This Chapter may be cited as the “Zoning Ordinance of the Town of Glenrock, Wyoming.”

1. This Ordinance is enacted in pursuance of authority conferred by W.S. Title 15, Chapter 1, Article 6 (Zoning), Subsection 15-1-601 et seq., 1977, as amended, and for the purposes of promoting the health, safety and general welfare of the inhabitants of the Town of Glenrock.
2. In their interpretation and application, the provisions of this Ordinance will be held to the minimum requirements adopted for the promotion of public health, safety and welfare. It is not intended by this Ordinance to repeal, abrogate, annul or in any way impair or interfere with existing provisions of other laws or ordinances, except those specifically repealed by this Ordinance, or those that conflict with the provisions of this Ordinance. Where this Ordinance imposes a greater restriction upon land or structures that are imposed or required by existing provisions of laws, ordinances, contracts or deeds, this Ordinance shall prevail.

1. The Town is hereby divided into zones or districts as shown on the official zoning map, which, together with all explanatory matter thereon, is hereby adopted and declared to be a part of this Ordinance.
2. No changes of any nature shall be made in the Official Zoning Map or matter shown thereon except in conformity with the procedures set forth in this Ordinance.

For the purpose of this ordinance, certain terms and words shall have the following definitions. Words used in the present tense shall also include the future. Words or phrases used in the plural shall also include the singular. The word “building” includes structure, and “structure” includes building. The word “person” shall include “corporation, partnership or other legal entity.”

Accessory Building – A subordinate use of building customarily incidental to and located on the same lot with the main use of building.

Accessory Dwelling Unit (ADU) - above 500 sq. ft.

• Allowed in MH zone as a stand-alone dwelling
• Have its own entrance, full kitchen, bath, living and sleeping space
• Must be built to TOG specifications
  

Accessory Use – Use which is incidental and subordinate to the principal use of the premises and does not change the basic character thereof.

Agriculture – The tilling of soil, the raising of crops, horticulture and gardening, dairying or animal husbandry, including all uses customarily incidental thereto, but not including any agriculture, industry or business such as fruit packing plants, fur farms, animal hospitals, commercial feed lots or similar uses for profit.

Alley – A dedicated public way, not less than 16 ft. in width, which is not designed for general travel and is used as a means of access to the rear of residences and business establishments and affords only secondary means of access to the property abutting along its length.

Alteration – A change or rearrangement in the structural parts, or in the existing facilities, or enlargement whether by extending on a side or by increasing in height or the moving from one location or position to another.

Animal Hospital or Clinic – An establishment where animals are admitted principally for examination, treatment or care by a doctor of veterinary medicine. This shall include open kennels and runs.

Animal Shelter – A building or premises the purpose of which is the temporary quartering, impoundment, housing, confinement and/or care of animals, usually abandoned or unclaimed.

Apartment – A room or suite of rooms intended or designed for use as a residence, including kitchen facilities in an apartment house.

Apartment House – A building or portion thereof used or designed as a residence for three (3) or more families, households or groups of persons occupying separate apartments and living independently of each other.

Area of Special Hazard – The land in the flood plain within a community subject to a one percent (1%) chances of being equaled or exceeded in any given year.

Base Flood – The flood level having a one percent (1%) chance of being equaled or exceeded in any given year.

Basement – Any floor level below the first story in a building except that a floor level in a building having one (1) floor level shall be classified as a basement unless such floor level qualifies as a first story as defined herein.

Block – An area of land within a subdivision that is entirely bounded by streets or a street and railroad right-of-way, neutral barrier or adjacent corporate line.

Board – The Board of Adjustment of the Town of Glenrock.

Boarding House – See “Room.”

Building – A structure having a roof supported by columns or walls which is for the habitation or shelter of human beings or animals or the shelter or storage of property or for the occupation or some purpose of trade or manufacture.

Building; Detached – A building having no common wall connections with another building.

Building Line – A line formed by the outer face of the closing wall of a building or portion thereof and the surface of the ground.

Building, Main – The principal structure on a lot, parcel or tract used to accommodate the primary use to which the building is devoted.

