means the horizontal distance from the lot line in question to the side of the structure facing that lot line or to the edge of the area of operation of the principal use (in the case of a use which does not involve a structure).
"SIGN" means any object, device display, or structure, or part thereof, used to advertise, identify, display, or attract attention to a person, establishment, product, service, or event by any means including words, letters, figures, designs, symbols, fixtures, colors, illuminations, etc. The term "sign" includes, but is not limited to, every projecting sign, freestanding sign, window sign, awning, canopy, marquee sign, changeable copy sign, illuminated sign, moving sign, temporary sign, portable sign, pennants, banners, streamers, or any other attention-getting devices; or other display whether affixed to a building or erected elsewhere on the premises. The term "sign" excludes features of a building which are an integral part of the building's design (e.g., the "castle-look" of a White Castle restaurant).
"SIGN, CANOPY/MARQUEE" means any sign affixed to, painted on, or suspended from an awning, canopy, marquee, or similar overhang.
"SIGN, FLUSH-MOUNTED" means any sign attached to or erected against a wall of a structure with the exposed face of the sign in a plane approximately parallel to the plane of the wall and not projecting more than eighteen (18) inches. A flush-mounted sign displays only messages associated with the building to which said sign is attached.
"SIGN, FREESTANDING" means any sign supported by one (1) or more uprights, poles, or braces placed in or upon the ground; or any sign supported by any structure erected primarily for the display and support of the sign; provided that a freestanding sign displays only messages associated with the premises on which said sign is situated.
"SIGN, PROJECTING" means any sign which is suspended from or supported by a wall, awning, canopy, marquee, etc., and which is approximately perpendicular thereto. A projecting sign displays only messages associated with the structure to which it is attached.
"SIGN AREA" means the entire area within a single continuous perimeter enclosing the extreme limits of the message and the background thereof, calculated in accordance with the provisions of this Code.
"SIGN AREA ALLOWANCE" means the maximum total sign area of all signs that an establishment is permitted to display.
"SKIRTING" means the covering affixed to the bottom of the exterior walls of a mobile home to conceal the underside thereof.
"SPECIAL USE" means a use that has unusual operational, physical, or other characteristics which distinguish it from the permitted uses of a district, but which can be made compatible with the intended overall development within a district. Special uses commonly must meet special standards not necessarily applicable to permitted uses in the district, and are allowed only by permit.
"SPECIAL USE PERMIT" means a permit issued in accordance with the provisions of this Code to regulate development of a special use.
"STOP ORDER" means a type of corrective action order used by the Administrator to halt work in progress that is in violation of this Code.
"STREET" means a public or private way for motor vehicle travel. The term "street" includes a highway, thoroughfare, parkway, throughway, road, pike, avenue, boulevard, lane, place, drive, court, and similar designations, but excludes an alley or a way for pedestrian use only.
"STREET, PRIVATE" means any street providing access to abutting property that is not maintained by and dedicated to the City or other public entity.
"STRINGENT" means binding and/or exacting.
"STRUCTURE" means anything constructed or erected on the ground, or attached to something having a fixed location on the ground. All buildings are structures, but not all structures are buildings.
"TOPOGRAPHY" means the relief features or surface configuration of an area.
"USE" means the purpose or activity for which the land or a structure thereon is designed, arranged, intended, occupied or maintained.
"USE VARIANCE" means a type of amendment (not variance) that allows a use in a district where said use would not be allowed under existing provisions of this Code.
"UTILITY SUBSTATION" means a secondary utility facility such as an electrical substation, gas regulation station, telephone exchange facility, sewage treatment plant, etc.
"VACANT" as applied to a lot, means that no structure is situated thereon.
"VARIANCE" means a relaxation of the strict application of the lot size, setbacks, or other bulk requirements applicable to a particular lot or structure.
"WAREHOUSE" means a commercial building or structure or part thereof, used principally for the storage of goods and merchandise.
"WHOLESALE" refers to the sale of goods or services by one (1) business to another business.
"WINDOW SIGN" means any sign visible from the exterior of a building or structure which is painted directly on the surface of a window or affixed to or suspended immediately behind the window for the purpose of informing passersby of the identity of the proprietor or business, or of the product or service which can be obtained on the premises.
"YARD" means open space that is unobstructed, except as specifically permitted in this Code and that is located on the same lot as the principal building.
"YARD, FRONT" means a yard which is bounded by the side lot lines, front lot line, and the building line.
