[Ord. No. 330 §1, 7-12-1999; Ord. No. 557 §2, 8-4-2003]
Except as specifically defined herein, all words used in these regulations have their customary dictionary definitions. For the purpose of these regulations, certain words, terms or phrases used herein are defined as follows:
ABANDONTo discontinue a use for more than one hundred eighty (180) consecutive days.
ACCESSORY BUILDING OR STRUCTUREA detached subordinate building or structure, the use of which is customarily incidental to the principal use, located on the same lot with the principal building or use. A building housing an accessory use is considered an integral part of the principal building when it has any part of a wall in common with the principal building or is under an extension of the principal roof and designed as an integral part of the principal building.
ACCESSORY USEA use customarily incidental to the principal use of a building site or to a building and located upon the same building site with the accessory use.
AGRICULTURAL or FARMINGPlanting, cultivating, harvesting and storing grains, hay, plants, or trees commonly grown in St. Charles or Warren County; raising and feeding livestock or poultry, except feeding, fattening or finishing livestock or poultry for hire or as a business venture separate and district from crop raising which shall be classed as commercial agriculture. A minimum of ten (10) acres of land shall constitute agriculture or farming for the purposes of these regulations.
AGRICULTURAL AND FARM BUILDINGS STRUCTURESAny building or structure necessary or incidental to the normal conduct of a farm, including but not limited to, the operator residence, residence of hired personnel, barns, buildings and sheds for housing livestock, poultry and farm machinery; buildings for the storage or shelter of grain, hay and other crops; silos, mills and water storage tanks.
AIRPORTSAll areas used for land aircraft.
ALLEYA public secondary means of access of abutting property, not intended for general traffic circulation.
ANIMAL CLINICS AND HOSPITALSAn establishment where animals are admitted principally for examination and treatment by a doctor of veterinary medicine, with boarding facilities limited to that necessary for the treatment of the sick animal and not including open kennels or runs.
ANIMAL KENNELSAny structure or lot where three (3) or more dogs and/or cats older than four (4) months of age and/or other animals for other than agricultural purposes are boarded, bred and/or offered for sale, not including stables.
APARTMENT or APARTMENT DWELLINGA suite of rooms comprising a portion of a building (distinguished from a mobile home) as an independent dwelling for one (1) family, while the remaining portion of the building is another dwelling, or other dwellings, or use other than dwelling, such as a business.
APPEALA request for a review of the Zoning Enforcement Officer's interpretation of any provision of this Chapter or a request for a variance.
AREAThe amount of land surface in a lot, plot or parcel.
AREA REQUIREMENTSThe yard, lot area, lot width, lot coverage and space requirements as set forth in a specific district.
ATTACHED BUILDINGA building attached to another building by a common wall (such wall being a solid wall with or without windows and doors) and a common roof with at least a horizontal dimension of six (6) feet.
AUDITORIUMA room, hall or building made part of a church, theater, school, recreation or other building assigned to the gathering of people as an audience to hear lectures, plays and other presentations.
BASEMENTA building portion having part but not more than one-half (½) its height above grade and used for storage, garage for building occupant's use, janitor's or watchmen's quarters or other utilities common for the rest of the building and which is not, as defined herein, counted as a story unless subdivided and used for dwelling purposes other than by a janitor or watchman employed on the premises.
BENCH MARKA permanent point of reference from which various measurements may be made.
BLOCKA parcel of land, intended to be used for urban purposes, which is entirely surrounded by public streets, highways, railroad rights-of-way, public walks, parks or green spaces, rural land or drainage channels or a combination thereof.
BOARDING AND ROOMING HOUSEAn apartment house providing its tenants services ordinarily furnished by hotels, but not primarily available to the public, or a hotel primarily intended to provide dwelling facilities for non-transient persons.
BUILDABLE AREAThe space remaining on a zoned lot after the minimum open space requirements of this Chapter have been met.
