For the purpose of this ordinance, certain terms and words are hereby defined. The word "person" includes a firm, associations, organization, partnership, trust, company or corporation as well as an individual. The present tense includes the future. The singular includes the plural and the plural, the singular. The word "structure" shall include the word "building." The masculine gender includes the feminine and neuter. The word "lot" shall include the words "plot," "piece" and "parcel" of land. The word "shall" is mandatory, the words "used for" shall include the phrases "arranged for," "designed for," "intended for," "improved for," "maintained for" and "occupied for."

Abutting lots: Having property lines in common; e.g. two lots are abutting if they have property lines in common.

Adjoining lot or land: See abutting lots.

Adjacent: Shall mean "next to." See abutting lots.

Accessory building or structure: A subordinate building or structure, attached to or detached from the main building, the use of which is incidental to that of the main building and not used as a place of habitation except by domestic servants employed upon the premises.

Accessory: A use which: (1) is subordinate to and services a principal building or principal use; (2) is subordinate in area, extent, or purpose to the principal building or principal use served; (3) contributes to the comfort, convenience, or necessity of occupants of the principal building or principal use; and (4) is located on the same lot or record as the principal building or principal use.

Addition: Any construction which increases the size of a building such as a porch, attached garage or carport, or a new room or wing. When a structure already covers the maximum amount of land permitted by the zoning ordinance, constructing and addition would violate the terms of the ordinance, unless a variance is granted by the zoning commission. An addition is a form of alteration.

Aggregate area or width: The sum of two or more designated areas or widths to be measured limited or determined under these regulations.

Alley: A way which affords only a secondary means of access to property abutting thereon.

Alteration: As applied to a building or structure, a change or rearrangement in the structural parts or in the existing facilities, or an enlargement, whether by extending on a side or by increasing in height, or the moving from one location or position to another.

Amendment: An amendment refers to a change in this zoning ordinance. Rezoning are amendments, since they change the official zoning map which is part of the ordinance.

Amusement center: See arcade.

Animal establishment: A facility operated as a pet shop, grooming shop, commercial or private kennel, boarding dogs or cats or the training of dogs for any purpose. Animal shelters operated by a public jurisdiction, tax-exempt humane organization or veterinary medical facility are exempt from this definition.

Animal shelter: A facility operated by a public jurisdiction or by an accredited, tax-exempt humane organization for the purpose of impounding, harboring, selling, placing or destroying seized, stray, distressed, homeless, abandoned or unwanted animals in compliance with the standards set forth in Title 9-Animal and animal products, Chapter 1-Animal and Plat Health Services, United States Department of Agriculture Animal Welfare Act of 1970 (Public Law 91-579)

Apartment: A dwelling unit with culinary facilities designed for or used as living quarters for a family.

Arcade: Any indoor place or enclosure that contains three or more amusement devices of any description, including but not limited to pinball amusement games, computer amusement games, and/or games of chance for the public amusement, patronage or recreation.

Back-to-back lots: Lots which have at least part of their rear lot lines in common (including lots abutting one another across an alley).

Balcony: A railing-enclosed platform projecting from and supported by an outer wall of a building but not supported directly from the ground.

Base flood: The flood having a one percent chance of being equaled or exceed in any given year.

Basement: That portion of a building below the first story and having more than one-half its height below grade.

Bed and breakfast lodging: Overnight sleeping and breakfast accommodations conducted as a family business in a dwelling by the resident-owner family. The use is subject to the following limitations: (1) no more than eight registered overnight guests; (2) nor more than four guest bedrooms: (3) serving of one meal limited to breakfast for registered guests only; (4) no sale of other goods and services; (5) not advertised as a hotel, motel, inn, boarding house, rooming house or the like; (6) no on-premise business conducted by persons other than the resident-owner family; (7) no business sign; and (8) provision of one off-street parking space per guest room in addition to resident parking.

Boarding home: See bed and breakfast lodging.

Boarding house: See rooming house.

Buffer zone: An area established to protect one type of land use from another with which is incompatible. The purpose of buffer zones is to reduce noise, glare and unsightliness required between commercial and residential uses. See section 14.06.

Building: Any structure built for the support, shelter or enclosure of persons, animals, chattels, or property of any kind. The term "building" shall be construed to include the term "structure." Trailers, mobile homes and temporary structures such as tents are not buildings.