"YARD, REAR" means a yard which is bounded by side lot lines, rear lot line and rear yard line.
"YARD, SIDE" means a yard which is bounded by the rear yard line, front yard line, side yard line, and side lot line.
"YARD LINE" means a line in a lot that is generally parallel to the lot line along which the yard in question extends and which is not nearer to such lot line at any point than the required depth or width of said yard.
"ZONING MAP" means the map(s) and any amendments thereto designating zoning districts, and incorporated into this Code by reference.
(Ord. No. 1389, 01-08-07; Ord. No. 1629, 7-9-18; Ord. No. 1683, § 2, 2-10-20)
DEFINITIONS
In construing the intended meaning of terminology used in this Code, the following rules shall be observed:
(A)
Words and phrases shall have the meanings respectively ascribed to them in Section 40-2-2 unless the context clearly indicates otherwise; terms not defined in Section 40-2-2 shall have their standard English dictionary meanings.
(B)
Words denoting the masculine gender shall be deemed to include the feminine and neuter genders.
(C)
Words used in the present tense shall include the future tense.
(D)
Words used in the singular number shall include the plural number, and the plural shall include the singular.
(E)
The term "shall" is mandatory; the term "may" is discretionary.
(F)
All distances shall be measured to the nearest integral foot; six (6) inches or more shall be deemed one (1) foot.
(G)
References to sections shall be deemed to include all subsections within that section; but a reference to a particular subsection designates only that subsection.
(H)
A general term that follows or is followed by enumerations of specific terms shall not be limited to the enumerated class unless expressly limited.
"ABUTTING" means having a common lot line or district line (synonym for "adjacent").
"ACCESS WAY" means a curb cut, ramp, driveway, or other means for providing vehicular access to an off-street parking or loading area.
"ACCESSORY USE" means any structure or use that is:
(A)
Subordinate in size or purpose to the principal structure or use which it serves;
(B)
Necessary or contributing to the comfort and convenience of the occupants of the principal structure or use served; and
(C)
Located on the same lot as the principal structure or use served.
"ADMINISTRATOR" means the official appointed by the Mayor with the advice and consent of the City Council, or his representative, to administer this Code (synonymous with "Zoning Administrator").
"ADULT-USE CANNABIS BUSINESS ESTABLISHMENT" means a cultivation center, craft grower, processing organization, infuser organization, dispensing organization or transporting organization.
"ADULT-USE CANNABIS CRAFT GROWER" means a facility operated by an organization or business that is licensed by the Illinois Department of Agriculture to cultivate, dry, cure and package cannabis and perform other necessary activities to make cannabis available for sale at a dispensing organization or use at a processing organization, per the Cannabis Regulation and Tax Act, (P.A. 101-0027), as it may be amended from time-to-time, and regulations promulgated thereunder.
"ADULT-USE CANNABIS CULTIVATION CENTER" means a facility operated by an organization or business that is licensed by the Illinois Department of Agriculture to cultivate, process, transport and perform necessary activities to provide cannabis and cannabis-infused products to licensed cannabis business establishments, per the Cannabis Regulation and Tax Act, (P.A. 101-0027), as it may be amended from time-to-time, and regulations promulgated thereunder.
"ADULT-USE CANNABIS DISPENSING ORGANIZATION" means a facility operated by an organization or business that is licensed by the Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation to acquire cannabis from licensed cannabis business establishments for the purpose of selling or dispensing cannabis, cannabis-infused products, cannabis seeds, paraphernalia or related supplies to purchasers or to qualified registered medical cannabis patients and caregivers, per the Cannabis Regulation and Tax Act, (P.A.101-0027), as it may be amended from time-to-time, and regulations promulgated thereunder.
"ADULT-USE CANNABIS INFUSER ORGANIZATION OR INFUSER" means a facility operated by an organization or business that is licensed by the Illinois Department of Agriculture to directly incorporate cannabis or cannabis concentrate into a product formulation to produce a cannabis-infused product, per the Cannabis Regulation and Tax Act, (P.A.101-0027), as it may be amended from time-to-time, and regulations promulgated thereunder.
"ADULT-USE CANNABIS PROCESSING ORGANIZATION OR PROCESSOR" means a facility operated by an organization or business that is licensed by the Illinois Department of Agriculture to either extract constituent chemicals or compounds to produce cannabis concentrate or incorporate cannabis or cannabis concentrate into a product formulation to produce a cannabis product, per the Cannabis Regulation and Tax Act, (P.A.101-0027), as it may be amended from time-to-time, and regulations promulgated thereunder.