BUILDINGAn enclosed structure anchored to a permanent foundation and having exterior walls and a roof designed for the shelter of persons, animals or property.
BUILDING HEIGHTThe vertical distance measured from the highest point on a building's roof to the highest of the following three (3) levels; from the street curb level, from the established street grade level in case the curb has not been constructed or from the average finished ground level adjoining the building if it sets back from the street line.
BUILDING LINE or SETBACK LINEA building line limit fixed by setback requirements at a specific distance from the front, rear and side boundaries of a lot, beyond which a structure cannot lawfully extend.
CAMPGROUND (CAMPSITE)An area of land whereupon camping trailers, campers and similar vacation vehicles are housed on a temporary basis and used exclusively by such camping vehicles.
CARE HOMEA licensed rest home, nursing home, convalescent home, boarding home for the aged or similar use established to render domiciliary care for chronic or convalescent patients but not including hospitals, clinics or facilities for the care of the feeble-minded or mental patients, epileptics, alcoholics, senile psychotics, drug addicts, sick or injured.
CHILD OR ADULT CARE FACILITYAn establishment used for the purpose of a daycare center, day nursery, nursery school, day school, kindergarten (not connected with a school as defined herein) or similar use which constitutes the normal care of adults and children. Child and/or adult care facilities shall meet all requirements and specifications of the Division of Health and other State of Missouri or local agencies having jurisdiction over child and/or adult care facilities.
CHURCHA building, together with its accessory buildings and uses, where persons regularly assemble for religious worship and which building, together with its accessory uses and buildings, is maintained and controlled by a religious body organized to sustain public worship.
CLINIC, HEALTHAn establishment for the care, diagnosis and treatment of sick, ailing, infirm and injured persons, by a group of licensed health practitioners, but not providing board, room or overnight accommodations on the premises, not including animal hospitals or clinics.
CONDEMNATIONThe taking of private property by a government unit for public use when the owner will not relinquish it through sale or other means, with compensation of fair market value paid to the owner.
CONDITIONAL USE(S)A use of land or structure which is permitted in a district on review as prescribed in the Section on administration and enforcement. Certain uses of land providing accommodations consistent with or necessary to the purpose intended for each district may differ in their general characteristics from the principal permitted activities and in their impact thereon.
CONDOMINIUMThe legal arrangement of individual ownership of each dwelling unit in an apartment building or residential development while common areas are owned, controlled and maintained through an organization consisting of their individual owners.
CONSTRUCTION, START OFThe first (1st) placement of permanent construction of a structure on a site, such as pouring slabs or footings or any excavation work. Permanent construction includes land preparation, such as clearing, grading and filling. For a structure without a basement or poured footings, the "start of construction" includes the first (1st) grading of the lot and/or the first (1st) pouring of any footings and/or pilings. For mobile homes the "start of construction" means affixing the mobile home to its permanent foundation. For any development the "start of construction" means the start of grading and/or pouring of any footings or slabs.
COURTAn open, unoccupied space, other than a yard. Bounded on three (3) or more sides by exterior walls of a building, or by exterior walls of a building and lot lines on which walls are allowable.
CUL-DE-SACA short street having one (1) end open to traffic and terminated at the other end by a vehicular turnaround.
CURB LEVELThe mean level of the curb in the front of the lot or, in case of a corner lot, along the abutting street where the mean curb level is highest.
DENSITYLand occupancy area requirements and/or limitations.
DERELICT VEHICLEAn automobile, truck or other vehicle that cannot operate under its own power or does not comply with State or City vehicle laws or ordinances.
DEVELOPMENTAny manmade change to improved or unimproved real estate, including but not limited to buildings or other structures or mining, dredging, filling, grading, paving, excavating or drilling operations.
DISTRICTA section or sections of the City specifically declared within which the regulations governing the user of buildings and premises are uniform.