Buildable area: The space remaining on a lot after the minimum open space and setback requirements of this ordinance have been met.

Building coverage: See building area.

Building, height of: The vertical distance from the grade to the highest point of the coping of a flat roof, or to the deck line or highest point of coping or parapet of a mansard roof, or to the mean height level between eaves and ridge for gable, hip shed, and gambrel roofs. When the highest wall of a building with a shed roof is within 30 feet of a street, the height of such building shall be measured to the highest point of coping or parapet.

Building line: A line, usually fixed parallel to the lot front line, beyond which a building cannot extend under the terms of the zoning ordinance. It is equivalent to the setback or yard line.

Building official: Same as director of building permits and inspections.

Building office: Same as office of permits and inspections.

Building, principal: A building in which the principal use of the lot on which it is located is conducted.

Canopy: A detachable, roof like cover, supported from the ground, or deck, floor or walls of a building, for protection from sun or weather.

Carport: A canopy, open on at least two sides, for the purpose of providing shelter for one or more vehicles.

Car wash: A building or portion thereof containing facilities for the simultaneous washing of vehicles.

Certificate of occupancy: Official certification that a premise conforms to provisions of the zoning ordinance and building code and may be used or occupied. Such a certificate is granted for new construction or for alteration or additions to existing structures.

Child day care or nursery: See community home and day care center.

Clinic: A building or portion thereof designed for, constructed or under construction or alteration for, or used by three or more physicians, surgeons, dentists, psychiatrists, physiotherapists, or practitioners in related specialties, or a combination of persons in these professions, but not including lodging of patients overnight.

Club, private: Building and facilities or premises used or operated by an organization or association for some common purpose, such as, but not limited to, a fraternal, social, educational, or recreational purpose, but not including clubs organized primarily for profit or to render a service which is customarily carried on as a business. Such organizations and associations shall be incorporated under the laws of Louisiana as a non-profit corporation or registered with the Secretary of State of the State of Louisiana.

Cluster development: Generally refers to a development pattern for residential, commercial, industrial, institutional, or combinations of such uses in which the uses are grouped or "clustered," rather than spread evenly throughout a parcel as in conventional lot-by-lot development. See planned unit development.

Commercial kennel: Any person engaged in the commercial breeding of dogs or cats, or both, for sale, individually or in litter lots; or in the boarding, training, sale or hire of dogs and cats for compensation. Animal hospitals maintained by veterinarian licensed by the state as part of the practice of veterinary medicine, shelters operated by a public jurisdiction, tax-exempt humane organizations or private kennels shall not be considered commercial kennels. This definition is subject to and modified by the latest amended city animal ordinance.

Community home: Any place, facility, or home operated by any institution, society, agency, corporation, person or persons, or any other group which receives therein at least four but not more than six individuals, who are not related to the operator and whose parents or guardians are not resident of the same facility, for supervision, care, lodging and maintenance, with or without transfer of custody. See day care center.

Compatible use: A compatible use is a use which is capable of existing in harmony with other uses situated in its immediate vicinity.

Condominium: A building, or group of buildings, in which units are owned individually, and the structure, common areas, and facilities are owned by all the owners on a proportional, undivided basis. By definition, a condominium has common areas and facilities and there is an association of owners organized for the purpose of maintaining, administering and operating the common areas and facilities. It is a legal form of ownership of real estate and not a specific building style. The purchaser has title to his or her interior space in the building and undivided interest in parts of the interior, the exterior, and other common elements. The property is identified in a master deed and recorded on a plat with the local jurisdiction. The common elements usually include the land underneath and surrounding the building, certain improvements on the land, and such items as plumbing, wiring, and major utility systems, the interior areas between walls, the public interior spaces, exterior walls, streets and recreational facilities.

Conforming building, structure or use: A conforming building, structure or use is any building or structure or use which complies with all the regulations of this ordinance or any amendments hereto the zoning district in which such building or structure is located.

Conditional use: A use permitted when certain conditions as required under this ordinance, have been met and requiring a report by the planning commission before approval by the city board of aldermen.

Convalescent home: Same as nursing home.

Court: An open space from the ground upward, which may or may not have direct street access and around which is arranged a single building or a group of related buildings.

