Greenwood City Zoning Code

Whenever a defined word appears in the Ordinance, its meaning is as set forth in this Division. Words not defined in this Ordinance are interpreted in accord with their usual dictionary meaning and customary usage.

AGRICULTURAL - OUTDOOR PROCESSING. The use of land for activities involving a variety of operations on crops or livestock which may generate dust, noise, odors, pollutants, or visual impacts that could adversely affect adjacent properties. Example uses include, but are not limited to: slaughterhouses, mills, refineries, canneries, coffee roasting, food processing, granaries, grain processing, commercial hatcheries, poultry processing plants, fat rendering, manufacturing of commercial fertilizer, starch manufacturing, and milk processing plants or other treatment of agricultural products which changes the naturally grown product for consumer use.

   A.   While unattended by a parent, legal guardian, or custodian;

   B.   For regular compensation; and

   C.   For more than four (4) hours but less than twenty-four (24) hours in each of ten (10) consecutive days per year, excluding intervening Saturdays, Sundays, and holidays. The term does not include a child care center.

   A.   Operates under a license issued under Ind. Code § 31-27;

   B.   Provides for delivery of mental health services that are appropriate to the needs of the individual; and,

   C.   Complies with the rules adopted under Ind. Code § 4-22-2 by the department of child services.

   A.   Construction, reconstruction, or placement of a structure or any addition to a structure;

   B.   Installing a manufactured home on a site, preparing a site for a manufactured home or installing recreational vehicle on a site for more than one hundred eighty (180) days;

   C.   Installing utilities, erection of walls and fences, construction of roads, or similar projects;

   D.   Construction of flood control structures such as levees, dikes, dams, channel improvements, etc.;

   E.   Mining, dredging, filling, grading, excavation, or drilling operations;

   F.   Construction and/or reconstruction of bridges or culverts;

   G.   Storage of materials; or

   H.   Any other activity that might change the direction, height, or velocity of flood or surface waters.

   A.   Growing, producing, raising or keeping animals or plants, including mushrooms, or the primary products of those plants or animals;

   B.   Clearing, draining, irrigating or cultivating land;

   C.   Using farm machinery, equipment, devices, materials and structures;

   D.   Applying fertilizers, manure, pesticides and biological control agents, including by ground and aerial spraying;

   E.   Conducting any other activity on, in or over agricultural land required to reasonably carry on an agricultural farming operation;

   F.   Intensively cultivating in plantations, any:

      1.   Specialty wood crops; or

      2.   Specialty fiber crops;

   G.   Conducting turf production; or

   H.   Processing or direct marketing the products of a farm owned or operated by the farmer, as well as products not of that farm to the extent that the processing or marketing of those products in conducted on the farmer’s farm.

   A.   The flag, which is the only buildable area; and is located behind another lot; and

   B.   The pole, which connects the flag to the street; provides the only street frontage for the lot; and at any point is less than the minimum lot width for the zone.

   A.   The overflow of inland or tidal water.

   B.   The unusual and rapid accumulation or runoff of surface waters from any source.

   C.   Mudslides (i.e., mudflows) which are proximately caused by flooding and are akin to a river of liquid and flowing mud on the surfaces of normally dry land areas, as when earth is carried by a current of water and deposited along the path of the current.

   Projects at least ninety percent (90%) of the total lamp lumens below 80° from vertical;

   Does not allow more than ten percent (10%) of the total lamp lumens above 80° from vertical; and

   Does not allow more than 2.5% of the total lamp lumens above 90° from vertical.

   A.   Arises from the strict application of this Ordinance to the conditions of a particular, existing parcel of property;

   B.   Effectively deprived the parcel owner of all reasonable economic use of the parcel; and

   C.   Is clearly more significant than compliance cost or practical difficulties.

   A.   Keyed lock(s) on any interior door(s) to prevent access to any area of the dwelling unit with sleeping accommodations;

   B.   Members of the group have separate leases, or sub-leases and/or make separate rent;

   C.   Payments to a landlord; and

   D.   The group significantly reforms over the course of a twelve (12) month period by losing and/or gaining members.

   A.   Water line flushing with diffusion device;

   B.   Landscape irrigation;

   C.   Diverted stream flows;

   D.   Rising ground waters;

   E.   Uncontaminated ground water infiltration;

   F.   Uncontaminated pumped ground water;

   G.   Foundation drains;

   H.   Air conditioning condensation;

   I.   Irrigation water;

   J.   Springs;

   K.   Water from crawl space pumps;

   L.   Footing drains;

   M.   Lawn watering;

   N.   Individual residential car washing and non-profit carwash fund raising events;

   O.   Dechlorinated swimming pool discharges;

   P.   Street washing/cleaning water;

   Q.   Discharges from firefighting activities.

   A.   Asphalt and concrete roadways, driveways and parking and storage areas;

   B.   Compacted gravel roadways, driveways and parking and storage areas;

   C.   Rooftops, sidewalks, patio areas and pool decks;

   D.   Other areas as deemed necessary and approved by the Greenwood Stormwater Board.

   A.   Any vehicle that is damaged or dismantled to such extent as to render it illegal for operation on any public street or highway, including but not limited to any of the following: broken head or taillights, broken or missing mirrors, cracked or missing window or windshield, deflated tires, missing seats or steering wheel, or other general conditions that would render a vehicle incapable of being driven on a public highway;

   B.   Any vehicle, whether on public or private property and in view of the public from which, for a period of at least fourteen (14) days, the engine, wheels or other parts have been removed, or on which the engine, wheels or other parts have been altered, damaged or otherwise so treated that the vehicle is incapable of being driven under its own motor power; or

   C.   Not having valid vehicle license plate or registration.

   D.   By way of illustration only, the term “Inoperable Vehicle” can include, without limitation, any of the following: vehicles, motorized bicycles, motorcycles, trucks, tractors, tractor- trailers, truck trailers, trailers, buses, boats, watercrafts, recreational vehicles, ATVs, golf carts, campers, camping trailers, truck campers, motor homes, travel trailers, semitrailers, or any other vehicles propelled or drawn by mechanical power or the like.