DUPLEXA detached principal building designed for or used as a dwelling exclusively by two (2) families or groups each living as an independent housekeeping unit or a building, such as a duplex, containing two (2) dwelling units.
DWELLINGStationary building or portion thereof, designed exclusively for permanent residential occupancy, including residential, buildings or structures, boarding and lodging houses, apartment houses or apartment hotels.
DWELLING, ONE-FAMILY OR SINGLE-FAMILYA detached principal building containing (1) dwelling unit designed for or used exclusively by one (1) family as an independent housekeeping unit. A single-family dwelling shall include, but not be limited to, any home in which eight (8) or fewer unrelated mentally and physically handicapped persons reside, and may include two (2) additional persons acting as house parents or guardians who need not be related to each other or to any of the other residents of the dwelling unit. Any private residence licensed by the Division of Family Services or Department of Mental Health to provide foster care to one (1) or more but less than seven (7) children who are unrelated to either foster parent by blood, marriage or adoption.
EASEMENTA grant by the property owner to the public, a corporation or persons of the use of a strip of land for specific purposes.
FAMILYOne (1) or more persons related by blood, adoption or marriage, or by employment as domestic servants, living together and occupying a single housekeeping unit with single kitchen facilities, or a group of not more than five (5) (excluding servants) living together by joint agreement and occupying a single housekeeping unit with kitchen facilities, on a non-profit cost-sharing basis.
FRONTAGEAll property on the side of the street between two (2) intersecting streets (crossing or terminating), measured along a line of the street or, if the street is dead ended, all the property abutting one (1) side between an intersecting street and the dead end of the street.
GARAGE, PRIVATEAn accessory building designed to accommodate up to four (4) vehicles and the property of the occupants of the lots on which the private garage is located, provided however, that said vehicles shall not include contractor's equipment, gasoline trucks and similar commercial vehicles not ordinarily used incidental to domestic activities.
GARAGE, PUBLICA building or portion thereof designed or used for the storage, sale, hiring, care or incidental repair of motor vehicles and operated for commercial purposes, except no salvage of automobiles, trucks, tractors or similar automotive equipment for parts or other uses is permitted under this definition.
GARAGE, STORAGEA building or portion thereof designed or used exclusively for prearranged term storage of four (4) or more motor vehicles, not daily, with no motor vehicles being repaired, equipped, hired or sold.
GARBAGEPutrescible animal or vegetable wastes resulting from food handling, preparation, cooking, servicing or consumption.
GRADE1. For buildings having walls adjoining one (1) street only, the sidewalk elevation at the center of the wall adjoining the street.
2. For buildings having walls adjoining more than one (1) street, the average sidewalk elevation at the centers of all walls adjoining the streets.
3. For buildings having no wall adjoining the street, the average level of the finished ground surface adjacent to the building's exterior walls.
4. Any wall approximately parallel to or not more than five (5) feet from a street line shall be considered adjoining the street. Where no sidewalk exists, the grade shall be established by the Building Inspector.
HEIGHTThe distance above the average finished ground elevation at the perimeter of the structure being measured.
HISTORIC SITEHistoric sites as designated in the National Register of Historic Places, or sites that local historic and preservation organizations have certified as historic, that are preserved and maintained for viewing by the public. This use shall include accessory uses operated in conjunction with and on the same property as the historic site, such as museums, souvenir shops, restaurants, picnic areas and historical displays and reenactments.
HOME OCCUPATIONA occupation for gain or support conducted only by members of a family residing in a dwelling and conducted entirely within the dwelling provided that no article is sold or offered for sale except such as may be produced by members of the family residing in the dwelling and further provided that the occupation is incidental to the residential use of the premises and does not utilize more than twenty-five percent (25%) of the floor area of the dwelling. "Home Occupations" shall include, in general, personal services such as are furnished by a physician, dentist, musician, artist, cosmetologist or seamstress when performed by the person occupying the building as his/her private dwelling, and not including employment of any additional persons in the performance of such services.
