Except as specifically defined herein all words used in this ordinance have their customary dictionary definitions. For the purpose of this ordinance and resolution certain terms and words are herein defined as follows: Words used in the present tense include the future; words in the singular number include the plural, and words in the plural number include the singular; the word "building" includes the word "structure", and the word "shall" is mandatory and not permissive.

Accessory building or use: A subordinate building or use the purpose of which is incidental to that of the principal use or of the main building.

Automobile sales or storage yards or lots: Open premises used for the storage or sale of complete and operable automobiles.

Basement: A story partially below grade having at least one-half (½) of its height above the grade of the lot upon which it is situated. A basement shall be counted as a story if used for dwelling or business purposes.

Buffer strip: A planted strip of vegetation five (5) feet wide that when first planted is not shorter than three (3) feet and the anticipated growth height of which after two (2) years will be six (6) to eight (8) feet.

Building: A structure for the shelter, support or enclosure of persons, animals, or chattels. When separated from the ground up without openings, or connections, each portion of such building shall be deemed a separate building.

Building height: The vertical distance measured from the level of the established grade opposite the middle of the front of the building, to the highest point of the roof surface of a flat roof; to the deck line of a mansard roof; and to the mean height level between eaves and ridge for a gable, hip, or gabled roof. For building set back from the street, or right-of-way line, the height may be measured from the average elevation of the natural grade along the front of the buildings, provided its distance from the street or right-of-way line is not less than the height of such grade above the established grade of the street. In case of through lots, or double front lots, the established grade of such abutting street shall govern to one-half (½) the depth of the lot.

Building line setback: The distance between the building line and the street line in a district, lot, tract, or parcel of land.

Building, main (main building): A building in which is conducted the principal use of the lot on which it is situated. In any residential district any dwelling shall be deemed to be a main building on the lot on which the same is situated. "Main building" when used with reference to ground coverage shall mean the dimensions of the dwelling with the porches and garages, when same are under one roof.

Bulk plant or station: A place where petroleum products or other flammable liquids are stored for wholesale purposes only, where the total capacity of all storage tanks is more than twelve thousand (12,000) gallons.

Cellar: A room or story having more than one-half (½) of its height below the average level of the adjoining ground. A cellar shall not be counted as a story for purposes of height measured.

Comprehensive plan: Any officially accepted part or element of the comprehensive plan by the City of Eastman and/or the Commissioner of Dodge County.

Court: A required open, unoccupied space on the same lot and fully enclosed on at least three (3) adjacent sides by walls in any building. An outer area facing for its full required width on a street, or any other required open space is not a court. An inner court is any other required court. Vegetation may be planted in a court.

Dwelling unit: Any building or portion thereof, which is designed or used exclusively for residential purposes by one family.

Dwelling, single-family (single-family dwelling): A building containing, but one housekeeping unit, and designed or used to house not more than one family in a permanent manner, which may include not more than two (2) boarders or lodgers.

Dwelling, multi-family (multi-family dwelling): A building designed for, or portion of a building having accommodations for, three (3) or more families being independent of each other, and each having its own kitchen and bath facilities. This term includes premises occupied more or less permanently for residential purposes in which the rooms are occupied in apartments, suites, or groups such as apartment units, tenement houses, flats, apartment hotels, bachelor apartments, studio apartments, kitchenette apartments, and all other dwellings similarly occupied except hotels and motels.

Dwelling, two-family (two-family dwelling): A building containing two (2) housekeeping units, and designed or used to house two (2) families, living independently of each other, each of which may include not more than two (2) lodgers or boarders.

Family: One or more persons including their direct descendants and adopted children (and including the domestic employees thereof) together with not more than two (2) persons not so related, living together in a room or rooms comprising a single dwelling unit.

Frontage: The distance for which property abuts one side of a street, road, or highway, or other public way measured along the dividing lines(s) between the property and such road, or highway or other public way.

Frontage roadway oraccess street: A roadway contiguous to and generally paralleling an expressway, major street or highway, or through street or highway, and so designed as to intercept, collect and distribute traffic desiring to cross, enter, or leave such facility, and to furnish access to property which otherwise would be isolated as a result of any controlled-access features.

Garage, private (private garage): A garage intended for and owned or used by the members of families resident upon the premises, provided that not more than one-half (½) of the garage space may be rented for private vehicles owned or used by persons not resident on the premises, except that all the space in a garage of one or two-car capacity may be so rented. Such a garage shall not include those used by more than one commercial vehicle per family resident on the premises, and no such commercial vehicle shall exceed two (2) ton capacity; nor shall such garage provide for the repair or equipping of such vehicles.

Garage, public (public garage): Any garage not included within the definition of a private garage.

Governing body having jurisdiction: The City Council of Eastman, Georgia.

Home occupations: Any occupation or profession engaged in by any occupant of a dwelling not including the conduct of a retail business, or a manufacturing business or a repair business of any kind on the premises. "Home occupation" shall not include any occupation conducted in any building on the premises other than the principal building which is used by the occupant on his or her private dwelling and shall not include the employment of any additional person in the performance of such services. Not more than twenty-five (25) percent of the floor space shall be devoted to this use. Such home occupations shall not include clairvoyance, fortune telling, experimentations that involve the use of chemicals or matter or energy that may create or cause to be created noises, noxious odors, or hazards that will endanger the health, safety, or welfare, of the community, or detract from the residential nature of the district.

Hotel: Any building containing sleeping rooms for more or less temporary occupancy of individuals who are lodged for compensation, with or without meals, with no provision made for any cooking in any individual room or suite.

Institution: Any building or group of buildings used for public or private educational, religious, civic or other similar purpose, usually on a non-profit basis.

