(a)

The following words, terms and phrases, when used in this chapter, shall have the meanings ascribed to them in this subsection, except where the context clearly indicates a different meaning:

Accessory use means a use customarily incidental and subordinate to the principal use of building and located on the same lot with such principal use or building.

Alley means a minor way used for service access to the back or side of properties otherwise abutting a street.

Billiard room means any public place or place of business where the game of billiards is permitted to be played and for which a charge is made for use of equipment. The term "billiards," as used in this definition, means any of the several games played on a table surrounded by an elastic ledge of cushions, with balls which are impelled by a cue, and shall include all forms of the game known as "carom billiards," "pool," "pocket billiards" and "English billiards." (See section 10-279, pertaining to pool room status, for further definition.)

Building means any structure having a roof supported by columns or by walls and intended for shelter, housing, or enclosure of persons, animals or chattels. The term "building" includes the term "structure."

Building, accessory, means a building subordinate or supplemental to the main building on a lot and used for purpose customarily incidental to that of a main or principal building and located on the same lot therewith.

Building department means the city or its designated representative, which is designated by ordinance to administer and enforce all building codes for the city.

Building official means the city, or its representative, who is designated by ordinance as the building inspector for the city.

Building, principal, means a building in which is conducted the main use of the lot on which said building is located.

City planning commission will be known in this chapter as the planning commission.

Dwelling means a building designed, arranged, or used for permanent living quarters for one or more persons.

Dwelling, multi-family, means a building containing two or more dwelling units designed for residential use.

Dwelling, single-family, means a building containing not more than one dwelling unit designed for residential use, which meets or exceeds the following standards:

(1)

Minimum width in excess of 16.5 feet;

(2)

Minimum square footage of 1,500 square feet;

(3)

The roof shall have a minimum three- to 12-foot roof pitch and shall have a surface covering of wood shakes, asphalt, fiberglass or wood shingles, concrete or other materials approved by the building official;

(4)

The exterior siding material shall consist of wood, masonry, concrete, Masonite, or other materials approved by the building official.

Dwelling unit means one or more rooms physically arranged so as to create an independent housekeeping establishment for occupancy by one family with separate toilets and facilities for cooking and sleeping.

Family means one or more persons occupying a dwelling and living as a single-housekeeping unit.

Game room means any public place or place of business where there are available to the public five or more electronic or mechanical games of skill or chance.

Junkyard means any such use involving the storage or disassembly of wrecked automobiles, trucks, or other vehicles; storage, baling or otherwise dealing in bones, animal hides, scrap metal, used paper, used cloth, used plumbing fixtures and used brick, wood, or other building materials. Such uses shall be considered junkyards whether or not all or part of such operations are conducted inside a building or in conjunction with, addition to, or accessory to, other uses of the premises.

Lot means a portion or parcel of land devoted to a common use or occupied by a building or group of buildings devoted to a common use together with the customary accessories and open spaces belonging to the same. The term "lot" includes the term "plot" or "parcel."

Lot depth means the mean horizontal distance between the front and rear lot lines, measured in the general direction of the side lot lines.

Lot width means the distance between side lot lines measured at the building line.

Manufactured home.

(1)

The term "manufactured home" means:

a.

A new or used structure;

b.

Transportable in one or more sections, which, in the traveling mode:

1.

Is eight body feet or more in width;

2.

40 body feet or more in length; or

c.

When erected on site, is:

1.

320 or more square feet;

2.

Built on a permanent chassis;

3.

Designed to be used as a dwelling, with or without a permanent foundation; and

4.

Connected to the required utilities, including the plumbing, heating, air conditioning and electrical systems contained therein.

(2)

The term "manufactured home" includes any structure which meets all the requirements of this definition except the size requirements and with respect to which the manufacturer voluntarily files a certification required by the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development and complies with the standards established under the National Manufactured Housing Construction and Safety Act of 1974, 42 USC 5401 et seq.

Manufactured home park means a parcel of land which has been planned and improved for the placement of mobile homes for nontransient use.

Maps, zoning maps or city zoning maps means the official zoning maps of the city.

Modular home or industrialized building means any structure or component thereof which is wholly or in substantial part made, fabricated, formed, or assembled in manufacturing facilities for installation or assembly and installation on a building site and has been manufactured in such a manner that all parts or processes cannot be inspected at the installation site without disassembly, damage to, or destruction thereof.

Nonconforming use means a building, structure, or use of land existing at the time of enactment of the ordinance from which this chapter is derived, and which does not conform to the regulations of the district in which it is located.

Pool room means a billiard room as defined in this section.

Roominghouse or boardinghouse means a dwelling, other than a hotel or lodginghouse, where meals or housing accommodations for three or more persons are provided for hire.

Semitrailer truck means a mobile unit designed for the hauling of materials which is equipped with a chassis.

Sign, business, means an attached or freestanding structure which directs attention to a business or profession conducted on the premises.

Sign, outdoor advertising, means a structural poster panel or painted sign, either freestanding or attached to the outside of a building, for the purpose of conveying information, knowledge or ideas to the public about a subject either related or unrelated to the premises upon which it is located.

Street means a public or private way which affords the principal means of access to abutting properties.

Structure means anything constructed or erected, the use of which requires location on the ground, or attachment to something having location on the ground.

Used or occupied, as applied to any land or building, includes the words "intended, arranged or designed to be used or occupied."

Yard means an open space on the same lot with a principal building, unoccupied, and unobstructed by buildings or structures from ground to sky except where encroachments and accessory buildings are expressly permitted.

Yard, front, means an open, unoccupied space on the same lot with a principal building, extending the full width of the lot, and situated between the street and the front line of the building projected to side lines of the lot.

Yard, rear, means an open, unoccupied space on the same lot with a principal building, extending the full width of the lot, and situated between the rear line of the lot and the rear line of the building projected to side lines of the lot.

Yard, side, means an open, unoccupied space on the same lot with a principal building, situated between the building and the side lot line of the lot and extending from the front yard to the rear yard. Any lot line not a rear line or a front line shall be deemed a side line.

(b)

Except as specifically defined in this section, all words used in this section shall carry their customary meaning as defined by a standard dictionary.

(Ord. No. OA-2023-04, 7-10-2023)