HOSPITALAny institution receiving inpatients, or a public institution receiving outpatients and authorized under Missouri law to render medical, surgical and/or obstetrical care, including a sanatorium for the treatment and care of mental patients, epileptics, alcoholics, psychotics or drug addicts, but not including office facilities for the private practice of medicine or dentistry.
HOTELA building containing individual guest rooms or suites of rooms, providing lodging with or without meals to the transient public for compensation, with ingress to and egress from all rooms through an inside lobby or office supervised by a person in charge at all hours, as distinguished from a boarding or lodging house or apartment herein separately defined.
JUNK YARDUse of land for indoor and/or outdoor storage, keeping, abandonment, sale or resale of junk including scrap metal, automobile parts, rags, paper and other scrap materials, used lumber, salvaged house wrecking and structural steel materials and equipment, or for the dismantling, demolition or abandonment of automobiles, other vehicles, machinery or parts thereof.
LAUNDROMATA business providing home-type washing, drying and ironing machines for hire to be used by the customers on the premises.
LOADING SPACEAn off-street space or berth for single-unit truck deliveries or for semi-trailer deliveries, on the same lot with a building or contiguous to a group of buildings, for temporarily parking a commercial vehicle while loading or unloading merchandise or materials and which abuts a street, alley or other appropriate means of access.
LOTA portion of land (whether of a platted subdivision or otherwise) defined by meets, bounds or boundary lines in a recorded deed or on a recorded plat, occupied or intended to be occupied by a building or use and its accessories, together with such yards as are required under the provisions of this Chapter, having not less than the minimum area, width and depth required by this Chapter for a lot in the district in which such land is situated, and having its principal frontage on a street or on such other means of access as permitted in accordance with the provisions of this Chapter. The minimum area of a lot as defined herein must be an integral unit of land under unified ownership in few or in continuancy, or under legal control tantamount to such ownership, which ownership or control must continue for the existence of the building permitted to be situated on the lot.
LOT AREAThe total square footage or acreage within the property lines of a lot, excluding public streets and alleys, subject to the district requirements herein.
LOT, CORNERA lot abutting two (2) or more streets at their intersection or two (2) parts of the same street, such streets or parts of the same street forming an interior angle of less than one hundred thirty-five degrees (135°), the point of intersection of the street lines being the "corner".
LOT DEPTHThe mean horizontal distance between the front and rear lot lines, as measured in general direction of the side lines.
LOT, DOUBLE FRONTAGEA lot having a frontage on two (2) non-intersecting streets as distinguished from a corner lot.
LOT LINESThe lines bounding a lot as defined herein.
LOT LINES, REARThe boundary line opposite and most distant from the front street line, except in the case of uncertainty the Zoning Enforcement Officer shall determine the rear line on irregular lots.
LOT LINE, SIDEAny lot boundary line not a front or a rear line thereof. A side line may be a party lot line, a line bordering on an alley or a side street line.
LOT WIDTHThe horizontal distance between side lines, measured at the front building line.
MANUFACTURED HOMEA factory-built structure or structures that are equipped with its or their own running gear ( axles, wheels, hitch and tongue) are readily movable as a unit or units. When equipped with the necessary service connections they may be used as dwelling unit or units with or without a permanent foundation. The phrase "without permanent foundation" indicates that the support system is constructed with the intent that the manufactured home placed thereon may be moved from time to time at the convenience of the owner.
MOBILE HOMEA single-family dwelling unit having the following characteristics:
1. Designed for long-term occupancy containing sleeping accommodations, flush toilet, tub or shower bath and kitchen facilities, with plumbing and electrical service connections provided for attachment to outside systems.
2. Designed to be transported after fabrication on its own wheels, other trailers or detachable wheels.
3. Arrives at site where it is supposed to be occupied as a dwelling unit, available complete with major appliances and furniture and ready for occupancy except for minor and incidental unpacking and assembly operations, location on foundation supports and connection to utilities.