Building, Non-Conforming – A building existing at the time of the adoption of this Ordinance which fails to comply with the regulations of the district in which the building is located.

Building Site – A parcel of land occupied by one building and its accessory buildings or by a group of buildings together with such open spaces as are required under the provisions of the respective district.

Building Site Area – The total area of a site on a horizontal plane bounded by property ownership lines.

Building Site Coverage – The total area of a building covered by the principal and accessory buildings as designed in each zoning district.

Business – The engagement in the purchase, sale, barter or exchange of goods, wares, merchandise or service or the maintenance or operation of offices or recreational or amusement enterprises for profit or material gain on a continual or habitual basis.

Business, Retail – The engagement in the purchase, sale, barter or exchange of goods, wares, merchandise or service to the ultimate customer.

Business Wholesale – The engagement in the purchase, sale, barter or exchange of goods, wares, merchandise or service to jobbers or to retail dealers.

Carports – A structure built attached or detached from the main structure that is open on at least three (3) sides and where vision through the three (3) open sides is not impeded.

Certificate of Occupancy – Written certificate issued by the Building Inspector after final inspection when it is found that the building or structure and use complies with the provisions of this Ordinance and other pertinent codes or laws adopted by the Town of Glenrock.

Certificate, Zoning – A written certificate issued by the Zoning Officer that the plans for a proposed use are in conformance with the provisions of the zoning ordinance.

Church – A building together with its accessory buildings and uses where persons regularly assemble for religious worship; and is maintained and controlled by a religious body organized to hold public worship.

Clinic, Medical and Dental – A building in which one (1) or more physicians or dentists or allied professional assistants are associated for the purpose of carrying on their profession. The clinic may include dental and medical laboratories.

Club or Lodge, Membership Club – A nonprofit association, as determined by the Internal Revenue Service, of persons who are bona fide members paying actual dues with the use of the premises being restricted to the members and their guests.

Commercial – Having the qualities of business as defined in this Section.

Commission – The Town of Glenrock Planning and Zoning Commission.

Common Wall – An unbroken wall shared by two (2) or more separate buildings.

Conditional Use – A use for which approval must be obtained from the Town. Conditional Use may or may not be granted by the Town; and if granted, the Town may place whatever conditions it feels are necessary.

Condominium – Real estate, portions of which are designated for separate ownership, and the remaining of which are designated for common ownership solely by the owners of those portions. Real estate is not a condominium unless the individual interests in the common elements are vested in the unit owners.

Day Care – The caring for children under the age of twelve (12) years out of their home for two (2) hours or more, but less than twenty-four (24) hours a day, for their parents or legal guardian or at the request of the agency which has responsibility of the child.

Density – The number of dwelling units of any type, including mobile homes, on the site of any development expressed as the number of units per acre, taking into account the total area of the land contained within the exterior boundaries of the site.

Development – Any man-made change, other than a subdivision, to improved or unimproved real estate including, but not limited to, buildings or other structures, mining, dredging, filling, grading, paving, excavation or drilling operations.

Development Standard – Any of the physical requirements related to the establishment of a use on a site or in a structure thereof for the conduct of such use or related to the preparation of a site and the construction of a building thereof, as prescribed.

District – A section or sections of the Town for which uniform regulations governing the uses of buildings, sizes of yards, open space and densities or use are prescribed.

Drive-In Facilities – A business establishment so designed that a portion of its retail or service characters is dependent on providing a driveway approach for motor vehicles to serve patrons while in the motor vehicle, rather than within the building.

Dwelling, Duplex – Two (2) independent living units in one building.

Dwelling, Multi-Family – A dwelling or group of dwellings on one (1) site containing separate living units for three (3) or more families, but which may have joint services or facilities or both.

Dwelling, Single Family – A principal building designed for or used exclusively as a dwelling by one (1) family as an independent housekeeping unit. The definition includes manufactured and modular housing.

Dwelling Unit – One or more rooms providing complete living facilities for one (1) family including equipment for cooking, provisions for same and including room or rooms for living, sleeping, eating and sanitation.

Easement – The liberty, right, privilege or authorization which the owner of a parcel of land, by reasons of legal ownership, grants the use of the land or a part thereof for a specific purpose to another person, landowner or public entity.