   A.   An access or ingress/egress easement line; or

   B.   The back of curb of an access drive or private street; or

   C.   The edge of pavement of an access drive or private street; or

   D.   The edge of pavement of the sidewalk running alongside an access drive or private street.

   A.   Removes the natural ground cover; or

   B.   Changes the contour; or

   C.   Increases the runoff rate; or

   D.   Changes the elevation; or

   E.   Decreases the rate at which water is absorbed; or

   F.   Changes the drainage pattern; or

   G.   Creates or changes a drainage facility; or

   H.   Involves construction, enlargement or location of any building on a permanent foundation; or

   I.   Creates an impoundment.

   A.   Has no more than 14 guest rooms;

   B.   Provides breakfast to its guests as part of the fees;

   C.   Provides sleeping accommodations for no more than thirty (30) consecutive days to a guest;

   D.   Provides sleeping accommodations to the public for a fee; and

   E.   The term does not include hotels, motels, health or limited care facilities, boarding houses, group quarters, hospice, rescue missions or food service establishments.

   A.   Immediately adjacent to a parking space;

   B.   Used for and/or is necessary for turning, backing or driving forward a motor vehicle into such parking space; but

   C.   Not used for the parking of or storage of motor vehicles.

   A.   Consists of two (2) or more sections which, when joined, have a minimum dimension of twenty-three feet (23') in width for at least sixty percent (60%) of its length;

   B.   Has a pitched roof with a minimum rise of 2:12;

   C.   Has wheels, axles, and towing chassis removed;

   D.   Was constructed after January 1, 1981, and exceeds nine hundred fifty (950) square feet of occupiable space per; and

   E.   Is attached to a permanent foundation of masonry construction and has a permanent concrete or concrete block perimeter enclosure constructed in accordance with the One and Two-Family Dwelling Code.

   See also Ind. Code §§ 22-12-2 through 5.

   A.   Prior to June 15, 1976 and bears a seal attached under Indiana Public Law 135, 1971, certifying that it was built in compliance with the standards established by the Indiana Administrative Building Council; or

   B.   Subsequent to or on June 15, 1976 and bears a seal, certifying that it was built in compliance with the Federal Mobile Home Construction and Safety Standards.

   A.   Has a lot line that abuts the right-of-way of a street with a functional classification higher than “local” that either runs through or is located on the perimeter of the subdivision, or a frontage road located adjacent to such a street; or

   B.   Is separated from the right-of-way of a street with a functional classification higher than “local” that either runs through or is located on the perimeter of the subdivision by a common area that is sufficiently deep to qualify as open space.

   A.   Built on a single chassis;

   B.   Four hundred (400) square feet or less when measured at the largest horizontal projections;

   C.   Designed to be self-propelled or permanently towable by a light duty truck; and

   D.   Designed primarily not for use as a permanent dwelling, but as quarters for recreational camping, travel, or seasonal use.

SERVICES INVOLVING SPECIFIED SEXUAL ACTIVITY OR DISPLAY OF SPECIFIED ANATOMICAL AREAS. Any combination of two or more of the following activities: (1) the sale or display of books, magazines, periodicals or other printed matter, or photographs, films, motion pictures, video cassettes, slides, tapes, records or other forms of visual or audio representation which are characterized by an emphasis upon the depiction or description of specified sexual activities or specified anatomical areas; (2) the presentation of films, motion pictures, video cassettes, slides, or similar photographic reproductions which are distinguished or characterized by an emphasis upon the depiction of description of specified sexual activities or specified anatomical areas for observation by patrons; (3) the operation of coin- or slug-operated or electronically, electrically or mechanically controlled still or motion picture machines, projectors, or other image-producing devices per machine at any one time, and where the images so displayed are distinguished or characterized by an emphasis on depicting or describing specified sexual activities or specified anatomical areas; (4) live performances by topless or bottomless dances, go-go dances, exotic dancers, strippers, or similar entertainers, where such performances are distinguished or characterized by an emphasis on specified sexual activities or specified anatomical areas; (5) the operation of a massage school, massage parlor, massage therapy clinic; (6) body painting/tattoo studio or nude modeling studio.

STORMWATER DRAINAGE SYSTEM. Publicly owned facilities operated by the City or easements on private property by which water is collected and/or conveyed, including but not limited to, any roads with drainage systems, streets, gutters, curbs, inlets, piped storm drains, pumping facilities, retention and detention basins, natural and human-made or altered drainage channels, ditches, swales, reservoirs and other drainage structures which are within the City and are not part of a publicly owned treatment works as defined at 40 CFR § 122.2.

   A.   City Engineer;

   B.   Director (Chairman);

   C.   Building Inspector;

   D.   Chief of Police;

   E.   Fire Chief;

   F.   Street Superintendent;

   G.   Sanitation Superintendent;

   H.   Director of Parks and Recreation; and

   I. Any other persons deemed appropriate by the Plan Commission or the Director.