Specific Definitions. For the purpose of this Article, the following words and terms as used are defined to be in the following.
ACCESSORY BUILDING OR USEA subordinate building having a use customarily incident to and located on the lot occupied by the main building; or a use customarily incident to the main use of the property. A building housing an accessory use is considered an integral part of the main building when it has any part of a wall in common with the main building, or is under an extension of the main roof and designated as an integral part of the main building.
ALLEYA minor way affording a secondary means for vehicular service access to abutting properties and not intended for general traffic circulation and which is used primarily for service access to the back or side of properties.
APARTMENTA suite of rooms or a room in an apartment house arranged, intended, designed for or used as the place or residence of a single family or group of individuals living together as a single housekeeping unit.
APARTMENT HOUSEA building arranged, intended, designed for or occupied by more than two families.
BASEMENTA story below the first story as defined under "story," counted as a story for height regulations if subdivided and used for dwelling.
BED-AND-BREAKFASTA building other than a hotel where lodging is provided and offered to the public for compensation for not more than 20 individuals and open to transient guests, in association with which there is used only one (1) wall mounted sign, not exceeding eight (8) square feet in size.
BILLBOARDA sign, which directs attention to business, service or commercial activity, offered elsewhere than on the same lot.
BOARDThe governing body of the City of Hallsville, the Board of Aldermen.
BOARDING HOUSEA building other than a hotel where, for compensation and by previous arrangement, lodging and/or meals are provided for three (3) or more persons.
BUILDINGAny structure designed or built for the support, enclosure, shelter or protection of persons, animals, chattels or property of any kind.
BUILDING, HEIGHT OF1. From the street curb level;
2. From the established or mean street grade in case the curb has not been constructed;
3. From the average finished ground level of the portion of the lot adjoining and within ten (10) feet of the building where it sets back from the street line ten (10) feet or more; to the level of the highest point of the roof beams of flat roofs or roofs inclining not more than one (1) inch to the foot, and to the mean height level of the top of the main plat and highest ridge for other roofs.
CITYThe City of Hallsville, Missouri, a municipal corporation which territorially shall include all land within the corporate limits of the City as such limits now exist or may, from time to time, be extended or retracted.
CLINICA building arranged, intended, designed for, or used solely as a place for the treatment and diagnosis of nonresident patients.
CURRENT REPLACEMENT VALUEThe greater of assessed valuation or actual replacement value, as determined by a property appraiser certified by the American Institute of Real Estate Appraisers, or other equally recognized association, who appraise the property in question.
DISTRICTA section or sections of the City of Hallsville for which the zoning regulations governing the use of buildings and premises, the height of buildings, the size of yards, and the intensity of use are uniform.
DWELLINGA building or portion thereof, designated exclusively for residential occupancy, including one-family, two-family, and multiple dwellings, boarding and lodging houses, apartment houses, but not hotels.
DWELLING, MULTIPLEA dwelling or group of dwellings on one plot, each containing separate living units for three (3) or more families, but which may have joint services or facilities.
FAMILY1. An individual or married couple and the children thereof and no more than two (2) other persons related directly to the individual or married couple by blood or marriage, except that a family may include not more than one (1) additional person, not related to the family by blood or marriage, provided that such additional person may be provided with sleeping accommodations but not with separate kitchen facilities; or
2. A group of not more than four (4) persons not related by blood or marriage, living together by joint agreement and occupying a single housekeeping unit with single kitchen facilities on a non-profit cost-sharing basis.
FILLING OR SERVICE STATIONAny building, structure or land used for the dispensing, sale or offering for sale at retail of any automobile fuels, oils or accessories, including lubrication of automobiles and replacement or installation of minor parts and accessories, but not including major repair work such as motor replacement, body and fender repair or spray painting.
FLOODPLAINThat area within the City subject to a one percent (1%) or greater chance of flooding in any given year (as determined by either Federal or State agencies).
FRONTAGEAll the property on one side of a street between two (2) intersecting streets (crossing or terminating), measured along the line of the street, or if the street is dead-ended, then all of the property abutting on one side between an intersecting street and the dead end of the street.