"ADULT-USE CANNABIS TRANSPORTING ORGANIZATION OR TRANSPORTER" means an organization or business that is licensed by the Illinois Department of Agriculture to transport cannabis on behalf of a cannabis business establishment or a community college licensed under the Community College Cannabis Vocational Training Pilot Program, per the Cannabis Regulation and Tax Act, (P.A.101-0027), as it may be amended from time-to-time, and regulations promulgated thereunder.
"AGRICULTURE" means any one (1) or any combination of the following: The growing of farm or truck garden crops, dairying, pasturage, horticulture, floriculture, or animal/poultry husbandry. The term "agriculture" encompasses the farmhouse and accessory uses and structures customarily incidental to agricultural activities.
"AISLE" means a vehicular traffic way within an off-street parking area, used as a means of access/egress from parking spaces.
"ALLEY" means a public right-of-way which affords a secondary means of vehicular access to abutting premises that front on a nearby street.
"ALTER" means to change the size, shape or use of a structure.
"AMENDMENT" means a change in the provisions of this Code (including the District Map), properly effected in accordance with State law and the procedures set forth herein.
"ANCHOR" means any approved device to which a mobile home is tied down to keep it firmly attached to the stand on which it is placed.
"ASPHALTIC CONCRETE" means a mixture of petroleum by-products and gravel used for paving to form a smooth, permanent surface. "Asphaltic concrete" does not mean "oil and chip".
"ATTACHED" as applied to buildings means having a common wall and/or a common roof.
"BILLBOARD" means any single or double-faced sign displaying messages or advertising not associated with the premises on which the said sign is located or to which it is affixed.
"BLOCK" means an area of land entirely bounded by streets, highways, barriers, or ways (except alleys, pedestrian ways, or exterior boundaries of a subdivision unless exterior boundary is a street, highway or way), or bounded by a combination of streets, public parks, cemeteries, railroad rights-of-way, waterways or corporate boundary lines.
"BOARD OF APPEALS" means the Zoning Board of Appeals of the City.
"BUFFER STRIP" An area of land undeveloped except for landscaping fences, etc.—used to protect a use situated on one (1) lot from the deleterious effects of the use on the adjacent lot.
"BUILDING" means any covered structure permanently affixed to land and designed or used to shelter persons or chattels.
"BUILDING HEIGHT" means the vertical distance measured from the average grade at the front wall of a building 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.
"BUILDING LINE" means the line nearest the front of and across a lot, delineating the minimum open space required between the front of a structure and the street right-of-way line.
"BULK" means any one (1) or any combination of the following structural or site design characteristics:
(A)
Size or height of structure;
(B)
Location of exterior walls at all levels in relation to lot lines, streets, or other structures;
(C)
Lot area;
(D)
Yards or setbacks.
"CENTERLINE" means:
(A)
The centerline of any right-of-way having a uniform width;
(B)
The original centerline where a right-of-way has been widened irregularly;
(C)
The new centerline, whenever a road has been relocated.
"CERTIFICATE OF ZONING COMPLIANCE, FINAL" A permit issued by the Administrator indicating that a lot, or newly completed structure, or use complied with all pertinent requirements of this Chapter and therefore, may be occupied or used.
"CERTIFICATE OF ZONING COMPLIANCE, INITIAL" A permit issued by the Administrator indicating a proposed lot, structure, or use is in conformity with the requirements of this Code.
"CLINIC" means an establishment wherein licensed physicians, chiropractors, or dentists practice their professions, but where overnight lodging for sick or injured persons is not provided.
"CLUB/LODGE" means a nonprofit association of persons who are bonafide members organized for some purpose(s) and paying regular dues and whose facilities are restricted to members and their guests; not including a group organized solely or primarily to render a service customarily carried on as a commercial enterprise.
"COMMERCIAL USE/ESTABLISHMENT" means any use or establishment wherein goods are purchased or sold, whether to the consuming public (retail) or to other businesses (wholesale).
"CONFORMING" means in compliance with the applicable provisions of this Code.
"CONVENIENCE/GASOLINE SERVICE STATION" means a building or premises or portion thereof used for retail sales of gasoline, oil and accessories of motor vehicles and general convenience service goods to include the retail sale of alcoholic beverages, not for consumption on the premises where it is sold.