Family – Any individual or two (2) or more persons related by blood or marriage or a group of not more than four (4) persons (excluding servants), who need not be related by blood or marriage, living together as a single, non-profit housekeeping unit.

Fence – Any portion, structure wall or gate erected as a dividing marker, barrier or enclosure.

Flood or Flooding – A general or temporary condition of partial or complete inundation of normally dry land areas from the usual and rapid accumulation of runoff of surface water from any source.

Flood Insurance Rate Map (FIRM) – An official map on which the Federal Insurance Administration has delineated both the areas of special flood hazards and the risk premium zone applicable to the Town of Glenrock.

Flood Plain Approval – A request for review of the Town’s interpretation of any provision in the Flood Plain District or a request for variance in said Flood Plain District.

Flood Proofed – Watertight walls substantially impermeable to the passage of water and with structural components having capability of resisting hydrostatic and hydrodynamic loads and effects of buoyancy.

Flood Area – The total number of square feet of floor space within the exterior walls of a building.

Garage, Attached – A building which as a roof, wall or a major portion of a roof or wall in common with a dwelling structure. Where a garage is attached to a dwelling in this manner, it shall be subject to all yard requirements of the main building.

Garage, Private – A detached accessory building used for the storage of three (3) or less automobiles or light trucks. Such building shall be subject to the design standards and requirements of accessory buildings.

Gasoline Service Station – Any building or portion thereof, and the land upon which it is situated, used for the retail sale of fuel and/or oil for motor vehicles which may include facilities for making minor vehicle repairs to such motor vehicles.

Governing Body – The Mayor and Council of the Town of Glenrock, Wyoming.

Ground Anchors – Any approved device for the purpose of securing a mobile home to the ground.

Hazard, Natural – A natural or man-induced event or phenomenon having the potential to be detrimental to public health, safety or property. Natural hazards include but are not limited to, geographic hazards, avalanches, landslides, ground subsidence, explosive solid and rock, corrosive solid radioactivity, seismic effects, flooding, high wind areas and wildfire areas.

Height, Building – The vertical dimension measured from the average elevation of the finished lot grade at the front of the building, to the highest point of the ceiling of the top story. In the case of a flat roof, to the deck line of a mansard roof and to the average height between the plate and the ridge of a gable, hip or gambrel roof.

Home Occupation – Means an occupation or activity carried on by the family residing on the premises. Said occupation shall not be visible or noticeable from outside the wall of the dwelling or of the residential garage; shall not constitute a nuisance to the surrounding properties; and shall be clearly incidental and secondary to the residential occupancy. No process creating dust, smoke, traffic, attraction, or excessive noise shall be allowed. District retail businesses are not considered a home occupation in this Ordinance.

Horticulture – The cultivation of a garden, or the mode of cultivation employed in a garden, the science of agriculture which relates to the cultivation of gardens or orchards, including the growing of vegetables, fruits, flowers, ornamental shrubs and trees.

Hospital – An institution providing health services, primarily for in-patients and medical or surgical care of the sick or injured, including ancillary services.

Hotel – A building containing rooms designed and rented out for sleeping purposes for transients and where only a general kitchen and dining room may be provided in a building or in an accessory building.

Improvement, Substantial – Any repair, reconstruction or improvement of a structure, the cost of which equals or exceeds fifty percent (50%) of the market value of the structure either before the improvement or repair is started or, if the structure has been damaged and is being restored, before the damage occurred.

Junk – Scrap iron, tin, brass, lead, zinc and all other scrap metals and their alloys, and bones, rags, used cloth, rubber, rope, tinfoil, bottles, tools, appliances, fixture, utensils, lumber, boxes or crates, pipe or pipe fittings, tires, old machinery and other manufactured goods that are so worn, deteriorated or obsolete as to make them unusable in their existing condition, but are subject to being dismantled.

Junk Yard – A place where junk, waste, discarded or salvaged materials are bought, sold, exchanged, stored, baled, packed, disassembled or handled, including automobile wrecking yards, house wrecking and structural steel materials and equipment, but not including the purchase or storage of used furniture and household equipment, used vehicles in operable condition, used or salvaged materials as part of manufacturing operations.