Covenant: A private legal restriction on the use of land contained in the deed to the property or otherwise formally recorded. There may be certain legal requirements for formal establishment of a covenant such as a written document, a mutual interest in the property, that the covenant be concerned with the use of the land rather than individual characteristics of ownership, etc. covenants are most commonly used in the establishment of a subdivision to restrict the use of all individual lots in the development to a certain type of use, e.g., single family dwellings.

Day care center: Any place or facility operated by any institution, society, agency, corporation, person or persons, or any other group for the primary purpose of providing care, supervision and guidance of seven or more children not related to the care giver and unaccompanied by parent or guardian, on the regular basis for at least 20 hours in a continuous seven-day week, and in which no individual child remains for more than 24 hours in a continuous stay shall be known as a full-time day care center. A day care center that remains open after 9:00 p.m. shall meet the appropriate regulations established for nighttime care. See community home.

Dental or doctor's office: A building or portion thereof, used by no more than two dentists, or two doctors.

Deed restriction: See covenant.

Density: The average number of families, persons, or housing units per unit of land; usually density is expressed "per acre."

Director of building permits and inspections: Same as building official.

District: See zoning district.

Dwelling: A building or portion thereof designed or used exclusively for residential occupancy, consisting of one or more dwelling units, but not including trailers, hotels, motels, motor lodges, boarding and lodging homes, tourist courts, or tourist homes.

Dwelling, single family: A dwelling designed for, constructed or under construction or alteration for, or occupied exclusively by not more than one family.

Dwelling, two family: A dwelling designed for, constructed or under construction or alteration for, or occupied by two or more families.

Dwelling unit: A room, or group of room, occupied or intended to be occupied as separate living quarters by a single family or other group of persons living together as a household, or by a person living alone, with facilities for sleeping and cooking.

Easement: A right or privilege in favor of a person or a governmental authority to use a parcel of land or portion thereof for a specific purpose.

Extraction: Extraction is the removal from the premises of gravel, shells, top-soil minerals, or other natural resources from a lot or a part thereof.

Family: An individual or two or more persons who are related by blood, marriage or adoption, living together as a single household unit; or a group of persons living together as a single housekeeping unit, as distinguished from a group occupying a boarding house, lodging house or hotel.

Filling station or service station: Any building, structure, premise, enclosure, or other place used for the dispensing, sale or offering for sale of automobile fuel and oils at retail. When such dispensing, sale or offering for sale of automobile fuels and oils is incidental to the conduct of a motor vehicle repair shop, the premises shall be classified as a motor vehicle repair shop.

Floodway: The channel of a river or other watercourse and the adjacent land areas that must be reserved in order to discharge the base flood without cumulatively increasing the water surface elevation more than one foot.

Floor area: The sum of the gross horizontal areas of the several floors of a building or buildings, measured from the exterior faces of exterior walls or from the centerline of walls separating two attached buildings, including balconies and mezzanines, garages, carports, porches or space in a basement. Also referred to as gross floor area (G.F.A.).

Floor area, habitable: Floor area, as defined immediately above, excluding all areas occupied by cellars, garages, porches, attics, stairways and storage, utility and heating rooms. Also referred to as net floor area (N.F.A.).

Front yard: See yard, front.

Garage apartment: A living unit for not more than one family that is accessory to the main building on the lot. The garage apartment may be erected above a garage if the garage is a separate and accessory building or may be located in an attached garage that is considered accessory to the main building.

Garage, parking: A building or portion thereof designed or used for the temporary storage of motor-driven vehicles.

Garage, private: An accessory building or portion of the principal building which is intended and used for the storage of the private passenger vehicles of the family or families who reside upon the lot upon which the same is located.

Garage, repair: A building, land, or portion thereof other than a private or storage garage, designed or used for equipping, servicing repairing, hiring, selling, or storing motor-driven vehicles, but not including factory, assembly of such vehicles, auto wrecking establishments or junk yards.

Garage, storage: A building, land, or portion thereof designed or used for storage only of five or more motor-driven vehicles pursuant to previous arrangement and not to transients, and at which automobile fuels and oils are sold and motor-driven vehicles are not equipped, repaired, hired or sold.