"CORRECTIVE ACTION ORDER" means a legally binding order issued by the Administrator in accordance with the procedures set forth herein to effect compliance with this Code.
"DETACHED" as applied to buildings, means surrounded by yards on the same lot as the building.
"DEVELOP" means to erect any structure or to install any improvements on a tract of land, or to undertake any activity (such as grading) in preparation therefore.
"DIMENSIONS" refers to both lot depth and lot width.
"DISTRICT, ZONING" means a portion of the territory of the City wherein certain uniform requirements or various combinations thereof apply to structures, lots and uses under the terms of this Code.
"DRIVEWAY" means a minor way commonly providing vehicular access to a garage or off-street parking area.
"DWELLING" means a building or portion thereof designed or used primarily as living quarters for one (1) or more families, but not including hotels, motels, or other accommodations for the transient public.
"DWELLING, MULTIPLE-FAMILY" means a building or portion thereof containing three (3) or more dwelling units.
"DWELLING, SINGLE-FAMILY" means a dwelling containing one (1) dwelling unit and intended for the occupancy of one (1) family.
"DWELLING, TWO-FAMILY" OR "DUPLEX" means a dwelling containing two (2) dwelling units.
"DWELLING UNIT" means one (1) or more rooms designed or used as living quarters by one (1) family. A "dwelling unit" always includes a bathroom and a kitchen.
"EASEMENT" means a right to use another person's real property for certain limited purposes.
"ENCLOSED" as applied to a building, means covered by a permanent roof and separated on all sides from adjacent open space or other buildings by fixed exterior walls or by common walls, with openings only for windows and doors.
"ENLARGE" means to increase the size (floor area, height, etc.) of an existing principal structure or accessory use, or to devote more land to an existing use.
"ERECT" means to build or construct.
"ESTABLISHMENT" means either of the following:
(A)
An institutional, business, commercial or industrial activity that is the sole occupant of one (1) or more buildings; or
(B)
An institutional, business, commercial or industrial activity that occupies a portion of a building such that:
(1)
The activity is a logical and separate entity from the other activities with the building and not a department of the whole; and
(2)
The activity has either a separate entrance from the exterior of the building, or a separate entrance from a common and clearly defined entry way that has direct access to the exterior of the building.
"EXISTING" means actually constructed or in operation on the effective date of this Code.
"FAMILY" means:
(A)
A single individual doing his own cooking and living upon the premises as a separate housekeeping unit; or
(B)
A collective body of persons doing their own cooking and living together upon the premises as a separate housekeeping unit in a domestic relationship based upon birth, marriage, adoption or employment as domestic servants; or
(C)
A group of not more than three (3) unrelated persons doing their own cooking and living together on the premises as a separate housekeeping unit pursuant to a mutual housekeeping agreement (not including a group occupying a boarding or rooming house, club, fraternity or hotel).
"FLOOR AREA, GROSS" means the sum of the gross horizontal areas of the several floors of a building, measured from the exterior faces of the exterior walls or from the center of the common walls of attached buildings. "Gross floor area" includes basement floors, attic floor space, halls, closets, stairwells, space devoted to mechanical equipment, and enclosed porches.
"FREIGHT TERMINAL", as applied to motor carriers subject to the 625 ILCS 5/18; a station for commercial motor vehicles wherein said motor trucks are stored, repaired or parked.
"FRONTAGE" means the lineal extent of the front (street side) of a lot or establishment.
"GARAGE, PRIVATE" means a building for four (4) or less passenger vehicles without provision for repairing or servicing such vehicles for profit.
"GREENHOUSE": See "NURSERY".
"HEREAFTER" means any time after the effective date of this Code.
"HOME OCCUPATION" means any business, profession, or occupation conducted for gain entirely within a dwelling or on residential premises in conformity with the provisions of this Code.
"HOTEL" means any building or buildings in which the public may, for a consideration, obtain living quarters, sleeping or housekeeping accommodation. The term includes, but is not limited to, inns, motels, tourist homes or courts, lodging houses, rooming houses and apartment houses, retreat centers, conference centers, and hunting lodges.
"IMMOBILIZE", as applied to a mobile home, means to remove the wheels, tongue, and hitch and/or to place on a permanent foundation.
"INTERSECTION" means the point at which two (2) or more public rights-of-way (generally, streets) meet.