Kennel – Any premises wherein any person engages in the business of boarding, breeding, buying, letting for hire, training for a feeor selling of animals. It is illegal to maintain a kennel contrary to the terms of this Code, without a license, if required, or in a zone or location in which a kennel is not permitted.

Landscaping – The placement of ornamental fixtures such as fountains, ornamental walls, berms, fences, benches, along with vegetative planting of trees, shrubs, grass, flowers, etc. Including the designing of the placement of such materials:

1. Xeriscaping- Water conserving landscaping.
   

Loading Berth-Off Street – An off-street space or berth on the same lot with a principal building for the parking of a commercial vehicle while loading or unloading merchandise and which has direct access from a public street or alley.

Lot – The smallest platted parcel or real property created by a legal subdivision.

Lot, Corner – A lot at the point of intersection of two (2) or more intersecting streets, the angle of intersection being not more than one hundred thirty-five (135) degrees.

Lot, Depth – The horizontal distance between front and rear lot lines measured along the median between the two (2) side lot lines.

Lot, Interior – A lot other than a corner lot, including through lots.

Lot Line, Front – For an interior lot, that line separating the lot from the street. For a corner lot or a double frontage lot, that line separating said lot from the street that is designated as the front street.

Lot Line, Rear – The line which most nearly qualifies as the line most distant and opposite from the front-line lot. Where the lot is irregularly shaped, a line perpendicular to the main direction of the side lot lines and at least 10 ft. in length within the lot.

Lot, Non-Conforming – Any platted lot or record which, on the effective date of this Ordinance or as a result of subsequent amendment thereto, does not comply with the lot size requirements for the district in which the lot is located.

Lot, Through (Double Frontage) – A lot having a frontage on two (2) parallel streets.

Lot Width – The width of a lot along a line parallel to the street frontage.

Manufactured Home – A residence constructed to house one (1) family year-round as follows:

1. Is partially or entirely manufactured in a factory on or after January 1, 1994 and is in compliance with the current applicable standards of the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development at the time of its production.
2. Is not less than 24 ft. in width and 36 ft. in length.
3. The home shall have a pitched roof, with a slope of not less than 3 in. vertical rise of each 12 in. of horizontal run.
4. Roof material shall consist of non-reflective material customarily used for conventional dwellings including, but not limited to, asbestos shingles, fiberglass shingles, shake shingles, composition shingles or tile materials. Roof material shall not include flat or corrugated sheet metal, except for manufactured metal roof panels.
5. Have a roof overhang of not less than 8 in. measured from the vertical side of the home. When attached carports, garages, porches or similar structures are an integral part of the home, this overhang may be waived where the accessory structure is attached to the home.
6. Having siding material consisting of wood or wood products, stucco, brick, horizontal lap steel or aluminum, horizontal lap vinyl or rock.
7. A manufactured home must be constructed in compliance with federal manufactured home construction and safety standards currently in effect, including design of roof loads and insulation requirements applicable to the State of Wyoming.
8. Any manufactured home on an individual lot shall conform to the same building setback standards, side and rear yard requirements, standards for enclosures, access, vehicle parking, and square footage standards and other requirements to which a conventional site built single-family residential dwelling on the same lot would be subject.
9. The dwelling shall be attached to a permanent foundation system in compliance with the Glenrock Building Code for residential structures. All wheels, hitches and axles shall be removed. The foundation will be wall or pier and columns extending to frost level in the ground and supporting the unit at the locations indicated by the manufacturer. A perimeter foundation wall which uses I-beams to support the unit at the locations indicated by the manufactured permitted. If the foundation is not a perimeter wall, a perimeter curtain wall, consisting of masonry, block or treated wood with siding or other suitable material is required and shall be placed on a footer whose bottom elevation at the frost line and meets other foundation requirements of the Uniform Building Code.
10. Nothing in this subsection shall be deemed to supersede any valid covenants running with the land.
11. A manufactured home not previously used, installed or occupied at another site.