Garden home: Also generally referred to as patio home, is one variation of cluster housing producing densities greater than can be achieved with conventional single family detached houses. The garden home concept utilizes the entire lot with a house that looks inward toward its own private garden court. This feature is achieved by allowing one or two sides of the garden home abutting on one or two lot lines, generally a side line and sometimes a back line. See zero-lot-line development.

Gasoline service station: See filling station.

Grade: The ground elevation or required ground elevation at a building or building site as established by the building code, the flood damage prevention ordinance or other applicable codes of the city.

Gross floor area: See floor area.

Group home: Means any place, facility, or home operated by any institution, society, agency, corporation, person or persons, or any other group which received therein at least seven but not more than fifteen children who are not related to the operators and whose parents or guardians are not residents of the same facility for supervision, care, lodging and maintenance, with or without transfer of custody. See residential group home.

Heliport: An area of land, water or structure or portion thereof used or intended to be used for the landing and take-off of helicopters and having service facilities for such aircraft or providing for permanent basing of such aircraft.

Home for the aged: Facilities providing domiciliary care for ambulatory aged, including the service of meals and the provision of incidental nursing as required from time to time.

Home occupation: See section 2.11.

Hospital: A building or group of building, having room facilities for overnight patients, used for providing services for the inpatient medical or surgical care of sick or injured humans, and which may include related facilities, such as central service facilities, and staff offices; provided, however, that such related facilities must be incidental and subordinate to the main use and must be an integral part of the hospital operations.

Hotel/motels: A building containing 20 or more individual sleeping rooms or suites, having each a private bathroom attached thereto, for the purpose of providing overnight lodging facilities to the general public for compensation with or without meals, excluding accommodations for employees, and in which ingress and egress to and from all rooms is made through an inside lobby or office supervised by a person in charge at all hours. Where a hotel is permitted as a principal use, all uses customarily and historically accessory thereto for the comfort, accommodation and entertainment of the patrons,

Incompatible use: Is a use which is incompatible or existing in harmony with other uses situated in its immediate vicinity.

Inoperative motor vehicles: A motor vehicle which is unable to travel under its own power and/or one which does not have a current valid state inspection sticker.

Institution: A non-profit establishment for public use or public benefit.

Junk yard: Refers to outdoor premises that are used to collect and store used, broken or salvageable items of various sorts. Includes automobile yard. Shall be screened from public view. For the purpose of this ordinance, an abandoned automobile or other vehicle shall constitute a junkyard.

Kennel: See private, commercial kennels.

Living unit: The rooms occupied by a family. The living unit must include a kitchen and bathroom.

Loading space: A space within a main building or on the same lot as a main building, providing for the standing, loading or unloading of trucks.

Lot: A parcel of land occupied or which may be hereafter occupied by a building and its accessory buildings, together with such open spaces and parking spaces or area as are required under this ordinance, and having its principal frontage upon an officially approved public street or place.

Lot area: The total horizontal area within the lot lines of the lot.

Lot corner: A lot abutting upon two or more streets at their intersection.

Lot coverage: The area of the lot covered by a structure(s) exclusive of permitted overhangs.

Lot, depth: The mean horizontal distance between the front lot line and the rear lot line, or the distance between the midpoint of the front lot line and the midpoint of the rear lot line.

Lot, interior: A lot other than a corner lot or reversed corner lot.

Lot lines: The property lines bounding a lot, or boundary line.

Lot line, front: The boundary of a lot abutting a street right-of-way.

Lot line, rear: The lot line most nearly parallel to and most remote from the front lot line.

Lot line, side: Lot lines other than front or rear lot lines.

Lot, reversed corner: A corner lot, the rear of which abuts upon the side of another lot whether across an alley or not.

Lot of record: A lot which is part of a legally approved subdivision, the map of which has been recorded in the Livingston Parish Clerk of Court's office or a parcel of land which became legally established and defined or act of sale and recorded in the Livingston Parish Clerk of Court's Office.

Lot, through (double frontage): A lot having a frontage of two approximately parallel street or spaces.

Lot width: The average horizontal distance between the side lot lines measured at the required front yard line and parallel to the front street line, or measured at the street line if no front yard is required.