"JUNK YARD" means a tract of land, including any accessory structures thereon, that is used for buying, selling, exchanging, storing, baling, packing, disassembling, or handling waste or scrap materials. Such scrap materials include vehicles, machinery, and equipment not in operable condition (or parts thereof), and metals, glass, paper, plastic, rags, and rubber tires. A lot on which three (3) or more inoperable vehicles are stored shall be deemed a junk yard. A junk yard includes an automobile wrecking yard.
"KENNEL" means any structure or lot on which five (5) or more domesticated animals over four (4) months of age are kept.
"LARGE COMMERCIAL ESTABLISHMENT" means an establishment used for commercial activity located in a building that exceeds ninety thousand (90,000) square feet in size.
"LOADING SPACE" means an off-street space used for the temporary parking of a commercial vehicle while loading or unloading merchandise or materials.
"LOT" means a tract of land intended as a unit for the purpose (whether immediate or future) of transfer of ownership or development. A "lot" may or may not coincide with a "lot of record".
"LOT, CORNER" means a lot having at least two (2) adjacent sides that abut for their full length upon streets. Both such side lines shall be deemed front lot lines.
"LOT, THROUGH" means a lot having a pair of approximately parallel lot lines that abut two (2) approximately parallel streets.
"LOT AREA" means the area of a horizontal plane bounded by the front, side and rear lines of a lot.
"LOT COVERAGE" means the portion of a lot that is occupied by buildings or structures, including accessory buildings or structures.
"LOT DEPTH" means the average horizontal distance between the front lot line and the rear lot line of a lot.
"LOT LINE, FRONT" means the lot boundary abutting the street.
"LOT LINE, REAR" means an interior lot line which is most distant from and the most nearly parallel to the front lot line.
"LOT LINE, SIDE" means any boundary of a lot which is not a front lot line or a rear lot line.
"LOT OF RECORD" means an area of land designated as a lot on a plat of subdivision recorded with the County Recorder of Deeds in accordance with State law.
"LOT SIZE REQUIREMENTS" refers to the lot area, width, and depth requirements of the applicable district.
"LOT WIDTH" means the mean horizontal width of a lot measured at right angles to the side lot lines at the building line.
"MAINTENANCE" means the routine upkeep of a structure, premises, or equipment, including the replacement or modification of structural components to the extent necessary to keep said structure in sound condition.
"MOBILE HOME" means a structure designed for permanent habitation and so constructed as to permit its transport on wheels, temporarily or permanently attached to its frame; from the place of its construction to the location or subsequent location at which it is intended to be a permanent habitation and designed to permit the occupancy thereof as a dwelling place for one (1) or more persons, provided the structure meets the National Manufactured Home Construction and Safety Standards as established by the federal government. A mobile home shall not be confused with a camping trailer or a recreational vehicle.
"MOBILE HOME PARK" means a parcel not less than five (5) acres in area in single ownership/control, developed with facilities for accommodating occupied mobile homes in accordance with the requirements of this Code.
"MOBILE HOME SPACE" means a portion of a mobile home park designed and improved for the placement of one (1) mobile home and the private use of the occupants thereof.
"MOBILE HOME STAND" means the part of a mobile home space beneath the mobile home that includes the concrete slab on which the home is placed and to which it is anchored.
"MOBILE OR PORTABLE MARQUEE" is a term used to describe any sign designed to be moved from place-to-place, including, but not limited to signs attached to wood or metal frames designed to be self-supporting and movable; or paper, cardboard, or canvas signs wrapped around supporting poles.
"MODULAR HOMES" means any detached single-family dwelling that is transported to the site where it will be permanently located in assembled form on a permanent foundation and that fully complies with the BOCA National Building Code, 1987; the National Electric Code, and the Illinois State Plumbing Code.
"NONCONFORMING" as applied to a lot, structure or use, means:
(A)
Lawfully existing on the effective date of this Code, but
(B)
Not in compliance with the applicable provisions thereof.
"NUISANCE" means any thing, condition, or conduct that endangers health, or unreasonably offends the senses, or obstructs the free use and comfortable enjoyment of property, or essentially interferes with the comfortable enjoyment of life.
"NURSERY" means a tract of land on which trees, shrubs, and other plants are raised for transplanting and/or sale, and including any structure in which said activities are conducted.
"NURSERY SCHOOL" means an establishment for the part-time care and/or instruction at any time of day of four (4) or more unrelated children of pre-elementary school age.
"NURSING HOME" means a building used as a medical care facility for persons who need long-term nursing care and medical service, but do not require intensive hospital care.