4. Having been designed and constructed as a mobile home, the lack of mobility, for whatsoever cause, does not render the structure not a mobile home. Mobility or portability is not germane, that is, when portability is removed from a mobile home by causing it to rest in whole on a permanent foundation, it remains a mobile home. The transformer brought about by the act of causing the mobile home to rest in whole on a permanent foundation is the act of to transform the mobile home from that which is personal property to that which is real property.
5. Any mobile home that is built and certified to have been built according to City of Foristell Building Codes (B.O.C.A.) shall be considered a modular home and may be treated as a mobile or modular home. If a dwelling is not built or certified to have been built according to City of Foristell Building Codes (B.O.C.A.), it shall be considered a mobile or manufactured home.
MOBILE HOME LOTAny area, tract, site or plot of ground within a mobile home community or mobile home park designed to accommodate one (1) mobile home as herein defined and the accessory uses thereto.
MOBILE HOME PARKAny place, area or tract of land maintained, offered or used for the parking of two (2) or more mobile homes used or intended to be used for living or sleeping purposes.
MODULAR HOME, BUILDING OR STRUCTUREA completely assembled and erected building designed and constructed in a factory for permanent occupancy, composed of two (2) or more prefabricated modules arranged and united together at the building site into one (1) integral structure, having need of a permanent foundation. The building once arranged and joined as one (1) integral structure shall be virtually incapable of being separated again into the component module parts for repeated transport to subsequent locations. It shall meet City of Foristell Building Codes (B.O.C.A.) and be considered real property. The term shall include buildings designed and intended for dwelling, business, educational or industrial uses; the term shall exclude "double wide mobile homes" which in brevity are by design and construction movable or portable vehicular structures having no need of a permanent foundation and are capable of being separated again for repeated towing.
MOTEL/MOTOR HOTEL/MOTOR COURT/MOTELOne (1) or more buildings containing attached, semi-attached or detached sleeping or living units to accommodate transient guests for compensation and not customarily including individual cooking or kitchen facilities, said units having convenient access to off-street parking spaces for the exclusive use of guests or occupants; not to include tourists' homes.
MOTOR VEHICLE, BOAT AND TRAILER SALES AREAAn open off-street area used for the display and sale of new or used automobiles, trucks, vans, boats, vacation vehicles and trailers, where no repair work is done except of a minor and incidental nature to only those vehicles, boats and trailers being sold.
MOTOR VEHICLE WRECKING SALVAGE OR JUNK YARDAny place where two (2) or more farm or motor vehicles or farm machinery, not in running condition, or part thereof, are stored in the open and are not being restored to operation, or any land, building or structure used for wrecking, salvaging and storing such motor vehicles or parts thereof, including the commercial salvaging of any other goods, articles or merchandise.
NEIGHBORHOODThe smallest subarea in City planning, being a residential area with common public facilities and social institutions within walking distance.
NON-CONFORMING USEThe lawful use of land or a building, or a portion thereof, which use does not conform with the use regulations of the district in which it is located and which use existed at the time of the adoption of this Chapter (July 12, 1999).
OFFICE, PROFESSIONAL, BUSINESS, ADMINISTRATIVE SERVICESAn office for the practice of professions, such as the offices of physicians, dentists, attorneys-at-law, architects, engineers, artists, musicians, teachers, accountants and others who through training are qualified to perform services of a professional or executive nature, or the offices of a government agency, with no storage, sale or display of merchandise on the premises. These offices shall also include real estate agents, insurance agents, financial brokers and others who through training are qualified to perform services of an executive nature.
OPEN SPACE, PUBLICLand dedicated or reserved for general use by the public, including parks, forest and wildlife preserves, recreation areas, school sites, community or public building sites, waterways, streets and other lands.
PARKING AREA, PRIVATEAn open, hard-surfaced area other than a street or public way designed, arranged and made available to the occupants of the building or buildings for which the parking area is developed and is accessory for the storage of private passenger motor vehicles only.