Lodging[house] orboardinghouse: A building designed or used for the more or less permanent occupancy with or without meals, of more than two (2) lodgers or boarders whether the compensation be paid directly or indirectly.

Lot of record: A lot or parcel of land the plat of which has been recorded in the office of the Clerk of the Superior Court of Dodge County, Georgia.

Lot, corner (corner lot): A lot which abuts on two (2) or more streets, and/or roads, at their intersection.

Lot depth: The distance between front and rear lot lines; if two (2) opposite sides of said lot are not parallel, the depth shall be deemed to be the mean distance between the front and rear lot lines.

Lot, interior (interior lot): A lot which is not a corner lot.

Lot line, front (front lot line): The front lot line of an interior lot is the line separating the lot from the easement of principal access. The front lot line of a corner lot shall be the lot line with the least frontage.

Lot line, rear (rear lot line): The rear lot line is the boundary opposite and more or less parallel to the front lot line. The rear lot line of an irregular or triangular lot shall be for the purposes of this ordinance and resolution a line not less than ten (10) feet long, lying wholly within the lot, and parallel to and at the farthest distant from the front lot line.

Lot line, side (side lot line): A side lot line is any lot boundary line not a front lot line or a rear lot line. A side lot line separating a lot from a street line is an exterior side lot line. Any other side lot line is an interior side lot line.

Lot, through (through lot): A lot, the depth of which extends between two (2), more or less parallel streets and having frontage on each street.

Lot width: The width of the lot measured at right angles to the mean depth of said lot.

Motel: Any building containing sleeping rooms for the more or less temporary occupancy of individuals who are lodged for compensation with or without meals, and where the design favors a direct vehicular approach to each sleeping or living room. Any building or structure exceeding two and one-half (2½) stories in height shall be classified as a hotel rather than a motel.

Nonconforming use: Any use of a building or of land that does not conform to the regulations for the district in which it is situated, but which was an existing and lawful use prior to the adoption of this ordinance and resolution.

Parking lot, accessory: A parcel of land used by an individual, partnership, firm or corporation in any commercial or industrial district exclusively for the parking of vehicles of its employees or customers and for which no charge is made.

Parking space: An area of appropriate dimensions of not less than one hundred eighty (180) square feet, exclusive of access or maneuvering area, to be used exclusively as a temporary storage space for private motor vehicles. Truck loading and unloading space shall not be included in such area. When the application of a unit of measurement for parking spaces to a particular use or structure results in a fractional space, any fraction under one-half (½) shall be disregarded and fractions of one-half (½) or over shall be counted as one additional required space.

Planning commission: This refers to the Eastman-Dodge County Planning Commission, which meets the third Monday of each month.

Planting strip: The portion of the street between the curb or pavement edge and the property line exclusive of the area occupied by the sidewalk.

Sign, billboard: Any words, lettering, parts of letters, figures, numbers, phrases, sentences, emblems, devices, designs, trade names, or trade marks by which anything is made known, such as are used to designate an individual, a firm, an association, a corporation, a profession, a business, or a commodity or product, which are visible from any public street or highway and used to attract attention. This applies to freestanding devices attached to a building or structure also.

Stable, horse (horse stable): A structure intended for the accommodation of one or more horses or mules.

Story: The vertical distance of a building included between the surface of any floor and the surface of the next floor above it, or, if there be no floor above it, then the space between such floor and ceiling next above it, provided that a cellar shall not be considered a story. Attic space is construed as one-half (½) story.

Street: A public thoroughfare, twenty (20) feet or more wide, where public title to land extends between right-of-way lines. Whenever the sense of the law or these regulations so require, the word "street" shall include avenue, drive, circle, road, highway, or similar terms as they are generally understood.

Street grade: The established grade of the front street or other higher street upon which the lot abuts at the mid-point of the frontage of the lot thereon. If there is no established grade, the director of public works shall be consulted and his approval obtained as to the ultimate grade to be established by the owner.

Street line or right-of-way line: The dividing line between a lot, its property line or lines, and a public right-of-way, a public street, road, or highway; or a private street, road, or highway, over which two (2) or more abutting owners have an easement or right-of-way.

Street width: The horizontal distance between the side lines of a street, road or highway measured at right angles to the side lines.

Structural alteration: Any change in the supporting members of a building or structure, such as bearing walls, columns, beams, girders, floor joists, or roof joints, or exterior supports.

Subdivision: The division of a lot, tract or parcel of land into two (2) or more lots, plats, sites, or other divisions of land for the purpose, whether immediate or future, of sale or building development for purposes other than agricultural. It includes resubdivision and when appropriate to the context, relates to the process of subdividing or to the land or territory subdivided.

Trailer, mobile home: Any vehicle with or without its own motive power, designed and so constructed as to permit occupancy thereof as a temporary or permanent dwelling unit or sleeping place for one or more persons, and mounted on wheels or designed to be so mounted and transported.

Trailer park: Any site, lot, field, or tract of land upon which two (2) or more trailer coaches are placed, and shall include any building, structure, tent, vehicle, or enclosure used or intended for use as a part of the equipment of such park.

Variance: Deviation from the terms of the ordinance that are not contrary to the public interest.

Yard: An unoccupied area of a lot, open and unobstructed from the ground to the sky, except for vegetation, or as otherwise provided in this ordinance and resolution.

Yard, front (front yard): An open space extending the full width of a lot and of a depth measured horizontally at right angles to the front lot line.

Yard, rear (rear yard): An open space extending the full width of a lot and of a depth measured horizontally at right angles to the rear lot line.

Yard, side (side yard): An open space extending along the side line of a lot between the front yard and the rear yard and of a width measured horizontally at right angles to the side lot line.