Lowest floor: means the lowest floor of the lowest enclosed area (including basement). An unfinished or flood resistant enclosure, usable solely for parking of vehicles, building access or storage, in an area other than a basement area, is not considered a building's lowest floor, provided that such enclosure is not built so as to render the structure in violation of the applicable non-elevation design requirements of the Flood Damage Prevention Ordinance of the City of Denham Springs.

Main building: Any building having the predominant land use which is not an accessory building.

Manufactured commercial structure: Any portable manufactured structure specifically designed for commercial use and in conformance with the Southern Standard Building Code by the Southern Building Code Congress International, Inc., approved by the Louisiana State Fire Marshal's Office and provided that the building inspection office of the city is able to make the same inspections of said unit as are made with respect to a conventional commercial structure or have a bona fide, legal, manufacturer's certification stating that the manufactured structure was built in accordance with the Standard Building Code for commercial uses.

Manufactured home of house: See mobile home, modular home or house, travel trailer and recreational vehicle.

Manufactured or mobile home park: A unified development of two or more mobile home sites, plots, or stands, arranged on a large tract usually under single ownership, meeting the area and yard requirements of this ordinance, and designed to accommodate mobile homes for more or less permanent duration.

Manufactured structure: A manufactured home or house, or manufactured commercial structure.

Maternity home: Means any place or facility in which any institution, society, agency, corporation, person or persons, or any other group regularly receives and provides necessary services for children before, during, and immediately following birth. This definition shall not include any place or facility which receives and provides services for women who receive maternity care in the home of a relative within the sixth degree of kindred, computed according to civil law, or general or special hospitals in which maternity treatment and care is part of the medical services performed and the care of children only brief and incidental.

Mini warehouses: One story structures, taken the general appearance of rows of lockers or side-by-side garages, providing relatively small individual storage spaces. User handles and stores their own goods, place their own locks or locks are provided by the storage company. Usually any type of material can be stored in the facility except flammable, toxic or hazardous materials.

Mobile home or house: A structure transportable in one or more sections which is at least eight feet in width and 32 feet in length, which is built on a permanent chassis, not drawn by its own power, and designed to be used as a single family dwelling unit suitable for occupancy during the entire year, with our without a permanent foundation and which contains the same utility connection and convenience as a immobile house.

Modular house: Any portable manufactured housing unit provided that the building inspection office of the city is able to make the same inspections of said unit as are made with respect to a conventional residence.

Monastery: An area containing one or more buildings used for religious retirement or of seclusion for persons under religious vows, especially monks.

Motel, motor court, tourist court, or motor lodge: A building in which lodging or boarding and lodging are provided and offered to the public for compensation. As such, it is open to the public in contradistinction to a boarding or lodging house, or multiple dwelling; same as a hotel, except that the buildings are usually designed to serve tourists traveling by automobile, ingress and egress to rooms need not be through lobby or office, and parking usually is adjacent to the dwelling unit.

Net floor area (N.F.A.): See floor area, habitable.

Nonconforming building: A building lawfully existing as of the effective date of the adoption of this ordinance, or amendment hereto, which under the provisions of this ordinance could not be built because of restriction on height, setbacks, yards, lot coverage, floor area ratio, or other characteristics of the building or its location on the lot where it exists.

Nonconforming use: A building, structure or use of a building, structure or parcel of land, or a portion thereof, lawfully existing as of the effective date of the adoption of this ordinance or amendment hereto, as a matter of right or by permit, which is not permitted in the zoning district in which it is located.

Nursing home: A facility designed and intended to provide nursing service on a continuing basis to persons, the majority of whom require such service under trained professional nurses or physicians, and for whom medical records are maintained.

Off-street parking: See article 4.

Office of building permit and inspections: Same as building office.

Office building: A building designed for or used as the offices of professional, commercial, industrial, public, or semi-public persons or organizations.

Parking space: See section 4.03.

Patio homes: See garden homes and zero-lot-line development.

Permitted use: Any use allowed in a zoning district and subject to the restrictions applicable to that zoning district.

Person: A corporation, company, association, society, firm, partnership, or joint stock company, as well as an individual, a state, and all political subdivisions of a state or any agency or instrumentally thereof.

Personal services: Services customarily rendered for compensation in a building where stock in trade is neither stored on the premises nor sold over the counter at retail, including such services as apparel repair, alteration and cleaning; hair styling, trimming and cutting; beauty services; photographic services, and other services of a similar nature.