PARKING, PUBLICAn open, paved area, other than a street or other public way, used for parking motor vehicles and available to the public whether for a fee or as an accommodation to clients or customers.
PARKING SPACESpace within a public or private parking area of not less than two hundred forty (240) square feet, exclusive of access drives, aisles, ramps, columns or office and work areas, for the storage of passenger or commercial motor vehicles and connected with a street or alley by a paved driveway which affords satisfactory ingress and egress for such vehicles.
PAVEDSurfaced with asphaltic or concrete pavement material of a thickness sufficient to withstand the highest use loading.
PERMANENT FOUNDATIONA below grade formation, or a substructure formation below the tier of beams nearest the grade, consisting of materials, such as concrete, mortared concrete block or mortared brick, used to transmit the loads of a structure to firm substrata, which formation shall include but not be limited to cellars, basements, crawl spaces, floating concrete mats with frost walls, piers and/or pilings extending into the ground below the frost line or to solid rock.
PERMITTED USEA land use which is permitted by right in a district subject only to the requirements of these regulations.
PLANNED DEVELOPMENTA residential, commercial or industrial development on a parcel of land consisting of two (2) or more buildings having any yard, court, parking or loading space in common.
PLANNED DISTRICTA land area, at least five (5) acres in size, having, by design, individual building site and common property for open space and is organized to operate as a unit, without necessary participation of other units and building sites, the ownership of common property and building sites being either public or private, common or individual, according to a submitted plan.
PLATA map, plan or layout of a City, township, section or subdivision indicating the location and boundaries of individual properties and other such details as may be required for review.
PREFABRICATED BUILDING OR STRUCTUREA completely assembled and erected building or structure designed and constructed for permanent occupancy, of which fifty percent (50%) or greater of the structural parts consist of individual prefabricated structural units (such as beam, girder plant, strut, column or truss) and prefabricated building subassemblies (such as assembled section of wall, ceiling, floor or roof which may be of closed or open construction) that are transported from the place of manufacture to the building site to be incorporated into the building by field erection of such structural units and building subassemblies, having a need of a perimeter formation permanent foundation. The term shall include buildings designed and intended to be used for dwelling, business, educational or industrial use occupancy.
PRINCIPAL USEThe main purpose for which a lot or the principal building thereon is designed, arranged or intended and for which it is or may be used, occupied or maintained in accordance with the provisions of these regulations.
PROPERTYThat which can be owned, either by an individual or by a group in common.
PUBLIC HEARINGA hearing that has been publicized and advertised, by newspaper or mailed and posted notices, to the residents of the City of Foristell and any other interested individuals and parties and surrounding landowners as prescribed in the regulations of this Chapter, of proposed changes of the Zoning Map and the Planning and Zoning Code of the City of Foristell.
PUBLIC OPEN SPACEAny publicly owned open area, including, but not limited to parks, playgrounds, forest preserves, beaches, waterways, parkways and streets.
PUBLIC OR GOVERNMENT, UTILITY OR SERVICEErecting, constructing, altering or maintaining by public utilities or municipal departments, underground or overhead gas, electrical, steam, water, sewer, transmission or distribution systems, collection, communication, supply or disposal systems, including poles, wire, mains, drains, sewers, pipes, conduits, cables, fire alarm and Police call boxes, traffic signals, hydrants and other similar equipment and accessories in connection therewith reasonably necessary to furnish adequate service or for the public health, safety or general welfare, also includes necessary buildings.
PUBLIC USEBuildings, structures and uses of land owned, operated and maintained by a government unit or government agency, including but not restricted to public schools, fire stations, recreation sites and facilities and water and sewer treatment facilities.