"OFFICE" means any building or portion thereof in which the business (usually clerical and administrative affairs) of a commercial/service enterprise or professional person is transacted.
"OVERLAY DISTRICT" means a zoning district superimposed over one (1) or more standard (primary) zoning districts or portions thereof for the purpose of controlling developmental problems caused by such factors as steep slopes, wet soils, flooding, etc.
"PARKING AREA/LOT, OFF-STREET" means land that is improved in accordance with this Code and used primarily for the storage of passenger motor vehicles, free of charge or for compensation. An "off-street parking lot," depending on the circumstances of its use, may be either a principal use or an accessory use.
"PARKING SPACE, OFF-STREET" means an area at least twenty (20) feet long and ten (10) feet wide within an off-street parking area or garage, used for the storage of one (1) passenger motor vehicle.
"PERMITTED USE" means any use which is or may be lawfully established in a particular districts), provided it conforms with all the requirements applicable to such districts).
"PERSON" means any individual, firm, association, organization, or corporate body.
"PREMISES" means a lot and all the structures and uses thereon.
"PRINCIPAL BUILDING/STRUCTURE/USE" means the main structure erected on or the main use occupying a lot, as distinguished from an accessory (subordinate) structure or use.
"PROPERTY LINE". See "LOT LINE".
"PUBLIC STORAGE BUILDINGS" means any real property designed and used for the purpose of renting or leasing individual storage space to occupants who are to have access to such for the purpose of storing and removing personal property.
"PUBLIC UTILITIES" means utilities which are either government-owned or owned by an established firm serving a wide geographical area and/or a substantial number of persons.
"QUICK SHOP" means any small retail commercial or service establishment offering goods/services primarily to the residents of a particular multiple-family complex, mobile home park, or similar development.
"RECONSTRUCT" as applied to nonconforming structures, means to rebuild after damage or destruction.
"RECREATIONAL VEHICLE" is a term encompassing any type of vehicle used primarily for pleasure, such as travel trailers, motor homes, boats, snowmobiles, etc.
"REFUSE" means garbage (food wastes) and trash, but not sewage or industrial wastes.
"RELOCATE" means to move to another portion of a lot or to a different lot.
"REPAIR" means to restore to sound condition, but not to reconstruct.
"RESTRICTIVE" means tending to keep within prescribed limits.
"RETAIL" refers to the sale of goods or services directly to the consumer rather than to another business.
"RIGHT-OF-WAY, PUBLIC" means a strip of land which the owner/ subdivider has dedicated to the City or to another unit of government for streets and alleys.
"ROOF LINE" means a horizontal line parallel to the average ground level of a building along the front thereof, which line delineates the highest point of a flat roof; or where the flat surface area of a gable, hip, mansard, or gambrel roof is in view from the ground level, the line of demarcation between the flat surface and the vertically structured facade; or the line along the front of a building delineating the roof line between eaves and ridge for gable, hip, and gambrel roofs.
"SCREENING" means trees, shrubs, walls, solid fences, etc., used as a means of view and noise control.
"SEMI-FINISHED MATERIALS" means materials which have been sufficiently processed at heavy industrial facilities so that they are no longer in their raw state but are readily usable by light industry for assembly or manufacture into consumer goods.
"SERVICE BUILDING" means a structure within a mobile home park or travel trailer park that contains toilet facilities, clothes washers and dryers and in some instances, a convenience store.
"SERVICE STATION" means a building and premises or portion thereof designed and used for the retail sale of gasoline or other automotive fuel, oil, and automotive parts, supplies, and accessories. A service station may include facilities for washing vehicles and for making minor automotive repairs.
"SERVICE USE/ESTABLISHMENT" means any use of establishment where services are provided for remuneration either to individuals or to other firms.
"SETBACK" means the horizontal distance from the lot line in question to the side of the structure facing that lot line or to the edge of the area of operation of the principal use (in the case of a use which does not involve a structure).
"SIGN" means any object, device display, or structure, or part thereof, used to advertise, identify, display, or attract attention to a person, establishment, product, service, or event by any means including words, letters, figures, designs, symbols, fixtures, colors, illuminations, etc. The term "sign" includes, but is not limited to, every projecting sign, freestanding sign, window sign, awning, canopy, marquee sign, changeable copy sign, illuminated sign, moving sign, temporary sign, portable sign, pennants, banners, streamers, or any other attention-getting devices; or other display whether affixed to a building or erected elsewhere on the premises. The term "sign" excludes features of a building which are an integral part of the building's design (e.g., the "castle-look" of a White Castle restaurant).