Pet shop: A person who obtains animals for sale, exchange, barter or hire to the general public as a principal or agent, or who holds himself out to be so engaged.

Planned unit development (P.U.D.): See article 17.

Planning commission: The planning commission of the City of Denham Springs.

Premises: Land together with any buildings structures and other appurtenances occupying it.

Principal use: The main use of land or structures as distinguished from a secondary or accessory use.

Private kennel: Any person who maintains within or adjoining his residence a kennel housing more than 12 dogs or cats over four months of age, such animals to be for that person's recreational use or for exhibition in conformation show, field or obedience trials and where the sale of offspring is not the primary function of the kennel. This definition is subject to and modified by the latest amended city animal ordinance.

Processing facility: A business which stores, keeps dismantles or salvages scrap or discarded material or equipment wholly inside a building. Scrap or discarded material includes, but is not limited to metal, paper, cloth, plastic or glass. The use is subject to the following limitations: A minimum distance of 500 feet is required between a processing facility and a residential district, unless varied by the planning commission.

Professional services: Services generally provided by engineers, architects, accountants, and similar services including personal services. It does not include repair of machinery or any other activity where stock is traded, stored or sold.

Rear yard: See yard, rear.

Recreational vehicles (R.V.'s): Any vehicle mounted on wheels, self propelled, designed and intended to serve primarily as a recreational vehicle and a short term shelter.

Recyclable materials: Materials which are capable of being recycled and which would otherwise be processed or disposed of as non-hazardous solid waste.

Recycling collection center (no flattening): A manned facility used for the collection and temporary storage of empty aluminum cans and other discarded recyclable materials, wholly inside a building. No flattening equipment or trailer/truck bodies allowed on site.

Recycling service center: A facility used for the flattening and storage of empty aluminum cans and other discarded recyclable materials wholly inside a building. No trailers/truck bodies shall be used as accessory structures.

Recycling service center with trailer/truck body: A facility used for flattening and storage of empty aluminum cans and other discarded recyclable materials wholly inside a building. One trailer/truck body permitted as an accessory structure.

Residential group home: Means any place, facility, or home operated by any institution, society, agency, corporation, person or persons, or any other group to provide full-time care for more than fifteen children who are not related to the operators and whose parents or guardians are not resident of the same facility, with or without transfer of custody. A residential home as defined in this paragraph includes facilities known as children's home, halfway house, residential treatment centers, training schools, and facilities for the mentally retarded, emotionally disturbed, socially maladjusted, or otherwise mentally or physically handicapped. See group home.

Right-of-way: A strip of land acquired by reservation, dedication, forced dedication, prescription, or condemnation and intended to be occupied or occupied by a road, crosswalk, railroad, electric transmission lines, oil or gas pipeline, water line, sanitary storm sewer and other similar uses.

Rooming house: A building other than an apartment, hotel, motel, or motor lodge where, for compensation and by prearrangement for definite periods, lodging, meals, or lodging and meals and provided for three or more persons, but containing less than 20 sleeping rooms.

Service shop: See personal service shop.

Servitude: A strip existing or to be reserved by the subdivider for public utilities, drainage, and other public purposes, the title to which shall remain in the possession of the property owner, subject to the right of use designated in the reservation of the servitude.

Setback: The minimum horizontal distance between a structure and a lot line.

Shopping center: A group of establishments planned, constructed and managed as a total entity with customer and employee parking provided on-site, provision for goods delivery separated from customer access, aesthetic considerations and protection from the elements.

Site plan: A plan, to scale, showing uses and structures proposed for a parcel of land as required by the regulations involved. It include lot lines, streets, building sites, reserved open space, buildings, major landscape features both natural and man-made and depending on requirements, the locations of proposed utility lines.

Sketch (concept; outline) plan or plat: A generalized map that is prepared by a developer, usually before the preapplication conference, to let the developer/subdivider save time and expense in reaching agreement with the planning commission as to the form of the plat and the purposes of the regulations. Its purpose is simply to serve as a basis for discussion without either side making commitments.

Special use: See article 15.

Street: A public right-of-way which provides vehicular and pedestrian access to adjacent properties.

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Freeways are the highest type of roadway design, and includes full control of access.

