“Accessory building” means a subordinate use or building customarily incident to the main use of a lot or building. (Ord. 369 § 2(1), 1995)

“Accessory use” means a subordinate building customarily incident to and located upon the same lot occupied by the main use or building. (Ord. 369 § 2(2), 1995)

“Alley” means a street or public way which affords only secondary means of access to abutting property. (Ord. 369 § 2(3), 1995)

“Auto court” or “motel” means a building used as a temporary abiding place of individuals and where provision is made for parking of cars adjacent thereof. (Ord. 369 § 2(4), 1995)

“Bed and breakfast” means a building or group of buildings on a lot, in which rooms are rented for transient lodging, where: (1) no more than five rooms are available for such rental, and (2) where breakfast is the only meal served, and it is served only to lodgers, not to the general public. (Ord. 369 § 2(5), 1995)

“Boarding house” means a building in which not more than five roomers, lodgers, or boarders are housed and fed for compensation, except that “boarding house” shall not include nursing homes, rest homes, or convalescent homes. (Ord. 369 § 2(6), 1995)

“Building” means a structure having a roof support by columns or walls. When separated by a division wall without opening, each portion of such building shall be deemed a separate building. (Ord. 369 § 2(8), 1995)

“Single-family dwellings” means a building arranged or designed to be occupied by not more than one family. (Ord. 369 § 2(9), 1995)

“Multifamily dwellings” and “apartment houses” mean buildings containing more than one kitchen and designed to be occupied by two or more families living independently of each other, including duplexes. (Ord. 369 § 2(10), 1995)

“Established grade” means the curb line grade at the front lot lines as established by the council of the town of Cathlamet. (Ord. 369 § 2(11), 1995)

“Family” means one or more people occupying premises as a single housekeeping unit and doing their cooking on the premises. (Ord. 369 § 2(12), 1995)

“Private garage” means a garage with the capacity for not more than three self-propelled vehicles and uses for storage only. (Ord. 369 § 2(13), 1995)

“Public garage” means any premises used for the storage or housing of more than three self-propelled vehicles, or where such vehicles are repaired, sold or kept for hire. (Ord. 369 § 2(14), 1995)

The “height of buildings” is the vertical distance at the center of a building’s principal front, measured from the established grade to the highest point of the roof beams in the case of flat roofs, to the deck line of mansard roofs or to the center height between eaves and ridges for gables, hip or gambrel roofs. For buildings set back from the street line, the height may be measured from the average elevation of the finished grade along the front of the building. (Ord. 369 § 2(15), 1995)

“Hotel” means a building containing six or more guest rooms occupied as more or less temporary abiding place of individuals who are lodged for compensation with or without meals, there being normally no individual kitchen facilities for said lodgers. (Ord. 369 § 2(16), 1995)

“Junkyard” means the use of a lot, or a plot of ground, for the storage, keeping, and abandonment of junk, including scrap metals or other scrap materials; or the use of any area for the dismantling, demolition, or abandonment of automobiles or other vehicles, machinery or parts thereof. This definition shall not be deemed to include uses conducted entirely within a building or the outdoor display and sale of used automobiles in good operable condition. (Ord. 369 § 2(17), 1995)

“Kennel” means any land, building or structure in which four or more dogs of at least six months of age are harbored. (Ord. 369 § 2(18), 1995)

“Lot” means land occupied or to be occupied by a building and its accessory buildings including such open spaces as are required under this title, and having frontage upon a street or alley. (Ord. 369 § 2(19), 1995)

“Corner lot” means a lot of which at least two adjacent sides abut for their full length upon a street. (Ord. 369 § 2(20), 1995)

“Lot line” means the line bounding a lot as defined in the deed or plat. (Ord. 369 § 2(21), 1995)

“Manufactured home” means a single-family dwelling on one or more chassis for towing to the point of use, designed to be used as a dwelling unit and which bears an insignia issued by a state or federal regulatory agency indicating that the manufactured home complies with all applicable construction standards of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development definition of manufactured home. (Ord. 374 § 1, 1996; Ord. 369 § 2(22A), 1995)

“Mobile home” means any structure or vehicle used or designed to be used for living or sleeping, and placed on or so constructed as to be capable of being placed on wheels or other running gear so that it may be readily moved from place to place; or as defined in Chapter 15.20 CMC. This definition includes “house trailer,” “trailer coach,” “mobile home,” and similar terms. (Ord. 374 § 1, 1996; Ord. 369 § 2(22B), 1995)

“Mobile home park” means an area of land used or designed to be used for the occupancy of mobile homes. (Ord. 369 § 2(23), 1995)

“Nonconforming use” means a building or land occupied by a use that does not conform with the regulations of the district in which it is situated. (Ord. 369 § 2(24), 1995)

“Setback” means the minimum horizontal distance between the property line and the building or any projection thereof, excluding steps and porches not over 42 inches high nor exceeding 10 percent by area of the building space in the front yard. (Ord. 369 § 2(25), 1995)

“Sign” means a medium for visual communication, including its structure and component parts, to convey a message or advocacy for a product, place, activity, business, event, good, service, religion, or land use. (Ord. 561, 2013)

“Street” means a public or private thoroughfare which affords the principal means of access to abutting property. (Ord. 369 § 2(26), 1995)

“Story” means that portion of a building included between the surface of any floor and the surface of the floor next above it, or if there be no floor above it, then the space between such floor and the ceiling next above it; and not including a basement. (Ord. 369 § 2(27), 1995)

“Front yard” means an open unoccupied space in the same lot with a building, between the front line of the building (exclusive of steps) and the front property line. The yard on the side or sides of a house from which public pedestrian traffic is most likely to enter or approach the house. (Ord. 369 § 2(28), 1995)

“Rear yard” means an open unoccupied space on the same lot with a building between the rear line of the building (excluding steps, porches and accessory buildings) and the rear line of the lot. (Ord. 369 § 2(29), 1995)

“Side yard” means an open unoccupied space on the same lot with a building between the side of the building and the side lot of the same lot, but not including frontage on two streets as with a corner lot. (Ord. 369 § 22(30), 1995)

Whenever the term “this title” is used herein, it shall be deemed to include where the context permits, any and all amendments thereto as the same be hereafter from time to time adopted. (Ord. 369 § 2(31), 1995)