Manufactured/Mobile Home Park – A parcel (or contiguous parcels) of land under one (1) ownership divided into three (3) or more manufactured home spaces for rent or lease.

Manufactured/Mobile Home Space – A plot of ground within a manufactured home park designed for the accommodation of one (1) manufactured home together with its accessory structures including carports or other off-street parking areas, storage lockers, patios and other appurtenances.

Manufactured/Mobile Home Subdivision – A parcel of land divided into two (2) or more lots designed exclusively for the parking or installation of manufactured homes on lots offered for sale, lease or rent.

Master Plan – Master Plan shall include any documents or portion of any document duly adopted by the Governing Body which is intended to guide the growth and development of the area.

May – Means permissive

Mean Grade – The average elevation of the ground adjoining the structure on all sides.

Mobile Home – A structure designed for permanent habitation and so constructed as to permit its transport on wheels, temporarily or permanently attached to its frame, from the place of its construction to the location, or subsequent locations, at which it is intended to be a permanent habitation and designed to permit the occupancy thereof as a dwelling place for one (1) or more persons. A mobile home does not meet the requirements of the Uniform Building Code and has minimum dimensions of eight (8) feet by thirty-two (32) feet. Partially or entirely manufactured in a factory on or after January 1, 1994 and is in compliance with the current applicable standards of the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development at the time of production and must be constructed in compliance with federal manufactured home construction and safety standards currently in effect, including design of roof loads and insulation requirements applicable to the State of Wyoming.

Modular Home – Means a residence which is constructed in a factory, but which is certified to meet the Uniform Building Code. Modular housing shall be installed in accordance with "Manufactured Home" definition.

Motel – A building or group of buildings, whether detached or in connected units, used as individual sleeping or dwelling units designed primarily for transient occupancy and providing for accessory off-street parking facilities.

Motor Home – Any vehicular type unit 45ft. or less in length and 102 inchesor less in width, primarily designed as temporary living quarters for camping or travel use.

New Construction – Means structures for which the start of construction commences on or after the effective date of this Ordinance. When required, notice to property owners shall be sent to all adjacent property owners within 200 ft., excluding the width of any intervening streets or alleys, municipal or county residents.

Nursing Home – An institution for the care of children, the aged or infirm, or a place of rent for those suffering bodily disorders, but not including facilities for surgical care or institutions for the care and treatment of mental illness, alcoholism or narcotic addiction.

Nursery – A space or building or a combination thereof for cultivation, storage or sale of live trees, shrubs or plants, including products used for gardening or landscaping. The definition of a nursery does not include any space or building used for the sale of fruits, vegetables or other related products.

Occupied – The utilization of a building or structure for eating, sleeping or working for more than twelve (12) consecutive hours.

Office, Professional – A building where there is no display of stock or wares in trade, nor commodity sold nor any commercial use conducted other than the professional services as herein defined. For purposes of this Ordinance, professional offices shall include the office of a doctor, dentist, lawyer, accountant, architect, engineer, minister of religion, insurance agent, realtor, real estate appraiser or similar professions or services, but shall not include barber shops, beauty parlors or similar services, or general business offices.

Open Space – Land area not occupied by structures or parking spaces.

Open Space, Usable – Open area designed and developed for use by the occupants of a planned unit, other development or by others for recreation, whether commercial or private, courts, gardens or other permitted uses. The term “open space” shall not include space devoted to streets or parking.

Owner – The owner of record for property as recorded in the Office of the Converse County Clerk.

Parcel – Any unit of land including a platted or un-platted tract or lot.

Parking Lot – A structure or an area, other than a public street or alley, designed or used for the temporary parking of motor vehicles and available for public or private use whether free, for compensation or an accommodation for customers or clients.

Parking Space, Off-Street – As space located off any public right-of-way which is at least 10 ft. x 20 ft. in size for parking for any motor vehicle with room to get out of either side of the vehicle with adequate maneuvering space and with access to public streets or alleys.

Patio Home – See “Townhouse”.

Person – A natural and legal person, group of persons, partnership, association or corporation.

Personal Service Shop – Businesses offering personalized services such as barber shops, beauty shops, laundromats, dry cleaning services and similar uses.

