(a)

For the purpose of this chapter, words used in the present tense include the future; the singular number includes the plural, and the plural the singular; the words "used for" include the meaning "designated for" and the word "structure" includes the word "building"; the word "shall" is mandatory, and not directory; the word "lot" includes the words "plot" and "tract."

(b)

The following words when used in this chapter shall have the meaning ascribed herein unless the context clearly indicates otherwise:

Accessory building: A subordinate building, or portion of the main building, which is located on the same lot as the main building, or on an adjacent lot, the use of which building is clearly incidental to the use of the main building.

Accessory uses: Uses customarily incident to the principal uses as permitted, but not including any commercial activity.

Annual update and inventory report (AUIR): The village's report on public facility capacity described in section 24-33.

Community residential home: A dwelling unit licensed to serve clients of the department of health and rehabilitative services, which provides a living environment for unrelated residents who operate as the functional equivalent of a family, including such supervision and care by supportive staff as may be necessary to meet the physical, emotional and social needs of residents. No more than six clients may reside in each home and a minimum of 1,000 feet must be maintained between any two such homes. The home must be residential in character and contain at least 200 square feet of floor area per client. The clients are limited to: children, the aged, physically disabled, handicapped, developmentally disabled, and mentally ill who do not constitute a direct threat to the health, property and safety of the neighborhood.

Concurrency: The implementation of public facilities to serve a new project concurrent with the impacts of its approval.

Deficient road facility: A village, county or state road segment on the major road network that operates below the peak season/peak hour LOS established by these regulations.

Development: The carrying out of any building activity, the making of any material change in the use or appearance of any structure or land or the dividing of land into two or more parcels.

Development administrator: The village council or such subcommittee thereof, building and zoning official or other administrative position so designated by the village council.

Development order: Any order granting, denying, or granting with conditions an application for a development permit.

Development permit: Any building permit, plat approval, rezoning, special approval, site plan approval, or other action having the effect of permitting development.

Drainage facilities: A system of man-made structures designed to collect, convey, hold, divert or discharge stormwater, and includes stormwater sewers, canals, detention structures and retention structures.

Dwelling, single-family detached: A building designed for and intended to be used for the occupancy of not more than one family. Said building shall contain not more than one kitchen.

Dwelling, duplex: A building designed for and intended to be used for the occupancy of not more than two families. Said building shall contain not more than two kitchens.

Family: An individual or two or more persons related by legal adoption, blood, or marriage living together as a single housekeeping unit in a dwelling.

Garage, private: A garage in which no business, service or industry connected directly or indirectly with motor vehicles is carried on.

Level of service: An indicator of the extent or degree of service provided by, or proposed to be provided by a facility based on and related to the operational characteristics of the facility, as adopted in the village's comprehensive plan. Level of service indicates the capacity per unit of demand for each public facility.

Lot: A parcel of land fronting on a street, place, way or waterway, which is or may be occupied by a building and its accessory buildings, including the open spaces required under this chapter, and which parcel of land is a matter of record in Dade County, Florida.

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

Lot, depth: The depth of a lot, for the purpose of this chapter is the distance measured in the mean direction of the side lines of the lot from the midpoint of the street lot line or bulkhead line, to the opposite main rear line of the lot.

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

Lot, through: An interior lot having frontage on two streets.

Lot widths: The width of a lot, for the purpose of this chapter, is its mean width measured at right angles to its depth.

Main building: A one- or two-family residential building, or business building.

Nonconforming use: A nonconforming use is a use which does not comply with the use district in which it is situated.

Off-street parking: Parking areas within a lot or structure.

On-street parking: A single line of parking located along a curb line or thoroughfare accessible directly from a traffic moving lane, whether parallel, diagonal or perpendicular.

Open space: A required exterior open area devoid of buildings, accessory structures and impervious areas, except those buildings, accessory structures and impervious areas used exclusively for recreational purposes.

Parking lanes: Refer to an area designated for parallel or perpendicular parking along residential and commercial frontages.

Parking space: An accessible area nine by 19 feet for each car.

Pedestrian entrance: A clearly designated access from the road to the development, including, but not limited to, a designated walkway with a minimum of six feet in width, leading to the main entrance of the building and visible from the main road.

Pedestrian feature: An amenity or architectural feature that provides pedestrians with assistance and protection from vehicular traffic; for example, curb ramps and street crossing signals and features and amenities scaled for pedestrian use such as trash receptacles, light poles, transit stops, benches and others.

Plat: A map or delineated representation of the subdivision of lands, being a complete exact representation of the subdivision and other information in compliance with the requirement of all applicable sections of this chapter and of any local ordinances, and may include the terms "replat," "amended plat," or "revised plat."

Porch: A porch is a roofed space on one or more sides.

Public facilities: Drainage facilities, park and recreation facilities, potable water facilities, transportation facilities, sanitary sewer facilities, and solid waste facilities.