GARAGE, PUBLICAny building or premises used for storage, sale, hiring, care or repair of motor vehicles, which is operated for commercial purposes.
GARAGE, STORAGEAny building or premises, except those defined as private or public garage, providing storage for motor vehicles with facilities for washing but no other services.
GRADE1. For buildings having walls adjoining one street only, the elevation of the sidewalk at the center of the wall adjoining the street.
2. For buildings having walls adjoining more than one street, the average of the elevation of the sidewalks at the centers of all walls adjoining the streets.
3. Any wall approximately parallel to and not more than five (5) feet from a street line shall be considered as adjoining the street.
GROUP HOMESAny home in which eight (8) or fewer unrelated mentally or physically handicapped persons reside, and may include two (2) additional persons acting as houseparents or guardians who need not be related to each other or to any of the mentally or physically handicapped persons residing in the home. A group home shall not be located within an eight-hundred-foot radius of another such group home in any specific single-family neighborhood.
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HOTELA building in which lodging, or boarding and lodging, are provided and offered to the public for compensation and in which ingress and egress to and from all rooms is made through an inside lobby or office supervised by a person in charge at all hours. As such, it is open to the public as opposed to a boarding house, a lodging house, or an apartment, which are herein separately defined.
LAUNDROMATA business that provides home-type washing, drying or ironing machines for hire to be used by the customer on the premises.
LOADING SPACEA space within the main building or on the same lot, providing for the standing, loading, or unloading of trucks, having a minimum dimension of twelve (12) feet by forty (40) feet and a vertical clearance of at least fourteen (14) feet.
LODGING HOUSEA building other than a hotel where lodging only is provided for three (3) or more but no more than 20 persons.
LOTA parcel of land occupied or intended for occupancy by a use permitted in this Article, including one main building together with its accessory buildings, open spaces and parking spaces required by this Article, and having its principal frontage upon a street or upon an officially approved place.
LOT, CORNERA lot abutting upon two (2) or more streets at their intersection. A corner lot shall be deemed to front on that street on which it has its least dimension, unless otherwise specified by the Superintendent of Public Works or similar City Official.
LOT, DOUBLE FRONTAGEA lot having a frontage on two non-intersecting streets as distinguished from a corner lot.
LOT, FRONT OFThe front of a lot shall be considered to be that part of a lot, which has access upon a public street, except for corner lots.
LOT LINESThe lines bounding a lot as defined herein.
LOT OF RECORDA lot which is part of a subdivision, the map of which has been recorded in the Office of the Recorder of Deeds of the County of Boone or a parcel of land, the deed to which has been recorded prior to the adoption of this Article.
MANUFACTURED HOMEA structure, transportable in one or more sections, which, in the traveling mode, is eight (8) body feet or more in width or forty (40) body feet or more in length, or, when erected on site, is three hundred twenty (320) or more square feet, and which is built on a permanent chassis and designed to be used as a dwelling with or without a permanent foundation when connected to the required utilities, and includes the plumbing, heating, air-conditioning, and electrical systems contained therein. The term includes any structure that meets all of the requirements of this definition except the size requirements and with respect to which the manufacturer voluntarily files a certification required by the United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development and complies with the standards established under Title 42 of the United States Code.
MANUFACTURED HOME, DOUBLE-WIDEA manufactured home that is designed and manufactured in a factory to function as a single complete self-contained unit by the assembly, on a site, of two or more manufactured component pieces, whether or not any additional site-built additions have been added to the unit.
MANUFACTURED HOME PARKA manufactured home park means any park, maintained or intended for the purpose of supplying a location or accommodations for any manufactured home, camper trailer, or home is parked, and shall include all buildings used or intended for use as part of the equipment thereof, whether a charge is made for the use of the trailer camp or manufactured home park and its facilities or not.
MANUFACTURED HOME, SINGLE-WIDEA manufactured home that is designed and manufactured in a factory to function as a single complete self-contained unit without any additional components or construction, whether or not any site-built addition or additional auxiliary components have been added to the structure.