Public Facility – Any publicly-owned and operated use, building or establishment such as a post office, fire station, court house, police station, etc.

Planned Unit Development – A project located on a single tract, controlled by one (1) owner, corporation or agency, including usable open space for the mutual benefit of the entire tract, designed to provide variety and diversity from the normal zoning and subdivision standards so that maximum long-range benefits can be gained and unique features of the site preserved or enhanced.

Plat of Record – A platted lot or metes and bounds parcel which has been recorded in the Office of the County Clerk.

Property Lines – The boundary line designating the legal limits of ownership.

Public Land – Land owned, controlled and/or operated by a government unit.

Public Utility – Any person(s), firm or corporation engaged in the business of operating heating, power or light systems, communication systems, water or sewer lines or any other energy-producing source with the Town servicing or supplying the public.

Publication, Legal – Any official notice in a newspaper of general circulation as prescribed by the Wyoming Statutes and Town Code.

Recreational Vehicles – A motorized vehicle designed primarily for recreation.

Restaurant – A public eating house which provides seating, but does not provide curbside or automobile service.

Restaurant, Drive-In – Any establishment where food or beverages are dispensed and may be consumed on or off the premises, but outside a closed building.

Retail Sales – An establishment selling goods, wares or merchandise directly to the ultimate consumer.

Right-of-Way – A/K/A Roadway Easement. That portion of land dedicated to public use for street, alley walkway, drainage and utility purposes. Also any strip or area of land surface, overhead or underground granted by deed or easement for construction and maintenance according to a designated use.

Room and/or Boarding House – A building containing lodging provided for three (3) or more persons, with or without meals, and which is open to transient or permanent guests or a weekly or monthly basis with no provision for cooking in any guest room.

School – A place for systematic instruction in any branch or branches of knowledge. For this Ordinance, it specifically means public or parochial schools, elementary, junior high and high schools and private schools with equivalent curriculum.

Setback – The distance required to comply with the front, side or rear yard and open space provisions set forth in this Ordinance, measured from the property line.

Shall – Means mandatory.

Shopping Center – One or more buildings containing retail businesses planned and developed as a unit with off-street parking provided on the property.

Sign – Any object, device or medium or part thereof situated outdoors or indoors which is used to advertise, identify, display, direct or attract attention to any object, person, institution, organization, business project, service, event or location by any means including words, letters, figures, designs, symbols, fixtures, color, motion, illumination or projected images. Signs do not include the following:

Flags of nations, states, cities, fraternal, religious and civic organizations.

1. Merchandise, pictures or models of products or services incorporated with a window display.
2. Time and temperature devices not related to a product.
3. National, state, religious, fraternal, professional and civic symbols or crests, or works of art, which in no way identify a product or device. If, for any reason, it cannot be readily determined whether or not the object is a sign, the Town shall make such determination.

Sign Area – The total area of the space to be used for advertising purposes including the spaces between open-type letters and figures and including the background structure or other decoration or addition which is an integral part of the sign. Sign supports shall be excluded in determining the area of a sign.

Sign, Pole – A billboard or similar type of sign which is wholly supported by one (1) or more up-rights, poles or braces in the ground, separate from the structure or building.

Sign, Wall – Any sign attached to or erected against the wall of a building or structure with the exposed face of the sign in a plan parallel to the plane of the wall.

Single Family Residence – A dwelling designed for one (1) family occupancy.

Space – The area allocated for an individual mobile home within a mobile home park.

Spot Zoning – An illegal act of creating, through an ordinance, isolated parcels of land within the Town on which are designated land uses different from the zoning district which surrounds it.

Story – That portion of a building included between the upper surface of any floor and the upper surface of the floor next above except that the topmost story shall be that portion of the building included between the upper surface of the topmost floor and the ceiling or roof above. If the finished floor space is more than 6 ft. above grade for more than fifty percent (50%) of the total perimeter or is more than 12 ft. above grade at any point, such usable or unused underfloor space shall be considered as a story.