REAL PROPERTY or REAL ESTATENot only the land itself, whether laid out in town or City lots, or otherwise, with all things contained therein, but also buildings, structures, of whatsoever kind, thereon. Including therein is any vehicle or similar portable structure used or so constructed as to permit its being used as a dwelling place for one (1) or more persons, if such structure is resting in whole on a permanent foundation.
RESIDENTIAL MEAL SERVICEAn eating establishment located within a residence where public dining is by reservation, no off-street parking is require and the establishment is owned and managed by the residents.
RESTAURANTA building or portion thereof used or designed for on-premises food and beverage for compensation, not including drive-in restaurant.
RESTAURANT, DRIVE-INA restaurant where foods and beverages are customarily served or dispensed for consumption outside the enclosed structure.
RIGHT-OF-WAYThe area of a vehicular way or other strip of land reserved for public use whether established by prescription, easement, dedication, gift, purchase, eminent domain or other legal means.
ROADAny street, highway, avenue, marginal access street, bridge, viaduct or segment thereof.
ROOMAn unsubdivided portion of a dwelling unit interior, excluding bathrooms, kitchens, closets, hallways and service porches.
SERVICE STATIONA building, premises or portion thereof having pumps and storage tanks and used for the retail sale of gasoline, oil or other fuel, automotive parts, supplies or accessories for motor vehicles and which may include, as an incidental use, only facilities for polishing, greasing, washing or otherwise cleaning or light servicing of motor vehicles, but not including junk and/or motor vehicle wrecking facilities.
SETBACKThe distance in linear feet measured on a horizontal plane from any lot line to a building or structure on the lot.
SEWAGE, DOMESTIC OR SANITARYA combination of the waterborne human wastes from residences, business buildings, institutions and industrial establishment.
SHALLIs always mandatory.
SHOPPING CENTER/MALLA planned group of stores, the large primary stores flanking the smaller secondary store and shops to create a balanced pedestrian flow, providing convenient customer parking, with accommodations made for, but not limited to off-street loading, landscaping, storm water runoff, lighting, signage, cleanliness, designated fire lanes, internal traffic circulation and access to off-site thoroughfares, conforming to all appropriate Codes and ordinances.
SIGNAny words, numerals, figures, devices, designs or trademarks by which information is made known, such as are used to identify a building, structure or object, or designate or mention an individual profession, firm, business or commodity. Signs must follow regulations and restrictions set forth in the sign ordinance.
SITE PLANA plan showing uses and structures proposed for a selected parcel, including lot lines, streets, building sites, reserved open spaces, buildings, major landscape features, either natural or manmade, and proposed utilities locations.
STABLE, PRIVATE, PUBLIC OR RIDINGAn accessory building for keeping horses, ponies, mules or cows owned. Private stables are owned by the occupants of the premises and the animals are not kept for remuneration, hire or sale. Public and riding stables are structures where animals are kept for remuneration, hire or sale. The owner may or may not own any of the animals.
STORYThat portion of a building included between the surface of any floor and the surface of the floor next above it, or if no floor is above it, then the space between any floor and the ceiling next above it.
STREETAny public or private right-of-way which affords the primary means of access to abutting property.
STREET, COLLECTORA minor street which collects traffic from other minor street and serves as the most direct route to a major street or community facility.
STREET LINESA dividing line between a lot, tract or parcel of land and a contiguous street.
STREET, MAJORAn arterial street which is designated on the Major Street Plan or Comprehensive Plan.
STRUCTUREAnything constructed, altered, repaired or erected which requires location on a parcel of ground or attached to something having location on the ground; provided however, that utility poles, fences and walls (other than building walls) shall not be considered to be structures. Also, that which is the result of any construction, or any production or piece of work built up or composed of parts joined together in a definite manner; that which is built or constructed.
TEMPORARY BUILDING OR USEA use or building established for a delineated time span in connection with a specific purpose such as a construction project or real estate development, not to include facilities for sleeping or cooking.
THEATERA building or part of a building devoted primarily to the showing of motion pictures or theatrical productions on a paid admission basis.