MOTELA group of attached or detached buildings containing individual sleeping or living units, designed for or used temporarily by automobile tourist or transients, with garage attached or parking space conveniently located to each unit, including auto courts, motor lodges or tourist courts.
NONCONFORMING USE, BUILDING OR YARDA use, building or yard, which complied with the ordinances of the City at the time of said use, building or yard was established or constructed, but which does not conform to the regulations of the zoning district in which it is currently located.
NURSING HOMEA home for the aged or infirm in which three or more persons not of the immediate family are received, and kept and provided with food, or shelter and care, for compensation, but not including hospitals, clinics, or similar institutions devoted primarily to the diagnosis, treatment or care of the sick or injured.
PARKING AREA OR LOTAn open, unoccupied space used or required for use for parking of vehicles exclusively and in which no gasoline or vehicular accessories are sold or no other business is conducted and no fees are charged.
PARKING SPACEA surfaced area, enclosed in the main building or in an accessory building, or unenclosed, having an area of not less than two hundred (200) square feet, exclusive of driveways, permanently reserved for the temporary storage of one automobile and connected with a street or alley by a surfaced driveway which affords satisfactory ingress and egress for automobiles.
PLACEAn open unoccupied space, a minimum of fifty (50) feet in width, other than a street or alley, permanently established or dedicated as the principal means of access to property abutting thereon.
PORTABLE BUILDINGA structure constructed off-site and transported to any premises within the City by means of a truck or trailer; or one built from a premanufactured kit and placed on skids. Portable buildings may enclose no more than one-hundred sixty (160) square feet of floor space, and do not have interior finish, electrical service or plumbing fixtures. Portable buildings must comply with the minimum yard requirements set forth in Section
400.480.
STORAGE LOTAn open surfaced area used exclusively for the temporary storage of motor vehicles and with fees charged, but no vehicles may be equipped, rented or sold.
STORYThat part of a building included between the surface of one (1) floor and the surface of the floor next above, or if there be no floor above, that part of the building which is above the surface of the highest floor thereof. A top-story attic is a half story when the main line of the eaves is not above the middle of the interior height of such story. The first story is the highest story having its interior floor surface not more than four (4) feet above the curb level established or mean street grade, or average ground level, as mentioned in Section
400.490, Height Requirements.
STREETA dedicated and accepted thoroughfare for public use which affords principal means of access, directly or indirectly, to abutting properties.
STREET LINEThe dividing line between the street and the abutting property.
STRUCTURAL ALTERATIONAny change in the supporting members of a building, such as bearing walls or partitions, columns in the exterior walls, excepting such repair or replacement as may be required for safety of the building, but not including opening in bearing walls as permitted by existing ordinances.
STRUCTUREAnything constructed or erected, the use of which requires more or less permanent location on the ground or attached to something having a permanent location on the ground, including but without limiting the general inclusiveness of the foregoing, advertising signs, billboards, backstops for tennis courts and pergolas.
YARDAn open space at grade between a building and the adjoining lot lines, unoccupied and unobstructed by any portion of a structure from the ground upward, except as otherwise provided herein. In measuring a yard for the purpose of determining the width of a side yard, the depth of a front yard or the depth of the rear yard, the minimum horizontal distance between the lot line and the main building shall be used.
YARD, FRONTA yard extending across the front of a lot and being the minimum horizontal distance between the street or place line and the main building or any projections thereof other than the projections of the usual uncovered steps, uncovered balconies, or uncovered porch. On corner lots, the front yard shall be considered as being parallel to the street upon which the lot has its least dimension.
YARD, REARA yard extending across the rear of a lot and being the required minimum horizontal distance between the rear lot line and the rear of the main building or any projections thereof other than the projections of uncovered steps, unenclosed balconies or unenclosed porches. On all lots, the rear yard shall be in the rear of the front yard.
YARD, SIDEA yard between the main building and the side line of the lot, and extending from the required front yard to the required rear yard, and being the minimum horizontal distance between a side lot line and the side of the main building or any projections thereof.
ZONING MAPThe Official Zoning Map of the City of Hallsville, Missouri. Such Map shall be located in the office of the City Clerk.