Structure – That which is built or constructed, an edifice or building of any kind, or any place of work artificially built up or composed of parts joined together in some definite manner, including signs, but not including a fence or a wall of less than 4 ft. in height or any chain link fence not constituting a visual barrier, mailboxes, light standards or poles, lines, cables or transformers of a public utility.

Structure, Non-Conforming – Any structure which, on the effective date of this Ordinance, or as the result of subsequent amendments thereto, does not comply with the provisions of this Ordinance for the district in which the non-conforming structure is located.

Subdivision – The division or re-subdivision of any lot, tract or parcel of land into two (2) or more lots, plats, sites or other division of land.

Sub-divider – Any person or entity dividing or purposing to divide land so as to constitute a subdivision.

Substantial Improvement – Any repair, reconstruction or improvement of a structure, the cost of which equals or exceeds fifty percent (50%) of the market value of the structure either:

1. before the improvement or the repair is started; or
2. if the structure has been damaged and is being restored before the damage occurred. For the purpose of this definition, “substantial improvement” is considered to occur when the first alteration of any wall, ceiling, floor or other structural part of the building commences, whether or not that alteration affects the external dimensions of the structure.
   
   The term does not include:

1. Any project for improvement of a structure to comply with existing state or local health, sanitary or safety code specifications which are solely necessary to assure safe living conditions; or
2. Any alteration of a structure listed on the National Register of Historic Places or a State Inventory of Historic Places.

Tiny Home - min. 200 sq. ft. - max 500 sq. ft.

• Allowed in MH zone as stand-alone dwelling
• Must have its own entrance, full kitchen, bath, livingand .sleeping space
• Must be built to TOG specifications

Tiny Home/ADU Village - A planned development, approved through the Planning and Zoning Commission, consisting of 4 or more tiny homes or ADU's.

• Allowed in MH and GB zones, approved through Planning and Zoning Commission.
  

Transient Occupancy – The rental or provisions for housing accommodations or rooms on a day-to-day basis.

Townhouse – A building that has single family dwelling units erected in a row as a single building on adjoining lots, each being separated from the adjoining unit or units by a party wall or walls extending from the basement floor to the roof along the dividing lot line. Each such building is separated from any other building by space on all sides and each dwelling unit has a separate water and sewer service. Each dwelling unit must be located on an individually owned lot.

Travel Trailer and Recreational Vehicle Park – Any area or tract of land rented to one or more persons or users for temporary parking or placement of travel trailer or recreational vehicle.

Travel Trailer – A non-motorized, vehicular, portable structure designed primarily as dwelling for travel, recreation and vacation uses only.

Trailer – A non-motorized vehicle designed primarily to be pulled behind a motorized vehicle to include, but not be limited to; house trailers, cargo trailers, utility trailers, flatbed trailers, boat trailers and truck trailers.

Units, Efficiency – An apartment with common areas for sleeping, cooking and/or living.

Unit, Rooming – A space for human occupancy lacking private bath and/or kitchen facilities.

Use – The purpose for which a site or structure is actually arranged, designed, constructed, moved, altered or enlarged or for which either a site or structure is or may be occupied or maintained.

Use, Non-Conforming – Any use which, on the effective date of this Ordinance, does not conform to the permitted or conditional use established for the district in which the non-conforming use is located.

Use, Permitted – A use which is specifically permitted and set forth as such in the designated district in this Ordinance.

Variance – Authorization for a property owner to depart from the literal requirements of this Ordinance as it applies to his land.

Wholesale Sales – The process of buying from the producers or manufacturer and selling to jobbers or retail dealers.

Yard – An open space, other than a court, on a lot unoccupied and unobstructed from the ground ward except as otherwise provided in this Ordinance.

Yard, Front – An open unoccupied space, on the same lot with a main building, extending the full width of the lot and situated between the street line and the front line of the building projected into the side lines of the lot.

Yard, Rear – An open unoccupied space, on the same lot with the main building, between the rear line of the main building and the rear line of the lot, extending the full width of the lot.

Yard, Side – An open unoccupied space, on the same lot as the main building, situated between the building and the side line of the lot and extending from the front yard to the rear yard. Any lot line, not a rear yard line or a front yard line, shall be deemed as a side yard line.