THEATER, OUTDOOR DRIVE-INAn open lot or part thereof with its appurtenant facilities devoted primarily to the showing of motion pictures or theatrical productions on a paid admission basis to patrons seated in vehicles or outdoor seats.
TOPOGRAPHIC MAPA map showing all principal physical features of an area, including elevation.
TRAILER, CONSTRUCTIONA vehicle, other than a motor vehicle, designed or intended for temporary office space and/or storage, but not dwelling purposes, whether or not such vehicle is attached to or resting on the ground or something having a location on the ground, and is parked on the building site where construction work is occurring and requires a permit prior to its placement.
TRAILER, UTILITYA vehicle, other than a motor vehicle, designed or intended for general hauling, whether or not such vehicle is attached to or resting on the ground or something having a location on the ground, not to be used for living quarters.
TRANSPORTATION INSTALLATIONSIndustrial type transportation facilities to include airports, bus terminals, flight strips and heliports, railroad terminals and truck terminals.
USEThe use of property is the purpose or activity for which the land or building thereon is designed, arranged or intended or for which it is occupied or maintained.
UTILITIES, PUBLIC SERVICEPublicly or privately owned, operated and maintained facilities requiring licensing and monitoring beyond local levels and more selectively in their location within the community, such as water and sewage plants and outfall sewers, radio and television transmitter towers, electrical substations and telephone exchanges, power generating plants and water towers.
VACATION VEHICLEAll vehicles used or constructed for use as conveyances upon public streets and highways and duly licensable as such, and constructed for human occupancy as dwellings or sleeping places for one (1) or more persons, provided further this definition shall refer and include all portable contrivances used or intended to be used generally for temporary living and/or sleeping quarters and capable of being moved by its own power, towed or transported by another vehicle, including camping trailers of any sort and pickup campers; however such vehicles may not be connected to utilities at the owner's property site or used as living quarters.
VARIANCERelief from or variation of the provision of these regulations, other than use regulations, and as applied to a specific piece of property, as distinct from rezoning, as further set out hereinafter in the powers and duties of the Board of Adjustment. A modification or variation of the provisions of this Chapter as applied to a specific piece of property.
VEHICLE REPAIR SHOPA building or portion of a building arranged, intended or designed to be used for making repairs to motor vehicles.
YARDThe open space at grade remaining between the lot lines adjoining such space and the principal building or building lines on such a lot, unoccupied and unobstructed by any portion of a structure from the ground upward, except as otherwise provided.
YARD, FRONTA yard extending between side lot lines and across the front of a lot and being the minimum horizontal distance between the street or lot line and the principal building or any projections thereof other than the projections of the usual uncovered steps, balconies or porches. On corner lots, the front yard shall be considered as parallel to the street the front door faces.
YARD, REARA yard extending between side lot lines and across the rear of the lot and being the require minimum horizontal distance between the rear lot line and the rear of the principal building or any projections thereof other than the projections of uncovered steps, unenclosed balconies or porches; the rear yard being opposite the front yard.
YARD, SIDEA yard between the principal building and the side line of the lot, and extending from the required front yard to the required rear yard, being the minimum horizontal distance between a side lot line and the side of the principal building or any projection thereof. If no front yard is provided, the front boundary of the side yard shall be the front line of the building site and if no rear yard is provided, the rear boundary of the side yard shall be the rear line of the building site.
ZONINGA unified set of regulations and maps establishing use groups by district designations and controlling the placement, height, bulk, coverage and performance and other standards for use of land and structures within each district.
ZONING APPEALAn official request for reconsideration filed with the Planning and Zoning Board after an application to the Zoning Enforcement Officer for a zoning permit has been denied for non-compliance with the requirements of the Chapter.
ZONING DISTRICTSThe City of Foristell's divisions regulating land use and density.
ZONING MAPThe City of Foristell's Official Zoning Map and all amendments thereto located in the office of the City Clerk.