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Arterial streets and highways are those which are used primarily for fast or heavy traffic. They are generally several miles long and connect points of major traffic generation or through highways.

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Collection streets are those which carry traffic from minor streets to the major system of arterial streets and highways, including the principal entrance streets of a residential development and streets for circulation within such a development.

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Local streets are those which are used primarily for access to the abutting properties but do not provide for through traffic.

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Marginal access streets are minor streets which are parallel to and adjacent to arterial streets and highways; and which provide access to abutting properties and protection from through traffic.

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Commercial-industrial streets are collector or local streets constructed to serve primarily commercial or industrial traffic.

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Alleys are minor ways which are used primarily for vehicular service access to the back or side of property otherwise abutting on a street.

Street line: A line separating a lot, tract, or parcel of land and an abutting street. It is synonymous with street right-of-way.

Street, major: A street designated as such on the officially adopted major street plan for the city.

Structural alterations: Any changes in the supporting members of a building, such as footing, bearing walls, or partitions, columns, beams, or girders, or any substantial change in the roof or in he exterior walls, excepting such repair as may be required by an official agency for the safety of the building.

Structure: 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, backstops for tennis courts, and pergolas.

Swimming pools: Any portable pool or permanent structure containing a body of water 18 inches or more in depth and 250 square feet or more of water surface area, intended for recreational purposes, including a wading pool, but not including an ornamental reflecting pool or fish pond or similar type pool, located and designed so as not to create a hazard or be used for swimming or wading.

Temporary structure: A structure without any foundation or footings and which is removed when the designated time period, activity, or use for which the temporary structure was erected has ceased.

Temporary use: A use established for a fixed period of time with the intent to discontinue such use upon the expiration of the time period.

Tourist home: See bed and breakfast lodging.

Townhouse or townhome: A single family attached dwelling in a row of at least four such units in which each unit has its own front and rear access to the outside, no unit is located over another unit (though each townhouse may be two story) and each unit is separated from any other unit by one or more common fire resistant walls.

Travel trailer: Any vehicle mounted on wheels, but not self propelled and not more than 32 feet in length and eight feet in width, designed and to serve primarily as short term shelter.

Use: The purpose or activity for which a piece of land or its buildings is designed, arranged, or intended, or for which it is occupied or maintained.

Variance: See article 16

Video game arcade: See arcade.

Visual obstruction: Any fence wall, tree, hedge, or shrub, or a combination of them which limits visibility. See section 2.06 for visibility requirements at street intersections.

Yard: An open space on the same lot with a building or building group lying between the front, rear, or side wall of a building and the nearest lot line, unoccupied except for projections and the specific minor uses or structures allowed in such open space under the provisions of this ordinance.

Yard, front: A yard extending across the front of a lot between the side lot lines, and being the required minimum horizontal distance between the street and/or building line and the buildable are. On corner lots the front yard shall be provided facing the street upon which the lot has its lesser dimension.

Yard, rear: A yard extending across the rear of a lot between the side lot lines, and being the required minimum horizontal distance between the rear lot line and the rear of the buildable area. On both corner lots and interior lots the rear yard shall in all cases be at the opposite end of the lot from the front yard.

Yard, side: A yard between the main building and the side lot line and extending from the required front yard to the required rear yard, and being the required minimum horizontal distance between a side lot line and the side line of the buildable area.

Zero-lot-line development (ZLL): Residential development of single family units where the location of a building on a lot is sited in such a manner that one or more of the building sides has a zero-foot setback from one or more of the lot lines. For legal purposes, the set back is actually one inch. Such placement allows each house to have a larger expense of contiguous yard space than the small side yards allowed by the traditional pattern of your setbacks, and affecting the overall design of a development. Placing adjacent houses on alternate side line creates an effect similar to a duplex, with space between each pair of house, although the houses do not share a common wall. Types of detached housing that can be adopted for ZLL Development include one-or-two-story single family detached houses, patio houses or garden homes. The ZLL house and lot are always privately owned.

Zoning district: Sections within the city limits of Denham Springs designated in the zoning ordinance text and delineated on the zoning map, in which requirements for the use of land and building and development standards are prescribed.

Zoning commission: The Denham Springs Zoning Commission.

(Ord. of 7-23-90)