Setback: The minimum horizontal distance between the street line and the front line of the building or any projection thereof excluding steps and terraces.

Shared parking: Parking spaces that are shared by more than one use or building.

Sign: Any object, device, display structure, or part thereof, which is used to advertise, identify, display, direct or attract attention to an object, person, institution, organization, business, product, service, event or location by any means, including words, letters, figures, designs, symbols, fixtures, colors, illumination or projected images.

(1)

Ground sign: A self-supporting sign resting on or supported by means of poles or any other type of base directly on the ground (a monument sign).

(2)

On-premises sign: Any sign relating to products, accommodations, services or activities available to the public on the premises on which the sign is located.

(3)

Portable sign: Any sign whose design and/or construction is manifestly intended to be of a portable nature, whether anchored, carried, left freestanding, towed, self-propelled, or attached to a vehicle including those attached to a truck, trailer, taxi or other vehicles while in the course of business.

(4)

Wall sign: A sign painted on, carved in or otherwise affixed to and mounted parallel to a building facade or wall in such a manner that the facade or wall becomes the supporting structure for or forms the background surface of the sign.

(5)

Sign area: That area within or bounded by the lines including the outer extremities of all letters, figures, characters, clocks, thermometers, temperature or time data, and delineations, or within a boundary of lines including the outer extremities of framework or background of the sign, whichever boundary includes the larger area. The support for the sign background, whether it be columns, a pylon, or a building or part thereof, shall not be included in the sign area. Only one side of a double-faced sign shall be included in the computation of a sign area.

(6)

Billboard sign: A sign with conspicuous advertising which does not apply to the premises or any use of the premises wherein it is displayed or posted, where such advertising may or may not be changed periodically.

(7)

Electrical sign: A sign or structure in which electrical wiring, connections, and/or fixtures are used as part of the sign proper.

(8)

Non-illuminated sign: A sign which is not illuminated by internal or external lights which are designed for such illumination, nor is designed with any special light reflective surfaces.

(9)

Real estate sign: A temporary sign erected by the owner, or his agent, advertising the real property upon which the sign is located for rent, for lease or for sale.

(10)

Roof sign: A sign which is fastened to and supported by or on the roof of a building, or which extends more than 12 inches above the highest flat roof, parapet or eave line of the building.

(11)

Snipe sign: A sign of any material attached to any object, which is a non approved support such as trees, poles, stakes and fences.

(12)

Swinging sign: Any sign which is secured by a flexible connection to side wall or walls of any building or other sign structures.

Site plan: The development plan for one or more lots or parcels on which is shown the existing and proposed conditions of the lot(s) or parcel(s), including all of the requirements set forth in this code.

Street: A thoroughfare which affords principal means of access to abutting property.

Structural alterations: Any change except for repairs or replacements in the supporting members of a structure, such as footings, bearing walls, columns, beams, trusses, girders, tiebacks, or any member thereof.

Structural repairs or replacements: Any repair or replacement in the supporting members of a structure, such as footings, bearing walls, columns, beams, trusses, girders, tiebacks or any member thereof.

Structure: Anything constructed or erected, the use of which requires more or less permanent location on the land, or attached to something having a permanent location on the land.

Subdivision: The platting of real property into two or more lots, parcels, tracts, tiers, blocks, sites, units, or any other division of land, and includes establishment of new streets and alleys, additions, and resubdivisions and, when appropriate to the context, relates to the process of subdividing or to the lands or area subdivided.

Transit feature: An amenity or architectural feature located at a transit stop that provides passengers of the transportation system with assistance and protection, for example, shelters and route maps and features or amenities scaled for passengers use such as trash receptacles, light poles, stops, benches and others.

Utilities: Refer to the urban infrastructure, exclusive of transportation, that includes gas, water, sewer, electricity, telephone, fiber optics, etc.

Yard: An open space on the same lot with a building, unoccupied and unobstructed from the ground upward, except as otherwise provided herein.

Yard, front: An unoccupied area between the front property line (either street or bulkhead of any waterway) and the front line of any main or accessory building, measured at its least dimension and extending from one side yard to the other, exclusive of steps and open terraces.

Yard, rear: The area extending across the full width of the lot between the rear line of any main building and the rear line of the lot.

Yard, side: The area between a main or accessory building and the side line of the lot, and extending from the front line of the main building to the rear lot line.

(Ord. No. 198, 3-13-90; Ord. No. 2011-007, § 2, 5-22-2012)

State Law reference— Community residential homes, F.S. § 419.001 et seq.

Whenever any provision of this chapter imposes more stringent requirements, regulations, restrictions, or limitations that are imposed or required by the provisions of any other law or ordinance, the provisions of this chapter shall govern.

(Ord. No. 2011-007, § 2, 5-22-2012)