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Columbiana City Zoning Code

CHAPTER 18

10 DEFINITIONS

§ 18.10.010 Definitions.

For the purpose of this title words used in the present tense include the future, the singular number includes the plural, and the plural the singular. Words and terms are defined as follows:
"Accessory structure"
means any detached minor building in the rear of the main building consisting of masonry or frame walls and roof, one or two stories in height, necessary as an adjunct to the use or occupancy of a principal or main structure.
Alteration and Altered.
"Alteration" shall include any of the following:
1. 
Any addition to the height or depth of a building or structure;
2. 
Any change in the location of any of the exterior walls of a building or structure;
3. 
Any increase in the interior accommodations of a building or structure.
In addition to the foregoing, a building or structure shall be classified as "altered" when it is repaired, renovated, remodeled, or rebuilt at a cost in excess of 50 percent of its value prior to the commencement of such repairs, renovation, remodeling or rebuilding.
"Boarding house"
means a building other than a hotel, cafe, or restaurant where, for compensation, meals are provided for three or more persons.
"Building area"
means the portion of the lot occupied by the main building, including porches, carports, accessory buildings, and other structures.
"Drive-in restaurant"
means a restaurant or public eating business, so conducted that food, meals or refreshments are brought to the motor vehicles for consumption by the customer or patron.
"Drive-in theater"
means a theater so arranged and conducted that the customer or patron may view the performance while being seated in a motor vehicle.
"Dwelling"
means a house or other building used primarily as an abode for one or two families except that the word "dwelling" shall not include boarding or rooming houses, tents, tourist camps, hotels, trailers, trailer camps, or other structures designed or used primarily for transient residents.
"Dwelling unit"
means any portion of a building used, intended or designed as a separate abode for a family.
"Family"
means any number of individuals living together as a single housekeeping unit and doing their cooking on the premises.
"Front yard"
means the yard extending across the entire width of the lot between the main building, including covered porches, and the front lot line, or if an official future street right-of-way line has been established, between the main building, including covered porches, and the right-of-way line.
"Home occupation"
means any use customarily conducted entirely within a dwelling and carried on solely by the inhabitant thereof, and which use is clearly incidental and secondary to the use of the dwelling for dwelling purposes, and does not change the character thereof, and in which not more than 25 percent of the dwelling is used for said home occupation, and in which any signs advertising said home occupation are limited to one sign, not over two square feet in area, and also in which there is no public display of goods. Examples of home occupations are: office of doctor, lawyer or notary; dressmaking, the taking of tourists and boarders, and the leasing of rooms.
"Hotel"
means any building or portion thereof which contains at least 10 guest rooms intended for occupancy by individuals for compensation, whether paid directly or indirectly.
"Lot"
means a piece, parcel, or plot of land occupied or intended to be occupied by one main building, accessory buildings, uses customarily incidental to such main building and such open spaces as are provided in this title, or as are intended to be used with such piece, parcel or plot of land.
"Mobile home"
means any structure or vehicle intended for, or capable without substantial modification of being used for, dwelling, sleeping, business, or storage, having been constructed with wheels and having no foundation other than wheels, jacks, or skirtings. Removal of wheels and placing such a structure on the ground, piers, or other foundation shall not remove such a structure or vehicle from this definition. This definition shall not be construed to include an automobile or a truck equipped with sleeping quarters for a driver.
"Mobile home park"
means any plot of ground upon which five or more mobile homes are located, regardless of whether or not a charge is made for such accommodation.
"Motor court"
means a building or group of buildings containing one or more guest rooms having separate outside entrances for each such room or suite of rooms and for each of which rooms or suites of rooms automobile parking space is provided.
"Nonconforming use"
means a use of any structure or land which though originally lawful does not conform with the provisions of this title or any subsequent amendments thereto for the district in which it is located.
"Offices"
means space or rooms for professional, administrative, clerical, and similar uses.
"Rear yard"
means the yard extending across the entire width of the lot between the main building, including covered porches, and the rear lot line.
"Rooming house"
means any building or portion thereof which contains not less than three or more than nine guest rooms which are designed or intended to be used, let, or hired out for occupancy by individuals for compensation, whether paid directly or indirectly.
"Side yard"
means the yard extending along a side lot line, from the front yard to the rear yard, between the main building, including covered porches, and such lot line.
"Street"
means any public or private way set aside for common travel more than 21 feet in width if such existed at the time of enactment of the ordinance codified in this title, or such right-of-way 40 feet or more in width if established thereafter.
"Structure"
means any combination of materials, including buildings, constructed or erected, the use of which requires location on the ground or attachment to anything having location on the ground, including among other things signs, billboards, but not including telephone poles and overhead wires.
"Trailer camp"
means any site, lot, field, or tract of land privately or publicly owned or operated, upon which two or more house trailers used for living, eating, or sleeping quarters are, or are intended to be, located; such establishments being open and designated to the public as places where temporary residential accommodations are available, whether operated for or without compensation.
"Use"
means the purpose for which land or a building or other structure is designed, arranged, or intended, or for which it is or may be occupied or maintained.
"Yard"
means an open space, on the lot with the main building, left open, unoccupied and unobstructed by buildings from the ground to the sky except as otherwise provided in this title.
(Ord. 215 Art. 3(36), 1958; Ord. 330 §§ 4, 5, 1985)