"SIGN, CANOPY/MARQUEE" means any sign affixed to, painted on, or suspended from an awning, canopy, marquee, or similar overhang.
"SIGN, FLUSH-MOUNTED" means any sign attached to or erected against a wall of a structure with the exposed face of the sign in a plane approximately parallel to the plane of the wall and not projecting more than eighteen (18) inches. A flush-mounted sign displays only messages associated with the building to which said sign is attached.
"SIGN, FREESTANDING" means any sign supported by one (1) or more uprights, poles, or braces placed in or upon the ground; or any sign supported by any structure erected primarily for the display and support of the sign; provided that a freestanding sign displays only messages associated with the premises on which said sign is situated.
"SIGN, PROJECTING" means any sign which is suspended from or supported by a wall, awning, canopy, marquee, etc., and which is approximately perpendicular thereto. A projecting sign displays only messages associated with the structure to which it is attached.
"SIGN AREA" means the entire area within a single continuous perimeter enclosing the extreme limits of the message and the background thereof, calculated in accordance with the provisions of this Code.
"SIGN AREA ALLOWANCE" means the maximum total sign area of all signs that an establishment is permitted to display.
"SKIRTING" means the covering affixed to the bottom of the exterior walls of a mobile home to conceal the underside thereof.
"SPECIAL USE" means a use that has unusual operational, physical, or other characteristics which distinguish it from the permitted uses of a district, but which can be made compatible with the intended overall development within a district. Special uses commonly must meet special standards not necessarily applicable to permitted uses in the district, and are allowed only by permit.
"SPECIAL USE PERMIT" means a permit issued in accordance with the provisions of this Code to regulate development of a special use.
"STOP ORDER" means a type of corrective action order used by the Administrator to halt work in progress that is in violation of this Code.
"STREET" means a public or private way for motor vehicle travel. The term "street" includes a highway, thoroughfare, parkway, throughway, road, pike, avenue, boulevard, lane, place, drive, court, and similar designations, but excludes an alley or a way for pedestrian use only.
"STREET, PRIVATE" means any street providing access to abutting property that is not maintained by and dedicated to the City or other public entity.
"STRINGENT" means binding and/or exacting.
"STRUCTURE" means anything constructed or erected on the ground, or attached to something having a fixed location on the ground. All buildings are structures, but not all structures are buildings.
"TOPOGRAPHY" means the relief features or surface configuration of an area.
"USE" means the purpose or activity for which the land or a structure thereon is designed, arranged, intended, occupied or maintained.
"USE VARIANCE" means a type of amendment (not variance) that allows a use in a district where said use would not be allowed under existing provisions of this Code.
"UTILITY SUBSTATION" means a secondary utility facility such as an electrical substation, gas regulation station, telephone exchange facility, sewage treatment plant, etc.
"VACANT" as applied to a lot, means that no structure is situated thereon.
"VARIANCE" means a relaxation of the strict application of the lot size, setbacks, or other bulk requirements applicable to a particular lot or structure.
"WAREHOUSE" means a commercial building or structure or part thereof, used principally for the storage of goods and merchandise.
"WHOLESALE" refers to the sale of goods or services by one (1) business to another business.
"WINDOW SIGN" means any sign visible from the exterior of a building or structure which is painted directly on the surface of a window or affixed to or suspended immediately behind the window for the purpose of informing passersby of the identity of the proprietor or business, or of the product or service which can be obtained on the premises.
"YARD" means open space that is unobstructed, except as specifically permitted in this Code and that is located on the same lot as the principal building.
"YARD, FRONT" means a yard which is bounded by the side lot lines, front lot line, and the building line.
"YARD, REAR" means a yard which is bounded by side lot lines, rear lot line and rear yard line.
"YARD, SIDE" means a yard which is bounded by the rear yard line, front yard line, side yard line, and side lot line.
"YARD LINE" means a line in a lot that is generally parallel to the lot line along which the yard in question extends and which is not nearer to such lot line at any point than the required depth or width of said yard.
"ZONING MAP" means the map(s) and any amendments thereto designating zoning districts, and incorporated into this Code by reference.
(Ord. No. 1389, 01-08-07; Ord. No. 1629, 7-9-18; Ord. No. 1683, § 2, 2-10-20)